Up from the Depths - 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 Up from the Depths write by Aaron Sachs. This book was released on 2022-06-07. Up from the Depths available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisis Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history—the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819–1891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (1895–1990). Deftly cutting back and forth between the writers, Aaron Sachs reveals the surprising resonances between their lives, work, and troubled times—and their uncanny relevance in our own age of crisis. The author of Moby-Dick was largely forgotten for several decades after his death, but Mumford helped spearhead Melville’s revival in the aftermath of World War I and the 1918–1919 flu pandemic, when American culture needed a forebear with a suitably dark vision. As Mumford’s career took off and he wrote books responding to the machine age, urban decay, world war, and environmental degradation, it was looking back to Melville’s confrontation with crises such as industrialization, slavery, and the Civil War that helped Mumford to see his own era clearly. Mumford remained obsessed with Melville, ultimately helping to canonize him as America’s greatest tragedian. But largely forgotten today is one of Mumford’s key insights—that Melville’s darkness was balanced by an inspiring determination to endure. Amid today’s foreboding over global warming, racism, technology, pandemics, and other crises, Melville and Mumford remind us that we’ve been in this struggle for a long time. To rediscover these writers today is to rediscover how history can offer hope in dark times.
The Depths
The Depths - 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 Depths write by Nicole Lesperance. This book was released on 2023-09-12. The Depths available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A tropical island full of secrets. Two Victorian ghosts, trapped for eternity. And a seventeen-year-old girl determined not to be next. Eulalie Island should be a paradise, but to Addie Spencer, it’s more like a prison. Forced to tag along to the remote island on her mother’s honeymoon, Addie isn’t thrilled about being trapped there for two weeks. The island is stunning, with its secluded beaches and forests full of white flowers. But there's something eerie and unsettling about the place. After Addie meets an enigmatic boy on the beach, all the flowers start turning pink. The island loves you, he tells her. But she can’t stop sleepwalking at night, the birds keep calling her name, and there’s a strange little girl in the woods who wants to play hide-and-seek. When Addie learns about two sisters who died on the island centuries ago, she wonders if there’s more to this place, things only she can see. Beneath its gorgeous surface, Eulalie Island is hiding dark, tangled secrets. And if Addie doesn't unravel them soon, the island might never let her go.
Tonesha - Up from the Depths
Tonesha - Up from the Depths - 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 Tonesha - Up from the Depths write by Lee Taylor. This book was released on 2019-04-04. Tonesha - Up from the Depths available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tonesha Barnes is a young woman with a checkered past and questionable future. She has survived the streets of Cleveland, Ohio for ten years by her wits, savvy and sheer luck. She has paid for those years in a telling toll. Out of an act of frustration, Tonesha has jeopardized her freedom. Opportunity comes from an unlikely person that believes in Tonesha more than she does herself. With desperation setting in for both Tonesha and her benefactor, time is running out. Armed with the strength to not surrender no matter the odds, Tonesha fights with determination instilled by her mother that gave up on life long ago. Tonesha is who we all strive to be, man or woman, when we want better out of life and it is just out of reach.
Climbing up from the Depths
Climbing up from the Depths - 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 Climbing up from the Depths write by LOREN DENNY. This book was released on 2014-11-14. Climbing up from the Depths available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through his poetry, the author tells us of his struggles with schizophrenia, addiction, his desire to become sober, and reaching that goal. He also reflects on several other subjects including love, spirituality, nature and child abuse. His style is both serious and humorous, and gives the reader a profound look into his heart and soul.
Out of The Depths
Out of The Depths - 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 Out of The Depths write by Cathy MacPhail. This book was released on 2011-11-21. Out of The Depths available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'I saw my teacher in the queue in the supermarket last Christmas. Miss Baxter. I was surprised to see her. She'd been dead six months.' In Out of the Depths, Cathy MacPhail introduces her latest character, Tyler Lawless, who has an unusual and sometimes scary gift. She is able to see dead people. And sometimes they speak to her, asking for her help. When Tyler moves to a new school she is hoping to make a fresh start. But it is very difficult to make a fresh start when a boy who is supposed to be dead appears in your classroom, and statues in the school seem to come alive and point towards the place where the dead boy, Ben Kincaid, was murdered. Will Tyler be able to assist Ben with his pleas for help, or will she be dismissed as an attention-seeking teller of tall tales? A thrilling and spooky tale from the acclaimed Cathy MacPhail.
