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Book Synopsis On the Silver Globe by : Jerzy Zulawski
Download or read book On the Silver Globe written by Jerzy Zulawski and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trylogia Ksiezycowa (The Lunar Trilogy or The Moon Trilogy) is a trilogy of science fiction novels by the Polish writer Jerzy Zulawski, written between 1901 and 1911. It has been translated into Russian, Czech, German and Hungarian, and has been reprinted several times in Poland. This A+B edition marks the trilogy's first English translation. The first volume, Na Srebrnym Globie (On the Silver Globe; first book edition: Lwow, 1903) describes, in the form of a diary, the story of a marooned expedition of Earth astronauts who find themselves stranded on the Moon and found a colony. After several generations, they lose most of their knowledge and are ruled by a religious cult.
Book Synopsis The Lunar Trilogy by : Jerzy Zulawski
Download or read book The Lunar Trilogy written by Jerzy Zulawski and published by Winged Hussar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lunar Trilogy or The Moon Trilogy is a trilogy of science fiction novels by the Polish writer Jerzy Zulawski, written between 1901 and 1911. The first volume, On the Silver Globe, describes, in the form of a diary, the story of a marooned expedition of Earth astronauts who found a colony on the Moon. After several generations, they lose most of their knowledge and are ruled by a religious cult. The second volume, The Conqueror, focuses upon the colonists' anticipated Messiah, another traveler from Earth. After initial success, he fails to meet their expectations and is killed in an allegory to the death of Jesus Christ. The third volume, The Old Earth, describes the visit of two Lunar colonists to 27th-century Earth. It is ones of the early works of science fiction, long recognized as an influential work that has not previously been available in English. Jerzy Zulawski (1874 - 1915) was a Polish literary figure, philosopher, translator, alpinist and nationalist whose best-known work is the science-fiction epic, Trylogia Ksiezycowa (The Lunar Trilogy), written between 1901 and 1911.In a twenty-year writing career, from his first book of poems in 1895, at the age of 21, to his final World War I dispatches in 1915, Jerzy Zulawski created an impressive body of work-seven volumes of poetry, three collections of literary criticism, numerous cultural and philosophical essays, ten plays and five novels. He was considered an important and influential intellectual figure in the early years of the 20th century, but a century later, the only creation which has remained in print and assured him literary immortality is The Lunar Trilogy. Stanislaw Lem described reading, The Lunar Trilogy as "one of the most fascinating and life-changing experiences" of his youth.
Book Synopsis The Devil in Silver by : Victor LaValle
Download or read book The Devil in Silver written by Victor LaValle and published by One World. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • Publishers Weekly New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one. Pepper is a rambunctious big man, minor-league troublemaker, working-class hero (in his own mind), and, suddenly, the surprised inmate of a budget-strapped mental institution in Queens, New York. He’s not mentally ill, but that doesn’t seem to matter. He is accused of a crime he can’t quite square with his memory. In the darkness of his room on his first night, he’s visited by a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the head of a bison who nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. It’s no delusion: The other patients confirm that a hungry devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down. Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to fight back: Dorry, an octogenarian schizophrenic who’s been on the ward for decades and knows all its secrets; Coffee, an African immigrant with severe OCD, who tries desperately to send alarms to the outside world; and Loochie, a bipolar teenage girl who acts as the group’s enforcer. Battling the pill-pushing staff, one another, and their own minds, they try to kill the monster that’s stalking them. But can the Devil die? The Devil in Silver brilliantly brings together the compelling themes that spark all of Victor LaValle’s radiant fiction: faith, race, class, madness, and our relationship with the unseen and the uncanny. More than that, it’s a thrillingly suspenseful work of literary horror about friendship, love, and the courage to slay our own demons. Praise for The Devil in Silver “A fearless exploration of America’s heart of darkness . . . a dizzying high-wire act.”—The Washington Post “LaValle never writes the same book and his recent is a stunner. . . . Fantastical, hellish and hilarious.”—Los Angeles Times “It’s simply too bighearted, too gentle, too kind, too culturally observant and too idiosyncratic to squash into the small cupboard of any one genre, or even two.”—The New York Times Book Review “Embeds a sophisticated critique of contemporary America’s inhumane treatment of madness in a fast-paced story that is by turns horrifying, suspenseful, and comic.”—The Boston Globe “LaValle uses the thrills of horror to draw attention to timely matters. And he does so without sucking the joy out of the genre. . . . A striking and original American novelist.”—The New Republic
Download or read book The Silver Arrow written by Lev Grossman and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I loved every page. This is middle grade fiction at its best."-- Ann Patchett From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians comes a must-read, wholly original middle-grade debut perfect for fans of The Chronicles of Narnia and Roald Dahl. Dear Uncle Herbert, You've never met me, but I'm your niece Kate, and since it is my birthday tomorrow and you are super-rich could you please send me a present? Kate and her younger brother Tom lead dull, uninteresting lives. And if their dull, uninteresting parents are anything to go by, they don't have much to look forward to. Why can't Kate have thrilling adventures and save the world the way people do in books? Even her 11th birthday is shaping up to be mundane -- that is, until her mysterious and highly irresponsible Uncle Herbert, whom she's never even met before, surprises her with the most unexpected, exhilarating, inappropriate birthday present of all time: a colossal steam locomotive called the Silver Arrow. Kate and Tom's parents want to send it right back where it came from. But Kate and Tom have other ideas -- and so does the Silver Arrow -- and soon they're off to distant lands along magical rail lines in the company of an assortment of exotic animals who, it turns out, can talk. With only curiosity, excitement, their own resourcefulness and the thrill of the unknown to guide them, Kate and Tom are on the adventure of a lifetime . . . and who knows? They just might end up saving the world after all. This thrilling fantasy adventure will not only entertain young readers but inspire them to see the beautiful, exciting, and precious world around them with new eyes.
Download or read book Exile Cinema written by Michael Atkinson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-03-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outside the shrinking American film-culture market there is a vast movie-crazed world where madmen, geniuses, and apostates roam freely, subject to a relatively minimal degree of corporate industry and spin control. In Exile Cinema, prominent film critics profile the oeuvres of working, thriving international filmmakers—from Bela Tarr to Judith Helfand, from Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Guy Maddin to Chantal Akerman and Michele Soavi, from Chris Marker to the newest thresholds of contemporary film. These filmmakers battle the greatest odds a modern artist can face: the opposition of mass culture at large and a medium that requires enormous expenditures in every stage of production and distribution. Naturally, the average American moviehead rarely gets a chance to see these marginalized directors' work and often knows about them only through dazzled rumors and rhapsodic hearsay. Whimsical and deeply subjective, the viewpoints and evangelisms in Exile Cinema will serve as salve for the cineaste's lonesome fury.
Book Synopsis The Silver Bed of the Dukes of Cadaval by : Celina Bastos
Download or read book The Silver Bed of the Dukes of Cadaval written by Celina Bastos and published by Parques de Sintra - Monte da Lua, S.A.. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 3, "Collections In Focus | National Palaces | Sintra Queluz Pena".
Book Synopsis Report of the Director of the Mint Upon the Statistics of the Production of the Precious Metals in the United States by : United States. Bureau of the Mint
Download or read book Report of the Director of the Mint Upon the Statistics of the Production of the Precious Metals in the United States written by United States. Bureau of the Mint and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Geysers of Yellowstone, Fourth Edition by : T. Scott Bryan
Download or read book The Geysers of Yellowstone, Fourth Edition written by T. Scott Bryan and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised popular field guide describes in detail each of the more than 500 geysers in Yellowstone National Park. With updated information and a new foreword by park archivist Lee Whittlesey, Geysers of Yellowstone is both a reference work and a fine introduction to the nature of geyser activity for the newcomer to geothermal phenomena. A glossary of key terms is provided, along with a comprehensive appendix that discusses other geyser areas of the world. Detailed maps accompany each geyser basin described, and tables are provided for easy reference.
Book Synopsis Veronica and the New World by : J. Hamilton
Download or read book Veronica and the New World written by J. Hamilton and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing their adventures, Veronica Wilde and Billy Swift Fox find themselves transported out of the Cave of the Wind onto a planet in a far away galaxy. It was for this very purpose that they were tested so severely back on Earth. Here, they discover a beautiful place they call N'weden but evil in the form of dark magic has landed there as well. With the aid of new friends, they set about to drive away the vampire mage Bra'thid who is seeking to conquer the universe. His magic is linked to his very advanced technology and the last piece he needs to complete his marriage of black magic and space age computers lies somewhere on N'weden. As an extra incentive to his dark mind, he finds a yellow-haired girl whose blood will forever free him from the need to drink every day.
Download or read book Possession written by Alison Taylor and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Premiering at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession remains a distinct phenomenon. Though in competition for the illustrious Palme d’Or, its art cinema context did not rescue it from being banned as part of the United Kingdom’s ‘video nasties’ campaign, alongside unashamedly lowbrow titles such as Faces of Death and Zombie Flesh Eaters. Skirting the boundary between art and exploitation, body horror and cerebral reverie, relationship drama and political statement, Possession is a truly astonishing film. Part visceral horror, part surreal experiment, part gothic romance dressed in the iconography of a spy thriller: there is no doubt that the polarity evinced by Possession’s initial release was in part a product of its resistance to clear categorisation. With a production history almost as bizarre as the film itself, a cult following gained with its VHS release, and being re-appreciated in the decades since as a valuable work of auteur cinema, the story of how this film came to be is as fascinating as it is unfathomable. Alison Taylor’s Devil’s Advocate considers Possession’s history, stylistic achievement, and legacy as an enduring and unique work of horror cinema. Beginning with a marital breakdown and ending with an apocalypse, the film’s strangeness has not dissipated over time; its transgressive imagery, histrionic performances, and spiral staircase logic remain affective and confounding to critics and fans alike. Respecting the film’s wilfully enigmatic nature, this book helps to unpack its key threads, including the collision between the banal and the horrific, the socio-historical context of its divided Berlin setting, and the significance of its legacy, particularly with regard to the contemporary trend for extreme art horror on the festival circuit.
Book Synopsis The Edinburgh Encyclopædia Conducted by David Brewster, with the Assistance of Gentlemen Eminent in Science and Literature by :
Download or read book The Edinburgh Encyclopædia Conducted by David Brewster, with the Assistance of Gentlemen Eminent in Science and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genesis Search written by Barry E Woodham and published by Memoirs Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-25 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fourth book in the epic science-fiction saga The Genesis Project, the time-travelling, world-crossing journey of human civilisation continues, following the end of their brutal war against a host of alien foes. With the contact of new species, the alliance formed originally by humans and the highly-evolved Gnathe is strengthening and expanding. The Council of Worlds ensures the protection of all sentient beings and the great wars fought between species become a distant memory. Peace reigns. But it cannot last. A new threat appears when the Andromeda galaxy appears to be rapidly speeding towards their own and a destructive collision of worlds seems imminent. It soon becomes clear that an unknown force, known as the Harvester, has something to do with it. It becomes the duty of Kamiel 637 to find the cause of this strange phenomenon and stop it... fast. Using incredible technology and armed with great knowledge, Kamiel 637 is forced to go back through time and space to alter the very course of the universe...
Book Synopsis Microwave Experiment by : Mary E. Gregory
Download or read book Microwave Experiment written by Mary E. Gregory and published by Trine Day. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asserting that the U.S. government is carrying out microwave experimentation on its citizens, this discussion of various governmental chemical and biological testing sets forth unnerving accusations that are not for the faint of heart. This book is for those who wonder if national and global tragedies are not mere accidents, but rather planned events that are executed by the U.S. military-industrial-oil-bank complex for nefarious purposes. A variety of taboo topics not discussed in the mainstream media are addressed. Allegations such as electro-bolts to the brain, driverless cars swerving through traffic, and preparation for urban warfare are discussed in this book full of hard-hitting allegations.
Book Synopsis Silver Soldering Simplified by : Scott David Plumlee
Download or read book Silver Soldering Simplified written by Scott David Plumlee and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many crafters are interested in, but intimidated by soldering. Popular jewellery designer and instructor Scott David Plumlee shows readers how to use easy at-home soldering techniques to create more than 30 intricate-looking earrings, bracelets and necklaces. Scott David Plumlee, author of Handcrafting Chains and Bead Jewelry, teaches jewellery makers how to combine simplified soldering (using Argentium silver paste and a small hand-held butane torch) and wire-wrapping techniques to create a range of seemingly complex but doable chain and bead designs. The author's unique approach to combining beading, chain-making, wirework and soldering will appeal to a broad range of crafters.
Download or read book Under Magnolia written by Frances Mayes and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region’s powerful influence on her life. The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in Fitzgerald, Georgia. With her signature style and grace, Mayes explores the power of landscape, the idea of home, and the lasting force of a chaotic and loving family. From her years as a spirited, secretive child, through her university studies—a period of exquisite freedom that imbued her with a profound appreciation of friendship and a love of travel—to her escape to a new life in California, Mayes exuberantly recreates the intense relationships of her past, recounting the bitter and sweet stories of her complicated family: her beautiful yet fragile mother, Frankye; her unpredictable father, Garbert; Daddy Jack, whose life Garbert saved; grandmother Mother Mayes; and the family maid, Frances’s confidant Willie Bell. Under Magnolia is a searingly honest, humorous, and moving ode to family and place, and a thoughtful meditation on the ways they define us, or cause us to define ourselves. With acute sensory language, Mayes relishes the sweetness of the South, the smells and tastes at her family table, the fragrance of her hometown trees, and writes an unforgettable story of a girl whose perspicacity and dawning self-knowledge lead her out of the South and into the rest of the world, and then to a profound return home.
Author :Pamela Barlow Publisher :iUniverse ISBN 13 :0595357997 Total Pages :466 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book written by Pamela Barlow and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth is dying. Earthling find a new home. Starra Starbuck finds more than she could even possibly image.
Book Synopsis Into That Darkness by : Steven Price
Download or read book Into That Darkness written by Steven Price and published by Dundurn.com. This book was released on 2011-03-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed Canadian poet Steven Price has conjured a stunning debut novel that explores what we ask from each other, and how much we are prepared to give. Set in the city of Victoria, British Columbia, Into That Darkness opens at the moment when a massive earthquake hits the entire west coast with devastating results. Amid the destruction of the city, survivors are left to negotiate a calamity in which bonds of civility are pushed to their limits and often broken. When Arthur Lear hears a voice crying in the rubble, he finds himself descending deep under a collapsed building in a desperate attempt to save a young boy and his mother. But what he discovers there will change him forever — as circumstances lead him across the city’s broken landscape, through the chaos of its hospitals and streets, in a harrowing search for the mother’s lost daughter. Over the days that follow, Lear’s very sense of humanness will be tested and compromised, as he faces the limits of himself and his fellow survivors, in his long journey home. A novel for our age of anxiety and fear, Steven Price delivers a powerful story about the physical manifestation of the darker things lurking in our culture, in ourselves.
