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Cook Robin

Convulsión

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Dominique Méda

Le travail: une valeur en voie de disparition

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Le travail: une valeur en voie de disparition

SUMMARY: Hommes politiques, experts et économistes rivalisent aujourd'hui pour trouver les moyens d'augmenter le volume du travail. Tous semblent tenir pour acquis que l'homme a besoin de travail et que celui-ci non seulement a toujours été mais encore demeurera au fondement de notre organisation sociale. Et si cela était faux ? Si le travail n'était qu'une " invention " récente dont nos sociétés ont ressenti la nécessité dans un contexte historique particulier, une solution datée dont nous pourrions désormais nous passer ? La volonté farouche des pouvoirs établis de " sauver le travail " ne trahit-elle pas la difficulté que nous éprouvons à passer à une autre époque où le travail ne constituerait peut-être plus une valeur centrale ? Cherchant à situer le moment où le travail est devenu un besoin, Dominique Méda tente d'expliquer pourquoi nous avons glorifié l'instrument de notre souffrance et comment le travail a pu être tenu pour l'origine du lien social. Elle dessine alors un ordre des priorités : avant de nous engager dans la recherche des solutions au chômage, nous interroger sur le sens du travail ; avant de présenter des réponses exclusivement économiques à cette question, faire la critique de l'économie elle-même ; à l'heure de mettre en œuvre des politiques, examiner auparavant les rapports étroits qu'entretiennent l'idéologie du travail et le dépérissement de la politique...
Joan Ainaud De Lasarte

Miscel·lània en homenatge a Joan Ainaud de Lasarte

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Maria De Groot

Het evangelie naar Maria Magdalena

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Het evangelie naar Maria Magdalena

SUMMARY: Vertaling van het nieuwtestamentische apocriefe geschrift, gevolgd door een uitgebreid commentaar vanuit gnostisch en feministisch perspectief.
Tom Wolfe

Hooking Up

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Hooking Up

In Hooking Up, Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast observing 'the lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000.' From teenage sexual manners and mores to fundamental changes in the way human beings now regard themselves thanks to the hot new fields of genetics and neuroscience; from his legendary profile of William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker (first published in 1965), to a remarkable portrait of Bob Noyce, the man who invented Silicon Valley, Tom Wolfe the master of reportage and satire returns in vintage form.

Amazon.com Review

Tom Wolfe's name is now so well known that the cover of his new collection bears just that: Tom Wolfe's name. No title, no picture, just the name, with an elegant design twining through it. Flip the thing on its side and you'll find that its title, Hooking Up, gives little idea of its function. But investigation soon reveals an oleo of reportage, fiction, and acrimonious name-calling. The latter, of course, makes for the best reading. In "My Three Stooges," Wolfe reviles the three big men of American letters--Updike, Mailer, and Irving--who cast aspersions on his second novel. Apparently, "the allergens for jealousy were present. Both Updike and Mailer had books out at the same time as A Man in Full, and theirs had sunk without a bubble. With Irving there was the Dickens factor." Wolfe gets in a lot of figures about what a big hit his book was with the reading public, and a few gentle reminders about other writers who were big hits of their times--little guys like Twain and Tolstoy.

Equally bitter fun are his two famous 1965 satires from the New York Herald Tribune. As always, Wolfe's titles lead you a good way into the actual stories: "Tiny Mummies! The True Story of the Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of the Walking Dead!" and "Lost in the Whichy Thickets: The New Yorker." Wolfe, clotheshorse of note, gets off some of his best cracks at the expense of New Yorker editor William Shawn's fashion sense: "He always seems to have on about twenty layers of clothes, about three button-up sweaters, four vests, a couple of shirts, two ties, it looks that way, a dark shapeless suit over the whole ensemble, and white cotton socks." The rest of the reported pieces are unexceptional, and while the novella Ambush at Fort Bragg makes the most of its setting--a Dateline-like newsmagazine--it lacks the irresistible momentum required to drag most readers into a novella. Still, it's fun to watch the author reprise his lifelong role of unlikely underdog: between his sniping at the literary elite and his mocking of the precious New Yorker set, Tom Wolfe makes like a defender of the common man. --Claire Dederer

From Publishers Weekly

Arch, vengeful and incisive as ever, the standard bearer for the chattering classes is back, this time with a collection of nine previously published essays, one new one and a reprinted novella. Ranging from the spectacular innovations of neuroscience to the preposterous horrors of the contemporary art world to a bare-knuckled assessment of the critical reception to his novel A Man in Full (an essay that appears for the first time in this collection, and that will set tongues wagging), the pieces run the gamut of Wolfe's signature obsessions. Fans of his character sketches will relish "Two Young Men Who Went West," a revelatory profile of Robert Noyce, a key innovator of the microchip who founded Intel in 1968, where the midwestern Congregationalist values he shared with his former mentor, William Shockley (founder of the original Silicon Valley startup, Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory), grew into a business philosophy that's now so pervasive it's practically in the ether. Also included are Wolfe's infamous, irreverent profiles of New Yorker editors Harold Ross and William Shawn, originally published in 1968. Lopped off of Wolfe's most recent fiction opus, the novella "Ambush in Fort Bragg" concerns a "TV sting" run amok, and sits easily next to his journalism. However, Wolfe's meticulous eye for detail shows signs of jaundice in his hectoring anti-Communist tirades and in the title essay, which turns a snide backward glance on the turn of the millennium. Still, his fans will find plenty of evidence that Wolfe remains willing to plunge into "the raw, raucous, lust-soaked rout that throbs with amped-up octophonic typanum all around [him]" and thatDespecially in his nonfictionDhe can still grab the brass ring. Agent, Janklow & Nesbitt Associates. (Oct..--" and thatDespecially in his nonfictionDhe can still grab the brass ring. Agent, Janklow & Nesbitt Associates. (Oct.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Kenneth E Baker

Zeb the Dogman

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Zeb the Dogman

Zeb-s world has gone to hell in a handbasket. Not only has the disease killed the few people he knew, now he has to deal with something that has taken control of his body and most of his mind. The entity controlling him has gathered thousands upon thousands of dogs around Zeb. They are to protect Zeb as he goes after the elusive Joe, who the entity hates with a passion. Zeb fights back with little hope of success until he meets another outcast like himself. Then the real battle begins.
Peter Høeg

De kinderen van de olifantenhoeders

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De kinderen van de olifantenhoeders

De veertienjarige Peter, een groot voetbaltalent, woont met zijn ouders en zijn iets oudere zus Tilte op het Deense eiland Finø. Als zijn ouders tijdens een reis naar het buitenland plotseling verdwijnen, gaan de twee kinderen naar hen op zoek. Als ze een aanwijzing volgen die hen op het spoor brengt van grootschalige misdaad, belanden Peter en Tilte in een achtbaan van avonturen. Hun speurwerk valt op en met de geheime dienst op hun hielen verandert de zoektocht naar hun ouders in een wilde rit vol bijzondere personages. Hoe meer de kinderen ontdekken, hoe meer ze zich afvragen of hun ouders misschien deel uitmaken van het criminele circuit. De kinderen van de olifantenhoeders is een typisch Høegiaans leesavontuur met fantastische personages en vol humor, actie en drama.

Роджер Сайп

Развитие мозга. Как читать быстрее, запоминать лучше и добиваться больших целей

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Развитие мозга. Как читать быстрее, запоминать лучше и добиваться больших целей

О чем эта книга
Мы все хотим преуспевать, ставить рекорды и влиять на мир, но далеко не все из нас реализуют свой потенциал полностью. Стремясь расти и развиваться как личность, мы ищем ответы вне себя - секретные формулы, чудо-средства, которые обещают дать нам мгновенный результат. Но чаще всего ответ в нас самих - мы не умеем эффективно использовать возможности своего мозга. В книге Роджера Сайпа, тренера и консультанта в области самосовершенствования, вы найдете проверенные методики ускоренного обучения, постоянного развития и достижения рекордных показателей. Они увлекательны в освоении и легки в применении. И хотя волшебных средств в этой книге нет, результаты покажутся вам настоящим чудом:

  • запоминать информацию в три раза лучше;
  • читать в два, три или даже четыре раза быстрее;
  • формулировать заряжающие энергией цели и достигать их;
  • осознавать и преодолевать ментальные барьеры;
  • распоряжаться временем, чтобы его хватало на все действительно важное;
  • управлять своей энергией в течение дня;
  • а также понять свое главное предназначение в жизни.
    Эта книга заменит собой сразу несколько изданий, посвященных развитию памяти, интеллекта, скорочтению и управлению энергией. Читайте ее с карандашом в руке, записывайте свои мысли и выполняйте все упражнения, предлагаемые автором, и вы поднимете свои результаты на новый уровень.

    Для кого эта книга
    Для всех, кто хочет научиться активно использовать свой мозг и бить рекорды во всех сферах своей жизни.

    Фишка книги
    Развивающие тесты, практические упражнения и полезные советы в самой книге, а также бонусные обучающие видео на сайте компании Freedom Personal Development.

    От автора
    Из моей книги вы узнаете основные принципы, которые за много веков доказали свою эффективность, помогая людям и компаниям достигать постоянного роста во всех областях: профессиональной, финансовой, физической, эмоциональной, духовной, - а также во всех видах отношений. У успеха есть прекрасная особенность: его просто достичь. Не легко, но просто. Усвойте основы, старательно применяйте их, и вы точно добьетесь желаемого.
    Вкладывайте время и другие ресурсы в себя. Вы способны быть лучше, делать что-то эффективнее и, безусловно, больше иметь. Инвестиции в себя приносят неоценимые дивиденды. Не сворачивайте с пути, и вы увидите: это самые выгодные из доступных вам инвестиций. 
  • Cass R Sunstein

    Conformity

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    Conformity

    Bestselling author Cass R. Sunstein reveals the appeal and the danger of conformity
    We live in an era of tribalism, polarization, and intense social division—separating people along lines of religion, political conviction, race, ethnicity, and sometimes gender. How did this happen? In Conformity, Cass R. Sunstein argues that the key to making sense of living in this fractured world lies in understanding the idea of conformity—what it is and how it works—as well as the countervailing force of dissent.
    An understanding of conformity sheds new light on many issues confronting us today: the role of social media, the rise of fake news, the growth of authoritarianism, the success of Donald Trump, the functions of free speech, debates over immigration and the Supreme Court, and much more.
    Lacking information of our own and seeking the good opinion of others, we often follow the crowd, but Sunstein shows that when individuals suppress their own...

    Daria Price Bowman

    The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vegetable Gardening

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    The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vegetable Gardening

    Reap a bountiful harvest from your own backyard!

    About the Author

    Carl A. Price, Professor Emeritus of Plant Biochemistry at Rutgers University, has written and co-written hundreds of scientific papers, lectured internationally, written textbooks, and served as editor of The Plant Molecular Biology Reporter. In retirement, he continues to write, edit, and manage the database of plant accessions at the Quail Botanical Garden in Encinitas, California.

    Michael Moorcock

    Elric Of Melnibone

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    Elric Of Melnibone

    SUMMARY: Elric of Melniboné is a requisite title in the hard fantasy canon, a book no fantasy fan should leave unread. Author Michael Moorcock, already a major player in science fiction, cemented his position in the fantasy pantheon with the five-book Elric saga, of which Elric of Melniboné is the first installment. The book's namesake, the brooding albino emperor of the dying nation of Melniboné, is a sort of Superman for Goths, truly an archetype of the genre. The youthful Elric is a cynical and melancholy king, heir to a nation whose 100,000-year rule of the world ended less than 500 years hence. More interested in brooding contemplation than holding the throne, Elric is a reluctant ruler, but he also realizes that no other worthy successor exists and the survival of his once-powerful, decadent nation depends on him alone. Elric's nefarious, brutish cousin Yrkoon has no patience for his physically weak kinsman, and he plots constantly to seize Elric's throne, usually over his dead body. Elric of Melniboné follows Yrkoon's scheming, reaching its climax in a battle between Elric and Yrkoon with the demonic runeblades Stormbringer and Mournblade. In this battle, Elric gains control of the soul-stealing Stormbringer, an event that proves pivotal to the Elric saga. --Paul Hughes
    Michael Moorcock

    The Bane of the Black Sword

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    The Bane of the Black Sword

    SUMMARY: After much wandering and seeking Elric finally discovers the location of the sorcerer who had earlier inconvenienced him. A meeting of old friends and scattered brothers evolves into a union of vengeance. A demon sent hoping to devour an albino is thwarted, but it's master's aim's are met with Elric's capture. A bargain made with a well intentioned merchant wins Elric his freedom, but only half of him is allowed to escape. Elric restored with his symbiotic blade calls upon unholy aide to finally vanquish his meddlesome sorceress enemy. The final assault brings a grievous death as the dragon caves will no longer have a master. A promise broken and an unwanted soul taken by Elric's hungry companion. Another hollow victory causes Elric much discomfort.
    Michael Moorcock

    The Weird of the White Wolf

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    The Weird of the White Wolf

    In The Weird of the White Wolf, Elric returns to Imrryr after a long journey and confronts Yyrkoon, who usurped the throne in his absence. Yyrkoon has regained Mournblade through unknown means and uses it to attack. Elric and Stormbringer kill Yyrkoon, and no further mention is made of Mournblade until it is later disclosed that it was recovered by the Seers of Nihrain, to be wielded by Elric's cousin, Dyvim Slorm. Imrryr is sacked, though the pillagers' fate is not much better, being pursued by the golden battle barges and the few dragons who were awakened, led by Dyvim Tvar. Only Elric's ship escapes, propelled by the aid of his sorcery.
    Paulo Coelho

    Manual of the Warrior of Light

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    Manual of the Warrior of Light

    SUMMARY: 'The Manual of the Warrior of Light' is a handbook that shows human beings how to live as spiritual beings in the material world. This exciting new edition includes exclusive content, such as an interview with the author, in-depth background information on the book, recommended books if you liked this one, and much more.'The Manual of the Warrior of Light' is an invitation to each of us to live our dream, to embrace the uncertainty of life, and to rise to meet our own unique destiny. In his inimitable style, Paulo Coelho helps us to discover the warrior of light within each of us.With inspiring short passages, we are invited to embark upon the way of the warrior: the one who appreciates the miracle of being alive, the one who accepts failure and the one whose quest leads him to become the person he wants to be.
    Robert Mccammon

    Mister Slaughter

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    Robert Mccammon

    Speaks the Nightbird

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    Michael Moorcock

    Stormbringer

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    Stormbringer

    Moorcock is off at full throttle. Every scene has ironic meaning. A couple of minor stories, and we're into the lush, manic rush to Armageddon that is STORMBRINGER! Still the greatest plot on the planet, build and build until the final, cataclysmic - and said to be the best in all fantasy fiction - ending, which is completely stunning. Long before Pullman won the Whitbread Moorcock was offering this mad, bad and thoroughly humane fantasy to the world. He remains a giant.
    Robert Mccammon

    The Queen of Bedlam

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    Michael Moorcock

    The Sailor of the Seas of Fate

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    The Sailor of the Seas of Fate

    SUMMARY: Forced to flee his city of Melnibone, Elric and his sorcerous blade Stormbringer journey through barren hills to the edge of a black sea. Elric finds a dark ship and begins a voyage that will bring him face-to-face with all the champions Time can summon--and more. Reissue.
    Michael Moorcock

    The Vanishing Tower

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    The Vanishing Tower

    SUMMARY: Elric of Melnibonè, proud prince of ruins, last lord of a dying race, wanders the lands of the Young Kingdoms in search of the evil sorcerer Theleb K'aarna. His object is revenge. But to achieve this, he must first brave such horrors as the Creatures of Chaos, the freezing wilderness of World's Edge, the golden-skinned Kelmain hordes, King Urish the Seven-fingered with his great cleaver Hackmeat, the Burning God, the Sighing Desert, and the terrible stone-age men of Pio. Although Elric holds within him a destiny greater than he could ever know, and controls the hellsword Stormbringer, stealer of souls, his task looks hopeless - until he encounters Myshella, Empress of the Dawn, the sleeping sorceress...
    Alex Bellos

    Alex's Adventures in Numberland

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    Alex's Adventures in Numberland

    In this richly entertaining and accessible book, Alex Bellos explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks. Covering subjects from adding to algebra, from set theory to statistics, and from logarithms to logical paradoxes, he explains how mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives. Alex explains the surprising geometry of the 50p piece, and the strategy of how best to gamble it in a casino. He shines a light on the mathematical patterns in nature, and on the peculiar predictability of random behaviour. He eats a potato crisp whose revolutionary shape was unpalatable to the ancient Greeks, and he shows the deep connections between maths, religion and philosophy. Alex weaves a journey from primary school to university level maths, from ancient history to the computing frontline, and from St Louis, Missouri, to Braintree, Essex. He meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany, consults a numerologist in the US desert, meets a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan, and seeks advice from a venerable Hindu sage in India. An unlikely but exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage and mathematical proofs, Alex's dispatches from 'Numberland' show the world of maths to be a much friendlier and more colourful place than you might have imagined.
    Desmond Morris

    Catwatching

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    Catwatching

    Desmond Morris is a professional zoologist and studied animal behaviour with the famous Dutch ethologist Niko Tinbergen at Oxford University.
    He then moved on to become Curator of Mammals at London Zoo, where he established his own behaviour research group. Although for the past twenty years he has in his books (from The Naked Ape to Bodywatching) concentrated on the human species, his professional eye has constantly been focused on animals and their fascinating behaviour. The most recent fruits of this interest are the bestselling Catwatching ('No cat lover should be without it." – Doris Lessing, New Scientist) where he answers the following questions and many more:
    Why does a cat purr?
    Why does a cat like being stroked?
    Why does a cat tear at the fabric of your favourite chair?
    Why does a cat roll over to lie on its back when it sees you?
    Why does a cat rub up against your leg when it greets you?
    Why do some cats hop up on their hind legs when greeting you?
    Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1986 This disk version of 'Catwatching' has a hard page break before each new question. Your computer's search facility should enable you to find the title of a question.

    From Library Journal

    In each of these books by the author of Bodywatching an introductory essay is followed by a question-and-answer section (items one to four pages in length). The questions include ones about mating, hunting behavior, and physical characteristics. Morris writes very well, and his answers are often witty as well as informed. Nearly any reader would find these books interesting. Unfortunately, all of Morris's information is available from such other sources as encyclopedias and general dog and cat books, so a purchasing library is getting little new for its money. If your budget permits "extra" buying in the pet area, do acquire these books. Your readers will like them. But if the budget is tight, they are marginal purchases. Susan Matusak, Wilson Coll. Lib., Chambersburg, Pa.
    Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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    This book, the first in the popular Watching series, explains everything from why cats purr to why we say it's raining cats and dogs. 26 black-and-white photographs.

    Catherine Cookson

    The dwelling place

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    The dwelling place

    SUMMARY: Cholera had taken her parents and left Cissie Brodie with the upbringing of a family of nine. She was barely fifteen herself when they were evicted from their cottage and forced out on to the fells. But even though they'd hardly a shilling between them, Cissie set to building a home for the Brodies with a will that would have shamed an adult. It was only a rough stone shelter, thatched as best they could, but to Cissie and her family it was enough to keep them fron the workhouse.They had friends, such as Matthew Turnbull the wheelwright and Watson the miller. But charity could not always spare them the harsh reality of their struggle, and the bitterness of those who bore them ill. Only love--when it came for Cissie Brodie--could ever teach her not to fear the world beyond the dwelling place...
    Michael Moorcock

    Elric [1] - Elric Of Melnibone

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    Elric [1] - Elric Of Melnibone

    SUMMARY: Elric of Melniboné is a requisite title in the hard fantasy canon, a book no fantasy fan should leave unread. Author Michael Moorcock, already a major player in science fiction, cemented his position in the fantasy pantheon with the five-book Elric saga, of which Elric of Melniboné is the first installment. The book's namesake, the brooding albino emperor of the dying nation of Melniboné, is a sort of Superman for Goths, truly an archetype of the genre. The youthful Elric is a cynical and melancholy king, heir to a nation whose 100,000-year rule of the world ended less than 500 years hence. More interested in brooding contemplation than holding the throne, Elric is a reluctant ruler, but he also realizes that no other worthy successor exists and the survival of his once-powerful, decadent nation depends on him alone. Elric's nefarious, brutish cousin Yrkoon has no patience for his physically weak kinsman, and he plots constantly to seize Elric's throne, usually over his dead body. Elric of Melniboné follows Yrkoon's scheming, reaching its climax in a battle between Elric and Yrkoon with the demonic runeblades Stormbringer and Mournblade. In this battle, Elric gains control of the soul-stealing Stormbringer, an event that proves pivotal to the Elric saga. --Paul Hughes
    Michael Moorcock

    Elric [2] - The Sailor of the Seas of Fate

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    Elric [2] - The Sailor of the Seas of Fate

    SUMMARY: Forced to flee his city of Melnibone, Elric and his sorcerous blade Stormbringer journey through barren hills to the edge of a black sea. Elric finds a dark ship and begins a voyage that will bring him face-to-face with all the champions Time can summon--and more. Reissue.
    Michael Moorcock

    Elric [4] - The Vanishing Tower

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    Elric [4] - The Vanishing Tower

    SUMMARY: Elric of Melnibonè, proud prince of ruins, last lord of a dying race, wanders the lands of the Young Kingdoms in search of the evil sorcerer Theleb K'aarna. His object is revenge. But to achieve this, he must first brave such horrors as the Creatures of Chaos, the freezing wilderness of World's Edge, the golden-skinned Kelmain hordes, King Urish the Seven-fingered with his great cleaver Hackmeat, the Burning God, the Sighing Desert, and the terrible stone-age men of Pio. Although Elric holds within him a destiny greater than he could ever know, and controls the hellsword Stormbringer, stealer of souls, his task looks hopeless - until he encounters Myshella, Empress of the Dawn, the sleeping sorceress...
    Michael Moorcock

    Elric [5] - The Bane of the Black Sword

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    Elric [5] - The Bane of the Black Sword

    SUMMARY: After much wandering and seeking Elric finally discovers the location of the sorcerer who had earlier inconvenienced him. A meeting of old friends and scattered brothers evolves into a union of vengeance. A demon sent hoping to devour an albino is thwarted, but it's master's aim's are met with Elric's capture. A bargain made with a well intentioned merchant wins Elric his freedom, but only half of him is allowed to escape. Elric restored with his symbiotic blade calls upon unholy aide to finally vanquish his meddlesome sorceress enemy. The final assault brings a grievous death as the dragon caves will no longer have a master. A promise broken and an unwanted soul taken by Elric's hungry companion. Another hollow victory causes Elric much discomfort.
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