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In God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert analyzes the cyclical patterns of human society, as well as humanity's evolutionary drives.Using his ancestral memories, Leto II has knowledge of the entirety of human history and is able to recall the effects and patterns of tyrannical institutions, from the Babylonian empire through to the Jesuits on ancient Earth, and thus builds an empire existing as a ...
Enemy of God: A Novel of Arthur is the second novel in The Warlord Chronicles trilogy by Bernard Cornwell. A sequel to The Winter King , it was first published in the UK in 1996. The trilogy tells the legend of King Arthur through the eyes of his follower Derfel Cadarn .
Mohandas Gandhi wrote in his autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Part II, Chapter 15) that Tolstoy's book "overwhelmed" him, and "left an abiding impression". Gandhi listed Tolstoy's book, as well as John Ruskin 's Unto This Last and the poet Shrimad Rajchandra (Raychandbhai), as the three most important modern influences in ...
The Way of Kings is an epic fantasy novel written by American author Brandon Sanderson and the first book in The Stormlight Archive series. [2] The novel was published on August 31, 2010, by Tor Books. [3] The Way of Kings consists of one prelude, one prologue, 75 chapters, an epilogue, and nine interludes. [4]
The novel's title is a literal translation of Beelzebub, a biblical demon considered the god of pride and warfare. [4] Golding, who was a philosophy teacher before becoming a Royal Navy lieutenant, experienced war firsthand, and commanded a landing craft in the Normandy landings during D-Day in 1944.
The overall theme of the Book of Daniel is God's sovereignty over history, [2] and the theme of the tales in chapters 1–6 is that God is sovereign over all earthly kings. [16] Daniel 1 introduces the fundamental question that runs through the entire book, how God may continue to work his plans when all seems lost. [12]
The Stand is a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by American author Stephen King and first published in 1978 by Doubleday.The plot centers on a deadly pandemic of weaponized influenza and its aftermath, in which some of the few surviving humans gather into factions that are each led by a personification of either good or evil and seem fated to clash with each other.
Warbreaker is a fantasy novel written by American author Brandon Sanderson.It was published on June 9, 2009 by Tor Books.. Sanderson released several rewrites of Warbreaker under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US), one chapter at a time. [1]