Goshen Sunset: Poems From the Mountaintop Vol. II

Goshen Sunset: Poems From the Mountaintop Vol. II

Author: Thomas Henry Carter, PhD.

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-02-20

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1304797724

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Goshen Sunset: Poems From The Mountaintop - olume II consists of selected poems that describes the mountain environment of Goshen, West Virginia. The poems describe the natural wonders of Goshen and the emotions that the author experienced while walking its wood trails.


Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

Author: Stephen Mitchell

Publisher: Profile Books

Published: 2014-02-27

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1847653839

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Vivid, enjoyable and comprehensible, the poet and pre-eminent translator Stephen Mitchell makes the oldest epic poem in the world accessible for the first time. Gilgamesh is a born leader, but in an attempt to control his growing arrogance, the Gods create Enkidu, a wild man, his equal in strength and courage. Enkidu is trapped by a temple prostitute, civilised through sexual experience and brought to Gilgamesh. They become best friends and battle evil together. After Enkidu's death the distraught Gilgamesh sets out on a journey to find Utnapishtim, the survivor of the Great Flood, made immortal by the Gods to ask him the secret of life and death. Gilgamesh is the first and remains one of the most important works of world literature. Written in ancient Mesopotamia in the second millennium B.C., it predates the Iliad by roughly 1,000 years. Gilgamesh is extraordinarily modern in its emotional power but also provides an insight into the values of an ancient culture and civilisation.


Stories from the Bible

Stories from the Bible

Author: Walter de la Mare

Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions

Published: 2021-11-05T13:55:00Z

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1774642794

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A collection of major Bible stories of the Old Testament, delightfully re-told in modern English, from the Garden of Eden to David and Goliath! Although geared towards the young, this book is a delight for all ages...


The Journals of Sylvia Plath

The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Author: Sylvia Plath

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2013-01-16

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 030783039X

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The electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America's most acclaimed poets. Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her “Sargasso,” her repository of imagination, “a litany of dreams, directives, and imperatives,” and in fact these pages contain the germs of most of her work. Plath’s ambitions as a writer were urgent and ultimately all-consuming, requiring of her a heat, a fantastic chaos, even a violence that burned straight through her. The intensity of this struggle is rendered in her journal with an unsparing clarity, revealing both the frequent desperation of her situation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.