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| Author | : Fritz Leiber |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2014-04-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1497616859 |
The award-winning sword and sorcery classic that introduced Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy. First in the influential fan-favorite series, Swords and Deviltry collects four fantastical adventure stories from Fritz Leiber, the author who coined the phrase “sword and sorcery” and helped birth an entire genre. In “Induction,” in the realm of Nehwon, fate brings young prince Fafhrd and apprentice magician the Gray Mouser together to mark the beginning of a loyal and lifelong friendship. Consumed by his wicked mother’s enchantments, Fafhrd finds freedom by pursuing the love of a beautiful actress in the Nebula and Hugo Award–nominated “The Snow Women.” Studying sorcery under a great wizard in a land where it is forbidden, Mouse crosses the thin line between white and black magic to avenge a great wrong in “The Unholy Grail.” And in the Nebula and Hugo Award–winning novella “Ill Met in Lankhmar,” Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser disguise themselves as beggars to infiltrate the Thieves’ Guild—only to pay a horrible price for their greed when they come face-to-face with a monstrous evil.
| Author | : Angela Knight |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2006-10-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101158131 |
Witch Lark McClure has survived a vicious vampire attack that shook her confidence and left her struggling with feelings of helplessness and fear. The last thing she needs is a partnership with Gawain, a handsome vampire knight who means to seduce her every chance he gets. Gawain believes he needs Lark for one thing and one thing only—and it’s not her skill with magic. In the process, he plans to help her overcome her fear and show her the pleasure to be found in a vampire’s arms. But even as passion sizzles between Lark and Gawain, a revenge-driven killer targets them. If he has his way, Lark, Gawain, and the world itself will pay the price.
| Author | : Richard Cohen |
| Publisher | : Modern Library |
| Total Pages | : 562 |
| Release | : 2003-08-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0812969669 |
“Like swordplay itself, By the Sword is elegant, accurate, romantic, and full of brio—the definitive study, hugely readable, of man’s most deadly art.”—Simon Winchester With a new Preface by the author Napoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, and President Truman, who as a schoolboy would practice fencing with Bess—his future wife— when the two of them returned home from school. Lincoln was a canny dueler. Ignatius Loyola challenged a man to a duel for denying Christ’s divinity (and won). Less successful, but no less enthusiastic, was Mussolini, who would tell his wife he was “off to get spaghetti,” their code to avoid alarming the children. By the Sword is an epic history of sword fighting—a science, an art, and, for many, a religion that began at the dawn of civilization in ancient Egypt and has been an obsession for mankind ever since. With wit and insight, Richard Cohen gives us an engrossing history of the world via the sword. Praise for By the Sword “Touché! While scrupulous and informed about its subject, Richard Cohen’s book is about more than swordplay. It reads at times like an alternative social history of the West.”—Sebastian Faulks “In writing By the Sword, [Cohen] has shown that he is as skilled with the pen as he is with the sword.”—The New York Times “Irresistible . . . extraordinary . . . vivid and hugely enjoyable.”—The Economist “A virtual encyclopedia on the subject of sword fighting.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Literate, learned, and, beg pardon, razor-sharp . . . a pleasure for practitioners, and a rewarding entertainment for the armchair swashbuckler.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
| Author | : Shiao-Shen Yu |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 375 |
| Release | : 2018-03-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1984516930 |
The two martial arts masters in this book are the teachers featured in the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The first master, Chiang Shiao-ho, wrote and compiled the manual from which the hidden dragon learned martial arts. He and his sweetheart have to confront their conflicted feelings of love and the duty of revenge. The second master, Lee Mo-bai, struggles with his complicated feelings for Yu Ceo-lian. They are the older couple depicted in the movie. These two tragic love stories set in nineteenth-century China reflect the wishes of the Chinese people to eradicate two cruel traditions: an eye for eye vengeance and a living widow.
| Author | : Mike Loades |
| Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 654 |
| Release | : 2011-03-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1848847033 |
“A ‘must have’ book for anyone who has an interest in edged weapons . . . Loades holds the reader’s full attention with each sword’s story that he tells.” —The Lone Star Book Review This magnificent book tells the story of the evolution of swords, how they were made, how they were used, and the people that used them. It doesn’t claim to give comprehensive coverage but instead takes certain surviving examples as landmarks on a fascinating journey through the history of swords. Each is selected because it can be linked to a specific individual, thus telling their story too and giving a human interest. So the journey starts with the sword of Tutankhamun and ends with the swords of J. E. B. Stuart and George Custer. Along the way we take in Henry V, Cromwell and Uesugi Kenshin, and there is the most detailed discussion you’ll find anywhere of all of George Washington’s swords. The chapters on these specific swords and swordsmen are alternated with more general chapters on the changing technical developments and fashions in swords and their use. The reader’s guide on this historical tour is Mike Loades. Mike has been handling swords most of his life, as a fight arranger, stuntman and historical weapons expert for TV and stage. As much as his profound knowledge of the subject, it is his lifelong passion for swords that comes through on every page. His fascinating text is supported by a lavish wealth of images, many previously unpublished and taken specifically for this book. “Superb . . . the most breathtaking coverage from the earliest days to modern times. Brilliant.” —Books Monthly
| Author | : Davis Ashura |
| Publisher | : Dusum Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-01-05 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781732978089 |
Book 1 of the Epic Fantasy series, Instrument of Omens
| Author | : Charles Grindrod |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 518 |
| Release | : 1883 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Selina Rosen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781896944654 |
"The Jethrik are in trouble-- they're fighting a war they can't win even if they don't know it. Their savoir comes in the guise of a strange foreigner who is the son of one of their greatest heroes. Tarius the Black will lead the Jathrik army to victory and save their king, so what secret could he harbor that would be dark enough for them to order his death? Then, having escaped execution and cheated death at their hands, what could ever bring Tarius back to the Jethrik?"--Publisher's description.
| Author | : Peter Haskel |
| Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2012-10-25 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0824837231 |
Takuan Sōho’s (1573–1645) two works on Zen and swordsmanship are among the most straightforward and lively presentations of Zen ever written and have enjoyed great popularity in both premodern and modern Japan. Although dealing ostensibly with the art of the sword, Record of Immovable Wisdom and On the Sword Taie are basic guides to Zen—“user’s manuals” for Zen mind that show one how to manifest it not only in sword play but from moment to moment in everyday life. Along with translations of Record of Immovable Wisdom and On the Sword Taie (the former, composed in all likelihood for the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu and his fencing master, Yagyū Munenori), this book includes an introduction to Takuan’s distinctive approach to Zen, drawing on excerpts from the master’s other writings. It also offers an accessible overview of the actual role of the sword in Takuan’s day, a period that witnessed both a bloody age of civil warfare and Japan’s final unification under the Tokugawa shoguns. Takuan was arguably the most famous Zen priest of his time, and as a pivotal figure, bridging the Zen of the late medieval and early modern periods, his story (presented in the book’s biographical section) offers a rare picture of Japanese Zen in transition. For modern readers, whether practitioners of Zen or the martial arts, Takuan’s emphasis on freedom of mind as the crux of his teaching resonates as powerfully as it did with the samurai and swordsmen of Tokugawa Japan. Scholars will welcome this new, annotated translation of Takuan’s sword-related works as well as the host of detail it provides, illuminating an obscure period in Zen’s history in Japan.
| Author | : Huo BaoYouYu |
| Publisher | : Funstory |
| Total Pages | : 659 |
| Release | : 2020-07-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1649911173 |
"The sword is three inches wide, six inches long, and three feet long. It weighs more than a thousand pounds." The golden light shone, the world was in chaos, and the sword stirred up the entire wasteland ... Thunder shocked the world, sword shadows split the sky ... .... A piece of nine sword legend One martial arts world!
