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The Thirty Years' War is at its height while the peasantry suffers under countless marauders. The protagonist Harm Wulf, a peasant, lost his family in the first years of war; he becomes the defending Wulf (wehrender Wulf) by defending a hill fort and its surrounding carr with peasants hiding from the pillaging hordes.
Age of Assassins, the first book in the Wounded Kingdom trilogy, was nominated for the 2018 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel [5] and the 2018 Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Newcomer. [6] The Bone Ships, the first book in the Tide Child trilogy, won the 2020 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel. [7]
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot is a 2007 non-fiction book by Naomi Wolf, published by Chelsea Green Publishing of White River Junction, Vermont. Wolf argues that events of the early 2000s paralleled steps taken in the early years of the twentieth century's worst dictatorships and called Americans to take action to ...
A wolf severely injured a girl near a woodland, attacking for half an hour before she was rescued. [608] August 17, 1810 Judith Geraets†, 3, female: Predatory: Beringen, Helden, The Netherlands: A wolf killed a girl who was collecting cattle feed in the field with her ten-year-old sister at 8:00 pm.
"Walking Wounded” is a work of short fiction by Irwin Shaw, originally appearing in The New Yorker on May 13, 1944, and first collected in Act of Faith and Other Stories (1946) by Random House. [1] The story was carried by Stars and Stripes during the war.
Fox (left) versus wolf (right), in a miniature (BnF, Paris, MS fr. 1581f. 6v) from Renart le Nouvel by Jacquemart Giélée (1290/1300) In the opening episode of Ysengrimus , the wolf manages to successfully deceive the fox with one of his schemes; this is Ysengrimus's only triumph, and throughout the remaining episodes Ysengrimus is constantly ...
War of the Wolf is the eleventh historical novel in The Saxon Stories series by Bernard Cornwell. It was first published in October 2018. [1] [2] It is set in 10th-century England and continues to follow the fortunes of the fictional Uhtred of Bebbanburg. In this novel Uhtred is finally secure in his childhood home, Bebbanburg.
Selected Stories of Lu Hsun is a collection of English translations of major stories of the Chinese author Lu Xun translated by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang and first published in 1960 by the Foreign Languages Press in Beijing. [1] This book was republished in 2007 by the Foreign Languages Press with the updated title of Lu Xun Selected Works. [2]