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Obsessions: Sleep Conversations
By Najjar Hassen. 2020
The protagonist, Shady Nawwar, is a young man with a PhD in Philosophy. He belongs to the marginalized and unemployed…
category of people despite his high academic level. Shady Nawwar moves to the capital in search of a job that would save him and his family from their poverty and misery. Shady Nawwar is haunted by strange and exhausting obsessions. In his dreams in Room 17 in Tacfarinas Motel, he is visited by well-known figures who engage him in deep civilized inspirational conversations. Although Shady finds a job at director Jasmine’s Institute, he does not get rid of his concerns and obsessions, which motivate him and invite him to search for solutions for the excluded destitute people in his country. Shady's relationship with director Jasmine is strengthened. This strong relationship encourages him to proceed to found Massinissa Association to serve the excluded poor. The headquarters of the association is subjected to a terrorist attack, which only serves the radiance and fame of Shady Nawwar, the educated, sincere, and loving patriot. Massinissa Association achieves a resounding success, and Shady becomes one of the well-known figures in the country. One of the political leaders tries to seduce him in order to join the ruling party and enter the world of politics, but Shady refuses. This led both Shady and Jasmine to be brutally assassinated at the end.Entre nosotros, la muerte: Antología de Cuentos de Muerte y Misterio
By Et Al, Stephen Bentley. 2020
¿Quién iba a decir que la muerte podría ser tan ecléctica? Disfrute de esta fascinante colección de cuentos. Tanto en…
la literatura como en las películas, el tema de la muerte y el misterio han sido fundamentales durante años. Esta antología le entretendrá y le emocionará al mismo tiempo. Algunos de los cuentos le harán reír a carcajadas. Otros le invitarán a hacer una pausa y reflexionar. Considere esta colección de cuentos de muerte y misterio la versión impresa de un aperitivo, o quizá desee llamarle entremés, bocadillo, mezze o antipasti. Puede ser leída para llenar el espacio entre un libro y el siguiente o disfrutarse como si fuera un mezze literario -cuya variedad tiene sus propios méritos. Dentro del genero muerte y misterio, se presentan estilos para todos los gustos: ficción de detectives, asesinos en serie, ciencia ficción, ficción basada en eventos reales, etc.; en lugares tan disímiles como Inglaterra, Los Ángeles, San Francisco, Los Grandes Lagos, Las Vegas, el Desierto de Nevada y México, entre otros, en una exquisita exposición del arte de narrar cuentos cortos. Estos cuentos provienen de un reparto internacional que consta de diez autores; algunos tienen libros bestseller, otros son talentos nuevos o incipientes. Sus raíces, culturas y experiencias de vida son tan diversas como sus estilos para escribir. Pero hay una cosa que los une: saben como narrar una historia. Los diez escritores que contribuyeron a la presente antología son: Stephen Bentley Greg Alldredge Kelly Artieri Robbie Cheadle Michael Spinelli L. Lee Kane Kay Castaneda Aly Locatelli Justin Bauer 'G', de manera póstuma. Entre los cuentos, se incluye “El asesino de las rosas” por Stephen Bentley, el cual, dentro del genero Muerte y Misterio, fue ganador del premio SIA 2019, siglas en inglés de Support for IndieFra noi e la morte: Un’antologia di racconti gialli e polizieschi
By Et Al, Stephen Bentley. 2020
Chi lo avrebbe detto che la morte potesse essere così eclettica? Godetevi quest'intrigante cocktail di racconti gialli. Il genere giallo…
è dà sempre un caposaldo del cinema e della letteratura. Quest'antologia di racconti vi emozionerà e vi appassionerà. Alcuni vi faranno anche ridere a crepapelle. Altri vi faranno riflettere. Questa raccolta di racconti gialli è un po' come un buffet di antipasti in formato letterario. Può essere letta a piccole dosi fra un libro e l'altro o tutta in una volta. Questa raccolta contiene stili e ambientazioni diverse per tutti i gusti: storie poliziesche, serial killer, fantascienza, racconti storici, Inghilterra, Los Angeles, San Francisco, i Grandi Laghi, Las Vegas, il Messico, il deserto e altri. Una panoramica completa sull'arte del racconto. Questi racconti sono stati scritti da un cast internazionale di dieci autori; alcuni già affermati, altri emergenti. Le loro radici, culture ed esperienze di vita sono tanto diversificate quanto i loro stili di scrittura. Ma una cosa li unisce: sanno tutti come raccontare una storia. I dieci autori che hanno contribuito alla raccolta sono: Stephen Bentley Greg Alldredge Kelly Artieri Robbie Cheadle Michael Spinelli L. Lee Kane Kay Castaneda Aly Locatelli Justin Bauer 'G' (postumo) La raccolta include il racconto vincitore del concorso Support Indie Authors (SIA) 2019 nella categoria Racconti polizieschi, "Il killer delle rose", di Stephen Bentley. I racconti sono preceduti da una presentazione dell'autore. Quando avrete concluso il libro, sarete soddisfatti di aver letto un'elettrizzante rassegna di racconti gialli.Greek Tragedies 1: Aeschylus - Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus The King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus
By David Grene, Richmond Lattimore, Glenn W. Most, Mark Griffith. 2013
Greek Tragedies, Volume I contains Aeschylus's "Agamemnon," translated by Richmond Lattimore; Aeschylus's "Prometheus Bound," translated by David Grene; Sophocles's "Oedipus…
the King," translated by David Grene; Sophocles's "Antigone," translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; and Euripides's "Hippolytus," translated by David Grene. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, those translations combined accuracy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in an English so lively and compelling that they remain the standard translations. Today, Chicago is taking pains to ensure that our Greek tragedies remain the leading English-language versions throughout the twenty-first century. In this highly anticipated third edition, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most have carefully updated the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining the vibrancy for which our English versions are famous. This edition also includes brand-new translations of Euripides' Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles's satyr-drama The Trackers. New introductions for each play offer essential information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. In addition, each volume includes an introduction to the life and work of its tragedian, as well as notes addressing textual uncertainties and a glossary of names and places mentioned in the plays. In addition to the new content, the volumes have been reorganized both within and between volumes to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship on the order in which the plays were originally written. The result is a set of handsome paperbacks destined to introduce new generations of readers to these foundational works of Western drama, art, and life.Losers: Dispatches from the Other Side of the Scoreboard
By Louisa Thomas, Mary Pilon. 2020
&“It's easy to do anything in victory. It&’s in defeat that a man reveals himself.&” —Floyd Patterson Twenty-two notable…
writers—including Bob Sullivan, Abby Ellin, Mike Pesca, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa Hall, and Gay Talese—examine the untold stories of the losers, and in doing so reveal something raw and significant about what it means to be humanThe locker rooms of winning teams are crowded with coaches, family, and fans. Reporters flock to the athletes, brimming with victory and celebration, to ask, How does it feel? In contrast, the locker rooms of the losing teams are quiet and awkward, and reporters tend to leave quickly, reluctant to linger too long around loss.But, as sports journalists Mary Pilon and Louisa Thomas argue, losing is not a phenomenon to be overlooked, and in Losers, they have called upon novelists, reporters, and athletes to consider what it means to lose. From the Olympic gymnast who was forced to surrender her spot to another teammate, to the legacy of Bill Buckner's tenth-inning error in the 1986 World Series, to LeBron James's losing record in the NBA Finals, these essays range from humorous to somber, but all are united by their focus on defeat. Interweaving fourteen completely new and unpublished pieces alongside beloved classics of the genre, Losers turns the art of sports writing on its head and proves that there is inspiration to be found in stories of risk, resilience, and getting up after you've been knocked down.Circle Circle Line Dot
By Alan Goldsamt. 2012
Each of the intriguing and suggestive short stories will give the reader the opportunity to decide which of the overt…
and concealed messages are reasonable and which are purely fiction. The reader will proceed from science fiction to human conflict to mystery to fantasy. For two of the stories, the reader will ask the question, "Do animals have a human-like intelligence and how can they relate to us?" The readers will confront their innermost thoughts and beliefs as they respond.The Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln (Wisdom Ser.)
By Kees De Mooy. 2004
The men and women who shaped our world—in their own words. The Wisdom Library invites you on a journey through…
the lives and works of the world’s greatest thinkers and leaders. Compiled by scholars, this series presents excerpts from the most important and revealing writings of the most remarkable minds of all time. THE WISDOM OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” —Abraham Lincoln Politician. Statesman. Civil rights leader. Literary craftsman. For a century and a half, the life—and words—of 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, have been praised as a shining example of American leadership. But Lincoln’s path to greatness was a humble one. The son of a frontier farmer, Lincoln was largely self-educated. When he took the national stage as a politician, his simple, straightforward prose was revolutionary for its time—resonating with men and women from all walks of life. In fact, with his “jogtrot prose, compacted of words and phrases still with the bark on,” Lincoln almost single-handedly changed the way the English language is spoken in America. And while he will always be remembered as the man dedicated to restoring a shattered Union, and—with the Thirteenth Amendment—freeing slaves, Lincoln was also one of the greatest communicators this country has ever seen. Now, in this one essential volume, excerpts have been collected from all of Lincoln’s finest documents, letters, and, of course, speeches like his famous Gettysburg Address. The Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln pays tribute to the president and patriot who, through both his words and deeds, changed the course of history.The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society (Routledge Revivals)
By Northrop Frye. 1970
First published in 1970, this collection is made up of a selection of essays composed between 1962 and 1968, written…
by distinguished humanist and literary critic Northrop Frye. The book is divided into two parts: one deals largely with the contexts of literary criticism; the other offers more specific studies of literary works in roughly historical sequence. One of the essays is Frye’s own elucidation of the development of his critical premises out of his early concern with the poetry of William Blake. Taken together, the essays offer a continuous and coherent argument, making a whole that is entirely equal to the sum of its parts.Tolstoy (Routledge Library Editions: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky)
By Ernest Joseph Simmons. 1973
Tolstoy’s fame as one of the world’s greatest novelists has never been in doubt, but the importance of his views…
on the social, moral and religious issues of his time is not so widely recognised. This study, first published in 1973, presents an introduction to the historical and cultural background of Tolstoy’s lifetime, then going on to consider the major events of his developing personality as a writer and reformer. As well as considering the famous novels and literary criticism, Simmons treats his educational theories and practice, famine relief work, spiritual crises and religious, social and moral beliefs, as reflected in controversial writings such as What I Believe, What Then Must We Do? and The Kingdom of God Is Within You. He also investigates Tolstoy’s involvement in government, war and revolution, and the relevance of his reformist views in the contemporary world.The Major Victorian Poets: Reconsiderations (Routledge Revivals)
By Isobel Armstrong. 1969
First published in 1969, this edition collection brings together a series of essays offering a re-evaluation of Victorian poetry in the light…
of early 20th Century criticism. The essays in this collection concentrate upon the poets whose reputations suffered from the great redirection of energy in English criticism initiated in this century by Eliot, Richards and Leavis. What theses poets wrote about, the values they expressed, the form of the poems, the language they used, all these were examined and found wanting in some radical way. One of the results of this criticism was the renewal of interest in metaphysical and eighteenth-century poetry and corresponding ebb of enthusiasm for Romantic poetry and for Victorian poetry in particular. Most of the essays in this book take as their starting point questions raised by the debate on Victorian poetry, both earlier in this century and in the more recent past. There are essays on the poetry of Tennyson, Browning and Arnold, on that of Clough, who until recently has been neglected, and Hopkins, because of, rather than in spite of, the fact that he is usually considered to be a modern poet. The volume is especially valuable in that it will give a clearer understanding of the nature of Victorian poetry, concentrating as it does on those areas of a poet’s work where critical discussion seems most necessary.Milton to Ouida: A Collection of Essays
By Bonamy Dobrée. 1969
The English Vision: An Anthology (Routledge Revivals: Herbert Read and Selected Works)
By Herbert Read. 1939
This anthology, first published in 1939, aimed to present the English ideal in its various aspects as expressed by representative…
Englishmen. This book will be of interest to students of literature and to the general reader.Tolstoi: The Teacher (Routledge Library Editions: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky)
By Charles-Baudouin. 1923
The author states here that Tolstoy was a great educator and his views on education were ingenious and profound. Despite…
being a great artist, Tolstoy also had pedagogic method and drew abundantly on the stores of science. The book looks at articles which Tolstoy wrote on education and childhood, comparing him frequently to Rousseau, and also outlines the influences of his travels which informed his knowledge of contemporary schooling. The conclusion considers the development of Tolstoy’s thought on teaching alongside the state of education at the time the book was first published, in 1923. This will be of interest for the educational historian as well as those interested in Tolstoy himself.Latin Literature of the Fourth Century (Routledge Revivals)
By J. W. Binns. 1974
This volume, offering an insight into the literary world of Rome in the fourth century AD, reflects an increased interest…
in the writers of the 150 years before the collapse of the Western Empire, who have long been over-shadowed by the pre-eminence accorded since the eighteenth century to the Golden and Silver ages. Among the writers examined are Ausonius, the poet, Imperial official and tutor to Gratian; Claudian, the last major ‘classical’ poet; Prudentius, and Paulinus of Nola, two of the founders of Christian Latin poetry; Symmachus, the letter writer and supporter of die-hard paganism; and St. Augustine, whose influence on Christian thought and the Middle Ages is incalculable. These essays consider how such writers responded to a world where vitality was ebbing from the old forms of political life, religion and literature, giving way to new institutions, modes of life and horizons of reflection.An Introduction to the Russian Novel (Routledge Revivals)
By Janko Lavrin. 1943
In this book, first published in 1943, Janko Lavrin provides an overview of the development of the Russian novel by…
placing the great Russian novelists – Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Gorky, Gogol – in relation to their native literature and their social, political and cultural backgrounds. An Introduction to the Russian Novel will appeal particularly to students of Russian literature and culture as well as those interested in the development of the novel in general.Popular Literature: A History and Guide
By Victor E. Neuburg. 1977
The Criticism of Henry Fielding (Routledge Revivals)
By Ioan Williams. 1970
First published in 1970, this selection of Fielding’s criticism is an important contribution to our understanding of Fielding and his…
age. It directs considerable light upon Fielding’s own critical views, with regard both to his own works and to eighteenth-century life and literature at large. The volume includes many of Fielding’s well-known and important statements on literature, society and morals, as well as many which are now difficult to obtain. The selection presents the full range of Fielding’s criticism, showing the relations between his statements concerning literature and his opinions on other matters, and drawing on the complete body of his work. The editor has provided a large-scale analytical introduction.The Poems of W.B. Yeats: Volume One: 1882-1889 (Longman Annotated English Poets)
By Peter McDonald. 2021
In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) is presented in full, with newly-established texts and detailed, wide-ranging…
commentary. Yeats began to write verse in the nineteenth century, and over time his own arrangements of poems repeatedly revised and rearranged both texts and canon. This edition of Yeats’s poetry presents all his verse, both published and unpublished, including a generous selection of textual variants from the many manuscript and printed sources. The edition also supplies the most extensive commentary on Yeats’s poetry to date, explaining specific references, and setting poems in their contexts; it also gives an account of the vast range of both literary and historical influences at work on the verse. The poems are presented in order of composition, and major revisions or rewritings of poems result in separate inclusions (in chronological sequence) for these writings as they were subsequently reconceived by the poet. This first volume collects Yeats’s poetry of the 1880s, from his ambitious and extensive juvenilia (including hitherto little-noticed dramatic poems) to his earliest published pieces, leading to his first substantial book of verse. The pastoral romance of classically-inflected early work like ‘The Island of Statues’ is succeeded in these years by the Irish mythic material that finds its largest canvas in the mini-epic ‘The Wanderings of Oisin’. In Yeats’s work through the 1880s, an adolescent poet’s youthful absorption in Romantic poetry is replaced by a commitment to esoteric religious speculation and Irish political nationalism. This edition allows readers to see Yeats’s emergence as a poet step by step in compelling detail in relation to his literary influences – including, significantly, the Anglo-Irish poetry of the nineteenth century. The commentary provides an extensive view of Yeats’s developing personal, cultural, and historical worlds as the poems gain in maturity and depth. From the first attempts at verse of a teenage boy to the fully accomplished writings of an original poet standing on the verge of popular success with poems such as ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’, Yeats’s poetry is displayed here in unprecedented fullness and detail.Gogol: 1852 (Routledge Revivals #No. 56)
By Janko Lavrin. 1926
This book, first published in 1926, aimed to introduce to English readers to a great and complex foreign writer in…
as simple terms as possible. As this was the first extensive study of Gogol in English, the author chiefly considered the general characteristics of the man and his work. This book will be of interest to students of literature.Supplemental Apology for Believers in Shakespeare Papers: Volume 26
By George Chalmers. 1971