Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811214001
"Some of the most witty, uncannily original short fiction in Western Literature."--The New Yorker
Author : Rosemary Sullivan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1443403660
It’s a book that women talk to their girlfriends about, and a book they’d like their lovers to read. It’s an “intellectually sexy experience” that lyrically, wittily and provocatively explores women’s history of romantic obsession through the telling and deconstruction of a passionate love affair.
Author : Jessica Hart
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1460878698
Too hot to handle? Lefteris Markakis despised English girls, and now Courtney had stepped into his vendetta by intending to entertain tourists at the Villa Athina which just happened to be owned by Lefteris's arch rival, but was sited on Lefteris's land! Courtney didn't want to leave, but then Lefteris came up with a surprising offer. Could she handle being housekeeper to this arrogant, infuriating but undeniably attractive man? She wasn't sure . Jessica Hart has a wonderful talent of "building a stunning love story you won't want to see end." Romantic Times
Author : Charles Simic
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"The Monster Loves His Labyrinth offers a fascinating glimpse into the mind of the poet. Passionate, witty, tender, and curious, these notebook entries range from casual jottings to profound observations. Their subject is the vast array of ways in which we human beings try to make sense of our world."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Charles Simic
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,25 MB
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1619320592
“Nabokovian in his caustic charm and sexy intelligence, Simic perceives the mythic in the mundane and pinpoints the perpetual suffering that infuses human life with both agony and bliss. . . . And he is the master of juxtaposition, lining up the unlikeliest of pairings and contrasts as he explores the nexuses of madness and prophecy, hell and paradise, lust and death.”—Donna Seaman, Booklist "As one reads the pithy, wise, occasionally cranky epigrams and vignettes that fill this volume, there is the definite sense that we are getting a rare glimpse into several decades worth of private journals--and, by extension are privy to the tickings of an accomplished and introspective literary mind."—Rain Taxi Written over many years, this book is a collection of notebook entries by our current Poet Laureate. Excerpts: Stupidity is the secret spice historians have difficulty identifying in this soup we keep slurping. Ars poetica: trying to make your jailers laugh. American identity is really about having many identities simultaneously. We came to America to escape our old identities, which the multiculturalists now wish to restore to us. Ambiguity is the world’s condition. Poetry flirts with ambiguity. As a “picture of reality” it is truer than any other. This doesn’t mean that you’re supposed to write poems no one understands. The twelve girls in the gospel choir sang as if dogs were biting their asses. What an outrage! This very moment gone forever!
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 28,11 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811200127
Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.
Author : Pamela D. Beverly
Publisher :
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Adultery
ISBN : 9780998673202
Noelle Harrison is a hardworking wife and mother, who resents her husband Waye's constant forays out of town for work. Unhappy with the direction her life has taken, she literally bumps into a man who winds up becoming the other man.
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Penguin Modern Classics
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Classical fiction
ISBN : 9780141184845
Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most influential and imaginative writers. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby, with an introduction by James E. Irby and a preface by André Maurois. Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated 'Library of Babel', whose infinite shelves contain every book that could ever exist, 'Funes the Memorious' the tale of a man fated never to forget a single detail of his life, and 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote', in which a French poet makes it his life's work to create an identical copy of Don Quixote. In later life, dogged by increasing blindness, Borges used essays and brief tantalising parables to explore the enigma of time, identity and imagination. Playful and disturbing, scholarly and seductive, his is a haunting and utterly distinctive voice. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A poet, critic and short story writer, he received numerous awards for his work including the 1961 International Publisher's Prize (shared with Samuel Beckett). He has a reasonable claim, along with Kafka and Joyce, to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. If you enjoyed Labyrinths, you might like Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and Other Stories, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'His is the literature of eternity'Peter Ackroyd, The Times 'One of the towering figures of literature in Spanish'James Woodall, Guardian 'Probably the greatest twentieth-century author never to win the Nobel Prize'Economist
Author : Max Frei
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1468301950
The international-bestselling Russian fantasy author continues the adventures of Sir Max, the lazy gumshoe of the enchanted city of Echo. The tales of Sir Max, who was a daydreaming loser before he discovered the parallel world of Echo, have become an international literary sensation. In the second novel of the Labyrinths of Echoes series, Max is still a hardened smoker, glutton, and all-around loafer. But once again, he finds himself travelling to an alternate universe where he must root out illegal magic as an agent of the Secret Investigative Force. This time, Sir Max is called upon to handle a peculiar political dispute, investigate strange happenings in the cemetery, and when Echo’s police captain is poisoned, he must lead a team of magicians in pursuit of magical outlaws. “Echo is a world of all sorts of plots, a sort of Krypton with tobacco and the counter-universe’s equivalent of vodka.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author : Hans Andeweg
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0897936701
The Universe Loves a Happy Ending is a new work from Hans Andeweg, the author of In Resonance with Nature. The earlier book became the basis of an instrument-based eco-healing method; this book describes a revolutionary paradigm for energetic healing called ECOintention, a technology-free way of healing life- and ecosystems from a distance. Using his own journey of discovery as a backdrop, the author guides us through a complex weave of quantum mechanics, zero-point energy, near-death experiences, compassion, forgiveness, the Maya calendar and ancient wisdom from China and Hawaii. Gradually, we emerge into the light of the coherent theory of energetic healing that is ECOintention. The first principle behind this work is that everything is energy and that everything is connected to everything else. But what does that mean for us personally — in our daily life, in our connections with our fellow humans and our work, and in our relationship with the earth as a whole? The Universe Loves a Happy Ending answers these questions. It shows how the emerging connections between (quantum) science and universal spiritual laws give us new tools for working with life energy and consciousness as well as for influencing events. The Universe Loves a Happy Ending summarizes the practical applications of this work in ten Principles of Energetic Guardianship. For those of us who act as custodians or guardians of life, whether we are managers or leaders, community activists or private individuals, regardless of whether we operate on a small or a large scale, these principles show us how to energetically charge, support and guide the life systems and ecosystems that are in our care. Accessibly written and with numerous color illustrations, The Universe Loves a Happy Ending is an important book for anyone who acknowledges the importance of caring for the planet, the environment and life at every level.
