Miles, Mystery, and Mayhem
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ISBN | 1781086079 |
Machineries Of Empire, the most exciting science fiction trilogy of the decade, reaches its astonishing conclusion!
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ISBN | 0756406609 |
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ISBN | 0441003389 |
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To Be Taught, If Fortunate
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ISBN | 0062936018 |
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ISBN | 0765309041 |
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ISBN | 0575075376 |
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The modern reader may have difficulty conceiving of Iphigeneia in Tauris as tragedy, for the term in our sense is associated with downfall, death, and disaster. But to the ancient Greeks, the use of heroic legend, the tragic diction and meters, and the tragic actors would have defined it as pure tragedy,...
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“No, he thought, when everything you do, you do too long, and do too late, you can't expect to find the people still there. The people all are gone. The party's over and you are with your hostess now.”
Harry’s dying. Gangrene. He’s not happy about it, but he’s resigned to it...