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Owen Zelazny never expected, living in Maranatha City, to live long enough to make this decision. Give up a life of hustling, find a good guy and settle down to a life of domestic debauchery. Pretty sweet deal, but a city like Maranatha never lets you go so easily.Even three years after the disaster that nearly cost him his life, the city still has its vicious fangs sunk in the jugular of his destiny, and when Owen finds himself chased by the sadistic and lethally resourceful Tony Caulfield for reasons he can barely understand, he knows only one thing to do.With Ruy, his bewildered Latin flame in tow, Owen seeks out Malloy - a man he turned his back on three years earlier, a man who can solve problems and keep them alive... but always at too high a cost. With the city's demons coming back to haunt them, Owen and Malloy find that old habits die hard, and even with a bloodthirsty villain chasing them from London, to Paris, to Shanghai and beyond... ... Read more

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It is the year 1991, and the villainous, blood-thirsty sadist Tony Caulfield, who pursued our heroes across the globe in the first volume, is only eleven years old, and not a monster... not yet.It is the year 1999, and Owen Zelazny is a carefree, young and sexy American in the City of Lights who embraces the sensual and the lustful and the thrilling, living a grand adventure as he discovers his calling in the world's oldest profession.It is the year 2001, and in the cut-throat upper echelons of Maranatha City's corporate stratosphere, madness and prophecy wage a bloody war in the mind of one Tiber Ferrum... Who the hell is he?And it is mere hours before that valiant scoundrel Malloy received a panicked telephone call from an old friend that turned his life upside-down - and he may have influenced those events more significantly than even he realizes.The treacherous road to the Heathen City is paved... ... Read more

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Depends on your preferences.
Whether you will absolutely love this graphic novel or feel indifferent about it is all dependent on three things. The first is the most obvious, if you dislike "furry" fiction and artwork, this is not for you. Also, if you do not like dirty ("yiff-y") displays of furry artwork, once again this is not for you. The naughty actions in the novel also lead me to the first part of my second point: Second, you have to deal with the very little they give you in terms of plot and how absolutely scattered the story-telling was (In my opinion). I found myself constantly rechecking what I had just read because not all of it was coherent. I do realize that the book has several different stories in it, but even within each one the plot was scattered noticeably. Third, you have to be fine with the flux of art style throughout the book. I personally had some trouble with this because some of the art styles I just merely disliked. Granted, it didn't affect my opinion of the book, but it was something that I had gotten a bit frustrated on.
All-in-all though, I liked it. I am somewhat of a fan since the first volume and eagerly awaited this volume. The only reason for the three stars were the aforementioned. I really wanted a bit more plot out of this one, and maybe there was a lot of back-story but like I said, it was really scattered. ... Read more

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The Heathens, originally published in 1948, is a description of many of the world's religions by an anthropologist who had a knack for putting complex concepts in popular terms. Although, to our late 20th century sensibilities, the language may sound demeaning and/or patronizing, in fact, once the reader realizes the book's historical setting, it is clear that the author is a gifted communicator and a skillful popularizer. His descriptions were so respected that in 1962 the book was reprinted by The American Museum of Natural History Library for inclusion in its offerings. ... Read more

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Eye Opener
I read this book for an anthro class many years ago.It had a major impact on my thinking and has stayed with me all this time.I highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in human beings and the way wethink.

Very good
To be brief, a higly enjoyable, easily digested introduction to primitive religions, and more subtly an excellent introduction to cultural anthropology in general. ... Read more

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With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy.

In the third volume of his autobiography, H. L. Mencken covers a range of subjects, from Hoggie Unglebower, the best dog trainer in Christendom, to his visit to the Holy Land, where he looked for the ruins of Gomorrah.

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The "Bad Boy of Baltimore" Autobiography Vol. III
From Ungie Hornblower to nomination for the vice presidency, Menckenserves up autobiographical shorts that'll make you howl.Though he livedon Hollins Street for most of his life, his stories paint a full picture of"Charm City" from 1890-1936 (at least from the eyes of the mostfeared and respected critic of the time). ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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A real thriller....
I'm a big fan of Shaun Hutson and this is one of his best books. Kept me going till the last page in two days. Books sure can be more effective than watching a horror movie.

Heathen by Shaun Hutson
Heathen is a perfect example of what a Shaun Hutson book is about, although the storyline leaves much to be desired, as usual, he is a master of description, and can describe a "feel" or an "atmosphere" better than any author I have read and can convert his words into such a clear mental picture that you feel compelled to keep reading page after page. You will see what I mean as the heroine, Donna, attempts to solve the mystery of the husbands demise. Hutson's books are uncompromising and will go to all lengths to surprise you.

This book is well worth reading and I am certain that all readers of the horror genre will enjoy it. ... Read more

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1897. In an isolated station in the Belgian Congo, an Englishman is to be tried for the murder of a native child. Imprisoned in a makeshift jail, Nicholas Frere awaits the arrival of the Company's official investigator while his friend, James Frasier, attempts to discover the circumstances which surround the charge.

The world around them is rapidly changing: the horrors of the Belgian Congo are becoming known and the flow of its once-fabulous wealth is drying up. Unrest flares unstoppably into violence.

Frere's coming trial will seek to determine considerably more than the killing of a child. But at the heart of this conflict is a secret so dark, so unimaginable, that one man must be willingly destroyed by his possession of it, and the other must both sanction and participate in that destruction.

In a narrative of ever-quickening and growing intensity, The Book of the Heathen explores notions of honor, friendship, justice and reason in a world where men have been forced by circumstance to descend into an abyss of savagery and terror. The Book of the Heathen is a stunning novel that truly evokes a Conradian heart of darkness.
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disappointing
while there were many interesting elements in the story and the telling of the tale, my feeling is that this book would have made a much better short story than full-on novel.there is far too much "filler"and when i finished the book and looked back on what actually happened, i realised that the only parts that i found grabbed me were at the very beginning and the very end. the middle part was just transportation to where the story picks up again.

Good, but Edric is no Graham Greene.
This is a story of the Congo, before WWI.It takes place at a remote British trading station in decline.The protagonist, while not naïve, is inexperienced.Most of the British, especially the protagonist, are decent people, while the Congo itself is the home of depravity. The main character, while intellectually very astute, is also inexperienced, and has a fatal interest in, even attraction, to aspects of this depravity.Had Graham Greene written this book, the story would have delved deeply into the psychology of this character, but Edric is not up to such a task as a writer.What we have is a competently written story.While there are some sensational events, most of the story proceeds at a leisurely pace, while still being interesting.Edric is good with dialogue and in capturing the atmosphere. I wonder if the main event isn't too sensational, and not realistic, or at least not representative of the Congo, but for the most part Edric writes in an understated way, without loss of effect.

The Heart of Darkness has never been so dark.
It is 1897, and a motley group of British functionaries is running a concessionary station, only marginally successful, in Ukassa Falls in the Congo Free State, trading and exploring, mapping new areas of the country for further exploration, and using natives to strip minerals from quarries. Individually, however, their primary mission is protecting themselves and their jobs, while keeping an eye on a more lucrative Belgian enterprise across the river and on the slave-trader Hammad, who fancies himself the potential emperor of a future, native-run country. When gunfire signals the arrival of an unexpected visitor, Capt. James Frasier hopes it means the return to British jurisdiction of his friend, Nicholas Frere, who, missing for 51 days in the wilderness, is now in Belgian custody, awaiting trial for killing a native child.

At an agonizingly slow pace, Edric builds the tension and an ominous sense of mystery. Though he readily admits his guilt, Frere refuses to defend himself, simply accepting whatever fate has in store. He is almost certain to be turned over to local authorities in Brazzaville for trial and hanging, eventually, but he will not tell anyone, even Frasier, the circumstances of the child's death.

Edric's characters come to life through their conversations, conflicts, and actions, rather than through passive descriptions or long biographies. The reader, too, must be active, accumulating important details on his own by observing the action, some of it intense, and participating in it, however reluctantly. Several grim and explicit scenes of atrocity attest to Edric's abhorrence of the mistreatment of indigenous people (the subject also of his novel Elysium, set in Tasmania) and of the destruction of birds and wildlife. His opposition to colonial arrogance, religious fanaticism, mindless bureaucracy, and lock-step adherence to rules and regulations underlies all the action here.

Describing the wilderness as "more permanent and invincible than anything else I can imagine, something as potent and as indestructible as evil or truth itself," Edric transmutes it into a living force which dramatically affects all its inhabitants. The river, with its traffic, both unites and divides, and when, at flood tide, it scours its banks and destroys pilings and jetties, one cannot help but see parallels with the interrogations of the steadfast Frere. Images of light and dark and echoes of Heart of Darkness are constant, and when "the horror" is finally revealed at the end, it out-horrors anything Conrad ever dreamed of. With a conclusion full of literary pyrotechnics, this is a chilling recreation of the worst nightmares of colonialism and of man's inhumanity to man. Mary Whipple ... Read more

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Originally published in 1875.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Poetry. "In Lesley Wheeler's exquisite debut collection, HEATHEN, the otherworldly flit among the actual like imaginary chameleons in real gardens. The dwarves of Eden think it's a stable and refuse to touch the wine: 'Gah,' they cry, 'it's dung' ('Religious Education'). Marianne Moore, hired to teach typing at the Carlisle Indian School, feels 'false as a New World chameleon' and sows 'sedition' in the Business Department until it's closed down ('A Place for the Genuine'). And in the wondrously rhymed quatrains of the title poem, a son fits his ear to his mother's 'so that the god in your head can talk / to the god in mine. I hear a forest / creak like the binding of a book' ('Heathen'). Wheeler strikes an impossible balance between the wildly witty and tenderly elegant detail. Heathen is sheer magic"--Cynthia Hogue. ... Read more

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Publisher: New York : American Tract SocietyPublication date: 1849Subjects: Christianity and other religions -- HinduismHinduism -- Relations ChristianityNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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novel, author of RIGHT BY MY SIDE ... Read more

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Dysfunctional Family.....Totally!
HEATHENS was sad, thought provoking, strong, and funny as hell! The Gabriel family and their neighbors are all suffering from a bad case of the strange and disturbed. Believe this, it was those traits that made thisbook as memorable as it was. David Haynes has made me look at my neighborscloser, and run for my car in the mornings. Great stuff! ... Read more

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The virtuous pagans who appear in medieval English texts have often been analyzed for their theological significance, but Representing Righteous Heathens argues that such figures also functioned as an innovative resource for framing and thinking about questions of history, difference, and the uses of antiquity, as well as a flexible formal device for structuring a diverse array of vernacular literary fictions. In travel writing, dream visions, hagiographic narrative, chronicle-romances, and sermons, English writers explored the boundaries that divided them from the non-Christian world by making pagan figures speak for themselves in experiments that often strikingly anticipate our own modern critical and pedagogical uses of the Middle Ages.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This paperback edition of Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night addresses tolerance and acceptance in the face of cultural, political, and religious strife. Its point of departure is the Walpurgis Night. The Night, also known as Beltane or May Eve, was supposedly an annual witches' Sabbath that centered around the Brocken, the highest peak of the Harz Mountains. After exploring how a notoriously pagan celebration came to be named after the Christian missionary St. Walpurgis (ca. 710-79), John Michael Cooper discusses the Night's treatments in several closely interwoven works by Goethe and Mendelssohn. His book situates those works in their immediate personal and professional contexts, as well as among treatments by a wide array of other artists, philosophers, and political thinkers, including Voltaire, Lessing, Shelley, Heine, Delacroix, and Berlioz. In an age of decisive political and religious conflict, Walpurgis Night became a heathen muse: a source of spiritual inspiration that was neither specifically Christian, nor Jewish, nor Muslim. And Mendelssohn's and Goethe's engagements with it offer new insights into its role in European cultural history, as well as into issues of political, religious, and social identity -- and the relations between cultural groups -- in today's world. ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
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Harvard University Houghton Library

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The titlepage is engraved.Vertical chain lines.

London : printed for J. Newbery, [1760?]. [256]p. : ill. ; 12° ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Congregational Publishing Soc. in 1872 in 444 pages; Subjects: Hawaii; Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions; Travel / United States / West / Pacific; ... Read more