<p>Comic, grotesque, lyrical, and immensely readable, Williams's picaresque medieval fantasy is a reader's delight. A sweeping yarn through the dark ages filled with rogues, lovers, murderers, witchcraft, failed promise, wisdom and regret.</p>
London, 1988. Royal fever sweeps the nation as Britain falls in love with the ‘people’s princess’. Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick and his Scotland Yard squad are tasked with checking the elite Royalty Protection Command for weak links. But soon a renegade organization has the security of the country - and the Crown - in its sights. The only question is which target is next in line…
The nature of Old Khotanese metre has been a matter of controversy for more than a century. Nicholas Sims-Williams presents a new metrical analysis of the Book of Zambasta, the longest surviving Khotanese poem, arguing that the metre is based on the quantitative (moraic) principle, but with an obligatory ictus in the cadences which leads to the systematic lightening of certain unstressed syllables. The results shed light on the equally controversial issue of Khotanese accentuation and many other aspects of the language and its history. The book includes the complete text of the poem with interlinear scansion.
Heizung runter und Buch auf: Wohlfühlgeschichten, die für wohlig warme Stimmung sorgen. Als literarische Hitzeleiter wirken weltbekannte Autor*innen wie William Boyd, Anna Gavalda und Haruki Murakami, aber auch moderne Klassiker wie Lucia Berlin, F. Scott Fitzgerald und Kurt Tucholsky, deren Erzählungen immer neue Begeisterung entfachen.
Soldat. Farmer. Verbrecher. Schriftsteller. Vater. Liebhaber. Der Lebensbericht von Cashel Greville, Picaro und Tausendsassas. Eine augenzwinkernde Hommage auf die literarische Romantik und ein weltumspannendes Panorama des 19. Jahrhunderts.