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Author: Jordan Alexander Stein
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0674987047
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The novel was born religious, alongside Protestant texts produced in the same format by the same publishers. Novels borrowed features of these texts but over the years distinguished themselves, becoming the genre we know today. Jordan Alexander Stein traces this history, showing how the physical object of the book shaped the stories it contained.
Author: Thomas Howard
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 2014-04-21
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1681495260
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The fanciful novels of Charles Williams have long fascinated a rather elite reading public—T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden and C.S. Lewis for example, were among his great admirers. But those books—which include The Place of the Lion, Descent into Hell, and All Hallow’s Eve—are also dense and perplexing, and even the writer’s fondest devotees have found the meanings of his fiction elusive. Here at last is a clear and informed guide to the complexities and rich rewards of Charles William’s novels. As Thomas Howard notes, William’s tales might best be described as “metaphysical thrillers.” In which Williams used occult “machinery” in much the same way that Conrad used exotic locales and Joyce used the subconscious: to vivify human experience and awaken readers to its range and possibilities. One tale might feature a chase for the Holy Grail across Hertfordshire fields, while in another “the picture may switch with no apology at all from a policeman at a crossroad to the Byzantine Emperor.” As Howard lucidly demonstrates, the controlling factor behind William’s work is an essentially Christian worldview in which “heaven and hell seem to lurk under every bush” and the constant theme is order versus disintegration. Concentrating on William’s novels, Howard brilliantly illuminates the major concerns that informed all of William’s thinking. Howard also considers William’s work in the context of modern fictional practice and assesses its place in the tradition of the English language novel.
Author: Charles Williams
Publisher: Benediction Classics
Published: 2020-09
Total Pages: 1090
ISBN-13: 9781789432220
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The Novels of Charles Williams" is a collection of seven gripping novels. They have inspired C. S. Lewis and numerous other writers of fantasy.
Author: Tom McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2015-02-17
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1101874686
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize From the author of Remainder and C (short-listed for the Man Booker Prize), and a winner of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, comes Satin Island, an unnerving novel that promises to give us the first and last word on the world—modern, postmodern, whatever world you think you are living in. U., a “corporate anthropologist,” is tasked with writing the Great Report, an all-encompassing ethnographic document that would sum up our era. Yet at every turn, he feels himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data, lost in buffer zones, wandering through crowds of apparitions, willing them to coalesce into symbols that can be translated into some kind of account that makes sense. As he begins to wonder if the Great Report might remain a shapeless, oozing plasma, his senses are startled awake by a dream of an apocalyptic cityscape. In Satin Island, Tom McCarthy captures—as only he can—the way we experience our world, our efforts to find meaning (or just to stay awake) and discern the narratives we think of as our lives.
Author: John B. Olson
Publisher: Enclave
Published: 2016-01-21
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781621840640
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Will They Find Life on the Red Planet -- Before it Finds Them?After landing on the Red Planet, Valkerie Jansen has made the discovery of a lifetime -- evidence of past life on Mars. Shortly after she comes down with a mysterious illness and is attacked by someone -- or something -- that can't possibly exist. Everyone but Bob Kaganovski thinks she is hallucinating.NASA, fearing "back contamination" to earth, sets plans in motion to permanently quarantine the astronauts on Mars. Is Valkarie's "fifth man" real? If not, then who or what is trying to kill the crew?A Christy Award Finalist
Author: John B. Olson
Publisher: Enclave Publishing
Published: 2015-10-16
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781621840633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Take a Deep Breath... It Could be Your Last Valkerie Jansen is rough, beautiful, and has an uncanny knack for survival. But that doesn't explain why NASA picks her to be part of a two man, two woman crew to Mars--or does it?Halfway to the Red Planet, an explosion leaves the crew with only enough oxygen for one while the other three must be put in stasis. The crew's survival depends on complete trust in one another but all evidence points to sabotage. Who do they trust to stay awake?A Christy Award Winning Novel
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2021-12-28
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 1984898434
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition—from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man—in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction. In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom—who for more than half a century was regarded as America's most daringly original and controversial literary critic—gives us his only book devoted entirely to the art of the novel. With his hallmark percipience, remarkable scholarship, and extraordinary devotion to sublimity, Bloom offers meditations on forty-eight essential works spanning the Western canon, from Don Quixote to Book of Numbers; from Wuthering Heights to Absalom, Absalom!; from Les Misérables to Blood Meridian; from Vanity Fair to Invisible Man. Here are trenchant appreciations of fiction by, among many others, Austen, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Le Guin, and Sebald. Whether you have already read these books, plan to, or simply care about the importance and power of fiction, Harold Bloom is your unparalleled guide to understanding literature with new intimacy.
Author: Edward St. Aubyn
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-01-31
Total Pages: 689
ISBN-13: 0312429967
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This single volume brings together the first four Patrick Melrose novels by Booker Prize Finalist Aubyn. The collection includes "Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope," and "Mother's Milk."
Author: Jim Collins
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010-06-30
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 082239197X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as on the page. Fueled by Oprah’s Book Club, Miramax film adaptations, superstore bookshops, and new technologies such as the Kindle digital reader, literary fiction has been transformed into best-selling, high-concept entertainment. Collins highlights the infrastructural and cultural changes that have given rise to a flourishing reading public at a time when the future of the book has been called into question. Book reading, he claims, has not become obsolete; it has become integrated into popular visual media. Collins explores how digital technologies and the convergence of literary, visual, and consumer cultures have changed what counts as a “literary experience” in phenomena ranging from lush film adaptations such as The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love to the customer communities at Amazon. Central to Collins’s analysis and, he argues, to contemporary literary culture, is the notion that refined taste is now easily acquired; it is just a matter of knowing where to access it and whose advice to trust. Using recent novels, he shows that the redefined literary landscape has affected not just how books are being read, but also what sort of novels are being written for these passionate readers. Collins connects literary bestsellers from The Jane Austen Book Club and Literacy and Longing in L.A. to Saturday and The Line of Beauty, highlighting their depictions of fictional worlds filled with avid readers and their equations of reading with cultivated consumer taste.
Author: Randall Scott Ingermanson
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780310247050
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An extraordinary stone box was recently discovered in Jerusalem---the bone-box of 'James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus.' This is his story . . . It's the year A.D. 57 and Jerusalem teeters on the brink of revolt against Rome. James, leader of the Jewish Christian community, has an enemy in high places. And two very strange friends . . . Rivka Meyers is a Messianic Jewish archaeologist from California, trapped in first-century Jerusalem by a physics experiment gone horribly wrong. Ari Kazan is her husband, an Israeli physicist slowly coming to grips with his Jewish heritage---and with a man named Jesus he was raised to hate. With no way back to their own century, Rivka and Ari seek their niche in this doomed city of God. Ari applies his knowledge of physics to become an engineer, a man of honor. Rivka feels increasingly isolated in a patriarchal culture that treats women like children. She knows what's coming---siege, famine, fire. At first, her warnings earn her grudging respect as a 'seer woman.' But when one of her predictions misses, the city scorns her as a false prophet. Rivka knows that an illegal trial and execution awaits James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus. Can she prevent this disaster? Will James believe her 'premonition'? Or is Ari right that Rivka's meddling in history will only . . . make matters worse?
