John Byron blends the ordinary with the unusual to give you four intriguing tales that promise to take you to realms you only thought you knew. A man, dying of incurable cancer finds himself on an unexpected adventure that proves that things as he knew them are never what they seem. We revisit that fateful night when Frankenstein was born in the mind of Mary Shelley. Or... Did she leave a little something out? A man travels back in time and enlists the aid of a younger self and his now dead wife to stop the one event that begins the horror of World War III. What could possibly go wrong? Is...

The story of Cain and Abel narrates the primeval events associated with the beginnings of the world and humanity. But the presence of linguistic and grammatical ambiguities coupled with narrative gaps provided translators and interpreters with a number of points of departure for expanding the story. The result is a number of well established and interpretive traditions shared between Jewish and Christian literature. This book focuses on how the interpretive traditions derived from Genesis 4 exerted significant influence on Jewish and Christian authors who knew rewritten versions of the story....

John Byron (1723 86) died a vice-admiral, having earned the nickname 'Foulweather Jack' after much experience on rough seas. In 1741 he was a midshipman aboard HMS Wager in a squadron sent to attack Spanish ships off Chile. Shipwrecked in a storm after rounding Cape Horn, the majority of the survivors turned on their captain and attempted to make their own way home. Byron was among the group who stayed with the commanding officer. In 1768, now a commodore, he published this account of the five harrowing years it took to get back to England, by which time he was one of only four survivors....