British Book News

British Book News
Author: British Council
Publisher:
Total Pages: 916
Release: 1992
Genre: Best books
ISBN:

Includes no. 53a: British wartime books for young people.

Arms for Adonis

Arms for Adonis
Author: Charlotte Jay
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2019-08-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 174305680X

The blood of Adonis, thought Sarah, remembering the church that was built like a pagan temple. Coquelicot rouge - the symbol of a dying man whose blood stained the hillside in the spring. Sarah Lane, abandoning her French lover for the brilliant Lebanese sunshine, believes that the day will belong to her alone. But when a street bomb hurls her into the arms of a dangerously handsome Syrian colonel, she finds herself trapped once again. Is this a kidnapping? A seduction? Or merely the chaos of the Middle-East? The Wakefield Crime Classics series revives forgotten or neglected gems of crime and mystery fiction by Australian authors. Many of the writers have established international reputations but are little known in Australia. 'The Wakefield Crime Classics series is marvellous ... a wonderful collection of writing that should not have been overlooked in this country in the first place.' - Terry O'Connor, Courier Mail

The British American Guide-Book

The British American Guide-Book
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2023-02-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3382305666

Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth

J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth
Author: Bradley J. Birzer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2023-08-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1684516242

With a new introduction by the author Peter Jackson's film version of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy - and the accompanying Rings-related paraphernalia and publicity - has played a unique role in the disemmination of Tolkien's imaginative creation to the masses. Yet, for most readers and viewers, the underlying meaning of Middle-earth has remained obscure. Bradley Birzer has remedied that with this fresh study. In J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth, Birzer reveals the surprisingly specific religious symbolism that permeates Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. He also explores the social and political views that motivated the Oxford don, ultimately situating Tolkien within the Christian humanist tradition represented by Thomas More and T.S. Eliot, Dante and C.S. Lewis. Birzer argues that through the genre of myth Tolkien created a world that is essentially truer than the one we think we see around us everyday, a world that transcends the colorless disenchantment of our postmodern age.