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Texar's Revenge, or, North Against South (French: Nord contre Sud) is the full title of the English translation of the novel written by the French science-fiction author Jules Verne, and centers on the story of James Burbank, an antislavery northerner living near Jacksonville, Florida, and Texar, a pro-slavery southerner who holds a vendetta against Burbank.
El llano en llamas (translated into English as The Burning Plain and Other Stories, [1] The Plain in Flames, [2] and El Llano in flames [3]) is a collection of short stories written in Spanish by Mexican author Juan Rulfo. The stories were written over several years for different literary magazines, starting in 1945 with They Gave Us The Land. [4]
The Far Arena is a 1978 novel by Richard Sapir, writing under the slightly modified pen name of Richard Ben Sapir. It chronicles the adventures of Eugeni, a Roman gladiator from the age of Domitian, who, due to a highly unlikely series of events, is frozen in ice for nineteen centuries before being found by the Houghton Oil Company on a prospecting mission in the north Atlantic.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (1876) is an epic poem of over 10,000 lines by William Morris that tells the tragic story, drawn from the Volsunga Saga and the Elder Edda, of the Norse hero Sigmund, his son Sigurd (the equivalent of Siegfried in the Nibelungenlied and Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung [1] [2]) and Sigurd's wife Gudrun.
The book follows the career of Hugh Paret from youth to manhood, and how his profession as a corporation lawyer gradually changes his values. [1]The title is a reference to the Parable of the Prodigal Son, [2] where Luke 15:13 provides that the son went "into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living."
Zadig or the Book of Fate public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Zadig, and other stories; chosen and edited with an introd., notes, and a vocabulary by Irving Babbitt (1905)" Zadig, and other tales, 1746-1767. A new translation by Robert Bruce Boswell (1910)" Zadig, An English Translation by Donald M. Frame (1961) (in French) Zadig, audio version
Far North is a six-part comedy drama crime caper television series. Created by David White, who co-writes with Mingjian Cui and Suli Moa and co-directed with Cui, it is in-part inspired by the Jared Savage's non-fiction book Underbelly: Inside NZ’s Biggest Meth Bust.
In 1926–1932 a lavishly decorated 12-volume edition of J. C. Mardrus' translation, titled Le livre des mille nuits et une nuit, appeared.Soviet and Russian scholar Isaak Filshtinsky, however, considered Mardrus' translation inferior to others due to presence of chunks of text, which Mardrus conceived himself to satisfy the tastes of his time. [8]