Download or read book Friends of Promise written by Michael Shelden and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original book gives a revealing picture of the extraordinarily talented group of men and women who produced Horizon, the foremost literary review of the 1940s. Published monthly in Bloomsbury, Horizon was a cultural beacon during the dark days of the Second World War; it was brilliantly eclectic and fiercely independent. Its principal editor, Cyril Connolly, regarded the pleasures of life and art as inseparable, cultivating his love of literature with the same intensity that characterized his love of good food and fine wine, and beautiful women. He published in Horizon the best and most influential writers of the period, among them W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene, Arthur Koestler, George Orwell, Edith Sitwell, Dylan Thomas, Evelyn Waugh, and many others. The dedicated circle of friends assisting Connolly included Peter Watson, Horizon's sophisticated publisher who supported the magazine generously with money inherited from his millionaire father, and who - as art editor - introduced readers to important new works by such artists as Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and Henry Moore. Stephen Spender helped to start the magazine and the staff also included the ambitious Sonia Brownell who eventually married George Orwell, and Lys Lubbock - an engaging, attractive woman who became the business manager, and who lived with Connolly for most of the 1940s. Drawing on interviews and unpublished documents, Michael Shelden provides an intimate account of literary life in a fascinating period of history, skilfully recreating the world of Horizon, and bringing vividly to life the colourful individuals who made the magazine a legend in its time.
Download or read book On the Horizon written by Nicholas Miran and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-03-02 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout mankind's existence, there has always been a political element. Yet modern politics has evolved to a point of fanatical unrealistic expectations and ideals. Technology, entertainment, and social media have created a delusional yet extravagant world where many are hoodwinked into believing that the solutions to mankind's problems can be controlled by simply maneuvering a joystick, tweeting a perspective, or just singing kumbaya. The notion that one switch can be turned off and another on surpasses all human reason yet seems to be the popular ideology in modern times. A subtle underlying power has replaced realism with an overwhelming inner force for change, with differing views and deep-seated emotions having triggered widespread conflicts and a social erosion never before seen in human history. You will soon discover the force that makes it impossible for humans to find success in governance, undermines their endeavor to bring peace and security to humanity and how this powerful agent actually finds pleasure in anarchy and conflict. Prepare to be astounded as to what will be revealed concerning the rise and fall of human governments and what is in store for these political institutions. I want to thank you for choosing On the Horizon. I am confident you will find it thoroughly mind-boggling, entertaining, and undoubtedly revealing. Because we have a struggle, not against blood and flesh, but against the governments, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the wicked spirit forces in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 6:12)
Download or read book Home on the Horizon written by Sally Bayley and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of space and place, Sally Bayley examines the meaning of 'home' in American literature and culture. Moving from the nineteenth-century homestead of Emily Dickinson to the present-day reality of Bob Dylan, Bayley investigates the relationship of the domestic frontier to the wide-open spaces of the American outdoors. In contemporary America, she argues, the experience of home is increasingly isolated, leading to unsettling moments of domestic fallout. At the centre of the book is the exposed and often shifting domain of the domestic threshold: Emily Dickinson's doorstep, Edward Hopper's doors and windows, and Harper Lee's front porch. Bayley tracks these historically fragile territories through contemporary literature and film, including Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men, Lars Von Trier's Dogville, and Andrew Dominik's The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford - works that explore local, domestic territories as emblems of nation. The culturally potent sites of the american home - the hearth, porch, backyard, front lawn, bathroom, and basement - are positioned in relation to the more conflicted sites of the American motel and hotel.
Download or read book The Weathermage written by Linda Smith and published by Coteau Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galia is a young weather-wizard sent to further train her magical powers and fulfil a destiny she neither knows nor cares about.
Download or read book The Horizon written by Didier Maleuvre and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a horizon? A line where land meets sky? The end of the world or the beginning of perception? In this brilliant, engaging, and stimulating history, Didier Maleuvre journeys to the outer reaches of human experience and explores philosophy, religion, and art to understand our struggle and fascination with limits—of life, knowledge, existence, and death. Maleuvre sweeps us through a vast cultural landscape, enabling us to experience each stopping place as the cusp of a limitless journey, whether he is discussing the works of Picasso, Gothic architecture, Beethoven, or General Relativity. If, as Aristotle said, philosophy begins in wonder, then this remarkable book shows us how wonder—the urge to know beyond the conceivable—is itself the engine of culture.
Download or read book Putnam s Monthly Magazine of American Literature Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jacques Derrida written by Zeynep Direk and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These three volumes assemble the most important essays written on Jacques Derrida's philosophy since he became established in 1967. These volumes make well-known essays easily available and also present many essays never translated in English.
Download or read book Horizon written by Fran Wilde and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A winged society faces the threat of ultimate extinction in the thrilling finale to Fran Wilde's Bone Universe fantasy series Kirkus Reviews' 27 Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Books to Read in September Unbound Worlds' Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books of September 2017 "One of the most fun, imaginative fantasy novels...I'm already anxiously awaiting her next book." —Book Riot on Updraft "That rare bird, the follow-up to a highly praised first novel that doesn't just equal its predecessor's accomplishments, but exceeds them." —Locus on Cloudbound A City of living bone towers crumbles to the ground and danger abounds. Kirit Densira has lost everything she loved the most—her mother, her home, and the skies above. Nat Brokenwings—once Kirit's brother long before the rebellion tore them apart—is still trying to save his family in the face of catastrophe. They will need to band together once more to ensure not just their own survival, but that of their entire community. Bone Universe 1) Updraft 2) Cloudbound 3) Horizon At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Apex Legends Pathfinder s Quest Lore Book written by Respawn Entertainment and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the world of the hit game through the eyes of the lovable robot, Pathfinder, as he chronicles his journey throughout the various environs of the Outlands to interview his fellow Legends -- all in the hope of finally locating his mysterious creator. The rich history of Apex Legends is explained by the characters that helped to shape it, as are their unique bonds of competition and camaraderie.
Download or read book A Promise of Thunder written by Connie Mason and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful widow Storm Kennedy vows to withhold her last possession--her body--when forced to marry virile Grady Stryker in an effort to get her land back. But she finds her will wavering against the dashing man's charms.
Download or read book HORIZON DIVIDED written by Maureen A. Miller and published by Maureen A. Miller. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exciting sequel to BENEATH... Stella and Colin search futilely for the rogue Atlantic current that dragged them to the shadowy Underworld just a few months ago. With an ill-defined area to explore, their futile attempts cost too much money and their resources are running out. When it appears that all hope is lost, a miracle occurs in the form of a retired Hollywood producer-turned-explorer who is willing to use his ship and equipment to support their quest. Although no one believes their tale, he is the most accepting person they have met. Whether his intentions are honorable or not remain to be seen. With a crew full of skeptics, Stella and Colin locate the downwelling current, and once again find themselves dragged into the subterranean network of caves deep in the Atlantic Ocean canyon. Time is running out for the Underworld, though. Will anyone be left to rise from beneath?
Download or read book On the Horizon of World Literature written by Emily Sun and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China. These moments were oriented alike by “world literature” as a discursive framework of classifications that connected and re-organized local articulations of literary histories and literary modernities. World literature thus provided—and continues to provide—a condition of possibility for conversation between cultures as well as for their mutual provincialization. The book offers readings of a selection of literary forms that serve also as textual sites for the enactment of new socio-political forms of life. The literary manifesto, the tale collection, the familiar essay, and the domestic novel function as testing grounds for questions of both literary-aesthetic and socio-political importance: What does it mean to attain a voice? What is a common reader? How does one dwell in the ordinary? What is a woman? In different languages and activating heterogeneous literary and philosophical traditions, works by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lu Xun, Charles and Mary Lamb, Lin Shu, Zhou Zuoren, Jane Austen, and Eileen Chang explore the far-from-settled problem of what it means to be modern in different lifeworlds. Sun’s book brings to light the disciplinary-historical impact world literature has had in shaping literary traditions and practices around the world. The book renews the practice of close reading by offering the model of a deprovincialized close reading loosened from confinement within monocultural hermeneutic circles. By means of its own focus on England and China, the book provides methods useful for comparatists working between other Western and non-Western languages. It establishes the critical significance of Romanticism for the discipline of literary studies and opens up new paths of research in global Romanticism and global nineteenth-century studies. And it offers a new approach to analyzing the cosmopolitan character of the literary and cultural transformations of early twentieth-century China.
Download or read book Colossal Horizon written by Karvileena Deka and published by Educreation Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry is a very powerful medium. It invites the reader to stay and sit awhile. It is deeply layered, nuanced, and open to interpretation of all kinds. It is lyrical while allowing the reader to bring their own melody. I enjoy the process of contemplation required in writing poetry almost as much as I enjoy reading others' responses, the same is with all of my team. My hope and utmost desire is that this compilation of poetry, lyrics, and images helps even one other wander lusting life traveller—whether you think you're lost, seeking, or somewhere else on your journey. Very specifically, I want to connect with you if you're looking for encouragement via aesthetics of poetry which we all tried as a beginner. If you feel a tugging on your heart to express more about something, but you're not sure what that something may be, or if you're trying to make sense you've carried for a while but feel disconnected from belief, or if you simply enjoy reading poetry and want to try a varied taste in a book, we were writing this with you in mind. From one perfectly imperfect creation to another, may you find whatever it is you're seeking, and in seeking, may you find peace, recreation, pleasure and happiness in this small work of poetry by our Team. This whole project was initiated with a group of seven eager minds, but the whole work would have been incomplete without the motivation of Sri Thaneshwar Malakar ji, a well-known author and a person well-known to encourage the literature in Assam. His initial review and motivation had a very deep impact in this book reaching the hands of the readers, for he gave the initial spark required to complete this Anthology. And taking his words as blessing, we moved forward.
Download or read book An Introduction to the Old Testament written by Walter Brueggemann and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2003-11-30 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Walter Brueggemann, America's premier biblical theologian, introduces the reader to the broad theological scope and chronological sweep of the Old Testament. He covers every book of the Old Testament in the order in which it appears in the Hebrew Bible and treats the most important issues and methods in contemporary interpretation of the Old Testament--literary, historical, and theological.
Download or read book Mystery Sky written by Diana Lane Lambert and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Take a flight into the photographic adventures of the unseen world through spirit mists, luminosities, unidentified energy sources, orbs and much more."
Download or read book A Promise on the Horizon written by Ann Pearson and published by . This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1811: the apex of Napoleon's empire. Two French travellers meet en route to Italy -- he playing truant from his official responsibilities, she bent on escaping her empty life. Initially hostile, they discover unexpected affinities when their paths cross again. She opens his mind to the possibility of a woman as equal and friend; he urges her to defy convention and pursue her heart's desire. The novel explores the impact of Italy's landscapes and culture on two very different personalities -- the one torn between ambition and freedom, the other seeking a new life but still enmeshed in the past. Their inner conflicts are echoed among the Italians they encounter, some supporting others resisting Napoleon's attempt to modernize their backward land. Based on episodes in the youth of the French writer Stendhal, the novel uses his Italian diary as the frame, interweaving it with fictional events and characters to create a nuanced portrayal of the Napoleonic era.
Download or read book Reading Derrida Thinking Paul written by Theodore W. Jennings and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interweaving of several of Derrida’s characteristic concerns with themes that Paul explores in Romans. It argues that the central concern of Romans is with the question of justice, a justice that must be thought outside of law on the basis of grace or gift. The many perplexities that arise from thus trying to think justice outside of law are clarified by reading Derrida on such themes as justice and law, gift and exchange, duty and debt, hospitality, cosmopolitanism, and pardon. This interweaving of Paul and Derrida shows that Paul may be read as a thinker who wrestles with real problems that are of concern to anyone who thinks. It also shows that Derrida, far from being the enemy of theological reflection, is himself a necessary companion to the thinking of the biblical theologian. Against the grain of what passes for common wisdom this book argues that both Derrida and Paul are indispensable guides to a new way of thinking about justice.
