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  2. The Neon Bible - Wikipedia

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    Toole, describing the novel during correspondence with an editor he was pitching Confederacy to, wrote of it "In 1954, when I was 16, I wrote a book called The Neon Bible, a grim, adolescent, sociological attack upon the hatreds caused by the various Calvinist religions in the South—and the fundamentalist mentality is one of the roots of what ...

  3. Zothique (collection) - Wikipedia

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    [7] In the 1988 book Fantasy: The 100 Best Books, James Cawthorn and Michael Moorcock said "Smith crams enough colour and outré incident into a short story to fill the average novel." [ 2 ] Amra ' s L. Sprague de Camp favoured the collection with "all sixteen Zothique stories, plus a poem, by the master of the macabre in jewel-bedizened proze ...

  4. Soft goal - Wikipedia

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    In connection with modeling languages and especially with goal-oriented modeling, a soft goal is an objective without clear-cut criteria. [1] Soft goals can represent: Non-functional requirements; Relations between non-functional requirements

  5. The Seventh Scroll - Wikipedia

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    This book is set in the present and follows the adventurer Nicholas Quenton-Harper and Egyptologist Dr. Royan Al Simma as they uncover the tomb of Tanus. Duraid Al Simma and his wife Royan decipher the seventh scroll from the tomb of Lostris. They are attacked and their work is stolen. Duraid is brutally murdered, but Royan escapes.

  6. A Thing of Beauty - Wikipedia

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    A Thing of Beauty is a novel by author A. J. Cronin, initially published in 1956, with the alternate title of Crusader's Tomb.It tells the story of Stephen Desmonde, an English painter who struggles for recognition in a conventional world, sacrificing everything for his passion for art.

  7. Stories from Our Neighbourhood - Wikipedia

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    Stories from our neighbourhood (Arabic title حكايات حارتنا), also known as Fountain and Tomb, is a collection of stories by the Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988.

  8. City of Glass (comics) - Wikipedia

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    The original printing was well-received, and the work was chosen as one of "The Top 100 English-Language Comics of the Century". [2] Nonetheless, the book quickly fell out of print. [3] In 2004, a new edition of the book was released as City of Glass: The Graphic Novel, which featured an introduction by Spiegelman. In this introduction ...

  9. List of Exalted publications - Wikipedia

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    Additional material was released in a PDF format only. (WW80310, November 2006, ISBN 1-58846-689-2) The Books of Sorcery, Vol. II: White and Black Treatises (by Joseph Carriker, Lydia Laurenson, Peter Schaefer, and Dustin Shampel): A tome of spells for sorcery and necromancy. Includes spells updated from 1st edition Exalted and some spells new ...