Febra oaselor
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Londra, 1826. Gabriel Swift studiaz? cu Edwin Poll, cel mai mare anatomist londonez. Atras ?n jocurile lui Lucan, adversarul maestrului s?u un temut profanator de morminte, st?p?nul absolut al comer?ului cu cadavre, t?n?rul decade ?i ajunge s? cunoasc? violen?a ?i depravarea lumii interlope, ?n care – va descoperi – a lua via?a cuiva este incredibil de u?or.Dup? zece ani, un cu totul alt om pred? lec?ii de desen ?n colonia australian? de de?inu?i New South Wales ?i, ?n timpul liber, picteaz? p?s?ri. C?nd se ?ndr?goste?te de una dintre elevele sale, ?n?elege c? nimeni nu poate sc?pa de trecut ?i c?, adesea, cele mai ?ngrozitoare temni?e sunt cele ?n care ne zidim singuri.Un thriller gotic captivant, o evocare a atmosferei ?nc?rcate de mister din Londra victorian? ?i totodat? povestea emo?ionant? a unui destin marcat de brutalitatea unei lumi ?n care totul este de v?nzare. Dickens s-ar fi sim?it aici ca acas?.??mbin? atmosfera sumbr? ?i fascinant? a genului horror cu medita?ia profund? asupra unor teme metafizice.“ – Sydney Morning Herald
?ngerul nop?ii
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Spionaj high-tech. Un plan diabolic, ?n stare s? zguduie lumea, ?i foarte pu?in timp pentru a-l opri.Jonathan Ransom, alpinist de clas? mondial? ?i chirurg experimentat, schiaz? ?mpreun? cu frumoasa lui so?ie Emma ?n ?nz?pezi?ii Alpi Elve?ieni. O furtun? de z?pad? se porne?te ca din senin, Emma se accidenteaz? grav ?i moare ?n ad?ncurile unei crevase.Dou?zeci ?i patru de ore mai t?rziu, Jonathan prime?te un plic adresat so?iei sale ?n care g?se?te dou? bilete de bagaje. Atacat ?n mod inexplicabil de poli?ia elve?ian? ?i obligat s? fug?, Jonathan se treze?te dintr-odat? urm?rit interna?ional ?i ?inta unui asasin misterios. Pas cu pas, el este prins tot mai ad?nc ?ntr-o lume a spionajului, a armelor de ?nalt? tehnologie ?i-a terorismului global, o lume ?n care nimeni nu este cine pare ?i unde scopul scuz? ?ntotdeauna mijloacele. Singura lui ?ans? de supravie?uire depinde de descoperirea crudului adev?r legat de via?a secret? a so?iei sale.?Un thriller ingenios, plasat credibil ?n ?ntunecata lume a spionajului interna?ional… personaje bine conturate, o scriere captivant?, locuri exotice ?i un complot terorist ce are la baz? tehnologie de ?nalt? clas?.“ – Nelson DeMille?Reich este maestrul thrillerelor de spionaj al secolului XXI.“ – Clive Cussler?Christopher Reich este unul dintre scriitorii mei favori?i de romane de suspans, iar de data asta s-a ?ntrecut pe sine ?nsu?i.“ – James Patterson
Clopotele
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Lemmer este bodyguard profesionist. T?cut, invizibil, nu se implic? niciodat?.Emma le Roux crede c? ??i recunoa?te fratele ?ntr-o fotografie prezentat? la jurnalele de ?tiri: suspect de uciderea a patru braconieri. Numai c? Jacobus este mort de dou?zeci de ani.Emma ?l angajeaz? pe Lemmer s?-i p?zeasc? spatele ?n timp ce ea caut? r?spunsuri ?i cur?nd am?ndoi ??i dau seama c? cineva vrea s?-i ?mpiedice s? afle adev?rul. Iar c?nd acel cineva ?ncearc? s?-i ucid?, Lemmer este nevoit, pentru prima oar? ?n via??, s? ias? din umbr?…?Cu Deon Meyer n-ai cum s? dai gre?.“– Michael Connelly?Vibrant ?i palpitant.“ – The Sunday Times?…de departe cel mai bun autor sud-african de romane poli?iste. Ac?iunea se desf??oar? ?ntr-un ritm trepidant, potrivit unui thriller.“ – The Guardian?Meyer este pur ?i simplu excelent. Lemmer, un fin cunosc?tor ?i un comentator sarcastic al metehnelor Africii de Sud, ?i ?n special ale popula?iei afrikander…“ – Business Day?Meyer ??i merit? reputa?ia interna?ional?.“ – The Washington Post
Verde de smarald. Culorile dragostei
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Lumea lui Allie Sheridan este la p?m?nt: fratele ei mai mare a disp?rut, ea a fost dat? iar afar? din ?coal? pentru indisciplin?, ba chiar ?i arestat?. Din nou.Trimis? de p?rin?i la o ?coal?-internat extrem de strict?, Allie se a?teapt? s? g?seasc? acolo o ?nchisoare. ?n schimb, descoper? c? Cimmeria este un liceu de elit? foarte diferit, o ?coal? de mod? veche, a c?rei cl?dire, aflat? ?n mijlocul naturii, dateaz? de c?teva sute de ani ?i este complet lipsit? de orice cale de acces la tehnologia modern?. Elevii s?i sunt un straniu amestec de tineri supradota?i ?i de fii de milionari, de?i Allie este sigur? c? ea nu face parte din nici una dintre aceste categorii. Regulile ?colii sunt cvasimilitare, iar anumi?i elevi sunt recruta?i ?ntr-un grup de elit? foarte discret, o organiza?ie misterioas? autointitulat? Night School.Cur?nd, Allie constat? c?, mai ales ?n timpul nop?ii, Cimmeria este plin? de secrete, c? toat? lumea minte. Pe m?sur? ce ?coala ?ncepe s? devin? un loc foarte periculos, adolescenta trebuie s? decid? ?n cine poate avea ?ncredere ?i, mai ales, pe cine poate s? iubeasc?...?n Night School, C.J. Daugherty creeaz? o lume tulbur?toare, plin? de mister, de primejdii ?i de emo?ie.
Lupta mea. Cartea ?nt?i: Moartea unui tat?
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Devenit p?rinte, Karl Ove Knausgård se reg?se?te în fa?a propriului eu, un pu?ti sensibil, care cre?te în umbra unui frate sociabil, a unei mame adesea absente ?i a unui tat? cu accese de mânie imprevizibile. Maturizarea lent? a sentimentelor, flirturile nelini?tite, pasiunea pentru rock compun cu o onestitate dureroas? romanul unui adolescent hipersensibil. O c?l?torie afectiv? de o fidelitate absolut?, o explorare proustian? a propriului trecut, o poveste deopotriv? intim? ?i universal?, care pune problema capacit??ii literaturii de a descrie via?a, doar via?a, în toate aspectele ei. „... extrem de sincer, Knausgård... vrea s? ne introduc? în cotidianul vie?ii, care este uneori vizionar, alteori banal, alteori profund semnificativ, dar, prin for?a lucrurilor, absolut obi?nuit, pentru c? ni se întâmpl? pe tot parcursul vie?ii ?i tuturor...” – The New Yorker „O reu?it? rar?. Nici un scriitor din genera?ia sa nu egaleaz? combina?ia lui Karl Ove Knausgård de talent, stil, spirit de observa?ie ?i originalitate...” – Dagens Næringsliv „Dur ?i plin de for?? precum granitul. Mai real decât realitatea.” – La Repubblica
We’ll Always Have Paris
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From one of the greatest living literary imaginations and the celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451 comes a collection of never-before-published effortlessly beautiful tales. Recently described in The Times as 'the uncrowned poet laureate of science fiction' Ray Bradbury has won numerous awards including a Pulitzer Prize special citation in 2007 and an Emmy. In this new volume of never-before-published stories, follow a space shuttle crew as they voyage sixty million miles from home, discover what happens when a writer 'with the future's eye' believes his friend to be writing stories aboard a Ufo, and listen in on a couple talking themselves backwards through time to the moment when they first held hands. This entertaining and gripping collection is a treasure trove of Bradbury gems - eerie and strange, nostalgic and bittersweet, searching and speculative - to delight readers of all ages.
Honeyville
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A hooker. A mistress. A murder. This town was built on sin. The town of Trinidad, Colorado was a tough place to be a woman in 1913. But it was the best place in the West to find one, if you had the cash. Honeyville, they used to call it. A murder throws Inez and Dora together – two women from opposite sides of town, in a town built for men. Against all odds, the well born girl and the high class hooker are drawn together in friendship… But this is a town that is rotten to the core, and beyond the rustling of silk skirts, the dancing and laughter, deadly unrest is building… Welcome to Honeyville – a town living by its own rules, where nothing is quite as it seems A STORY INSPIRED BY A LOST CHAPTER IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Wave Me Goodbye
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A compelling story of tragedy and triumph in WWII -the second in a series of books featuring four young women whose lives will be forever changed by the war. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Annie Groves. When war is declared, four plucky girls from Dartford – Grace, Sally, Rose and Daisy – are keen to do their bit on the Home Front. For orphan Grace, it’s a chance to start afresh. She’s always has a soft spot for Sam Petrie, brother of Daisy and Rose, but realising that he is in love with their friend Sally, she puts her own feelings aside, and signs up for life as a Land Girl. Mucking out and early morning milking come as a big shock and life is harder than she expected. But Grace is nothing if not determined and though their lives will never be the same again, the four girls know they will always have each other – no matter what the war throws at them…
Dangerous Women
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All new and original to this volume, the 21 stories in Dangerous Women include work by twelve New York Times bestsellers, and seven stories set in the authors' bestselling continuities-including a new "Outlander" story by Diana Gabaldon, a tale of Harry Dresden's world by Jim Butcher, a story from Lev Grossman set in the world of The Magicians, and a 35,000-word novella by George R. R. Martin about the Dance of the Dragons, the vast civil war that tore Westeros apart nearly two centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones. Also included are original stories of dangerous women--heroines and villains alike--by Brandon Sanderson, Joe Abercrombie, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Lawrence Block, Carrie Vaughn, S. M. Stirling, Sharon Kay Penman, and many others. Writes Gardner Dozois in his Introduction, "Here you'll find no hapless victims who stand by whimpering in dread while the male hero fights the monster or clashes swords with the villain, and if you want to tie these women to the railroad tracks, you'll find you have a real fight on your hands. Instead, you will find sword-wielding women warriors, intrepid women fighter pilots and far-ranging spacewomen, deadly female serial killers, formidable female superheroes, sly and seductive femmes fatale, female wizards, hard-living Bad Girls, female bandits and rebels, embattled survivors in Post-Apocalyptic futures, female Private Investigators, stern female hanging judges, haughty queens who rule nations and whose jealousies and ambitions send thousands to grisly deaths, daring dragonriders, and many more."
The General
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A superb yet neglected novel, ‘The General’ is the most vivid, moving – and devastating – word-portrait of a World War One British commander ever written, here re-introduced by Max Hastings. Best known for his Hornblower novels, C.S. Forester’s 1936 masterpiece follows Herbert Curzon, who fumbled a fortuitous early step on the path to glory in the Boer War. 1914 finds him an honourable, decent, brave and wholly unimaginative colonel. Survival through the early slaughters in which so many fellow-officers perished then brings him rapid promotion. By 1916, he commands 100,000 British soldiers, whom he leads through the horrors of the Somme and Passchendaele. Wonderfully human, this is the story of a man of his time who is anything but wicked, yet presides over appalling sacrifice and tragedy. In his awkwardness and his marriage to a Duke’s unlovely, unhappy daughter, Curzon embodies Forester’s full powers as a story-teller. Rendered with exquisite compassion are Curzon’s patriotism, diligence, sense of duty and refusal to yield to difficulties. But also powerfully damned is the same spirit which caused a hundred real-life British generals to serve as high priests at the bloodiest human sacrifice in the nation’s history. A masterful and insightful study about the character of 1914-18’s military commanders, ‘The General’ confirms Forester’s rightful place as one of the finest novelists of his generation.
Blood Relatives
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An incredible debut novel: a coming of age tale set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper murders, ‘full of daring, authenticity and wit’ (Rachel Cusk). LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE ‘The milkman found her. On Prince Philip Playing Fields. He crossed the dew-soaked grass toward what he took to be a bundle of clothes, but then he came across a discarded shoe, and then t’ mutilated body. her name wor Wilma McCann.’ Leeds, late 1975 and a body has been found on Prince Philip Playing Fields. Ricky, teenage delivery van boy for Corona pop, will be late for The Matterhorn Man. In the years that follow until his capture, the Yorkshire Ripper and Rick’s own life draw ever closer with unforeseen consequences. Set in a time in England's history of upheaval and change – both personal and social – this is a story told in an unforgettable voice.
At Night We Walk in Circles
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FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE A breathtaking, suspenseful search for the truth of one man’s spectacular downfall, from Daniel Alarcón, one of the New Yorker’s 20 best writers under 40. Nelson’s life is not turning out the way he hoped. His girlfriend is sleeping with another man, his brother has left their South American country and moved to the United States, leaving Nelson to care for their widowed mother, and his acting career can’t seem to get off the ground. That is, until he lands a starring role in a touring revival of The Idiot President, a legendary play by Nelson’s hero, Henry Nunez, leader of the storied guerrilla theatre troupe Diciembre. And that’s when the real trouble begins. The tour takes Nelson out of the shelter of the city and across a landscape he’s never seen, which still bears the scars of the civil war. With each performance, Nelson grows closer to his fellow actors, becoming hopelessly entangled in their complicated lives, until, during one memorable performance, a long-buried betrayal surfaces to force the troupe into chaos. Nelson’s fate is slowly revealed through the investigation of the narrator, a young man obsessed with Nelson’s story―and perhaps closer to it than he lets on. In sharp, vivid, and beautiful prose, Alarcón delivers a compulsively readable narrative and a provocative meditation on fate, identity, and the large consequences that can result from even our smallest choices.
1356 (Special Edition)
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Go with God and Fight Like the Devil. The remarkable new novel by Britain’s master storyteller, which culminates at the Battle of Poitiers. 1356: France stands alert to danger. The English army, victorious at the battle of Crécy and led by the Black Prince, is invading and the French are hunting them down. The bloodiest battles of the Hundred Years War are yet to be fought. Thomas of Hookton, an English archer, becomes trapped with his outnumbered army. And here, near the town of Poitiers, an extraordinary confrontation will ignite one of the greatest battles of all time.
Authority (The Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 2)
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The second volume of the extraordinary Southern Reach trilogy. ‘Creepy and fascinating’ Stephen King. The Southern Reach is a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten. Following the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in ‘Annihilation’, the second book of the Southern Reach trilogy introduces John Rodriguez, the new head of the government agency responsible for the safeguarding of Area X. His first day is spent grappling with the fall-out from the last expedition. Area X itself remains a mystery. But, as instructed by a higher authority known only as The Voice, the self-styled Control must battle to ‘put his house in order’. From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the mysteries of Area X begin to reveal themselves―and what they expose pushes Control to confront disturbing truths about both himself and the agency he’s promised to serve. Undermined and under pressure to make sense of everything, Rodriguez retreats into his past in a labyrinthine search for answers. Yet the more he uncovers, the more he risks, for the secrets of the Southern Reach are more sinister than anyone could have known.
Acceptance (The Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 3)
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The third volume of the extraordinary Southern Reach trilogy. ‘Creepy and fascinating’ Stephen King. The Southern Reach trilogy draws to a close and it is winter in Area X. One last, desperate team embarks across the border, determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they've been seeking. As they press deeper into the unknown, the threat to the outside world becomes only more daunting. The mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound – or terrifying.
Left of the Bang
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‘An unflinchingly honest portrayal of Londoner life with great empathy, style and humour … A Vanity Fair of our times … Tamsin Jarvis will resonate long after the final page is turned.’ Stylist Daringly, radically honest and very, very funny, this is the best novel yet about the ‘lost generation’ of young Londoners today. Left of the bang: a military term for the build-up to an explosion. For failing concert pianist Tamsin Jarvis, the pressure is mounting. She thought she was happy with her adoring schoolteacher boyfriend Callum, but when Chris comes into their lives, that starts to change. In a few months Chris will be gone, leaving for his first tour of Afghanistan. Nothing seems to be working out the way Tamsin wants it to – in fact, she’s not even sure what it is she wants. With sharp, satirical humour, unparalleled social observation, extreme sexual honesty and great empathy, Claire Lowdon has captured the foibles, hopes and difficulties that characterise a strata of young London today. A funny, unflinching insider’s view on the generation born in the 1980s – who are often having much less fun than it seems – this is a Vanity Fair for our times.
Dangerous Women Part 1
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Commissioned by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, these tales of dangerous women by the most stellar names in fiction are available for the first time in three-volume paperback. George R.R. Martin is the bestselling author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the inspiration for HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones. This first volume features an original 35,000 word novella by George R.R. Martin.‘The Princess and the Queen' reveals the origins of the civil war in Westeros (before the events in A Game of Thrones), which is known as the Dance of the Dragons, pitting Targaryen against Targaryen and dragon against dragon. Other authors in this volume of warriors, bad girls and dragonriders include worldwide bestselling authors Brandon Sanderson, Lawrence Block and Nancy Kress. DANGEROUS WOMEN 1 Gardner Dozois’s introduction George R. R. Martin, ‘The Princess and the Queen’ Carrie Vaughn, ‘Raisa Stepanova’ Nancy Kress,’“Second Arabesque, Very Slowly’ Lawrence Block, ‘I Know How to Pick ‘Em’ Megan Abbott, ‘My Heart Is Either Broken’ Joe R. Lansdale, ‘Wrestling Jesus’ Brandon Sanderson, ‘Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell’
Dangerous Women Part 3
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Commissioned by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, these tales of dangerous women by the most stellar names in fiction are available for the first time in three-volume paperback. George R.R. Martin is the bestselling author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the inspiration for HBO’s hit series GAME OF THRONES. This third volume features an original short story by Joe Abercrombie. 'Some Desperado' centres on Shy South, the protagonist of Abercrombie’s novel RED COUNTRY. Having robbed a bank, Shy is carrying 2,000 silver pieces, and she's on the run when her horse catches an arrow. Marooned in a dusty ghost town, she faces up to a trio of murderous, flea-bitten criminals… This volume of stories about hard-living bad girls, killers and superheroes also includes contributions from worldwide bestselling authors Jim Butcher, Melinda Snodgrass and Pat Cadigan. DANGEROUS WOMEN 3 Gardner Dozois’s introduction Joe Abercrombie, ‘Some Desperado’ Diana Rowland, ‘City Lazarus’ Sherlynn Kenyon, ‘Hell Hath No Fury’ Melinda Snodgrass, ‘The Hands That Are Not There’ Pat Cadigan, ‘Caretakers’ Cecelia Holland, ‘Nora’s Song’ Jim Butcher, ‘Bombshells’
Westmorland Alone (The County Guides)
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‘Beautifully crafted by Sansom, Professor Morley promises to become a little gem of English crime writing; sample him now’ Daily Mail Welcome to Westmorland. Perhaps the most scenic county in England! Home of the poets! Land of the great artists! District of the Great lakes! And the scene of a mysterious crime… Swanton Morley, the People’s Professor, once again sets off in his Lagonda to continue his history of England, The County Guides. Stranded in the market town of Appleby after a tragic rail crash, Morley, his daughter Miriam and his assistant Stephen Sefton find themselves drawn into a world of country fairs, gypsy lore and Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling. When a woman’s body is discovered at an archaeological dig, for Morley there’s only one possible question: could it be murder? Join Morley, Miriam and Sefton as they journey along the Great North road and the Settle-Carlisle Line into the dark heart of 1930s England.
The Bees
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Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015 Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction 2015 Enter a whole new world, in this thrilling debut novel set entirely within a beehive. Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen. But Flora is not like other bees. Despite her ugliness she has talents that are not typical of her kin. While mutant bees are usually instantly destroyed, Flora is removed from sanitation duty and is allowed to feed the newborns, before becoming a forager, collecting pollen on the wing. She also finds her way into the Queen’s inner sanctum, where she discovers secrets both sublime and ominous. But enemies are everywhere, from the fearsome fertility police to the high priestesses who jealously guard the Hive Mind. And when Flora breaks the most sacred law of all her instinct to serve is overshadowed by an even deeper desire, a fierce love that will lead to the unthinkable . . . Laline Paull’s chilling yet ultimately triumphant novel creates a luminous world both alien and uncannily familiar. Thrilling and imaginative, ‘The Bees’ is the story of a heroine who, in the face of an increasingly desperate struggle for survival, changes her destiny and her world.
The Story of Kullervo
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The world first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the powerful story of a doomed young man who is sold into slavery and who swears revenge on the magician who killed his father. Kullervo son of Kalervo is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all J.R.R. Tolkien’s characters. ‘Hapless Kullervo’, as Tolkien called him, is a luckless orphan boy with supernatural powers and a tragic destiny. Brought up in the homestead of the dark magician Untamo, who killed his father, kidnapped his mother, and who tries three times to kill him when still a boy, Kullervo is alone save for the love of his twin sister, Wanona, and guarded by the magical powers of the black dog, Musti. When Kullervo is sold into slavery he swears revenge on the magician, but he will learn that even at the point of vengeance there is no escape from the cruellest of fates. Tolkien wrote that The Story of Kullervo was ‘the germ of my attempt to write legends of my own’, and was ‘a major matter in the legends of the First Age’; his Kullervo was the ancestor of Túrin Turambar, tragic incestuous hero of The Silmarillion. In addition to being a powerful story in its own right, The Story of Kullervo – published here for the first time with the author’s drafts, notes and lecture-essays on its source-work, The Kalevala, is a foundation stone in the structure of Tolkien’s invented world.

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