Résultats pour "Babel" dans Fantasy

Le phénomène littéraire de retour dans une toute nouvelle édition reliée collector. "Un acte de traduction est toujours un acte de trahison.' - R. F. Kuang 1828. Un jeune orphelin chinois est recueilli à Canton par un professeur et conduit à Londres. Rebaptisé Robin Swift, le jeune...

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire...

THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER ‘One for Philip Pullman fans’ THE TIMES ‘This one is an automatic buy’ GLAMOUR ‘Ambitious, sweeping and epic’ EVENING STANDARD ‘Razor-sharp’ DAILY MAIL ‘An ingenious fantasy about empire’ GUARDIAN 'Literary super-stardom doesn't seem...

Les relations entre l'Empire du Nikan et la Fédération de Mugen ont toujours été conflictuelles. Lorsque l'Empire se retrouve affaibli, la Fédération en profite pour l'envahir. Deux Guerres du pavot sont nécessaires pour vaincre et repousser l'ennemi mugenais vers le large. Des siècles...

1828. El Instituto Real de Traducción de Oxford, también conocido como Babel, es la institución mágica más importante del mundo. La magia con plata capaz de revelar significados ocultos perdidos en la traducción que allí se practica le ha otorgado al Imperio británico un poder sin parangón. Robin, un huérfano cantonés que ha terminado siendo alumno en Babel, se ha dado cuenta de que servir a Babel significa traicionar a su país de origen. 

Rimasto orfano a Canton e portato in Inghilterra da un misterioso tutore, Robin Swift credeva che Babel fosse un paradiso. Fino a che non è diventata una prigione... Può uno studente lottare contro un impero?

Mild-mannered headmaster, Thomas Senlin prefers his adventures to be safely contained within the pages of a book. So when he loses his new bride shortly after embarking on the honeymoon of their dreams, he is ill-prepared for the trouble that follows. To find her, Senlin must enter the Tower of Babel - a world of geniuses and tyrants, of menace and wonder, of unusual animals and mysterious machines. And if he hopes to ever see his wife again, he will have to do more than just survive...this quiet man of letters must become a man of action.

Après deux ans et sept mois à se morfondre sur l'arche d'Anima, Ophélie a décidé d'agir. Sous une fausse identité, Ophélie rejoint Babel, arche cosmopolite et joyau de modernité. Ses talents de liseuse suffiront-ils à déjouer les pièges d'adversaires toujours plus redoutables ? A-t-elle la moindre chance de retrouver la trace de Thorn ?

1828. Robin Swift, den ein Cholera-Ausbruch im chinesischen Kanton als Waisenjungen zurücklässt, wird von dem geheimnisvollen Professor Lovell nach London gebracht. Dort lernt er jahrelang Latein, Altgriechisch und Chinesisch, um sich auf den Tag vorzubereiten, an dem er in das Königliche Institut für Übersetzung der Universität Oxford - auch bekannt als Babel - aufgenommen werden soll. Oxford ist das Zentrum allen Wissens und Fortschritts in der Welt. Für Robin erfüllt sich ein Traum, an dem Ort zu studieren, der die ganze Macht des britischen Empire verkörpert.

Brought to you by Penguin. A CAPTIVATING TALE THAT CHARTS THE CONTROVERSIAL LIFE AND RISE TO POWER OF SEMIRAMIS, THE ONLY FEMALE RULER OF THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE There are whispers of her fame, in the land long since turned to dust. The Queen who rose from nothing – and changed everything...

The first book in the word-of-mouth phenomenon debut fantasy series about one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world. "One of my favorite books of all time" -- Mark Lawrence The Tower of Babel is the greatest marvel in the world. Immense as a mountain, the ancient Tower holds...

Inspired by Scottish mythology and filled with found family, slow burn romance, and book-based magic, The Arcane Archives is a dark academia fantasy adventure from a brilliant new talent. Every soul that has ever existed has a life book. Astra is an Archivist, tasked with keeping the life books...

The descendants of Nimrod return—not with bricks and mortar, but with quantum engineering, mysticism, and the unrelenting drive of human ambition. Their mission: to reconstruct the legendary Tower of Babel on the Ashar Plateau, not just to unify humanity, but to tap into the very architecture of the cosmos itself. Led by the Warkans—a coalition of scientists, mystics, and visionaries—the project begins with grand hopes. But as the Tower rises, so too does unrest. Ideological rifts fracture their unity. Strange anomalies ripple across time and space.

The incredible final book in the phenomenon fantasy series described as “future classics" follows one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world and the mysteries he uncovers along the way. (Los Angeles Times). "Josiah Bancroft is a magician. His books are that rare alchemy...

Brought to you by Penguin. Get ready to be spellbound by the new, fantastical novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of fantasy sensation The Book of Doors . . . The world of unknowable objects - magical items that most people have no idea possess powers - has been quiet for decades...

Fast drei Jahre hat Ophelia ihren Mann Thorn nicht mehr gesehen. Doch eines Tages macht sie sich heimlich auf den Weg zur Arche Babel, um sich auf die Suche nach ihm zu begeben. In Babel angekommen, schleicht sich Ophelia in eine Schule ein, wo sie schnell zu einer der wenigen "Auserwählten" wird. Als eine Zensorin tot aufgefunden wird, die kurz vor ihrem Tod die Werke eines Kinderbuchautors verbrannt hat, erkennt Ophelia fassungslos, wie sehr sie selbst in diese tödliche Geschichte verstrickt ist.

Brought to you by Penguin. Godkiller and The Priory of The Orange Tree meet sweeping Greek retellings in this epic fantasy series in ancient Greece FOR MORTALS TO RISE THE GODS MUST FALL. In Ancient Greece, the Twelve Gods demand the ultimate tribute – food, treasure, even human sacrifice...

تعد بابل عملاً خياليًّا تأمليًّا، ومن ثم، تقع أحداثها في نسخة خيالية من مدينة أوكسفورد في ثلاثينيات القرن التاسع عشر التي تغير تاريخها تمامًا بسبب العمل بالفضة (سنسوق المزيد خلال وقت قصير). مع ذلك، حاولت الالتزام، قدر المُستطاع، بدقة السجل التاريخي في وصف حياة أوكسفورد في العصر الفيكتوري، وبالاكتفاء بتقديم قدر من المغالطات فقط حين يخدم ذلك الرواية. وفيما يتعلق بالمراجع الخاصة بأوكسفورد في بدايات القرن التاسع عشر، اعتمدت على الدليل والمرجع التاريخي لمدينة أوكسفورد (1878) الذي كتبه جيمس جيه مور،...

As Marat's siege engine bores through the Tower, Senlin can do nothing but observe the mayhem from inside the belly of the beast. Edith and her crew are forced to face Marat on unequal footing, with Senlin caught in the crossfire, while Adam attempts to unravel the mystery of his fame inside the crowning ringdom. And when the Brick Layer's true ambition is revealed, neither the Tower nor its inhabitants will ever be the same again. 

When a mechanical war dragon crash lands in his village and declares itself king, Will le Fey is forced to become its lieutenant. Although he eventually breaks his enslavement, Will is banished by the townspeople, who no longer trust him. While he travels, he befriends a superhuman con artist and an immortal girl with no memory. And when the trio winds up in the extraordinary Faerie metropolis of Babel, Will becomes a champion to the tunnel dwellers below the city....