Recently married to Charles, Sarah is furnishing a cottage in Scotland and starting on a life in sharp contrast to their wartime experiences. Their full entrance into village life is helped by Sarah's delightful grandparents, who have given them the land on which they have built their cottage. They work together, collaborating in translations for a publisher. Charles embarks on more ambitious writing, his autobiography, yet increasingly it is not books but life itself that engrosses him an...

Wolfgang W. E. Samuel, Colonel, US Air Force (Ret.), interweaves his story and that of his family with the larger history of World War II and the postwar world through a moving recollection and exploration of Fassberg, a small town in Germany few have heard of and fewer remember. Created in 1933 by the Hitler regime to train German aircrews, Fassberg hosted Samuel’s father in 1944–45 as an officer in the German air force. As fate and Germany's collapse chased young Wolfgang, Fassberg later...

"News from Nowhere" is a prose work by William Morris, published serially in The Commonweal in 1890 and as a book later the same year.Most of the work consists of a vision of England in the year 2090 presented as a dream of William Guest, a thin disguise for Morris himself. Poverty, misery, and the ugliness of factories have vanished, along with money, the legal system, and government itself; labour, art, and nature are ennobled. Those improvements prove to have been broug...

First published in 1894, "The Wood Beyond the World" is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature. His use of archaic language has been seen by some modern readers as making his fiction difficult to read, but brings a wonderful atmosphere to the telling.William Morris is often considered one of the authors who aided in th...

The House of the Wolfings is William Morris's richly archaic prose romance of a Gothic tribe resisting the advance of imperial Rome. Set in the legendary Mark along the river, it blends heroic warfare, communal ritual, prophecy, and tragic love, centering on Thiodolf and the mysterious Wood-Sun. Its elevated diction, interwoven verse, and saga-like structure place it between medieval epic, Norse-inspired romance, and the emerging modern fantasy tradition. Morris, poet, designer, socialist,...

Morris Jastrow's The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria is a foundational study of Mesopotamian belief, tracing the development of gods, myths, ritual practices, temple institutions, divination, and ethical ideas from early Babylonian culture through Assyrian adaptation. Written in the lucid, comparative style of late nineteenth-century Semitic scholarship, the work situates cuneiform discoveries within the broader history of ancient Near Eastern religion, showing how local cults, political...

This is Volume III of twenty-two volumes on 20th Century Philosophy. Originally published in 1970, this is a collection of essays of George Edward Moore (1873-1958) who was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and the outcome of the changes he introduced into our ways of thinking in philosophy cannot yet be foreseen.

First published in 1876, "The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs" is an epic poem by William Morris that tells the tragic story, drawn from the Volsunga Saga and the Elder Edda, of the Norse hero Sigmund, his son Sigurd and Sigurd's wife Gudrun."The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs" sprang from a fascination with the Volsung legend that extended back twenty years to the author's youth, and had already resulted in several other literary ...

This book is designed for those that are interested in getting better sleep, remembering their dreams and interpreting their dreams. This is an ideal book for anyone that is a beginner in dream analysis and a great refresher for those that have been studying dreams and their meaning for a while. Included is the History, Science and practical and spiritual use of dream analysis. You will find answers to questions such as: Why can't I remember my dreams? What is a symbol? How can I tell if s...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A love story lit by moonlight and mortality.London, 1990s.Pills dissolve on tongues.Bass lines shake warehouse walls.Through the dark, Steven chases the perfect high—chemical rushes, stolen moments, the electric promise of being twenty-two and bulletproof.Then the test results land. Positive.His world shatters.Whole of the Moon...

In this groundbreaking book, Aldon D. Morris’s ambition is truly monumental: to help rewrite the history of sociology and to acknowledge the primacy of W. E. B. Du Bois’s work in the founding of the discipline. Calling into question the prevailing narrative of how sociology developed, Morris, a major scholar of social movements, probes the way in which the history of the discipline has traditionally given credit to Robert E. Park at the University of Chicago, who worked with the conservati...

"The Roots of the Mountains" is a novel by William Morris, which follows the Gothic theme from its predecessor, "The House of the Wolfings".Many years after the events of "The House of the Wolfings" the descendants of the Wolfing tribe live on the mountains dispersed in smaller tribes and mostly ignorant of their past. A new danger, this time the Huns, will unite them once more and force them to war in order to defend their freedom and way of life.This is the second, and la...