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Galatea 2.2 is a 1995 pseudo-autobiographical novel by American writer Richard Powers and a contemporary reworking of the Pygmalion myth. [1] The book's narrator shares the same name as Powers, with the book referencing events and books in the author's life while mentioning other events that may or may not be based upon Powers' life.
Between Two Fires is a 2012 historical fiction horror novel by Christopher Buehlman.Set during the Black Death, it follows a disgraced knight and a mysterious young girl who travel across France, as Lucifer and other fallen angels start another war with Heaven.
Barsad is described in Book 2, Chapter 3 of A Tale of Two Cities as "one of the greatest scoundrels upon the earth since accursed Judas-which he certainly did look rather like." This is a direct reference to Judas Iscariot , the man who betrayed Jesus Christ in the Bible, and is explaining that Barsad is a very untrustworthy man.
In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document, monograph or section or chapter thereof. [1] The epigraph may serve as a preface to the work; as a summary; as a counter-example; or as a link from the work to a wider literary canon, [ 2 ] with the purpose of either inviting comparison or ...
In Acts Chapter 8, the disciple Philip meets an Ethiopian eunuch (a black man) sitting in a chariot, to whom he explains a passage from the Book of Isaiah, and then converts him to Christianity. [7] Dick further notes that eight years after writing the book, he himself uncharacteristically came to the aid of a black stranger who had run out of gas.
Chapter 3, "The Wars of Religion", reports a trial against the woodworms in a church, as they have caused the building to become unstable. Chapter 4, "The Survivor", is set in a world in which the Chernobyl disaster was "the first big accident". Journalists report that the world is on the brink of nuclear war.
The three of them continue following the Wargals and discover that a bridge is being built across the impassable Fissure in order for their war party to cross. They also discover that the battle plans obtained earlier were fake, and Morgarath's real plan is to trap the King's army on the Plains of Uthal. Will burns the bridge with Evanlyn's help.
In the third book of the saga The Dreamseller, the Master, an internationally powerful man finds out that living in the moment is fun but that success is cyclical, just like tender leaves that sprout gloriously in the spring but invariably fall to the ground by next winter. He goes through distant and inhospitable places, fights enormous ...