Whilst it's impossible to capture the essence of Nigeria in one story, its writers have given readers the opportunity to experience the many different parts that make up Africa's most populous nation. In OF THIS OUR COUNTRY, acclaimed and award-winning Nigerian writers go a step further, and describe their Nigeria, sharing personal essays about a country that holds so much more than any one perspective could. Through the words of these writers, a...

Embark on an enchanting journey into the heart of fantasy world building with "Magic Made Easy." This beginner's guide is your key to unlocking the secrets of creating captivating and unique magical and mythical worlds. In this comprehensive guide, you'll explore the art of crafting a fantasy universe, from the foundational principles of originality to the intricate details of magic and mythology. Designed for both newcomers and seasoned writers,...

Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Lovestruck in Barcelona by Enrique Vila-Matas Supermanza 503 by Gabi Martinez The Great Barcelona Novel by Miqui Otero plus: the complex legacy of the Olympics; the future of Catalonia; the radical left and the once best in the world soccer team; an endless subway line, and much more... Thirty years after the 1992...

All Jason wants to do is make sure that Sophie is okay. He knows that she's been pushed to her breaking point and he doesn't want her to be alone, while she fixes herself. Things get complicated though, when his girlfriend shows up. Jessica is jealous and possessive. It quickly becomes clear that he can't have both of them in his life. He makes a choice and goes through with it, but when tragedy strikes, will he find himself on his own?

In this fourth thesis I explain the story of biblical Genesis in the light of metaphysics and literality, and not starting from the common error of taking the translated text, but starting from the original sources (first, Hebrew and Greek), and not according to not the religious interpretation, but also the scientific interpretation of the archetypes of the mind. But this cannot be achieved correctly without corroborating the information and comparing...

Philip Hardie is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor Emeritus of Latin at the University of Cambridge. His many books include Rumour and Renown and The Last Trojan Hero. A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artists Between the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination-poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and religious-displayed...

A Community of Inquiry is made up of ten students and faculty associated with the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities at Princeton University. An irreverent critical lexicon of academic life and culture The university: The very name evokes knowledge, culture, and the magnificently universal ambition at the heart of this essential institution. Bastions of free inquiry and a free society, engines of social transformation and economic...

George Puttenham's Art of English Poesy is a foundational work of English Renaissance criticism and literary theory. Rich in detail about the nature, purpose, and functions of poetry as well as the poet's character and goals, it is also a valuable historical document, offering generous insight into Elizabethan court culture, implicitly on display in the attitudes and values of the writer. His illustrative anecdotes enable us to watch European courtiers...

Latin America's Indigenous writers have long labored under the limits of colonialism, but in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, they have constructed a literary corpus that moves them beyond those parameters. Gloria E. Chacon considers the growing number of contemporary Indigenous writers who turn to Maya and Zapotec languages alongside Spanish translations of their work to challenge the tyranny of monolingualism and cultural homogeneity....

Looking for a large cast comedy play script with plenty of female roles for your next festival or drama competition? You'll find a winning combo of slapstick and sentimentality in “The Myrtle!” When a trio of sneaky suitors steal a beautiful myrtle tree and gift it to the prince, they don't know it transformers into a fairy maiden at sundown. But now the prince must right the wrong and reunite myrtle and mother at the risk of losing the woman...