Author : Tito Perdue
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 12,15 MB
Release : 2007-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The late Leland Pefley, hoping for eternal rest after a life filled with misdemeanors, instead awakens in a land of cold weather, strange torture practices, and some of history's most hapless people.
Author : Mary Blake
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780954184452
Author : Bernardo Couto Castillo
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 2020-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645250500
In Greek mythology, the asphodel is a flower associated with death; the souls of ordinary mortals are sent to the Asphodel Meadows, vast fields of the underworld. In the twelve stories of Asphodels, Mexican author Bernardo Couto Castillo (1879-1901), a cult figure in Mexico due to his short life and French-influenced Decadent writings, explores death in its many varieties, from Lady Death wandering the streets of the city in merciless search of her next victim, to a hypochondriac who goes mad out of fear of death, to an ultra-refined killer turning to murder due to the beauty of its "symphony in White and Red", to the extraordinary final metaphysical account of the torture of a soul. Although asphodels do not make a single appearance in this collection, they are like death itself: invisible, everywhere. Asphodels, originally published in 1897, was the only book to appear in the author's lifetime. Presented here for the first time in English, in a superb translation by Jessica Sequeira, it will be sure to gratify lovers of Decadent fiction, horror and modernismo.
Author : Tito Perdue
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 2007-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The late Leland Pefley, hoping for eternal rest after a life filled with misdemeanors, instead awakens in a land of cold weather, strange torture practices, and some of history's most hapless people.
Author : William Carlos Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811212830
A dozen poems on love by a New Jersey obstetrician (1883-1963) who often wrote them on office prescription pads. In the title poem, first published when he was 72, he wrote: "What power has love but forgiveness? / In other words / by its intervention / what has been done / can be undone."
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Fiction (Amnian)
ISBN :
Author : Perry L. Westmoreland
Publisher : LEE AND VANCE PUBLISHING CO
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0979324815
Ancient Greek Beliefs explores the mysteries of the ancient myths and religious beliefs of a great people. The text is divided into three sections, Greek mythology, the ancient Greeks, and conclusions. A brief history and lengthy glossary are included. The book is designed as a basic text for the introduction to ancient Greek mythology and beliefs, and the text muses about the religious lessons we might learn from them. It contains abridged stories of Greek mythology, including the extant Greek plays, and considers portions of the works of the great writers, including Aeschylus, Euripides Hesiod, Homer, Plato, and Sophocles. It opens a comprehensive window into the lives of these great ancient people.
Author : Robert Frost
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 1998-06-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141180175
Beloved American poet Robert Frost's first three books, in one collection This volume presents Frost’s first three books, masterful and innovative collections that contain some of his best-known poems,including "Mowing," "Mending Wall," "After Apple-Picking," "Home Burial," "The Oven Bird," "Birches," and "The Road Not Taken." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Vishvaraj Chauhan
Publisher : Vishvaraj Chauhan
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,24 MB
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9353002079
This book contains the major and best works of Vishvaraj Chauhan under the umbrella of his blog, 'Halfway To Asphodel' (www.halfwaytoasphodel.com). It consists of five sections – Contemplative Philosophy, Personal, Romance, Letters To Silence, and Poetry. Contemplative Philosophy consists of articles that choose one topic and discuss it philosophically, in a way that is contemplated by the author's mind. Personal articles have a touch of intimacy and relation, which are extremely easy to relate to. Romance contains essays about Chauhan's idea of love, it’s associated despair and other feelings. Letters To Silence are Chauhan's letters addressed to silence, which make you consider Silence like never before. The Poetry section are amateur poems, which are often of the rhyming variety.
Author : Theresa Bane
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1476615659
The heavens and hells of the world’s religions and the “far, far away” legends cannot be seen or visited, but they remain an integral part of culture and history. This encyclopedia catalogs more than 800 imaginary and mythological lands from all over the world, including fairy realms, settings from Arthurian lore, and kingdoms found in fairy tales and political and philosophical works, including Sir Thomas More’s Utopia and Plato’s Atlantis. From al A’raf, the limbo of Islam, to Zulal, one of the many streams that run through Paradise, entries give the literary origin of each site, explain its cultural context, and describe its topical features, listing variations on names when applicable. Cross-referenced for ease of use, this compendium will prove useful to scholars, researchers or anyone wishing to tour the unseen landscapes of myth and legend.
