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Byron's Narrative of the Loss of the Wager is an account of the wreck and mutiny of the HMS Wager. The Wager was a British ship which wrecked in 1741 off the coast of Chile. A mutiny ensued and only a handful of the original 300 crew made it back to England.

OPU proudly presents the Orientalism compilation which regroups major orientalist works (both paintings and writings). Orientalism is a term used by scholars in art history, literary, geography, and cultural studies for the depiction of Eastern, that is "Oriental" cultures, including Middle...

The Ultimate Minecraft adventure series launch book two. This series is created for readers that love adventure, and battles of good vs. evil. ‘Herobrine's Army Battle of the Great Sea Zombies' is clear: When Herobrine's brother hears about Herobrine taking over Bogna Abbey from the patrol and enslaving...

A coming of age story set in the mythical "golden age" of Spain. The titular character is excluded from the inheritance of the family castle on the grounds that given his expertise with sword and mandolin he should be able to win his own estate and bride. Setting out to achieve his place...

When his mother takes another man to replace his long passed father, Joe Sanderson becomes quite an unruly young gentleman. The new suitor taking none of our protagonist's nonsense ships Joe off to Lady Flayskin's boarding school, beneath which walls there is a very singular philosophy; by the application...

There is nothing contradictory about the fact that Jane Eyre is a brilliant feminist document, long before its day, and its heroine a willing sexual submissive. In this Jane merely doubles for literal political emancipators like Rose Luxemburg to come. Jane is fascinated by Rochester's physicality--his...

Towards the middle of the thirteenth century a small band or tribe of nomad Turks migrated from Khorassan, in Central Asia, into Asia Minor. They were part of a much larger body, variously estimated at from two to four thousand horsemen, who, with their families, had fled from their homes in Khorassan...

I do not know where I may be when this preface is read. As I write it in August 1916, I am at Ebrington Barracks, Londonderry, recovering from a slight wound. But it does not greatly matter where I am; my dreams are here before you amongst the following pages; and writing in a day when life is cheap,...

Once when the gods were young and only Their swarthy servant Time was without age, the gods lay sleeping by a broad river upon earth. There in a valley that from all the earth the gods had set apart for Their repose the gods dreamed marble dreams. And with domes and pinnacles the dreams arose and...

After long and patient research I am still unable to give to the reader of these Chronicles the exact date of the times that they tell of. Were it merely a matter of history there could be no doubts about the period; but where magic is concerned, to however slight an extent, there must always be some...

The Family Affair follows a brother and a sister caught in a whirlwind of underground politics when they discover a series of journals their late father had cataloged before he was never seen again.