Lying Under the Apple Tree
Lying Under the Apple Tree

Author: Alice Munro

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2014-05-08

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 147351374X

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‘Munro is still one of our most fearless explorers of the human being, as she descends, time and again, headlamp on full beam, pickaxe and butter-knife at the ready’ The Times Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this new selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight. Beautifully observed and remarkably crafted, written with emotion and empathy, these stories are nothing short of perfection. A masterclass in the genre, from an author who deservedly lays claim to being one of the major fiction writers of our time.

The View from Castle Rock
The View from Castle Rock

Author: Alice Munro

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2006-11-07

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0307266028

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A “revelatory” (The Boston Globe), “exhilarating” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of twelve stories that “[redraw] the boundaries between fiction and memoir” (O: The Oprah Magazine), from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro “Munro really does know magic: how to summon the spirits and the emotions that animate our lives.”—The Washington Post Book World A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Slate, Rocky Mountain News, New York, The Kanas City Star A young boy, taken to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father’s dream. Scottish immigrants experience love and loss on a journey that leads them to rural Ontario. Wives, mothers, fathers, and children move through uncertainty, ambivalence, and contemplation in these stories of hopes, adversity, and wonder. The View from Castle Rock reveals what is most essential in Munro’s art: her compassionate understanding of ordinary lives.

The Worldview of Redemptive Violence in the US
The Worldview of Redemptive Violence in the US

Author: Wayne Lavender

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2014-12-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781137482358

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Through US military history, Lavender directly confronts the dominant US viewpoint of redemptive violence, the concept that a nation can use its military to improve the human condition. Alternatives are presented in order to encourage the current recessive worldview that supports conflict resolution, cooperation, collaboration and peaceful efforts.

The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro
The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro

Author: David Staines

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-03-10

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1107093279

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This Companion is a complete introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro.

Beautiful NOW, Beautiful ME, Beyond Guilt, Blame and Shame
Beautiful NOW, Beautiful ME, Beyond Guilt, Blame and Shame

Author: Larry V. Murphy

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-06-04

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1387016792

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This book began as the response to a wondrous feel good moment experienced by its author. He described it as such a wonderful glow that seemed like disclosure of an amazing secret he had always kept even from himself. It was a rare moment which the author felt as Beautiful NOW, wherein there was no guilt, no blame and no shame. There was only "Beautiful ME" within that Beautiful NOW, the author realized. He set out to attempt to describe the moment, as well as to attempt to review the long, widely eventful life that had brought him to "Beautiful NOW, Beautiful ME." The author had sought self love for a lengthy lifetime, and came to know he had attained that realization, even if only in a brief instant. Free at Last, was the joyful response.

Folly in the Forest
Folly in the Forest

Author: Carolyn Wells

Publisher:

Published: 1902

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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Folly visits a forest inhabited by creatures out of mythology.

Alice Munro's Late Style
Alice Munro's Late Style

Author: Robert Thacker

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-11-30

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1350270407

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Focusing on Alice Munro's last three collections, this book examines the differences between these volumes and the rest of her work to analyse the emergence and the difference of her 'late style'. Alice Munro has effectively reshaped the short story as a form. This book focuses on Munro's art of recursion - an approach that has been evident throughout her career but came to the fore in her last three books, The View from Castle Rock (2006), Too Much Happiness (2009) and, especially, Dear Life (2012). This recursion and return manifest themselves not only in Munro's return to previously published pieces, but also to her discovery and meditations on her Scottish heritage, which can be read as entrance to her own understanding of herself and her life. Its provenance, displayed through archival evidence, is complex yet reveals a writer intent on a precise late style. Munro's final works serve as a coda to both her late style and to her entire career as arguably one of the finest short story writers ever to put pen to paper.

God's Dawning Light; Spiritual Awakening in a Dusty Old Farmhouse
God's Dawning Light; Spiritual Awakening in a Dusty Old Farmhouse

Author: Larry V. Murphy

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-05-31

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 055749530X

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This book describes a man's late life journey to Spiritual Awakeness and Unwavering Forgiveness. In fact, forgiveness changed the book's unfolding during the writing of it. The author began the book's writing with the desire to review a memory troubled life in a way that some degree of peace could be found within it. Forgiveness absolutely began to take over the book very early; forgiveness became the way of seeing the life rather than an end result. The author learned that forgiveness is not only cleansing and healing in retrospective, it completely changes the way we look at things. For the author, a lifetime previously perceived largely in ugliness was transformed into beauty. Prior unsavory scenes took their true places within auras of ignorance; eyes of forgiveness exposed ignorance as the true culprit in all unhappiness. Thus, things previously seen in contempt and blame became innocent of all charges. The author found total, Unwavering Forgiveness and Universal Love, gateways to God Consciousness.

The Nature Connection
The Nature Connection

Author: Clare Walker Leslie

Publisher: Storey Publishing

Published: 2010-07-21

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1603425314

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Clare Walker Leslie shows kids how to experience nature with all five senses, whether they live in the countryside, a major city, or somewhere in between. Guiding children through inspiring activities like sketching wildlife, observing constellations, collecting leaves, keeping a weather journal, and watching bird migrations, The Nature Connection encourages kids to engage with the world outside and promotes a lifelong love of nature.