Climbing onto a Roman Dragon Rustling ship by mistake in your first Boarding an Enemy Ship lesson is bad enough.But then discovering Alvin the Treacherous is also on board proves to Hiccup he couldn't have been more wrong, especially when Alvin steals his copy of How to Speak Dragonese.Can Hiccup save the dragons and the day?
Fishlegs has been struck with deadly Vorpentitis. The only cure is rare and almost impossible to find ...a potato. But where on Berk will Hiccup find such a thing? He'll have to dodge Sharkworms, battle Doomfangs and outwit crazy Hooligans if he's going to be a Hero ... again.
Someone has stolen the Fire Egg. Now the Volcano on Volcano Island is active and the tremors are hatching the eggs of the Exterminator dragons! Can Hiccup return the Fire Egg to the Volcano, stop the Volcano from erupting, AND save the Tribes from being wiped out by the terrible sword-claws of the Exterminators?
Constructing a World: Shakespeare's England and the New Historical Fiction
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Examines recent developments in historical fiction, with particular attention to the way contemporary writers have portrayed Shakespearean England.
Taking its title from Umberto Eco's postscript to The Name of the Rose, the novel that inaugurated the New Historical Fiction in the early 1980s, Constructing the World provides a guide to the genre's defining characteristics. It also serves as a lively account of the way Shakespeare, Marlowe, Raleigh, Queen Elizabeth I, and their contemporaries have been depicted by such writers as Anthony Burgess, George Garrett, Patricia Finney, Barry Unsworth.
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At Fault by Kate Chopin [Unabridged e-book
Although Kate Chopin is better known for her second novel The Awakening and her numerous short story collections, her first novel merits critical inquiry. At Fault was published in 1890 and aside from its confident, flawless prose, it also explores the complicated and sensitive subject of divorce.
