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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mutiny: are the themes woven into the rich backcloth of ?T...

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...the loss of a traveller in India could be attributed to a wild animal or some other mishap. When British travellers went missing on journeys to the ... ...e, female infanticide and the practice of suttee, as one of the important humanitarian reforms of British rule. v Historical Note to Reader T... ...ld’s population? Could they foresee that that same Company would influence more than 200 years of British and Indian history and found the greatest ... ...ng of the gale. A flash of lightning illuminated the darkness for a moment and Helen saw, to her horror, a gigantic, white-crested wall of water app... ...he mechanics of mating, but the veiled references to burning desire in her favourite Jane Austen novels, was all she knew. Even if she allowed Gavin... ...HE CURSE OF KALI 187 Helen turned angrily on the Begum, ‘Why did you have to remind her of that horror? We were just getting her to eat something. ... ...d when details of the murder in Cawnpore of women and children reached them, there was a sense of horror. ‘It seems Major General Sir Henry Havelock...

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...He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, but then dumped her for Simpson. The British media - though perfectly aware of all the goings-on, rep... ...addressed as "Her Royal Highness". Additionally, the King was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire ... ...d the Jamaica Letter (1815) in which he supported a model of government akin to the British parliamentary system - yet, only following a phase of "... ...nds and that some decapitated persons even realize their predicament to their utter horror. http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_221a.html h... ... Fleming, Ian Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond 007 novels, was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a C... ..., translated to 11 languages and with total sales of 18 million copies. James Bond novels are now being authored by a new generation of writers. ... ...itle as one of his favorite books. Many movie plots were loosely based on Fleming's novels and have grossed, in total, more than $1 billion. The 007... ...le room by the kitchen. He accumulated a library of anatomy books, porn magazines, horror and adventure novels, historical accounts of the Nazi med...

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... am, back at a truth I learned long ago and have used in more than one of my novels: Nothing enters my life that isn’t caused or allowed by God, nothi... ...n writing (or should be). I had, and still have, much to learn about writing novels, but one thing I know, I need to continually work at my craft, lea... ...s. But the promise above is a living promise. I write fantasy, psychological horror, science fiction, romance. All of these are genres which belong to... ... a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ~ James Bryce (British Historian) “For though I be free from all men, yet have I made my... ...? I’m humbled, but not subdued. “Couldn’t I just give my coworkers one of my novels and then give my two weeks’ notice?” It’s then the Savior’s words ...

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...the opposite palm. “Let’s away, Giraud. We have work to do.” I watched in horror as my cousin and his compatriot left my room, locking it with thei... ..., which made paging through the books very convenient. I chose a couple of novels and a small volume of poems and paid for my selection. My purchas... ...me only slightly more. Overall, he was remarkably closed-mouthed about the horrors of his past. I went into the kitchen and minced some of the lefto... ...have actually wed this malformed creature? When you could have had me?” The horror must have shown on my face. “Come now, lovely cousin. Surely thi... ...times. Some days, Gilbert would persuade me to go on an outing with him; the British Museum was a particular favorite. On those occasions, I could f...

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...e. Part I. -12- prize, more precious than any galleon which was ever carried into a British port; this parish priest received from a Catholic fr... ...I might best defend from the storm which would be raised against it on all hands by the British inquisition, whose ignorance of truth I knew to be e... ...very thing which touched the infallibility of their idol, PUBLIC OPINION. I mean by the British Inquisition, that court whose ministers and agents c... ...ut the repetition of a former vision, which had then caused to him no such overpowering horror. But the spirit of the former vision is the subversio... ...by the fourth of the kingdoms; the former an occasion of joy, the latter an occasion of horror to a prophet of the Lord. For though the saints in th... ...that the life of the Son of man, and his experience of agony, both inward and outward, —horrors of darkness and clouds of grief within, as well as pa... ...ure expresseth not, and proceeding to write treatises and books, which appear more like novels, fit only to amuse the idle. But, in one word, these ...

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...ers, shivering, out the door, beaten, clubbed, cursed, into the barracks, whispered horror gossip, resented by his overcrowded blockmates, threatene... ...ould ever evacuate them. I sent Eichmann on a mission in 1941 and he returned with horror stories that you won’t believe. We were drowning in diseas... ...-supporting Jews.” He paused, as if for emphasis: “No one wanted the Jews. The British sealed off Palestine. The Americans imposed immigration ... ... Business Week predicted ‘a steady decline of jingoistic action against the Jews’. British political commentators concurred: ‘Herr Hitler has not in... ...” A gun butt in the kidney hurts like hell, exactly as they say it does in dime novels and B movies. It feels like a stiletto plunged deep and th... ...urrender the disk. Don’t you see? He is with them. With THEM!” Libby shrieked in horror and I woke up to another hazy day. **** Few drug fie... ... tried everything. We sent couriers with peace offers to both the Americans and the British. We released prisoners from concentration camps. We prom...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, th...

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... THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de fo... ...AL LINCOLN’S JOURNAL BOOKS BY PAUL ALEXANDER BARTLETT NOVELS VOICES FROM THE PAST: Sappho’s Journal ` Christ’s Journal ` Leon... .... -- 1st ed. p. cm. Summary: "A collection of five historical novels written in the form of journals by the Greek poet Sappho of Lesb... .... He and Libus are restoring them: food and encouragement are cancelling horror. Even the mad fellow is mending, eating and drinking normally, talki... ...as displayed like a trophy at the palace. What desecration, abuse, folly, horror. I can barely write...sorrow...resentment... my mind whirls to the ... ...ree hundred guests, I hear: Germans, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, two or three British, a Greek potentate; the majority will be Parisians and the château ... ...ility and communion in pursuit of plot and character for the rico- chet of horror and death, for the mockery of crime and subterfuge. At times, I was... ...om Italy, I be- lieve; also a red handkerchief and books. Mary gave him a British belt buckle with lion and unicorn, a set of brushes and tubes of p... ...ok of poetry. On my last visit I bought Pope’s Essay on Man. I noticed a British copy bound in morocco. At the Potomac I have acquired some Emerson...

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...sh Religion Pg 1767 Flies on the Wall Pg 1768 Ritual Sacrifice and Mystery Novels Pg 1774 The Undead and Dreams Pg 1775 The Undead, Astral Tra... ...d out into near extinction countless times… traumatized and terrified: by the horror of an exploding world gone mad with the erupting fires of huge v... ... wonder became an invisible feeling of unseen fear, unseen terror, and unseen horror during the night. Traumatic happenings at night could not be p... ...oclastic gases and choking deadly dust clouds and the shockwave, and rumbling horror of a world suddenly gone mad. Only then would they have tried t... ...he voice of his master. Just as Queen Victoria was listened to by the entire British Empire. Class racism. Class brainwashing. The brainwashing ... ...: two Christian nations stopped the killing to observe the birth of a child. British and German soldiers came out of their bunkers and exchanged gi... ...ey get used to the European presence on their land, and then the might of the British navy and army can roll in after the vermin have established th... ... You can see the modern equivalent of exclusive love in Harlequin Romance novels. Where the heroine falls in love only with the most handsome, ... ...ivilization on Humans 809 Do you ever see any heroines in these novels falling in Romantic Affairs with a male who is not perfect, who...

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...to provide protection for the retreating Spaniards -- A crash at the breach -- Horrors of the situation multiply -- A night of terrible agony -- A gha... ...wful sacrifice of Spanish prisoners -- A spectacle that freezes the blood with horror -- Starvation compels a resort to cannibalism -- A prophecy of c... ...streets of the capital -- The city is set on fire -- Capture of the emperor -- Horrors which followed the siege -- 75,000 dead bodies in the streets -... ... inspirational and mind-invigorating, that kills the miasmatic influence which novels exhale, and which gives nourishment to laudable ambition towards... ... sailor of the olden time was a curiosity. All remember him as depicted in the novels and romances of Dana and Marryatt and others; his bronzed visage... ...of impending danger. Such a spectre appeared in 1664, to Captain Rogers of the British Navy. He was heading for the Hatteras Capes, but still deemed h... ...the South Africa coast, and there he and all with him beheld in the offing the British man-of-war Barracouta. So plainly visible was the vessel that s... ...the West Indies, Penn formed the bold design of conquering and annexing to the British dominions the large and valuable island of Hayti and operations...

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.... Fred is not interested in seeking out another partner; he considers one horror story in a lifetime, one too many. It does 17 not stop single or t... ...front veranda. The demon got the shock of his life when his fun turned to horror and two colourful gnomes attacked him. Reduced to slime, Snakelex w... ...conscience and this school is no different. There is a minority of little horrors, which Stella would insist you call, ‘misunderstood angels’. Many ... ...rk for the world than to work for God. It is easier to read magazines and novels than to read God’s word. It is easier to donate time or money to on... ...r and his wife in question were described as being of ‘the old order’ and British migrants. Snakelex received information updating him on the joys o...

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...ol Number: 2008932282 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–19... ...ctively removes the privilege of fair use. Each day brings some new Internet horror story about the excesses of intel- lectual property. Some of them ... ...uppress them. This is no mere fantasy, Macaulay tells us. After praising the novels of Samuel Richardson in terms that, to modern eyes, seem a little ... ... the work, but because the work would be altogether suppressed. Richardson’s novels—Pamela, Clarissa Har- lowe, and so on—are now the preserve of the ... ...ur intuitive understanding that “Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. All of this was much clearer before the assim... ...sing cheaper copying—first appeared, the reaction of movie studios was one of horror. Their business plans relied upon showing movies in theaters and t... ...he adoption of similar laws around the world with a reaction little short of horror. Those who supported the DMCA disagree, of course, and do so hones... ...ry embodi- ment of all that is wrong. (I still cherish a friend’s account of British protesters outside the American Embassy in London singing “D-M-C-... ...structions, carry out the desired operations, and write the answer down. The British mathematician Alan T uring imagined something like this—a little ...

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...- in knowing when to let go. Return The Myth of the Earnings Yield In American novels, well into the 1950's, one finds protagonists using the f... ...as an important factor. Some conspiracy theorists, such as Webster Tarpley in his "British Financial Warfare", supported by contemporary reporting ... ...rd) Montagu Norman (governor of the Bank of England 1920-1944) sharply (upped) the British bank rate, repatriating British hot money, and pulling t... ...ging the accounts of their investment group to show a fake net worth of $24 million British pounds - rather than the true picture of 19 billion in l... ...e house is rambling with hidden passages, dark corners, low ceilings, folklore and horror stories, and accumulations of tons of antique rubbish tha...

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...et intimacy is beyond me!” Oh my! I suppose, if I am going to keep writing novels, I shall have to learn all this dreadful stuff. I am not ready to re... ...per- son anymore – just a thing that has to be washed.” And she watched in horror as he slipped in and out of consciousness, sometimes ranting and sho... ...not. With the family and her work. It’s so far to come.” Lisa had moved to British Columbia when she’d married Charles. Their only child, Charlie, was... ... cluding histories, cook books, biographies, fiction, and all her mother’s novels, these neatly aligned by order of publication. A computer on a small... ...ther is an author? What does she write?” “You’d probably call them romance novels, although they don’t fit that mode exactly. They are love stories bu... ...hill. She went back into the building and over to the water bucket. To her horror she saw that it was overturned and empty. Now what? She went back ou... ...d to gray, and then to daylight. As con- sciousness returned, and the pure horror of being alive dawned on her, a mighty scream erupted from her throa... ... in final three months of life: nationwide retrospective study in Belgium, British Medical Journal, 2009, 339: b2772 [Lieve Van den Block, Reginald De...

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...uttering the shelf, a gallimaufry of hardcover titles—the prerequisite spy novels here, the mysteries and suspenses there, the historical and contempo... ... a girl who'd never been French kissed but who had heard all the thrilling horror stories from her more experienced and jaded girlfriends. And who the... ...t and uncertain. She kissed his cheek. "Immensely," she teased in a stodgy British accent. New Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 191 Tyler chuckle...

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...th such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded; but to which, in the progress of the work, the production ceased to bear any, even the mos...

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...mpt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simp... ...made us soldiers of fortune, have the pleas- ant recollection, that in the British service, stop where we may upon our career, it is only for want of ... ...n is also applicable to one or two similar passages, in this and the other novels, introduced for the same rea- son.] But the truth is undeniable; the... ...phe, the scene at once recurred to his mind with all its accompaniments of horror. He remembered how, like a guilty thing, gliding from the neighbouri... ... gained worth the agony of that moment, and the thousand anxious fears and horrors which have since embittered my life!—Oh how I wish that I lay where... ...d in Holland, and I know that this name, however un- couth it may sound in British ears—” Glossin, conscious that the prisoner was now about to en- te... ...Sampson did not pass the Kaim of Derncleugh without some feelings of tacit horror. What then was his astonishment, when, on passing the door—that door...

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... and one of the young men took his turn there was often half an hour during which she could pull out a bit of work or a book—a book from the place whe... ...d to Jordan. Little by little, to her own stupefaction, she caught that he was trying to take it as she meant it and that he was neither astonished no... ...say, and as the ladies at Cocker’s even sometimes wired, “It’s quite too dreadful!” She could fully feel how it was Mr. Mudge’s propriety, which was e... ...n between them. She quite thrilled herself with thinking what, with such a lot of material, a bad girl would do. It would be a scene better than many ... ...d as to there being on the whole no decent pretext to justify her flitting casually past at three o’clock in the morning. That was the hour at which, ... ...nly he might look at it, handle it, take up the pieces. Yet if he understood anything he must understand all. “I con- sider you’ve already immensely t... ... he could an- swer she had continued: “To be perfectly fair I should tell you I recognise at Cocker’s certain strong attractions. All you people come....

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...ling and punctuation have been largely brought into conformity with modern British usage. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE AUTHORESS, TO NORTHANGER ABBEY This lit... ... in meeting in defi- ance of wet and dirt, and shut themselves up, to read novels together. Y es, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and imp... ...wit, and taste to recommend them. “I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels— It is really very well for ... ...ould never have read Udolpho before; but I suppose Mrs. Morland objects to novels.” “No, she does not. She very often reads Sir Charles Grandison hers... ... sister has mistaken all your clearest expressions. You talked of expected horrors in London—and instead of instantly conceiving, as any rational crea... ...ust like what one reads about?” “And are you prepared to encounter all the horrors that a building such as ‘what one reads about’ may produce? Have yo... ...rm perhaps may occur the first night. After surmounting your unconquerable horror of the bed, you will retire to rest, and get a few hours’ unquiet sl...

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... hold on the one thing really mine, but the fact is that I have a positive horror of losing even for one moving moment that full possession of my self... ... this book, begun in ’89 and finished in ’94—with that shortest of all the novels which it was to be my lot to write. Between its opening exclamation ... ... is over borne by another and complex im- pression of awe, compassion, and horror. Mr. Nicholas B. remains for me the unfortunate and miserable (but h... ...ur village dogs look like—but still… . No! At this very day, recalling the horror and compassion of my childhood, I ask myself whether I am right in d... ...g many words on the mere amenities of life. This was my first contact with British mankind apart from the tourist kind seen in the hotels of Zurich an... ... Tower Hill on the steps of the St. Katherine’s Dockhouse, a master in the British Merchant Service. But the man who put his hand on my shoulder at th... ...and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, history, voyages, novels; I knew “Gil Blas” and “Don Quixote” in abridged editions; I had rea... ...as a novel, and it is quite possible that it was one of Anthony Trollope’s novels. It is very likely. My acquaintance with him was then very recent. H... ...ut I had thought to myself that if I was to be a seaman, then I would be a British seaman and no other. It was a matter of deliberate choice. He nodde...

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... this book, begun in ’89 and finished in ’94—with that shortest of all the novels which it was to be my lot to write. Between its opening exclamation ... .... It is overborne by another and complex impression of awe, compassion and horror. Mr. Nicholas B. remains for me the unfortunate and mis- erable (but... ...t our village dogs look like—but still…No! At this very day, recalling the horror and compassion of my child- hood, I ask myself whether I am right in... ... young days, had eaten the Lithuanian dog. I wish he had not. The childish horror of the deed clings absurdly to the grizzled man. I am perfectly help... ...g many words on the mere amenities of life. This was my first contact with British mankind apart from the tourist kind seen in the hotels of Zurich an... ... Tower Hill on the steps of the St. Katherine’s Dockhouse, a master in the British Merchant Service. But the man who put his hand on my shoulder at th... ...d other ro- mantics. I had read in Polish and in French, history, voyages, novels; I knew “Gil Blas” and “Don 70 Some Reminiscences Quixote” in abrid... ...ve only a vague notion that it might have been one of Trollope’s political novels. And I remem- ber, too, the character of the day. It was an autumn ... ...but I had thought to myself that if I was to be a seaman then I would be a British seaman and no other. It was a matter of deliberate choice. He nodde...

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...way you scarcely know whether to be glad or sorry that all those bristling horrors have been reduced to the commonplace. A certain flatness of impress... ...author of the deed; the perfect execution of the plot; the accumulation of horror in what followed it,—give it, as a crime, a kind of im- mortal solid... ...ttle suggestion, in the untended aspect of walk and lawns, of the vigilant British gardener. The manor of Azay, as seen to-day, dates from the early p... ... I remembered the Duchesse de Langeais, who figures in several of Balzac’s novels, and found this association very potent. The Duchesse de Langeais is... ...ges, which wan- ders through the province of Berry and through many of the novels of Madame George Sand; lifting from the sum- mit of a hill, which it... ...nder the mirror behind the comptoir, was a much more civilized spot than a British public-house, or a “commercial room,” with pipes and whiskey, or ev... ...at is, their having, placid as they stand there to-day, looked down on the horrors of the Terror of 1793, the bloody reign of the monster Car- rier an... ...s of Montpellier. Long before Mentone was discovered or Colorado invented, British invalids travelled down through France in the post-chaise or the pu...