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Ewa Nowacka

I’d Like a Ticket to the Babel Tower [Proszę bilet na wieżę Babel] (The Wings of Time [Skrzydła czasu], 2)

Based on: Katarzyna Marciniak, Elżbieta Olechowska, Joanna Kłos, Michał Kucharski (eds.), Polish Literature for Children & Young Adults Inspired by Classical Antiquity: A Catalogue, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, Warsaw: University of Warsaw, 2013, 444 pp., section by Sebastian Mirecki and Barbara Krcha, pp. 236 and 239. This is the second book in the series Skrzydła czasu [The Wings of Time]. Three children: Paweł, his brother Janek, and their sister Małgorzata, are travelli(...)

literary

YEAR: 1998

COUNTRY: Poland

TAGS: Babylon Heracles Hercules Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Christelle Dabos

The Memory of Babel [La Mémoire de Babel] (The Mirror Visitor Quartet [La Passe-Miroir], 3)

The Memory of Babel, follows two strands, the story of Ophelia and the story of Victoria (Berenilde and Farouk’s infant daughter). On Anima two years since Thorn’s disappearance, Ophelia receives a visit from Archibald, Victoria, Fox, and Gail. To assist Ophelia’s search, Archibald transports her to Babel (The Ark of Helen and Pollux, Mistress and Master of the senses), where she believes Thorn is, whilst they return to The Pole in search of a route to LandmArk (The Ark of(...)

literary

YEAR: 2017

COUNTRY: France

TAGS: Artemis Babylon Helen Janus Latin (Language) Norse Mythology Pollux Seven Wonders of the Ancient World