Résultats pour "Babel" dans Fantasy

1828. Un jeune orphelin chinois est recueilli à Canton par un professeur et conduit à Londres. Rebaptisé Robin Swift, le jeune garçon consacre ses journées à l'étude des langues dans l'optique d'intégrer le prestigieux Institut royal de traduction de l'Université d'Oxford, plus connu sous le nom de Babel. Berceau de l'argentogravure, les étudiants y exploitent le sens perdu des mots à l'aide de barres d'argent enchantées.

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...

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?

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. 

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.

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.

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 ?

After two years and seven months biding her time on Anima, her home ark, it is finally time to act, to put what she has discovered in the Book of Faruk to use. Under an assumed identity, Ophelia travels to Babel, a cosmopolitan and thoroughly modern ark that is the jewel of the universe. Will her talent as a reader suffice to avoid being lured into a deadly trap by her ever more fearful adversaries? Will she ever see Thorn, her betrothed, again? 

The third novel in the highly acclaimed Books of Babel series, set in a labyrinthine world of menace and wonder. On the orders of the mysterious Sphinx, Thomas Senlin and his crew are dragged ever further into the Tower's conspiracies. Meanwhile, the hods climb the Black Trail in darkness and whisper of their king.  

Forced by necessity into a life of piracy, Senlin and his eclectic crew struggle to survive aboard their stolen airship as the hunt for his lost wife continues. But the Tower of Babel is proving to be as difficult to re-enter as it was to escape.

Hopeless and desolate, they turn to a legend of the tower, the mysterious Sphinx. But help from the sphinx doesn't come cheaply and, as Senlin knows, debts aren't always what they seem in the Tower of Babel.

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. 

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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.

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An electrifying dark academic fantasy set in an alternate Britain, from an exciting new voice in fantasy. Oxford, 1830. London is a smouldering ruin. Tension is rising between humans and fae. And a red star burns overhead. War has left the British empire broken and bleeding. The Industrial...

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.

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،...

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...