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Villa San Girolamo in Fiesole (Florence). The novel's historical backdrop is the North African and Italian Campaigns of the Second World War.The story is told out of sequence, moving back and forth between the severely burned "English" patient's memories from before his accident and current events at the bomb-damaged Villa San Girolamo (in Fiesole), an Italian monastery, where he is being ...
In an Antique Land is a 1992 book written in first-person by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh recounting his experiences in two Egyptian villages attempting to retrace accounts of an unknown Indian slave, as well as a reconstruction of the life of a 12th-century Jewish merchant in the area. It describes a variety of characters, going into great ...
Many of the stories are reprinted from other Asimov collections, particularly I, Robot and The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories. It also includes the title story, "Robot Visions" (written specifically for this collection [1]), which combines Asimov's motifs of robots and of time travel. It is the companion book to Robot Dreams (1986).
The murdered angel was the designer of love, and his co-worker fell in love with him, only to be scorned when the pair moved on to designing death. This sequence of events angers Raguel's by-the-book superior, Lucifer, ultimately prompting his doubt and subsequent fall.
First edition (publ. Hamish Hamilton) English Music is the sixth novel by Peter Ackroyd.Published in 1992, it is both a bildungsroman and, in the words of critic John Barrell, "partly a series of rhapsodies and meditations on the nature of English culture, written in the styles of various great authors."
The story opens with an introduction of the various requirements and challenges of the medical profession during the era. Subsequently, Dr. Berry is notified that his friend, an obstetrician named Arthur Lee, has been arrested and accused of performing an illegal abortion that led to the death of Karen Randall, a member of a prominent Boston ...
Publishers Weekly called The English Assassin a "superbly crafted thriller." [3] However, other reviews were less glowing. Thom Geier writing for Entertainment Weekly gave the novel a "C" rating. Geier noted that "Silva's plotting is as sophisticated as paint-by-numbers" and that his novel suffers from "sloppily written descriptions."
Vacuum Diagrams is a collection of science fiction short stories by British writer Stephen Baxter.The collection connects the novels of the Xeelee Sequence and also shows the history of mankind in the Xeelee universe, and ultimately the universe.