Daemon Persuasion

A long lost father, a hidden secret... Mackenzie Murphy goes looking for the father she has never met and discovers a shocking truth - her father was a demon, which makes her a half demon. Hardly suprising with her ability to control the shadows around her, but she soon finds herself drawn into a world she knows nothing about. Caught in the middle of a demon war between three rival families, she is still trying to master her own abilities. Who can she trust to help her? The mysterious Lucien? Or Taryn, the son of the enemy? With all three families hunting for a talisman that could shift the balance of power, Mackenzie must get to it first and finish what her father started, or die trying. An urban fantasy novel.

Six complete never before seen new adult novellas to help you find a quick getaway this summer!! Uncovering the Truth by Kate Thomas - With one last trip in mind before joining the working world, Tani and her closest friends spend the a few weeks in her late father's beach house. Between working to block the memories that keep resurfacing from her childhood and fighting the attraction she has for the alpha male down the block, she almost misses the truth tucked away for only her to discover. A truth that will change everything. Dark Hearts by Christina Kelly - Though known for their debauchery, Reapers like Ash Thorne are chosen for their determination to cull without fail. But when he spared Melissa Mason’s life in a moment of compassion, he never dreamed the deed would come back to haunt him. Will Ash live to regret his moment of weakness, or will Melissa prove that forsaken hearts are still capable of true love? Tainted Currents by Kathy-Lynn Cross - A change of scenery is exactly what Ceanna’s friends believe she needs to mend her broken spirit. A hiking trip to Skelton Lake may help to relieve her pain. But whispers of vengeance lie beneath the currents awaiting such a heart to release their rage from the river's depths. Bearing Secrets by Julie Wetzel - When Nora's final summer in Alaska takes a turn for the worse, she finds herself in the arms of an unlikely hero: a bear shifter who can't let anyone know what he is. Can they come to terms? Or will this chance encounter cost her everything? The Banshee's Heart by S. K. Gregory - Cameron encounters a Banshee called Christiana, who accidentally curses him with a death mark. As they search for a way to remove it, an old face from the past returns and Christiana must stop him from opening the gates to the Fae realm and unleashing hell on earth. K + L by Amber Hassler - Balancing life left Kurt and Leah little time for romance, so when Kurt receives an email that he won a trip for two during 4th of July week, it was just what they needed. At first, things appear perfect until they begin to experience unusual occurrences in the house, then the two realize neither of them entered a contest. So, who, or what lured them there, and why? These fun beach reads have never been published before and were written specifically for this anthology. Hope you enjoy the adventure!! werewolves, reapers, lake trip, bear shifter, banshee, beach read, love story

The epic battle joined in EVER Part One: The War in the Waste continues in the second volume of Felicity Savage's groundbreaking trilogy, The Daemon in the Machine. Fleeing the trap laid for them by the treacherous David Burns, Crispin and Mickey strike out for Okimako, where Mickey is reunited with the family he abandoned to join the Disciples. Crispin struggles to reconcile his apocryphal visions with the political realities of Okimako. Meanwhile, on the far side of the continent, Rae faces the appalling truth about the cult to which she has attached herself. Kirekune is winning the war in the Wraithwaste, but a Significant victory will have terrible consequences for humans and daemons alike.

This study focuses on how Frankenstein works: how the story is told and why it is so rich and gripping. Part I uses carefully selected short extracts for close textual analysis, while Part II examines Shelley's life, the historical and literary contexts of the novel, and offers a sample of key criticism.

In The Daemon Knows, celebrated American literary critic Harold Bloom turns his attention to the writers of his own national literary tradition, from Walt Whitman and Herman Melville to William Faulkner and Hart Crane. The distillation of a lifetime lived among the works explored in these pages, this book is also one of Bloom's most profoundly personal to date.

This book tells the story of the early modern astronomer Johannes Kepler’s Somnium, which has been regarded by science historians and literary critics alike as the first true example of science fiction. Kepler began writing his complex and heavily-footnoted tale of a fictional Icelandic astronomer as an undergraduate and added to it throughout his life. The Somnium fuses supernatural and scientific models of the cosmos through a satirical defense of Copernicanism that features witches, lunar inhabitants, and a daemon who speaks in the empirical language of modern science. Swinford’s looks at the ways that Kepler’s Somnium is influenced by the cosmic dream, a literary genre that enjoyed considerable popularity among medieval authors, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Dante, John of Salisbury, Macrobius, and Alan of Lille. He examines the generic conventions of the cosmic dream, also studying the poetic and theological sensibilities underlying the categories of dreams formulated by Macrobius and Artemidorus that were widely used to interpret specific symbols in dreams and to assess their overall reliability. Swinford develops a key claim about the form of the Somnium as it relates to early science: Kepler relies on a genre that is closely connected to a Ptolemaic, or earth-centered, model of the cosmos as a way of explaining and justifying a model of the cosmos that does not posit the same connections between the individual and the divine that are so important for the Ptolemaic model. In effect, Kepler uses the cosmic dream to describe a universe that cannot lay claim to the same correspondences between an individual’s dream and the order of the cosmos understood within the rules of the genre itself. To that end, Kepler’s Somnium is the first example of science fiction, but the last example of Neoplatonic allegory.

The eighteenth century author Oliver Goldsmith produced a diverse body of works, featuring a famous novel, plays, poetry, essays, histories and many other non-fiction works. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete fictional works of Oliver Goldsmith, with almost the complete non-fiction, as well as numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Goldsmith’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novel, plays and other texts * ALL the plays, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Goldsmith’s rare children’s tale THE HISTORY OF LITTLE GOODY TWO-SHOES * Includes Goldsmith’s essays * Many rare non-fiction works appearing in digital print for the first time * Features four biographies - discover Goldsmith’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novel THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD The Plays THE GOOD-NATUR’D MAN SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER The Children’s Tale THE HISTORY OF LITTLE GOODY TWO-SHOES The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Non-Fiction AN ENQUIRY INTO THE PRESENT STATE OF POLITE LEARNING IN EUROPE THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD THE LIFE OF RICHARD NASH OF BATH THE MYSTERY REVEALED THE MARTIAL REVIEW AN HISTORY OF ENGLAND, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS FROM A NOBLEMAN TO HIS SON THE HISTORY OF ROME THE LIFE OF HENRY LORD VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE THE LIFE OF THOMAS PARNELL, D.D. ARCHDEACON OF CLOGHER THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND: FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE DEATH OF GEORGE II DR. GOLDSMITH’S ROMAN HISTORY ABRIDGED BY HIMSELF FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AN HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND ANIMATED NATURE THE GRECIAN HISTORY AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND DR. GOLDSMITH’S HISTORY OF GREECE, ABRIDGED, FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS A SURVEY OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY The Essays THE BEE: BEING ESSAYS ON THE MOST INTERESTING SUBJECTS MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS ESSAYS BY MR. GOLDSMITH: COLLECTA REVIRESCUNT The Biographies OLIVER GOLDSMITH: A BIOGRAPHY by Washington Irving OLIVER GOLDSMITH by Henry Francis Cary OLIVER GOLDSMITH by E. S. LANG Buckland INTRODUCTION TO OLIVER GOLDSMITH by Austin Dobson Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

As the first translator of Plato's complete works into Latin, the Florentine writer Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) and his blend of Neoplatonic and Hermetic philosophy were fundamental to the intellectual atmosphere of the Renaissance. In Spain, his works were regularly read, quoted, and referenced, at least until the nineteenth century, when literary critics and philosophers wrote him out of the history of early modern Spain. In Ficino in Spain, Susan Byrne uses textual and bibliographic evidence to show the pervasive impact of Ficino's writings and translations on the Spanish Renaissance. Cataloguing everything from specific mentions of his name in major texts to glossed volumes of his works in Spanish libraries, Byrne shows that Spanish writers such as Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Bartolomé de las Casas, and Garcilaso de la Vega all responded to Ficino and adapted his imagery for their own works. An important contribution to the study of Spanish literature and culture from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, Ficino in Spain recovers the role that Hermetic and Neoplatonic thought played in the world of Spanish literature.