Showing results for "The Saga" in Fairy Tales

In 334 BC Alexander the Great begins his conquest of the Persian Empire. But his plans for everlasting glory do not end there, and the young king marches towards the Ends of the Earth - the lands of the Indus - on a secret quest. It will lead him to an ancient secret concealed in the myths of the Mahabharata - a secret that is powerful enough to transform him into a god. Present day. In Greece the ancient tomb of a queen is discovered, a tomb that has been an enigma for over 2,000 years.

As the son of a mere merchant, Klöss wants nothing more than to pass his trials and join the ranks of the Bjornmen raiders, breaking free of his father’s ambitions and following in the footsteps of his forebears. Times are changing in the Barren Isles. The centuries-old traditions of coastal plunder are making way for outright conquest, and the threat of war is looming.

Kartikeya was born from the flames of a desperate need, an ardent desire, and an utmost devastation. In him was distilled the terrible powers of Mahadev, at its fiercest and most deadly. Although he fought many wars and slew many tyrants, his gifts to humanity have always been those of mercy, compassion and love. What makes this possible?

Islandia, año 1087. Yvette es capturada por los vikingos y destinada a la esclavitud. Pero su vida cambia al caer en manos de Erik, el temido jefe guerrero, quien descubre que ella es la clave de una antigua profecía: la única mujer capaz de controlar al berserker que lo consume. En un mundo donde la magia se entrelaza con la guerra, Yvette y Erik deberán luchar contra su destino y rendirse a un amor que desafía todas las leyes.

I thought I was done with romance, until a certain pompous elf reappeared in my life at the illustrious Monster Ball. A little teasing led to bruised lips and captured hearts. No one wants Jhaeros and me to be together, not even my favorite sister, Melarue. But she's a teenager just coming into her elemental powers and discovering boys - the wrong kind - the type I want to shoot arrows through.

In a fit of rage, Brahma banishes his star pupil from Swarglok. Mortally wounded, and anguished at Brahma's unfair punishment, the man struggles to survive in tamastamah prabha, the hell of hells. In time he becomes the Dark Lord, the most feared figure in Pataal Lok, who swears to destroy Brahma.

From the translator of the best-selling Poetic Edda comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and comprise our best source of traditional lore about its members - including, among others, the dragon slayer Sigurd, Brynhild the Valkyrie, and the Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok.

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of The Children of Húrin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves, eagles and Orcs, and the...

The Seven Sisters is the story that began it all. An epic tale of love and loss, it tells the stories of the D’Aplièse sisters, all adopted as babies by the enigmatic billionaire they affectionately call Pa Salt. Read by Tuppence Middleton (Thirty Days in Paris, The Doll Factory). This is...

Odysseus's thrilling adventures continue in the gripping third instalment of the historical Greek fantasy, the Olympus Series. Prince Odysseus and the daemon Bria must penetrate the haunted caverns beneath Dodona, seeking a way to save their doomed nation, Achaea, from the might of Troy. The startling revelation that follows will set Odysseus on his most daunting mission yet, as he seeks to reunite the divided Achaean kingdoms before the rapacious Trojans strike.

A prophecy condemns him, a goddess binds him, but what will set Odysseus free? Young Prince Odysseus is about to have his world torn apart. He has travelled to the oracle at Pytho to be anointed as heir to his island kingdom, but instead a terrible secret is revealed, one that tears down every pillar of his life and marks him out for death.

Gods and mortals clash in the second gripping book in the Olympus Series—a sweeping retelling of Greek myth for fans of epic historical fantasy. When Prince Odysseus is sent to restore his family's honour, he's drawn to Delos, where a new and mysterious prophecy commands the attention of the gods. Caught in a deadly game of prophecy and power, Odysseus and his companions—daemon Bria, the hero Diomedes, and a loyal Ithacan band—must unravel secrets that tie his fate to Athena herself.

Hadès, le dieu des Enfers, est connu pour sa règle inflexible, ses luxueuses boîtes de nuit et ses marchandages impossibles. Habitué à tout contrôler, il n’est pas préparé à découvrir que les Parques ont choisi Perséphone, déesse du Printemps, pour être sa future épouse et reine...

“For all intents and purposes, we are still blissfully separated from the mortals, but there have been…complications.” When a rise in London’s supernatural crime puts Fey society at risk of discovery, the Winter Council turns to an unlikely solution: Avery Hemlock, the changeling they...

First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world—part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men...

The bestselling debut novel for fans of PACHINKO and HOMEGOING 'A rich, sweeping novel' EMMA NANAMI STRENNER 'Spellbinding' KARISSA CHEN 'A fierce and mythic family saga' SILVIA PARK Honey in the Wound follows a mysteriously gifted lineage of Korean women as they are displaced across Asia by...

Le suspense monte d'un cran dans ce deuxième tome consacré au jeune viking Arnulf. Arnulf est assommé sur une plage anglaise. Lorsqu'il se réveille, il est dans un monastère où un moine soigne ses blessures. Arnulf reprend son expédition, mais il emporte aussi avec lui dans son cœur le meurtre de son frère et le souvenir de Frejdis, dont il est amoureux. Ce sont de grandes émotions et des événements dramatiques qu’il devra affronter, tandis que sa proue perce les vagues.

Die Illusion ist zerbrochen. Flora hat das wahre Gesicht des avalorischen Königshauses kennengelernt und statt in einem erhofften Märchen lebt sie in großer Gefahr. Ihre einzige Hoffnung ist Luke. Doch kann sie dem geheimnisvollen Mann wirklich vertrauen, der ihre Gefühle in Aufruhr versetzt und dessen wahre Motive im Dunkeln liegen? Als Flora vor dem Königshaus fliehen muss, führt ihr Weg sie nach Nevermoor.

Îles Lofoten, Norvège, autour de l'an 1020. La vie de Thorfinn Bjarnison, le fils d'un respectable viking du Bjørnsand, bascule lorsqu'âgé de 7 ans, il doit déplorer la disparition tragique de son père. Une quinzaine d'années plus tard, le destin de Thorfinn bascule de nouveau lorsqu'il repêche des eaux le corps de la belle Aeryn. En s'éprenant éperdument de la jeune Princesse des Orcades, il se met à dos l'ennemi le plus implacable qui soit : le cruel Jarl Olaf de Bergen. Dès lors, celui-ci n'aura de cesse de le poursuivre.

Based on events that took place between 960 and 1020 AD, Njál 's Saga is a mesmerizing drama about a multigenerational cycle of violence and retribution, and the feuds and passions that perpetuate it. The eponymous sage Njál, known for his keen legal mind, is one of Iceland's pre-eminent men, along with Gunnar of Hlidarendi, a fierce and formidable warrior married to the diabolical Hallgerd, whose conniving instigates the interminable pattern of romance, action and brutality - until one unforgivable act ends it all.