Description：Two years ago, Lucas Bennett got too close to the truth—and died for it.Now, in Guangzhou, Interpol financial crimes investigator Evan Carter survives a brutal crash that should have killed him. When he wakes in a hospital bed, he isn’t alone in his own head. Along with broken memories and a body that is healing far too fast, Evan inherits Lucas’s unfinished mission: expose Sanctum, the shadow organization that manipulates global networks from behind the scenes....

Storm arrived in NYC in the winter of 1991. He left Scotland after a troubled youth and sought out a new life in America. With only $400, a backpack and a tremendous grit and courage Storm embarked on the amazing adventure of being an immigrant teenager in a neon city full of hope, despair , sex, money and power. Pre 911 , I EAT NEON reek's of a poet discovering himself, forgiving and pushing himself. Originally written on napkins, pizza boxes and scraps of paper Storm had no intention of ...

" I wrote IN CASE OF EMERGENCY when I was in pain, vulnerable, aroused, betrayed, pretentious, abandoned, disappointed, destructive and inspired. They saved me from exploding all over my kitchen. My poems are my confessions, my failures, my puzzles and my prayers. Read them out loud they will taste better- Storm" Taken from the book In Case Of Emergency

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House of the Seven Gables" intricately weaves a tale of guilt, retribution, and the haunting specter of the past. Set against the backdrop of a decaying, ancestral mansion in Massachusetts, the novel employs a rich, descriptive style akin to gothic romance, infusing the narrative with themes of hereditary sin and moral decay. Hawthorne's use of symbolism—epitomized by the house itself—encapsulates the entrapment of its inhabitants in their familial legacies, whil...

New York Times bestseller "An incomplete but highly compelling retelling . . . An action-packed, doom-haunted saga, full of vivid natural description."—New York Times Book ReviewThe Fall of Arthur recounts in alliterative verse the last campaign of King Arthur, who, even as he stands at the threshold of Mirkwood, is summoned back to Britain by news of the treachery of Mordred. Already weakened in spirit by Guinevere’s infidelity with the ...

Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature of Babylon, immortalized in this epic poem that dates back to the 3rd millennium BC. Together they journey to the Spring of Youth, defeat the Bull of Heaven and slay the monster Humbaba. When Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh's grief and fear of death are such that they lead him to undertake a quest for eternal life. A timeless tale of morality, tragedy and pure adventure, The Epic of Gi...

'The first great book, and the first great book about the suffering and loss of war' GuardianOne of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its centre is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, who refuses to fight after being humiliated by his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan Hector kills Achilles' close friend Patroclus, he storms back into ba...

Attributed to Valmiki, thought to be India's first poet, the Ramayana's origins date back thousands of years when it was first committed to Sanskrit. Since then, generations of children the world over have grown up with its story of Rama's quest to recover his wife Sita from her abduction by Raavana, the Lord of the Underworld. The tale has been celebrated in many languages and has spread to many other countries including Nepal, Tibet, Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesi...

Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. FallonJohn Milton’s Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen angel, Satan, is a profound meditation on fate, free will, and divinity, and one of the most beautiful works in world literature. Extracted from the Modern Library’s highly acclaimed The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, this edition reflects up-to-date scholarship and includes a substan...

Anglo-Saxon poetry was produced between 700 and 1000 AD for an audience that delighted in technical accomplishment, and the durable works of Old English verse spring from the source of the English language.Michael Alexander has translated the best of the Old English poetry into modern English and into a verse form that retains the qualities of Anglo-Saxon metre and alliteration. Included in this selection are the ‘heroic poems’ such as Widsith, Deor, Brunanburh and Mal...

The Complete Poetry gathers the full range of Robert Browning's verse, from early experimental works to the great dramatic monologues that secured his place in Victorian literature. Restless, intellectual, and psychologically acute, Browning's poetry turns inward upon motive, conscience, faith, ambition, and artistic creation. Poems such as "My Last Duchess," "Andrea del Sarto," and "Fra Lippo Lippi" reveal his mastery of voice: speakers disclose themselves not through confession but throu...

John Milton is, next to William Shakespeare, the most influential English poet, a writer whose work spans an incredible breadth of forms and subject matter. The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton celebrates this author’s genius in a thoughtfully assembled book that provides new modern-spelling versions of Milton’s texts, expert commentary, and a wealth of other features that will please even the most dedicated students of Milton’s canon. Edited by a trio of esteeme...