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Author : Gabriel Levin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226923673
Collection of previously published essays.
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Gingko Library
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781909942417
In 1814, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe read the poems of the great fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in a newly published translation by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. For Goethe, the book was a revelation. He felt a deep connection with Hafiz and Persian poetic traditions, and was immediately inspired to create his own West-Eastern Divan as a lyrical conversation between the poetry and history of his native Germany and that of Persia. The resulting collection engages with the idea of the other and unearths lyrical connections between cultures. The West-Eastern Divan is one of the world’s great works of literature, an inspired masterpiece, and a poetic linking of European and Persian traditions. This new bilingual edition expertly presents the wit, intelligence, humor, and technical mastery of the poetry in Goethe’s Divan. In order to preserve the work’s original power, Eric Ormsby has created this translation in clear contemporary prose rather than in rhymed verse, which tends to obscure the works sharpness. This edition is also accompanied by explanatory notes of the verse in German and in English and a translation of Goethe’s own commentary, the “Notes and Essays for a Better Understanding of the West-Eastern Divan.” This edition not only bring this classic collection to English-language readers, but also, at a time of renewed Western unease about the other, to open up the rich cultural world of Islam.
Author : Dror Burstein
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374717520
“Those who lament that the novel has lost its prophecy should pay heed and cover-price: Muck is the future, both of Jerusalem and of literature. God is showing some rare good taste, by choosing to speak to us through Dror Burstein.” —Joshua Cohen, author of Moving Kings and Book of Numbers In a Jerusalem both ancient and modern, where the First Temple squats over the populace like a Trump casino, where the streets are literally crawling with prophets and heathen helicopters buzz over Old Testament sovereigns, two young poets are about to have their lives turned upside down. Struggling Jeremiah is worried that he might be wasting his time trying to be a writer; the great critic Broch just beat him over the head with his own computer keyboard. Mattaniah, on the other hand, is a real up-and-comer—but he has a secret he wouldn’t want anyone in the literary world to know: his late father was king of Judah. Jeremiah begins to despair, and in that despair has a vision: that Jerusalem is doomed, and that Mattaniah will not only be forced to ascend to the throne but will thereafter witness his people slaughtered and exiled. But what does it mean to tell a friend and rival that his future is bleak? What sort of grudges and biases turn true vision into false prophecy? Can the very act of speaking a prediction aloud make it come true? And, if so, does that make you a seer, or just a schmuck? Dramatizing the eternal dispute between poetry and power, between faith and practicality, between haves and have-nots, Dror Burstein’s Muck is a brilliant and subversive modern-dress retelling of the book of Jeremiah: a comedy with apocalyptic stakes by a star of Israeli fiction.
Author : Gabriel Levin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131803202
Third collection from Jersusalem's poet of the inner history of his adopted homeland, the Levant.
Author : Frank Herbert
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143111580
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Chang Chen, Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem A deluxe hardcover edition of the best-selling science-fiction book of all time—part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman Winner of the AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition Science fiction’s supreme masterpiece, Dune will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, it is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who will become the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib. Paul’s noble family is named stewards of Arrakis, whose sands are the only source of a powerful drug called “the spice.” After his family is brought down in a traitorous plot, Paul must go undercover to seek revenge, and to bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction. Penguin Galaxy Six of our greatest masterworks of science fiction and fantasy, in dazzling collector-worthy hardcover editions, and featuring a series introduction by #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, Penguin Galaxy represents a constellation of achievement in visionary fiction, lighting the way toward our knowledge of the universe, and of ourselves. From historical legends to mythic futures, monuments of world-building to mind-bending dystopias, these touchstones of human invention and storytelling ingenuity have transported millions of readers to distant realms, and will continue for generations to chart the frontiers of the imagination. The Once and Future King by T. H. White Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein Dune by Frank Herbert 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin Neuromancer by William Gibson 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Society of Friends
ISBN : PSU:000060069733
Author : International Association for Hydraulic Research. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Hydraulics
ISBN : UCR:31210020121131
Author : International Association for Hydraulic Research. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Hydraulic engineering
ISBN : UIUC:30112008453380
Author : Walter J. Sheldon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 067950477X
An artist invited to paint an old mansion being turned into a resort has frightening experiences that are connected to her forgotten childhood.
Author : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015059788623
Author : Michigan Natural Areas Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Michigan
ISBN : UOM:39015013601987
Author : Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Acculturation
ISBN : UOM:39015046479468
In a novel that moves with extraordinary fluidity and grace between two diametrically opposed worlds -- the timeless, "traditional" world of Native American peoples and the elaborate, stylized world of European and American upper-class culture at its glittering, falsely glamorous zenith before the First World War -- Leslie Marmon Silko, the author of such highly praised works of fiction as Ceremony and Almanac of the Dead, has written what Larry McMurtry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove, calls "a little masterpiece." With the sure hand and unerring eye of a mature artist, Silko takes the reader on a Grand Tour of England and Europe in the era of Henry James (in a novel peopled with characters whose sensibility and language are brilliantly Jamesian), as seen through the eyes of a young Native American girl, Indigo, who is in flight from the destruction at the hands of the whites of her own tribal world. Indigo's fascination with the world of luxury and privilege never eclipses her instinctive faith in the traditions and the culture of her own people, or her desire to return home to what remains of her tribe and her family. Spanning the jungles of Brazil, the gardens and stately homes of England and Europe, the desert of the American Southwest, and the great estates of the American rich at the height of the Gilded Age, Gardens in the Dunes is an ambitious, fully realized novel about the fatal collision between two cultures, that of the colonizers and that of the indigenous peoples they have conquered, and about the ideas, beliefs, and structures of time, mind, and habit that bind and sunder them. At the heart of the book is Indigo herself -- a young child of theSand Lizard people, who runs away from the government school to which the soldiers have taken her to be brought up in the ways of the white world. Until then, Indigo and her sister, Sister Salt, have lived with their grandmother, Grandma Fleet, a last, tiny remnant of a tribe that has been driven from its home among the garden terraces carved out of the sand dunes, and so reduced that Grandma Fleet and the girls have fallen from selling handmade baskets to tourists at the railway station to scavenging from the town dump. Yet they have not lost their tribal identity or their faith in the coming of a Messiah who will return to their people -- perhaps to all the Indian peoples -- their land, and whose coming is sought by means of the Ghost Dance, which has been strictly forbidden by government. Hattie, Indigo's kindhearted and determined rescuer, is herself something of rebel. Married to Edward, an older man, wealthy, well-connected, a much-traveled gentleman-scholar, botanist, and explorer who nurses complex schemes for making a vast fortune with exotic plants, Hattie has defied the prevailing Victorian standards for young ladies by pursuing her own career as a scholar (she is something of a bluestocking) and by not producing an heir. In Indigo, Hattie finds at once a cure for her own loneliness and lack of love (for Edward, however well-intentioned, is at best a diffident, remote, and unpassionate husband) and a new object of study. Kind, observant, optimistic, full of good intentions, Hattie methodically sets about transforming Indigo, whose high spirits and native intelligence soon re-merge into a "proper, " well-brought-up American child, a transformation that is doomed to fail,for Indigo's view of the world is very different from Hattie's. In the end, by small degrees, they (and we) begin to understand that Hattie has at least as much to learn from the child as the child does from her -- perhaps more. Gardens in the Dunes builds to a rich and unexpected climax in which Hattie finds herself reduced to poverty, thrown out of the society in which she has always lived so comfortably (however much she chafed at its rules), and is herself rescued by Indigo's people at the precise moment when the Ghost Dance is sweeping through the pueblos and reservations of the Indian peoples of the Southwest, bringing relationships between them and the whites to a new and dangerous level of tension. Satisfying, multifaceted, wise, and compassionate, Gardens in the Dunes is cause for celebration -- a major novel by perhaps the most gifted and best-known of Native American writers today.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Arizona
ISBN : UOM:39015017501555
Author : Francis Griswold
Publisher : New York : Morrow
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : South Carolina
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011763435
Author : Laura Griffin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593197394
When the shocking discovery of a murdered woman’s body disturbs the tranquility of tourist season, the police detective in charge of the puzzling case must work alongside the new filmmaker in town to pursue every lead in the new romantic thriller from New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin. After a scandal derails her television reporting career, Macey Burns comes looking for a change of pace in Lost Beach, Texas. She’s ready to focus on her first passion—documentary filmmaking—and has a new job working for the island’s tourism board, shooting footage of the idyllic beachside community. Her plans for a relaxing rebound are dashed when she realizes the cottage she’s renting belonged to the woman whose body was just found in the sand dunes. Detective Owen Breda is under intense pressure to solve this murder. Violent crimes are rising in his small town, and he can’t stand to see anyone else hurt…especially not the beautiful documentarian who keeps showing up at the precinct. With the clock ticking, cameras rolling, and body count climbing, Macey and Owen must use all their resources to find the killer without getting caught in the crosshairs.