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This Week in Literary History?

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Thanks for reading "This Week in Literary History" but this is the end of the line. The past year has been filled with enlightening and insightful literary stories. Please enjoy the archives. Check out my other on going blog under the mature filter "This Week in Crime History." 

Why are we captivated with the lives, deaths, and burial places of famous people? Perhaps, it is the lifestyle, or maybe the promise of immortality, which serves as the incentive. Is it that their joys, loves, triumphs, defeats, last moments, and final resting places, all encompass a life we do not have? 

Ever wonder how and why the classic novels, poems and plays of world literature came about? In Michael Thomas Barry’s award  winning Literary Legends of the British Isles and America's Literary Legends, the reader is taken on a journey into the best of English and American literature in concise reviews of the lives of some of the greatest writers and poets in history. Learn how these distinctive individuals helped shape literature from the late-medieval period through the mid-twentieth century. These anthology's take a fresh approach literary history and through brief and engaging biographies the great writers come alive. 

If you can’t wait and want the whole story. These books can be purchased directly from Schiffer Publishing, Barnes and Noble, Powell's Books, Amazon and other fine book sellers. Visit Michael's website www.michaelthomasbarry.com for more information.All Rights Reserved

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Mankind devoured - BOOK 1

Hello, Logan here. It is 2021, and this is the first book that I ever wrote. It's shit. I'm publishing it back on Wattpad again so my friend can read it. It is unedited and as I left it in 2017. I am currently published with three books out, and this is so funny to look back on. Enjoy reading my shittest work to date. Lots and lots of love, Logan Beadnell-Davies The overarching theme for this first book is a theme of rage and hatred. In the words of a great philosopher; there is no limit to the gruesome and grotesque things we are willing to do in the name of survival. While reading this; Remember that not everything is as it seems. Remember that loved characters will die. Remember that the world will gradually get worse as the parts go on. Take a moment to ask yourselves these questions: What would you do in the name of survival? Would you steal to survive? Would you kill to survive? Would you lose your mind to survive? If you lost your mind, do you think you'd kill more, steal, injure, backstab, rape or any other atrocity you can think of? If you can think of it, then maybe you would. The characters and situations in this book are very real, if gore or horrific mental images scare you, then I wouldn't recommend reading far. DESCRIPTION: The Infection claimed the lives of over 3 billion people before the TV's went off. But it would claim many more. The problem didn't arise when those people got up and started walking again, or even when they started eating and infecting others, it began when people got desperate. In this new world, the true evil that humans are capable of gradually becomes more apparent, and a part of everyday life. Normality doesn't exist, people don't help other people. Friends aren't a thing anymore. All anyone truly has is themselves, and the burdens they carry.