Genius Loci: Tales of the Spirit of Place

Genius Loci Tales of the Spirit of Place

✍ Seanan McGuire 📂 Fiction 🏛 Ragnarok Publications 🌐 English ⚖ 266 KB 👁 3 views

Tales of guardian spirits and divine powers by Seanan McGuire, Ken Liu, Alethea Kontis, Laura Anne Gilman, Scott Edelman and more. Guardian spirits. Divine presences. Demonic powers. Ghosts. The concept of "genius loci" is indeed an ancient one, found in nearly every human mythology. *Genius Loci* i

Spirit of the Place

✍ Feeley, Gregory 📂 Fiction 📅 2001 🏛 Grand Central Publishing 🌐 en-US ⚖ 108 KB

On September 15, 1802, the English brig Mentor sailed from Piraeus, its hold filled with the "Elgin Marbles"--the Classical Greek sculptures that Lord Elgin, British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, had prised from the Parthenon in Athens. The ship was bound for Great Britain, where Elgin intended

Spirit of the Place

📂 Standards 🏛 Penguin 🌐 English ⚖ 51 KB

Notorious for its Rabelaisian comedy, and celebrated for its humanism, Samuel Shem's "The House of God "was hailed as "troubling and hilarious...brutally honest" ("The New York Times"), a ""Catch-22 "with stethoscopes" ("Cosmopolitan"). Now in his most ambitious novel yet, Shem returns to dissect th

Spirit of the Place

📂 Standards 🏛 Penguin 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

Notorious for its Rabelaisian comedy, and celebrated for its humanism, Samuel Shem's "The House of God "was hailed as "troubling and hilarious...brutally honest" ("The New York Times"), a ""Catch-22 "with stethoscopes" ("Cosmopolitan"). Now in his most ambitious novel yet, Shem returns to dissect th

Tales of Accidental Genius: Stories

✍ Booy, Simon Van 📂 Fiction 📅 2015 🏛 HarperCollins 🌐 English ⚖ 937 KB

A master storyteller's vision reawakens us to the human experience in this diverse, haunting, and unexpectedly humorous new collection of short fiction from Simon Van Booy--his first since Love Begins in Winter, winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. "She believed it was a gi

The Spirit of the Place

✍ Forte, P G 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB