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The impossible has happened The Lord Ruler is dead has been vanquished But so too is Kelsier the man who masterminded the triumph The awesome task of rebuilding the world has been left to his protege Vin; a one-time street urchin now the most powerful Mistborn in the land Worryingly for her Vin has become the focus of a new religion a development that leaves her intensely uneasy More worryingly still the mists have become unpredictable since the Lord Ruler died & a strage vaprous entity is stalking Vin As the siege of Luthadel intensifies the ancient legend of the Well of Ascension offers the only glimmer of hope But no-one knows where it is or what it can do ...
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As a man loved a woman that was how I loved It was good good good' Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents
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The complete & enhanced edition This edition contains extra information & archival material that tells the fascinating story behind The Well's controversial publication trial & ban in 1928 As a little girl Stephen Gordon always felt different A talent for sport a hatred of dresses & a preference for solitude were not considered suitable for a young lady of the Victorian upper-class But when Stephen grows up & falls passionately in love with another woman her standing in the county & her place at the home she loves become untenable Stephen must set off to discover whether there is anywhere in the world that will have her ...
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New to Penguin Modern Classics the seminal work of gay literature that sparked an infamous legal trial for obscenity & went on to become a bestseller The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen who hunts wears trousers & cuts her hair short
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16-year-old Wendy Davies crashes her car into a lake on a late summer night in New England with her two younger brothers in the backseat When she wakes in the hospital she is told that her youngest brother Michael is dead Wendy — a once rational teenager – shocks her family by insisting that Michael is alive & in the custody of a mysterious flying boy Placed in a new school Wendy negotiates fantasy & reality as students & adults around her resemble characters from Neverland Given a sketchbook by her therapist Wendy starts to draw But is The Wendy Project merely her safe space or a portal between worlds? Meet the Author Melissa Jane Osborn is an actor & a writer who graduated from NYU The Wendy Project is her first comic series Veronica Fish is an artist whose work

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The Well-Beloved With The Pursuit Of The Well-Beloved By Thomas Hardy
(Paperback, 1999)

Introduction and Notes by Jane Thomas University of Hull The Well-Beloved completes the cycle of Hardy's great novels reiterating his favourite themes of man's eternal quest for perfection in both love and art and the suffering that ensues Jocelyn Pierston celebrated sculptor tries to create an image of his ideal woman - his imaginary Well-Beloved - in stone just as he tries to find her in the flesh Powerful symbolism marks this romantic fantasy that Hardy has grounded firmly in reality with a characteristically authentic rendering of location the Isle of Slingers or Portland as we know it Overt exploration of the relationship between erotic fascination and creativity makes this novel a nineteenth-century landmark in the persistent debate about art aesthetics and gender This volume breaks
new ground by including in full the1892 serialised version of the novel - The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved
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Introduction & Notes by Jane Thomas University of Hull The Well-Beloved completes the cycle of Hardy's great novels reiterating his favourite themes of man's eternal quest for perfection in both love & art & the suffering that ensues Jocelyn Pierston celebrated sculptor tries to create an image of his ideal woman
- his imaginary Well-Beloved
- in stone just as he tries to find her in the flesh Powerful symbolism marks this romantic fantasy that Hardy has grounded firmly in reality with a characteristically authentic rendering of location the Isle of Slingers or Portland as we know it Overt exploration of the relationship between erotic fascination & creativity makes this novel a nineteenth-century landmark in the persistent debate about art aesthetics & gender This volume breaks new ground by including in full the 1892 serialised version of the novel
- The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved

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