Black Ship To Hell

Author : Brigid Brophy
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781787205512

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Black Ship to Hell by Brigid Brophy Pdf

Is modern man threatening to destroy his world? First published in 1962, this book, which analyzes the origins, history, and manifestations of the destructive impulse that exists in human beings, has relevance and interest for all of us. The author sees this impulse as primarily one of self-destruction deflected outward, and her brilliant exploration of its multiple effects takes her and the reader into regions of complex fascination. In ranging the fields of art, science, and morality for evidence to support her contentions, Miss Brophy not only reveals herself as a writer of immense cultivation and power, but also as a provocative thinker. Her basic conclusion—that the philosopher, the teacher, the psychologist, and the artist, among others, in order to be productive or even operative, must acknowledge and allow for the instinctual sources of behavior, which Freud so daringly illuminated and documented—is expressed in lively, passionate prose. This is a highly controversial book that will undoubtedly rouse storms of argument, for the issues, like the outcome, are of the deepest concern to us all. Miss Brophy’s opponents, if they are to make themselves heard, must at least match her in intellectual caliber and cultural equipment.

Author : Jeffrey Ford
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466851955

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Rocket Ship to Hell by Jeffrey Ford Pdf

The story of a secret, privately funded, late 60's space mission as told by the science fiction writer who was aboard. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : John W. Campbell Jr.
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479442386

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Frozen Hell by John W. Campbell Jr. Pdf

FROZEN HELL is the original version of John W. Campbell's classic novella, Who Goes There? (filmed as The Thing). Recently discovered among Campbell's papers, this version adds another 45 pages to the story. Includes a Preface by Alec Nevala-Lee and an Introduction by Robert Silverberg.

Author : Tom Gade Olausson
Publisher : Black Bed Sheet Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780997927672

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Poetry from Hell's Asylum by Tom Gade Olausson Pdf

Author : Andrew Radford,Hannah Van Hove
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030727666

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British Experimental Women’s Fiction, 1945—1975 by Andrew Radford,Hannah Van Hove Pdf

This book scrutinizes a range of relatively overlooked post-WWII British women writers who sought to demonstrate that narrative prose fiction offered rich possibilities for aesthetic innovation. What unites all the primary authors in this volume is a commitment to challenging the tenets of British mimetic realism as a literary and historical phenomenon. This collection reassesses how British female novelists operated in relation to transnational vanguard networking clusters, debates and tendencies, both political and artistic. The chapters collected in this volume enquire, for example, whether there is something fundamentally different (or politically dissident) about female experimental procedures and perspectives. This book also investigates the processes of canon formation, asking why, in one way or another, these authors have been sidelined or misconstrued by recent scholarship. Ultimately, it seeks to refine a new research archive on mid-century British fiction by female novelists at least as diverse as recent and longer established work in the domain of modernist studies.

Author : Ihab Hassan
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0299091244

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The Dismemberment of Orpheus by Ihab Hassan Pdf

In this book, the first edition of which was published in 1971 by Oxford University Press, Ihab Hassan takes Orphic dismemberment and regeneration as his metaphor for a radical crisis in art and language, culture and consciousness, which prefigures postmodern literature. The modern Orpheus, he writes, "sings on a lyre without strings." Thus, his sensitive critique traces a hypothetical line from Sade through four modern authors--Hemingway, Kafka, Genet, and Beckett--to a literature still to come. But the line also breaks into two Interludes, one concerning 'Pataphysics, Dada, and Surrealism, and the other concerning Existentialism and Aliterature. Combining literary history, brief biography, and critical analysis, Hassan surrounds these authors with a complement of avant-garde writers whose works also foreshadow the postmodern temper. These include Jarry, Apollinaire, Tzara, Breton, Sartre, Camus, Nathalie Sarraute, Robbe-Grillet, and in America, Cage, Salinger, Ginsberg, Barth, and Burroughs. Hassan takes account also of related contemporary developments in art, music, and philosophy, and of many works of literary theory and criticism. For this new edition, Hassan has added a new preface and postface on the developing character of postmodernism, a concept which has gained currency since the first edition of this work, and which he himself has done much to theorize.

Author : Fo HaiXuMi
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781648463914

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Tale of Nether King Breaking The Hell by Fo HaiXuMi Pdf

Legend has it that there exist a total of seven races living in the Divine Great Land: Human Clan, Merman, Savage Clan, Wing Clan, Ghost Clan, Wisdom Race, and God Clan. Human Clan was the present Great Sheng Dynasty. The Merman s and Savage Clan were almost completely slaughtered by the Human Clan, but Wing Clan, Ghost Clan, Wisdom Clan, and God Clan seemed to only exist in legends. The King of the Human Clan was naturally the emperor of the Great Sheng Dynasty, Wu Deng. He fought for supremacy over the world, killing and driving away other races. With the Merman race as their leader, they were hunted down and killed by the Great Realm King. And Ming Prince, as the least favored son of the Emperor of Great Sheng Dynasty, watched as his broken nation's Human Clan was annihilated, and his parents and brothers slaughtered one another. The Ming Prince turned into Pluto. Everywhere Pluto passed, he turned into scorched earth.

Author : Jason Mott
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593330999

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Hell of a Book by Jason Mott Pdf

***2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER*** ***THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER*** Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Finalist, 2022 Chautauqua Prize Finalist, Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing Shortlist, and the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize shortlist A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! An Ebony Magazine Publishing Book Club Pick! One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction | One of Philadelphia Inquirer's Best Books of 2021 | One of Shelf Awareness's Top Ten Fiction Titles of the Year | One of TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books | One of NPR.org's "Books We Love" | EW’s "Guide to the Biggest and Buzziest Books of 2021" | One of the New York Public Library's Best Books for Adults | San Diego Union Tribune—My Favorite Things from 2021 | Writer's Bone's Best Books of 2021 | Atlanta Journal Constitution—Top 10 Southern Books of the Year | One of the Guardian's (UK) Best Ten 21st Century Comic Novels | One of Entertainment Weekly's 15 Books You Need to Read This June | On Entertainment Weekly's "Must List" | One of the New York Post's Best Summer Reading books | One of GMA's 27 Books for June | One of USA Today's 5 Books Not to Miss | One of Fortune's 21 Most Anticipated Books Coming Out in the Second Half of 2021 | One of The Root's PageTurners: It’s Getting Hot in Here | One of Real Simple's Best New Books to Read in 2021 An astounding work of fiction from New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott, always deeply honest, at times electrically funny, that goes to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans and America as a whole In Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and more urgent: Mott’s novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appears to the author on his tour. As these characters’ stories build and converge, they astonish. For while this heartbreaking and magical book entertains and is at once about family, love of parents and children, art and money, it’s also about the nation’s reckoning with a tragic police shooting playing over and over again on the news. And with what it can mean to be Black in America. Who has been killed? Who is The Kid? Will the author finish his book tour, and what kind of world will he leave behind? Unforgettably told, with characters who burn into your mind and an electrifying plot ideal for book club discussion, Hell of a Book is the novel Mott has been writing in his head for the last ten years. And in its final twists, it truly becomes its title.

Author : Alexander Barrie
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780750954273

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Sutton Companion to the Folklore by Alexander Barrie Pdf

Britain's rich and varied folklore, legends and beliefs provide an insight into the island's history. Every invader, refugee or settler has helped contribute some new element or twist to the complex pattern of our national heritage. This volume provides a comprehensive companion to legends and customs in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

Author : Brigid Brophy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571304615

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The Adventures of God in His Search for the Black Girl by Brigid Brophy Pdf

'In the title story of [ The Adventures of God in His Search for the Black Girl] the main character, God himself, expresses a taste for writing that's sophisticated, stylish, literary. The words apply very well to [Brigid] Brophy's own best work.' New Republic 'What we have here is more common in England than America: reading that's at once very light and very intellectual. Consistent with her commitment to artifice and the rococo, Brophy believes in play... [She] is liveliest when speaking-or making the illustrious dead speak-of the life of art, of literature, music, architecture, which she thinks about a lot and knows a lot about.' Washington Post 'Tasty and nutritious... generally wise and witty... full of game-playing... Brigid Brophy remains a good though very British writer-balanced, erudite, sensible, unsubmissive to shrill sociological shibboleths, above all unscared.' Anthony Burgess , New York Times Book Review

Author : Stephen L. Moore
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698186361

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The Battle for Hell's Island by Stephen L. Moore Pdf

“Stephen L. Moore offers what will soon be ranked a major military classic... A major, first-rate, authoritative contribution to the literature of WWII.”—Leatherneck From the author of Pacific Payback comes the gripping true story of the Cactus Air Force and how this rugged crew of Dive-Bombers helped save Guadalcanal and won the war. November 1942: Japanese and American forces have been fighting for control of Guadalcanal, a small but pivotal island in Japan’s expansion through the South Pacific. Both sides have endured months of grueling battle under the worst circumstances: hellish jungles, meager rations, and tropical diseases, which have taken a severe mental and physical toll on the combatants. The Japanese call Guadalcanal Jigoku no Jima—Hell's Island. Amid a seeming stalemate, a small group of U.S. Navy dive bombers are called upon to help determine the island's fate. The men have until recently been serving in their respective squadrons aboard the USS Lexington and the USS Yorktown, fighting in the thick of the Pacific War's aerial battles. Their skills have been honed to a fine edge, even as injury and death inexorably have depleted their ranks. When their carriers are lost, many of the men end up on the USS Enterprise. Battle damage to that carrier then forces them from their home at sea to operating from Henderson Field, a small dirt-and-gravel airstrip on Guadalcanal. With some Marine and Army Air Force planes, they help form the Cactus Air Force, a motley assemblage of fliers tasked with holding the line while making dangerous flights from their jungle airfield. Pounded by daily Japanese air assaults, nightly warship bombardments, and sniper attacks from the jungle, pilots and gunners rarely last more than a few weeks before succumbing to tropical ailments, injury, exhaustion, and death. But when the Japanese launch a final offensive to take the island once and for all, these dive-bomber jocks answer the call of duty—and try to perform miracles in turning back an enemy warship armada, a host of fighter planes, and a convoy of troop transports. A remarkable story of grit, guts, and heroism, The Battle for Hell's Island reveals how command of the South Pacific, and the outcome of the Pacific War, depended on control of a single dirt airstrip—and the small group of battle-weary aviators sent to protect it with their lives.

Author : Tony Iommi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471112430

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Iron Man by Tony Iommi Pdf

The name 'Tony Iommi' sends shivers down the spines of guitarists around the world. As lead guitarist and songwriter of Black Sabbath, Tony Iommi is considered to be one of the most influential musicians of the past four decades and the inventor of heavy metal. From working class, Midlands roots, his unique playing style - a result of a disfiguring hand injury he suffered working in a sheet metal factory - created a dark and gothic sound unlike anything that had been heard before and which captured the mood of its time. Sabbath went on to become a superband, playing to massive audiences around the world and selling millions of records, and Iommi led the life of a rockstar to the fullest - with the scars from all the drug-fuelled nights of excess and wildness to show for it. Iron Manis the exclusive account of the life and adventures of one of rock's greatest heroes.

Author : Diana Pharaoh Francis
Publisher : Bell Bridge Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1611945461

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The Black Ship by Diana Pharaoh Francis Pdf

"Previously published by ROC, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) in 2000."

Author : Martha Rainbolt,Janet Fleetwood
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1984-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438416755

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On the Contrary by Martha Rainbolt,Janet Fleetwood Pdf

On The Contrary contains a balance of writings by men and women. The essays are presented in pairs, a man and a woman writing on each topic. This balanced juxtaposition allows students to discuss, think, and write about changing roles and relationships without being forced into either a feminist or traditionalist party line. The essays in each section reverberate suggestively with each other and this effect is reinforced by the discussion questions, writing topics, and introductory material. An additional table of contents arranges the essays according to rhetorical rubrics.

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781400880300

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Living on Paper by Iris Murdoch Pdf

For the first time, novelist Iris Murdoch's life in her own words, from girlhood to her last years Iris Murdoch was an acclaimed novelist and groundbreaking philosopher whose life reflected her unconventional beliefs and values. But what has been missing from biographical accounts has been Murdoch's own voice—her life in her own words. Living on Paper—the first major collection of Murdoch's most compelling and interesting personal letters—gives, for the first time, a rounded self-portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers. With more than 760 letters, fewer than forty of which have been published before, the book provides a unique chronicle of Murdoch's life from her days as a schoolgirl to her last years. The result is the most important book about Murdoch in more than a decade. The letters show a great mind at work—struggling with philosophical problems, trying to bring a difficult novel together, exploring spirituality, and responding pointedly to world events. They also reveal her personal life, the subject of much speculation, in all its complexity, especially in letters to lovers or close friends, such as the writers Brigid Brophy, Elias Canetti, and Raymond Queneau, philosophers Michael Oakeshott and Philippa Foot, and mathematician Georg Kreisel. We witness Murdoch's emotional hunger, her tendency to live on the edge of what was socially acceptable, and her irreverence and sharp sense of humor. We also learn how her private life fed into the plots and characters of her novels, despite her claims that they were not drawn from reality. Direct and intimate, these letters bring us closer than ever before to Iris Murdoch as a person, making for an extraordinary reading experience.