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A single bowl of tea. A sharpened blade. Only one can decide the fate of a nation. Japan, 1590. Warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi, wary that quiet ceremony is blunting his edge, orders his fiercest captain, Katō Masanobu, to ride south and silence Sen no Rikyū — the tea master whose tranquil art has captured the warlord’s soul. The command is brutal and clear: remove the spell, whatever the cost. Yet when steel meets steam in a moss-lined tearoom, assassin and target lock eyes across a whisked-green horizon and discover that honor can flow like water, reshaping even the hardest sword. What ...

Embark on a transformative writing adventure with The Hero's Journey to Romance: Crafting a Love Story Framework. This guide offers a fresh approach to crafting unforgettable romance stories by combining the classic Hero's Journey with the emotional depth and complexity required for a love story. Whether you're an experienced author or just beginning, this book will provide the essential tools, techniques, and prompts to help you create a rich and engaging romance that captivates readers from the first page to the last. Discover how to build compelling characters, develop romantic tension, ...

In this engaging episode of Little Women Podcast, Niina and Emily delve deep into the thought-provoking chapter "Vanity Fair" from Louisa May Alcott's classic novel Little Women. Join them as they explore Meg's transformative experience at the ball, where she’s swept into the dazzling world of wealth and glamour. As the rich girls dress her up in their finest attire, Meg is faced with an internal conflict that challenges her values and ambitions.

The Hippocratic Oath: A Tale of Attraction and Discord between Doctors and the Inevitable Outcome to Both is a play in three acts that exolores moral dilemmas, hypocrisy and incompetence in the medical profession.

Legendary Ancient Greek stories.

The collected poems and drama of Bill Stone. In a varied career. Bill has been: a boxer, soldier, seaman, publican and international security operative. As for other professional activities, he comments, ‘I’d have to shoot you if I told you.’From schooldays when he created and edited a school magazine, Bill has had a continued interest in writing and has been in several war zones including the Algerian War of Independence in Oran, 1962, witnessing the ending of hostilities; Iran, witnessing the demise of the Shah in the 1970s and the return of Ayatollah Khomeini from exile in Paris; ...

The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell offers a wide-ranging reconsideration of Orwell's life and work, focusing on the extensive connections between his novels, essays, diaries, columns, letters, and reviews. Sections on Orwell's professional activities, his main literary influences, his politics, his intellectual fixations, his literary contemporaries, and his legacies structure the book, which moves thematically and topically through the full scope of his output.

At the turn of the twentieth century, sleep began to be seen not merely as a passive state but as an active, dynamic process crucial to our understanding of consciousness and identity. In Sleep Works, cultural historian and literary scholar Sebastian P. Klinger explores the intriguing connections between scientific inquiry and literary expression during an era when sleep was both a scientific mystery and a cultural fascination.

San Manuel Bueno es parte de la vida misma de Unamuno, a quien seguramente por su maestría de la letra española y su reputación en una época donde no abundaban los doctores en letras como cabrahígos en las esquinas de las calles, se le miraba como un 'santo Manuel', sin dudas debe de haberse reído del prójimo que lo creyó ilustre sabiendo él que era ilustre. Vemos sátira y risa en su escuela, lenguaje coloquial e inteligencia mezclados con la luz de una antorcha que se esfuerza por mostrar una senda.