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The Xeelee Sequence ( / ˈziːliː /; ZEE-lee) [ 1][ 2] [a] is a series of hard science fiction novels, novellas, and short stories written by British science fiction author Stephen Baxter. The series spans billions of years of fictional history, centering on humanity's future expansion into the universe, its intergalactic war with an enigmatic ...
According to scholar Pierre A. Walker, all of Angelou's books describe "a sequence of lessons about resisting racist oppression". [1] In the course of her autobiographies, her views about Black-white relationships changed and she learned to accept different points of view.
Battier was a two-time Academic All-American and Academic All-American of the year in 2001. [7] He was second behind Jon Scheyer in the Duke record book for minutes played in a single season as of March 28, 2010, and had 36 double-figure scoring games in a single season (tied for 5th-most in Duke history, with Scheyer, Jason Williams, and JJ ...
The Flashman Papers. The Flashman Papers is a series of novels and short stories written by George MacDonald Fraser, the first of which was published in 1969. The books centre on the exploits of the fictional protagonist Harry Flashman. He is a cowardly British soldier, rake and cad who is placed in a series of real historical incidents between ...
No. of books. 14. James Bond is a literary franchise comprising a series of novels and short stories, first published in 1953 by Ian Fleming, a British author, journalist, and former naval intelligence officer. The protagonist of the series, James Bond, is a British Secret Service agent, often referred to by his code name 007.
Love in a Fallen City (傾城之戀) is a 1943 Chinese-language novella by Eileen Chang. [1] The translation is included in the New York Review of Books "Classics" series. [2] The story focuses about a love story that triumphed during the wartime Hong Kong. Scholar Nicole Huang suggests that Eileen Chang's "most important literary legacy from ...
The three books are each well over a thousand pages long and are not standalone novels, totalling 1.2 million words. The trilogy is set in a universe with a wealth of worlds and artificial orbiting colonies. The plot is centered on the souls of the dead coming back from a hellish "beyond" to possess the living, and the latter fighting back.
Carpocrates is again mentioned in the controversial Mar Saba letter (also called To Theodore), purportedly also by Clement of Alexandria, which was discovered by Morton Smith while cataloging books at the Monastery of Mar Saba in 1958. [5] This document was examined by several other scholars in the preceding decades, including Quentin Quesnell. [6]