Whispers Above

Chronicles of the Cloudspire

The Return to Cloudspire follows Caelum, the last of the Sentinels, as he embarks on a perilous journey to the ancient fortress of Cloudspire. Once a sanctuary for the protectors of the skies, Cloudspire now stands in ruin, its towers shadowed by the forgotten battles of the past. With the prophecy of a dark force awakening, Caelum must face his destiny as the world teeters on the brink of destruction. As he ventures deeper into the heart of the fortress, he uncovers long-buried secrets and a dying crystal that once held the key to the Sentinels' power. With the skies growing darker and an ancient evil stirring, Caelum must summon the strength to confront what lies ahead. The skies will either be saved or fall forever. In a race against time, Caelum's resolve will be tested as he unlocks the mysteries of Cloudspire and prepares for a battle that could alter the fate of the world. The Return to Cloudspire is a tale of courage, mystery, and the fight against an encroaching darkness.

The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

This new volume of JHU Press's landmark Shelley edition contains posthumous poems edited from original manuscripts. "The world will surely one day feel what it has lost," wrote Mary Shelley after Percy Bysshe Shelley's premature death in July 1822. Determined to hasten that day, she recovered his unpublished and uncollected poems and sifted through his surviving notebooks and papers. In Genoa during the winter of 1822–23, she painstakingly transcribed poetry "interlined and broken into fragments, so that the sense could only be deciphered and joined by guesses." Blasphemy and sedition laws prevented her from including her husband's most outspoken radical works, but the resulting volume, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1824), was a magnificent display of Shelley's versatility and craftsmanship between 1816 and 1822. Few such volumes have made more difference to an author's reputation. The seventh volume of the acclaimed Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley extracts from Posthumous Poems those original poems and fragments Mary Shelley edited. The collection opens with Shelley's enigmatic dream vision The Triumph of Life, the last major poem he began—and, in the opinion of T. S. Eliot, the finest thing he ever wrote. There follow some of the most famous and beautiful of Shelley's short lyrics, narrative fragments, two unfinished plays, and other previously unreleased pieces. Upholding the standards of accuracy and comprehensiveness set by previous volumes, every item in Volume 7 has been newly edited from the original manuscripts, in some cases superseding texts that have stood since 1870. Extensive appendixes contain Mary Shelley's preface to Posthumous Poems, Shelley's source for "Ginevra," and preparatory material for his play Charles the First. Wide-ranging discussions of the poems' composition, influences, publication, circulation, reception, and critical history accompany detailed records of textual variants for each work. The editorial overview and commentaries offer insights into Mary Shelley's editorial strategies while proposing surprising new contexts and redatings. Volumes 4 to 6 are in preparation.

A Woman's Vengeance