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2 days ago · “From the thirteenth century, the land of Cockayne (Cockaigne, Cuccagna) was the false paradise most widely represented. Cockayne was on a distant shore, somewhere. Work was forbidden, free sex with willing partners was available to all and sinuous brooks ran with youth-giving liquors. The sun never set and one’s clothes were even free from ...
2 days ago · e. One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabic: أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ ʾAlf Laylah wa-Laylah) [1] is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition ( c. 1706–1721 ), which ...
- Muhsin S. Mahdi
- 1995
5 days ago · Eventually they’d end up having a little girl, they named her Destiny and many other cosmic forces would be certain from the moment the learned of her, knew she was destined for incredible things. We’re now on the eve of her thirteenth birthday, and things are about to change even if she hasn’t realized it yet.
2 days ago · Othello is a Moorish military commander who was serving as a general of the Venetian army in defence of Cyprus against invasion by Ottoman Turks. He had recently married Desdemona, a beautiful and wealthy Venetian lady younger than himself, without the knowledge of and despite the later objection of her father.
- William Shakespeare
- 1941
1 day ago · SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Summary Doctor Who season 14, episode 6, "Rogue," has the Doctor locking lips with the story's titular character, raising questions about whether the union between Ncuti Gatwa's version of the Time Lord and River Song is still intact.
4 days ago · From the extraordinary mind of Erin A. Craig comes the breathtaking fairytale retelling readers have been waiting for. A sweeping, fantastical saga for fans of dark fairy tales and romantasy. Hazel has always known she wasn’t like the rest of her siblings. Like all thirteenth children, she was promised to one of the gods at birth—Merrick, the god of death. She waits her whole childhood for ...
3 days ago · Great Expectations at Wikisource. Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a Bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.
