This wartime poetry collection moves from comic courtship to battlefield tragedy with restless energy and a distinctly Irish voice. Phelim O'Toole's spirited tale of the McGee family farewell party, his awkward love for Maggie, and the heartbreak of sudden departure gives way to secret missions, artillery assaults, trench nightmares, and desperate charges shaped by patriotism, grief, and gallows humor. Alongside him appear vivid figures such as Jacques Mallaise singing the Marseillaise und...

Enter Thomas More's imagined society and explore enduring questions about politics, justice, wealth, work, and human nature. Thomas More's Utopia presents an imagined island society that provides the framework for a wide-ranging examination of European political and social life. Through conversations and descriptions of the fictional society, More explores government, property, labor, education, religion, law, wealth, and social organization. The work invites readers to question whether th...

Katharine’s colleagues call her “the Tigress” because of her alpha-personality....But behind that macho facade is a submissive side just waiting to come out.One day, Katharine meets Louis.Will he become her master?

This edition includes:-Several illustrations from the original work-Extended and up to date introduction-A discussion of the structure of the bookFirst published in 1516, Saint Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism. Through the voice of the mysterious traveller Raphael Hythloday, More describes a pagan, communist city-state governed by reason. Addressing such issues as religious pluralism, women's rights, state-sponsored education, colonialism...

A sweeping journey through the foundations, triumphs, and transformations of British literature. This monumental volume gathers fifty of the most influential and enduring works ever written in the English language. From the heroic epic of Beowulf to the philosophical sublimity of the Romantic poets, from Shakespeare's immortal tragedies to the visionary science fiction of H. G. Wells, this collection traces the evolution of a literary tradition that shaped the modern world. Organized chron...

Enjoy this anthology of Neo-Gothic fiction inspired by the imagination of Edgar Allan Poe.  Winner of the Paris Book Festival Award – Best anthology of the yearNominated for a Bram Stoker Award – Superior Achievement in an Anthology"Make sure your belt is done up good and tight when you read nEvermore!. It's very embarrassing to have your...

This e-book brings together important and influential works by celebrated scholars from East to West into a single collection.Contents:Sun Tzu The Art of WarConfucius AnalectsLao Tzu Tao Te ChingPlatoEarly: The Apology of Socrates, Charmides, Crito, Euthyphro, Ion, Laches, Lysis, MenexenusMiddle: The Republic, The Allegory of the Cave, Symposium, Meno, PhaedoLate: CritiasAristotlePoeticsParva NaturaliaSense...

There's a mysterious new arcade cabinet in town. Lydia, the self-professed queen of the Retro Arcade, naturally has to beat it. But there's more to this game than just a high score; with every point, Lydia grows bustier and bustier, changing into a wet dream while overloading on pleasure. But while her curves swell, she is left blissfully unaware to her own transformation, her sense of normality manipulated by an unseen puppeteer, warping reality towards its own debauched purposes…...

57 ready-to-use BDSM Roleplays.BDSM is a safe sexual roleplaying game between you and your partner. Adding just a small dose of BDSM lets you explore your kinky side in new ways.In this book, you get 57 ready-to-use BDSM roleplays that allow you to live out your sexual desires, explore your sexual fantasies, and experiment with pain and pleasure.Here's a few of them:- The Boss And Secretary- A Night On The Town- The Runaway Bri...

Joshua has a problem: His imagination works a little too well—and he's got it bad for tall, powerful ladies. Wanting to feel less weird, he visits Clara, a hypnotherapist. But Clara is all about accepting yourself and your quirks—and under her spell, he soon sees his seductive therapist (and the cute girl-next-door) grow bigger, stronger, and curvier before his very eyes.Can Clara's hypnosis really make her outgrow her office? Will Joshua learn to control his chains of thought befo...

Utopia is a fascinating novel that tells the story of a visitor to a distant island home to a community that has established an ideal society. Based on harmony, justice, rationality, virtue, equality and the pursuit of happiness, it presents a sharp contrast with sixteenth century England. This remarkable novel is complex, insightful and far-sighted, and has, for centuries, been of great interest to scholars, politicians, writers and readers who have sought to untangle its mysteri...

An original collection of personal essays blending food writing and memoir, and exploring subjects ranging from Cher's canapes in the film Mermaids, to the way in which food can become a language we use to communicate things that are too difficult to say, via a history of cookbooks that have their foundations in grieving and loss, and one writer's experience of the six kitchens she's made her own over the years. Funny, astute and thought provoking, In the Kitchen explores the importance of...