Goshen Sunset: Poems From the Mountaintop Vol. II

Goshen Sunset: Poems From the Mountaintop Vol. II
Author: Thomas Henry Carter, PhD.
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2014-02-20
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1304797724

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.

Born on a Mountaintop

Born on a Mountaintop
Author: Bob Thompson
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2013-03-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307720918

Pioneer. Congressman. Martyr of the Alamo. King of the Wild Frontier. As with all great legends, Davy Crockett's has been retold many times. Over the years, he has been repeatedly reinvented by historians and popular storytellers. In Born on a Mountaintop, Bob Thompson combines the stories of the real hero and his Disney-enhanced afterlife as he delves deep into our love for an American icon. In the road-trip tradition of Sarah Vowell and Tony Horwitz, Thompson follows Crockett's footsteps from his birthplace in east Tennessee to Washington, where he served three terms in Congress, and on to Texas and the gates of the Alamo, seeking out those who know, love, and are still willing to fight over Davy's life and legacy. Born on a Mountaintop is more than just a bold new biography of one of the great American heroes. Thompson's rich mix of scholarship, reportage, humor, and exploration of modern Crockett landscapes bring Davy Crockett's impact on the American imagination vividly to life.

Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh
Author: Stephen Mitchell
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-02-27
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1847653839

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.

The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution

The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution
Author: Lossing, Benson J.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Total Pages: 418
Release:
Genre: United States
ISBN: 9781455610464

Tells the stories of the young nation and the sacrifices that made the colonies' dream of freedom become a reality.

The Journals of Sylvia Plath

The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Author: Sylvia Plath
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2013-01-16
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 030783039X

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.