The Black Obelisk

Author : Erich Maria Remarque
Publisher : Random House
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812985559

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The Black Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque Pdf

From the author of the masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front, The Black Obelisk is a classic novel of the troubling aftermath of World War I in Germany. A hardened young veteran from the First World War, Ludwig now works for a monument company, selling stone markers to the survivors of deceased loved ones. Though ambivalent about his job, he suspects there’s more to life than earning a living off other people’s misfortunes. A self-professed poet, Ludwig soon senses a growing change in his fatherland, a brutality brought upon it by inflation. When he falls in love with the beautiful but troubled Isabelle, Ludwig hopes he has found a soul who will offer him salvation—who will free him from his obsession to find meaning in a war-torn world. But there comes a time in every man’s life when he must choose to live—despite the prevailing thread of history horrifically repeating itself. “The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”—The New York Times Book Review

Author : Morris Jastrow (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Assyria
ISBN : NLI:3077799-10

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Corrections to the Text of the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser II by Morris Jastrow (Jr.) Pdf

Author : Erich Maria Remarque
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:304583

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The Black Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque Pdf

Author : Linda Nagata
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250162403

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The Martian Obelisk by Linda Nagata Pdf

A powerful science fiction story about an architect on Earth commissioned to create (via long distance) a masterwork with materials from the last abandoned Martian colony, a monument that will last thousands of years longer than Earth, which is dying. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Erich Maria Remarque
Publisher : Random House
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812985634

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Heaven Has No Favorites by Erich Maria Remarque Pdf

From one of the twentieth century’s master novelists, the author of the classic All Quiet on the Western Front, comes Heaven Has No Favorites, a bittersweet story of unconventional love that sweeps across Europe. Lillian is charming, beautiful . . . and slowly dying of consumption. But she doesn’t wish to end her days in a hospital in the Alps. She wants to see Paris again, then Venice—to live frivolously for as long as possible. She might die on the road, she might not, but before she goes, she wants a chance at life. Clerfayt, a race-car driver, tempts fate every time he’s behind the wheel. A man with no illusions about chance, he is powerfully drawn to a woman who can look death in the eye and laugh. Together, he and Lillian make an unusual pair, living only for the moment, without regard for the future. It’s a perfect arrangement—until one of them begins to fall in love. “The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”—The New York Times Book Review

Author : Erich Maria Remarque
Publisher : Random House
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812985610

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Shadows in Paradise by Erich Maria Remarque Pdf

A haunting classic from the author of All Quiet on the Western Front, Shadows in Paradise reveals the deepest scars of the men and women who experienced the Holocaust. After years of hiding and surviving near death in a concentration camp, Ross is finally safe. Now living in New York City among old friends, far from Europe’s chilling atrocities, Ross soon meets Natasha, a beautiful model and fellow émigré, a warm heart to help him forget his cold memories. Yet even as the war draws to its violent close, Ross cannot find peace. Demons still pursue him. Whether they are ghosts from the past or the guilt of surviving, he does not know. For he is only beginning to understand that freedom is far from easy—and that paradise, however perfect, has a price. “The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”—The New York Times Book Review

Author : S. Yamada
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004496835

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The Construction of the Assyrian Empire by S. Yamada Pdf

In numerous ambitious expeditions Shalmaneser III of Assyria (859-824) lay the foundation of the subsequent remarkable military advance to the West of the Neo-Assyrian empire. While systematically scrutinizing and analyzing all accounts of these western campaigns, Shigeo Yamada not only discusses the historiographical problems encountered, together with their impact on the jigsaw of ninth century Ancient Near East history, but also offers new results, and an original historical reconstruction. Ample attention is given to the campaigns’ economic and ideological aspects. The book will serve as a useful reference for all students interested in Assyrian historiography and the history of Assyria and Syria-Palestine. It includes an appendix on a new edition of the Kurkh Monolith, based on the author’s collation.

Author : Austen Henry Layard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Nineveh (Extinct city)
ISBN : UOM:39015017487730

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A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh by Austen Henry Layard Pdf

Author : Henry Miller (Schriftsteller, USA)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:732253167

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Black Spring by Henry Miller (Schriftsteller, USA) Pdf

Author : N. K. Jemisin
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316229289

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The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin Pdf

Essun's missing daughter grows more powerful every day, and her choices may destroy the world in this "magnificent" Hugo Award winner and NYT Notable Book. (NPR) The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun -- once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger -- has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever. Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power -- and her choices will break the world. N. K. Jemisin's award winning trilogy continues in the sequel to The Fifth Season.

Author : Neil Pearson
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781387832

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Obelisk by Neil Pearson Pdf

This remarkable book details the work of one of the most extraordinary publishing enterprises in history. Censor-baiting, provocative, simultaneous publisher of the literary elite and of ‘dirty books’, Jack Kahane’s Obelisk Press published Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Lawrence Durrell, D. H. Lawrence, and James Joyce among others. At the same time Kahane subsidised his literary endeavours with cheap erotica and trash fiction from long-forgotten eccentrics such as New York Daily News’ Rome correspondent and self-styled ‘Marco Polo of Sex’ N. Reynolds Packard. Kahane’s business model was simple: if a book was banned in the UK and US it could be profitably published in Paris. Here, for the first time, Neil Pearson has pulled together the incendiary story of Obelisk, including biographies of Kahane and his major and minor authors, and a bibliography of Obelisk books. This beautifully written volume – part cultural history, part reference book – will be required reading for anyone interested in controversial writing, censorship, 1920s Paris, publishing history and authors such as Miller, Joyce and Nin.

Author : N. K. Jemisin
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316229302

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The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin Pdf

At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (The New York Times) This is the way the world ends. . .for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy. Read the first book in the critically acclaimed, three-time Hugo award-winning trilogy by NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.

Author : J. M. Coetzee
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1985-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140241778

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Dusklands by J. M. Coetzee Pdf

"J.M. Coetzee's vision goes to the nerve center of being."—Nadine Gordimer J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2017 will be available January 2018. A shattering pair of novellas in the tradition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Dusklands probes the links between the powerful and the powerless. "Vietnam Project" is narrated by a researcher investigating the effectiveness of United States propaganda and psychological warfare in Vietnam. The question of power is also explored in "The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee," the story of an eighteenth-century Boer frontiersman who vows revenge on the Hottentot natives because they have failed to treat him with the respect that he thinks a white man deserves. With striking intensity, J. M. Coetzee penetrates the twilight land of obsession, charting the nature on colonization as it seeks, in 1970 as in 1760, to absorb the wilds into the Western dusklands.

Author : Erich Maria Remarque
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101908082

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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque Pdf

A hardcover edition of the classic tale of a young soldier's harrowing experiences in the trenches, widely acclaimed as the greatest war novel of all time—featuring an Introduction by historian Norman Stone. Now a Netflix Film. When twenty-year-old Paul Bäumer and his classmates enlist in the German army during World War I, they are full of youthful enthusiam. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught to believe in shatters under the first brutal bombardment in the trenches. Through the ensuing years of horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another. Erich Maria Remarque's classic novel not only portrays in vivid detail the combatants' physical and mental trauma, but dramatizes as well the tragic detachment from civilian life felt by many upon returning home. Remarque's stated intention—“to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war"—remains as powerful and relevant as ever, a century after that conflict's end." Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

Author : Richard Barnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Obelisks
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119823529

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The Obelisk by Richard Barnes Pdf

Richard Barnes' book celebrates the long history and variety of Britain's obelisks, and pursues the absorbing question of why this feature of art and architecture has survived and thrived through the centuries.