Ergebnis für "Magus" in Belletristik

John Fowles’s The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice Conchis. Are these events, involving attractive young English sisters, just psychological games, or an elaborate joke, or more? Reality shifts as the story unfolds. The Magus reflected the issues of the 1960s perfectly, and it continues to create tension and concern today.

Der Krieg zwischen Assassinen und Templern richtet im viktorianischen Zeitalter verheerende Schäden an. London, 1851: Als Pierette, eine wagemutige Akrobatin, die auf der Weltausstellung auftritt, die Mathematikerin Ada Lovelace vor einer Bande von Schlägern rettet, gerät sie in die uralte Fehde zwischen Assassinen und Templern. Doch Lovelace ist schwer krank. Sie teilt Pierette ihre Geheimnisse mit und schickt die Akrobatin auf die Suche nach einer schrecklichen Waffe – der Maschine der Geschichte –, die sie für eine rätselhafte Gestalt namens "der Magus" entwickelt hat.

I was the Rift Magus, master of space and time, protector of worlds. Reborn in a broken body with only my knowledge intact, I rebuilt myself from nothing. Now the reckoning has come. House Delamere, the architects of my abduction and the force behind demonic pacts and soul-warping corruption, has taken Adrian. My cousin. My friend. They believe they understand power. They are wrong.

I was the Rift Magus—master of space and time, protector of worlds. For decades, I defended my realm with unmatched power. But when I was reborn in the body of Lucian, a young noble in a different world, I had to start again. My strength was diminished but my knowledge remained, and I quickly reclaimed fragments of my lost powers--and even found some that were new. But this new life came with intrigues and rivalries of noble Houses, and obligations as well—one of which threatens to escalate out of control and put my progression at risk.

London, 1851—When Pierette, a daring acrobat performing at the Great Exhibition, rescues the mathematician Ada Lovelace from a gang of thugs, she becomes immersed in an ancient feud between Assassins and Templars. But Lovelace is gravely ill, and shares her secrets with Pierette, sending the acrobat in search of a terrible weapon–the Engine of History–which she’d been developing for a shadowy figure known as “the Magus”. Pierette’s only ally is Simeon Price, Lovelace’s childhood friend who belongs to a Brotherhood devoted to freedom. 

Exiled occultist Carl Sanford attempts to join a secret society as a stepping stone to even greater power while his old enemies hunt him across Spain in this new installment to the eldritch-rich horror pulp adventure world of Arkham Horror. Carl Sanford, once the Silver Twilight Lodge's great...

Once the Rift Magus, I was reborn as Lucian Eldraine, with my knowledge intact but my strength greatly diminished. Through trials and effort, I quickly reclaimed some of my lost powers—and even found some that were new. I’ve also had time to make allies and enemies both, the latter of which have become hungry for vengeance and can call upon demons and worse, and won’t rest until they see me destroyed. Yet amid these threats lies the opportunity to gain wealth, power, and influence, and I intend to claim all three.

Granada, 1599. The lead tablets of Sacromonte have been unearthed, and the Church is celebrating what it believes is proof of Christian primacy in Spain. But Nur al-Haqq Jiménez, a Morisco translator living under a borrowed name, recognizes something else in the inscriptions: the work of her grandfather's secret circle of scholars, designed to be read not in one language but in two, simultaneously.

Everyone knows UK general elections aren’t what they were. British politics, Westminster in particular, is mired in an integrity crisis. Expenses scandals, cash for questions, a tainted honours system, and other wrong-turns have deeply disillusioned the electorate...The Social Magus is the first of the Tales of MI7 series to be set mostly in London. Written in the run-up to the 2015 general election, it examines some of the trends and concerns that later materialised in “Corbynism” and the Momentum movement.

A coming-of-age, short story of young Prince Magus, who learns a painful lesson from his father, King Nall, about the responsibility that comes with being a future king.