Pictures

Pictures
Author: Moray Epstein
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2003-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595299121

Was murder planned for a vacation on the island of Capri? Will a hunter's longing for his love be realized? What does the dark world of death look like? What is an easy non-medical remedy for nightmares? The author resolves these and other intriguing questions in this collection of poetry and prose. Readers will go to Tahiti on a sailboat with an intrepid young woman who dares to travel alone with a strange man. And they will cross the Yellow Sea with a lonely man who reads Chinese philosophy. They will find sexuality in Gone to Hell, sad moments in Pit of Pain and happy hours in Where Gone. Other poems offer compelling commentaries on our lives and times, past and present. More than two dozen short prose pieces with humor, fantasy or confrontation add to the wide range of poetry subjects. The death of a bullying bigot is described in Trouble. In Anya, a young girl falls in love with a handsome gypsy boy. An innocent woman dies in Murder in Elmer, and in Mirrors, Kate sees events from her past. Many verses and short tales in this varied menu of fiction have been published previously.

New Paths

New Paths
Author: Cyril William Beaumont
Publisher:
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1918
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Californian Pictures in Prose and Verse

Californian Pictures in Prose and Verse
Author: Benjamin Parke Avery
Publisher:
Total Pages: 450
Release: 1877
Genre: Business
ISBN:

New York journalist Benjamin Parke Avery (1828-1875) emigrated to California and became part owner of the Marysville Appeal in the 1850s and later published a newspaper in San Francisco and served as state printer. Californian pictures in prose and verse (1878) contains his "word-sketches," which are largely confined to California scenery, although some picture Native Americans and miners whom he knew when he prospected on the Trinity River in 1850 as well as the city of San Francisco. Most of the book is devoted to poems and essays dealing with mountains of the Coast Range, the Sierra Nevadas, and the Santa Cruz range and their passes and lakes; Yosemite, upper Sacramento Valley, Mount Shasta, and the geysers.