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Through the Sad Wood Our Corpses Will Hang

Author : Ava Farmehri
Publisher : Essential Prose
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1771831561

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"At the age of twenty, Sheyda Porrouya's life is almost over. She was born in Iran on the day staunchly orthodox mullas declared the birth of the Islamic Republic and set about summarily purging the country of all things Western and un-Islamic. When the Regime shut down universities, Sheyda's father, who had been an ambitious law student, ended up as a load-lifter. To make matters worse, as she matured Sheyda seemed increasingly unable to distinguish between fairy tale and reality. She began to exhibit disturbing behavior. Her pious mother began to believe that her daughter was possessed and so, seeking a divine cure, she visited shrine after shrine. Almost everyone suspects that she is deranged, everyone except her lifelong therapist, Dr. Fereydoon, and a beautiful black-eyed cripple who lives next door. They don't think she's crazy, but they know she's not sane either. When Sheyda is accused of killing her mother, she is immediately jailed and sentenced to death by hanging. The narrative jumps back and forth from Sheyda's childhood to her current life in one of Iran's most notorious prisons, where she awaits either release or execution."--

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996-02-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199770335

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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri Pdf

This first volume of Robert Durling's new translation of The Divine Comedy brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and humor. Remarkably true to both the letter and spirit of this central work of Western literature, Durling's is a prose translation (the first to appear in twenty-five years), and is thus free of the exigencies of meter and rhyme that hamper recent verse translations. As Durling notes, "the closely literal style is a conscious effort to convey in part the nature of Dante's Italian, notoriously craggy and difficult even for Italians." Rigorously accurate as to meaning, it is both clear and supple, while preserving to an unparalleled degree the order and emphases of Dante's complex syntax. The Durling-Martinez Inferno is also user-friendly. The Italian text, newly edited, is printed on each verso page; the English mirrors it in such a way that readers can easily find themselves in relation to the original terza rima. Designed with the first-time reader of Dante in mind, the volume includes comprehensive notes and textual commentary by Martinez and Durling: both are life-long students of Dante and other medieval writers (their Purgatorio and Paradiso will appear next year). Their introduction is a small masterpiece of its kind in presenting lucidly and concisely the historical and conceptual background of the poem. Sixteen short essays are provided that offer new inquiry into such topics as the autobiographical nature of the poem, Dante's views on homosexuality, and the recurrent, problematic body analogy (Hell has a structure parallel to that of the human body). The extensive notes, containing much new material, explain the historical, literary, and doctrinal references, present what is known about the damned souls Dante meets --from the lovers who spend eternity in the whirlwind of their passion, to Count Ugolino, who perpetually gnaws at his enemy's skull--disentangle the vexed party politics of Guelfs and Ghibellines, illuminate difficult and disputed passages, and shed light on some of Dante's unresolved conflicts. Robert Turner's illustrations include detailed maps of Italy and several of its regions, clearly labeled diagrams of the cosmos and the structure of Hell, and eight line drawings illustrating objects and places mentioned in the poem. With its exceptionally high standard of typography and design, the Durling-Martinez Inferno offers readers a solid cornerstone for any home library. It will set the standard for years to come.

Writer's Market 2020

Author : Robert Lee Brewer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780593188194

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Writer's Market 2020 by Robert Lee Brewer Pdf

The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published! Want to get published and paid for your writing? Let Writer's Market 2020 guide you through the process with thousands of publishing opportunities for writers, including listings for book publishers, consumer and trade magazines, contests and awards, and literary agents—as well as new playwriting and screenwriting sections. These listings feature contact and submission information to help writers get their work published. Beyond the listings, you'll find articles devoted to the business and promotion of writing. Discover 20 literary agents actively seeking writers and their writing, how to develop an author brand, and overlooked funds for writers. This edition also includes the ever-popular pay-rate chart and book publisher subject index! You also gain access to: • Lists of professional writing organizations • Sample query letters • How to land a six-figure book deal

Diabolical Quest (Doomed Cases Book 2)

Author : Joanna Mazurkiewicz
Publisher : Joanna Mazurkiewicz
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Diabolical Quest (Doomed Cases Book 2) Maxine Brodeur is working hard to stay out of trouble these days, running her private detective agency with business partner Ricky and still drinking way too much tequila, until something from her past comes back to hunt her down. She is hired by an old friend Ronan to track down his son The Nameless Thief, a man that has managed to steal a private collection of royal letters that were left in Ronan’s possession. Unfortunately this only Royal correspondence that Nameless took from his father, he also obtained a letter that Max had written to Arthur, in which she revealed the whole truth about her disappearance from two years ago. The letter that she didn’t even know existed. From then on Max is sucked back into royal affairs, and must get to Nameless before he realises what he has in his possession. Pairing up once again teaming up with deliciously sexy detective Quinton. They will both face many ups and downs, trying to resist their explosive attraction, while the future King has his own agenda in mind. Will Max chose right man this time and will she be able to prevent her secret being exposed?

Doomed Cases Box Set

Author : Joanna Mazurkiewicz
Publisher : Joanna Mazurkiewicz
Page : 1063 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Doomed Cases Box Set by Joanna Mazurkiewicz Pdf

Her greatest downfall was getting involved with the Royals. Her only fear is that they discover her secret. Maxine Brodeur is working hard to stay out of trouble these days, running her paranormal private detective agency with business partner Ricky. But then the unthinkable happens. The Royals call on her again. She’s put that life behind, but now the past comes back to hunt her down. Surviving will require a sober head, and Maxine will have to fight her own demons to stay a step ahead. She’ll use her arsenal of demonic gifts to uncover the crimes, faceoff with the royal family who seeks more than obedience, but absolute servitude. Will Maxine find the strength to embrace her demonic magic, or allow the Royals to force her into a life of indentured service? There’s only one way out, and she’s doomed! The Doomed Cases series is recommended for fans of paranormal romance, fantasy, mystery, and demonic magic. This bundle includes:

My Heart Hemmed in

Author : Marie NDiaye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1931883629

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My Heart Hemmed in by Marie NDiaye Pdf

Nadia, the Narrator, is a school teacher in Bordeaux in the same school as her husband, Ange. They live their profession as apostolates and gain an authentic happiness. But for some time, the couple is the subject of a general, harassing and inexplicable vengeance by the students. Nobody wants to sit in the front row anymore; no one wants to hear the sounds of their voices; the children seem to be afraid of them... Nadia tries to understand the nature of this strange conspiracy through the movement of the story.

In Black and White

Author : Jun'ichirō. Tanizaki
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780231546256

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In Black and White by Jun'ichirō. Tanizaki Pdf

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's In Black and White is a literary murder mystery in which the lines between fiction and reality are blurred. The writer Mizuno has penned a story about the perfect murder. His fictional victim is modeled on an acquaintance, a fellow writer. When Mizuno notices just before the story is about to be published that this man’s real name has crept into his manuscript, he attempts to correct the mistake, but it is too late. He then becomes terrified that an actual murder will take place—and that he will be the main suspect. Mizuno goes to great lengths to establish an alibi, venturing into the city's underworld. But he finds himself only more entangled as his paranoid fantasies, including a mysterious "Shadow Man" out to entrap him, intrude into real life. A sophisticated psychological and metafictional mystery, In Black and White is a masterful yet little-known novel from a great writer at the height of his powers. The year 1928 was a remarkable one for Tanizaki. He wrote three exquisite novels, but while two of them—Some Prefer Nettles and Quicksand—became famous, In Black and White disappeared from view. All three were serialized in Osaka and Tokyo newspapers and magazines, but In Black and White was never published as an independent volume. This translation restores it to its rightful place among Tanizaki's works and offers a window into the author's life at a crucial point in his career. A critical afterword explains the novel's context and importance for Tanizaki and Japan's literary and cultural scene in the 1920s, connecting autobiographical elements with the novel's key concerns, including Tanizaki's critique of Japanese literary culture and fiction itself.

Nature and Necessity

Author : Tariq Goddard
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781910924457

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Even though they were mother and daughter they were known mostly as ‘the sisters’. It was a union that would lead them both into lives they wished they had not had. For thirty-five years, two women frighten each other through the fading twilight of the last century, their existence an unacknowledged tragedy of manners. Confusing their duty to one another for the feelings they’re too busy to mention, their desire for “modest social success” ends by asphyxiating whatever lies within its grasp. From the art galleries of Manhattan Island to the pubs of the North Yorkshire Moors, Nature and Necessity is a wild reimagining of the nineteenth-century realist novel, a story of siblings battling for survival and supremacy, a war story without armies, and a warning that even the most promising and prosperous of lives can be crushed by the fear of uttering the confession: I love you.

Christianity and Western Literature

Author : Ambrose Mong
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780227179413

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Christianity and Western Literature by Ambrose Mong Pdf

Some of the greatest works of Western literature have been inspired or influenced by powerful Christian themes. In this fresh evaluation of this relationship and its development over the last two millennia, Ambrose Mong studies a series of authors representative of the changing epochs. Augustine, Dante and Milton all wrote to serve the needs of the Christian community, and combine their religious themes with scholarly excellence. Meanwhile Shakespeare’s plays and Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, though not specific to the Christian faith, nevertheless betray the dominant Christian values and imagery of their time. Finally, in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Greene’s The Power and the Glory, Christianity is put under scrutiny, reflecting the increasing insecurity of its place in society. Throughout, Mong also shows that the themes in these works are to a certain extent universal. Creation, sin, suffering and forgiveness are perennial human concerns, beyond the exclusive purview of Christianity, and these texts serve to challenge Christian assumptions as much as they are influenced by them. Always thorough and sensitive to the unique context of each writer, Mong’s analysis provides an important grounding in the way Western literature has shaped and been shaped by the religion of its day.

Assumption

Author : Percival Everett
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555970383

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Assumption by Percival Everett Pdf

A baffling triptych of murder mysteries by the author of I Am Not Sidney Poitier Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman's murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading up to and away from her door. Something is amiss, and even his mother knows it. As other cases pile up, Ogden gives chase, pursuing flimsy leads for even flimsier reasons. His hunt leads him from the seamier side of Denver to a hippie commune as he seeks the puzzling solution. In Assumption, his follow-up to the wickedly funny I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Percival Everett is in top form as he once again upends our expectations about characters, plot, race, and meaning. A wild ride to the heart of a baffling mystery, Assumption is a literary thriller like no other.

Impossible Modernism

Author : Robert S. Lehman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781503600140

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Impossible Modernism by Robert S. Lehman Pdf

Impossible Modernism reads the writings of German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) and Anglo-American poet and critic T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) to examine the relationship between literary and historical form during the modernist period. It focuses particularly on how they both resisted the forms of narration established by nineteenth-century academic historians and turned instead to traditional literary devices—lyric, satire, anecdote, and allegory—to reimagine the forms that historical representation might take. Tracing the fraught relationship between poetry and history back to Aristotle's Poetics and forward to Nietzsche's Untimely Meditations, Robert S. Lehman establishes the coordinates of the intellectual-historical problem that Eliot and Benjamin inherited and offers an analysis of how they grappled with this legacy in their major works.

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780547527543

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes Pdf

National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry

Generals Die in Bed

Author : Charles Yale Harrison
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1550377302

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Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale Harrison Pdf

Charles Yale Harrison draws on his own experiences in the First World War to tell the story of a young man sent to fight on the Western Front.

The Way of the Strangers

Author : Graeme Wood (Journalist)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812988758

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The Way of the Strangers by Graeme Wood (Journalist) Pdf

"The Way of the Strangers is an intimate journey into the minds of the Islamic State's true believers. From the streets of Cairo to the mosques of London, Wood interviews supporters, recruiters, and sympathizers of the group...Wood speaks with non-Islamic State Muslim scholars and jihadists, and explores the group's idiosyncratic, coherent approach to Islam...Through character study and analysis, Wood provides a clear-eyed look at a movement that has inspired so many people to abandon or uproot their families.

The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise

Author : Georges Perec
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784786564

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The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise by Georges Perec Pdf

Darkly funny account of the office worker’s mindset by the celebrated French novelist A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the looming encounter in his mind, his neuroses come to the surface: What is the best day to see the boss? What if he doesn’t offer you a seat when you go into his office? The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise is a hilarious account of an employee losing his identity—and possibly his sanity—as he tries to put on the most acceptable face for the corporate world,with its rigid hierarchies and hostility to new ideas. If he follows a certain course of action, so this logic goes, he will succeed—but, in accepting these conditions, are his attempts to challenge his world of work doomed from the outset? Neurotic and pessimistic, yet endearing, comic and never less than entertaining, Perec’s Woody Allen-esque underling presents an acute and penetrating vision of the world of office work, as pertinent today as it was when it was written in 1968.