Tom, a twenty-six-year-old macho, heterosexual guy, and his like-minded best friend, ex-college roommate and baseball teammate find themselves in an unexpected and unique situation. Toms friend David breaks both of his arms in a rollerblading accident. Through default, Tom must take on the responsibility of caretaker for the six weeks David is completely incapacitated with both arms in full casts. At the onset, Tom doesnt consider Davids every need, and that together with opportunity, late...

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The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult Detectives, Female Detectives, Curious Crimes and a whole host more, but also bring a ...

The stereotypical image of a poet is one of unknown talent starving in a garret and who’s faithfulness and legacy to the art is discovered only after their death.In some cases this is undoubtedly true, but Poets being human and with the same building blocks of physical and mental health as the rest of us, also had the same afflictions and problems as the rest of us.The long roll call of names and the truncated legacies that were left behind is filled with these lost talents...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The population of England grew steeply in the Middle Ages, especially between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. This volume investigates how medieval farmers managed to produce the large harvests needed to sustain this growth, growth that in turn fuelled a major expansion...

Ce livre contient des témoignages de proches et des études sur celui qui a non seulement édité des milliers de pages de J.R.R. Tolkien, et cartographié son univers, mais qui apparaît ici comme un écrivain et un artiste à part entière.Christopher Tolkien aurait eu 100 ans le 21 novembre. Il est surtout connu pour avoir « révélé » le monde inventé par son père, grâce à la vingtaine de livres qu’il a fait paraître ; mais sont présentées ici des analys...

The life and career of a Poet is often thought of as musing at a desk, or lying in a meadow, or on long journeys to find inspiration for their next masterwork. But more often than not a poet was a part-time profession in subservient submission to their actual, salary-paying job.In this volume we bring together those whose craft is the drafting of words into stories and plays that others read or watch. Of course, in Centuries past poetry was often interwoven into plays and yet, in t...

Love. What is love?The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive.Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but only seen in a glance, a look, a fleeting touch. Part of Love’s beauty is perhaps in the fact that the question never can be adequately answered; its ephemeral, a chimera of the heart and only felt.Our own experiences are unique and personal to ourselves and of little help defining it for an...

For some stories there is no happy resolving of the narratives and the characters struggle against the odds that are always destined to overwhelm them. In these stories our authors reveal and examine situations where the only possible outcome is sadness, and sometimes even worse.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

In 2005, Brandon Sanderson debuted with Elantris, an epic fantasy unlike any other then on the market. Graphic Audio is reissuing Elantris in a completely new audiobook production, a fresh chance to introduce it to the myriad listeners who have since become Sanderson fans. This new version is re-recorded with a larger cast of actors, new sound effects and new music scoring!This edition begins with a preface by author Dan Wells, the first person to read the completed novel, and a ne...

Table des matièresCréatures des ténèbres et Choses d’un autre monde : le cinéma de John Carpenter (Lionel Viscogliosi)Hommage George A. RomeroAsia, Hawks, les femmes et les zombiesHommage à Tobe HooperTexte Mike GarrisfFrewell Tobe (Thomas Révay)Dossier Dario ArgentoEntretien Dario ArgentoPeur, extrait de l’autobiographie de Dario Argento (© Rou...