Ergebnis für "fantasy" in Kunst & Literatur

The original authorised biography, and the only one written by an author who actually met J. R. R. Tolkien. In the 25 years since Tolkien’s death in September 1973, millions have read The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and become fascinated about the very private man behind the books. Born in Bloemfontein in January 1892, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was orphaned in childhood, brought up in near poverty and almost thwarted in adolescent romance....

The White Witch, Aslan, fauns and talking beasts, centaurs and epic battles between good and evil: these have become a part of our collective imagination through the classic volumes of The Chronicles of Narnia. Yet who was the man who created this world? This audiobook attempts to unearth the making of the first Narnian, C. S. Lewis himself.

أشخاص صغار الحجم يطلق عليهم اسم الهوبيت، وحوش شريرة قاتلة شرسة هم الأورك، جنيات طوال القامة بقدرات هائلة، أشجار وتنانين تتحدث وسحرة طيبون وأشرار وقوى الظلام وعوالم غريبة وجديدة كلها في قارة كاملة تسمى الأرض الوسطى وتجري فيها أحداث عجيبة وسحرية وحروب طاحنة ومغامرات أغرب وأعجب من الخيال.

From an acclaimed classicist comes a witty, unusual, and fascinating "biography" of Homer's fictional Bronze Age hero, Odysseus. In this entertaining book, Charles Beye fills out the story of this extraordinary figure while at the same time portraying Odysseus' evolution through the course of a strange and adventuresome life, at times so remote, at times so immediate in the contemporary perspective.

Vincent van Gogh fakes his death. Ellis Spenser longs to paint. Holly Carter conceals a famous lineage. Theo van Gogh gains his health, but loses the woman he loves. Mimi Calais says she's a vampire.... Tom Spencer hatches a plan. Ellis and Tom Spencer oversee the drug safety organization in one of the world's largest and most respected companies, Pratt Pharmaceuticals. Tom's deviant plan for their future begins to splinter when Ellis meets Holly Carter, a lonely Southern woman who has come to New York to pursue art while furthering her pharmaceutical career.

A citizen in the Galacterian Alignment of Space Peoples and Planets, Thyron is an extraterrestrial Titan with a highly evolved soul, but born with a duality disorder. In this parable of the soul's journey towards perfection and rebirth, Thyron must merge his light and dark to evolve into a being spiritually strong enough to lead others towards the light. Archangel Michael, the Universal Sovereign, orders him into the Shadow Chamber to force him to look deep into the darkness within himself.

The last book of the Goddessslands trilogy is the journey of exile from the Goddesslands and the way back home. The search through countries and soul in Goddesslands III may at times appear chaotic, kaleidoscopic, and often neurotic, but the underlying meaning of the individual’s myth remains....

An interview with Paul Feig, author of Ignatius MacFarland: Frequenaut! After being teased one too many times, Ignatius MacFarland decides to build a rocket. Maybe extraterrestrials are nicer than his classmates! But when his rocket takes an explosive wrong turn, Ignatius ends up in another frequency run by former English-teacher-turned-dictator, Chester Arthur.