Vengeance of Dragons
9 best books like Vengeance of Dragons (Holly Lisle): Elric of Melniboné, The Fire Rose, Tales of the Hasidim, Vols 1-2, The Golem, The Golden Bough, The Changing Land, Fanuilh, Чингиз-хан, The Vanishing Tower
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0441203981 |
It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair that flows below his shoulders is milk-white. From the tapering, beautiful head stare two slanting eyes, crimson and moody....He is Elric, Emperor of Melnibone, cursed with a keen and cynical intelligence, schooled in the art of sorcery...
This adaptation of Beauty and the Beast cuts out the merchant father and sisters mourning their sudden impoverishment. Instead of a formerly-wealthy beauty, our heroine is the recently-orphaned daughter of a professor. Highly educated herself, but lacking family or funds, she perforce accepts...
| Author | Martin Buber |
| ISBN | 0805209956 |
This new paperback edition brings together volumes one and two of Buber's classic work Takes of the Hasidim, with a new foreword by Chaim Potok. Martin Buber devoted forty years of his life to collecting and retelling the legends of Hasidim. "Nowhere in the last centuries," wrote Buber in Hasidim and...
| Author | Gustav Meyrink |
| ISBN | 1873982917 |
First published in serial form as Der Golem in the periodical Die weissen Blätter in 1913–14, The Golem is a haunting Gothic tale of stolen identity and persecution, set in a strange underworld peopled by fantastical characters. The red-headed prostitute Rosina; the junk-dealer Aaron Wassertrum;...
| Author | James George Frazer |
| ISBN | 0684826305 |
Frazer a klasszikus brit etnológia utolsó képviselője (1854-1941). Élete és munkássága korszakot jelent a néprajztudomány történetében. … Az Aranyágban arra tesz kísérletet, hogy felvázolja az emberi gondolkodás fejlődését a mágia, a vallás egymást követő...
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 0934438463 |
This book has the grandest theme & the most strangely-named demon. The name is Melbriniononsadsazzersteldregandishfeltselior.
Zelazny includes a touching love story between Queen Semirama & a tentacled semi-elder-god who lives in a cesspit below Castle Timeless. The Queen is hard...
Liam Rhenford was just a wandering scholar who had settled in a port town. He had few friends, and when one, the wizard Tanaquil, is murdered, Liam finds himself in the middle of the investigation. On one side is the victim's small dragon familiar, who helped itself to a piece of Liam's soul so it could survive,...
Роман «Чингисхан» В. Г. Яна (Янчевецкого) — первое произведение трилогии «Нашествие монголов». Это яркое историческое произведение, удостоенное Государственной...
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0441860397 |
Elric of Melniboné, proud prince of ruins, last lord of a dying race, wanders the lands of the Young Kingdoms in search of the evil sorcerer Theleb K'aarna. His object is revenge. But to achieve this, he must first brave such horrors as the Creatures of Chaos, the freezing wilderness of World's Edge,...
