The Books at the Wake - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Books at the Wake write by James S. Atherton. This book was released on 2003-01. The Books at the Wake available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Wake
The Wake - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wake write by Paul Kingsnorth. This book was released on 2015-09-01. The Wake available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A work that is as disturbing as it is empathetic, as beautiful as it is riveting." —Eimear McBride, New Statesman In the aftermath of the Norman Invasion of 1066, William the Conqueror was uncompromising and brutal. English society was broken apart, its systems turned on their head. What is little known is that a fractured network of guerrilla fighters took up arms against the French occupiers. In The Wake, a postapocalyptic novel set a thousand years in the past, Paul Kingsnorth brings this dire scenario back to us through the eyes of the unforgettable Buccmaster, a proud landowner bearing witness to the end of his world. Accompanied by a band of like-minded men, Buccmaster is determined to seek revenge on the invaders. But as the men travel across the scorched English landscape, Buccmaster becomes increasingly unhinged by the immensity of his loss, and their path forward becomes increasingly unclear. Written in what the author describes as "a shadow tongue"—a version of Old English updated so as to be understandable to the modern reader—The Wake renders the inner life of an Anglo-Saxon man with an accuracy and immediacy rare in historical fiction. To enter Buccmaster's world is to feel powerfully the sheer strangeness of the past. A tale of lost gods and haunted visions, The Wake is both a sensational, gripping story and a major literary achievement.
Joyce's Book of the Dark
Joyce's Book of the Dark - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Joyce's Book of the Dark write by John Bishop. This book was released on 1986-12-01. Joyce's Book of the Dark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Joyce’s Book of the Dark gives us such a blend of exciting intelligence and impressive erudition that it will surely become established as one of the most fascinating and readable Finnegans Wake studies now available.”—Margot Norris, James Joyce Literary Supplement
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake write by Joseph Campbell. This book was released on 2005. A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since its publication in 1939, countless would-be readers of "Finnegans Wake" - James Joyce's masterwork, which consumed a third of his life - have given up after a few pages, dismissing it as a "perverse triumph of the unintelligible." In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first "key" or guide to entering the fascinating, disturbing, marvelously rich world of "Finnegans Wake." The authors break down Joyce's "unintelligible" book page by page, stripping the text of much of its obscurity and serving up thoughtful interpretations via footnotes and bracketed commentary. They outline the book's basic action, and then simplify -- and clarify -- its complex web of images and allusions. "A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake" is the latest addition to the "Collected Works of Joseph Campbell" series.
My Father's Wake
My Father's Wake - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Father's Wake write by Kevin Toolis. This book was released on 2018-02-27. My Father's Wake available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An intimate, lyrical look at the ancient rite of the Irish wake--and the Irish way of overcoming our fear of death Death is a whisper for most of us. Instinctively we feel we should dim the lights, pull the curtains, and speak softly. But on a remote island off the coast of Ireland's County Mayo, death has a louder voice. Each day, along with reports of incoming Atlantic storms, the local radio runs a daily roll call of the recently departed. The islanders go in great numbers, young and old alike, to be with their dead. They keep vigil with the corpse and the bereaved company through the long hours of the night. They dig the grave with their own hands and carry the coffin on their own shoulders. The islanders cherish the dead--and amid the sorrow, they celebrate life, too. In My Father's Wake, acclaimed author and award-winning filmmaker Kevin Toolis unforgettably describes his own father's wake and explores the wider history and significance of this ancient and eternal Irish ritual. Perhaps we, too, can all find a better way to deal with our mortality -- by living and loving as the Irish do.
