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Book When Sleep Brings No Rest

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  • Author : Michael Wild
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 0557508401
  • Pages : 45 pages

Download or read book When Sleep Brings No Rest written by Michael Wild and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Bront

Download or read book The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Bront written by Emily Jane Brontë and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1846 a small book entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bellappeared on the British Literary scene. The three psuedonymous poets, the Brontë sisters went on to unprecedented success with such novels as Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, and Jane Eyre, all published in the following year. As children, these English sisters had begun writing poems and stories abotu an imaginary country named Gondal, yet they never sought to publish any of their work until Charlotte's discovery of Emily's more mature poems in the autumn of 1845. Charlotte later recalled: "I accidentally lighted on a MS. volume of verse in my sister Emily's handwriting....I looked it over, amd something more than surprise seized me -- a deep conviction that these were not common effusions, nor at all like the poetry women generally write. I thought them condensed and terse, vigorous and genuine. To my ear they had also a peculiar music -- wild, melancholy, and elevating." The renowned Hatfield edition of The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë includes the poetry that captivated Charlotte Brontë a century and a half ago, a body of work that continues to resonate today. This incomparable volume includes Emily's verse from Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell as well as 200 works collected from various manuscript sources after her death in 1848. Some were deited and preserved by Charlotte and Arthur Bell Nichols; still others were discovered years later by Brontë scholars. Originally released in 1923, Hatfield's collection was the result of a remarkable attempt over twenty years to isolate Emily's poems from her sisters' and to achieve chronological order. Accompanied by an interpretive preface on "The Gondal Story" by Miss Fannie E. Ratchford, author of The Brontë's Web of Childhood, the edition is the definitive collection of Emily Brontë's poetical works.

Book Why We Sleep

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  • Author : Matthew Walker
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2017-10-03
  • ISBN : 1501144316
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Why We Sleep written by Matthew Walker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity ... An explosion of scientific discoveries in the last twenty years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now ... neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming"--Amazon.com.

Book Nod

    Nod

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  • Author : Adrian Barnes
  • Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
  • Release : 2015-09-01
  • ISBN : 1783298235
  • Pages : 199 pages

Download or read book Nod written by Adrian Barnes and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disturbing literary dystopian science fiction debut set in a near-future Vancouver during a deadly insomnia pandemic for fans of The Leftovers Dawn breaks over Vancouver and no one in the world has slept the night before, or almost no one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand, can still sleep, and they’ve all shared the same golden dream. After six days of absolute sleep deprivation, psychosis will set in. After four weeks, the body will die. In the interim, panic ensues and a bizarre new world arises in which those previously on the fringes of society take the lead. Paul, a writer, continues to sleep while his partner Tanya disintegrates before his eyes, and the new world swallows the old one whole.

Book University Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1856
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 784 pages

Download or read book University Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dublin University Magazine

Download or read book The Dublin University Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fortunes of Glencore

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  • Author : Charles James Lever
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1863
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book The Fortunes of Glencore written by Charles James Lever and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Works

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  • Author : Charles Lever
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1865
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book Works written by Charles Lever and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Novels of Charles Lever  The fortunes of Glencore

Download or read book The Novels of Charles Lever The fortunes of Glencore written by Charles Lever and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shedding the Years

Download or read book Shedding the Years written by James C. Bennett and published by Health Research Books. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fortunes Of Glencore

Download or read book The Fortunes Of Glencore written by Charles James Lever and published by VM eBooks. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am unwilling to suffer this tale to leave my hands without a word of explanation to my reader. If I have never disguised from myself the grounds of any humble success I have attained to as a writer of fiction; if I have always had before me the fact that to movement and action, the stir of incident, and a certain light-heartedness and gayety of temperament, more easy to impart to others than to repress in one's self, I have owed much, if not all, of whatever popularity I have enjoyed, I have yet felt, or fancied that I felt, that it would be in the delineation of very different scenes, and the portraiture of very different emotions, that I should reap what I would reckon as a real success. This conviction, or impression if you will, has become stronger with years and with the knowledge of life; years have imparted, and time has but confirmed me in, the notion that any skill I possess lies in the detection of character, and the unravelment of that tangled skein which makes up human motives.

Book The Fortunes of Glencore

Download or read book The Fortunes of Glencore written by Charles Lever and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Good Words and Sunday Magazine

Download or read book Good Words and Sunday Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ecoambiguity

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  • Author : Karen Thornber
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2012-03-02
  • ISBN : 0472028146
  • Pages : 751 pages

Download or read book Ecoambiguity written by Karen Thornber and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East Asian literatures are famous for celebrating the beauties of nature and depicting people as intimately connected with the natural world. But in fact, because the region has a long history of transforming and exploiting nature, much of the fiction and poetry in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages portrays people as damaging everything from small woodlands to the entire planet. These texts seldom talk about environmental crises straightforwardly. Instead, like much creative writing on degraded ecosystems, they highlight what Karen Laura Thornber calls ecoambiguity—the complex, contradictory interactions between people and the nonhuman environment. Ecoambiguity is the first book in any language to analyze Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese literary treatments of damaged ecosystems. Thornber closely examines East Asian creative portrayals of inconsistent human attitudes, behaviors, and information concerning the environment and takes up texts by East Asians who have been translated and celebrated around the world, including Gao Xingjian, Ishimure Michiko, Jiang Rong, and Ko Un, as well as fiction and poetry by authors little known even in their homelands. Ecoambiguity addresses such environmental crises as deforesting, damming, pollution, overpopulation, species eradication, climate change, and nuclear apocalypse. This book opens new portals of inquiry in both East Asian literatures and ecocriticism (literature and environment studies), as well as in comparative and world literature.

Book Bismarck

Download or read book Bismarck written by Volker Ullrich and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible biography of Otto von Bismarck, Germany’s first chancellor. Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) has gone down in history as the Iron Chancellor, a reactionary and militarist whose 1871 unification of Germany put Europe on a path of disaster leading up to World War I. But, as this new edition of his accessible biography shows, the real Bismarck was a far more complex character. A leading historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history, Volker Ullrich demonstrates that Bismarck—the “Founder of the Reich”—was, in fact, an opponent of liberal German nationalism. After the wars of 1866 and 1870, Bismarck spent the rest of his career working to preserve peace in Europe and to protect the empire he had created. Despite his reputation as an enemy of socialism, he introduced comprehensive health and unemployment insurance for German workers, and he was concerned with maintaining stability and harmony far beyond Germany’s newly unified borders. Comprehensive and balanced, Bismarck shows us the value of looking anew at this monumental figure’s role in European history.

Book A Guardian s Dream

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  • Author : Renee Wildes
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2019-09-08
  • ISBN : 1947128876
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book A Guardian s Dream written by Renee Wildes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-08 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plagued with nightmares of a goblin child tormented by monsters-and with her usual cures having no effect-dream faerie Pryseis journeys to the Shadowlands to heal the child in person even though doing so risks the wrath of the faerie council. And, if she's away from home too long, her very existence. Caught and imprisoned by an ungrateful goblin sorcerer, she's now trapped underground, chained, her despair growing as her time ticks down yet warmed by the memory of a man she has only touched in dreams. Benilo ta Myran drained his spirit healing powers during the war, but he has no choice. The beautiful faerie in his dreams is in trouble, and not even his worried king and queen can stop him from trying to save her before the darkness snuffs out her light. Finally they are together-chained side-by-side in a goblin dungeon. Their only hope for escape is to break the law to merge their powers in a ritual so intensely erotic it binds them for life. However short and nightmarish that life might be...

Book Sleep and Dreams in Early Greek Thought

Download or read book Sleep and Dreams in Early Greek Thought written by Stephanie Holton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how sleep and dreams were approached in early Greek thought, highlighting the theories of the Presocratic and Hippocratic writers on both phenomena as more varied, complex, and substantial than is usually credited. It explores how the Presocratic natural philosophers and early Hippocratic medical writers developed theories which drew from wider investigations into physiology and psychology, the natural world and the self, while also engaging with wider literary depictions and established cultural beliefs. Although the focus is predominantly on Presocratic and Hippocratic ideas, this is not exclusive: attention is devoted from the outset to sleep and dreams in Homer and the mythic tradition, as well as to depictions across lyric, drama, and historiography. Sleep and Dreams in Early Greek Thought provides a fascinating study of this topic which will be of interest to students and scholars of ancient medicine and the history of science, Greek philosophy, and classical culture more broadly. It is accessible to students with or without knowledge of the classical languages, and also to anyone with a general interest in the beliefs of the classical world.