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Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel by Scottish writer George MacDonald published in London in 1858. The story centres on the character Anodos ("pathless" in Greek ) and takes its inspiration from German Romanticism , particularly Novalis .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 January 2025. American speculative fiction writer (born 1961) For other people with the same name, see John Wright (disambiguation). John C. Wright Wright in 2006 Born John Charles Justin Wright (1961-10-22) October 22, 1961 (age 63) Chula Vista, California, U.S. Occupation Writer Education St. John's ...
Book Review Index is an index of book reviews and literary criticism, found in leading academic, popular, and professional periodicals. It has been published since 1965. For most of its history it has been owned by Gale and is based in Detroit.
Flashbacks reveal that the Shield was founded by Imhotep following a battle (alongside Apocalypse and the original Moon Knight) against the Brood, and that previous agents include Zhang Heng (who tricked a Celestial into using the sun to give birth to its child instead of destroying the Earth or the Moon to do so), Galileo Galilei (who fought ...
The first of more than four hundred Davenport essays, articles, introductions, and book reviews appeared while he was still an undergraduate; the last, just weeks before his death. Davenport was a regular reviewer for National Review and The Hudson Review , and, late in his life, at the invitation of John Jeremiah Sullivan , he spent a year ...
A league (roughly 3 miles (4.8 km)) was considered to represent the distance walked in an hour by an average man. If a man were to walk seven hours per day, he would, then, walk seven leagues, or about 21 miles (34 km). In the 17th century, postboys' boots were called "seven-league boots".
Anodos (Ancient Greek: ἄνοδος) is a term meaning either 'ascent, way up' (from Ancient Greek ἀνά 'upwards, up' and ὁδός 'the way') or 'pathless, having no road, impassable' (from Ancient Greek ἀν- 'not' and ὁδός 'way, path, road, journey').
Peter J. Woolley, "Making the World Safe for Personal Choice," The Common Review, Volume 2, Issue 2 (Spring 2002), pp. 38–45. A review essay of post-Sept. 11th works on conflict, including Bobbitt's Shield of Achilles, and the response of the liberal state, where the market rather than traditional nationalist loyalties increasingly defines ...