Suggested reading of Apocalypse law 1, Apocalypse law 2, Apocalypse law 3 and Apocalypse law 4, prior to reading Apocalypse law 5.
Winner of the 2014 PEN USA Literary Award for Translation This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorn's translation of The Decameron.
This confusion of persons constantly occurs in Boccaccio, especially in the conversational parts of the Decameron, in which he makes the freest use of the various forms of enallage and of other rhetorical figures, such as hyperbaton, ...
Paul Slack explores the historical impact of plague over the centuries, looking at the ways in which it has been interpreted and the powerful images it has left behind in art and literature.
Including source materials such as memoirs and autobiographies, letters, histories, and literature, as well as demographic statistics, legislation, medical treatises and popular remedies, religious writings, material culture, and the visual ...
"A very well-researched book full of facts about that time, how people lived, and the disease itself, yet it tells the story at an exciting pace." - Larry Green, Death Head Grin Magazine
Yorick and Agent 355 continue towards Australia, where he hopes to find his lost girlfriend, Beth - but encounters await with Russian cosmonauts, a possibly-crazed dominatrix, and the dangerous Amazons, who count Yorick's sister among their ...
First published to great controversy in Italy in 2002, this internationally bestselling thriller sheds new light on the power struggles of 17th-century Europe.