As everything Tom and Hester know and love hurtles towards apocalypse, who will be left to tell the tale?
Author: Philip Reeve
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 9781407129150
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 544
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The shattering final instalment of Philip Reeve's Predator Cities quartet flings you back into his blasted world of predator cities, ruinous wars and terrifying Stalkers. Abandoned by Hester, Tom and Wren stumble across the wreckage of a vast traction city: London. As the Green Storm take arms and the truce with the Traction Cities splinters, the world is on a collision course - beginning and ending in London's ruined shell. As everything Tom and Hester know and love hurtles towards apocalypse, who will be left to tell the tale? Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2007, this epic finale is fast-moving, thrilling, heartbreaking - and as exciting as hell!
Agents for peace are bringing an end to the devastating conflict between the roaming Traction Cities and their fanatical enemies while Wren and her father Tom travel the Bird Roads in their airship, trying to forget that Hester has betrayed ...
Author: Philip Reeve
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
ISBN: 9781921988172
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 352
View: 211
Agents for peace are bringing an end to the devastating conflict between the roaming Traction Cities and their fanatical enemies while Wren and her father Tom travel the Bird Roads in their airship, trying to forget that Hester has betrayed them. In the ruined wreckage of the city of London they make a discovery that will change the world, while Hester must face an implacable foe with the means and the will to destroy the entire human race.
Author: Kristen Renwick MonroePublish On: 2014-10-27
DARKLING. PLAIN: STORIES. OF. CONFLICT. AND. HUMANITY. DURING. WAR
. How do people maintain their humanity during wars? Despite its importance,
this question receives scant scholarly attention, perhaps because of the ...
Author: Kristen Renwick Monroe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781316148006
Category: Political Science
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How do people maintain their humanity during wars? Despite its importance, this question receives scant scholarly attention, perhaps because war is overwhelming. The generally accepted belief is that wars bring out the worst in us, pitting one against another. 'War is hell', William Tecumseh Sherman famously noted, and even 'just' wars are massively destructive and inhumane. Since ethics is concerned with discovering what takes us to a morally superior place, one conducive to betterment and happiness - studying what helps people survive wartime trauma thus becomes an extremely valuable enterprise. A Darkling Plain fills an important scholarly void, analyzing wartime stories that reveal much about our capacity to process trauma, heal wounds, reclaim lost spirits, and derive meaning and purpose from the most horrific of personal events.
In the early days of human beings living in space, Dave Mantell, a space engineer, must find out who might be trying to sabotage the delicate relations between Mother Earth and her space outposts.
Author: Robert J. Tripician
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Company
ISBN: 0805964193
Category: Fiction
Page: 202
View: 608
In the early days of human beings living in space, Dave Mantell, a space engineer, must find out who might be trying to sabotage the delicate relations between Mother Earth and her space outposts. As he follows the twisted and turning trail he must keep himself safe while dodging repeated attempts on his life.
The novel won the 2006 Guardian Award and the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction. The book is set six months after Infernal Devices.
Author: Source Wikipedia
Publisher: University-Press.org
ISBN: 1230484981
Category:
Page: 40
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 39. Chapters: Larklight trilogy, Mortal Engines quartet, A Darkling Plain, List of Mortal Engines Quartet characters, Hester Shaw, Traction City, Lost Boys, Wren Natsworthy, Predator's Gold, Anchorage-in-Vineland, Infernal Devices, Stalker, Shrike, Thaddeus Valentine, Here Lies Arthur, Anti-Traction League, Starcross, Municipal Darwinism, Sixty Minute War, Cruwys Morchard, Green Storm, London, Oenone Zero, Anna Fang, Fever Crumb, Theo Ngoni, Nimrod Pennyroyal, Mothstorm, A Web of Air, Jenny Haniver, Traktionstadtsgesellschaft, Magnus Crome, Buster Bayliss series, Nicholas Quirke. Excerpt: A Darkling Plain is the fourth and final novel in the Mortal Engines Quartet series written by author Philip Reeve. The novel won the 2006 Guardian Award and the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction. The book is set six months after Infernal Devices. Wren Natsworthy and her father Tom Natsworthy have taken to the skies in their airship, the Jenny Haniver. After the apparent death of the Stalker Fang at the end of Infernal Devices, General Naga has seized command of the Green Storm and has signed a peace treaty between the Green Storm and the Traktionstadtsgesellschaft, ushering in a new era of peace and trade. Whilst Wren is enjoying life as an aviator, Tom misses Hester, and has been informed by a doctor that his weak heart means he only has a few years left to live. The Lost Boy, Fishcake, is secretly repairing the Stalker Fang, coming to regard her as the mother he never had. Theo Ngoni has returned to Zagwa and rejoined his family. The title is derived from Matthew Arnold's poem Dover Beach. This excerpt of the poem appears at the beginning of the book: Ah, love, let us be trueTo one another! for the world, which seemsTo lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful so..
Letters written between 1950 and 1975 by Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen discussing their reading of Finnegan's Wake.
Author: Thornton Wilder
Publisher: Univ College Dublin Press
ISBN: 1900621541
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 732
View: 943
These unpublished letters between the esteemed teacher and literary critic, Adaline Glasheen, and the great American writer, Thornton Wilder, were written over a twenty-five year period, from 1950 to 1975. They reveal the probing energy and encyclope
