Download or read book The Distinction of the Mature and the Horror of the Naive and Other Stories of Youth in Limbo written by Ellison Fowler and published by The Artless Dodges Press. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I started thinking that Grant was right, that we all came from too much money. Not enough to spare us any hardship, but enough to take the edge off. We were never going to really fail or really succeed. Everything was going to be blunted by a buffer of money. There would always be money. We were never going to be destitute or struggling or starving. We would have to break entirely from our parents and their money to get anywhere near an experience that was not lessened by the knowledge that we would always be protected, looked out for, and kept from anything unpleasant or dirty. It was not life at all but something else, something lived walking six inches off the ground. I had never dropped anything that could not be replaced or transgressed in a way that couldn't be corrected." - from THE DISTINCTION OF THE MATURE AND THE HORROR OF THE NAIVE A pair of teenagers live their own version of Hemingway's fiesta in Pamplona; a group of college students spends the weekend at a hotel for a friend's wedding; a young bartender at a Mexican resort flirts with a pretty tourist: the characters in the seven stories that make up Fowler's collection - his "youth in limbo" - share youth, but they also share a palpable uncertainty, a wavering and fragile becoming made all the more perilous by their awareness of it. They are characters on the brink: they are preparing to sacrifice their infinite possible futures for the singular lives they will live. While the anxiety of this phase of life is often forgotten in time, when memory has made the course of one's life seem inevitable, in Fowler's hands it becomes vividly palpable once more: these are characters staring down an impending tragedy, one made all the worse by its intangibility, by their uncertainty about it, by their inability to articulate its character, by the older world's indifference to it. It is a tragedy Fowler captures with due restraint, subtlety, art, and compassion. Written by Ellison Fowler Cover Design by Tom Maven

Download or read book Hazaiah s Head written by Orhan Miloshe and published by The Artless Dodges Press. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The call, arising from the Royal throat of the reclining King, possessed of a great bellow from his Royal lungs, propelled by his Royal vocal chords, passed his Royal lips with such fury as to fill the august and stately bedchamber, traverse the threshold into the hall without and escape, through the open-air congress, even into the central courtyard, where it echoed momentarily among the gilded domes topping the castle's many towers, and disturbed as it did the many birds nesting there and startled the many guards on duty, before it rose, finally, into the blue and cloudless and insensate heavens. 'Bring me the head of Hazaiah the Terrible '" - from Hazaiah's Head A mad king calls for the head of a landed vassal in this novel from the author of I Awoke in a House Afire. The reward offered is so great that nearly every capable man in the kingdom sets off to win it. But their journey is fraught with misadventure, while political infighting, disease, and ambitious enemies threaten the kingdom in their absence. Far from a period drama, Miloshe's second novel rises to the level of metaphor, and for all of its violence and horror remains a sympathetic look at a race of animals gesturing at control while stumbling around in ignorance. Written by Orhan Miloshe Cover design by Tom Maven

Download or read book Limbo written by Vernon Lee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Limbo: And Other Essays And now for the other half of my pre liminary illustration of the subject, to wit, the Children's Rabbits' House. The little gardens which the children played at cultivating have long since disappeared, taken insensibly back into that comer of the formal but slackly kept garden which looks towards the steep hill dotted with cows and sheep. But in that comer, behind the shapeless Portugal laurels. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Limbo and Other Essays written by Vernon Lee and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Limbo and Other Essays

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Download or read book The Limbo Stories written by Otto Frank Miller and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Limbo Stories is an interwoven tale centered on the life events of Nick Kraus. Nick suffers an untimely death and finds himself in Purgatory, the state of Limbo that some folks are taught is a featureless netherworld of indefinite judgement. Nick's purpose while stuck in Limbo is to retell his life's stories to the souls he meets there. Likewise, the individuals he meets are there to share their stories with him and each other. Nick and the others, whether they know it or not, are there to solve the riddles of this life, with the only lessons in their possession being the lessons they learn from each other. Some stories are inspirational, some stories are tales of woe, and still others are cryptic parables. It is up to Nick and you, the reader, to decide what lesson he is to take from each encounter.When the time is right, and without notice, Nick will be plucked from Purgatory and sent back to live a part of his life anew. He will have no recollection of his time in Limbo, however, the lessons he learns will fortify his moral fabric and, ideally, lead him to make better decisions as he relives the events of his life. Unfortunately, most students of life need more than one sitting to pass the exam, and Nick will pay more than one visit back to Limbo to meet new folks and hear new tales.The coterie of characters that Nick meets runs the gamut from puritan to puerile to putrid; not every encounter is a happy one. But whether he meets a hedonistic smuggler or an Amish schoolboy, Nick's objective is the same: find the lesson and use it to change his life. The resulting collection, the Limbo Stories, is an intricately woven set of stories with Nick's life experience comprising the core thread.

Download or read book Limbo and Other Essays written by Vernon Lee and published by . This book was released on 2004-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moon, particularly, is continually en schne, as if to take the place of the fireflies, which last only so long as the corn is in the ear, gradually getting extinguished and trailing about, humble helpless moths with a pale phosphorescence in their tail, in the grass and in the curtains. The moon takes their place; the moon which, in an Italian summer, seems to be full for three weeks out of the four.

Download or read book Limbo and Other Essays To Which Is Now Added Ariadne in Mantua written by Vernon Lee and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may seem curious to begin with Dante and pass on to the Children's Rabbits' House; but I require both to explain what it is I mean by Limbo; no such easy matter on trying. For this discourse is not about the Pious Pagans whom the poet found in honourable confinement at the Gate of Hell, nor of their neighbours the Unchristened Babies; but I am glad of Dante's authority for the existence of a place holding such creatures as have just missed a necessary rite, or come too soon for thorough salvation. And I am glad, moreover, that the poet has insisted on the importance-"gente di molto valore"-of the beings thus enclosed; because it is just with the superior quality of the things in what I mean by Limbo that we are peculiarly concerned.

Download or read book LIMBO written by Vernon 1856-1935 Lee and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book The Birthday Of The World and Other Stories written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Her most important book since ALWAYS COMING HOME and her most satisfactory collection since her first, the brilliant THE WIND'S TWELVE QUARTERS. A formidable and rewarding work, a prime candidate for best SF collection of the year. An essential book.' LOCUS Six of the eight piece are set in Le Guin's classic Hainish cycle. The title story, 'The Birthday of the World', stands alone and the final piece, 'Paradises Lost', is a new short novel original to the collection, a major addition to the generation starship subgenre of science fiction.

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Download or read book Limbo and Other Essays to Which Is Now Added Ariadne in Mantua written by Lee Vernon and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

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Download or read book Life by Committee written by Corey Ann Haydu and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret: I kissed someone else's boyfriend. Assignment: Do it again. Like most who find Life by Committee, Tabitha is a little lost. Her best friend has ditched her, her Vermont town is feeling way too small, and she's falling head over heels for a guy named Joe—who already has a girlfriend. Just when Tab is afraid she'll burst from keeping the secret of Joe inside, she discovers Life by Committee. The rules of LBC are simple: tell a secret, receive an assignment. Complete the assignment to keep your secret safe. Tab likes it that the assignments push her to her limits, empowering her to live boldly and go further than she'd ever go on her own. But in the name of truth and bravery, how far is too far to go? Perfect for fans of E. Lockhart and Jennifer E. Smith, Life by Committee is a fresh, vibrant novel about the power of wanting, the messiness of friendship, and the truths we hide and share.

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