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Earthly Powers is a panoramic saga novel of the 20th century by Anthony Burgess first published on October 13th 1980. It begins with the "outrageously provocative" [1] first sentence: "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."
A literature review is an overview of previously published works on a particular topic. The term can refer to a full scholarly paper or a section of a scholarly work such as books or articles. Either way, a literature review provides the researcher /author and the audiences with general information of an existing knowledge of a particular topic.
First US edition (publ. Dutton) Live Wire is a 2011 mystery/thriller novel by American writer, Harlan Coben.It is the tenth novel in his series of a crime solver and sports agent named Myron Bolitar.
Nothing Like the Sun is a fictional biography of William Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess first published in 1964. It tells the story of Shakespeare's life with a mixture of fact and fiction, the latter including an affair with a black prostitute named Fatimah, who inspires the Dark Lady of the Sonnets .
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An epigram [10] on Ladas, the fleetest runner of his time, notes that he was commemorated in a sculpture by Myron; of Myron's Ladas there is no known copy. A description by Lucian [11] conclusively identifies as Myron's the Discobolus or "Discus-Thrower", of which several copies exist, of which the best is in the Palazzo Massimi alle Terme, Rome.
Roman bronze reproduction of Myron's Discobolus, 2nd century AD (Glyptothek, Munich) 3D model of a replica at National Gallery of Denmark, Denmark.. The Discobolus by Myron ("discus thrower", Greek: Δισκοβόλος, Diskobólos) is an ancient Greek sculpture completed at the start of the Classical period in around 460–450 BC that depicts an ancient Greek athlete throwing a discus.
The Best American Short Stories is a yearly anthology that's part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.Since 1915, the BASS has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, [1] including works by some of the most famous writers in contemporary American literature.