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| | Enchantment (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Since she has already not only conquered neighboring kingdoms, but enslaved the Bear, the god of winter, and since the region's patron god, Mikola Mozhaiski, is missing in action, Baba Yaga's claims are taken seriously. | | | It is an almost-total re-envisioning of the Sleeping Beauty fairy-tale, as well as a number of traditional Russian folk tales. | | | Katerina's "aunts" (older female protectors) wove strong magical protection over her; when Baba Yaga cursed her to die, the enchantments interacted, forming the island, the sleeping woman, and Bear trapped below. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchantment_(novel)
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| | Enchantment (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In traditional fairy tale or fantasy, an enchantment is a magical spell that is attached, on a relatively-permanent basis, to a specific person, object or location, and alters its qualities, generally in a positive way. | | | Enchantment is a contemporary fiction novel by author Orson Scott Card, an almost-total re-envisioning of the Sleeping Beauty fairy-tale. | | | This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchantment_(disambiguation)
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| | Orson Scott Card Novels |
| | Enchantment shows that not only does he continue to generate creative plot lines, but that first-rate character development is firmly within his grasp. | | | The character development is fairly deep for Ender and his siblings and represents a good effort for Card’s first novel. | | | century Russia and the 1990’s, Card tells the classic tale of witches, enchantment, knights and princesses. |
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http://www.futurefiction.com/orson_scott_card_novels.htm
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| | Franklin seems to be imitating the epistolary novel, the most popular form of the genre in the mid-eighteenth century. | | | No longer are the heroes and heroines of novels the knights and damsels of romance, but the tradesmen and maidservants of contemporary life. | | | In the end, the hero of this novel would have accumulated wealth and prestige far beyond anything his humble origins might have suggested: in other words, the hero of this novel would be Benjamin Franklin. |
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http://www.cooper.edu/humanities/classes/coreclasses/hss2/novel.html
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| | Card, Enchantment (030caro1) |
| | The general setting of this novel is the study of folklore in a dead language. | | | This is a science fiction novel in which the science is anthropology, in the same sense as Speaker for the Dead. | | | This is not a clumsy, heartless "debunking" of the Slavonic/protoRussian version of Sleeping Beauty (a truly chilling tale, even in my rusty Russian) or of Baba Yaga. |
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http://savage.authorslawyer.com/reviews/030caro1.shtml
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| | The Neverending Story Novel |
| | The English version of this novel is a translation from the German by Ralph Manheim. | | | Nevertheless, the main theme of story is kept intact and leaves the reader satisfied in the end. | | | Published in 1979 and written by Michael Ende, it immediately became a bestseller and remained so for 3 years. |
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http://www.m-azlan.com/shows/neverending-story/nesnovel.html
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| | Graham Joyce The Limits of Enchantment Reviewed By Rick Kleffel |
| | Fern Cullen, shedding the last of her sheltered teenage years amidst the English midlands in 1966, tells the tale in Joyce's latest novel. | | | The passing of wisdom is quite uncommon in ours, and few are those who can do so with the eloquence, the grace and the power of Graham Joyce. | | | What makes the novel so compulsively readable, so utterly pleasurable goes beyond Joyce's easy-seeming prose. |
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http://trashotron.com/agony/reviews/2004/joyce-limits_enchantment.htm
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books By genre Review: The Limits of Enchantment by Graham Joyce |
| | His triumph in The Limits of Enchantment is connecting that fantasy to profoundly English traditions of folk wisdom and a very particular part of the English countryside. | | | The Limits of Enchantment is an intricate, involving dramatisation of a battle in English history that still continues today, just about, although there now seems to be hardly any doubt about the winner: the conflict between folk wisdom and modern science. | | | As its title suggests, the novel dramatises her struggle to decide where to place her faith. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/sciencefiction/0,6121,1390391,00.html
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| | Orson Scott Card: Enchantment |
| | While Enchantment takes advantage of all of the skills Card has shown in his recent novels (Xenocide, Pastwatch, Heartfire or Homebody), the ideas and story presented in Enchantment is among the freshest and most original idea Card has presented in several years. | | | One of Card's strengths in Enchantment is not the deft characterization or the flowing plot, although those are both notable, but his ability to portray the cultures of early Christian Ukraine and late-twentieth century society so differently while understanding (and showing the reader) how ingrained their beliefs are. | | | Ivan's mother and Cousin Marek are both well drawn, if enigmatic characters who manage to draw the reader's interest. |
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http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/enchant.html
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| | Miscellaneous Short Science Fiction Reviews |
| | This novel tells the story of Bean, the diminutive genius who was Ender's right-hand man for a time in Battle School and then in the fateful battle against the Buggers. | | | Yet, in a fascinating juxtoposition, most of the novel deals with very contemporary characters and topics: it mostly takes place just ten years in the future, as very realistic, established physics and economic principles are applied to ideas for jumpstarting man's expansion into space. | | | This is a beautiful, haunting novel that depicts joy, wonder, peace, and loneliness of a simple, decent man caught up in extraordinary and important circumstances. |
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http://www.adherents.com/lit/bk_misc.html
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| | Books Towards enchantment |
| | Benet, a philosopher working on a book about Heidegger, is riddled with it; so is Edward, who witnesses his brother's death (in an extraordinary scene in which the sea starts out as a friend and turns foe) and feels responsible for it. | | | He exclaims aloud 'the darkness, oh the darkness.' In glancing asides, Murdoch considers assorted household gods who might be flicking the switches but settles on none. | | | The heart's subjects are, in this novel, love and remorse. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,3925306-99930,00.html
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| | The SF Site Featured Review: The Limits of Enchantment |
| | The Limits of Enchantment is a different take on witchcraft and herb lore to his earlier story, Dark Sister, but there are similar underlying themes to be found, like dealing with the spirit world on an everyday basis, as part of normal life. | | | Joyce has produced his usual smooth uncluttered prose in a story that, like many of his novels, nestles out on the edges of the supernatural genre. | | | In this latest novel, Joyce has re-created the heady days of the 60s, in all its mini-skirted, grass-smoking glory. |
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http://www.sfsite.com/07a/le203.htm
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| | Powells.com Interviews - Tucker Malarkey |
| | Still, a first book is a first book, and the year between her contract and her published novel was an education. | | | The second thing I learned was that on one end of the spectrum of literature you have Danielle Steel and on the other, say, Thomas Pynchon or William Faulkner. | | | There's a romance in there, but it's not a romance novel. |
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http://www.powells.com/authors/malarkey.html
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| | Touchstone Archives: Paradise Denied |
| | The third novel in the fantasy trilogy, His Dark Materials, it was the first “children’s novel” to win the award outright. | | | However, it happens that the novel which has proved such a “first” in the process of taking children’s literature seriously as a genre, contains one of the most distorted and ignorant depictions of Christianity in the history of literature. | | | There is even a redemptive plot twist in the midst of the violence, with a one-time betrayer giving his life to save the Manth and effect their escape. |
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http://touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=16-08-042-f
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| | The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, by Siri Hustvedt, Reading Group Guide, by Henry Holt and Company Publishers of Quality ... |
| | Of the literary connection between herself and her husband, Hustvedt has said, "If contemporary fiction is a city, Paul and I live in the same neighborhood, but not the same house." Hustvedt's interest in the minutiae of social intercourse, as well as her fascination with eroticism, however, are among the subjects distinctly her own. | | | She met her husband, Paul Auster, the novelist and filmmaker, in 1982. | | | , are intended as resources to aid individual readers and book groups who would like to learn more about the author and this novel. |
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http://www.henryholt.com/readingguides/hustvedt.htm
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| | GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Don Quixote Book I - Major Themes |
| | Within the novel, Don Quixote, the priest, the innkeeper (#2), the canon and numerous others weigh in on various chivalric tales and other literary works. | | | The books of chivalry have left Don Quixote incapable of seeing "reality." When Don Quixote believes that the inn is a "castle" or a "windmill" is a "giant," he is not merely deluding himself. | | | In Chapters 33-35, "The Novel of the Curious Impertinent" figures in the exact same way. |
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http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/quixote/themes.html
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| | Turns of Enchantment: Imagining the Real in Don Quixote, by Inés Azar |
| | In his long essay on the chronotope (84-258), Bakhtin proposes that each distinct narrative genre —particularly the ancient ones (Greek romance, adventure novel of everyday life, love idyll) and their early modern sequels (books of chivalry, picaresque and pastoral novels)— is a closed system of relations of time and space. | | | Second, that the relation of Don Quixote to the familiar, everyday prose of the world is as messy and uncertain about its direction, as composed, decomposed, and recomposed throughout the novel, as are his laborious acts of naming and the names that his labor gives birth to. | | | In Greek romance, chance is the name for the haphazard quality of the alien world the characters are thrown into; it represents the fact that no one in that world should know what to expect, because nothing in it is familiar or predictable, even in trivial ways. |
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http://www.h-net.org/~cervantes/csa/articf98/azar.htm
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| | Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - What I Loved: A Novel |
| | Description: From the author of "The Enchantment of Lily Dahl" comes a powerful and heartbreaking novel that chronicles the epic story of two families, two sons, and two marriages. | | | Description: A powerful and heartbreaking novel that chronicles the epic story of two families, two sons, and two marriages. | | | Reviews: "What I Loved is Siri Hustvedt's most ambitious, most rewarding novel. |
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http://www.bordersstores.com/search/title_detail.jsp?id=53351913
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| | Enchantment -- book review |
| | As a retelling of a familiar tale, this novel succeeds. | | | His words seem to have the heft of weighty antiquity, that his are tales that have been around forever and he has merely recorded them in written form for his readers. | | | As an examination of the twin powers of destiny and free will, again it succeeds. |
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http://www.curledup.com/enchant.htm
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| | A Conversation With Orson Scott Card *Writers Write -- The IWJ* |
| | The Homecoming Saga (the novels The Memory of Earth, The Call of Earth, The Ships of Earth, Earthfall, and Earthborn) was a retelling of ancient scripture as science fiction. | | | And his newest contemporary novel, Enchantment (Del Ray, 1999), is a romantic fantasy that has Sleeping Beauty being awakened by an American graduate student in Ukraine in 1991. | | | And the Jewish folk tales had the recurring theme of a marriage covenant broken -- a betrothal denied, and the punishment that comes until the original betrothal is honored. |
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http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/sep99/card.htm
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| | Theoretical Implications in Don Quijote's Idea of Enchantment, by Bryant L. Creel |
| | He considers to be in a state of “enchantment” and deceitful appearance that which has a finite utility value that is, relatively speaking, merely “materially intelligible” and has no bearing on moral aspirations. | | | Castro believed that for all his geniality, the stability of his moral vision, and notwithstanding the restrained character of his skepticism, in the Quijote Cervantes presents a Weltanschauung that is impressionistic, relativistic, and ambiguous. | | | Plato had held that knowledge is always of the self-subsistent universal; all we ever really know about the sensible world is our idea of it through judgement by the mind, since reality consists of mind, not matter. |
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http://www.h-net.org/~cervantes/csa/artics92/creel.htm
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| | Enchantment by Orson Scott Card, a fantasy book |
| | Card's novel Stone Tables (1997), a retelling of the story of Moses and the exodus of the Jews from Egypt, was published as religious fiction. | | | Several of those short stories were incorporated into his first novel, Hot Sleep (1978), which was later entirely rewritten as The Worthing Chronicle (1983). | | | Other works include Songmaster (fixup 1980), Hart's Hope (1983), Wyrms (1987), Lovelock (1994, with Kathryn Kidd), the fantasy Enchantment (1999), the adult picture book Magic Mirror (1999), and the dark fantasy or horror novels Lost Boys (1993), Treasure Box (1996), and Homebody (1998). |
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http://members.aol.com/firoane/card3.htm
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| | Elaine North |
| | The entire election crisis, each day-by-day event, is clearly depicted through the lives of the characters in the novel. | | | Robin’s mother, Sandra Booth, is a most vivid minor character, one that could be a major character. | | | “What a good idea for a book… People are still interested in the election in Florida in 2000… It is interesting that a book has come out that tells the story in a novel…” Joseph Dawson, Palatine, Illinois. |
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http://www.geocities.com/election2000enchantment
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| | This Just In...News from The Agony Column |
| | By not writing down to his audience, Reeves creates novels that are worth reading by anyone who find the idea of honking cities on tracks pursuing one another particularly attractive. | | | With this novel, Zelazny applied the straightforward voice of contemporary American fiction to an utterly fantastic premise. | | | In a perennial theme of Card’s novels (and one which he discusses in detail in his fascinating book ‘How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy’), the protagonists’ magical abilities create more problems than they cure. |
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http://trashotron.com/agony/news/2004/11-08-04.htm
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| | Books, Listed by Author |
| | This is an instant remainder edition, the third Putnam omnibus titled Three Complete Novels (in addition to one Wings edition). | | | This is an instant remainder edition, the fourth Putnam omnibus titled Three Complete Novels (in addition to one Wings edition). | | | A hardcover edition was announced but not seen. |
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http://www.locusmag.com/index/b276.html
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| | Adventures in the Valley of the Obsessed |
| | Not exactly a novel, the work is made of up interlacing stories, some as short as fragments. | | | His style and intimacy with Iran's culture and contemporary history combine to give his familiar tale of lost love an engaging freshness. | | | Imagining her peers' relapses, she says, "All of my friends are falling from the sky. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/12/10/RV107025.DTL
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| | Amazon.com: Enchantment: Books: Orson Scott Card |
| | Early in the story, he muses that in a French or English retelling of the tale, the prince and princess would live happily ever after. | | | Enchantment's heroes, "Prince" Ivan and Princess Katerina, must deal with cross-cultural mores, ancient gods, treacherous kinsmen (and fianceés), and ultimately Baba Yaga herself. | | | After falling head over hills in love with it (currently on my 10th copy of the book - they keep disappearing), I was pushed to move on to the Ender's Quartet. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345416880?v=glance
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| | BookCloseouts.com - The Bestseller in Bargain Books |
| | Ramona - haughty and misguided - eagerly satisfies their inexhaustible lust, while the women at the estate scold and despise her. | | | But the marriage doesn't last long: the beekeeper dies after discovering his bride with a new lover on their wedding day. | | | Rebus-Capital Crimes: Dead Souls, Set in Darkness, The Falls |
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http://www.bookcloseouts.com/?R=0066212596B
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| | Dark Enchantment-description |
| | Dark Enchantment gives us another wonderful glimpse into France before the revolution...With the detail that has come to mark all of her books, Karen Harbaugh has written another intriguing tale. | | | Here I was thinking that Dark Enchantment wasn't quite up to par with Night Fires, but then I get a 4 1/2 star review from Romantic Times, which also designated the book a Top Pick for January. | | | I was just informed that Romantic Times Book Club has nominated Dark Enchantment for best fantasy historical romance! |
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http://www.sff.net/people/karenh/BIOREV/Darkenchant.HTM
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| | Books, Listed by Author |
| | This is the first hardcover edition, a signed, limited edition of 300, designed to look the same as the Fantasy Press editions of the earlier books. | | | An additional introductory piece by Philip Harbottle explains the book’s history, and why it was not previously published in book form. | | | Originally written in the early ’30s, this version of “The Three Musketeers” in space helped define the space opera genre for decades. |
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http://www.locusmag.com/index/b511.html
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| | Enchantment (novel) - definition of Enchantment (novel) in Encyclopedia |
| | Enchantment is a novel by author Orson Scott Card, an almost-total re-envisioning of the Sleeping Beauty fairy-tale. | | | Contemporary graduate student Ivan Smetski, researching ancient Russian folklore, awakens the princess Katerina of Tania and is forced to marry her in order to save her 10th century Russian kingdom from the famous Russian witch, Baba Yaga. | | | Enchantment (novel) - definition of Enchantment (novel) in Encyclopedia |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Enchantment_(novel)
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| | Amazon.com: The Enchantment: Books: Kristin Hannah |
| | Wow for being a historical novel, this book defintly had a modern flair. | | | I like romance novels, but i don't like pointlessly sentimental tripe. | | | I've never been so happy to put down a book in my life. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0449147738?v=glance
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| | Smoke Bellew Novel, Smokey Joe, Smoking Mountain, Smooth Operator True Story Of, Snake Lovers' Lifel... | | | Stone and Flute, Stone Bruise, Stone City Novel, Stone Diaries Novel, Stone Fox, Stone God Awakens,... | | | Tables of Logarithms of Numbers, Taboo Scarf and Other Tales Of, Tacey Cromwell Novel, Tail of Kite,... |
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| | LERA -- Land of Enchantment Romance Authors |
| | LERA is the New Mexico chapter of Romance Writers of America. | | | LERA's membership includes writers of all levels, from those who have only recently decided to write a romance novel to those with multi-book contracts in multiple genres. | | | Formed in January 1993 in Albuquerque, NM, Land of Enchantment Romance Authors (LERA) is a non-profit organization designed to support both published and aspiring writers of romantic fiction. |
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http://www.leranm.com
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| | THE ROMANCE READER reviews: Highland Enchantment by Lois Greiman |
| | Highland Enchantment is Greiman's latest installment in her Highland Brides series that follows three cousins, Shona, Rachel and Sara, as they battle Warwick, an evil wizard, for possession of the brooch "Dragonheart." | | | If I thought I was lost during the beginning and middle of the book, I definitely could not decipher the twists and turns that made up the novel's finale. | | | Highland Enchantment may work for those who have read the series' previous installments and can navigate the storyline. |
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http://www.theromancereader.com/greiman-enchantment.html
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| | Graham Joyce spins his magic |
| | From the very first words of Graham Joyce's new novel, I knew that an interesting story was possible. | | | Joyce strikes the essence of fairy tale throughout the novel, giving the feel of a much simpler time. | | | My only complaint about this novel would be the number of lesser characters and Joyce's tendency to introduce them without making them memorable enough to avoid momentary confusion when they appear later in the novel. |
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http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/books/050403/book1.shtml
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| | AML-List Review: Enchantment |
| | Indeed, it's the modern protagonist who must become enlightened as he learns how the mindset of this early tribe of Slavs is necessary for survival in their harsh times. | | | Throw in the sociopathic witch Baba Yaga as the ruthless villain, who makes Hannibal Lecter look like a choir boy, and you have vintage Card storytelling at work. | | | The way Card handles magic in his otherwise realistic novel must be comparable to the way mystical Christians see Mormon theology: gritty with literalism. |
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http://www.aml-online.org/reviews/b/B200037.html
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| | Trafford Publishing: A Journey to Enchantment |
| | A tale about love, life, death, and inner transformation, A Journey to Enchantment is the story of David Noble, the novel's protagonist, discovering that Enchantment--Heaven, Nirvana, or whatever one wishes to call it--is in the here and now on the planet earth, and not off in the sky somewhere. | | | A tale about love, life, death, and inner transformation, A Journey to Enchantment is the story of David Noble, the novel's protagonist, discovering that Enchantment--Heaven, Nirvana, or whatever one wishes to call it--is in the here and now on the planet earth, and not off in the sky somewhere | | | If you are interested in ordering this book, |
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http://www.trafford.com/4dcgi/robots/00-0118.html
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| | Windseeker Centaur Creature - Centaur 1RR 2/2 R Anson Maddocks "Whispering Woods" novel (French) Attacking does not cause Windseeker Centaur to tap. | | | Only the splattered armor and ichor-stained sword hinted at the unfathomable evil the Knight had just laid waste. | | | "Beauty to the eye does not always translate to the touch." -Naimah, Femeref philosopher Mana Crypt Artifact 0 R Mark Tedin "Final Sacrifice" novel (Spanish) During your upkeep, flip a coin. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~cdmoye/magic/Spoilers/PR.html
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| | Borzoi Reader Catalog An Obvious Enchantment by Tucker Malarkey |
| | Like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, it plunges you from the first page into a sensuous world of seductive characters and duplicitous charm, a world alive with color and atmosphere from which it is hard to emerge without wanting to return. | | | An epic tale of love and faith, An Obvious Enchantment marks the debut of a stunning new literary talent. | | | She is at work on her third novel. |
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http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375758201&view=print
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| | Isabel Allende said of Joyce's previous novel, The Facts of Life: 'This is the kind of book I love to read! | | | The Limits of Enchantment-A Novel by Graham Joyce - Orion Books | | | And all the time she is struggling with her fey powers. |
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http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/HB-20061/The-Limits-of-Enchantment.htm
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| | Tobacco : the most dangerous drug in the world |
| | In this early phase of tobacco use it was perceived in numerous conflicting ways as a manna from heaven or the smoke of hell itself, from panacea to poison. | | | Tobacco was certainly the muse of Sir John Beaumont, who described it as 'the philosopher's stone of the alchemists'. | | | The fading echoes of its entheogenic use among the American Indians can be heard in this early phase of Europe's enchantment. |
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http://www.biopsychiatry.com/tobacco
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| | Orson Scott Card's Bibliography |
| | Wyrms (science fiction novel, Arbor House/Tor, Jun 87); UK edition (Century/Legend); in German translation as Die Stadt am Ende der Welt (Bastei Lubbe) | | | 2 of Tales of Alvin Maker; American fantasy, Tor, Jan 88); UK edition (Century/Legend); in German translation as Der Rote Prophet (Bastei Lubbe) Hugo finalist 89, Nebula Finalist 88, Locus Award (best fantasy novel) 89 | | | 1 of Tales of Alvin Maker; American fantasy, Tor, Jun 87); UK edition (Century/Legend); in German translation as Der Siebente Sohn (Bastei Lubbe) Hugo finalist 88, World Fantasy finalist 88, Mythopoeic Society Award 88, Locus Award (best fantasy novel) 88 |
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http://www.hatrack.com/cgi-bin/print_friendly.cgi?page=/osc/bibliography/index.shtml
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| | The 11th Hour Web Magazine |
| | The characters are believable, and though the reader does have to accept some rather handy coincidences -- the phrase "Gosh, that's handy" is often, well, handy -- it is wise to keep in mind that this is a fairy tale. | | | This time around, it's Orson Scott Card who steps up to the plate to take on Sleeping Beauty in his recent page-turner, Enchantment. | | | Filling the novel with various twists and turns, Card succeeds in keeping the reader guessing as to what exactly is going to happen, even though the general plot is well-known. |
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http://www.the11thhour.com/archives/042000/bookreviews/enchantment.html
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| | ROBIN McKINLEY: Sunshine |
| | A gripping, funny, page-turning pretty much perfect work of magical literature that exists more or less at the unlikely crossroads of Chocolat, Interview With a Vampire, Misery and the tale of Beauty and the Beast. | | | I woke up too early, so started reading Robin McKinley's forthcoming novel Sunshine in the bath. |
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http://www.robinmckinley.com
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| | Gabrielle Roy: Enchantment and Sorrow |
| | Gabrielle Roy (1909-83) was so convinced that a novel set in the working class world of Saint-Henri was crying out to be written that she feared someone else would get there before her. | | | She subsequently settled in Quebec City and wrote some sixteen books: novels, short stories, children's books, a collection of essays, and an exquisite autobiography, Enchantment and Sorrow. | | | Such dramatic shifts of setting and subject matter became typical of her career which swung between two modes of vision, what the critic Hugo McPherson has-called "the world of experience and the world of innocence." Particularly adept in the portrayal of strong female characters, she cannot be classified under any particular rubric. |
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http://www.vehiculepress.com/montreal/writers/roy.html
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| | Writers'World: I write for myself, Mar 23, 2003, The Week |
| | When Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul learnt that Merchant wanted to meet him to discuss the filming of his novel, The Mystic Masseur, he wrote back urging him to stay away-Merchant got the rights to the book soon after. | | | But the borders are sealed." I. Allan Sealy's writing is poetry in prose, as these opening lines of his latest novel, The Brainfever Bird, once again attest. | | | Nothing exemplifies this more than an anecdote from his book, recently released in Delhi. |
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http://www.the-week.com/23mar23/life6.htm
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| | Contentlink - Enchantment |
| | He is the author of two books on writing: Character and Viewpoint and How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy. | | | A rich tapestry of clashing worlds and cultures, Enchantment is a powerfully original novel of a love and destiny that transcend centuries. | | | Now, in Enchantment, Card works his magic as never before, transforming the timeless story of Sleeping Beauty into an original fantasy brimming with romance and adventure. |
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http://www.contentlinkinc.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=0345484509&Type=ISBN
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| | TTB - Twilight Times Books |
| | A girl's quest to discover the truth not only about her ghost but about herself, as well. | | | Ty Dettin, his brother Seth and his best friend Tanner are not especially looking for an adventure when they head out on their dirt bikes, but they soon tumble into trouble when they discover a forgotten valley. | | | When one of them falls heir to proof of Bigfoot--or possibly an alien--various government agencies began chasing them and their girlfriends, hoping to recover alien technology, if that's what it is. |
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http://www.twilighttimesbooks.com/ttbcurrent.html
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