Documenting the final months of this literary and countercultural icon, personal reflections confront the state of the human race and a host of political and social ills, while meditating on his own aproaching death.
This posthumously published collection of stories, sketches, and articles includes the story "An Episode of War," one of Crane's most important works, plus "The Reluctant Voyagers," "Spitzbergen Tales," "Wyoming Valley Tales," "London ...
Parallel narrative of a Holocaust survivor in 1942 and her granddaughter, who discovers her diary in present day.
Christian,” supposedly the parting shot of Casanova, of all people.8 There is controversy even about the all-but-sacrosanct wording, though not the sentiment, of Nathan Hale's universally known words pronounced under the gallows, ...
A Final Collection of Stories Mary's Meadow -- Letters From A Little Garden -- Snap-Dragons -- Dandelion Clocks -- The Blind Man And The Talking Dog -- So-So -- The Trinity Flower -- The Kyrkegrim Turned Preacher -- Ladders To Heaven -- ...
Veteran FBI Special Agent Mia Shields heads for the idyllic bayside community of St. Dennis, Maryland, when a depraved killer leaves the body of an unidentified woman, naked and completely encased in plastic wrap, on the backseat of the car ...
In the idyllic bayside community of St. Dennis, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, a depraved killer has left a grisly surprise for Chief of Police Gabriel Beck: the body of a woman, naked and completely encased in plastic wrap, stretched across ...
Having said that, my relationship with the community of Trefeurig is rooted in my childhood: We used to go on family holidays there and often Worked on one of the local farms With Edwin and Eleanor Hughes. Smile When I say 'Work" ...
Lawrence's unique cinematic style has established him as one of the most respected dramatic directors of contemporary Australian cinema. While only producing three films in his 25-year career as a director, all of his features offer an ...
Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs is the most intimate book ever written by William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and one of the most celebrated literary outlaws of our time.
The last nine months of his diaries are here, in Last Words, and they form a complex, rarely seen, personal portrait of Burroughs at the end of his life, coming to terms with aging and death.
These are the final thoughts of one of the world's most extraordinary writers, who died in 1997, after a lifetime of notoriety - the granddaddy of the Beats, druggy, dangerous and bleak.
Rub out the word . Castaneda in The Teachings of Don Juan stresses the need to suspend the inner dialog — rub out the word — and gives precise exercises designed to attain a wordless state . Rub out the word — laughable if you will ...
Markus Novak just wants to come home.
Private investigator Mark Novak is still mourning the death of his wife, and it's affecting his work. With his future on the line, Mark is sent to check out a...
Last Words: The Hanging of Ronald Ryan
This book is a compilation of the last written words of the men who were executed after the rising of Easter week, 1916. It includes also statements and dispatches issued...
The book contains essays by Derrick de Kerchkove and Umberto Curi and is enriched by pictures of people who died by suicide, taken from the scandalous series The morgue by Andres Serrano.
Reassess medieval literature and the relationship between writers and power in England by arguing that major works commissioned by or written for a succession of Lancastrians--Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, and Prince Edward--reveal that John ...
In this powerful, moving book, author Robert J. Nash explores a fresh perspective on a familiar event, guiding readers into the forgiveness, hope, comfort, and compassion of Christ's words in his final moments on earth.