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The poison throne
Wynter Moorehawke returns to her home with her dying father only to encounter a king turned despot, an heir fled into exile, and an old friend struggling to balance his new duties as heir apparent with his loyalties to Wynter and his exiled brother.
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Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Dorothy lives a peaceful though dull life on the Kansas prairie with Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. When Dorothy and her dog Toto are carried off by a tornado to the land of Oz, magical adventures begin. To get back home, Dorothy must avoid the Wicked Witch and travel the yellow brick road with the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion to meet the Wizard of Oz. Each of the friends is searching for something; they face many dangers on their quest, while their answers may be closer than they think. This unabridged version of L. Frank Baum's classic childhood story was first published in the United States in 1900.
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The rebel prince
Wynter Moorehawke has finally found the exiled Prince Alberon, but is she in time to save a kingdom torn apart by strife?
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Jane Austen's Mental Maps
The idea of 'mental maps' can be used to explore the way in which readers reconstruct place and landscape in Austen's fiction. Notwithstanding valuable research on Austen and landscape, that reconstruction is difficult because Austen seldom describes landscape and we are cut off from her assumptions about it by the reshaping of nature by Romanticism and by the Industrial Revolution. Austen had a practical as well as an aesthetic awareness of land, and sought to represent it accurately. Her interest in the landscape is explored by comparison with William Cobbett. To examine how space and landscape in Austen's novels are reimagined today, the article discusses three films based on them: Sense and Sensibility (1995), and versions of Emma produced by ITV and BBC (1996, 2009). In these films space is readily constructed expressively, psychologically or symbolically, but a dimension of Austen's realism is lost, and is replaced with elements of fantasy.
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The Fading of the World: Tolkien's Ecology and Loss in \The Lord of the Rings\
The purpose of the present article is to isolate and define a prominent characteristic of mythopoeic fantasy, the attempt to reawaken the numinous consciousness, which in the hands of J. R. R. Tolkien, serves to provide a revisioning of the human relationship with the natural world. By analyzing Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the article shows that mythopoeic fantasy offers the reader a unique religious response to the environment. This religious response is best understood in the context of Rudolf Otto's influential work The Idea of the Holy published in 1919. By analyzing key characters and settings in The Lord of the Rings in terms of Otto's descriptions of \"awe\" and Tolkien's concept of \"recovery,\" the text allows readers to revise their perceptions of the natural world.
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Utopia, Dystopia, and Sublime Apocalypse in Montana's Church Universal and Triumphant
The search for a perfected place on earth is rarely easy or forgiving. Utopias and dystopias demonstrate the practical frailties of attempts to build better human associations, whether as literary efforts or in actual, on-the-ground experiments. With a proprietary interest in evaluating the dimensions of place making, geographers can lay claim to be frontline critics of efforts that attempt to craft a better world. The catalog of personality cultists, charismatically murderous leaders, and apocalyptic mass death is long. The Church Universal and Triumphant, currently of Paradise Valley, Montana, is examined as the home for twenty-five years of an ongoing effort to \"improve\" lives. If its dilemmas and apparent failures are in keeping with the history of past utopian ventures, geographical lessons remain to be learned about the costs of planning for perfection.
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DANGEROUS ILLUSIONS AND SHINING UTOPIAS
JORGE AMADO (1912–2001) is arguably the Latin American fiction writer who has addressed the topic of outlaw rural violence and its role (or lack thereof) in class-based revolutionary social change with the most perseverance and coherence (and most prolifically). As a whole, his work is a sustained and totalizing exploration of northeastern Brazilian life, mainly the state of Bahia. Nearly all walks of life have found a place in his work: urban elites (large cocoa exporters, bankers, industrialists and wealthy merchants, senators and governors); urban middle classes (professional, commercial, intellectual, conservative, liberal, and radical); urban workers and urban riffraff
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Not World Enough
In his 1781Essay on the Right to Property in Land, the Scottish land reformer William Ogilvie proposed some “general outlines” for what he calls “a progressive Agrarian law.”¹ At the heart of his plan was the desire to “encrease the number of independent cultivators” under the thought that “of two nations equal in extent of territory and in number of citizens, that may be accounted happiest in which the greatest number of independent cultivators is the greatest.”² This increase in independent cultivators, Ogilvie thought, could be brought about by redistributing England’s territory such that “every citizen aged twenty-one years
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