Dark Avenues

Dark Avenues
Author: Ivan Bunin
Publisher: Alma Classics
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-07-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1847494749

An achievement of twentieth-century Russian émigré literature, Dark Avenues--translated here for the first time into English in its entirety--by Ivan Bunin, Russia’s first Nobel Prize winner.

Dark Alleys

Dark Alleys
Author: Ivan A Bunin
Publisher: Vladimir Djambov
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2020-08-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

“Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html Feeling that there was not the slightest hope of falling asleep, he quietly went down from the balcony, deciding to go out onto the road to the station and blot himself, to walk three miles. But he stopped in the courtyard: warm dusk, sweet silence, the milky whiteness of the sky from innumerable small stars ... He walked around the courtyard, stopped again, raised his head: the starry departing deeper and deeper, and there was some terrible black and blue darkness, where there were failures in something ... and calm, silence, incomprehensible, great desert, lifeless and aimless beauty of the world ... the silent, eternal religiosity of the night ... and he alone, face to face with all this, in the abyss between heaven and earth ... He began to pray without words about some heavenly mercy, about someone’s self-pity, with bitter joy feeling his connection with heaven and already some detachment from himself, from his body ... Then, trying to keep these feelings in himself, looked at the house: the stars are reflected in a flattened brilliance in the black glass of the windows - and in the glass of her window ... Sleeping or lying, in a dumb numbness of the same thought about Titov! Yes, that’s her turn ... /// For, according to legend, Hosea made the prophet a family sorrow: Homer was just a girl, and he was no longer young; he was chaste, thoughtful, sad, and despite her childhood, she was an immense harlot.

Dark Alleys And Born Again Moments

Dark Alleys And Born Again Moments
Author: Fred Bapp
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2018-04-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1641145730

These poetic sharings were mainly born during 1995-1999. Judy, my wife and soulmate, was diagnosed with cancer in 1988, And has courageously walked the gauntlet of chemotherapy, radiation, and bone marrow transfer treatments. Judy, I love you. This is for you. For the magical art therein, appreciation and awe to my son, Kevin. For you, the reader, I have attempted to share some of my thoughts And feelings as a psychotherapist, runner, trembling Christian, And human survivor. My hope is that you may find Some common themes to nourish your own journey. Fred 1999

Dark Alleys

Dark Alleys
Author: Rick Polad
Publisher: Spencer Manning Mysteries
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-12-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781960250445

History is being repeated as women are being murdered in the streets of Chicago. Spencer Manning is drawn into the middle of it all by a friend who asks for a simple favor. The sinister, dark world of Chicago at night leads Spencer into dark alleys as he tries to unravel the confusing stories of prostitutes, some of whom aren't as they appear. Follow Spencer as he tries to figure out what street walkers, a high-priced call girl, and a young girl who looks like she should be in college have to do with each other.

The Very Witching Time of Night

The Very Witching Time of Night
Author: Gregory William Mank
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2014-05-23
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476615438

The book covers unusual and often surprising areas of horror film history: (1) The harrowingly tragic life of Dracula's leading lady, Helen Chandler, as intimately remembered by her sister-in-law. (2) John Barrymore's 1931 horror vehicles Svengali and The Mad Genius, and their rejection by the public. (3) The disastrous shooting of 1933's Murders in the Zoo, perhaps the most racy of all Pre-Code horror films. (4) A candid interview with the son of legendary horror star Lionel Atwill. (5) The censorship battles of One More River, as waged by Frankenstein director James Whale. (6) The adventures (and misadventures) of Boris Karloff as a star at Warner Bros. (7) The stage and screen versions of the horror/comedy Arsenic and Old Lace. (8) Production diaries of the horror noirs Cat People and The Curse of the Cat People. (9) Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man revisited. (10) Horror propaganda: The production of Hitler's Madman. (11) Horror star John Carradine and the rise and fall of his Shakespearean Repertory Company. (12) The Shock! Theatre television phenomenon. And (13) A Tribute to Carl Laemmle, Jr., producer of the original Universal horror classics, including an interview with his lady friend of almost 40 years.

Nightmare Alley

Nightmare Alley
Author: William Lindsay Gresham
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2011-04-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590174283

Soon to be a major motion picture from Academy Award–winning director Guillermo del Toro and starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, and Toni Collette. Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision—going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. There’s no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him. And since Stan is clever and ambitious and not without a useful streak of ruthlessness, soon enough he’s going places. Onstage he plays the mentalist with a cute assistant (before long his harried wife), then he graduates to full-blown spiritualist, catering to the needs of the rich and gullible in their well-upholstered homes. It looks like the world is Stan’s for the taking. At least for now.

Midaq Alley

Midaq Alley
Author: Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2016-06-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101974664

Widely acclaimed as Naguib Mahfouz's best novel, Midaq Alley brings to life one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo in the 1940s. From Zaita the cripple-maker to Kirsha the hedonistic cafe owner, from Abbas the barber who mistakes greed for love to Hamida who sells her soul to escape the alley, from waiters and widows to politicians, pimps, and poets, the inhabitants of Midaq Alley vividly evoke Egypt's largest city as it teeters on the brink of change. Never has Nobel Prize-winner Mahfouz's talent for rich and luxurious storytelling been more evident than here, in his portrait of one small street as a microcosm of the world on the threshold of modernity.

An Ambush of Years

An Ambush of Years
Author: J.A. Enfield
Publisher: Wayzgoose Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2024-10-15
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

Mick Conway is tired of mourning his mom and wondering when his dad will finally come home. He’s tired of moving to live with yet another aunt or uncle and having to change schools and friends each time he moves. And, as much as he loves his baby sister Emilia, he might be a little less tired if somebody else would take a turn getting her back to sleep at night. He isn’t tired of electricity, functional sewer systems, or a world with some respect for the laws of physics. But he doesn’t realize how much he cherishes those things until he’s mysteriously dropped somewhere that doesn’t have any of them—though it does have time travel, faceless interlopers skulking in the shadows, and somebody with a sinister plan that could prove deadly. Can Mick help thwart that plan? And can he do so without giving up on getting back home?

Sexual Harassment

Sexual Harassment
Author: Linda LeMoncheck
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0585116989

The question of what constitutes sexual harassment—from suggestive remarks to outright threats, from off-color jokes to lewd posters on office walls—is contentious, as is the question of how to address sexual harassment. Do all instances of sexual harassment constitute sex discrimination? Are some instances merely sexual attraction gone wrong? Do social policies aimed at eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace violate freedom of expression or do they make working relationships possible between women and men? In this uncompromising yet respectful debate, two philosophers of widely divergent views present clear arguments and then respond directly to each other's reasoning. LeMonchek argues for a feminist perspective on sexual harassment that is sensitive to the politics of gender. Hajdin contends that this perspective is both morally confusing and legally problematic, and that sexual harassment can be better addressed by traditional moral and legal categories.