A Book of Exotic Dreams and Real Events

A Book of Exotic Dreams and Real Events

Author: Vasyl Gabor

Publisher: Sova Books

Published: 2024-03-03

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 0648948595

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Embark on an unforgettable literary journey with “A Book of Exotic Dreams and Real Events”, a mesmerising collection of novellas and short stories by the acclaimed Ukrainian author Vasyl Gabor. This second, revised English edition brings Gabor’s profound and imaginative works to a broader audience, first published in Ukrainian in 1999 and translated into English in 2012 by the adept British translator Patrick Corness, assisted by Ukrainian experts Natalia Pomirko and Oksana Bunio. Vasyl Gabor masterfully blends mysticism, folklore fantasy, detective intrigue, and adventure with phantasmagoric surrealism. His stories create a rich, complex tapestry where reality intertwines with the otherworldly, enveloping the reader in an atmosphere of wonder and mystery. Gabor’s intricate narrative design challenges and captivates, ensuring each story remains etched in your memory long after the last page is turned. This collection is not just a reading experience; it’s a journey through a realm of intense emotions and existential contemplations. The stories resonate with a sense of anxiety and unease, compelling you to live through them rather than merely read them. Finishing this book is a transformative experience, leaving you feeling changed, refreshed, and deeply moved. Written over more than two decades, this collection showcases Gabor’s evolution as a writer and his unique ability to capture the complexities of the human condition. Whether you’re a lover of surreal narratives, deep existential themes, or simply looking for a book that challenges the norms, “A Book of Exotic Dreams and Real Events” is an essential addition to your library. Dive into this extraordinary collection and let Vasyl Gabor’s vivid storytelling awaken your imagination and stir your soul.


Writing from Ukraine

Writing from Ukraine

Author: Mark Andryczyk

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2022-08-04

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1802061657

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A selection of fifteen of Ukraine's most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writers Under USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence in 1991 its literary scene flourished, as the moving and delightful poems, essays and extracts collected here show. There are fifteen authors included in this book, both established and emerging, and in this anthology we see them grappling with history and the future, with big questions and small moments. From essays about Chernobyl to poetry about Robbie Williams, from fiction discussing Jimmy Hendrix live in Lviv to underground Ukrainian poetry of the Soviet era, WRITING FROM UKRAINE offers a unique window into a rich culture, a chance to experience a particularly Ukrainian sensibility and to celebrate Ukraine's nationhood, as told by its writers.


The Witches of Kyiv

The Witches of Kyiv

Author: Orest Somov

Publisher: Sova Books

Published: 2016-11-04

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 0987594397

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In The Witches of Kyiv and Other Gothic Tales by Orest Somov the supernatural is present throughout Ukraine, from a cemetery in Kyivan Rus, to an isolated forest cottage in the seventeenth century Kozak era, to the society ballrooms of Somov’s own world – the early nineteenth century. Gothic horror appears in many guises including witches, warlocks, demons and vengeful ‘rusalka’. Strange soothsayers and malevolent visitors represent the forces of good and evil. In her foreword Dr Svitlana Krys describes Somov “as an initiator of an indigenous literary tradition of the Gothic in the Ukrainian literary canon”. Native folk traditions, ghost stories and European Romanticism are twisted together in Somov’s imaginative tales, most of which are published here in English for the first time.


Dreams of Other Worlds

Dreams of Other Worlds

Author: Chris Impey

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 0691169225

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The story of unmanned space exploration, from Viking to today Dreams of Other Worlds describes the unmanned space missions that have opened new windows on distant worlds. Spanning four decades of dramatic advances in astronomy and planetary science, this book tells the story of eleven iconic exploratory missions and how they have fundamentally transformed our scientific and cultural perspectives on the universe and our place in it. The journey begins with the Viking and Mars Exploration Rover missions to Mars, which paint a startling picture of a planet at the cusp of habitability. It then moves into the realm of the gas giants with the Voyager probes and Cassini's ongoing exploration of the moons of Saturn. The Stardust probe's dramatic round-trip encounter with a comet is brought vividly to life, as are the SOHO and Hipparcos missions to study the Sun and Milky Way. This stunningly illustrated book also explores how our view of the universe has been brought into sharp focus by NASA's great observatories—Spitzer, Chandra, and Hubble—and how the WMAP mission has provided rare glimpses of the dawn of creation. Dreams of Other Worlds reveals how these unmanned exploratory missions have redefined what it means to be the temporary tenants of a small planet in a vast cosmos.


The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death

The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death

Author: H.P. Lovecraft

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2003-02-25

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0345463307

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“[Lovecraft's] dream fantasy works are as terrifying and haunting as his tales of horror and the macabre. A master craftsman, Lovecraft brings compelling visions of nightmarish fear, invisible worlds and the demons of the unconscious. If one author truly represents the very best in American literary horror, it is H. P. Lovecraft.”—John Carpenter, Director of At the Mouth of Madness, Halloween, and Christine With an introduction by Neil Gaiman This volume collects, for the first time, the entire Dream Cycle created by H. P. Lovecraft, the master of twentieth-century horror, including some of his most fantastic tales: The Doom That Came to Sarnath—Hate, genocide, and a deadly curse consume the land of Mnar. The Statment of Randolph Carter—“You fool, Warren is DEAD!” The Nameless City—Death lies beneath the shifting sands, in a story linking the Dream Cycle with the legendary Cthulhu Mythos. The Cats of Ulthar—In Ulthar, no man may kill a cat...and woe unto any who tries. The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath—The epic nightmare adventure with tendrils stretching throughout the entire Dream Cycle. And twenty more tales of surreal terror!


Sweet Dreams, Sarah

Sweet Dreams, Sarah

Author: Vivian Kirkfield

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 19

ISBN-13: 1939547318

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Describes the life of Sarah Goode, who was born a slave and grew up to invent a space-saving foldable bed and became the first African American woman to obtain a patent in the United States.


What Dreams May Come

What Dreams May Come

Author: Richard Matheson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-04-29

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780765361189

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The New York Times bestseller A LOVE THAT TRANSCENDS HEAVEN AND HELL What happens to us after we die? Chris Nielsen had no idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short, separating him from his beloved wife, Annie. Now Chris must discover the true nature of life after death. But even Heaven is not complete without Annie, and when tragedy threatens to divide them forever, Chris risks his very soul to save Annie from an eternity of despair. Richard Matheson's powerful tale of life---and love---after death was the basis for the Oscar-winning film starring Robin Williams.


Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming

Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming

Author: Stephen LaBerge

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780345420121

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"[A] solid how-to book...For amateur dream researchers, this is a must." WHOLE EARTH REVIEW This book goes far beyond the confines of pop dream psychology, establishing a scientifically researched framework for using lucid dreaming--that is, consciously influencing the outcome of your dreams. Based on Dr. Stephen LaBerge's extensive laboratory work at Stanford University mapping mind/body relationships during the dream state, as well as the teachings of Tibetan dream yogis and the work of other scientists, including German psycholgist Paul Tholey, this practical workbook will show you how to use your dreams to: Solve problems; Gain greater confidence; improve creativity, and more. From the Paperback edition.


Delivering Dreams

Delivering Dreams

Author: Lori Preusch

Publisher:

Published: 2016-07-23

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780692528181

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Inspired by her adventurous Grandpa's letters, a young girl embarks on a magical, imaginative journey around the world.


Catherine the Great and the Culture of Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century

Catherine the Great and the Culture of Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Ruth Pritchard Dawson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-04-21

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1350244643

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This highly original study provides a detailed analysis of Catherine the Great's celebrity avant la lettre and how gender, power, and scandal made it commercially successful. In 1762, when Catherine II overthrew her husband to seize the throne of the Russian Empire, her instant popular fame in regions of Europe far from her own domains fit the still new discourse of modern celebrity and soon helped shape it. Catherine the Great and Celebrity Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe shows that over the next 35 years Catherine was part of a standard troika of celebrity-making agents-intriguing central figure, large-scale media, and an engaged public. Ruth P. Dawson reveals how writers, print makers, newspaper editors, playwrights, and more-the 18th-century's media workers-laboured to produce marketable representations of the empress, and audiences of non-elite readers, viewers, and listeners savoured the resulting commodities. This book presents long neglected material evidence of the tsarina's fantasy-inducing fame, examines the 1762 coup as the indispensable story that first constructed her distant public image, and explains how the themes of enlightenment, luxury consumption, clashing gender roles, and exotic Russia continued to attract non-elite fans and anti-fans during the middle decades of her reign. For the later years, the book considers the scrutiny inspired by the French Revolution and Catherine's skewering in unsparing misogynist cartoons as they applied to visual representations, her achievements as ruler, the long-ago overthrow of her husband, and her gradually revealed list of lovers. Dawson reflects on Catherine II's demise in 1796 and how this instigated a final burst of adoration, loathing, and ambivalence as new accounts of her life, both real and fictional, claimed to unwrap the final secrets of the first modern international female celebrity – even now the only woman in history widely known as 'the Great'.