Direction Of The Road

“Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adult fantasy and science fiction . . . she is a philosopher; an explorer in the landscapes of the mind.” – Cincinnati Enquirer The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "Direction of the Road" is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). • From the bestselling author of The Passenger A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2014, held in Guilin, China during December 2014. The 48 regular papers and 10 workshop papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. They deal with the following topics: data mining, social network and social media, recommend systems, database, dimensionality reduction, advance machine learning techniques, classification, big data and applications, clustering methods, machine learning, and data mining and database.

A celebrated pioneer of fantasy fiction, the Irish writer and dramatist Lord Dunsany produced seminal works such as ‘The King of Elfland’s Daughter’, noted for their imaginative power and intellectual ingenuity. Dunsany achieved great fame and success with his early short stories and plays, conjuring mysterious kingdoms of fairies and gods in richly coloured prose, while promoting a characteristic element of the macabre. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents Dunsany’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Dunsany’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 13 novels, with individual contents tables * Features many rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including THE CHARWOMAN’S SHADOW and THE BLESSING OF PAN * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Includes all of the Jorkens short story collections published during Dunsany’s lifetime – please note: some of the posthumous tales cannot appear due to copyright restrictions. * Rare story collections available in no other eBook, including THE MAN WHO ATE THE PHOENIX * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Dunsany’s scarce poetry collection, FIFTY POEMS, first time in digital print * Includes the two ‘Sirens’ autobiographies * Features a bonus biography – discover Dunsany’s literary life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * UPDATED with improved texts and more images CONTENTS: The Novels Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley (1922) The King of Elfland’s Daughter (1924) The Charwoman’s Shadow (1926) The Blessing of Pan (1927) The Curse of the Wise Woman (1933) Up in the Hills (1935) Rory and Bran (1936) My Talks with Dean Spanley (1936) The Story of Mona Sheehy (1939) Guerrilla (1944) The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders (1950) The Last Revolution (1951) His Fellow Men (1952) The Jorkens Series The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens (1931) Jorkens Remembers Africa (1934) Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey (1940) The Fourth Book of Jorkens (1947) Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey (1954) Other Short Story Collections The Gods of Pegana (1905) Time and the Gods (1906) The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (1908) A Dreamer’s Tales (1910) The Book of Wonder (1912) Fifty-One Tales (1915) Tales of Wonder (1916) Tales of War (1918) Unhappy Far-Off Things (1919) Tales of Three Hemispheres (1919) The Man Who Ate the Phoenix (1949) The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories (1952) The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Plays Five Plays (1914) Plays of Gods and Men (1917) If (1921) Plays of Near and Far (1922) Seven Modern Comedies (1928) Plays for Earth and Air (1937) The Poetry Collection Fifty Poems (1929) The Non-Fiction Nowadays (1918) The Autobiographies While the Sirens Slept (1944) The Sirens Wake (1945) The Biography Dunsany the Dramatist (1917) by Edward Hale Bierstadt