The Quondam Lover And Other Stories From The Wasteland
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The Quondam Lover and Other Stories from the Wasteland
Author | : James Whitmer |
Publsiher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2021-10-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781663230638 |
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The stories contained herein will take the reader through a real life obstacle course of choices that have to be made when confronting morality vs immorality, good vs evil, and social responsibility vs just deserts.
The Left Hand Of Darkness
Author | : Ursula K. Le Guin |
Publsiher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781405525275 |
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Winter is an Earth-like planet with two major differences: conditions are semi artic even at the warmest time of the year, and the inhabitants are all of the same sex. Tucked away in a remote corner of the universe, they have no knowledge of space travel or of life beyond their own world. And when a strange envoy from space brings news of a vast coalition of planets which they are invited to join, he is met with fear, mistrust and disbelief . . . 'The Left Hand of Darkness' is a groundbreaking work of feminist science fiction, an imaginative masterpiece which poses challenging questions about sexuality, sexism and the organisation of society.
The Arthurian Handbook
Author | : Norris J. Lacy,Geoffrey Ashe,Debra N. Mancoff |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317777434 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about King Arthur and his knights is covered in this fascinating volume: the origins of the Grail legend, the Tristan and Isolde love story in opera and literature, Spielberg's use of Arthurian motifs in Star Wars , the depiction of Arthur in paintings, the presentation of Camelot on the Broadway stage, the twitting of the legend in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and much more. This critical survey of Arthurian history and legend, archaeology, literature, and the arts from the fifth century to the present provides an introduction for the general reader and a useful summary for the specialist. It offers both historical facts and key discussions on Arthurian subjects, from post-Roman Britain to the most recent novels and films. There is a lengthy glossary of Arthurian characters, motifs, and places, a chronology of major historical and literary items, a guide to pronunciation, and a full bibliography. What's new in the Second Edition:All the material has been revised and updated to 1996 since the original 1988 edition; The chapter on modern literature has been thoroughly revised, with new material on writings from France, Germany, England, and America; The coverage of King Arthur in the arts has entirely rewritten by one of the premier authorities in Arthurian studies. Brand-new geneological charts of the ancestry of Arthur and his family and the Grail kings and knights.; A fully up-to-date chronology; Many new illustrations.
Down to a Sunless Sea
Author | : David Graham |
Publsiher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-06-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1416567666 |
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The six hundred passengers and crew members aboard a jumbo jetliner are left without a destination and a country when nuclear war breaks out and spreads devastation around the world. A collapsed economy and an increasingly savage society were causing thousands to abandon America. Captain Jonah Scott was a pilot, hired to fly some lucky refugees to London. But once in the air, nuclear war broke out, and Scott became responsible for the entire human race!
Albion
Author | : Peter Ackroyd |
Publsiher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 533 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780307424655 |
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With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth-century. Considering what is most English about artists as diverse as Chaucer, William Hogarth, Benjamin Britten and Viriginia Woolf, Ackroyd identifies a host of sometimes contradictory elements: pragmatism and whimsy, blood and gore, a passion for the past, a delight in eccentricity, and much more. A brilliant, engaging and often surprising narrative, Albion reveals the manifold nature of English genius.
Revolution of Everyday Life
Author | : Raoul Vaneigem |
Publsiher | : PM Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2012-10-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781604867824 |
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Originally published just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France, Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life offered a lyrical and aphoristic critique of the “society of the spectacle” from the point of view of individual experience. Whereas Debord’s masterful analysis of the new historical conditions that triggered the uprisings of the 1960s armed the revolutionaries of the time with theory, Vaneigem’s book described their feelings of desperation directly, and armed them with “formulations capable of firing point-blank on our enemies.” “I realise,” writes Vaneigem in his introduction, “that I have given subjective will an easy time in this book, but let no one reproach me for this without first considering the extent to which the objective conditions of the contemporary world advance the cause of subjectivity day after day.” Vaneigem names and defines the alienating features of everyday life in consumer society: survival rather than life, the call to sacrifice, the cultivation of false needs, the dictatorship of the commodity, subjection to social roles, and above all the replacement of God by the Economy. And in the second part of his book, “Reversal of Perspective,” he explores the countervailing impulses that, in true dialectical fashion, persist within the deepest alienation: creativity, spontaneity, poetry, and the path from isolation to communication and participation. For “To desire a different life is already that life in the making.” And “fulfillment is expressed in the singular but conjugated in the plural.” The present English translation was first published by Rebel Press of London in 1983. This new edition of The Revolution of Everyday Life has been reviewed and corrected by the translator and contains a new preface addressed to English-language readers by Raoul Vaneigem. The book is the first of several translations of works by Raoul Vaneigem that PM Press plans to publish in uniform volumes. Vaneigem’s classic work is to be followed by The Knight, the Lady, the Devil, and Death (2003) and The Inhumanity of Religion (2000).
London Theatre Record
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 828 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : UOM:39015067529456 |
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The Dean s December
Author | : Saul Bellow |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2012-04-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780141916804 |
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Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother, a celebrated figure, lies dying in a state hospital. As he tries to help her grapple with an unfeeling bureaucracy, news filters through to him of mounting problems left behind in Chicago. Corde is troubled: at home the centre is not holding firm, in Eastern Europe authority is cruel and dehumanizing.