The third collection of short stories by J. R. Kruze.Known for a unique take on common situations, and a dry wit, Kruze is also able to look at usual circumstances and see unusual aspects to write about. These stories will let you start wondering about the world around you.Mystery, fantasy, paranormal, romance and science fiction are a few of this mixed genre collection.Enjoy seeing your world through J. R. Kruze's eyes...This anthology contains: - The Girl Who Became Tomorrow by J. R. Kruze - The Autists: Brigitte by J. R. Kruze - Dark Lazurai by J. R. Kruze - The Girl Who Saved Tomorrow by J. R. Kruze - A Dog Named Kat by J. R. Kruze - The Saga of Erotika Jones 01 by J. R. Kruze - A World Gone Reverse by J. R. Kruze, S. H. Marpel - The Arrivals by C. C. Brower, J. R. KruzeExcerpt: I TORE OFF THE HEADSET with it's VR goggles and earbuds. They skidded across my massive desk, scattering papers and files like a mini cyclone. Only stopping when they wrapped around the very solid, unmovable gray base of Lady Liberty.Someone had cast her as a thick bronze piece, originally created as a classless idea of a lamp support. I took out all that wiring and plugged that hole so she again stood for something. It's original message of friendship between two nations, united in the birth date of universal independence and freedom, had been altered by marketing to mean wanting "...huddled masses yearning to breathe free."But those weren't my favorite lines, which were at the beginning, "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp "I stood at that thought, and walked over to the two walls of plate glass, floor-to-ceiling windows that overlooked that N'Yack harbor. Clear days would allow you to see that Gray Lady standing with her back to us, far out in the harbor.And my thoughts always went back to my own grandmother and her grandmother - who had started and fostered a lineage of independent geniuses, ones who kept that legacy of pushing forward the technologies of this culture.They didn't come here through that harbor, but instead were born and raised in the Heartland. Extreme geniuses with talent far beyond their time, education, and sex.Along with that natural-born freedom to think, to innovate, to create a better world than the one we each were born into.I brushed a black lock out of my eyes and swung the rest of that long dark mane out of my way. And put my arms akimbo as I stood there, defiant against the history that had brought me here to this point in time, this office.That's what I thought as I looked far out across that harbor, looking for the real Gray Lady out there.Not for long.Because right about the time of that thought, I got a blinding flash of intuition and my reflexes soared me into action. Literally.I ran, leaped, and flew across to the other side of my up-armored desk, where I landed and curled into a reverse-rolling ball of tucked knees and arms. A ball that bumped to a stop back under that tiny desk crawlspace.Just before the explosion blew what was left of those two glass corner walls out into the streets below. And ignited the rest of my former office into a fireball.At least that's what they later told me happened.Scroll Up and Get Your Copy Now.
J.R.Euen's collection of short stories takes the reader from the streets of New York to the jungles of Africa. A steamship on Uganda's Lake Albert, a "floating Hotel", in the grand style, described by Ernest Hemingway as the "magnificence on water". The strange case of the man in the beekeeper's hat; a snake charmer in New York; a confidence trickster in Manila; a witch doctor in West Africa and a war veteran in London. These are some of the short stories in the collection.
Tolkien and Barfield have been brought by destiny into one of the most famous literary circles of the twentieth century. And no two authors could be said to be so startlingly different, both psychologically and artistically. This work takes its departure from the comparison of their most imaginative literature. What Tolkien weaves within his Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings emerges as a specific cosmology linked to the West as it continued the inheritance of the Mysteries of Atlantis and took new forms in the westernmost part of Europe. Tolkien shows in the stamp of his personality the connection to these Great Mysteries. He carries in his soul the desire, an almost lifelong obsession, of transmitting and translating these Mysteries of the past into the present. Barfield is deeply immersed in the culture of his time and everything that the English-speaking West has best to offer. His most artistic imaginations (chiefly The Silver Trumpet and The Rose on the Ash-Heap), as the rest of his work, show us where the future of the West lies. Barfield makes it abundantly clear how only by turning to the legacy and promise of spiritual science can the West renew and deepen its cultural impulse. But this is no one-way street; rather a cross-pollination and mutual strengthening of West and Central Europe. Here are two individuals who pursued similar, or parallel aims in diametrically polar ways. Both Tolkien and Barfield expressed the reality of the cosmic Christ in our time, but their views could not have been any more different, and yet complementary. Both perspectives combined are crucial for an understanding of the Christ being in our time.
George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 - 16 November 1902) was a prolific English novelist and war correspondent.He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century. His works include The Dragon & The Raven (1886), For The Temple (1888), Under Drake's Flag (1883) and In Freedom's Cause (1885).G. A. Henty was born in Trumpington, near Cambridge. He was a sickly child who had to spend long periods in bed. During his frequent illnesses he became an avid reader and developed a wide range of interests which he carried into adulthood. He attended Westminster School, London, and later Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was a keen sportsman. He left the university early without completing his degree to volunteer for the Army Hospital Commissariat when the Crimean War began. He was sent to the Crimea and while there he witnessed the appalling conditions under which the British soldier had to fight. His letters home were filled with vivid descriptions of what he saw. His father was impressed by his letters and sent them to The Morning Advertiser newspaper which printed them. This initial writing success was a factor in Henty's later decision to accept the offer to become a special correspondent, the early name for journalists now better known as war correspondents.Shortly before resigning from the army as a captain in 1859 he married Elizabeth Finucane. The couple had four children. Elizabeth died in 1865 after a long illness and shortly after her death Henty began writing articles for the Standard newspaper. In 1866 the newspaper sent him as their special correspondent to report on the Austro-Italian War where he met Giuseppe Garibaldi. He went on to cover the 1868 British punitive expedition to Abyssinia, the Franco-Prussian War, the Ashanti War, the Carlist Rebellion in Spain ...
Discover the remarkable life of J. R. R. Tolkien...J. R. R. Tolkien, an orphan in love with words, spent most of his life as an unassuming Professor of Literature at Oxford studying and teaching old languages. During his time there, he created his very own languages and a mythological world, Middle-earth. Middle-earth was inhabited by Hobbits, Dwarves, Elves, and other fascinating creatures. It was a world that became almost more real to Tolkien than the one he lived in. Tolkien's two masterpieces, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, have set the standard in mythological literature. Translated into more than 70 languages, the books and their battles of good and evil are as relevant today as they were when Tolkien first wrote them. Discover a plethora of topics such asFrom South Africa to the English CountrysideTolkien's Forbidden LoveTolkien during World War IYears at OxfordThe Hobbit and The Lord of the RingsLate Life and DeathAnd much more So if you want a concise and informative book on J. R. R. Tolkien, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access
Philosophy (in Greek means love of wisdom), mostly considered as a noble academic discipline, means the study of the fundamental principles and ideas of knowledge, truth, real world, proper behavior, values, and existence, based on logical reasoning. Some important personalities give their own interpretations: Protagoras (490 BC - 420 BC) - "Man is the measure of all things"; Socrates (470 BC - 399 BC) - "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance"; Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) - "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"; Ren Descartes (1596 - 1650) - "Cogito, ergo sum" (I think therefore I am); Bishop George Berkeley (1685 - 1753) - "Esse est percipi" (To be is to be perceived); Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) - "Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know".Plato (428 BC - 347 BC) was one of the greatest minds in human history, and he is the founder of the western philosophy: "What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, which climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy". J. R. Lucas, FBA, University of Oxford, is a mathematician, inventor, and one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time, who is a disciple of Plato, and who brings numerous new ideas in philosophy.In this book, for the general public, we chronologically present happenings from Lucas' and Plato's lives, as well as many other interesting events and facts, and include many writings of Lucas, as well as comments about Lucas. The wealth of the ideas from Lucas' books, having as roots Plato's books, represent a valorous contribution to our philosophical and cultural heritage, and will remain as a powerful testimony for the future generations..
This book is a critical introduction to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, but it also advances an argument about the novel in the context of Tolkien’s larger literary and philosophical project. Notwithstanding its canonical place in the fantasy genre, The Hobbit is ultimately a historical novel. It does not refer directly to any “real” historical events, but it both enacts and conceptualizes history in a way that makes it real. Drawing on Marxist literary criticism and narrative theory, this book examines the form and content of Tolkien’s work, demonstrating how the heroic romance is simultaneously employed and subverted by Tolkien in his tale of an unlikely hero, “quite a little fellow in a wide world,” who nonetheless makes history. First-time readers of Tolkien, as well as established scholars and fans, will enjoy this engaging and accessible study of The Hobbit.
Julius Ralph Davidson is widely known as the architect of Thomas Mann’s house. Born 1889 in Berlin, Davidson left Germany in 1923 and emigrated to the USA. In Los Angeles, he designed some 150 projects, among them three houses for the experimental Case Study House Program. This long overdue publication is a comprehensive documentation of Davidson’s life and work, highlighting J.R.’s contribution to modernism in California in the 1930s and 1940s.
