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Author: J.L. Parsons Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1491818301 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 99
Book Description
Within these pages rest the sordid thoughts of an old soul who finds peace in the darkest corners of the world. You will find few uplifting words in this book and little to inspire, soothe or even help you cope. What you will find within these pages are poems that express the darkness many fear yet others embrace. Some require you to take time to examine this bizarre existence we call life, to gain a glimpse into the mind of those who make these shadows their home. Some paint a vivid picture with words that capture the beauty amid the macabre. Some express a dark sense of humor that causes the little clown in my mind to display his sinister grin. In short this book is for the dark, demented and those just a bit twisted. So find yourself a dimly lit corner, curl up with some hot tea and pastries and enjoy spending time with me in my darkness. J.L. Parsons
Author: J.L. Parsons Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1491818301 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 99
Book Description
Within these pages rest the sordid thoughts of an old soul who finds peace in the darkest corners of the world. You will find few uplifting words in this book and little to inspire, soothe or even help you cope. What you will find within these pages are poems that express the darkness many fear yet others embrace. Some require you to take time to examine this bizarre existence we call life, to gain a glimpse into the mind of those who make these shadows their home. Some paint a vivid picture with words that capture the beauty amid the macabre. Some express a dark sense of humor that causes the little clown in my mind to display his sinister grin. In short this book is for the dark, demented and those just a bit twisted. So find yourself a dimly lit corner, curl up with some hot tea and pastries and enjoy spending time with me in my darkness. J.L. Parsons
Author: Matt Cameron Publisher: ISBN: 9780868199399 Category : Australian drama Languages : en Pages : 125
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A darkly comic, modern parable of exile, belief, belonging and judgment, Footprints on water is about Noel, a religious zealot who is building an ark, so that when God destroys his morally corrupt village, Noel as self-appointed chosen one, will start the world again. When the flood comes, Noel finds himself trapped by his faith.
Author: Ardi Krum Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1665507802 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 110
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Ardi Krum wrote poetry to express emotions and thoughts during her years of earnestly seeking God. A God who, through a congregation of evangelicals, she grew to fear yet sincerely begged for his love. Her inquisitive mind needed answers concerning doctrine yet the church demanded a life based solely on faith and questions were discouraged. So, even with the threat of a wrathful God, Ardi began reaching outside her circle to professors and scholars. Ardi encountered people who could answer her questions based on scientific facts. Over time both the stories and the poetry change from a defeated young woman pleading with a deity for acceptance to a woman brazenly stepping outside the shadow of the cross. Through an unquenchable thirst for answers, supported by facts, you see the transformation from a humiliated fallen angel to a primate rising up and awakening as the Fifth Ape.
Author: Matthew Bell Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316123758 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 229
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Melancholia is a commonly experienced feeling, and one with a long and fascinating medical history which can be charted back to antiquity. Avoiding the simplistic binary opposition of constructivism and hard realism, this book argues that melancholia was a culture-bound syndrome which thrived in the West because of the structure of Western medicine since the Ancient Greeks, and because of the West's fascination with self-consciousness. While melancholia cannot be equated with modern depression, Matthew Bell argues that concepts from recent depression research can shed light on melancholia. Within a broad historical panorama, Bell focuses on ancient medical writing, especially the little-known but pivotal Rufus of Ephesus, and on the medicine and culture of early modern Europe. Separate chapters are dedicated to issues of gender and cultural difference, and the final chapter offers a survey of melancholia in the arts, explaining the prominence of melancholia - especially in literature.
Author: Joyce Carol Oates Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0593182758 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 162
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The Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling novel We Were the Mulvaneys “Its power of evocation is remarkable.” —The New Yorker In the midst of a long summer on Grayling Island, Maine, twenty-six-year-old Kelly Kelleher longs for something interesting to happen to her—something that will make her finally feel some of what she imagines other people must feel when they watch the fireworks explode off the beach. So when Kelly meets The Senator at an exclusive party and he asks her to go back to a hotel room on the main island with him, she says yes. Even though the senator is old enough to be her father, even though he has perhaps been drinking too heavily to get behind the wheel, the danger of saying yes is an inevitable and even exciting part of the adventure Kelly is finally going to have. However, as The Senator’s car whips around the island’s roads and eventually crashes through a guardrail, it becomes clear to Kelly and the reader that this man embodies a wholly different and more sinister type of danger, one much larger and harder to contain than the horrible events that unfold as Kelly is left in the sinking car. Black Water is a chilling meditation on power, trust, and violation and a timeless classic from one of America’s foremost storytellers.
Author: Warwick Deeping Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 13109
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This unique and meticulously edited collection of Warwick Deeping's complete works includes: Novels:_x000D_ Uther and Igraine_x000D_ Love Among the Ruins_x000D_ The Slanderers_x000D_ The Seven Streams_x000D_ Bess of the Woods_x000D_ A Woman's War_x000D_ Bertrand of Brittany_x000D_ Mad Barbara (These White Hands)_x000D_ The Red Saint_x000D_ The Pride of Eve_x000D_ King Behind The King (The Shield of Love)_x000D_ Apples of Gold_x000D_ The Secret Sanctuary (The Saving of John Stretton)_x000D_ Sorrell and Son_x000D_ Doomsday_x000D_ Kitty_x000D_ Old Pybus_x000D_ Roper's Row_x000D_ Exiles_x000D_ The Road (The Ten Commandments)_x000D_ Old Wine and New_x000D_ The Challenge of Love (Sincerity)_x000D_ Smith_x000D_ The Eyes of Love (Fox Farm)_x000D_ Two Black Sheep_x000D_ Seven Men Came Back_x000D_ The Man on the White Horse_x000D_ Valour_x000D_ Sackcloth into Silk (The Golden Cord)_x000D_ The White Gate_x000D_ No Hero—This_x000D_ Blind Man's Year_x000D_ The Woman at the Door_x000D_ The Malice of Men_x000D_ Shabby Summer (Folly Island)_x000D_ The Man Who Went Back_x000D_ The Dark House_x000D_ Mr Gurney and Mr Slade (The Cleric's Secret)_x000D_ The Impudence of Youth_x000D_ Laughing House_x000D_ Man in Chains_x000D_ Caroline Terrace_x000D_ Slade_x000D_ Short Stories:_x000D_ Countess Glika and Other Stories:_x000D_ Countess Glika_x000D_ The Red Shirt_x000D_ The Girl on the Mountain_x000D_ The Lady of the Terrace_x000D_ Bitter Silence_x000D_ The Short Stories of Warwick Deeping:_x000D_ Wilmer's Wife_x000D_ Two Men_x000D_ The Pool of the Satyr_x000D_ Old Fagus_x000D_ That Vulgar Person_x000D_ The Immortals_x000D_ The Harmless Satyr_x000D_ Silver's Bus_x000D_ Poet and Peasant_x000D_ Gustave_x000D_ Sand Dunes_x000D_ The First Wrinkle_x000D_ Shipwreck and a Shrew_x000D_ Caliban_x000D_ Noise_x000D_ Six Months to Live_x000D_ Sennen Climbs a Wall_x000D_ Rachel in Search of Reality_x000D_ Ridicule_x000D_ The Great Saaba Bridge_x000D_ The Blue Tulip_x000D_ A Red Blind_x000D_ The Three Trees_x000D_ The Red Van_x000D_ Stockings_x000D_ Sappho_x000D_ The Black Cat_x000D_ The Other Woman_x000D_ About It?_x000D_ Contraband_x000D_ Heritage_x000D_ Discord_x000D_ Restitution_x000D_ At "The Golden Palace" _x000D_ The Hesperides_x000D_ Elizabeth_x000D_ The Man Who Came Back_x000D_ The Child_x000D_ Paternity_x000D_ The Strange Case of Sybil Carberry_x000D_ The Cave_x000D_ Precious Stones_x000D_ Barron's Broken Head_x000D_ In the Snow_x000D_ Laughing Sickness_x000D_ The Man with the Red Tie_x000D_ Escape_x000D_ The Sand-pit_x000D_ The Liars_x000D_ The Broken Violin_x000D_ The Son_x000D_ Two in a Train and Other Stories:_x000D_ Two in a Train_x000D_ The Rainbow_x000D_ The Madness of Professor Pye_x000D_ Lucky Ship_x000D_ A Waxwork Sow_x000D_ Compassion_x000D_ Francois_x000D_ Jack and Andrew_x000D_ Out of the Sea...
Author: Barbara I. Gusick Publisher: Camden House ISBN: 157113526X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 256
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Annual collection on diverse aspects of the fifteenth century, emphasizing literary topics with essays on French, German, English, Gaelic, and Middle Scots. The fifteenth century defies consensus on fundamental issues; most scholars agree, however, that the period outgrew the Middle Ages, that it was a time of transition and a passage to modern times. Fifteenth-Century Studiesoffers essays on diverse aspects of the period, including liberal and fine arts, historiography, medicine, and religion. Volume 37 includes articles on René d'Anjou and authorial doubling in the Livre du Coeur d'Amour épris; tradition and innovation in popular German song poetry from Oswald von Wolkenstein to Georg Forster; the role of sacred images in Capgrave's Life of Saint Katherine; milieu, John Strecche, and the Gawain-poet; Gaelic, Middle Scots, and the question of ethnicity in three Scottish flytings; William Caxton's translations of Aesop; the visualization of information in Conrad Buitzruss's compendium; and Gilles de Rais and his modern apologists. Book reviews conclude the volume. Contributors: Albrecht Classen, Nicholas Ealy, Richard Garrett, Rosanne Gasse, Janice McCoy, Jacqueline Murdock, Ben Parsons, Carolyn King Stephens, Elizabeth Wade-Sirabian. BARBARA I. GUSICK is Professor Emerita of English at Troy University, Dothan, Alabama; MATTHEW Z. HEINTZELMAN is curator of the Austria/Germany Study Center and Rare Book Cataloger at Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota.
Author: John Harvey Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 1780231431 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 338
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As a color, black comes in no other shades: it is a single hue with no variation, one half of a dichotomy. But what it symbolizes envelops the entire spectrum of meaning—good and bad. The Story of Black travels back to the biblical and classical eras to explore the ambiguous relationship the world’s cultures have had with this sometimes accursed color, examining how black has been used as a tool and a metaphor in a plethora of startling ways. John Harvey delves into the color’s problematic association with race, observing how white Europeans exploited the negative associations people had with the color to enslave millions of black Africans. He then looks at the many figurative meanings of black—for instance, the Greek word melancholia, or black bile, which defines our dark moods, and the ancient Egyptians’ use of black as the color of death, which led to it becoming the standard hue for funereal garb and the clothing of priests, churches, and cults. Considering the innate austerity and gravity of black, Harvey reveals how it also became the color of choice for the robes of merchants, lawyers, and monarchs before gaining popularity with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century dandies and with Goths and other subcultures today. Finally, he looks at how artists and designers have applied the color to their work, from the earliest cave paintings to Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Rothko. Asking how a single color can at once embody death, evil, and glamour, The Story of Black unearths the secret behind black’s continuing power to compel and divide us.
Author: Ron May Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1643348108 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 246
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Imagine being thrust into a world where everything you knew as a child was now unfamiliar. The working crew on a Great Lakes iron core freighter is now your daily connection to earning enough money to go the college. As the events progress, the vessel, which is your home and job, becomes unstable and eventually not seaworthy. The crew is dysfunctional, and the dynamics of interactions of the captain’s family throw all caution to the wind. The history and connections to the past become very important to survival. The ship sinks in the blue-black water of Lake Superior, and the aftermath is a study in character and justice. Leadership principles are embedded in the story as a guide to behavior at its best.
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