"The Borzoi 1920" serves as a fascinating chronicle of a pivotal era in literature, showcasing the works and contributions of prominent authors such as Conrad Aiken, Willa Cather, and T. S. Eliot. This compilation reflects the dynamic literary landscape of its time, highlighting the innovative styles and themes that emerged from these influential writers. Each author brought a unique voice, contributing to a rich tapestry of modern literature that continues to resonate with readers today, ...

Revealing Merce Cunningham’s creative processes as inspiration for today’s dancers and choreographersIn this book, former members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company detail the technique classes, rehearsal procedures, and compositional approaches that defined Cunningham’s New York studio for more than sixty years. Through firsthand accounts supported by interviews and secondary sources, the authors reveal Cunningham’s creative process—how simple movement phrases ...

Scout and The Serious Split tells the story of how two sisters navigate through a challenging experience when their loved and devoted parents decide to go their separate ways. This book is designed for our edutainment. In other words, this story is meant to be both educational and entertaining. Watch and witness their story unfold, and then discuss The S.M.I.L.E. Adventure of help move through feelings and emotions following major obstacles in our lives.

Our journey through the arc and pages of a book is often in the safe and knowing words of a narrator. But sometimes these friends, these guardians of our trust play games, they betray our literary friendship with lines on which we can’t rely. They take us into literary mazes turn characters we accept into those we mistrust, situations we know into something we can now only doubt. However, we still enjoy the journey; sometimes they make it so much fun there may be a happy ending. But often ...

The quotations in this unique dictionary cover all aspects of the military art─war, personalities, traditions and customs, weapons and equipment, as well as virtues and failings. It is a fascinating and comprehensive collection which includes over 5000 quotations and spans the past two thousand years. The words of Catherine the Great are here, along with those of Churchill, Shakespeare, Nimitz, Clausewitz, Kant, and John F. Kennedy. Napoleon I and Thomas Jefferson share a page with Robert ...

Herbert George Wells was born on September 21st, 1866 at Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, Kent. He was the youngest of four siblings and his family affectionately knew him as ‘Bertie’.The first few years of his childhood were spent fairly quietly

Mirrors to the Self – 6 Classic Tales of Psychological Terror presents an enthralling exploration of the psychological landscape rendered by an eclectic blend of authors, each embroidering their narrative with unique stylistic and thematic nuances. This anthology delves into the depths of the human psyche, weaving tales that ensnare the reader in an intricate web of terror, introspection, and gothic undertones. With stories ranging from the uncanny to the existential, the collection offers...

The Lost Charm of Courtship - 40 Romance Classics surveys the changing languages of desire, marriage, social ambition, and moral choice across the long nineteenth century and beyond. Its selections range from comedy of manners and epistolary intrigue to Gothic intensity, historical adventure, domestic realism, and psychologically nuanced social fiction. Courtship appears not merely as a route to happy union but as a testing ground for class, gender, inheritance, reputation, and individual ...

The Greatest Gothic Classics gathers the central imaginative currents of Gothic literature: haunted inheritance, transgressive desire, supernatural terror, psychological doubling, and the instability of reason itself. Spanning castles, crypts, laboratories, asylums, fog-bound streets, and uncanny domestic interiors, the volume traces the form from eighteenth-century romance to Victorian sensation, fin-de-siècle decadence, detective mystery, and early speculative fiction. Its range includes...

In the anthology *60 Gothic Classics*, readers embark on a thrilling exploration of the Gothic literary tradition, traversing the eerie landscapes, haunted spaces, and complex psyches that define the genre. This carefully curated collection spans centuries and continents, deftly capturing the transformative power of Gothic literature through a stunning array of narratives. The anthology balances the unyielding darkness of gothic horror with the suspenseful allure of romanticism and the int...

The Greatest Romance Novels of All Time gathers seventy canonical narratives in which love becomes a lens for examining class, duty, desire, nation, faith, and social change. Spanning courtship comedy, Gothic intensity, historical adventure, sentimental fiction, psychological realism, and tragic passion, the volume ranges from drawing-room irony to revolutionary tumult and windswept rural landscapes. Enduring landmarks of domestic fiction stand beside tales of forbidden attachment, moral a...

Mystique of the Darkness: 100+ Gothic Classics maps the Gothic imagination across more than a century of supernatural terror, psychological unease, romantic melancholy, and social transgression. Its capacious selection moves among novels, tales, poems, and proto-detective mysteries, tracing ruined castles, haunted houses, spectral doubles, forbidden knowledge, and the unstable boundaries between reason and nightmare. Landmark narratives of vampirism, scientific overreach, ancestral crime, ...