Karyn Littleton can't decide if she's in a dream or woken up in a public bar while wearing her comfy footie pajamas. Through the course of the short evening she meets and interacts with various characters in the Bar None, the name of the drinking establishment she's in. Will she accept her hosts explanations about what is going on or will she reject his simple message? Only Karyn knows for sure.The world of the dream around Karyn seems more solid than the real world she left behind. That is, until she gets a good look at the characters around her. A drunk shape-shifting chronomancer, a bartender whose form shifts depending on who he's talking to, a waitress with four arms and green plant-like skin, an angel playing chess with a woman in a wheelchair, a maître d' who can't speak and writes everything on a small chalkboard, and a host whose face won't come into focus no matter how hard Karyn stares at it. It's no wonder she hasn't yet realized she's out in public in her comfy footie pajamas. Views: 704
A landmark of postmodern American fiction, Letters is (as the subtitle genially informs us) "an old time epistolary novel by seven fictitious drolls & dreamers each of which imagines himself factual." Seven characters (including the Author himself) exchange a novel's worth of letters during a 7-month period in 1969, a time of revolution that recalls the U.S.'s first revolution in the 18th century - the heyday of the epistolary novel. Recapitulating American history as well as the plots of his first six novels, Barth's seventh novel is a witty and profound exploration of the nature of revolution and renewal, rebellion and reenactment, at both the private and public levels. It is also an ingenious meditation on the genre of the novel itself, recycling an older form to explore new directions, new possibilities for the novel. Views: 687
"Birth of The Lady FBI" The day was a beautiful day. Today, the ‘hiking group’ girls were planning to go swimming at Jefferson Pool. Jefferson pool is a beautiful natural pool. One with a cave like grotto surrounding it. As they started to cross over the small wooden bridge. A man came running from the direction of the grotto.Local paper Next morning: BODY DISCOVERED AT JEFFERSON POOL YikesPREVIEW of "Birth of The Lady FBI"The day couldn’t have been more beautiful. The sun was out and there was a gentle breeze blowing. The temperature was going to be in the eighties, but with the breeze it would be perfect for hiking.Anyway, today, the ‘hiking group’ girls were planning to go swimming at Jefferson Pool. Jefferson pool is a beautiful natural pool. One with a cave like grotto surrounding it. It looks like something you might see on the island of Maui where they have those weddings for the tourists.They were all laughing and cutting up when they stepped on and started to cross over the small wooden bridge. Suddenly, a man came running from the direction of the grotto. He nearly knocked them down as he pushed his way past them.Yes, it had been like having a private beach because they had had the pool area to themselves all morning and into the early afternoon. The local paper – Next morning…BODY DISCOVERED IN GROTTO AT JEFFERSON POOLSarah calls the other girls together to discuss the events at the grotto.As they reviewed their day at Jefferson Pool, Olivia and Sarah, almost in unison said, “God, are we stupid or what?”“Just how dumb can we be?” It was like a light going off in both of their heads at the same time…This is getting a little SCARY…The Author, Shirley Quinlan, is like Angela Lansbury of "Murder She Wrote" fame… Views: 668
In 1979 Robert Penn Warren returned to his native Todd Country, Kentucky, to attend ceremonies in honor of another native son, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, whose United States citizenship had just been restored, ninety years after his death, by a special act of Congress. From that nostalgic journey grew this reflective essay on the tragic career of Jefferson Davis — "not a modern man in any sense of the word but a conservative called to manage what was, in one sense, a revolution." Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back is also a meditation by one of our most respected men of letters on the ironies of American history and the paradoxes of the modern South. Views: 626
Three short stories and two poems written from the Aesthetic life. The book follows a narrator ending his relationship and starting a new one still in the shadow of life defined by externality. Poetic and philosophical, Short Stories from Aesthetic Life illuminates life experienced through the beauty of art and literature.This is the story of Mia and Eve. When her ailing Aunts can not make it to market, their loyal and beloved cat Mia agrees to go in their place. Much to her annoyance the Aunts make her newly adopted little sister Eve tag along. The trip to the market is long and dangerous and along the way they will find themselves in some very tight situations, and meet some new friends...and enemies. When the two are seperated at market and Eve stumbles upon a very mean man intent on never letting her go home it will take Mia's determination, and a host of animal friends to help rescue Eve from a very mean villain. A tale of family, true friendship and courage. Views: 615
From a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the twentieth-century drama that was called "the finest verse play since the Elizabethans" (The New York Times). This modern verse play by the author of The Waste Land, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and other modern masterpieces deals with the problem of man's guilt—and his need for expiation through his acceptance of responsibility for the sin of humanity. It reveals the depth and versatility of a twentieth-century writer who excelled as both a poet and a dramatist. "What poets and playwrights have been fumbling at in their desire to put poetry into drama and drama into poetry has here been realized." —The New York Times Views: 535
By the winner of the National Book Award and bestselling author of "The Tidewater Tales," three of the great myths of all time revisited by a modern master.
Dunyazade, Scheherazade's kid sister, holds the destiny of herself and the prince who holds her captive.
Perseus, the demigod who slew the Gorgon Medusa, finds himself at forty battling for simple self-respect like any common mortal.
Bellerophon, once a hero for taming the winged horse Pegasus, must wrestle with a contentment that only leaves him wretched. Views: 479
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. Views: 477
From one of our most celebrated masters, a touching, comic, deeply humane collection of linked stories about surprising developments in a gated community
“I find myself inclined to set down for whomever, before my memory goes kaput altogether, some account of our little community, in particular of what Margie and I consider to have been its most interesting hour: the summer of the Peeping Tom.” Something has disturbed the comfortably retired denizens of a pristine Florida-style gated community in Chesapeake Bay country. In the dawn of the new millennium and the evening of their lives, these empty nesters discover that their tidy enclave can be as colorful, shocking, and surreal as any of John Barth’s fictional locales. From the high jinks of a toga party to marital infidelities, a baffling suicide pact, and the sudden, apocalyptic destruction of the short-lived development, Barth brings mordant humor and compassion to the lives of characters we all know well. From “one of the most prodigally gifted comic novelists writing in English today” (Newsweek), The Development is John Barth at his most accessible and sympathetic best. Views: 466
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them. Views: 464
The Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the first time, a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in over the full century in which Eliot has been so frequently printed and reprinted. The edition also presents many poems from Eliot's youth which were published only decades later, as well as others that saw only private circulation in his lifetime, of which dozens are collected for the first time. To accompany Eliot's poems, Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue have provided a commentary that illuminates the creative activity that came to constitute each poem, calling upon drafts, correspondence and other original materials to provide a vivid account of the poet's working processes, his reading, his influences and his revisions. The first volume respects Eliot's... Views: 403
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as by Eliot's own knotty notes, some of which require annotation themselves.
For ease of reading, this Norton Critical Edition presents The Waste Land as it first appeared in the American edition (Boni & Liveright), with Eliot's notes at the end. "Contexts" provides readers with invaluable materials on The Waste Land's sources, composition, and publication history. "Criticism" traces the poem's reception with twenty-five reviews and essays, from first reactions through the end of the twentieth century. Included are reviews published in the Times Literary Supplement, along with selections by Virginia Woolf, Gilbert Seldes, Edmund Wilson, Elinor Wylie, Conrad Aiken, Charles Powell, Gorham Munson, Malcolm Cowley, Ralph Ellison, John Crowe Ransom, I. A. Richards, F. R. Leavis, Cleanth Brooks, Delmore Schwartz, Denis Donoghue, Robert Langbaum, Marianne Thormählen, A. D. Moody, Ronald Bush, Maud Ellman, and Tim Armstrong. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included. Views: 387
