Heroic Visions

Heroic Visions
Author: William Council
Publisher: Zephaniah Comics
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2009-05-04
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1438231571

It's 10:30 PM. A wintry wind whistles through the streets of Arcadia City. A young couple, hand in hand, meanders down the street lost in giggling conversation. They are unaware of the danger that lurks in the shadows. But that's where you come in. Perched on the roof top you see the muggers hastily mutter their plans. The glint of moonlight on metal indicates their intent more clearly than an orange neon sign. Exhaling slightly, you leap from your perch and enter the breach once again... The world needs heroes. With Heroic Visions, the Superhero Role Playing Adventure Game, you can create your own Champion of Truth, Justice and the Galactic Way.

Superheroes

Superheroes
Author: Nigel Suckling
Publisher: Running PressBook Pub
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2001-10-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781560253396

Representing the best work of Vallejo and Bell, this collection overflows with superhuman characters such as Spiderman, Captain America, and the X-Men. 150 color illustrations.

Against the E. S. T.

Against the E. S. T.
Author: William Council
Publisher: Zephaniah Comics
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2010-11-27
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1452841241

For decades, criminals have disappeared from prisons throughout the Gedaliah Confederation. The Eliminator, a Knight of Alteration, has quietly collected felons to aid him in his intergalactic operations. Eliminator Strike Teams or the E.S.T. provides support personnel to both Lord Alteration's Royal Court and the Knights of Alteration.

St. Benedict

St. Benedict
Author: Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780898707670

Mary Fabyan Windeatt presents the powerful story of the famous life and miracles of St. Benedict for the Vision Book series of saints for youth. Known as the Father of Western Monasticism, St. Benedict played a major role in the Christinization and civilization of post-Roman Europe in the sixth century. Having lived in an era of great immorality and vice, Benedict founded an order for monks whose strong life of prayer and work helped convert the godless society around them. It tells how his Benedictine order of monks spread throughout Europe and the New World. The heroic life of his sister St. Scholastica, his saving a boy from drowning, raising one from the dead, and the story of poisoned wine are all told in this exciting, dramatic tale of a great saint. Illustrated.

Camoens

Camoens
Author: Richard Francis Burton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1881
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The Legacy of Heroes

The Legacy of Heroes
Author: Vincent Venturella
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2011-09
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1257986031

The Legacy of Heroes is a Fantasy Role Playing Game with a singular focus: imagination. The Legacy of Heroes Player's Guide offers everything you need to bring the myriad characters from movies, literature, mythology and anything else you can imagine to life on the page before you. This book contains 11 races, 11 classes, 40 heroic arcs and all the spells, styles, equipment, magic items and more you need for your own brave heroes to move from character to legend. The Legacy of Heroes exciting Heroic Talent and Heroic Moment systems empower the players to create truly memorable role-playing experiences like never before. This book facilitates that collaboration by giving you, the player, the tools you need for the stories you imagine in an efficient, simple, and familiar system based on the OGL license. The only question is, are you ready for your own legacy? Visit www.thelegacyofheroes.com for support, downloads and more!

George Eliot and Europe

George Eliot and Europe
Author: John Rignall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351934066

This book is based on a conference held in Warwick in July 1995. It is a collection of essays which explore various aspects of George Eliot's relation to the literature and culture of Continental Europe. The essays range widely over the novelist's life and work, examining her Journals and Impressions of Theophratus Such as well as her novels, and focusing on different countries and cultures, including not only France, Germany and Italy, but also Holland and Spain. Some essays examine the complex general issues of language and culture raised in her work, while others concentrate on her response to specific European writers and texts. There are investigations of intertextualities and possibilities of influence, as well as contextual discussions and comparative readings of her novels alongside works by European writers. The overall effect is to illuminate her writing by setting it in the wider European context which, with her knowledge of languages, her travels and her extraordinary wide reading, she knew so well.

French crime fiction and the Second World War

French crime fiction and the Second World War
Author: Claire Gorrara
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1526130181

This study explores France’s preoccupation with memories of the Second World War through an examination of popular culture and one of its more enduring forms, crime fiction. It examines what such popular narratives have to tell us about past and present perceptions of the war years in France and how they relate to post-war debates over memory, culture and national identity. Starting with narratives of the Resistance in the late 1940s and concluding with contemporary crime fiction for younger readers, Gorrara examines popular memories of the Second World War in dialogue with the changing social, cultural and political contexts of remembrance in post-war France. From memories of the persecution of Jews and French collaboration to the legacies of the concentration camps and the figure of the survivor-witness, all the crime novels discussed grapple with the challenges of what it means to live in the shadow of such a past for generations past, present and future.

The Spenser Encyclopedia

The Spenser Encyclopedia
Author: A.C. Hamilton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 2495
Release: 2020-07-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1134934815

'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains Edmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for: * appreciating Spenser's poetry in the context of his age and our own * understanding the language, themes and characters of the poems * easy to find entries arranged by subject.