The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
The Alchemyst is the first novel in the six book series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, written by Michael Scott and published in May 2007. The Alchemyst has been printed in 20 languages and is available in 37 countries.
Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for over twenty years. It is a first book in the True Blood series, which were adapted by HBO in 2008.
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Literature and Heresy in the Age of ChaucerAfter the late fourteenth century, English literature was fundamentally shaped by the heresy of John Wyclif and his followers. This study demonstrates how Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, John Clanvowe, Margery Kempe, Thomas Hoccleve and John Lydgate, far from eschewing Wycliffism out of fear of censorship or partisan distaste, viewed Wycliffite ideas as a distinctly new intellectual resource.
First published as a monthly serial in 1870, only six of the planned twelve installments were published before Dickens' death left the story unfinished, and readers have often speculated how it might have ended.
This 1990 radio adaptation uses the ending written by Leon Garfield in 1980.