"The contrast between Narcissus and Ahab is that the first contemplates a beautiful image which he loves, while Ahab projects an evil image which he hates, which Sweeney calls ""an ironic reversal on Melville's part."" In several ways Ahab and Moby Dick resemble each other: A subtle connection between Ahab, Moby Dick and Fedallah is formed by the imagery of the brow and forehead. According to Sweeney, Fedallah is ""clearly an external projection of Ahab's own depravity"" and at the same time a double of what Ahab finds most evil in the whale. Fedallah is several times described using ""phantom"""
"Nantucket series The Nantucket series (also known as the Nantucket trilogy or the Islander trilogy) is a set of alternate history novels written by S. M. Stirling. The novels focus on the island of Nantucket in Massachusetts which was transported back in time to 1250 BC due to something called ""The Event"". Shortly thereafter a conflict develops between the democratic Republic of Nantucket and a group of renegade Americans led by the ex–Coast Guard lieutenant William Walker. The series was nominated for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2000. The series is closely related to Stirling's Emberverse with ""The"
"prominent texts include ""Mine Boy"" by Peter Abrahams, Alex La Guma's ""Walk in the Night"", Breyten Breytenbach's ""The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist"", Marlene van Niekerk’s ""Triomf"", Nadine Gordimer's ""Burger's Daughter"", Andre Brink's ""Dry White Season"", Richard Rive's ""Buckingham Palace, District Six"", Andre Brink's ""Rumours of Rain"", Nadine Gordimer's ""July's People"", Sipho Sepamla's ""Ride on the Whirlwind"", and Mongane Serote's ""To every birth its blood"". David Lambkin also deserves mentioning, ""The Hanging Tree"" reading like a Leroux novel with various Jungian and alchemistic substrates. Athol Fugard's ""Master Harold and the boys"" is a drama about race relations, and ""Boesman"
"Nabonidus Chronicle • Namburbi • Namerimburrudû • Neo-Babylonian Laws • Nergal and Ereškigal • New year ritual-Akitu procession • Nigdimdimmû • Ninurta-Pāqidāt's Dog Bite • Nisaba and Wheat • Ox and the Horse • Pazuzu • Poor Man of Nippur • Prophecy A • Qutāru • Recipes against Antašubba • Religious Chronicle • Royal inscription of Simbar-Šipak • Sag-gig-ga-meš (Muruṣ qaqqadi) • Sakikkū • Salmānu-ašarēdu III Epic • Synchronistic History • Șēru šikinšu • Šammu šikinšu • Šar Pūḫî • Šà.zi.ga • Šēp lemutti • Šu'ila • Šulgi Prophecy • Šumma ālu • Šumma amēlu kašip • Šumma immeru •"
"the 1840s, the British archaeologist Austen Henry Layard uncovered numerous stone carvings of winged, eagle-headed genii at Kalhu. Remembering the Biblical story of Sennacherib's murder, Layard mistakenly identified these figures as ""Nisrochs"". Such carvings continued to be known as ""Nisrochs"" in popular literature throughout the remaining portion of the nineteenth century. In Edith Nesbit's classic 1906 children's novel ""The Story of the Amulet"", the child protagonists summon an eagle-headed ""Nisroch"" to guide them. Nisroch opens a portal and advises them, ""Walk forward without fear"" and asks, ""Is there aught else that the Servant of the great Name can do for"
"book, these allies are already laying plans for carving up the Caucasus and Persia between them. Stirling has confirmed that ""The Emberverse series"" is connected to the Nantucket series. Evidence of this is apparent throughout the novels, for more information, see here. Nantucket series The Nantucket series (also known as the Nantucket trilogy or the Islander trilogy) is a set of alternate history novels written by S. M. Stirling. The novels focus on the island of Nantucket in Massachusetts which was transported back in time to 1250 BC due to something called ""The Event"". Shortly thereafter a conflict develops between"
"because he had consulted the Hebrew dictionary of C. Stephanus, which defined the name ""Nisroch"" as ""Flight"" or ""Delicate Temptation"". In the 1840s, the British archaeologist Austen Henry Layard uncovered numerous stone carvings of winged, eagle-headed genii at Kalhu. Remembering the Biblical story of Sennacherib's murder, Layard mistakenly identified these figures as ""Nisrochs"". Such carvings continued to be known as ""Nisrochs"" in popular literature throughout the remaining portion of the nineteenth century. In Edith Nesbit's classic 1906 children's novel ""The Story of the Amulet"", the child protagonists summon an eagle-headed ""Nisroch"" to guide them. Nisroch opens a portal and advises"
"Šumma Izbu • Šumma liptu • Šumma sinništu qaqqada rabât • Šurpu • Tākultu ritual texts • Tamarisk and the Palm • Tamītu Oracles • Tašritu hemerology • Tukulti-Ninurta Epic • Tu-ra kìlib-ba • The therapeutic series UGU (Šumma amēlu muḫḫašu umma ukāl) • Uruhulake of Gula • Uruk King List • Uruk Prophecy • Ušburruda • Utukkū Lemnūtu • Verse Account of Nabonidus • Vision of the Netherworld • Walker Chronicle • Weidner Chronicle • Zimri-Lim Epic • Zi-pà incantations • Zisurrû (Sag-ba Sag-ba) • Zu-buru-dabbeda Akkadian literature Akkadian literature is the ancient literature written in the Akkadian language"
"literary device in his ""1632"" series. In the three novels of the Nantucket series, a cosmic disturbance characterized by an elliptical dome of fire (called ""The Event"" in the series) transports the island of Nantucket and its inhabitants back in time into the Bronze Age. The world of circa 1250 BC, which corresponds to the late Heroic Age of Greek mythology, is populated by a large variety of hunting, nomadic and agricultural people, as well as well-documented Bronze Age cultures including Ancient Egypt, the Hittites, and Mycenaean Greece. The trilogy describes the day-to-day problems of adaptation and survival and the"
"Nightbirds on Nantucket Nightbirds on Nantucket is a children's novel by Joan Aiken, first published in 1966. Taking place in an alternate history, the story presents the further adventures of Dido Twite, an eleven-year-old Victorian tomboy, aboard a whaling ship and in Nantucket. The novel is the third in the ""Wolves Chronicles"", a series of books set in a fictional 19th century in which the Stuart kings had not been ousted by William of Orange; a key plot driver (from ""Black Hearts in Battersea"") is the efforts of ""Hanoverians"" to overthrow ""King James III"" and his heirs. ""Nightbirds on Nantucket"""
"Dick Grayson, to use in his illegal perfume factory. In ""The Sixth Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor"" in ""The Arabian Nights"" by Sir Richard Burton, Sinbad finds vast quantities of Ambergris after being shipwrecked on an unknown island after setting sail from Bassorāh. In the 2001 film ""Hannibal"", Hannibal Lecter sends Clarice Starling a letter which he writes while intentionally wearing a hand lotion containing ambergris, correctly assuming that this would lead her to discover his location in Florence, Italy, due to lotion utilizing ambergris being legal in only a few countries. In the 2003 film , an adaptation of"
"with Neanderthals) by deceit and violence. ""The Spire"" (1964) follows the building (and near collapse) of a huge spire onto a medieval cathedral (generally assumed to be Salisbury Cathedral); the spire symbolizing both spiritual aspiration and worldly vanity. ""The Scorpion God"" (1971) consists of three novellas, the first set in a prehistoric African hunter-gatherer band ('Clonk, Clonk'), the second in an ancient Egyptian court ('The Scorpion God') and the third in the court of a Roman emperor ('Envoy Extraordinary'). The trilogy ""To the Ends of the Earth"", which includes the ""Rites of Passage"" (1980), ""Close Quarters"" (1987), and ""Fire Down"
"Melville devotes the following chapter to a discussion of ambergris, with special attention to the irony that ""fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick whale."" In ""A Romance of Perfume Lands or the Search for Capt. Jacob Cole"", F. S. Clifford, October 1881, the last chapter concerns one of the novel's characters discovering an area of a remote island which contains large amounts of ambergris. He hopes to use this knowledge to help make his fortune in the manufacture of perfumes. In Chapter 17 of William Dampier's ""A New"
"Jane Austen's ""Northanger Abbey"" and ""Persuasion"" were published posthumously. Sir Walter Scott published ""Rob Roy"". Ivan Turgenev was born. In 1819, John Polidori published ""The Vampyre"". In 1820, John Keats published ""Lamia"", ""Isabella"" and ""Hyperion"". Percy Shelley published ""Prometheus Unbound"". Elizabeth Barrett published ""The Battle of Marathon"". Sir Walter Scott published ""Ivanhoe"", ""The Abbot"" and ""The Monastery"". James Catnach: ""Street Ballads"". A gothic novel, ""Melmoth the Wanderer"" was published by Charles Robert Maturin. In 1821, February 23: John Keats died. Percy Shelley published ""Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats"" and ""Epipsychidion"". Byron published ""The Prophecy of Dante""."
"Burroughs acknowledges being inspired by Norman Mailer's ""Ancient Evenings"", an expansive novel published in 1983 about ancient Egypt set a thousand years before Christianity. Nevertheless, there are unmistakable references to contemporary culture; for instance, Mick Jagger appears in some episodes. Despite the narrative challenge of the historical framework, the novel is often regarded as Burroughs' best late work and a gratifying culminating episode of the ""Cities"" trilogy. According to ""The Guardian"", it is his best work after ""Naked Lunch"". In his review for ""The New York Times"", Jonathan Baumbach labels the novel as ""not an easy work to like"" and"
"novel ""Cabbages and Kings"" takes not only its title from the poem ""The Walrus and the Carpenter"", it also contains references to shoes and ships and sealing wax, cabbages and kings. Not to be confused with actual adaptations of the Alice and Looking-Glass books, these are films which are based on elements of the books. Music inspired by, referencing, or incorporating texts from the Alice books include: Hard rock bands have used ideas from ""Alice In Wonderland"", usually with a sense of parody. Both Nazareth and Paice Ashton Lord released albums called ""Malice In Wonderland"" – the latter using one"
"Digest Handbook of Novel Writing"" (Writer’s Digest Books, 1993) • ""Lessons in Survival writing as Laramie Dunaway"" (Warner, 1994) • ""Earth Angel"" (Warner Books, 1995) • ""Kinky Cats, Immortal Amoebas, and Nine-Armed Octopuses: Weird, Wild, and Wonderful Behaviors in the Animal World"" (HarperCollins, 1997) • ""JabberRock"" (Henry Holt, 1997). Co-authored by Patricia Fitzgerald. • ""Napoleon Bonaparte"" (Greenhaven Press, 2000) • ""Novelist’s Essential Guide to Crafting Scenes"" (Writer’s Digest Books, 2000) • ""Fiction First Aid"" (Writer’s Digest Books, 2001) • ""Writer’s Reference Guide to Writing About Professions"" (Writer’s Digest Books, 2002) • ""The Renaissance"" (Lucent Books, 2002) • ""Moby Dick"" (Lucent"
"found in the Arabian nights stories. Tales of the Marvellous includes tales of the supernatural, romances, comedy, Bedouin derring-do and one story dealing in apocalyptic prophecy. The contents page indicates that the complete manuscript contained 42 chapters, of which only 18 chapters containing 26 tales have survived. Dante Alighieri's ""Divine Comedy"", considered the greatest epic of Italian literature, derived many features of and episodes about the hereafter directly or indirectly from Arabic works on Islamic eschatology: the ""Hadith"" and the ""Kitab al-Miraj"" (translated into Latin in 1264 or shortly before as ""Liber Scale Machometi"", ""The Book of Muhammad's Ladder"") concerning"
"of Nantucket"" became an influential work, notably for Herman Melville and Jules Verne. The book comprises a preface, 25 chapters, and an afterword, with a total of around 72,000 words. Arthur Gordon Pym was born on the island of Nantucket, famous for its fishing harbor and whaling. His best friend, Augustus Barnard, is the son of the captain of a whaling ship. One night, the two boys become drunk and decide, on Augustus's whim, to take advantage of the breeze and sail out on Pym's sailboat, the ""Ariel"". The breeze, however, turns out to be the beginnings of a violent"
"Change"" being the synonymous point of departure. The Nantucket series is a variant on a well-known theme in time travel literature, in which a modern person is hurled back into the past and is able to introduce modern technologies, inventions and institutions, and completely change the past society. The theme goes back to Mark Twain's ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"" and continued in many later works such as L. Sprague de Camp's classic ""Lest Darkness Fall"". Poul Anderson disputed the plausibility of such scenarios in his ""The Man Who Came Early"", in which a man marooned in the"
"Bondage by W Somerset Maugham (1915) 45. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920) 46. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922) 47. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1922) 48. A Passage to India by EM Forster (1924) 49. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (1925) 50. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925) 51. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (1925) 52. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1926) 53. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926) 54. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1929) 55. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930) 56. Brave New World by Aldous"
"Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey Maturin Series, Carpenter's Mate Joseph Nagle notes that the French privateer ""The Acheron"" would be ""...loaded with gold and ambergris and all the gems of Araby"", indicating the relative rarity and considerable value of ambergris during the Age of Sail. Ambergris plays a prominent role in the plot of the 2003 ""Futurama"" episode ""Three Hundred Big Boys."" The episode guest-stars Roseanne Barr, who appears as a hologram of herself, reading the dictionary definition of ""ambergris."" In The 2007 film adaption of """", Beadle Bamford claims he uses ambergris as a cologne. In the 2014 episode ""Ambergris"" of"
"the librarian at Miskatonic University. He is chiefly known for his book ""Thaumaturgical Prodigies in the New-English Canaan"". When Alijah Billington found out that the book accused his ancestor of practicing sorcery, he started a feud with Phillips, which lasted several months. Shortly after one of his proponents, John Druven, disappeared, Phillips seemingly had a change of heart and began buying and burning every copy of his book that he could lay his hands on. The name is an homage to Howard Phillips Lovecraft. A character of the same name appears in Lovecraft's ""Through the Gates of the Silver Key""."
"Maugrim Maugrim is a fictional character in the novel ""The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"" by C. S. Lewis. A Narnian wolf, he is Captain of the White Witch's Secret Police. In early American editions of the book, Lewis changed the name to Fenris Ulf (a reference to Fenrisúlfr, a wolf from Norse mythology), but when HarperCollins took over the books they took out Lewis' revisions, and the name ""Maugrim"" has been used in all editions since 1994. Maugrim is one of the few Talking Animals who sided with the Witch during the Hundred-Year Winter. Nikabrik in ""Prince Caspian"""
"There once was a man from Nantucket ""There once was a man from Nantucket"" is the opening line for many limericks, in which the name of the island of Nantucket creates rhymes and puns, often obscene. The protagonist in the obscene versions is typically portrayed as well-endowed and hypersexualized. The opening line is so well known that it has been used as a stand-alone joke, implying upcoming obscenities. The earliest published version appeared in 1902 in the ""Princeton Tiger"" written by Prof. Dayton Voorhees: Other publications seized upon the ""Nantucket"" motif, spawning many sequels Among the most well known are:"
"Barnaby Rudge Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (commonly known as Barnaby Rudge) is a historical novel by British novelist Charles Dickens. ""Barnaby Rudge"" was one of two novels (the other was ""The Old Curiosity Shop"") that Dickens published in his short-lived (1840–1841) weekly serial ""Master Humphrey's Clock"". ""Barnaby Rudge"" is largely set during the Gordon Riots of 1780. ""Barnaby Rudge"" was the fifth of Dickens' novels to be published. It had originally been planned to appear as his first, but changes of publisher led to many delays, and it first appeared in serial form in the"
"fictional character, Richard Parker. Mat Johnson's 2011 novel ""Pym,"" a satirical fantasy exploring racial politics in the United States, draws its inspiration from ""The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"", and closely models the original. Funeral doom band Ahab based their 2012 album ""The Giant"" on ""The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"". The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) is the only complete novel written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a"
"futuristic tale of ""Awaj bin Anfaq"" about a man who travelled to Earth from a distant planet, and elements such as the flying carpet. Here is a list of famous epic or romance literature in the Arabic language: Arabic epic literature Arabic epic literature encompasses epic poetry and epic fantasy in Arabic literature. Virtually all societies have developed folk tales encompassing tales of heroes. Although many of these are legends, many are based on real events and historical figures. Taghribat Bani Hilal is an Arabic epic recounting the Banu Hilal's journey from Egypt to Tunisia and conquest of the latter"
"later became a lay brother. Nicholls carves him brushing his master's clothes while studying theology. ""Rip Van Winkle"" and characters from ""The Last of the Mohicans"" and ""The Scarlet Letter"" are depicted in a frieze in the main hall. This frieze was also executed by Thomas Nicholls. Two of the figures are from the Leatherstocking novels of James Fenimore Cooper, the first being ""The Last of the Mohicans"" the nickname of Uncas, a leading character in the book. The second statue is that of ""The Pathfinder"", one of the names given to Leatherstocking (otherwise Natty Bumppo). Next Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ""Scarlet"
"Voyage Around the World"" (1697), Dampier escapes to Nicobar Island for ""a prospect of advancing a profitable trade for ambergris...and of gaining a considerable fortune..."" In “The Case of Smelly Nellie” from ""Encyclopedia Brown Tracks Them Down"" (1971), the case revolves around Bugs Meany and the Tigers stealing fifty pounds of ambergris from Smelly Nellie by claiming they found it on the ocean floor and rolling it onto the beach. In the 1956 episode ""Whale Gold"" of the British television series ""The Buccaneers"", a crew of eighteenth-century pirates led by Captain Dan Tempest (actor Robert Shaw) find large pieces of"
"most steadfast of souls... This anthology contains the following stories: The Wolf of Ash and Fire by Graham McNeill, Aurelian by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, The Long Night by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Massacre by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Brotherhood of the Moon by Chris Wraight, Inheritor by Gav Thorpe, Master of the First by Gav Thorpe, Vorax by Matthew Farrer, Ironfire by Rob Sanders, Red-Marked by Nick Kyme, Stratagem by Nick Kyme, Sins of the Father by Andy Smillie, The Herald of Sanguinius by Andy Smillie, The Eagle's Talon by John French, Iron Corpses by David Annandale and The Final Compliance of Sixty-Three Fourteen by"
"also led him to appear as a character in three plays dealing with the King James Bible, Howard Brenton's ""Anne Boleyn"" (2010), Jonathan Holmes' ""Into Thy Hands"" (2011) and David Edgar's ""Written on the Heart"" (2011). He has an academic cap named after him, known as the Bishop Andrewes cap, which is like a mortarboard but made of velvet, floppy and has a tump or tuff instead of a tassel. This was in fact the ancient version of the mortarboard before the top square was stiffened and the tump replaced by a tassel and button. This cap is still used"
"prize since it was established 13 years prior. Okri has described his work as influenced as much by the philosophical texts in his father's book shelves, as it was by literature, and Okri cites the influence of both Francis Bacon and Michel de Montaigne on his ""A Time for New Dreams"". His literary influences include ""Aesop's Fables"", ""Arabian Nights"", Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", and Coleridge's ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"". Okri's 1999 epic poem, ""Mental Fight"", also is named after a quotation from the poet William Blake's ""And did those feet ..."", and critics have noted the close"