Empire of Dreams
Title | Empire of Dreams PDF eBook |
Author | Giannina Braschi |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 260 |
Release | 1994-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780300057959 |
A collection of stream-of-consciousness jottings by a Puerto Rican woman on life in New York City. A portrait of the city by a writer with an acute sense of observation. The author teaches Spanish at a university.
Dream of Empire
Title | Dream of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | John Edward Weems |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 363 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Texas |
ISBN |
Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire
Title | Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Juliette Harrisson |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2013-09-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1441176330 |
An investigation into dream reports in the history and literature of early Roman culture.
The Empire of Dreams
Title | The Empire of Dreams PDF eBook |
Author | Rae Carson |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Total Pages | 448 |
Release | 2020-04-07 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0062691929 |
“Action, adventure, betrayal, and poison add up to a winner." —Booklist New York Times–bestselling author Rae Carson makes a triumphant return to the world of her award-winning Girl of Fire and Thorns trilogy in this extraordinary stand-alone novel. Fans of Leigh Bardugo, Kendare Blake, and Tomi Adeyemi won’t want to put this book down. Red Sparkle Stone is a foundling orphan with an odd name, a veiled past, and a mark of magic in her hair. But finally—after years and years of running, of fighting—she is about to be adopted into the royal family by Empress Elisa herself. She’ll have a home, a family. Sixteen-year-old Red can hardly believe her luck. Then, in a stunning political masterstroke, the empress’s greatest rival blocks the adoption, and everything Red has worked for crumbles before her eyes. But Red is not about to let herself or the empress become a target again. Determined to prove her worth and protect her chosen family, she joins the Royal Guard, the world’s most elite fighting force. It’s no coincidence that someone wanted her to fail as a princess, though. Someone whose shadowy agenda puts everything—and everyone—she loves at risk. As danger closes in, it will be up to Red to save the empire. If she can survive recruitment year—something no woman has ever done before. New York Times–bestselling author Rae Carson returns to the world of The Girl of Fire and Thorns in this action-packed fantasy-adventure starring an iconic heroine who fights for her family and her friends, and for a place where she will belong.
Dreams of Empire
Title | Dreams of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Justin Richards |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Doctor Who (Fictitious character) |
ISBN | 9780563405986 |
Landing on a barren asteroid, the Doctor and his friends discover the final pages of a drama that has torn apart an empire are being played out. Who is the man in the mask, and how are his chess games affecting life and death in his prison? What is the secret of the knights in armor that line the bleak walls of the settlement. And what is the nature of the alien ship approaching -- and what will it want when it arrives? Soon the TARDIS crew find themselves under siege with a deadly robotic race and human traitors to defeat -- and the future of an entire stellar empire hangs in the balance: if the Doctor cannot triumph it will become a force not for good, but for evil.
Osman's Dream
Title | Osman's Dream PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Finkel |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Total Pages | 706 |
Release | 2007-08-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 046500850X |
The definitive history of the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too often colored by the memory of its bloody final throes on the battlefields of World War I. In this magisterial work-the first definitive account written for the general reader-renowned scholar and journalist Caroline Finkel lucidly recounts the epic story of the Ottoman Empire from its origins in the thirteenth century through its destruction in the twentieth.
The Politics of Dreaming in the Carolingian Empire
Title | The Politics of Dreaming in the Carolingian Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Edward Dutton |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 378 |
Release | 1994-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780803216532 |
Between the reigns of Charlemagne and Charles the Fat, Europe underwent a series of alarming and unsettling changes. Civil war broke out, royal authority was divided, and the brightest of men and women began to entertain nightmarish thoughts of the corruption and collapse of their world. Amidst the ruin of their shaken and shattered assumptions, Carolingian intellectuals wrote down a series of dream texts. The Carolingian oneiric record, though dark with confusion and immoderate emotion, supplies us with a more subjective reading of this formative period of European history than the one found in standard histories. Carolingian dream-authors criticized and complained because they hoped to reform a royal society that had lost its way. This study begins by surveying the sleep of kings and the status of royal dreams from the classical period to the ninth century. Then it runs to an examination of individual dreams and the political disruption that informs them. The reader will encounter a variety of surprising dreams: of Charlemagne's lust, demons and archangels, a sorrowful prophet, disputed property and bullying saints, magical swords and mad princes, and Charles the Fat's journey through an awesome otherworld towards an uncertain constitutional future.