In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of ...
Author: Philip Reeve
Publisher: Marion Lloyd Books
ISBN: 1407131257
Category: City and town life
Page: 568
View: 539
In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another.
As on a Darkling Plain is the chronological first book in The Others Saga by SF master and six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova. The discovery of huge alien machines operating on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is just the beginning of a nightmare for Dr. Sidney Lee. He is convinced that, without the intervention of his crew, these machines will destroy mankind.
Author: Kristen Renwick MonroePublish On: 2014-10-27
A Darkling Plain fills an important scholarly void, analyzing wartime stories that reveal much about our capacity to process trauma, heal wounds, reclaim lost spirits, and derive meaning and purpose from the most horrific of personal events ...
Author: Kristen Renwick Monroe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781316148006
Category: Political Science
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How do people maintain their humanity during wars? Despite its importance, this question receives scant scholarly attention, perhaps because war is overwhelming. The generally accepted belief is that wars bring out the worst in us, pitting one against another. 'War is hell', William Tecumseh Sherman famously noted, and even 'just' wars are massively destructive and inhumane. Since ethics is concerned with discovering what takes us to a morally superior place, one conducive to betterment and happiness - studying what helps people survive wartime trauma thus becomes an extremely valuable enterprise. A Darkling Plain fills an important scholarly void, analyzing wartime stories that reveal much about our capacity to process trauma, heal wounds, reclaim lost spirits, and derive meaning and purpose from the most horrific of personal events.
We were to know that , far from being a war of unity , the war was being fought by
the three old adversaries for the oil wealth of our areas and that we were to be
bruised , battered and bloodied and left to flounder helplessly on a darkling plain
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Author: Harvey Curtis WebsterPublish On: 2019-05-29
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Curtis Webster Routledge Revivals On a Darkling Plain On a Darkling Plain.
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Author: Harvey Curtis Webster
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780429656286
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 240
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Originally published in 1947 and presenting the famed poet-novelist against the background of contemporary thought and society, Harvey Curtis Webster shows that Hardy's later works give consistent evidence of hope; that pervasive pessimism was by no means the keynote of Hardy's thought. On a Darkling Plain traces the evolution of Hardy's thought, from faith, through disillusionment, to a cautious belief in the ultimate progress of man.
Letters written between 1950 and 1975 by Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen discussing their reading of Finnegan's Wake.
Author: Thornton Wilder
Publisher: Univ College Dublin Press
ISBN: 1900621541
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 732
View: 921
These unpublished letters between the esteemed teacher and literary critic, Adaline Glasheen, and the great American writer, Thornton Wilder, were written over a twenty-five year period, from 1950 to 1975. They reveal the probing energy and encyclope
The general thesis of this book is that the racking conflicts and painful doubts of Arnold and Hopkins about the role of poetry in the modern world-and in their own lives-were brought about in large part by the philosophical dilemma we have ...
Author: Howard W. Fulweiler
Publisher: [Columbia] : University of Missouri Press
ISBN: STANFORD:36105036055551
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 173
View: 792
The works of these two writers are especially appropriate for linguistic and epistemological study because we find in them an unusually large amount of theorizing about the function of poetry and language-implicit in their poetry and explicit in Arnold's formal criticism and in Hopkins' letters and journals. It is a striking fact that their theorizing is itself as internally divided as the obvious polarities within each man's career. The general thesis of this book is that the racking conflicts and painful doubts of Arnold and Hopkins about the role of poetry in the modern world-and in their own lives-were brought about in large part by the philosophical dilemma we have been discussing and, further, that their careers illuminate the problem with enormous and sometimes horrifying clarity.
Agents for peace are bringing an end to the devastating conflict between the roaming Traction Cities and their fanatical enemies while Wren and her father Tom travel the Bird Roads in their airship, trying to forget that Hester has betrayed ...
Author: Philip Reeve
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
ISBN: 9781921988172
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 352
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Agents for peace are bringing an end to the devastating conflict between the roaming Traction Cities and their fanatical enemies while Wren and her father Tom travel the Bird Roads in their airship, trying to forget that Hester has betrayed them. In the ruined wreckage of the city of London they make a discovery that will change the world, while Hester must face an implacable foe with the means and the will to destroy the entire human race.
While dealing with people from their past and treachery from unexpected sources, Tom, Hester, and Wren return to save the world.
Author: Philip Reeve
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 0545222141
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 532
View: 775
While dealing with people from their past and treachery from unexpected sources, Tom, Hester and Wren return to the radioactive sesspool known as London to save the world, in the thrilling conclusion to the Predator Cities series. Reprint.
Speaking the deepest and truest thoughts of humankind in the language available only to the gifted, the Victorian poets elected to do more than merely sing as versifiers.
Author: James Haydock
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 146786160X
Category: Poetry
Page: 384
View: 366
Speaking the deepest and truest thoughts of humankind in the language available only to the gifted, the Victorian poets elected to do more than merely sing as versifiers. By coming to grips with thorny contemporary issues and suggesting workable solutions, they struggled to lead their people out of the wilderness. Tennyson, who came to be known as the voice of Victorianism, is the poet most often credited with this ambition. But Matthew Arnold and the other major poets had a similar aim. Their poems, while not devoid of feeling, are charged with the main currents of social, scientific, religious, and philosophical thought. Interwoven and resonating in sensuous song is their own thought. The best of the poetry fits the word and thought to the troubling developments of the time and rises to a prophecy to predict the problems of our time.
