10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KNIGHTS ERRANT»
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knights errant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Blush sensuality level: This is a sweet romance (kisses only, no sexual content).
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The Sword Or the Needle: The Female Knight-
errant (xia) in ...
Focusing on narratives about female knights-errant (xia) along thematic lines in Chinese literacy history, this text provides an overview of the narrative subgenre, the literary representation of gender and the particularities of the ...
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Italian Literature: Tristano Riccardiano
They asked her, "Maiden, I beg you please to deliver a message to King Mark,
and tell him that two knights errant are waiting at the foot of this tree, and they
request a joust." The maiden answered that she would deliver the message
gladly.
Gloria Allaire, Regina Psaki, 2006
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The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-
errant Don ...
in another world, than ever any of your Gentile empe- iors, or knights-errant ever
left behind them. I grant you that, quoth Eton JgxtMote. Well, an- iwer'd Sancho ;
this same, these graces, these prerogatives, how call ye 'ems have the Dodies ...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Charles-Antoine Coypel, 1725
“What is their quarrel with knights errant?” asked eric. “may God send them
vexation and misfortune!” “I don't know for sure,” said hector, “but such is the
custom that no knight errant enters there without finding shame and ugliness. I
know this ...
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The history of the valorous and witty knight-
errant don ...
You have no Knight now that will lie upon the bare Ground, subject to the rigour
of the Air, armed cap-a-pe : None now that upright on his Stirrups, and leaning on
his Lance, strives to be Head-sleep, as they say your Knights-Errant did : You ...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1733
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The Jin Yong Phenomenon: Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and ...
The Mongolian Yuan dynasty's and Manchu Qing dynasty's domination of Han
people are undeniable historical facts, but Jin Yong's martial arts fiction
transforms them into the triumph of Han knights-errant on a personal level.
Furthermore, in ...
Ann Huss, Jianmei Liu, 2007
Set in the investment banking and private equity industry in London, Tokyo, Tasmania and East Africa, The Knights Errant is a financial thriller that follows the life of Jim McDonald, a forty-four-year-old banker at Montefiore Bank, the ...
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Fin-de-siècle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing ...
ren, launched their full-scale critique of the late Qing judicial system, "
conservative" works like Three Knights-errant were raising ambivalent questions
about the political and social order. If the crackdown on the rebellious bandits in
Quell the ...
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The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote
“You must know, good woman,” said Don Quixote, “all knights cannot be courtiers
, neither can or ought all courtiers to be knights-errant; there ought to be plenty of
both, and tho' we are all knights, there is a great difference between the one ...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, O. M. Brack, Jr., 2014
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KNIGHTS ERRANT»
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Of Sanctity, Old Yeller, and the Plague: A Post-Father's Day …
It's like we become invisible, we dads – like Fess Parker in Old Yeller – and in that is our chance to be knights errant and heroes. Father's Day ... «National Catholic Register, Jun 15»
Growers Hoping To Build Strawberry Picking Robot
Automated harvesting is the Holy Grail for most agricultural commodities, so a group of knights errant from the Florida strawberry industry have ... «Manufacturing.net, May 15»
Growers hoping to build robotic strawberry picker
(AP) - Automated harvesting is the Holy Grail for most agricultural commodities, so a group of knights errant from the Florida strawberry industry ... «Washington Times, May 15»
Review: 'Coypel's Don Quixote Tapestries' Weaves a Classic Tale
... in everything he had read that knights errant engaged in, righting all manner of wrongs and, by seizing the opportunity and placing himself in ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
Review: 'Epitaph' places OK Corral gunfight in fascinating context
Russell portrays the men as battered knights errant, friends and good men in a venal, dishonorable world. Everything about Holliday, she writes ... «Tampabay.com, Apr 15»
Interview: Viggo Mortensen
Dinesen is the latest in a series of knights errant Mortensen has played for the cinema. Most famously he incarnated Aragorn in Peter Jackson's ... «Financial Times, Mar 15»
Book of the week: The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
Here, Ishiguro mines the mythical realm of post-Arthurian Britain – a land where ogres, pixies and knights errant all roam. It's a plucky genre ... «Aberdeen Press and Journal, Mar 15»
A vivid return to the OK Corral in Mary Doria Russell's novel 'Epitaph'
Russell portrays the men as battered knights errant, friends and good men in a venal, dishonorable world. Everything about Holliday, she writes ... «Washington Post, Mar 15»
Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant offers the same lyrical prowess as …
But even if it does feature a dragon and knights errant, this is no swashbuckling romp. Sir Gawain, one of the Knights of the Round Table, is a ... «The Globe and Mail, Mar 15»
Against Self-Criticism
He is a man who inhabits, lives in and through, the fictions about knights errant that he has consumed, a fictional character who makes himself ... «London Review of Books, Feb 15»
