Author: Jan van RuusbroecPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004063686
Category : Mysticism
Languages : nl
Pages : 210
Book Description
Opera omnia
Author: Jan van RuusbroecPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004063686
Category : Mysticism
Languages : nl
Pages : 210
Book Description
What If the Sun...
Author: Charles Ferdinand RamuzPublisher:
ISBN: 9780987401472
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
What might the end of the world look like, to people who inhabit high mountains, whose lives are governed by the dependable revolution of the seasons? Perhaps the sun might slip beneath a western ridge one evening, and not return in the morning. In the first half of the 20th century, that terrifying prospect represented a mild version of hell. Real hell would be knowing in advance that it was going to happen. And so, revisiting a theme that Charles Ferdinand Ramuz had explored many times before in his fiction-notably in a short story that he wrote in 1912, on the eve of another war-he bestowed upon the villagers of Upper Saint-Martin the dreadful knowledge that the sun was sick and would soon expire, leaving them to die alone in the cold and the dark. The prophecy falls from the lips of the village sage and healer, Antoine Anzevui. The weather seems to bear him out. But the sun abandons those parts for a few months every year, so to accept the prophecy means to have faith in the prophet-to believe him when he says that the life-giving star won't return as expected in the spring. What holds for Upper Saint-Martin holds for the rest of the world, because in Ramuz's novels the village is the world and the world is the village Written in Fench as Si le soleil ne revenait pas and translated into English for the first time by Michelle Bailt-Jones, here are both the 1912 short story and the 1937 novel - What if the sun..."
Major Poetry
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
The House in Haarlem
Author: Arthur Van SchendelPublisher: Obscure Press
ISBN: 1846647762
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Originally published in 1936. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Oxford Companion to Art
Author: Harold OsborneGolden Ophelia
Author: Ward RuyslinckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Heart of Darkness
Author: Joseph ConradPublisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385487283
Category : Adventure stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This new edition combines Conrad's searing classic "Heart of Darkness" with an equally provocative, though less well known novella, "The Secret Agent". The volume is enriched by a number of intriguing gems from the archives of The New York Public Library, including a handwritten note from the author to his London agent and another to H.L. Mencken.
Graziella
Author: Alphonse de LamartinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Author: François Mauriac
Author: Thucydides