SWORD AND SORCERY! SOME GUYS HAVE IT ALL... Geoffrey Gallowglass, the Lord High Warlock’s second son, has only two passions in life: war and women. As a knight-errant, he roams the Kingdom of Gramarye looking for wrongs to right and women to woo... but no one has held his interest for very long. Until he meets Quicksilver, a fiery warrior woman as beautiful as she is deadly, with a tongue as sharp as her sword. Has Geoffrey finally found his perfect woman? There’s only one problem: Quicksilver is the bandit chieftain who has conquered her lord’s land and castle, and Geoffrey is the Royal Knight sent to defeat and capture her. Is love hopeless? Or can Geoffrey find some way face her before an altar, not an army?

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Orphaned before they were a year old, Simon, Eddi and Adam are raised by in a small mountain town. They have the same problems as any other kids, including dealing with homework and bullies. Each night they're told a story about the magical Land of Avari. Then one day, they travel to Avari and find out just how important they really are.An exciting blend of fantasy, adventure, and multi-cultural mythologies written for readers aged 10-16 and those young at heart.Book I of the Living Cities Trilogy.

Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described as confining or restrictive. These imaginings coalesce into a 'carceral imaginary' that determines the way we think about prisons, just as social debates about punishment and criminals feed into the way carceral imaginary develops over time. Examining not only English-language prose fiction but also poetry and drama from the Middle Ages to postcolonial, particularly African, literature, the book juxtaposes literary and non-literary contexts and contrasts fictional and nonfictional representations of (im)prison(ment) and discussions about the prison as institution and experiential reality. It comments on present-day trends of punitivity and foregrounds the ethical dimensions of penal punishment. The main argument concerns the continuity of carceral metaphors through the centuries despite historical developments that included major shifts in policy (such as the invention of the penitentiary). The study looks at selected carceral metaphors, often from two complementary perspectives, such as the home as prison or the prison as home, or the factory as prison and the prison as factory. The case studies present particularly relevant genres and texts that employ these metaphors, often from a historical perspective that analyses development through different periods.

A new and vital form of drama blossomed in 16th-century England, blending classic Latin comedy traditions with keen satires of contemporary London life. Although Shakespeare remains the most recognizable playwright of the Elizabethan age, there were many others whose work continues to entertain and educate students of drama to this day. This anthology collects timeless comedies that both informed Shakespeare's work and took inspiration from the Bard himself. Six plays include Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour, the comedy that made the author's reputation; Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay by Robert Greene, a groundbreaking play in terms of multiple-plot structure; The Shoemaker's Holiday, or The Gentle Craft by Thomas Dekker, the "Dickens of English theater"; All Fools, George Chapman's sprightly romp; A Trick to Catch the Old One by Thomas Middleton, one of the era's most prolific and successful playwrights; and Eastward Ho!, a collaborative work by Chapman, Jonson, and John Marston.

Author, Buddy Cox, who spent ten years working as a deep sea diver off the Louisiana coast, uses his own experiences, as well as tales heard from his diver friends to weave a saga of dangerous underwater exploits, of romance, and of hoped-for booty, reportedly waiting to be found deep in the Gulf of Mexico, at a place some call appropriately, as we will discover, the Crater of Doom (Campeche Bay, off the Yucatan Peninsula). Our divers, Stretch and Wes, are used to facing danger daily, but they must decide if they are willing to face new, unaccustomed and unforeseen dangers as they race against unscrupulous rivals to recover supposed treasure. A rare coincidence will make their journey weirder than their wildest dreams. This first book in a series will leave you eager for more.