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Struggle for Love in a Dream. Online Medieval & Classical Library: Browse by Title. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Anonymous (Translation: Rev.

Online Medieval & Classical Library: Browse by Title

Liber Novus - A book of the unconscious, the spiritual, the psyche. One that needs to be read, page 1. Hello ATS I have recently happened upon a book that i must say looks extremely interesting, and may be of interest to many members here.

Liber Novus - A book of the unconscious, the spiritual, the psyche. One that needs to be read, page 1

The Best 100 Opening Lines From Books. Ten Novels Every Aspiring Writer Should Read. TYEE LIST #9: Put down that pen and curl up with these giants. Treat your craft seriously, as does Gabriel García Márquez. Some time ago I published an article about 10 novels that aspiring writers should avoid. It wasn't because they were bad -- most of them are modern classics -- but because their readable styles looked so easy that they might seduce a young writer into imitating them. Other novels deserve reading by writers precisely because they can't be imitated. They can only show us how far a particular technique can be pushed, and it's up to us to understand and adapt that technique to our own work.

Here are 10 novels that taught me something about the craft and art of fiction. Classics - A Nerd’s Guide to Reading. Literature Project - Free eBooks Online. Rare Book Room.

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Find your next book. Writers. Shira Lipkin. Well, At Least There Was Good Stuff to Read: The Books of the Decade. Anybody remember how anxious and thrilled we were in those last months of the 20th century?

Well, At Least There Was Good Stuff to Read: The Books of the Decade

When we weren't at war and we had a budget surplus and it looked like Al Gore would be president? The prospect of a 21st century filled with new technologies, new art and literature loomed large and bright. Happy Birthday #CSLewis. Today in 1898, one of my all-time favourite authors was born: C.

Happy Birthday #CSLewis

S. Lewis — a poet, scholar, story teller, reader, theologian, thinker and lover of tea. I honestly can’t remember a time when I didn’t love Lewis. 48 quick reads to impress university admissions tutors « i love english literature. 460+ FREE BOOK NOTES SUMMARY STUDY GUIDES Literature Notes Free Booknotes,Study Guide. 10 Essential Books for Book Nerds. What makes a book nerd?

10 Essential Books for Book Nerds

Reading a lot of books — and liking to talk about said books — is a major requirement, of course, but there’s often something a little more nebulous involved: book nerds are the kinds of people who get a little thrill when walking into a bookstore, who press volumes into their friends’ hands with serious promises of life changing moments, who are fascinated by following the many tangled threads through authors and literature, happily wandering wherever they might lead. Robin Sloan’s recently published Mr. Free Classic AudioBooks. Digital narration for the 21st Century. “The Pinecone”: Forgotten genius. In a remote rural corner of northern England stands a small, deceptively simple-looking church, built in the early 1840s.

“The Pinecone”: Forgotten genius

The church, St. Mary’s in the village of Wreay, Cumbria, is remarkable for several reasons. It was built in a style — the Romanesque or Norman, although the architect called it “Saxon” — that recalls the earliest Christian churches but that was decidedly out of fashion at the time. Female Perspectives: Five Novels That Bring Outsiders In. Andrew Bannecker For readers in search of tales that step outside familiar viewpoints, there is an abundance of fiction by women unraveling the big themes of conflict, religion, race and love — from new and different angles. The five novels I'm recommending offer up-close-and-personal engagement with characters who are often at odds with their communities or whose lives are so far on the periphery that we can be sure history books would pass them by. They make far-flung places and faraway lives feel immediate. 8 Books For a Higher Existence. Books are magical inventions.

8 Books For a Higher Existence

By carrying meaning, they gives us glimpses of experience and knowledge from a different world. Phonetic language, being cut-off from time and place, the Now, helps both to encapsulate the ego more, but also to offer guidance to make it poriferous, letting Eros free. Without books we would lose this guidance. And in these times of dire ecological and cultural crisis, we need new ways to respond to the ecosystem that we simultaneous are and are imbedded in.

These are the books that can lift our spirits to a necessary higher existence. If you’re done reading this list and want to level up more – check out part two! Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche. Books etc. Books, Music on Celtic Mythology Tarot Fairy Magic Underworld RJ Stewart. The Living World of Faery Book by RJ Stewart. 1995/1999.

Books, Music on Celtic Mythology Tarot Fairy Magic Underworld RJ Stewart

A definitive book on the faery tradition, with tales, ballads, visionary techniques, ceremonies, herb lore, faery healing, the Second Sight, and modern ways of working with the old traditions. Includes extracts from an 18th century journal, previously unpublished. (PB/ills/217pp). Price: $16.95 Sale Price: $10.00. “The Red Book and The Red Book: Jung, Tolkien and the Convergence of Images” 6 Aug Fascinating and oddly relevant for our times, one hundred years hence!

“The Red Book and The Red Book: Jung, Tolkien and the Convergence of Images”

May 13, 2014 In 1913 two men in Western Europe, of different age and unknown to each other, began to undergo a highly unusual experience: C.G. Jung and J.R.R. Book Review: Starhawk’s “The Fifth Sacred Thing” A local friend suggested I read “The Fifth Sacred Thing,” so that some of us could form a book discussion group about the ideas and vision of this novel.

Book Review: Starhawk’s “The Fifth Sacred Thing”

Although it took me awhile to get into the characters, I quickly saw why my friend has read this book three times and counting. It’s filled with permaculture principles, magick, natural healing, and the tension between totalitarian dystopia and a power-from-within ecotopia based upon respect, not control. I found Starhawk’s text incredibly prophetic, even when I thought it was written in 2005. My admiration tripled when I noticed a publication date of 1993! In 2013, as we face nuclear and toxic poisoning of the Pacific Ocean, a no longer hidden Police State, genetic manipulation, a transhumanist agenda, biological warfare, and increasingly intense weather events –both natural and human-aggravated — the setting of this novel in 2048 feels rather optimistic.

The 50 Books Everyone Needs to Read, 1963-2013. The thing about reading is this: it takes a long time. There are innumerable books in the world, and many more good ones than can be read by any mortal in a lifetime. It’s hard to choose — especially if you’re a slow reader. T.S. Eliot Reads His Modernist Masterpieces "The Waste Land" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Did you know T.S. Eliot’s portentous and heavily allusive 1922 masterpiece “The Waste Land” was originally titled “He Do the Police in Different Voices,” a quote from Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend?

Filled with references to Dante’s Divine Comedy, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and James Frazier’s The Golden Bough, this most famous of high modernist poems—scourge of millions of college freshman each year—was a very different animal before notorious modernist impresario Ezra Pound got his hands on it. Pound’s heavy reworking is responsible for the poem you hear above, read by Eliot himself. The first image in the video shows Pound’s marginal annotations. In the video above listen to Eliot read his second-most famous work, “The Love Song of J. Liber Novus - A book of the unconscious, the spiritual, the psyche. One that needs to be read, page 1. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Ulysses by James Joyce: Episode 18 - Penelope. 7 Books That Will Change the Way You See the World : Waking Times. BibliOdyssey Emporium - Cellarius Atlas (Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660) Glorious oversized reprint of (arguably) the greatest celestial atlas ever produced.

Product Description Stargazing: History's most beautiful constellation maps in XXL-format! Complete listing of The Academy for Ancient Texts. Ancient texts library. Ovid Illustrated, University of Virginia Electronic Text Center. 484,473 Free Books, World's Largest Online eBook Library. [share_ebook] Carl Jung - The Red Book: Liber Novus. The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre. Chinese author Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize for Literature. Chinese author Mo Yan has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for literature. A prolific author, Mo has published dozens of short stories, with his first work published in 1981. The Swedish Academy praised his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". Full text of "Letters Of Rainer Maria Rilke 1892 1910" BibliOdyssey Emporium - Peacay's Picks.