"The Plumed Serpent The Plumed Serpent is a 1926 novel by D. H. Lawrence. Set in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution, it was begun when the author was living at what is now the D. H. Lawrence Ranch near Taos in the U.S. state of New Mexico in 1924, accompanied by his wife Frieda and artist Dorothy Brett. Commentators have seen the book as having fascist overtones, and as expressing Lawrence's fears about the decline of the white race and belief in women's submission to men. It has also been interpreted as an expression of Lawrence's personal political ambition. Critics"
"The Serpent's Tooth The Serpent's Tooth is a novel by Singaporean writer Catherine Lim, first published in 1982 by Times Edition Pte Ltd. The title of the novel is taken from a quote from Shakespeare's ""King Lear"": ""Sharper than a serpent’s tooth/ It is to have a thankless child!"" Angela is exasperated by the behaviour of her 71-year-old mother-in-law, nicknamed the Old One – of her superstitious ways and her doddering, foolish manners. The Old One has an adopted son who is an imbecile named Ah Bock. While Angela's elder son Mark does well in school and wins a prize"
"The Serpent (novel) The Serpent is a novel by British writer Jane Gaskell. It was first published in 1963. It is the first part of the ""Atlan"" series, a set of four (or five) fantasy novels set in prehistoric times. The following novels are ""Atlan, The City"" and ""Some Summer Lands"". The stories are set in Atlantis and South America. ""The Serpent"" was also published split into two books, titled ""The Serpent"" and ""The Dragon"", hence the confusion over the numbering of the volumes. The protagonist of the novel is Cija (pronounced 'kee-yah'), the illegitimate child of the Dictatress of"
"in a national oratory competition, she is worried by the influence her mother-in-law wields over her younger son, Michael. She also has to endure her husband Wee Boon's three younger brothers, including one in Australia who has joined an fanatic Protestant cult. The Serpent's Tooth The Serpent's Tooth is a novel by Singaporean writer Catherine Lim, first published in 1982 by Times Edition Pte Ltd. The title of the novel is taken from a quote from Shakespeare's ""King Lear"": ""Sharper than a serpent’s tooth/ It is to have a thankless child!"" Angela is exasperated by the behaviour of her 71-year-old"
"with Giuseppe Garibaldi and the House of Savoy: ""Unless we ourselves take a hand now, they'll foist a republic on us. If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change."" The title is rendered in English as ""The Leopard"", but the Italian word ""gattopardo"" refers to the American ocelot or to the African serval. ""Il gattopardo"" may be a reference to a wildcat that was hunted to extinction in Italy in the mid-19th century – just as Don Fabrizio was dryly contemplating the indolence and decline of the Sicilian aristocracy. In 1963 ""Il Gattopardo"" was"
"The Serpent (1916 film) The Serpent was a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Theda Bara. The film based on the short story ""The Wolf's Claw"", by Philip Bartholomae, and its scenario was written by Raoul A. Walsh. Produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation, ""The Serpent"" was shot on location at Chimney Rock, North Carolina, and at the Fox Studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey. It is now considered lost. As described in a film magazine review, after Vania Lazar is betrayed and debauched by Grand Duke Valanoff, she leaves Russia with no thought"
"program into the mouth of a character in ""The Plumed Serpent"" (published in 1926): So if I want Mexicans to learn the name of Quetzalcoatl, it is because I want them to speak with the tongues of their own blood. I wish the Teutonic world would once more think in terms of Thor and Wotan, and the tree Igdrasil. And I wish the Druidic world would see, honestly, that in the mistletoe is their mystery, and that they themselves are the Tuatha De Danaan, alive, but submerged. And a new Hermes should come back to the Mediterranean, and a new"
"surging Maze his Head / Crested aloft, and Carbuncle his Eyes; / With burnisht Neck of verdant Gold, erect / Amidst his circling Spires."" In D. H. Lawrence's ""Snake"", the thirsty poet is forced to wait while the snake ""sipped with his straight mouth, / Softly drank through his straight gums, into his slack long body, / Silently."" Among the novels that feature snakes, Lemony Snicket's 1999 ""The Reptile Room"" tells of a herpetologist who cares for orphaned children and dies of snakebite, while Barbara Kingsolver's 1998 thriller ""The Poisonwood Bible"" portrays a missionary in the Congo, who is greeted"
"Serpent (novel) Serpent is the first book in the NUMA Files series of books co-written by best-selling author Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos, and was published in 1999. The main character of this series is Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala. This is the first book with Cussler's new hero Kurt Austin. The main plot is about a group of men who call themselves ""The Brotherhood"" and have ties to a 15th-century religious order. The group in modern times has attempted to hide and destroy all evidence of pre-Columbian contact between the New and Old Worlds. The book begins with the"
"The Golden Serpent The Golden Serpent is the twentieth novel in the long-running Nick Carter-Killmaster series of spy novels. Carter is a US secret agent, code-named N-3, with the rank of Killmaster. He works for AXE – a secret arm of the US intelligence services. The book was first published in 1967 (Number A216F) by Award Books part of the Beacon-Signal division of Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation (New York, USA), part of the Conde Nast Publications Inc. The novel was written by Manning Lee Stokes. Copyright was registered on 30 January 1967. The story is set in July 1966."
"the Sword"" timeline is designed to function in part as a retcon, some readers may conclude that the correct listing for Cerdin is Alpha Hydri II. Others may decide that the original reference in ""Serpent's Reach"" is correct. Serpent's Reach Serpent's Reach is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer C. J. Cherryh. The book, nominated for the Locus Award for Best Novel in 1981, is set in the author's Alliance-Union universe. Specific placement of the novel within the Alliance-Union timeline is difficult because two of Cherryh's works provide contradictory dates. Most likely, the events in the novel begin"
"the half-Human, half-Reptilian warlord, leader of an invading army on their way to conquer the mysterious continent Atlan. Cija is secretly instructed by her mother to seduce and kill Zerd. Eventually she succeeds neither in killing Zerd, nor in warning the Atlantean empire about the invaders, but she ends up being married to Zerd and becoming Empress of Atlan. The Serpent (novel) The Serpent is a novel by British writer Jane Gaskell. It was first published in 1963. It is the first part of the ""Atlan"" series, a set of four (or five) fantasy novels set in prehistoric times. The"
"The Forest Giant The Forest Giant (French: ""Le Gigantesque"") is a novel written by Adrien Le Corbeau, one of the pseudonyms of Romanian-born author Rudolf Bernhardt (1886–1932). An English translation was made in 1923 by T. E. Lawrence (as J. H. Ross), but both French and English versions have since fallen into obscurity. The book was despised by Lawrence, who wrote the following while working on the translation: At last this foul work: complete. Please have [it] typed and send [it] down that I may get it off my suffering chest before I burst. Damn Adrien le Corbeau and his"
"The Wall of Serpents The Wall of Serpents is a fantasy novella by American science fiction and fantasy authors L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. The fourth story in their Harold Shea series, it was first published in the June 1953 issue of the fantasy pulp magazine ""Fantasy Fiction"". It first appeared in book form, together with its sequel, ""The Green Magician"", in the collection ""Wall of Serpents"", issued in hardcover by Avalon Books in 1960; the book has been reissued by a number of other publishers since. It has also been reprinted in various anthologies and collections, including"
"Jones which rams and sinks the Chinese nuclear submarine Sea Dragon before returning to San Diego. The Golden Serpent The Golden Serpent is the twentieth novel in the long-running Nick Carter-Killmaster series of spy novels. Carter is a US secret agent, code-named N-3, with the rank of Killmaster. He works for AXE – a secret arm of the US intelligence services. The book was first published in 1967 (Number A216F) by Award Books part of the Beacon-Signal division of Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation (New York, USA), part of the Conde Nast Publications Inc. The novel was written by Manning"
"his thoughts. She lives alone in London as Francis is at boarding school, although at the end of the novel she sends a letter to will describing her contrasting feelings of love for him. ""The Essex Serpent"" won the British Book Awards for 2016 Book of the Year The Essex Serpent The Essex Serpent is a 2016 novel by British author Sarah Perry. The novel is set in the year 1893. It begins with the a description of the death of a New Year's Eve reveller, later attributed to a mythological creature that was described in a 1669 pamphlet ""Strange"
"According to the Boy Scouts of America's Ordeal Ceremony, the correct pronunciation of the name is ching-gatch-gook. Professor William A. Starna, of SUNY Oneonta, says the initial ""ch"" sound would be pronounced more like the German guttural ""h"" than an English ""ch."" Chingachgook is an Algonquian word meaning big (ching) snake (achgook); hence the references to the character in the book as The Great Serpent. Chingachgook Chingachgook is a fictional character in four of James Fenimore Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, including ""The Last of the Mohicans"". Chingachgook was a lone Mohican chief and companion of the series' hero, Natty Bumppo."
"of the Serpent"" (); following volumes include ""Fall From Grace"" (2007) (), ""Trick of the Light"" (2009) (), featuring a young Arthur Conan Doyle, and most recently ""Nor Shall He Sleep"" (2012) (), featuring Robert Louis Stevenson; all four novels are currently available in audio download format, read by David Ashton. McLevy's ""nemesis"" Jean Brash currently has two mysteries of her own to solve, with McLevy in a supporting role: ""Mistress of the Just Land"" () and ""The Lost Daughter"" (), both currently available in both paperback and e-book format as well as audio recordings narrated by Siobhan Redmond. Two"
"The Serpent's Shadow (Riordan novel) The Serpent's Shadow is a 2012 fantasy adventure novel based on Egyptian mythology written by American author Rick Riordan. It is the third and final novel in ""The Kane Chronicles"" series. It was published by Disney Hyperion on May 1, 2012. This book begins six months after the events of the preceding novel, when Carter Kane and Sadie Kane travel to the 51st nome, Dallas, with their initiates and meet J.D. Grissom, the leader of the nome. They tell him that they need a magic scroll from the King Tut exhibit at the Dallas Museum"
"conquered. Below the procession, two men are holding ropes tied to the outstretched, intertwining necks of two serpopards confronting each other. The serpopard is a mythological creature whose name is a portmanteau of the words ""serpent"" and ""leopard"" (though the spotless beast with tufted tail more closely resembles a lioness.) The circle formed by their curving necks is the central part of the Palette, which is the area where the cosmetics would have been ground. Upper and Lower Egypt each worshipped lioness war goddesses as protectors; the intertwined necks of the serpopards may thus represent the unification of the state."
"date. Great Serpent Great Serpent was a Maya king of Calakmul, a Maya city-state. He is also known as Ruler 8 and Ruler Z. The unfinished Stele 62 marked the completion of the sixteenth ""k'atun"" in AD 751; the commissioning ruler’s name is damaged but appears to be different from that of previous kings. His emblem glyph features the head of a bat rather than that of a snake, hearkening back to the Bat emblem last attested at Calakmul over three centuries earlier on Stela 114. Stela 62 may have formed a king-queen portrait pair with Stela 88 from the"
"him released into the forest to be hunted. Querdillon plans to escape by tunnelling under the barrier that surrounds the estate. He also meets one of the bird-women, Kit, who helps him. Eventually, Querdillon and Kit are hunted down by the Count, but Kit sacrifices herself to draw the leopard-woman pack onto the barrier, killing them. When the barrier is turned off to retrieve the bodies, Querdillon slips across and returns to 1943. The book's title is from an 18th-century song about the ""gentleman farmer"" John Peel, a famous fox hunter in his time. Here, the title is given a"
"The Trumpet of the Swan The Trumpet of the Swan is a children's novel by E.B. White published in 1970. It tells the story of Louis (pronounced ""LOO-ee"" by the author in the audiobook, a reference to trumpeter Louis Armstrong, a point that is made explicit in the book), a trumpeter swan born without a voice who overcomes this difficulty by learning to play a trumpet in order to impress a beautiful swan named Serena. In Canada in the spring of 1968, the cob (the name for an adult male swan) and the pen (the name for an adult female"
"The Essex Serpent The Essex Serpent is a 2016 novel by British author Sarah Perry. The novel is set in the year 1893. It begins with the a description of the death of a New Year's Eve reveller, later attributed to a mythological creature that was described in a 1669 pamphlet ""Strange News out of Essex, or The Winged Serpent"". This is followed by a description of the recent death of Cora Seaborne's abusive husband. Cora lives in London with her son Francis and his governess Martha who is also a close companion of Cora's. Francis is described as a"
"""succès fou"" had proved elusive. Audran tried working with other collaborators – Maurice Ordonneau (""Serment d'amour"", 1886) and H. B. Farnie (""Indiana"", 1886) – without conspicuous success, and returned to Chivot and Duru when commissioned to provide a piece for the Théâtre de la Gaîté in Paris. The title characters, the grasshopper and the ant, allude to Jean de La Fontaine's retelling of Aesop's fable ""The Ant and the Grasshopper"", in which the improvident grasshopper sings away the summer, and starves in the winter, unlike the provident ant, who has gathered and stored food in readiness for the season. The"
"The Great Snake ""The Great Snake"" or ""The Great Serpent"" (, lit. ""Of the Great Serpent"") is a folk tale (the so-called ""skaz"") of the Ural region of Siberia collected and reworked by Pavel Bazhov. It was first published in the 11th issue of the ""Krasnaya Nov"" literary magazine in 1936 and later the same year as a part of the collection ""Prerevolutionary Folklore of the Urals"". It was later released as a part of ""The Malachite Casket"" collection. The story was translated from Russian into English by Alan Moray Williams in 1944, and by Eve Manning in the 1950s."
"their commentaries on Psalm 91. The serpent is often shown curled round the foot of the cross in depictions of the Crucifixion of Jesus from Carolingian art until about the 13th century; often it is shown as dead. The Crucifixion was regarded as the fulfillment of God's curse on the Serpent in . Sometimes it is pierced by the cross and in one ivory is biting Christ's heel, as in the curse. Serpent (Greek: ; Trans: ""Ophis"", ; ""snake"", ""serpent"") occurs in the Book of Revelation as the ""ancient serpent"" or ""old serpent"" used to describe ""the dragon"", Satan the"
"The Crow and the Snake The Crow or Raven and the Snake or Serpent is one of Aesop's Fables and numbered 128 in the Perry Index. Alternative Greek versions exist and two of these were adopted during the European Renaissance. The fable is not to be confused with the story of this title in the ""Panchatantra"", which is completely different. In ancient times the fable is found only in Greek sources and concerns a crow in search of food that finds a snake asleep in the sun. But when the crow seizes her, the snake kills it with her sting."
"The Serpent's Shadow (Lackey novel) The Serpent's Shadow (2001) is a novel by American writer Mercedes Lackey, part of her Elemental Masters series. It is set in London in 1909 and is based on the fairy tale Snow White. Dr. Maya Witherspoon is a young doctor who has just emigrated to England, and intends to practice medicine in London. She had lived most of the first twenty-five years of her life in her native India. The daughter of a British physician and a Brahmin woman of the highest caste, Maya was trained in medicine by her father and graduated from"
"The Virgin and the Gypsy The Virgin and the Gipsy is a short novel (or novella) by English author D.H. Lawrence. It was written in 1926 and published posthumously in 1930. Today it is often entitled The Virgin and the Gypsy which can lead to confusion because first and early editions had the spelling ""Gipsy"". The tale relates the story of two sisters, daughters of an Anglican vicar, who return from finishing school overseas to a drab, lifeless rectory in the East Midlands, not long after the World War I. Their mother has run off with another man, a scandal"
"in order to work for its destruction (Eichmann's behavior may be an instance of this), which was clearly not Lawrence's case. Had Lawrence really disliked the French, would he, even for financial reasons, have translated French novels into English? The quality of his translation of ""Le Gigantesque"" (""The Forest Giant"") reveals not only his conscientiousness as an artist but also a knowledge of French that can scarcely have derived from unfriendly feelings"". The Forest Giant The Forest Giant (French: ""Le Gigantesque"") is a novel written by Adrien Le Corbeau, one of the pseudonyms of Romanian-born author Rudolf Bernhardt (1886–1932). An"
"Great Snake"". The Great Snake ""The Great Snake"" or ""The Great Serpent"" (, lit. ""Of the Great Serpent"") is a folk tale (the so-called ""skaz"") of the Ural region of Siberia collected and reworked by Pavel Bazhov. It was first published in the 11th issue of the ""Krasnaya Nov"" literary magazine in 1936 and later the same year as a part of the collection ""Prerevolutionary Folklore of the Urals"". It was later released as a part of ""The Malachite Casket"" collection. The story was translated from Russian into English by Alan Moray Williams in 1944, and by Eve Manning in"
"(also known as ""The Great Serpent"") in the 11th issue of ""Krasnaya Nov"" in 1936. ""Beloved Name"" was published on the pages 5–9, ""The Great Snake"" on pp. 9–12, and ""The Mistress of the Copper Mountain"" on pp. 12–17. These tales are the ones that follow the original Ural miners' folklore most closely. They were included in the collection ""Prerevolutionary Folklore of the Urals"" (), released later the same year by Sverdlovsk Publishing House. It was later released as a part of ""The Malachite Casket"" collection on 28 January 1939. In 1944 the story was translated from Russian into English"