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Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. As Clive Barnes wrote, “Time catches up with genius … Waiting for Godot is one of the masterpieces of the century.”The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone—or something—named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as mankind’s inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett’s language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existential post-World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.
Preppy: The Life & Death of Samuel Clearwater, Part One
Part #5 of "King" series by T. M. Frazier
Fiction / Romance / Suspense
Samuel Clearwater, A.K.A Preppy, likes bowties, pancakes, suspenders, good friends, good times, good drugs, and a good f*ck. He s worked his way out from beneath a hellish childhood and is living the life he s always imagined for himself. When he meets a girl, a junkie on the verge of ending it all, he s torn between his feelings for her and the crippling fear that she could be the one to end the life he loves. Andrea Dre Capulet is strung out and tired. Tired of living for her next fix. Tired of doing things that make her stomach turn. Tired of looking in the mirror at the reflection of the person she s become. Just when she decides to end it all, she meets a man who will change the course of both their lives forever. And their deaths. For most people, death is the end of their story. For Preppy and Dre, death was only the beginning."
Preppy: The Life & Death of Samuel Clearwater, Part Three
Part #7 of "King" series by T. M. Frazier
Fiction / Romance / Suspense
The bowtie is BACK! Dre was just a beautiful stranger when Preppy saved her the first time around. Now, he has to save her again, but she\'s no longer some stranger, she\'s family, and he has no idea who or what he\'s up against. What he does know is that putting his family back together is the only acceptable outcome. Preppy\'s to-do list? SAVE FAMILY. SEEK REVENGE. He\'s alive...and he\'s out for BLOOD. Preppy Part Three is the third book and conclusion of Preppy and Dre\'s story. It\'s also the 7th book in the King Series, which should be read in order starting with KING & TYRANT.
Preppy: The Life & Death of Samuel Clearwater, Part Two
Part #6 of "King" series by T. M. Frazier
Fiction / Romance / Suspense
Preppy finds himself back in a world he once loved, but no longer recognizes. His dim smile can’t hide his inner turmoil and the people he views as family all suddenly feel like polite strangers. Except for one person. A girl with dark eyes and even darker hair. A girl who isn’t even an option. At least, not anymore. Dre can’t decide who she’s going to listen to. Her heart, her head, or her body. Because two out of those three things have her heading right back to Logan’s Beach. Closure is what she tells herself she’s seeking, but when she unlocks doors that were never meant to be opened she soon discovers that when it comes to Samuel Clearwater, closure might NEVER be an option. This is book six in the King Series and the second part of Preppy and Dre\'s story.
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
Hannah Tinti
A coming-of-age novel and a literary thrill ride about the price we pay to protect the people we love most."A father-daughter road trip you won't soon forget."—Richard Russo Samuel Hawley isn't like the other fathers in Olympus, Massachusetts. A loner who spent years living on the run, he raised his beloved daughter, Loo, on the road, moving from motel to motel, always watching his back. Now that Loo's a teenager, Hawley wants only to give her a normal life. In his late wife's hometown, he finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at the local high school. Growing more and more curious about the mother she never knew, Loo begins to investigate. Soon, everywhere she turns, she encounters the mysteries of her parents' lives before she was born. This hidden past is made all the more real by the twelve scars her father carries on his body. Each scar is from a bullet Hawley took over the course of his criminal career. Each is a memory:...
First Love and Other Shorts
Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
This new collection brings together "First Love", "The Calamative", "The End" and "The Expelled"; these four novellas are among the first major works of Beckett's decision to use French as his language of literary composition. Rich in verbal and situational humour, they offer a fascinating insight into many of the issues which preoccupied Beckett all his working life. As the first novella reveals, nobody writes with quite such cruel and unnervingly clever wit as Beckett...
Return to Nevèrÿon: The Complete Series
Samuel R. Delany
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Gay & Lesbian
A four-volume “postmodern sword-and-sorcery” epic from a multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author (The Washington Post Book World).
Tales of Nevèrÿon: After his parents are killed during a political coup, Gorgik is taken into captivity and forced to work the government obsidian mines in Nevèrÿon’s Faltha Mountains. Years later, he is sold to serve one of the royal families, and eventually the army. When he is finally free, he leads a rebellion against Nevèrÿon’s rulers to end the tyranny of slavery.
Neveryóna: Or, The Tale of Signs and Cities: One of the few in Nevèrÿon who can read and write, Pryn escapes her village on the back of a dragon. On her journey across the civil war–torn land, Pryn has a fateful encounter with Gorgik the Liberator, whom she finds herself fighting beside in his war against slavery.
Flight from Nevèrÿon: A smuggler, witness, and worshipper of Gorgik the Liberator follows his idol’s bloody trail on a quest to meet him. But a disease has ravaged Nevèrÿon. Men, rich and poor, are dying. The illness seems to have first come from the Bridge of Lost Desire, a hangout for male and female prostitutes, and is spreading fast. With no hope of recovery or cure, it will change Nevèrÿon’s sexual and political landscape forever.
Return to Nevèrÿon: Slavery is outlawed and the land is finally free. At a deserted castle in the countryside, as Gorgik the Liberator regales a young barbarian about his deeds, he prepares to return to the mines where his own slavery began for one final battle.
The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
'Beckett reduces life, perception, and writing to barest minimums: a few dimly seen, struggling torsos; a hopeless intelligence compulsively seeking to come to terms, in rudimentary yet endlessly varied language, with the human condition they represent. Within these extraordinary limitations, Beckett's verbal ability nonetheless generates great intensity.'--Library Journal
The Gentile Witness Book II Elijah
Samuel David
Fiction
Welcome to the second book of the Gentile Witness series. If you believe Tribulation will come someday, if you believe Christ will return, then this book may well be for you. Set in a modern setting read how these two final witnesses as prophesied in the ‘Book of Revelations’approach humanity in one last attempt to save as many as possible for Christ. Read how and why America is the first to feel the wrath of God for its removal of God’s word from the people. If you believe in conspiracies then these books are also for you. The reality is the mechanisms are already in place right now today for the takeover by Lucifer and his one world Government. The headlines scream at us every day that the time is coming closer. It is just a matter of time before all the pieces are put together. In Book II Lucifer has a story to tell also. This story will deceive many and is backed up one hundred percent by scripture. Enoch and Elijah are the last barrier of complete control over the earth and its inhabitants by Lucifer and his followers. See how this story affects every government and its people in the world and how they react to this last stand for Christ. The time has come for the last two witnesses to appear on earth. Book I covers the start of Enoch’s ministry. Book II is about Elijah and Lucifer.
Captives of the Flame
Samuel R. Delany
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Gay & Lesbian
Classic 1960\'s Science Fiction from an established master! "He was some place he had never been before. He did not know how he had gotten there. He did not know how to get back. And the close horizon, the double shadows ... now he realized that this was not Earth of the Thirty-fifth Century. "But the City.... It was on earth, and he was on earth, and he was—had been—in it. Again the negations: the City was not on a desert, nor could its dead, deserted towers cast double shadows, nor was the transit ribbon broken. "The transit ribbon! "No! "It couldn\'t be broken. He almost screamed. Don\'t let it be broken, please...."
Happy Days
Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
In 'Happy Days, ' Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the tenuous relationships that bind one person to another, and each to the universe, to time past and time present.
Samuel Blink and the Forbidden Forest
Matt Haig
Literature & Fiction
Aunt Eda's Rule #9: NEVER-UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES- GO INTO THE FOREST.
Samuel and Martha have just moved to Norway to live with their aunt Eda, and she's taking some getting used to. She has too many rules, no TV, and insists that they eat local delicacies like brown cheese and reindeer soup. And then there's the most peculiar thing about her-her irrational fear of her own backyard. Sure, Uncle Henrik hasn't been heard from since he disappeared into it ten years ago, but that can't be the forest's fault . . . can it?
Samuel is skeptical, until he disobeys Rule #1-Never go up to the attic-and finds an unusual book: The Creatures of Shadow Forest, which gives scary descriptions of the fantastic creatures supposedly living in the forest. So when Sam starts seeing strange things venture past the treeline after dark, he can't help wondering . . . could Aunt Eda be right, and what really happened to Uncle Henrik?
This highly inventive fantasy is full of amazing characters and unexpected twists that will elicit both laughter and chills.
Longer Views: Extended Essays
Samuel R. Delany
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Gay & Lesbian
"Reading is a many-layered process like writing," observes Samuel R. Delany, a Nebula and Hugo award-winning author and a major commentator on American literature and culture. In this collection of six extended essays, Delany challenges what he calls "the hard-edged boundaries of meaning" by going beyond the customary limits of the genre in which he's writing. By radically reworking the essay form, Delany can explore and express the many layers of his thinking about the nature of art, the workings of language, and the injustices and ironies of social, political, and sexual marginalization. Thus Delany connects, in sometimes unexpected ways, topics as diverse as the origins of modern theater, the context of lesbian and gay scholarship, the theories of cyborgs, how metaphors mean, and the narrative structures in the Star Wars trilogy.
"Over the course of his career," Kenneth James writes in his extensive introduction, "Delany has again and again thrown into question the world-models that all too many of us unknowingly live by." Indeed, Delany challenges an impressive list of world-models here, including High and Low Art, sanity and madness, mathematical logic and the mechanics of mythmaking, the distribution of wealth in our society, and the limitations of our sexual vocabulary. Also included are two essays that illustrate Delany's unique chrestomathic technique, the grouping of textual fragments whose associative interrelationships a reader must actively trace to read them as a resonant argument. Whether writing about Wagner or Hart Crane, Foucault or Robert Mapplethorpe, Delany combines a fierce and often piercing vision with a powerful honesty that beckons us to share in the perspective of these Longer Views.
The Atheist in the Attic
Samuel R. Delany
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Gay & Lesbian
Appearing in book form for the first time, The Atheist in the Attic is a suspenseful and vivid historical narrative, recreating the top-secret meeting between the mathematical genius Leibniz and the philosopher Spinoza caught between the horrors of the cannibalistic Dutch Rampjaar and the brilliant “big bang” of the Enlightenment. Also Delany’s “Racism and Science Fiction” combines scholarly research and personal experience in the unique true story of the first major African-American author in the genre. This collection features a bibliography, an author biography, and the candid and uncompromising Outspoken Interview.
The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
Nobel prize winner Samuel Beckett is one of the most profoundly original writers of our century. He gives expression to the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and minimalism that have altered the shape of world literature. A tremendously influential poet and dramatist, Beckett spoke of his prose fiction as the "important writing, " the medium in which his ideas are most powerfully distilled.
Here, for the first time, his short prose is gathered in a definitive, complete volume by leading Beckett scholar S. E. Gontarski. In the introduction, Gontarski discusses Beckett's creative roots in the tradition of Irish storytelling and the perpetual evolution of his writing as he "pushed beyond recognizable external reality and discrete, recognizable literary characters, replacing them with something like naked consciousness or pure being." From the 1929 "Assumption, " published in transition magazine when Beckett was twenty-three, to the aptly named "Stirrings Still, " written whe he was eighty-two, and including a new translation of "The Image" as well as the newly translated and previously unpublished "The Cliff, " Gontarski has arranged Beckett's work into a smooth chronology that suggests, as he puts it, "Beckett's own view of his art, that it is all part of a continuous process, a series."
Stories and Texts for Nothing
Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
This volume brings together three of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s major short stories and thirteen shorter pieces of fiction that he calls texts for nothing.” Here, as in all his work, Beckett relentlessly strips away all but the essential to arrive at a core of truth. His prose reveals the same mastery that marks his work from Waiting for Godot and Endgame to Molloy and Malone Dies. In each of the three stories, old men displaced or expelled from the modest corners where they have been living bestir themselves in search of new corners. Told, You can’t stay here,” they somehow, doggedly, inevitably, go on.
How It Is
Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
Published as Comment c’est in French in 1961, and in Beckett’s English in 1964, How It Is divides into three equal parts and is composed throughout in brief unpunctuated paragraphs. These tell of a narrator crawling in darkness, repeating his life as he hears it, obscurely uttered by another voice. The telling is tirelessly explicit about the feelings that pervade this world, but fragmentary and vague about all else.
Together with Molloy, Samuel Beckett’s How It Is counts for many readers as his greatest novel. It is also his most innovative and challenging, both stylistically and for its extreme furthering of the vision of a self in reduced circumstances, inaugurated in his earlier sequence of novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable).
Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment
Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
“[Beckett] is a serious writer with something serious to say about the human condition: and therefore one of the dozen or so writers those who are concerned with modern man in search of his soul should read.”—Stephen Spender, The New York Times
Renowned Beckett scholar Ruby Cohn has selected some of Beckett's criticisms, reviews, letters, and other unpublished materials that shed new light on his work.
Mercier and Camier
Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
One of the most accessible examples of Samuel Beckett’s dark humor, Mercier and Camier is the hilarious chronicle of its two heroes’ epic journey. While their travels are fraught with complications and intrigue, Mercier and Camier at least “did not remove from home, they had that good fortune.”
The Saddest Summer of Samuel S
J. P. Donleavy
Literature & Fiction
A wily American driving his psychiatrist crazy in Vienna. Prey of a wealthy countess who wants him comfortable and secure -- and her very own. Master of his domain -- his sealed, darkened, disheveled apartment on a dank Vienna sidestreet. Abigail was not the girl for Sam. She was a brash, sexy American coed with only men on her mind. And se had Sam very much on her mind at the moment..."Zany...comic...brilliant" -- The New York Times "Extremely funny yet bittersweet... handled with such grace that even its outright sex is captivating" -- Chicago American. "Donleavy's best work since The Ginger Man" -- The National Observer. "In this short novel J.P. Donleavy writes of the tiny battle waged for survival of the spirit in bedrooms and hearts the world over. Samuel S, hero of lonely principles, holds out in his bereft lighthouse in Vienna. Abigail, an American college girl on the prowl In Europe, drawn by the beacon of this strange out-post, seeks in her own emancipation the seduction of Samuel S, the last of the world's solemn failures. Samuel S is the liveliest of loonies." -- TIME
Dhalgren
Samuel R. Delany
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Gay & Lesbian
A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects are disturbing: a city block burns down and is intact a week later; clouds cover the sky for weeks, then part to reveal two moons; a week passes for one person when only a day passes for another. The catastrophe is confined to Bellona, and most of the inhabitants have fled. But others are drawn to the devastated city, among them the Kid, a white/American Indian man who can't remember his own name. The Kid is emblematic of those who live in the new Bellona, who are the young, the poor, the mad, the violent, the outcast--the marginalized.
Dhalgren is many things, but instantly accessible isn't one of them. While most of this big, ambitious, deeply detailed novel is beautifully pellucid, the opening pages will be difficult for some: the novel starts with the second half of an incomplete sentence, in the viewpoint of a man who doesn't know who he is. If you find the early pages rough going, push on; the story soon becomes clear and fascinating. But - fair warning - the central nature of the disaster, of its strange devastations and disruptions, remains a puzzle for many readers, sometimes after several readings.
More Pricks Than Kicks
Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
Fiction. "More Pricks Than Kicks", Beckett's early tragicomic masterpiece, is a collection of stories about Belacqua, a student in Dublin in the twenties, his adventures, encounters and amours, that through its original style and wry commentary succeeds in turning everyday incidents into high drama and lets us see street and university life through the observant and caustic wit of the author. Highly enjoyable to read, it delights in exuberant language and the pleasure of discovery, very typical of the young writer who in the post-war years was to astonish the world with Waiting for Godot and Molloy. First published in 1934, "More Pricks Than Kicks" is Beckett's second work of fiction. It serves as an excellent introduction to the later work of one of the most seminal and exciting major writers of the twentieth century.
Endgame & Act Without Words
Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature n 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. "Endgame, " originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett's characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating distillation of the human essence in the face of approaching death.
Rockaby and Other Short Pieces
Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
We find in Beckett's masterful, exquisite prose, the familiar themes from his earlier works here expressed in the anguished murmurings of the solitary human consciousness.
Echo's Bones
Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
'Echo's Bones' was intended by Samuel Beckett to form the 'recessional' or end-piece of his early collection of interrelated stories, More Pricks Than Kicks, published in 1934. The story was written at the request of the publisher, but was held back from inclusion in the published volume. 'Echo's Bones' has remained unpublished to this day, and the present edition will situate the work in terms of its biographical context, its Joycean influences, and as a vital link in the evolution of Beckett's early work.
The editor, Mark Nixon, is director of the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading.
Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976
Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
This is the last of three volumes of collected shorter prose to be published in the Faber edition of the works of Samuel Beckett which already includes a volume of early stories (The Expelled/The Calmative/The End/First Love) and of late stories (Company/Ill Seen Ill Said/Worstward Ho/Stirrings Still). The present volume contains all of the short fictions some of them no longer than a page written and published by Beckett between 1950 and the early 1970s. Most were written in French, and they mostly belong within three loose sequences: Texts for Nothing, Fizzles and Residua. The edition also includes two remarkable independent narratives: From an Abandoned Work and As The Story Was Told. All of these texts, whose unsleeping subject is themselves, demonstrate that the short story is one of the recurrent modes of Becketts imagination, and occasions some of his greatest works.
...he would like it to be my fault that words fail him, of course words fail him. He tells his story every five minuts, saying it is not his, there's cleverness for you. He would like it to be my fault that he has no story, of course he has no story, that's no reason for trying to foist one on me...
Clarissa, Or, the History of a Young Lady
Samuel Richardson
Fiction
Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome and increasingly brutal sexual advances. And yet, Clarissa finds his charm alluring, her scrupulous sense of virtue tinged with unconfessed desire.
Told through a complex series of interweaving letters, "Clarissa" is a richly ambiguous study of a fatally attracted couple and a work of astonishing power and immediacy. A huge success when it first appeared in 1747, and translated into French and German, it remains one of the greatest of all European novels. Its rich ambiguities - our sense of Clarissa's scrupulous virtue tinged with intimations of her capacity for self-deception in matters of sex; the wicked and amusing faces of Lovelace, who must be easily the most charming villain in English literature - give the story extraordinary psychological momentum. .
Bill Laggard
Samuel O. Samuel
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
If you are hungry to discover Father's will in your life, here is an opportunity to understand how you can - not omitting the reality that we need to know God's will in everything concerning our lives, including our marriage, educational and spiritual issues. Hungrily go through this account of Bill's and finally find yourself taking Jack's words to heart.This story captures the marriage, educational and spiritual life of a young university student who was caught in a deep longing to find God's will for him. In his school days, it became important as life, especially when his fiancee, Catherina Bordeaux seemed to see him as a jinx. Suddenly he meets Jack who equips him on the reality of God's will beyond the self-will if the fallen man. In the process of this gradual change, what would Bill's ideas about life lead him into? And would God's will really be his fiancee, Catherina, or his very close friend, Donna? Quickly find out!
Babel-17
Samuel R. Delany
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Gay & Lesbian
In the far future, after human civilization has spread through the galaxy, communications begin to arrive in an apparently alien language. They appear to threaten invasion, but in order to counter the threat, the messages must first be understood.
In Your Words
R J Samuel
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Fiction
A short story (3100 words)Amelia is an author who writes about love but has lost her belief in it. She is participating in a book signing week in yet another stop on what seems like an endless tour. When she escapes to a quiet corner of the bookstore Amelia meets the woman who she knows can restore her faith in love, but will she have a chance to find out?A short story (3100 words)Amelia is an author who writes about love but has lost her belief in it. She is participating in a book signing week in yet another stop on what seems like an endless tour. When she escapes to a quiet corner of the bookstore Amelia meets the woman who she knows can restore her faith in love, but will she have a chance to find out?Also included with this short story are extracts from R J Samuel’s novels FALLING COLOURS (the first in the Vision Painter series) and HEART STOPPER (a medical thriller).
Nova
Samuel R. Delany
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Gay & Lesbian
These are [at least some of] the ways you can read NOVA: as a fast-action farflung interstellar adventure; as archetypal mystical/mythical allegory (in which the Tarot and the Grail both figure prominently); as modern myth told in the S-F idiom... the reader observes, recollects, or participates in a range of personal experience including violent pain and disfigurement, sensory deprivation and overload, man-machine communion, the drug experience, the creative experience - and inter-personal relationships which include incest and assassination, father-son, leader-follower, human-pet, and lots more!
The balance of galactic power in the 31st century revolves around Illyrion, the most precious energy source in the universe. The varied and exotic crew who sign up with Captain Lorq van Ray know their mission is dangerous, and they soon learn that they are involved in a deadly race with the charismatic but vicious leader of an opposing space federation. But they have no idea of Lorq's secret obsession: to gather Illyrion at the source by flying through the very heart of an imploding star.
Eleuthéria
Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
Beckett reúne en esta obra en tres actos todos los ingredientes de la dramaturgia burguesa : trama, personajes, conflictos, situaciones, diálogos y convenciones, para someterlos a una sarcástica operación de desguace. El joven Victor Krap ha abandonado, sin motivo aparente, su hogar, su familia, su trabajo, su novia... y se ha recluido en un miserable cuartucho de pensión para alcanzar una imposible libertad (en griego, Eleutheria). Allí acudirá una insólita galería de personajes -incluidos un espectador y un torturador chino-, que intentarán que Victor se explique para que la obra tenga sentido.
Eleutheria apareció de improviso en Francia en febrero de 1995, rodeada de cierto recelo. Y es que, estando vivo, Samuel Beckett jamás la quiso publicar, y dejó encargado a su albacea literario, el editor Jérôme Lindon, fundador y director de Les Editions de Minuit, que nunca sacara a la luz. Beckett jamás renegó de su primer trabajo en lengua francesa, escrito en 1947, pero sí creía que se trataba de una obra imperfecta que no debía ser presentada al público. Sin embargo, hoy, Jean-Pierre Thibaudat escribe en Libération : «En los años cincuenta, aun cuando no fuera una obra maestra, la lectura de Eleutheria habría podido ser -y lo es ahora- absolutamente excitante-.
Lindon, «descubridor» de Beckett, su editor fiel, amigo y confidente, conservó, pues, respetuosamente el manuscrito original durante cuarenta años, ignorando, u olvidadando tal vez, que otro editor, que había publicado su obra en Estados Unidos, disponía de una copia que le había entregado el propio Beckett en un momento de dificultad del editor y, por lo visto, de generosa debilidad del autor. Durante dos años Lindon intentó evitar que su colega norteamericano publicara la versión inglesa de Eleutheria, pero, finalmente, al fracasar en el intento, consideró más justo que saliera primero en la lengua original.
Samuel the Sliding Sausage - Boodles HooHa House Origins
Jo Kemp
Fiction / LGBT / Historical
From the original writer of the late 1970's children’s cult TV series ‘Chorlton and the Wheelies’ and ‘Jamie and the Magic Torch’. ‘Samuel the Sliding Sausage’ – a classic 70's origin of HooHa House – has been made available as a FREE download (Various distributors) in the hope and that you, or your child, likes the story enough to buy the Boodle Books ‘Origins’ box set.‘Queenie the Quivering Quilt’ also part of this box set is also being made available as a FREE download.The 'Boodle HooHa House Origins’ box set includes the following stories and costs around £1.99 ($2.99) depending in region.1. Samuel the Sliding Sausage2. Wally the Wobbling Wellington3. Percy the Peeping Pot Plant4. Maurice the Messy Mop5. Queenie the Quivering Quilt6. Terrence the Terrible TapCharming, funny and beautifully written and illustrated Boodle Books are all about imagination. The notion of inanimate things coming to life is hardly original – which is precisely why the author gave it credence – because a child’s imagination has no bounds and there simply isn’t a child who hasn’t at some point taken a spoon or a daffodil and given it a name and a story.These delightful Boodle Books belong to children, to help inspire adult imagination too.Based on these original stories, the new HooHa House series runs to 26 titles covering every letter of the alphabet.
The Winds of Change
Samuel Sublett
Years after the world has experienced a cataclysmic breaking, a retired Paladin finds that a all-but-extinct race of monsters has made their way back into the land in order to hunt him down.Years after the world has experienced a cataclysmic breaking, a retired Paladin finds that a all-but-extinct race of monsters has made their way back into the land in order to hunt him down. Kalan Banecroft left his life of violence at the Citadel to live in peace with his wife. But the world he left behind will not leave him alone, and during the coldest winter in memory he must make his way back to his pregnant wife while being hunted by the creatures he was once so proficient at killing.
Dream of Fair to Middling Women
Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
Now published for the first time--Samuel Beckett's first novel, written in the Hotel Trianon in Paris in the summer of 1932 when the author was 26. Recognized as one of the great writers of the 20th-century, Beckett's Waiting for Godot revolutionized contemporary theater and his fiction is ranked by many with that of Joyce and Proust.
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Samuel R. Delany
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Gay & Lesbian
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is a science fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and an examination of interstellar politics among far-flung worlds. First published in 1984, the novel's central issues--technology, globalization, gender, sexuality, and multiculturalism--have only become more pressing with the passage of time.
The novel's topic is information itself: What are the repercussions, once it has been made public, that two individuals have been found to be each other's perfect erotic object out to "point nine-nine-nine and several nines percent more"? What will it do to the individuals involved, to the city they inhabit, to their geosector, to their entire world society, especially when one is an illiterate worker, the sole survivor of a world destroyed by "cultural fugue," and the other is--you!
Watt
Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
Fiction. WATT was the beginning of Samuel Becket's post-war literary career, the fruition of the years in hiding in the Vaucluse mountains from the Gestapo, which also largely inspired WAITING FOR GODOT. But it remains, unlike the work that followed it, extremely Irish, a philosophical novel full of the grim humour that was already his trade-mark in such earlier fictions as MORE PRICKS THAN KICKS and MURPHY. The perambulations of WATT, especially in the home of the eccentric Mr. Knott, and the sketching of logic to elicit meaning, must be among the most comic inventions of modern literature. First published by the libertine Olympia Press in 1953 it has established itself as one of the most quoted and best-loved of Becket's novels. The typographical oddities and omissions are as Beckett left the text.
Common Cause
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Historical Fiction / Mystery & Thrillers / Children's Books
A lost literary relic of the First World War, Common Cause tells the story of Jeremy Robson, a crusading newspaper editor in the fictional midwestern town of Fenchester. The Guardian's muckraking has led special interests to withhold advertising in order to drive Robson out of business. But he and local plutocrats put their differences aside when war is declared in 1917 in order to attack the German-American community for its supposed fealty to their Fatherland. Common Cause provides a vivid picture of the America-first fear and hate that gripped the midwestern United States during the Great War.
Echoes in the Alley
Oppong Nimako Samuel
Echoes in the Alley: Stories of Love and Loss is a captivating collection of short stories that delves into the complexities of human relationships set against the backdrop of urban life. Each narrative serves as a poignant reflection on the intertwining themes of love, loss, and the enduring echoes of our choices.In this evocative anthology, readers will journey through the alleys of the heart, where characters grapple with their desires, regrets, and the bittersweet moments that shape their lives. From the heartfelt sacrifices made for love in "The Gift of Time" to the haunting revelations of "The Last Leaf," these stories illuminate the resilience of the human spirit amidst life's trials.Each tale is a snapshot of the diverse voices that inhabit the city, capturing the raw emotions and intricate connections that define our existence. As the characters navigate their struggles and triumphs, they remind us that even in the darkest corners, hope...
Lines
Samuel S. Crawford
After lunch, we are ushered into a big tent to hear a poet. The poet has an African-sounding name even though she isn't from Africa. Her talents seem to be rhyming pussy with hussy and fussy. Then she reads a poem where we are supposed to yell "Wax and Wane!" after lines like, "Women have vaginas that can speak to one another!" It feels good to yell. It feels good to pump my fist in the air, and for the first time since being here, I feel this sort of electric woman power. Our poet recites, "Women are healers, we recover!" Dahlia is beaming, and Mom has tears in her eyes.
Into the Storm
Samuel P. Fortsch
Join former U.S. Army rescue dog Sgt. "Rico" Ricochet, a bomb-sniffing Malinois, for another dogged adventure in this all-American illustrated chapter book series!The Pawtriots are on a deep-sea mystery mission in the Bermuda Triangle to protect the coastline from a band of canine pirates...But with a massive tropical storm rolling in, will Rico be able to keep his mission on course?For young readers wanting action-packed adventure with a patriotic message, the Pawtriots are the perfect team!
The Formula for Success
Samuel Leach
Unleash your full potential. Take control of your financial future. At twenty years of age, Samuel Leach was studying at university. He appeared to be a typical student, but there was something different about him. Whilst his classmates were engrossed in their studies, as well as their burgeoning social lives, Samuel was adding another facet to his education. He was teaching himself the science and art of trading. With nothing more than a boxer’s heart and drive, Samuel turned £2k into £178k in his first year, and a few short years later, he rose to global renown by building his new enterprise to become a multi-million-pound trading business. From delivering an acclaimed TedTalk to running webinars, events, conferences, and training over 2,000 people from over 90 countries, Samuel’s list of achievements continues to grow. The obvious question is how did he accomplish so much in such a short period of time? Samuel Leach's...
The Gentile Witness, Enoch Book I
Samuel David
Fiction
This is a new issue as of October 2014, prior to the release of Book II ‘Elijah’ Book I ‘Enoch’ was resent for editing as suggested by our readers.) If you believe Tribulation will come someday, if you believe Christ will return, then this book may well be for you. Set in a modern setting read how these two final witnesses as prophesied in Johns Revelation.(This is a new issue as of October 2014, prior to the release of Book II ‘Elijah’ Book I ‘Enoch’ was resent for editing as suggested by our readers.) If you believe Tribulation will come someday, if you believe Christ will return, then this book may well be for you. Set in a modern setting read how these two final witnesses as prophesied in the ‘Book of Revelations’ approach humanity in one last attempt to save as many as possible for Christ. Read how and why America is the first to feel the wrath of God for its removal of God’s word from the people. If you believe in conspiracies then these books are also for you. The reality is the mechanisms are already in place right now today for the takeover by Lucifer and his one world Government. The headlines scream at us every day that the time is coming closer. It is just a matter of time before all the pieces are put together. In Book II Lucifer has a story to tell also. This story will deceive many and is backed up one hundred percent by scripture. Enoch and Elijah are the last barrier of complete control over the earth and its inhabitants by Lucifer and his followers. See how this story affects every government and its people in the world and how they react to this last stand for Christ. The time has come for the last two witnesses to appear on earth. Book I covers the start of Enoch’s ministry. Book II is about Elijah and Lucifer.
Molloy
Part #1 of "Molloy" series by Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
Molloy is Samuel Beckett’s most celebrated novel, and his first published work to be written in French, ushering in a period of concentrated creativity in the late 1940s and early 1950s which included the companion novels Malone Dies and The Unnamable .
The tale of Molloy, old and ill, remembering and forgetting, scarcely human, begets a double plot involving the spinsterish Moran, a private detective sent to search him out, whose own deterioration during the quest shadows that of the hero.
Above all, the eponymous narrator of Molloy calls into being a world and its tribulations at the end of a pencil, with finicking and irresistible certainty, while trading larger uncertainties with the reader.
Hitler's Commanders
Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.
Despite huge odds against them, Hitler's commanders—the elite of the Wehrmacht—almost succeeded in conquering Europe. Now in an expanded edition that includes biographies of the generals of Stalingrad and a new chapter on the panzer commanders, this book offers rare insight into the men who ran Nazi Germany's war machine. Going beyond common stereotypes, Samuel W. Mitcham and Gene Mueller recount the compelling lives of a varied group of army, navy, Luftwaffe, and SS men, including their early life, their military exploits during the war, and their post-war career, if any. Weaving in dramatic stories of tank commanders, fighter pilots in aerial combat, and U-Boat aces, the authors bring the battlefields of World War II to life.
The Mash
Part #1 of "Appalachian Druid" series by Samuel Brower
The Reilly family, after being driven from their native lands by zealots, found peace in the peaks and valleys of Virginia for generations. In an attempt to keep the past from repeating itself, the Reillys practiced the old ways in secret, passing the family’s gift from parent to child for decades. But now, in the midst of prohibition, the great depression, and a booming coal business, the Reilly clan is at the precipice of facing a new kind of evil. Sean—a novice yet to take an animal, his father, Erin—the scarred bear, and grandsire, Donovan—the white wolf, are the last three living members of the Reillys. In the valley below their mountainside home lays the small town of Amber’s Hollow. When Amber’s Hollow is targeted by a coal company coveting its resources, and big city criminals after its burgeoning moonshine operation, the townsfolk turn to the Reillys for help. Sean, Erin, and Donovan are faced with a choice, ignore the people of Amber’s Hollow, and possibly have their mountain home blasted out from beneath them, or help fight the big city folk and risk their secrets being exposed…
They Fly at Çiron: A Novel
Samuel R. Delany
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Gay & Lesbian
As this novel begins, the peaceful village of Çiron faces conquest and domination by the army of Myetra, as led by a cruel prince. The Myetrans subdue Çiron, killing many and enslaving the rest.
But Rahm escapes—and then befriends one of the fearsome Winged Ones, humanoids with batlike wings. Meanwhile, led by the young village garbage collector and an itinerant singer, the Çironians resist where they can, as the Myetran lieutenant Kire struggles with his conscience and tries to ease the Çironians' burden.
They Fly at Çiron—appearing here in its first paperback publication—offers "vintage Delany in his finest fantasy mode" (Ursula K. Le Guin).
Hard Lessons
Samuel King
When his new student turns out to be a handsome property developer with a complicated past, teaching is the last thing on Jake’s mind.
When recently single Jake heads off to rural Somerset for a job interview as a reading teacher, he’s expecting his pupil to be a child, but it’s the handsome and charismatic property dealer Nathan Foley who needs his help. Their relationship quickly becomes sexual, and Jake worries he is rushing into another relationship too fast. And, as the heat between them intensifies, Jake begins to question Nathan’s motives.
Adding to the confusion is Nathan’s bitter older sister, Alice, who seems to have taken an instant dislike to Jake, as well as a strange man who Jake spots wandering around the grounds of the house.
What is Alice’s problem? Who is the handsome stranger? And are Nathan Foley’s feelings entirely genuine? Perhaps Jake is the one who is about to learn a hard lesson.
Malone Dies
Part #2 of "Molloy" series by Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
Written and published in French in 1951, and in Samuel Beckett’s English translation in 1956, Malone Dies is the second of his immediate post-war novels, written during what Beckett later referred to as ‘the siege in the room’.
‘Malone’, writes Malone, ‘is what I am called now.’ On his deathbed, whittling away the time with stories and revisions of stories, the octogenarian Malone's account of his condition is contradictory and intermittent, shifting with the vagaries of the passing days: without mellowness, without elegiacs; wittier, jauntier, and capable of darker rages than his precursor Molloy. Malone promises silence, but as a storyteller he delivers irresistibly more.
Ill Seen Ill Said
Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
This late work from Samuel Beckett is the haunting picture of an old woman alone in a cabin, who watches the evening and the morning star and ventures out chiefly to visit a grave. In prose of great poetic beauty, which the author translated from his original French text Mal vu mal dit in 1982, Beckett returns to the imagery of the Old and New Testaments to speculate on the great questions of human existence. One of the great writers of the 20th century, Beckett won the Nobel Prize in 1969. He is remembered primarily as a novelist and playwright, producing Waiting for Godot and the trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnameable, though he was also a poet and, when he chose to be, a discerning critic of great originality. Beckett continues to exert a powerful influence on other writers and interest in his work has grown since his death in 1989.
Flight from Nevèrÿon
Samuel R. Delany
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Gay & Lesbian
Two novellas and a full-length novel of Nevèrÿon, the land at the limit of historyIn The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals, a disease has come to Nevèrÿon. Men, rich and poor, have been stricken with it—but far fewer women. More and more die, and no one recovers. The illness seems to have first come from the Bridge of Lost Desire, a hangout for prostitutes male and female, but its spread through the city has been terrifying. And it will change Nevèrÿon forever, both its sexual and its political landscape.Written in 1984, The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals is an astute fictionalization of New York City in the first two years of the AIDS crisis. Interwoven with the ancient story are Samuel R. Delany's modern accounts of what went on in the meanest streets of Gotham during that time.This wholly original novel (the first novel about AIDS from a major American publisher) is presented along with two other...
The Tides of Lust
Samuel R. Delany
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Gay & Lesbian
The Tides of Lust is a powerful, erotic and violent encounter with the voices and experiences of characters who linger in a small American seaport. Here is an insatiable African-American ship's captain, a dangerously young slave mistress, an aimless drifter and a supreme artist of the perverse.
Written by acclaimed and award-winning author Samuel R. Delany, The Tides of Lust, first published in 1973, is a wild ride along the oceans of unleashed sexuality at its most exuberant. A true modern classic.
Death without Direction: A Modern Sword and Sorcery Serial (A Battleaxe and a Metal Arm Book 1)
Samuel Fleming
A flooded temple, a rusted prison and lots of bloodthirsty fishmen. What secrets and hidden dangers lie in the dark, frigid waters?
An elven sorceress with a prosthetic metal arm and a towering human barbarian are in for the dungeon crawl of their lives. They know nothing about how they got there, nothing about each other. They barely remember their own names.
Helesys can feel the latent arcane energy—the wand—housed in the center of her forearm—its power just begging to be unleashed. The outlander ripples with the strength of a bear. Their abilities and their memories slowly come back to them as they delve deeper and deeper into the unknown horrors, searching for a way out.
As her power and magic come back, Helesys feels confident that the two of them will make it out or die trying…
But even death might not be an escape.
Thieves of Mercy
Part #2 of "Samuel Bowater" series by James L. Nelson
Having survived the bloody Battle of New Orleans and the loss of their ironclad Yazoo River, captain Samuel Bowater, engineer Hieronymus Taylor, and the survivors of their crew are given new orders -- take command of an ironclad warship being built in Memphis, Tennessee.Bowater and his men take passage upriver from "Mississippi" Mike Sullivan, one of the wild, undisciplined captains of the River Defense Squadron, only to find, on their arrival, that their ship is not even half built and the enemy is closing fast. Against their better judgment, Bowater and crew join forces with the mercurial Sullivan on board his ad hoc river gunship the General Page. Outnumbered and outgunned, the Confederates once again fling themselves bravely at the overwhelming power of the Yankee invaders. The deadly back-and-forth fight along the Mississippi ends at last in the massive naval battle of Memphis, and the near-suicidal attempt by the Confederates to hold back the Northern flood.
Dreamer's Folly
A. Samuel Bales
The daggers of gutter rats do not easily find themselves in the backs of princes, yet this vengeful hope is all that sustains young Jeld after the prince's tyranny leaves him alone and broken on the harsh streets of Tovar. The god-like Idols had abandoned Avandria, never so much as protecting him in dreams where some said they lingered. In a horrible irony, it seemed he survived thanks only to his father's violent temper for so honing his empathy that he might discern danger in a man's eyes, or in the strange depths he alone seemed able to glimpse beyond. Jeld's fight to survive brings together a diverse band of companions and begins his journey from the cold streets to the spired royal palace. Along the way, he will unlock the magic of a lost world, untangle the secrets of the missing Idols, and find love in the most unlikely of places as his blade inches ever closer to the prince. But alas, not even hatred can be so simple. Old enemies and new allies are not all...
The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village
Samuel R. Delany
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Gay & Lesbian
"A very moving, intensely fascinating literary biography from an extraordinary writer. Thoroughly admirable candor and luminous stylistic precision; the artist as a young man and a memorable picture of an age." -William Gibson
"Absolutely central to any consideration of black manhood. . . . Delany's vision of the necessity for total social and political transformation is revolutionary." -Hazel Carby
"The prose of The Motion of Light in Water often has the shimmering beauty of the title itself. . . . This book is invaluable gay history." -Inches Magazine
Born in New York City's black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the city's new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in summer 1961. Through the decade's opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new political awareness burgeoned among the crowded streets and cheap railroad apartments. Beautifully, vividly, insightfully, Delany calls up this era of exploration and adventure as he details his development as a black gay writer in an open marriage, with tertiary walk-ons by Bob Dylan, Stokely Carmichael, W. H. Auden, and James Baldwin, and a panoply of brilliantly drawn secondary characters.
Winner of the 1989 Hugo Award for Non-fiction Samuel R. Delany is the author of numerous science fiction books including Dhalgren, other fiction including The Mad Man, as well as the best-selling nonfiction study Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. He lives in New York City and teaches at Temple University. The Lambda Book Report chose Delany as one of the fifty most significant men and women of the past hundred years to change our concept of gayness, and he is a recipient of the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to lesbian and gay literature.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career.
The Einstein Intersection
Samuel R. Delany
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Gay & Lesbian
The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has assimilating the mythology of earth, where his kind have settled among the leftover artifacts of humanity. The deeper tale concerns, however, the way those who are 'different' must deal with the dominant cultural ideology. The tale follows Lobey's mythic quest for his lost love, Friza. In luminous and hallucinated language, it explores what new myths might emerge from the detritus of the human world as those who are 'different' try to seize history and the day.
Haunted Souls
Samuel M. Hallam
Death brings January Miller home, back to a house that’s taken so much from her over the years – Stone Acres. After years away from the manor, January finds herself drawn back there. To a place soaked in horror and tragedy, the scope of which she cannot imagine…
Samuel M. Hallam’s debut novel will bring both January and the reader face to face with a relentless evil which has plagued Stone Acres for centuries.
Worstward Ho
Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
Beckett's second last prose text, Worstward Ho, is a novella written in 1983, shortly after the largely autobiographical Company and an ironic theological speculation, both previously published as the first two parts of a late trilogy of short novels. The concentration of language and precision of description in the current work is revolutionary, even for Beckett, the great reshaper of literary expression, and its theme is the creation of life, as if by a malignant God or Demiurge. Life, against all possibility, finally exists, and man becomes a painful presence. It is one of the supreme poetic texts of the 20th century.
The Corpse
Samuel P. Kay
Man dies and is taken to the Morgue to be made ready for his family.Steven Moore’s body was brought into the county morgue after he was found in the woods by a couple of hikers. Although the cold had delayed the decomposition of his body, what was left of it was in really bad shape. Wild animals made a feast of him.The county coroner and his tech for the county morgue, will soon begin the autopsy to find out the cause of death. It was a normal day for them and like a lot of people they are under the assumption that when a person dies their spirit leaves their body. That was not so in this case as Steven had been aware of what was happening and had felt the pain as the animals had ripped into his flesh. He also knew what was going to happen next.
Return to Nevèrÿon
Samuel R. Delany
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Gay & Lesbian
Slavery is outlawed, Nevèrÿon is free, and Gorgik the Liberator must revisit the mines for a final struggle where he himself was once a slaveAlone in a deserted castle in the Nevèrÿon countryside, a great warrior and a young barbarian meet at midnight to tell each other tales from their intersecting lives. But are they really alone? And, if they aren't, what will it mean for Nevèrÿon . . . ?The three stories in this volume end Samuel R. Delany's Return to Nevèrÿon saga and cycle. But they are also its beginning—taking us back to the start of Gorgik's epic—although, from what we've learned from the others, even that has become an entirely new story, though not a word in it has been changed . . .This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career.
A, B, C: Three Short Novels
Samuel R. Delany
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Gay & Lesbian
A, B, C: Three Short Novels contains the first three novels of Samuel R. Delany’s long and illustrious career.
The Jewels of Aptor is a science-fantasy story about a seafaring quest that sets out to find powerful magic jewels on a mystical, forbidden island where unimaginable danger lies.
The Ballad of Beta-2 is about a future academic searching for the true story behind an interstellar voyage, a journey over multiple generations that ended in tragedy.
They Fly at Çiron is a fantasy about the clash between a marauding army and a peaceful village at the foot of a mountain from which a race of winged people oversees both sides.
Presenting these three novels in this omnibus volume for the first time, along with a new foreword and afterword by the author, A, B, C showcases Delany’s masterful storytelling ability and deep devotion to his craft.
The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks
Robertson Davies
Fiction
The earliest of the Samuel Marchbanks volumes, originally published in 1947, is available in e-book form for the first time.
In 1942, two years after returning to Canada from Britain, Robertson Davies took up the role of editor of the Peterborough Examiner. During his tenure as editor at the Examiner, a post he held until 1955, and later as publisher of the newspaper (1955–65), Davies published witty, curmudgeonly, mischievous, and fiercely individualistic editorials under the name of his alter ego, Samuel Marchbanks, “one of the choice and master spirits of his age.”
The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks is funny, delightful, and timeless in revealing one of the most entertaining periods in a Canadian literary giant’s career.
Selected Poems 1930-1988
Samuel Beckett
Literature & Fiction / Theatre / Poetry
It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career. This new selection, from Whoroscope (1930) to 'what is the word' (1988), describes a lifetime's arc of writing. It was as a poet moreover that Beckett made his first breakthrough into writing in French, and the Selected Poems represents work in both languages, including the sequence of brief but highly crafted mirlitonnades, which did so much to usher in the style of his late prose, and come as close as anything he wrote to honouring the ambition to 'bore one hole after another in language, until what lurks behind it - be it something or nothing - begins to seep through.' Also included are several of Beckett's translations from contemporaries - Apollinaire, Eluard, Michaux, Montale - in versions which count among his own poetic achievements. ****
Edited by David Wheatley
Overcomplicated
Samuel Arbesman
Why did the New York Stock Exchange suspend trading without warning on July 8, 2015? Why did certain Toyota vehicles accelerate uncontrollably against the will of their drivers? Why does the programming inside our airplanes occasionally surprise its creators? After a thorough analysis by the top experts, the answers still elude us. You don't understand the software running your car or your iPhone. But here's a secret: neither do the geniuses at Apple or the Ph.D.'s at Toyota—not perfectly, anyway. No one, not lawyers, doctors, accountants, or policy makers, fully grasps the rules governing your tax return, your retirement account, or your hospital's medical machinery. The same technological advances that have simplified our lives have made the systems governing our lives incomprehensible, unpredictable, and overcomplicated. In Overcomplicated, complexity scientist Samuel Arbesman offers a fresh, insightful field guide to living with complex...
