Showing results for "Babel" in Genre Fiction

Rimasto orfano a Canton e portato in Inghilterra da un misterioso tutore, Robin Swift credeva che Babel fosse un paradiso. Fino a che non è diventata una prigione... Può uno studente lottare contro un impero?

1828. Un jeune orphelin chinois est recueilli à Canton par un professeur et conduit à Londres. Rebaptisé Robin Swift, le jeune garçon consacre ses journées à l'étude des langues dans l'optique d'intégrer le prestigieux Institut royal de traduction de l'Université d'Oxford, plus connu sous le nom de Babel. Berceau de l'argentogravure, les étudiants y exploitent le sens perdu des mots à l'aide de barres d'argent enchantées.

تعد بابل عملاً خياليًّا تأمليًّا، ومن ثم، تقع أحداثها في نسخة خيالية من مدينة أوكسفورد في ثلاثينيات القرن التاسع عشر التي تغير تاريخها تمامًا بسبب العمل بالفضة (سنسوق المزيد خلال وقت قصير). مع ذلك، حاولت الالتزام، قدر المُستطاع، بدقة السجل التاريخي في وصف حياة أوكسفورد في العصر الفيكتوري، وبالاكتفاء بتقديم قدر من المغالطات فقط حين يخدم ذلك الرواية. وفيما يتعلق بالمراجع الخاصة بأوكسفورد في بدايات القرن التاسع عشر، اعتمدت على الدليل والمرجع التاريخي لمدينة أوكسفورد (1878) الذي كتبه جيمس جيه مور،...

Inspired by the novels of D.H. Lawrence, particularly The Rainbow and Women in Love, this ambitious quartet from Booker Prize-winning novelist A.S. Byatt charts the lives of the Potter family between 1953 and 1970. Set against the changing social and political landscape of England in the '50s and '60s, it follows the heroine, Frederica, from precocious teenager to TV talk-show host and from her Yorkshire home to the heart of swinging London.

From the very first hour Cayden had set foot inside the massive, real-life game that was the Tower of Babel, nothing had gone according to plan. A unique skill, a handful of new friends, and the wrath of an ultra-wealthy, patricidal lunatic were just some of the complications to his best laid plans.
So why was he even surprised when a special event trapped him, his companions, and dozens of other players inside the tower, squaring them off against a murderous army of stone-faced warriors?

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.