LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER is both one of the most beautiful and notorious love stories in modern fiction. The summation of D.H. Lawrence's artistic achievement, it sharply illustrates his belief that tenderness and passion were the only weapons that could save man from self-destruction.
BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE marked a turning point and a major modification of Freud's previous theoretical approach. The main importance of the essay resides in the striking picture of human beings struggling between two opposing instincts or drives: Eros working for creativity, harmony, sexual connection, reproduction, and self-preservation; Thanatos for destruction, repetition, aggression, compulsion, and self-destruction.
ULYSSES is one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. This editions follows the complete and unabridged text as corrected and reset in 1961.
Engaging, funny and bracingly honest, Heather Kopp shares her remarkable journey into darkness...and back to the light again. Her story reveals the unique challenges and spiritual conundrums Christians face when they become ensnared in an addiction, and the redemption that's possible when we finally reach the end of ourselves.
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by throrough explanatory annotations as well as by Eliot's own knotty notes, some of which require annotation themselves.
ONCE UPON A PRINCE, the first novel in the Royal Wedding series by bestselling author Rachel Hauck, tells a modern-day fairy tale as fetching as the recent nuptials of Prince William and Kate Middleton. When a jilted girlfriend meets a reluctant crown prince, they discover the power of God’s love to heal hearts and change a nation.
As the years and letters passed between John and Amy, the layers fell off as they explored and unmasked themselves and each other. Every writer needs a room of his own, but for some people, at certain times and in certain circumstances, the best you can do is a closet. From the confines --- and protection --- of his closet, John wrote these letters, letters that were read, cherished, and then locked away for decades in Amy’s closet. Now they are chronicled and shared for your enrichment.
The first book in the Windy City Neighbors series is an uplifting, contemporary story about ordinary people wrestling with the spiritual and practical issues of real life. The series employs the innovative storytelling technique of parallel novels, each with its own drama and story arc, but whose characters' lives become intertwined and affect one another. GROUNDED welcomes you to Beecham Street --- a typical, isolated American neighborhood that might just be a place of hope.
An opportunity to buy her great-great-great-grandparents’ Civil War era home beckons Tish McComb to Noble, Alabama. When Tish discovers that McCombs aren’t welcome in town, she feels like a Yankee behind enemy lines. Only local antiques dealer George Zorbas seems willing to give her a chance. What’s a lonely outcast to do but take in Noble’s resident prodigal, Melanie Hamilton, and hope that the two can find some much needed acceptance in each other.
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August's Books on Screen roundup includes the series premieres of "The Shards" on FX and FX on Hulu and "Anna Pigeon" on USA Network; the season premieres of Prime Video's "Reacher," Apple TV's "Dark Matter," and Netflix's "One Hundred Years of Solitude"; the films The Whisper Man, The Dog Stars and Tony; the series finale of "Lucky" on Apple TV; the season finale of HBO's "House of the Dragon"; the continuation of "The Walking Dead: Dead City" on AMC and "Silo" on Apple TV; and the DVD/Blu-ray releases of Project Hail Mary and The Get Out.