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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 ... ...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... ...e Emperor Shah Jehan and his love for the Princess Mumtaz. Her girlish heart dreamed that a great romance such as theirs would be hers one day. Her ...

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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... ...is a living promise. I write fantasy, psychological horror, science fiction, romance. All of these are genres which belong to the kingdoms of this wor... ... 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... ...are driving a message toward the green of a person’s heart. Some of us write romance. Some of us write humor while others present the truth through le... ...? 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 ... ...ne Grey died.” Who knew? I thought I was writing an inspirational historical romance? If God wants to use it as a Western (i.e., cowboy book), I’m mor...

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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... ...ean and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the developing romance. At first, the King did not wish to marry Simpson, me... ...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 "... ... 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...

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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... ...ree hundred guests, I hear: Germans, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, two or three British, a Greek potentate; the majority will be Parisians and the château ... ...She was a giver in so many ways—alms for all. Theirs has been a continual romance. The mind does tricks. I am back in my boyhood cabin. A prairie ... ...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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...he trainers on, she ties them up tight and reaching over to her bedside table picks up a book and starts to read. Nicola likes to read, especially romance novels and this one, about a girl in Jamaica has become very exciting; and Nicola is finding it hard to put down! Avidly she reads, imagining herself on a Jamaican beach in the arms of a strong, Jamaican hotel owner w...

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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... ...s here, the mysteries and suspenses there, the historical and contemporary romances here, the classics there, the Encyclopedia Britannica collection—t... ... to paint his and Dagny's association as some grand, An-Affair-to-Remember romance? Edge pulled away from the curb, slid into the light flow of reside... ...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... ...utta here. And I don't mean to go home and vegetate in front of some sappy romance with Ben, either." "What's wrong with that? Some women would kill f...

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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... ...h collided and split and became two beating hearts. This is also the reason Romance exists. The beating heart of the 3-dimensional Universe comes ... ...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... ...fe, tried to duplicate that ship rivet-for-rivet… and plaster a fake bullshit romance on top of it? So the only reason the millions were spent to m... ...e titanic seem real was to fool people into believing the Hollywood crap fake romance actually happened? Do you think one million people given two ... ... 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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...sesses a charm which modern annals cannot rival; there is a sun-tinted mist of romance enveloping the remote past which flatters, like a wondrous mira... ... 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... ...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, his eyes ... ...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... ...ief; over the life of a Buccaneer, to the youth of that day, the rosy light of romance was shed; men did not remember that every coin gained by the ou...

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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... ...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... ...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 ... ... work for hire, 11, 131. WorldCat catalogue, 9, 253n6. “xkcd,” a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language, 245; “Content Protection,” 245, 296...

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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... ...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... ...“Your mother 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 st... ...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... ... 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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...r. The monopoly of the big publishing houses on everything written - from romance to scholarly journals - is a thing of the past. In a way, it is iro... ... shillings (compared to the usual guinea or more). The Railway Library of novels (1,300 volumes) costs 1 shilling apiece only eight decades later. T... ...journals are as respectable as any print journal. BMJ (formerly called the British Medical Journal) is eminently respectable. It offers 100% of its ... ...s is a "code of honour" (more reminiscent of the Sicilian Mob than of the British Parliament, let’s say). Violations are punished by excommunication... ...E to the Russian MTS - are becoming regional. Multinationals, such as the British Vodafone and the French Orange - have entered the regional fray. S...

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Excerpt: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville.

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...man Melville A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsy... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ... State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Melville Typee: A Romance of the South Seas By Herman Melville PREFACE More than three years ... ..., on the fathers’ and moth- ers’ sides respectively, from have families of British New En- gland and Dutch New York extraction. Whitman and Van Velsor... ...felt impelled to write Mr. Russell in regard to one of his newly published novels, and received in answer the following letter: July 21, 1886. My Dear...

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...iversity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Joseph Conrad The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows by Joseph Conrad ‘Allas!’ quod she, ‘that ever this... ...n the world’s great storm of theyear 1914. AUTHOR’S NOTE OF THE THREE LONG NOVELS of mine which suffered an interruption, “The Rescue” was the one tha... ...at region that even to this day has not been robbed of all the mystery and romance of its past—and the race of men who had fought against the Portugue... ...mple feeling. But the wasted lives, for the few who know, have tinged with romance the region of shallow waters and forest-clad islands, that lies far... ...med now darker than before. “Four hands and myself. We belong to a yacht—a British yacht—” “Come on board!” shouted Lingard. “Why didn’t you speak at ... ...ok the letter out of an open enve- lope, addressed to the commander of any British ship in the Java Sea. The paper was thick, had an em- bossed headin... ...t the yacht’s position in Anjer on his way through Sunda Straits—or to any British or Dutch man-of-war he might meet. The let- ter ended by anticipato...

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...Excerpt: Introduction To Guy Mannering. The novel or romance of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the ma...

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... Mannering by Sir Walter Scott INTRODUCTION TO GUY MANNERING. THE NOVEL OR ROMANCE of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first,... ...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... ... over the general mind sufficient even to con- stitute the mainspring of a romance. Besides, it occurred, that to do justice to such a subject would h... ... worthy Dominie, upon which is founded the part which he per- forms in the romance, and which, for certain particular rea- sons, must be expressed ver... ...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... ...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...

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...itical, or as anything more than the expres- sion of the artist’s national British idea of Frenchmen. It must be confessed that for that great nation ... ... Cruikshank shrugging shoulders, and queer hair and mustachios. He has the British idea of a Frenchman; and if he does not believe that the inhabitant... ...dfire, Squire Jenkins, and Captain O’Shuffleton, are made to show the true British superiority on every occasion when Britons and French are brought t... ...are disposed to show towards certain agreeable, disreputable characters of romance. Who would mar the prospects of honest Roderick Random, or Charles ... ...gging trio, and form little histories for these worthies, charming Newgate romances, such as have been of late the fashion! Is any man so blind that h... ...iking, binnacling, and helm’s-a-leeing, as honest seamen invariably do, in novels, on the stage, and doubtless on board ship. This we cannot take upon... ...d Squire Allworthy, and the great Jonathan Wild. With regard to the modern romance of “Jack Sheppard,” in which the latter personage makes a second ap...

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...gle) the greatness of the power of Russia, which was still in those days a British bogey; in making Belgium the battle-ground in a coming struggle bet... ...uld find in the divines and dignitaries of the Vatican, of the Russian and British official churches, or of any other of the multitudinous Christian s... ...ge, dream- ing of a renewal of the struggle, it becomes impossible for the British, the French, the Belgians, Russians, Italians or Japanese to think ... ...ost completely in Great Britain—that- newspapers were party organs. In the novels of Disraeli the Press appears as an ambigu- ously helpful person who... ...career. House- hold cares, a dozen children, and she was consumed. All her romances ended in marriage. All a decent man’s romance ended there, too. Sh...

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...ended, and the most varied subject for an enduring liter- ary work. If it be romance, if it be contrast, if it be heroism that we require, what was Tr... ...nger and disgrace of Cali- fornia; and the holders are mostly of American or British birth. We have here in England no idea of the troubles and inconv... ...nues to inhabit and to paint it. There is in France scenery incomparable for romance and harmony. 53 Robert Louis Stevenson Provence, and the valley ... ...There were many works burnt at Alex- andria, there are many treasured in the British Museum, that I could better spare than the proces-verbal of Chati... ...a-air rustles in the pages of the open lec- ture. But upon all this, and the romance of St. Andrews in general, the reader must consult the works of M... ...ar) and the London Journal, dear to me for its startling pictures, and a few novels, dear for their suggestive names: such, as well as memory serves m... ...ke us different from our fellowmen, or it would make us incapable of writing novels; and the average man (a murrain on the word!) is just like you and... ...e taste was not only genuine, it was exclusive; I tried in vain to offer him novels; he would none of them, he cared for noth- ing but romantic langua...

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...terary work which conveys faithful facts or pleasing impressions is a service to the public. It is even a service to be thankfully proud of having ren... ...y must be reasonably true to the human comedy; and any work that is so serves the turn of instruction. But the course of our edu- cation is answered b... ...ech over the dying Lear had a great effect upon my mind, and was the burthen of my re- flections for long, so profoundly, so touchingly generous did *... ... in themselves, that they communicate. I should never forgive myself if I forgot The Egoist. It is art, if you like, but it belongs purely to didactic... ... of Andrew Elliot, for which (as I see with amazement from the book-lists) the gentlemen of England are willing to pay fancy prices; but its predecess... ...d to me original as sin; it seemed to belong to me like my right eye. I had counted on one boy, I found I had two in my audience. My father caught fir... ...se on despair; but I shut my mouth hard, and during the journey to Davos, where I was to pass the winter, had the resolution to think of other things ...

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... She adored, in truth, the aristoc- racy, and they constituted for her the romance of the world or, what is more to the point, the prime material of f... ...and wicked. She was clever and vulgar and snobbish, and never so intensely British as when she was particularly foreign. This combination of qualities... ... however in those days—ease is exactly the word, though she produced three novels a year. She scorned me when I spoke of difficulty—it was the only th... ... of hers could have aspired to form. In spite of the social bravery of her novels she took a very humble and dingy view of herself, so that of all her... ...nsider Mrs. Stormer’s future in the light of her having to write her son’s novels as well as her own. This was not the way she looked at it herself; s... ... simple, blind, benighted love, and of all the heroes of 16 Greville Fane romance who had passed before her eyes he was by far the most brilliant. He...

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...rguments is supposed to reside in them, just as some of the majesty of the British Empire dwells in the constable’s truncheon. They are used in pure s... ...interest to the fantastic and beautiful appearance of old warships and the romance that invests the sea and everything sea-going in the eyes of Englis... ...red, two things must be attended to that require no proof: FIRST, that the British constitution is the best that ever was since the creation of the wo... ...ter-carts seem mighty tame to encoun- ter; and we walk the streets to make romances and to sociologise. Nor must we deny that a good many of us walk t... ...arrive, if not bloody with spurring, at least fiery red with haste. If his romance involves an accident upon a cliff, he must clamber in per- son abou... ...defect in the child’s imagination which prevents him from carrying out his novels in the pri- vacy of his own heart. He does not yet know enough of th...