Literary Fiction Epics

Sprung from a timeless dream, Shadowbridge is a world of linked spans arching high above glittering seas. It is a world of parading ghosts, inscrutable gods, and dangerous magic. Most of all, it is a world of stories.

No one knows those stories better than Leodora, a young shadow-puppeteer who travels Shadowbridge collecting the intertwining tales and myths of each place she passes through, then retells them in performances whose genius has begun to attract fame . . . and less welcome attention.

The witch Ilvani's nightmares of a storm and a suffering soul are luring shadow creatures into Ikemmu, bent on hunting her down and killing her for reasons no one can ascertain. Ashok, however, is determined to find a way to stop it before the shadow creatures destroy the city he worked so hard to save. The trail leads him, the witch Ilvani, Cree, and Skagi along a caravan to Rashemen, where similarly strange attacks are happening among the secretive masked witches of the steppes.

This is the prophecy given by the god Reorx to Verden Leafglow, a reformed green dragon rejected by Takhisis, the queen of villainy. For good measure, Reorx tells the dragon to give the hero a helping hand.

Daughter of the legendary shadow-puppeteer Bardsham, Leodora has inherited her father's skills...and his enemies. Together with her manager - Soter, keeper of her father's darkest secrets, and a gifted young musician named Diverus, Leodora has traveled from span to span, her masked performances given under the stage name Jax, winning fame and fortune.

Long before she ran away with Paris to Troy, Helen of Sparta was haunted by nightmares of a burning city under siege. These dreams foretold impending war - a war that only Helen has the power to avert. To do so, she must defy her family and betray her betrothed by fleeing the palace in the dead of night. In need of protection, she finds shelter and comfort in the arms of Theseus, son of Poseidon. With Theseus at her side, she believes she can escape her destiny.

In this brand new series from the author of the Clockwork Empire series, a hopeless outcast must answer Death's call and embark on an epic adventure... Although Danr's mother was human, his father was one of the hated Stane, a troll from the mountains. Now Danr has nothing to look forward to but a life of disapproval and mistrust, answering to "Trollboy" and condemned to hard labor on a farm. Until, without warning, strange creatures come down from the mountains to attack the village.

How much must one pay for an hour of youthful folly? The Pureblood Registry accused Lucian de Remeni-Masson of "unseemly involvement with ordinaries", which meant only that he spoke with a young woman not of his own kind, allowed her to see his face unmasked, worked a bit of magic for her.... After that one mistake, Lucian’s grandsire excised half his magic and savage Harrowers massacred his family.

Der junge Milan Tormeno ist dazu ausersehen, seinem Vater Nandus in das Amt des Erzpriesters zu folgen: Er soll einer jener mächtigen Auserwählten werden, die die Geschicke der Welt Azuhr lenken. Doch Milan kann nicht akzeptieren, dass sein Schicksal vorherbestimmt ist. Er rebelliert - und verstrickt sich mit der Meisterdiebin Felicia und der geheimnisvollen Konkubine Nok in ein gefährliches Netz von Intrigen. Gemeinsam geraten sie in den Bann einer alten Prophezeiung.

In this Very Short Introduction, Anthony Welch places the Western epic canon alongside traditional heroic poetry from Asia, Africa, and the Near East. Tracing shared themes and practices that unite the world's epic literature, Welch examines the roles that epic poets serve in society and how epic storytelling differs from other narrative forms. Ranging widely from Gilgamesh to Derek Walcott's Omeros, the author acquaints listeners with some of the world's greatest literary works and asks why the epic holds such power over our imaginations.

Il sole è minacciato da macchie violacee e intrappolato in una gabbia brunita da piú di vent'anni, dopo la Sciagura. Il giovane Alessio, il Figlio dei lupi, deve partire dal villaggio montano di Piedimulo per adempiere a una misteriosa missione, affrontando la pianura, le sue violenze, le sue insidie e un mondo che non conosce, in cui le tracce della passata civiltà emergono sparute dalla foresta come idoli inerti e fantasmi senza memoria.

The Trojan War is over, and Odysseus, the cunning King of Ithaca, sets out for home, his wife Penelope, and his son, Telemachus. It proves a long, 10-year journey, fraught with dangers.

Dopo tante battaglie e peripezie Seija, l'E­roina di Etten, è finalmente riuscita a fuggire dal castello di Raivo, l'umano convertito alla causa dei demoniaci vaivar, che tanta morte e distruzione ha seminato sul suo cammino. Eppure qualcosa in lei è cambiato per sempre. Conosce il motivo per cui Raivo ha voltato le spalle agli umani, accettando di trasformarsi nella creatura che guida gli eserciti dei demoni.

On the outer banks of the Carolinas in 1941, fishermen and a few lonely sailors constitute the human population. Dominating the rough yet beautiful landscape is the majestic Killakeet Lighthouse, run for generations by the Thurlow family. But Josh Thurlow, the lighthouse keeper's son, has...

She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. She is a farmer's faithful wife, but she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. Neverhome tells the harrowing story of Ash Thompson during the battle for the South. Through bloodshed and hysteria and...

We're the D'Artigo sisters: savvy half-human, half-Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. My sister Camille is a wicked-good witch with three gorgeous husbands. Menolly is a vampire married to a werepuma. And me? I'm Delilah, a two-faced werecat and a Death Maiden.

In a small village in the nation of Droevinka, orphaned sisters Cline and Amelie Fawe scrape out a living selling herbal medicines in their apothecary shop. Cline earns additional money by posing as a seer and pretending to read people's futures. But they exist in a land of great noble houses, all vying for power, and when the sisters refuse the orders of a warlord prince, they must flee and are forced to depend on the warlord prince's brother, Anton, for a temporary haven.

Athanasios is forced to work in a glorified arcade, until one day, he receives an invitation in his mailbox to try a new game. But it's not the exciting new adventure he was expecting. He is tricked, and transferred to a world where goblins plague villages, dragons tear down cities, and adventurers try to loot dungeons. Trying to find a way out, he is turned into a vampire sorcerer. Condemned to a lifetime of trouble, Athanasios is dragged into a war with vampire slayers, ghoul-infested dungeons, and wizards from all over the continent.

Shipwrecked by fate. Hunted by moonlight. Hardened by battle. Paul is an Aberrant, one of few able to enter a fantasy game world called Valheim. Kidnapped to a secret lab, he is forced into a government program that sends Aberrants to Valheim against their will. Most die within a day, but some have survived for months.Mira, a famous gamer who recently went missing, is one such survivor. Finding her is Paul's best shot at staying alive. But all his plans are dashed when he finds himself washed up on a tropical beach in the middle of the Wild.

Quando Eric si risveglia in un luogo isolato lontano da Skittburg, è ferito e non ricorda nulla dei giorni precedenti. Non sa dove si trovi, né come vi sia arrivato. Una sola cosa gli è chiara: è in pericolo, qualcuno è sulle sue tracce. I pochi oggetti che ha con sé sembrano appartenere a un'antica era, ma non ha idea del loro significato. Per capire cosa gli sia successo, l'unico modo è muoversi di nascosto in una Skittburg cambiata dalle decisioni del Consiglio: i drowhunter, infatti, non esistono più e i drow vivono finalmente liberi.

Baviera 1999 d.C. Mille anni sono trascorsi da quando il demoniaco popolo vaivar è apparso in Europa, muovendo dalle lande desolate oltre il Volga per reclamare il possesso delle terre abitate dagli umani e cambiare la Storia per sempre. Da allora una guerra infinita strazia il continente ormai condannato a un eterno medioevo, in cui i regni nati dalle ceneri dell'antico Sacro Impero sopravvivono a fatica tra alleanze precarie, rovesciamenti di fronte ed epidemie. I vaivar avanzano con armate di creature innaturali e spaventose.