Cartoonist Sourya’s manga and bandes dessinées-inspired adventure continues as Talli trains to master her mysterious powers before her pursuers lay siege to the city in the third exhilarating installment of the Daughter of the Moon series! Talli is a Summoner, a being of immense but mysterious powers granted by the goddess of the moon, and shunned by society for that very power. On the run from the forces of Lord Ulric, who wants to exterminate the Summoners, Talli and her companions take shelter in a mountain stronghold manned by those loyal to the children of the moon. Fara, an elderly Summoner—the first of her own kind that Talli's ever met—begins training her to use her power and, ultimately, the mythical Chimera that appears when her blood is spilled. Isolated with her new teacher and her frequent verbal sparring partner Lélo, a lethargic but incredible swordsman, Talli's ability grows. Further down the mountain, Lord Ulric and his terrifying Special Brigade lay siege on the walls that separate them from their prey. As the gates fall, Talli's loyal knight protector, Alan, bets his life on Captain Nina, forest warriors Max and Maddie make a final stand against improbable odds, and we see the true power of the Summoners for the first time!

Talli is a Summoner: a nearly extinct people, hunted by those who fear their mysterious powers. As a baby, she was adopted by Lord Borin, and all was well for many years... But Talli has been sent on the run by the forces of Lord Ulric, who wants to exterminate the Summoners. With Ulric's forces led by the ruthless Captain Nina hot on her heels, Talli and her loyal protector Alan find themselves with a motley crew of companions and allies that includes the lethargic-but-incredible swordsman Lélo. A climactic battle has cut them off from their chosen route, and now they find themselves traversing the deadly and mysterious Forbidden Forest. Can Talli and her team make it to the other side without getting eaten by wild animals, and find refuge in the kingdom of Lady Sybbyl? Will she perfect her control over her incredible powers in her moment of need?

Oral tales establish relationships between storytellers and their listeners. Yet most printed collections of folktales contain only stories, stripped of the human contexts in which they are told. If storytellers are mentioned at all, they are rarely consulted about what meanings they see in their tales. In this innovative book, Indian-American anthropologist Kirin Narayan reproduces twenty-one folktales narrated in a mountain dialect by a middle-aged Indian village woman, Urmila Devi Sood, or "Urmilaji." The tales are set within the larger story of Kirin Narayan's research in the Himalayan foothill region of Kangra, and of her growing friendship with Urmilaji Sood. In turn, Urmilaji Sood supplements her tales with interpretations of the wisdom that she discerns in their plots. At a moment when the mass-media is flooding through rural India, Urmilaji Sood asserts the value of her tales which have been told and retold across generations. As she says, "Television can't teach you these things." These tales serve as both moral instruction and as beguiling entertainment. The first set of tales, focussing on women's domestic rituals, lays out guidelines for female devotion and virtue. Here are tales of a pious washerwoman who brings the dead to life, a female weevil observing fasts for a better rebirth, a barren woman who adopts a frog and lights ritual oil lamps, and a queen who remains with her husband through twelve arduous years of affliction. The women performing these rituals and listening to the accompanying stories are thought to bring good fortune to their marriages, and long life to their relatives. The second set of tales, associated with passing the time around the fire through long winter nights, are magical adventure tales. Urmilaji Sood tells of a matchmaker who marries a princess off to a lion, God splitting a boy claimed by two families into two selves, a prince's journey to the land of the demons, and a girl transformed into a bird by her stepmother. In an increasingly interconnected world, anthropologists' authority to depict and theorize about distant people's lives is under fire. Kirin Narayan seeks solutions to this crisis in anthropology by locating the exchange of knowledge in a respectful, affectionate collaboration. Through the medium of oral narratives, Urmilaji Sood describes her own life and lives around her, and through the medium of ethnography Kirin Narayan shows how broader conclusions emerge from specific, spirited interactions. Set evocatively amid the changing seasons in a Himalayan foothill village, this pathbreaking book draws a moving portrait of an accomplished woman storyteller. Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon offers a window into the joys and sorrows of women's changing lives in rural India, and reveals the significance of oral storytelling in nurturing human ties.

This edition of Robert Southey's early poetry seeks to restore Southey the poet to his place at the centre of late 18th and early 19th century British literary culture. This collection of his poetical works critically reassesses Southey's epics and romances.