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It contains a prophecy of the future greatness of Rome, with many echoes of Virgil's Aeneid. Although the shortness of the book compared with Tibullus book 1 has led some scholars to suppose that it was left unfinished on Tibullus's death, yet the careful arrangement and length of the poems appear to indicate that it is complete in its present ...
Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud is a book written by Philip Yancey and published by Zondervan in 1988. [1] It is one of Yancey's early bestsellers . [ 2 ] Library Journal reviewer Elise Chase called the book "extraordinarily empathetic and persuasive; highly recommended". [ 3 ]
Echoes is a 1985 novel by the Irish author Maeve Binchy. As Binchy's second novel, it explores various themes of Irish small-town life, including social classes and expectations, the paucity of educational opportunities before the introduction of free secondary education in 1967, and women's roles. A four-part television miniseries was adapted ...
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People say he was less than a god but more than a man. You know, like Hercules or something. That ball you just aced to The Beast is worth, well, more than your whole life.
Throughout the book Hadassah's mistress, Julia Valerian contracts a fatal illness due to her sexual immoral and promiscuous behavior in her younger years, and slowly dies of a wasting disease. Hadassah, who had become Alexander's assistant, learns of her old mistress' bereavement and decides to move in with Julia and care for her until she dies.
Thus poems 1.1 and 1.10 have a dozen points of contact, in more or less the same order in both poems; and the same is true of poems 1.5 and 1.6. An example of such links is asper and gloria in lines 1 and 2 of poem 1.5, and also in lines 2 and 3 of poem 1.6. [24] In book 2, poems 2.2 and 2.5, despite being of different lengths, are also ...
HMS Ulysses was the debut novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean.Originally published in 1955, it was also released by Fontana Books in 1960. MacLean's experiences in the Royal Navy during World War II provided the background and the Arctic convoys to Murmansk provided the basis for the story, which was written at a publisher's request after he'd won a short-story competition the previous year.