Author: Susana Onega
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429000057
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction tracks the emergence of a new type of physically and/or spiritually wounded hero(ine) in contemporary fiction. Editors, Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteu bring together some of the top minds in the field to explore the paradoxical lives of these heroes that have embraced, rather than overcome, their suffering, alienation and marginalisation as a form of self-definition.
Author: Tamara Neal
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039108794
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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This book is an investigation of non-fatal injury and bloodspill in Homer's Iliad and demonstrates the crucial significance of these motifs in the epic. They are shown to be fundamental to defining heroic status and a powerful means for developing the narrative and thematic structures of the poem. The study offers a nuanced definition of the nature of mortality and immortality and shows how the motifs of injury and bloodspill explicate the plot of the poem and its ethical values. This work is the first to examine these motifs in a systematic and comprehensive investigation. Focusing exclusively on the Iliad, the book sheds new light on ideals of heroic conduct.
Author: Marina Berzins McCoy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199672784
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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McCoy examines how Greek epic, tragedy, and philosophy offer important insights into the nature of human vulnerability, especially how Greek thought extols the recognition and proper acceptance of vulnerability. Beginning with the literary works of Homer and Sophocles, she also expands her analysis to the philosophical works of Plato and Aristotle.
Author: Mary Balogh
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451469674
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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The new Survivor’s Club novel from the New York Times bestselling author. The Survivors’ Club: Six men and one woman, all wounded in the Napoleonic Wars, their friendship forged during their recovery at Penderris Hall in Cornwall. Now, for one of them, striking a most unusual bargain will change his life forever.… Ralph Stockwood prides himself on being a leader, but when he convinced his friends to fight in the Napoleonic Wars, he never envisioned being the sole survivor. Racked with guilt over their deaths, Ralph must move on...and find a wife so as to secure an heir to his family’s title and fortune. Since her Seasons in London ended in disaster, Chloe Muirhead is resigned to spinsterhood. Driven by the need to escape her family, she takes refuge at the home of her mother’s godmother, where she meets Ralph. He needs a wife. She wants a husband. So Chloe makes an outrageous suggestion: Strike a bargain and get married. One condition: Ralph has to promise that he will never take her back to London. But circumstances change. And to Ralph, it was only a promise.
Author: Amalie Howard
Publisher: Entangled: Amara
ISBN: 1640637427
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Beauty and the Beast meets Taming of the Shrew in this laugh-out-loud and heartfelt Regency romance... Lord Nathaniel Harte, the disagreeable Duke of Beswick, spends his days smashing porcelain, antagonizing his servants, and snarling at anyone who gets too close. With a ruined face like his, it's hard to like much about the world. Especially smart-mouthed harpies—with lips better suited to kissing than speaking—who brave his castle with indecent proposals. But Lady Astrid Everleigh will stop at nothing to see her younger sister safe from a notorious scoundrel, even if it means offering herself up on a silver platter to the forbidding Beast of Beswick himself. And by offer, she means what no highborn lady of sound and sensible mind would ever dream of—a tender of marriage with her as his bride. Each book in the Regency Rogues series is STANDALONE: * The Beast of Beswick * The Rakehell of Roth
Author: Ellen Sabin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982641606
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"In collaboration with Patricia Driscoll"--Cover.
Author: Elizabeth Skoglund
Publisher: Ravens Ridge Books
ISBN: 9780801083426
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Author: Christine DePetrillo
Publisher: Christine DePetrillo
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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What do you do when your life plan goes up in flames? Army sniper Reid Colborn has nothing left. His last mission was technically a success. Enemy hit. Boy rescued. Day saved. Getting trapped in a burning building, however, wasn’t part of the plan. Now Reid doesn’t have a steady shooting arm, and his military career is over. Heading back to his hometown of Maplehaven, Vermont is not the next target he’d hoped for, but he’s out of choices. Until architect Valerie Bellerose gives him another option. When Valerie sees Reid, every detail of their one night together as teens nearly ten years ago comes flooding back. Not that the memory had ever died. Reid had given her something that had made it impossible to forget him. Now that he’s back, can they have a second chance to hit their mark? Is one kind hero high enough caliber to build the family they’ve always wanted? One Kind Hero is a second-chance, small-town, steamy contemporary romance novella with a wounded military hero searching for what comes next after losing everything. For more romances set in Maplehaven, check out the One Kind Deed Series also by Christine DePetrillo. The Heart of the Wounded Hero series was created to pay tribute to and raise awareness of our wounded heroes. Each of the over eighty authors involved have contributed time, money, and stories to the cause. These love stories are inspiring and uplifting, showing the sacrifice of our veterans but also giving them the happily ever after they deserve. By increasing awareness through our books, we believe we can in a small part help the wounded heroes that have sacrificed so much. Thank you for reading.
Author: Kaci Rose
Publisher: 5 Little Roses Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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She’s his high school sweetheart. He’s back in town looking after being discharged from the military. Is he ready for the huge secret she’s been keeping from him? Bri Ethan was my everything growing up, my first everything, my best friend, and my soul mate. Until he walked away and ended us. We had one last beautiful night together and then he was gone. That night gave me our son. The problem is Ethans is back in town, and he doesn’t know about our little boy… Ethan Leaving her was the hardest thing I’ve ever done but it was the right thing to do. She didn’t have a future with me. I was planning to make the Navy my whole life until I was injured and discharged. Having to start all over I pack up and head home to my parents. Walking into the diner that first morning I never thought I’d see her. The only woman I’d ever loved but the biggest shocker? The little boy sitting next to her is the spitting image of me… The Heart of the Wounded Hero series was created to pay tribute to and raise awareness of our wounded heroes. Each of the over eighty authors involved have contributed time, money, and stories to the cause. These love stories are inspiring and uplifting, showing the sacrifice of our veterans but also giving them the happily ever after they deserve. By increasing awareness through our books, we believe we can in a small part help the wounded heroes that have sacrificed so much. Thank you for reading!
Author: Hope Ford
Publisher: Hope Ford
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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He doesn’t have anything to offer. She’s going to prove him wrong. This past year has been the worst of my life. I’m not the same man that I used to be. I’m not whole. Besides my own pain, I’ve hurt my kids and my wife of twenty years. I can’t let her touch me, hold me... love me. I try to push her away because they’re all better off without me. But even knowing that is true... I’m weak. I can’t live without her. I know I have to do better. I’m going to do whatever I have to do to be the man she needs. Because I may have lost a part of me, but it’s her that makes me whole.
