This beautiful journal is filled with carefully chosen, inspiring quotes from Eckhart Tolle's masterpiece, The Power of Now . Terms like groundbreaking and life-changing are often used to describe books, but not always accurately. They are when describing The Power of Now, which has become a genuine cultural phenomenon. Oprah Winfrey keeps it at her bedside and calls it one of the most valuable books I've ever read." Katy Perry says it inspired her song "This Moment." Director Tom Ford asked everyone in his film A Single Man to read it - and on and on. More importantly, millions who suffer...
Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way...
If you ask a group of Millennials what they remember about the most-banned book series of the ‘90s, Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, the answers will come fast and panicky, often in incomplete sentences. The intervening decades haven’t dulled the primal shock these collections of urban legends, regional folk tales, and campfire stories have left on their now-adult readers, a feeling that’s equal parts nostalgic and nightmarish. Love for the series has been sustained by a recent re-issuing of the books (one that restored illustrator Stephen Gammell’s horrifying but beloved...
John Golsworthy is an English prose writer and playwright, author of the famous cycle “The Forsyte Saga,” Nobel Prize in Literature (1932). In the drama "Fidelity," he expressed concern for the "lost generation" that comes into life after the end of World War I. Although the author’s position is limited by his belief in the inviolability of the bourgeois system, loyalty to realism led to the fact that the panorama he created correctly reflected the gradual decline of the English bourgeoisie. But if in the pre-war period, in his writings, the predatory egoism of the Forsytes was mainly...
Walter Jerrold wrote and edited, also as Walter Copeland for children. From a theatrical family, he rose to deputy editor of The Observer newspaper, spending most of his life in London. "Tradition in the nursery has acted as a severe editor."...
The famous scientist Cheiro introduces us into the wonderful world of one of the most ancient sciences of human civilization - palmistry. One of the most popular and bright palmists, foretellers and clairvoyants of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was William John Warner. But the world remembered him under the name Cheiro, which is an abridged version of the English word "palmistry." But the count himself had in mind a completely different interpretation of his pseudonym "Hiro" from the Greek "hand." Famous and powerful clients made him famous and wealthy, including politicians and...
"Younger Brothers" - against the almighty Elder Brother. Seventeen-year-old hacker and his team are against the System. They are the kings of the Web, they are sure that they can do anything. But the System monitors each of us... And each of us can instantly fall into its claws. Freedom has long become a myth. People are pawns in the Great Game of Governments and Special Services. And everyone who wants to strike back at the System must be not only desperately brave, but also very, very smart......
The poem is dedicated to the battle of Alfred the Great, the first Anglo-Saxon king of Britain with the pagan Danes. Chesterton sees this event as an allegory of the confrontation between civilization and barbarism, faith and unbelief, life and death. Chesterton transforms the image of a white horse, an ancient drawing on the chalk hills of Oxfordshire, into a symbol of the European Christian tradition: this silhouette has survived to this day, because generation after generation has cleared its outlines, preventing it from overgrown with turf, - so our ideas about good and evil, duty ,...
Published in 1909, the famous book by Gertrude Stein marked the beginning of an era of bold experiments with literary form and language. The stories of three women from Bridgepoint are inspired by the ideas of modern artists. In the non-linear narrative of Good Anna, the reader will notice the influence of Cezanne, Stein’s friendship with Picasso inspired free syntax and open sexuality of the story of Melankte, the influence of Matisse is noticeable in The Quiet Lena. The books of Gertrude Stein are works not only of literature, but also of painting. Words, like paints, lie on a canvas, all...
The novel "Sports of the Gods" is dedicated to urban life of blacks in America. Their family was forced to leave the south, but life in the northern city was not what they imagined it was, and the family was falling apart....
At the beginning of the 20th century, works appeared in realistic US literature, which sharply critically portrayed the life of American society. The founder of this trend, whose representatives were called "mud rakers", was Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). In 1906, his novel “The Jungle” was published - about Chicago slaughterhouses. The novel was a success and made a lot of noise. Jack London called it "Uncle Tom's Cabin of Industrial Slavery." The fascinating plot did not hide or embellish the socially revealing character of the novel....
"Heartbreak House" is one of the Show's "visiting cards", the witty and subtle tragicomedy of the morals of British secular society after the First World War, to which the author was inspired, in his own words, by Chekhov's dramaturgy. The action takes place on a September evening in an English provincial house that resembles a ship in shape, for its owner, a gray-haired old man, captain Châtover, sailed the whole life through the seas. His daughter Hesion invited Ellie, her father and Mengen, to upset her marriage, because she does not want the girl to marry an unloved man because of the...
The work of Tom Taylor dates back to 1850-1870, to the time when, after the suppression of the Chartist movement, to replace the socio-political novel of 30-50. and poetry of social pity came, on the one hand, aesthetics, and on the other - sensational literature, reactionary in its class ideology. This literature is characterized by a sharp plot. Taylor's melodramas are extremely typical in this respect. Rich in acute situations, dynamic and spectacular, they did not leave the scene until the last years of the 19th century....
Edith Wharton - author of more than twenty novels and ten collections of short stories - the first woman writer to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Such works of Wharton, such as "Resident of Joy," "Ethan From," "The Age of Innocence," "The Fruit of the Tree," were included in the golden fund of American literature. The novel "The Age of Innocence" formed the basis of the film of the same name by Martin Scorsese, which received recognition and popularity. The confrontation of the individual and society, the clash of generally accepted moral principles and sincere deep feelings inevitably lead...
Being the son of a famous romantic actor, Eugene O’Neill was well acquainted with the American theater of the late XIX - early XX centuries and passionately hated him. I hated melodramas written in bad language, did not recognize the acting style and the lack of ensemble, full of cliches, and rejected the naturalness of scenography. Speaking as an innovative playwright, he sought to create a completely different type of theater. O’Neill's early plays are a riot against an established commercial theater tradition. In O’Neill’s early plays, the main characters were social types of the lower...
