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Yeats the Magician, Mogg Morgan (4.1) A character in Crowley’s novel called ‘Gates’ is magically attacked at the tower and falls to his death. An experienced tantrik magician and his assistant go to the cremation ground where fresh corpses are stored awaiting cremation the next day. Whilst the assistant keeps watch, the tantrik adept prepares a terrifying ritual in which a primordial goddess is invoked into the revivified corpse. www.ashe-prem.com /eight/morgan.shtml

CELESTIAL, TERRESTRIAL The sister of Smithsonian Assistant Secretary and National Museum director Richard Rathbun, Mary Jane came to the Smithsonian in 1886 as a "copyist," and, by 1913, occupied an office in the west wing of the Natural History Building as assistant curator in the division of marine invertebrates. In 1946, the Institution's centennial year, the Smithsonian held a modest celebration that included a commemorative stamp issued by the Postal Service, a special exhibition in the foyer of the National Museum, and a reception there for some 1,000 guests that featured the Marine Band Orchestra on the second floor, over-looking the rotunda. Despite the Smithsonian's lack of funds and the fading of some of its leading lights, it retained talented scientists throughout the early part of the 20th century. www.150.si.edu /chap8/eight.htm

Bill Pronzini: Boobytrap Emotionally exhausted from the events surrounding his partner's suicide, "Nameless" welcomes the chance for a quiet vacation that comes when San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Patrick Dixon proposes that the burnt-out detective drive Dixon's wife and son to their summer cottage on a remote High Sierra lake. The same week, unknown to both the assistant D.A. and "Nameless," also among the vacationers at Deep Mountain Lake is a recently paroled explosives expert, Donald Michael Latimer. The timing is not coincidental, for Latimer has meticulously devised a warped plan for revenge against the men who sent him to prison. www.kaliber38.de /autoren/pronzini/0786705051.htm   (165 words)

Aubrey–Maturin series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The title of the novel is a play on words, referring not just to Maturin's assistant but also to his long-time love interest and future wife, Diana Villiers. The novel gives further scope to Maturin's role as both a secret agent (in which he uses propaganda effectively to support the campaign) and as a naturalist (in which he is seen collecting relics of the extinct birds the Dodo and the Solitaire). The novel provided much of the overall plot structure for the 2003 Peter Weir film, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, though the fictional USS Norfolk was changed to the fictional French privateer Acheron, and episodes were also taken from other books in the series, including Master and Commander and HMS Surprise. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Desolation_Island_(novel)   (4127 words)

Detective fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The PI novel was a male-dominated field in which female authors seldom found publication until Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, and Sue Grafton were finally published in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He or she frequently has a less intelligent assistant, or foil, who is asked to make apparently irrelevant inquiries and acts as an audience surrogate for the explanation of the mystery at the end of the story. He is sometimes referred to as the "grandfather of English detective fiction." His novel The Moonstone (1868) was described by T. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Detective_fiction   (2532 words)

Gordon Novel - CIA agent or con artist? - JFK assassination investigation: Jim Garrison New Orleans investigation of the John F. Kennedy assassination Novel is wanted by the DA as a material witness in the 1961 burglary of the Schlumberger Well Co. munitions dump near New Orleans. Novel on the telephone, I agreed to temporarily remove the article from my site, on the condition that he furnish me with corrections to all statements in the article he regarded as false. Novel that if he were to choose to supply me with the previously agreed upon corrections after all, I'd be happy to post them, just as before. www.jfk-online.com /novelpost.html   (2640 words)

Science Fiction Movie and TV Reviews Being Prunesquallor's assistant not only gives him access to several interesting poisons, but also introduces him to Gormenghast's elite, and soon Steerpike is again clawing his way up the social hierarchy. This makes him arguably the most powerful person in Gormenghast, and he is ready to stand against Titus himself for ultimate control of the castle and the destiny of its inhabitants. Steerpike has clawed his way up the ladder to become Secretary, the interpreter of the great book that tells what must be done, when and by whom. www.scifi.com /sfw/issue226/screen2.html   (2640 words)

The Writer of Dreck™ Salon.com It centers on the two Warwick sisters: Emily, the 40-ish mayor of Cape Light, and 32-year-old Jessica, an assistant bank manager who must choose between life in Boston with a successful but preoccupied yuppie suitor and settling in Cape Light with Sam Morgan, a sweet, kind, romantic, attentive, strapping, well-read, neighborly carpenter who adores her. The novel itself is a limp imitation of Jan Karon's anodyne tales of small-town life -- Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon if everyone's blood were removed and replaced with Karo syrup. Furthermore, once the novel gets into even the most tepid doings of its characters it begins to drift away from the ecstasies of coziness conjured by Kinkade's paintings. dir.salon.com /story/books/feature/2002/03/18/light/index.html   (1151 words)

Virginia Woolf - her life and works Virginia Woolf is a readable and well illustrated biography by John Lehmann, who at one point worked as her assistant at the Hogarth Press. Virginia was educated by private tutors and by extensive reading of literary classics in her father's library. Virginia Woolf, a biography by Hermione Lee is strongly recommended if you would prefer something which assumes you know the general background to her life and the Bloomsbury group. www.mantex.co.uk /ou/a319/woolf-01.htm   (1151 words)

Classical Studies Professors Special interests include Hellenistic poetry, drama and the ancient and medieval novel. Mark B. Garrison is a professor in the Department of Art History at Trinity University, with a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma, an M.A. from the University of Ottawa, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. From 1976 to 1986 he was director of the Second Canadian Team excavations at Carthage, Tunisia, and since 1990, he has directed the Trinity University excavations at the same site. www.trinity.edu /departments/classical_studies/profess.html   (1151 words)

TourArena - Dostoyevsky The scene of the novel itself is laid in the Sennaya Square, while all the heroes live nearby, Raskolnikov in Stolyarny Lane, 19, Sonya Marmeladova and the “elderly pawnbroker woman” on the Yekaterininsky Canal, the so-called “ditch” (now the Griboyedov Canal 73 and 104). Dostoyevsky would remember till his death the terrible suspense of sure death and represented the emotion in his novel “The Idiot”. The lady was to become his beloved wife and a helpful assistant in his work. spb.tourarena.com /taeng.nsf/(vwSubSectionsForWeb)/5-2?OpenDocument   (1151 words)

The Fear Of The Dark, a novel of suspense by Eric Dalen He did not commit the crime, but an assistant director pursuing him is a deadly mix of opportunist and sexual psychopath and is willing to kill and maim to hide the truth. "Narrated by Maynard Villers, this first novel begins as Neil Van Ness finds his life unraveling: his marriage is failing and television reports say he is the target of an FBI manhunt for the murder of his parents more than 15 years ago. The Fear Of The Dark, a novel of suspense by Eric Dalen www.ericdalen.com /thefear.htm   (303 words)

Event Archive: Fresh Fiction - Commonwealth Club I met Norman Mailer, who was impressed with the novel, as was his assistant, so I asked them if they were interested in the novel once it was done. Part of the reason you're writing novels and are engaged in the artistic process, is to reflect humanity. I would have waited five years to finish the book so that I was really happy with it, instead of basically selling one story out of it that became a novel. www.commonwealthclub.org /archive/02/02-04freshfiction-discussion.html   (303 words)

Virtual Writer - Maria Edgeworth She gained the intimate knowledge of Irish peasant life that was to form the backbone of her novels. She helped to educate her brothers and sisters, and the stories she invented for them were later published and sold well under the title "The Parents Assistant". Her critics have claimed that much of her work was due to her father's influence, and it is argued that, but for him, some of her works would be free from the frequent moralising which makes them somewhat less palatable to the uncommitted reader. www.virtualwriter.net /maria-edgeworth.htm   (900 words)

The Magician's Assistant Having spent twenty years as a magician's assistant to a man who, though he loved her dearly, loved men more, Sabine is faced with her own life after the magician's death. This rich, elegant novel is an exploration of love and contentment, of abandoned vs. cherished childhoods, the creation of one's own adulthood, and of what it takes to choose life when surrounded by death. users.rcn.com /seajay.dnai/fbn/fbn99/fiction/patchett.html   (900 words)

The Magician's Assistant At the opening of the novel, Parsifal the magician, has suddenly died and Sabine, his assistant of twenty years and recently his wife, is trying to cope with her loss. The first thing you notice when reading The Magician's Assistant is that Ann Patchett really cares for her characters. Lovingly written and gracefully rendered, The Magician's Assistant is a deceivingly simple book and a very rewarding experience. www.jp41.dial.pipex.com /R607.HTML   (900 words)

The Magician's Assistant Patchett's novel, The Magician's Assistant, begins at the deathbed of Parsifal, who was a magician and carpet storeowner. Parsifal's sister Kitty, who at one time had hoped to become his magician's assistant, filled Sabine in on her brother's younger years, but Dot told of his time in a reformatory after he killed his father. Kitty also had her marital problems, and at the end of the novel she considered leaving her husband so she and her two boys could move in with Sabine in Los Angeles. www.sonic.net /~barny/magician.html   (900 words)

Ann Patchett: The Magician's Assistant (Mind you, they have also put Michael Connelly's Void Moon in the science fiction section, for even less reason.) The novel is described as being about Sabine's discovery of powers of actual magic - which might make for an intriguing fantasy novel - and this simply is not what The Magician's Assistant is about. This, then, is a novel of discovery, but not the self-discovery which is so common a literary theme (though as Sabine gets to know her ex-husband's real family, she learns some surprising things about herself too). She does this with the simple device of setting the novel's action in winter, so that Los Angeles remains a place of warmth while Alliance lies under a blanket of freezing snow. www.geocities.com /athens/academy/6422/rev1182.html   (900 words)

The Regent’s Park Literary Society’s Recommended READING LIST This is the first Fredrick Forsyth novel that I read, and none of his subsequent works have ever quite lived up to this one. Exercising his option for a hearing before a panel of his peers to argue his case for staying on, McCready and his chief assistant relate "The Deceiver's" successful exploits in defending the interests of Queen and Country in the shadowy battlefields of Northern Ireland, East Germany, the Mid East and the Caribbean. Mitchell Gant is forced to crash land the Firefox in Finland. home.att.net /~lai.r/list.htm   (900 words)

East of Eden and Manhattan media - Gawker Neal Pollack summarizes East of Eden so you don’t actually have to read it: “Eden, the novel’s heroine, is a low-level editorial assistant at Gloss, a fashion magazine for the ‘medium-breasted contemporary woman’ owned by the Candy Nast media empire. While Eden’s at work, her boyfriend, Chris Fray, struggles with with the twin demons of ego and heroin addiction and doesn’t give a fuck what anyone thinks about him, especially not all the assholes who put less meaning into their whole novels than he does into one sentence.” It’s official: Neal has been completely Gawkerized. Eden plots to kill her, or at least to write tender short stories for The New Yorker. www.gawker.com /news/media/east-of-eden-and-manhattan-media-012560.php   (200 words)

Ceylon.html Within the novel, Wijetunga, Mister Salgado's assistant, speaks to Triton of the five precepts: "the simplified lessons that explained the crisis of capitalism, the history of social movements and the future shape of a Lankan revolution" (Gunesekera 121). The political situation is always on the periphery of this novel. n the novel Reef, Romesh Gunesekera describes the lives of a Sri Lankan cook, Triton, and his master, Mister Salgado. www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Ceylon.html   (1133 words)

Shirley Temple --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia E-text of this novel written by the 19th-century English novelist, Charlotte Bronte. (Shirley Temple Black) (born 1928), U.S. motion-picture actress, born in Santa Monica, Calif.; began career at age of 3(Little Colonel; Little Princess); television program, Shirley Temple Storybook; delegate to UN Assembly 1969–70; special assistant to Council on Environmental Quality 1972–74; ambassador to Ghana 1974–76; chief of protocol, White House 1976–77. At the peak of his short film career, the angelic-faced, tousled-headed Bartholomew was the second highest paid child star, after Shirley Temple. www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9338154   (624 words)

Bard College Press Releases - Full Story Considered a novel of suspense, Petersburg is set in prerevolutionary St. Petersburg, the capital of the Russian empire, and the plot includes revolutionary organizations, terrorist bombings, love affairs, and family entanglements. ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—The Theater Program at Bard College presents Petersburg: Impressions, a site-specific adaptation of a novel by Russian surrealist Andrei Bely, on Friday, September 10, and Saturday, September 11. Six Bard students took a special January Russian language intensive course taught by Jennifer Day, assistant professor of Russian, who also accompanied the students to St. Petersburg. inside.bard.edu /tools/pr/fstory.php?id=766   (624 words)

The Rottweiler : A Novel (Hardcover) You would easily be forgiven for thinking that this is a serial killer novel, but this is really no more a serial killer novel than the Bible is a book solely about God. For the police are becoming more and more convinced that someone connected to the shop - anyone from the exotic assistant Zeinab, who is stringing along a variety of rich men, to one of the tenants in the flats above - could very well be a homicidal maniac... It's a book about the people involved, how they can be draw into darkness and uncertainty through the effects of the gravity of crime. www.usingenglish.com /amazon/us/1400051908.html   (624 words)

Aubrey-Maturin series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The title of the novel a play on words, referring not just to Maturin's assistant but also to his long-time love interest and future wife, Diana Villiers. The novel gives further scope to Maturin's role as both a secret agent (in which he uses propaganda effectively to support the campaign) and as a naturalist (in which he is seen collecting relics of the extinct birds the Dodo and the Solitaire). The novel provided much of the overall plot structure for the 2003 Peter Weir film, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, though the USS Norfolk was changed to the French privateer Acheron, and episodes were also taken from other books in the series, including Master and Commander and HMS Surprise. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Desolation_Island_(novel)   (4105 words)

Aubrey-Maturin series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The title of the novel a play on words, referring not just to Maturin's assistant but also to his long-time love interest and future wife, Diana Villiers. The novel gives further scope to Maturin's role as both a secret agent (in which he uses propaganda effectively to support the campaign) and as a naturalist (in which he is seen collecting relics of the extinct birds the Dodo and the Solitaire). The novel provided much of the overall plot structure for the 2003 Peter Weir film, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, though the USS Norfolk was changed to the French privateer Acheron, and episodes were also taken from other books in the series, including Master and Commander and HMS Surprise. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Commodore_(novel)   (4105 words)

Twelve Wounds, a novel by Maria Elena Gonzalez and Steven Lehrer The tightly plotted story of the brutal murder of a Hasidic Jew in Brooklyn, and the assistant district attorney, Carmen Rodriguez, who must prosecute the Hispanic suspect. Twelve Wounds, a novel by Maria Elena Gonzalez and Steven Lehrer To download TWELVE WOUNDS as a single winzip file click here stevenlehrer.com /tw_title.htm   (69 words)

Harvard's Henry Louis Gates to speak about novel, thought to be the first by a black American woman That bit of history helps authenticate the novel, Andrews said: "In Crafts' narrative, the wife of John Wheeler says to her, 'I want you to become my maid. CHAPEL HILL -- Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., who recently published a manuscript that scholars say is likely the earliest novel by a black American woman, will speak about the story May 29 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Warner Books recently published the book, which includes an introduction and appendix by Gates that credit Andrews and his research assistant Bryan Sinche. www.unc.edu /news/archives/may02/gates02269051402.htm   (706 words)

Ammonite by Nicola Griffith - www.ezboard.com Since the novel's begining, Marhge Taishan, main character, anthropologist, governmental liason, viral vaccine guinea pig, has voluntarily entered this viral hot zone, the planet Jeep, made initial contact with the company contigent, went in search of her missing assistant, been kidnapped (adopted) by a tribe of nomadic herdswomen. She calls the book a rite-of-passage novel, since Marghe, goes through tremendous changes in the book. She continues by saying Ammonite is intended to be a body blow to any feeling that question has any continuing relevance. p210.ezboard.com /fahirashangarfrm6.showMessage?topicID=56.topic   (706 words)

Technology Transfer Home page The agreement provides Biosense Webster, headquartered in Diamond Bar, Calif., with exclusive, worldwide rights to a patent pending algorithm discovered by a research team headed by Dr. Omer Berenfeld, research assistant professor of Pharmacology, The Institute for Cardiovascular Research at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y. Read the complete article. The Research Foundation of SUNY has signed a licensing agreement with Biosense Webster Inc. for the rights to an Upstate Medical University innovation that helps locate and treat life-threatening heart arrhythmias. Research Foundation Licenses Novel Upstate Cardiac Arrhythmia Innovation www.rfsuny.org /tto   (212 words)

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