Why is Q Always Followed by U?: Word-Perfect Answers to the Most-Asked Questions About Language
Long-time word-detective and bestselling author of "Port Out", "Starboard Home", Michael Quinion brings us the answers to nearly two hundred of the most intriguing questions he's been asked about language over the years.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - This saga spans three generations of the Buendia family begins with Jose, who founds a town in the heart of the South American jungle. The family is dominated by his passion for alchemy, but the world is changing, and succeeding generations are caught up in a political and social turmoil. This novel creates its own world, in which there is a Spanish galleon beached in the jungle, a flying carpet, and an iguana in a woman's womb. Read by Patrick Romer.
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The Iliad of Homer
Homer, Richmond Lattimore (Translator), Richard Martin (Introduction), "The Iliad of Homer" ISBN: 0226470490 | 2011 | EPUB/MOBI | 608 pages | 801 KB/3 MB "Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation—the gold standard for generations of students and general readers.
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Twelve years ago, forensic anthropologist Jamie Cash survived a brutal kidnapping, torture, and rape. After years of therapy, she has made a life for herself--though one that is haunted by memories of her terrifying past. She finally lets herself get close to a man, FBI agent Dakota Richards, when signs start appearing that point to one frightening fact--her attacker is back and ready to finish the job he started all those year ago. Can she escape his grasp a second time? And will she ever be able to let down her guard enough to find true love?
Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose
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Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose
This book describes the ways in which the techniques of linguistic analysis and literary criticism can be combined, and illuminated, through the linguistic study of literary style. It draws on the prose fiction of the last 150 years to demonstrate the approach.
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