The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts
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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts
One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. For Arthur, who has just had his house demolished, this is too much. Sadly, the weekend has just begun.
This incredibly funny trilogy starts with Only You Can Save Mankind in which Johnny Maxwell gets caught up in the ultimate fantasy (or nightmare) of the computer-mad child - as the game becomes real! In Johnny and the Dead Johnny makes the alarming discovery that he can actually see the dead. When the dead realize this they make use of his talents to prevent developers building on their graves. The final part, Johnny and the Bomb, sees Johnny and friends travelling back in time to 1941 (on a bag lady's shopping trolley!) and trying to warn people about a bomb that is about to drop
The period embraced in this set is "one of the most dramatic and fruitful of results in European Annals - remarkable for work and endeavor, especially in the Slav world," the author writes. Among Western Slavs, the great events were the Hussite Wars and the union of Lithuania and Poland. The Hussite Wars were caused by ideas of race and religion (born in Bohemia.) The period of Bohemian activity began in 1403 and ended in 1434, with the battle of Lipan. Known for their great narrative power and contain vivid characterizations, Sienkiewicz' work includes the great trilogy of historical novels began to appear in 1883. It is composed of With Fire and Sword (1884), The Deluge (1886), and Pan Michael (1887-88). Set in the later 17th century, the trilogy describes Poland's struggles against Cossacks, Tatars, Swedes, and Turks, stressing Polish heroism in a vivid style of epic clarity and simplicity. Henryk (Adam Alexander Pius) Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) was a novelist, born in Wola Okrzejska, Poland. He studied at Warsaw, traveled in the USA, and in the 1870s began to write articles, short stories, and novels. His major work was a war trilogy about 17th-c Poland, beginning with Ogniem i mieczem (1884, With Fire and Sword), but his most widely known book is the story of Rome under Nero, Quo Vadis? (1896), several times filmed, notably in 1951 by Mervyn Le Roy (1900-87). He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905.
The Rescue by Joseph Conrad (Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski)
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Conrad's first book (Almayer's Folly) and his second (An outcast of the Islands) were situated in Borneo and the Indonesian archipelago. His third book was to have been the work that later came to be known as The Rescue, but which it took Conrad more than 20 years to complete. Together, these three works are known as Conrad's Malay trilogy. Conrad wrote his Malay trilogy from the wrong end, so to speak; that is, his first (Almayer) takes place latest in time and the last (The Rescue) tells of the earliest beginnings. Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to speak English well until he was in his 20s. He is recognized as a master prose stylist.
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. CliffsNotes on The Oedipus Trilogy is your ticket to a greater understanding of three tragic dramas from Sophocles. Meet the subject of these plays: Oedipus, the banished king of Greek mythology who killed his father and married his mother. Oedipus The King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone are timeless works that continue to captivate audiences even today.
