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Mao II, published in 1991, is Don DeLillo's tenth novel. The book tells the story of a novelist, struggling to finish a novel, who travels to Lebanon to assist a writer being held hostage. The title is derived from a series of Andy Warhol silkscreen prints depicting Mao Zedong. DeLillo dedicated the book to his friend Gordon Lish. Major themes ...
Thongor Against the Gods is a fantasy novel by American writer Lin Carter, the third book of his Thongor series set on the mythical continent of Lemuria. It was first published in paperback by Paperback Library in November 1967, and reissued by Warner Books in August 1979. The first British edition was published in paperback by Tandem in 1970 ...
Ryall was born as Charles William Ryall in Droitwich, in January 1891. [4] His father was a Baptist minister, born in South Africa and he was taken there as an infant. [5] He changed his name to 'William Bolitho Ryall' which was his uncle's name who died in South Africa and who wrote the book Pensam: His Mysterious Tribulation published in 1883.
The chapters of the Mao manga series are written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. The series started in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday on May 8, 2019. [1] [2] [3] Shogakukan has collected the manga chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was published on September 18, 2019. [4]
The classic Chinese novel Investiture of the Gods (also commonly known as Fengshen Yanyi) contains a register of deities (Chinese: 封神榜). According to Fengshen Yanyi , Yuanshi Tianzun ("Primeval Lord of Heaven") bestows upon Jiang Ziya the Fengshen bang (Register of Deities), a list that empowers him to invest in the gods of heaven.
A God Against the Gods is a 1976 historical novel by political novelist Allen Drury, which chronicles ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten's attempt to establish a new religion in Egypt. [1] [2] [3] It is told in a series of monologues by the various characters. Drury wrote a 1977 sequel, Return to Thebes, and a 1980
The novel is narrated in a third-person limited, [1] alternating between the points of view of Dafyd, Jessyn, other human characters, the Swarm and Ekur-Tkalal. [6] [7] [2] Each of the book's six parts begins with an epigraph containing an excerpt "from the final statement" of a librarian Ekur-Tkalal as a narrator. [8] [6] [5]
The Gods Themselves is a 1972 science fiction novel written by Isaac Asimov, and his first original work in the science fiction genre in fifteen years (not counting his 1966 novelization of Fantastic Voyage). It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1972, [2] and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1973. [3] [4]