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The books chronicle the adventures of Torak, an adolescent boy, and his friends Renn and Wolf. The main story arc revolves around Torak and his quest to defeat the Soul Eaters, a group of power hungry mages who seek out to destroy all life in the forest. Paver has called it simply "a single story: the tale of Torak's discovery of himself and ...
Sunrise is the sixth and final book in Erin Hunter's Warriors: Power of Three children's fantasy novel series. HarperCollins published it on 21 April 2009. [ 1 ] The plot follows Jayfeather , Hollyleaf , and Lionblaze on their quest to find Ashfur 's true murderer.
Venus in Furs (German: Venus im Pelz) is a novella by the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the best known of his works. The novel was to be part of an epic series that Sacher-Masoch envisioned called Legacy of Cain ( Das Vermächtniß Kains ).
Joseph and His Friend is considered to be the first gay-themed novel written by an American author. [5] Carmilla (AKA Millarca and Countess Mircalla Karnstein) Carmilla: 1872 Sheridan Le Fanu: Lesbian Carmilla, published as part of the book, In a Glass Darkly, is considered the first lesbian vampire story.
A classic cinematic example of the theme is The Wolf Man (1941) which in later films joins with the Frankenstein Monster and Count Dracula as one of the three famous icons of modern day horror. However, werewolf fiction is an exceptionally diverse genre, with ancient folkloric roots and manifold modern re-interpretations.
When the bear responds that he doesn't work there, and that he's is a bear and not a human, the foreman denounces him as merely being a "silly man who needs a shave and wears a fur coat", and takes the bear to each of his successive bosses (general manager and a trio of vice-presidents, all of whom tell him their own version of the same claim ...
Aspects of the Novel is a book based on a series of lectures delivered by E. M. Forster at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1927, in which he discusses the English language novel. By using examples from classic texts, he highlights what he sees as the seven universal aspects of the novel, which he defined as: story, characters, plot, fantasy ...
The lion Aslan gives his life to save one of the children; he later rises from the dead, vanquishes the White Witch, and crowns the children Kings and Queens of Narnia. Lewis wrote the book for (and dedicated it to) his goddaughter, Lucy Barfield. She was the daughter of Owen Barfield, Lewis's friend, teacher, adviser and trustee. [4]