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In a medieval-like world where a destructive curse spreads by touch and turns people into black, skull-faced monsters called "Outsiders," the "inside" inhabited by people is shrinking every year. Merciless purges of people who are suspected to have been in contact by Outsiders are performed by the soldiers in service of the king, and their ...
A Touch of Sin (Chinese: 天注定; lit. 'Destiny') is a 2013 Chinese anthology thriller film written and directed by Jia Zhangke and starring Jiang Wu , Wang Baoqiang , Luo Lanshan, and Zhao Tao , Jia's wife and longtime collaborator.
A Touch of the Poet is a play by Eugene O'Neill completed in 1942 but not performed until 1958, after his death. It and its sequel, More Stately Mansions , were intended to be part of a nine- play cycle entitled A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed .
Gildas swathes the condemnations in allegorical beasts from the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation, likening the kings to the beasts described there: a lion, a leopard, a bear, and a dragon. [11] The kings excoriated by Gildas are: "Constantine the tyrannical whelp of the unclean lioness of Damnonia". [12] [13] "thou lion's whelp ...
The Ruins is the book of the summer because, put simply, it's so good that it'll ruin every other book's chances. [6] Stephen King made the comment in a column for Entertainment Weekly, writing, "The Book of the Summer: That would be The Ruins, by Scott Smith, last heard from in 1993 (A Simple Plan, later filmed by Sam Raimi from Smith's script).
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin is a 2020 young adult fantasy novel by Ghanaian American writer Roseanne A. Brown. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Brown's debut novel inspired by West and North African folktale was published on 2 June 2020 by Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins as the first book in a planned duology.
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...
A God in Ruins is a 1999 novel by Leon Uris.. Set between the 1940s and 2008, the book follows the life of Quinn Patrick O'Connell, the fictional Democratic candidate for the 2008 United States Presidency, his family, and the life of his opponent, Thornton Tomtree.