Literature

Mary Malone was constructing a mirror. Not out of vanity, for she had little of that, but because she wanted to test an idea she had. She wanted to try…

1.0 Introduction – background to financial crash of 2007-8 This essay will examine the background and unfolding of the 2007-2008 financial crisis and its impact on the theory and practice…

“My child! My daughter! Where is she? What have you done? My Lyra – you’d do better to tear the fibers from my heart – she was safe with me,…

At that moment the Gallivespians, too, were talking about the knife. Having made a suspicious peace with Iorek Byrnison, they climbed back to their ledge to be out of the…

Will and Lyra slept through the night and woke up when the sun struck their eyelids. They actually awoke within seconds of each other, with the same thought; but when…

Holding the heavy gun, Will swept his hand sideways and knocked the golden monkey off his perch, stunning him so that Mrs. Coulter groaned aloud and the monkey’s paw relaxed…

As darkness fell, this was how things stood.In his adamant tower, Lord Asriel paced up and down. His attention was fixed on the little figure beside the lodestone resonator, and…

Ama climbed the path to the cave, bread and milk in the bag on her back, a heavy puzzlement in her heart. How in the world could she ever manage…

“Yeah,” said the red-haired girl, in the garden of the deserted casino. “We seen her, me and Paolo both seen her. She come through here days ago.”Father Gomez said, “And…

“Let me see the knife,” said Iorek Byrnison. “I understand metal. Nothing made of iron or steel is a mystery to a bear. But I have never seen a knife…

Balthamos felt the death of Baruch the moment it happened. He cried aloud and soared into the night air over the tundra, flailing his wings and sobbing his anguish into…

Almost at the same time, the tempter whom Father Gomez was setting out to follow was being tempted herself.”Thank you, no, no, that’s all I need, no more, honestly, thank…

“Now, Fra Pavel,” said the Inquirer of the Consistorial Court of Discipline, “I want you to recall exactly, if you can, the words you heard the witch speak on the…

1. Introduction 1.1. Background to the Study There is a general consensus among financial economists that the distribution of stock returns can be completely described by two moments: (i) the…

A lake of molten sulphur extended the length of an immense canyon, releasing its mephitic vapors in sudden gusts and belches and barring the way of the solitary winged figure…

Ama, the herdsman’s daughter, carried the image of the sleeping girl in her memory: she could not stop thinking about her. She didn’t question for a moment the truth of…

“Be quiet,” said Will, “just be quiet. Don’t disturb me.”It was just after Lyra had been taken, just after Will had come down from the mountaintop, just after the witch…

The morning comes, the night decays, the watchmen leave their stations;The grave is burst, the spices shed, the linen wrapped up; The bones of death, the cov’ring clay, the sinews…

Chapter FifteenBloodmoss On, said the alethiometer. Farther, higher. So on they climbed. The witches flew above to spy out the best routes, because the hilly land soon gave way to…

Chapter FourteenAlamo Gulch Lee Scoresby looked down at the placid ocean to his left and the green shore to his right, and shaded his eyes to search for human life….