Far Off Things

Author : ARTHUR MACHEN
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789361156403

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Far Off Things by ARTHUR MACHEN Pdf

"Far Off Things," penned through Arthur Machen, immerses readers in a charming exploration of reminiscence, mysticism, and the transcendent nature of human revel in. A Welsh writer known for his esoteric and supernatural tales, Machen crafts a narrative that transcends the everyday and delves into the realms of surprise. The book serves as a memoir, inviting readers into Machen's reminiscences of his formative years and early adulthood in past due 19th and early 20th century England. Through a blend of autobiography and philosophical musings, Machen reflects at the transformative strength of creativeness and the appeal observed in seemingly mundane moments. "Far Off Things" is imbued with Machen's distinct prose, which weaves together the everyday and the extremely good, inviting readers to perceive the magical in the ordinary. Machen's deep connection to the landscapes and reports of his adolescents will become a lens through which he explores the interconnectedness of reality and the airy. This literary paintings, characterised by using its introspective and contemplative tone, offers readers a unique glimpse into the thoughts of a visionary creator. Machen's capability to infuse the ordinary with an experience of the fabulous makes "Far Off Things" a concept-frightening journey into the mysteries of existence.

Author : Lord Dunsany
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Unhappy Far-Off Things by Lord Dunsany Pdf

I have chosen a title that shall show that I make no claim for this book to be "up-to-date." As the first title indicates, I hoped to show, to as many as might to read my words, something of the extent of the wrongs that the people of France had suffered. There is no such need any longer. The tales, so far as they went, I gather together here for the few that seem to read my books in England. Dunsany.

Author : Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547054559

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Unhappy Far-Off Things by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Pdf

The First World War in France is the central subject of this historical book. The author says the book was written to show the wrongs that were done to France and the French people in the Great War. He opens with a melancholy description of the destroyed church at Arras, where trees no more than 4 years old grow by the side of the steps to the vanished entrance.

Author : Brian A. Sparkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134525515

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The Red and the Black by Brian A. Sparkes Pdf

The Red and the Black covers the major stages in the history of Greek pottery production, both figured and plain, as they are understood today. It provides an up-to-date evaluation of ways of studying Greek pottery and encourages new approaches. There is a detailed analysis of the subject matter of figured scenes covering some of the main preoccupations of ancient Greece: myth, fantasy and everyday life. Furthermore, it sets the artefacts in the context of the societies that produced them, highlighting the social, art historical, mythological and economic information that can be revealed from their study. This volume also covers a hitherto neglected area: the history of the collecting of Greek pottery through the Renaissance and up to the present day. It shows how market values have gradually increased to the high prices of today and goes on to take a closer look at the enthusiasm of the collectors.

Author : St. Thomas Aquinas
Publisher : Emmaus Academic
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781949013856

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Commentary on Isaiah by St. Thomas Aquinas Pdf

Christians have called the Book of Isaiah a “fifth gospel” because of its striking foretelling of the principal mysteries of the life of Jesus. But how do these prophecies of a still far-off Savior relate to the circumstances of Isaiah’s own time? St. Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on Isaiah is believed to be his first major theological work, produced as part of his academic training as a bachelor of theology. Carefully attending to the language and structure of Isaiah’s prophecy and using Scripture to shed light on Scripture, Aquinas explains how Isaiah’s message brought comfort to Israel and pointed forward to the coming of the Christ.

Author : Susan Johnston Graf
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438455556

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Talking to the Gods by Susan Johnston Graf Pdf

Explores occultism in the writings of four authors who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Talking to the Gods explores the linkages between the imaginative literature and the occult beliefs and practices of four writers who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. William Butler Yeats, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Dion Fortune were all members of the occult organization for various periods from 1890 to 1930. Yeats, of course, is both a canonical and well-loved poet. Machen is revered as a master of the weird tale. Blackwood’s work dealing with the supernatural was popular during the first half of the twentieth century and has been influential in the development of the fantasy genre. Fortune’s books are acknowledged as harbingers of trends in second-wave feminist spirituality. Susan Johnston Graf examines practices, beliefs, and ideas engendered within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and demonstrates how these are manifest in each author’s work, including Yeats’s major theoretical work, A Vision.

Author : Oliver Tearle
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781837641796

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Bewilderments of Vision by Oliver Tearle Pdf

According to Oscar Wilde, 'the primary aim of the critic is to see the object as in itself it really is not'. Through a series of close and often unusual readings, this book endeavours to develop Wilde's remark into a detailed and creative theory of reading. It focuses on a series of neologisms from writing of the period.

Author : Emily Alder
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030326524

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Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siècle by Emily Alder Pdf

This book explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de siècle, and examines weird fiction by British writers who preceded and influenced H. P. Lovecraft, the most famous author of weird fiction. From laboratory experiments, thermodynamics, and Darwinian evolutionary theory to psychology, Theosophy, and the ‘new’ physics of atoms and forces, science illuminated supernatural realms with rational theories and practices. Changing scientific philosophies and questioning of traditional positivism produced new ways of knowing the world—fertile borderlands for fictional as well as real-world scientists to explore. Reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) as an inaugural weird tale, the author goes on to analyse stories by Arthur Machen, Edith Nesbit, H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, E. and H. Heron, and Algernon Blackwood to show how this radical fantasy mode can be scientific, and how sciences themselves were often already weird.

Author : Augusta J. Evans,Augusta Evans
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429044882

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St. Elmo by Augusta J. Evans,Augusta Evans Pdf

Author : Jayne Thomas
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474436892

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Tennyson Echoing Wordsworth by Jayne Thomas Pdf

Uncovering Wordsworth's influence on TennysonThis book explores Tennyson's poetic relationship with Wordsworth through a close analysis of Tennyson's borrowing of the earlier poet's words and phrases, an approach that positions Wordsworth in Tennyson's poetry in a more centralised way than previously recognised. Focusing on some of the most representative poems of Tennyson's career, including 'The Lady of Shalott', 'Ulysses' and In Memoriam, the study examines the echoes from Wordsworth that these poems contain and the transformative part they play in his poetry, moving beyond existing accounts of Wordsworthian influence in the selected texts to uncover new and revealing connections and interactions that shed a penetrating light on Tennyson's poetic relationship with his Romantic predecessor.Key FeaturesFirst book-length study of Tennyson's poetic relationship with WordsworthBy focusing on echoes or parallel passages, book reevaluates Tennyson's poetic relationship with Wordsworth Reveals Wordsworth as the lynchpin of Tennyson's poetryRecalibrates critical estimates of Tennyson as poet, Poet Laureate and Post-Romantic poet

Author : John Keegan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781446496824

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The Face Of Battle by John Keegan Pdf

The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: an imperishable account of the direct experience of individuals at 'the point of maximum danger'. It examines the physical conditions of fighting, the particular emotions and behaviour generated by battle, as well as the motives that impel soldiers to stand and fight rather than run away. In this stunningly vivid reassessment of three battles, John Keegan conveys their reality for the participants, whether facing the arrow cloud of Agincourt, the levelled muskets of Waterloo or the steel rain of the Somme.

Author : Kostas Boyiopoulos,Mark Sandy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317154112

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Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914 by Kostas Boyiopoulos,Mark Sandy Pdf

For Decadent authors, Romanticism was a source of powerful imaginative revisionism, perversion, transition, and partial negation. But for all these strong Decadent reactions against the period, the cultural phenomenon of Decadence shared with Romanticism a mutual distrust of the philosophy of utilitarianism and the aesthetics of neo-Classicism. Reflecting on the interstices between Romantic and Decadent literature, Decadent Romanticism reassesses the diverse and creative reactions of Decadent authors to Romanticism between 1780 and 1914, while also remaining alert to the prescience of the Romantic imagination to envisage its own distorted, darker, perverted, other self. Creative pairings include William Blake and his Decadent critics, the recurring figure of the sphinx in the work of Thomas De Quincey and Decadent writers, and Percy Shelley with both Mathilde Blind and Swinburne. Not surprisingly, John Keats’s works are a particular focus, in essays that explore Keats’s literary and visual legacies and his resonance for writers who considered him an icon of art for art’s sake. Crucial to this critical reassessment are the shared obsessions of Romanticism and Decadence with subjectivity, isolation, addiction, fragmentation, representation, romance, and voyeurism, as well as a poetics of desire and anxieties over the purpose of aestheticism.

Author : Augusta Jane Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1F5U

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St. Elmo by Augusta Jane Evans Pdf

Author : Jessie E. Sampter
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:4064066152758

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The Seekers by Jessie E. Sampter Pdf

The Seekers is the story of Jessie E. Sampter's exploration of philosophical questions about religion, the meaning of life, the nature of art, and much more with a group of high school students. The work shows their quest to find meaning in life when sectarian religions differed among themselves and were based partially on myth and superstition. Moreover, the book explored how spiritual life was possible in a period of science and evolutionary theory, and several other important questions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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the cambridge bible for schools by Anonim Pdf