Author: Georges Bataille
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0141913673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Bataille’s first novel, published under the pseudonym ‘Lord Auch’, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacreligious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille’s obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century.
Story of the Eye
Author: Georges Bataille
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0141913673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Bataille’s first novel, published under the pseudonym ‘Lord Auch’, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacreligious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille’s obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0141913673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Bataille’s first novel, published under the pseudonym ‘Lord Auch’, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacreligious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille’s obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century.
The Eye Book
Author: Theo. LeSieg
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0553536311
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A classic Big Bright and Early Board Book by Dr. Seuss, now in a larger trim size! This super-simple, super-sturdy board book edition of The Eye Book—Dr. Seuss’s hilarious ode to eyes—gives little ones a whole new appreciation for all the wonderful things to be seen! With charming illustrations by Joe Mathieu and a new bigger size trim, this abridged version of the original Bright and Early Book is perfect for babies and toddlers. Big Bright and Early Board Books are super sturdy, simplified board book editions of classic Bright and Early and Beginner Books, available in a bigger size for smaller hands!
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0553536311
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A classic Big Bright and Early Board Book by Dr. Seuss, now in a larger trim size! This super-simple, super-sturdy board book edition of The Eye Book—Dr. Seuss’s hilarious ode to eyes—gives little ones a whole new appreciation for all the wonderful things to be seen! With charming illustrations by Joe Mathieu and a new bigger size trim, this abridged version of the original Bright and Early Book is perfect for babies and toddlers. Big Bright and Early Board Books are super sturdy, simplified board book editions of classic Bright and Early and Beginner Books, available in a bigger size for smaller hands!
The Eye of the Story
Author: Eudora Welty
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679730044
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Much like her highly acclaimed One Writer's Beginnings, The Eye of the Story offers Eudora Welty's invaluable meditations on the art of writing. In addition to seven essays on craft, this collection brings together her penetrating and instructive commentaries on a wide variety of individual writers, including Jane Austen, E. M. Forster, Willa Cather, Anton Chekhov, William Faulkner, and Virginia Woolf.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679730044
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Much like her highly acclaimed One Writer's Beginnings, The Eye of the Story offers Eudora Welty's invaluable meditations on the art of writing. In addition to seven essays on craft, this collection brings together her penetrating and instructive commentaries on a wide variety of individual writers, including Jane Austen, E. M. Forster, Willa Cather, Anton Chekhov, William Faulkner, and Virginia Woolf.
Eye of the Storm
Author: Kate Messner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802723136
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Jaden's summer visit with her meteorologist father, who has just returned from spending four years in Russia conducting weather experiments not permitted in the United States, fills her with apprehension and fear as she discovers that living at her father's planned community, Placid Meadows, is anything but placid.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802723136
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Jaden's summer visit with her meteorologist father, who has just returned from spending four years in Russia conducting weather experiments not permitted in the United States, fills her with apprehension and fear as she discovers that living at her father's planned community, Placid Meadows, is anything but placid.
Through the Eye of the Storm
Author: Cholene Espinoza
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1933392185
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A pioneering female fighter pilot loses her soul in the Iraq war, only to find it again in the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in this true story of recovery, relief, and redemption on the Mississippi coast.
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1933392185
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A pioneering female fighter pilot loses her soul in the Iraq war, only to find it again in the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in this true story of recovery, relief, and redemption on the Mississippi coast.
Literature and Evil
Author: Georges Bataille
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : European literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : European literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
The Eye of the Whale: a Rescue Story (Tilbury House Nature Book)
Author: Jennifer O'Connell
Publisher: Tilbury House Nature Book
ISBN: 9780884483953
Category : Humpback whale
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On a cool December morning near San Francisco, a distress call was radioed to shore by a local fisherman. He had discovered a humpback whale tangled in hundreds of yards of crab-trap lines, struggling to stay afloat. A team of volunteers answered the call, and four divers risked their lives to rescue the enormous animal. It was the first successful whale disentanglement performed off the West Coast of the United States and prompted a rare and remarkable demonstration of animal behavior. This celebrated story, beautifully depicted in Jennifer O'Connells mesmerizing paintings, will make you wonder about animal emotions and the unique connections we can have with other animals, seven whales. To research The Eye of the Whale, Jennifer traveled to San Francisco where she met Captain Mick Menigoz and rode his rescue boat, Superfish, out into the Pacific Ocean to the area where the events in the book took place. This experience fueled her inspiration as she created the images and words of this extraordinary story.
Publisher: Tilbury House Nature Book
ISBN: 9780884483953
Category : Humpback whale
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On a cool December morning near San Francisco, a distress call was radioed to shore by a local fisherman. He had discovered a humpback whale tangled in hundreds of yards of crab-trap lines, struggling to stay afloat. A team of volunteers answered the call, and four divers risked their lives to rescue the enormous animal. It was the first successful whale disentanglement performed off the West Coast of the United States and prompted a rare and remarkable demonstration of animal behavior. This celebrated story, beautifully depicted in Jennifer O'Connells mesmerizing paintings, will make you wonder about animal emotions and the unique connections we can have with other animals, seven whales. To research The Eye of the Whale, Jennifer traveled to San Francisco where she met Captain Mick Menigoz and rode his rescue boat, Superfish, out into the Pacific Ocean to the area where the events in the book took place. This experience fueled her inspiration as she created the images and words of this extraordinary story.
Eye of the Beast
Author: Terry Adams
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312968823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
In the summer of 1993, James Wood brought terror to the unassuming town of Pocatello, Idaho. Wood, the stranger in town, looked quite ordinary. The truth came to light only after the abduction and murder of Jeralee Underwood, the 11-year-old daughter of a devout Mormon family. Author Terry Adams teams up with lead investigator Scott Shaw and forensic psychologist Mary Brooks-Mueller to take readers behind the headlines into the heart of the Idaho investigation. Photo insert.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312968823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
In the summer of 1993, James Wood brought terror to the unassuming town of Pocatello, Idaho. Wood, the stranger in town, looked quite ordinary. The truth came to light only after the abduction and murder of Jeralee Underwood, the 11-year-old daughter of a devout Mormon family. Author Terry Adams teams up with lead investigator Scott Shaw and forensic psychologist Mary Brooks-Mueller to take readers behind the headlines into the heart of the Idaho investigation. Photo insert.
Under the Eye of the Storm
Author: John Hersey
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593081072
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This is a tale of the sea, of two men and their wives on a sailboat, moving toward the heart of a great storm. It is an adventure story that carries four travelers on the yawl Harmony from Edgartown to Menemsha to Block Island and thence out into a huge, dark cone of uncertainty. In the modulating airs of the voyage four personalities emerge to work changes on each other. The two marriages seem to react to the barometer. As the drama of the storm gathers and breaks, themes are sounded of escape and confrontatoin, of illusion, of the "secret place" that every boat and every person harbors, of a meticulousness, a prudent attention to the details of life, which can blind a man to the whole of reality, and also of endurance, of instinctively courageous seamanship, and of strength that the strong may not know they possess even as they exert it. The skipper, a young doctor, follows his obsession to the terrible goal to which it must lead him at the moment wehn the calm eye of the storm looks down on the tiny boat in the violent sea. The four visions of the characters, which seem to have been focused on the one experience, reveal themselves as sharply at variance with each other, so that a final "truth" of the story has to be bargained out. And in the end that truth turns out to be an irony.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593081072
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This is a tale of the sea, of two men and their wives on a sailboat, moving toward the heart of a great storm. It is an adventure story that carries four travelers on the yawl Harmony from Edgartown to Menemsha to Block Island and thence out into a huge, dark cone of uncertainty. In the modulating airs of the voyage four personalities emerge to work changes on each other. The two marriages seem to react to the barometer. As the drama of the storm gathers and breaks, themes are sounded of escape and confrontatoin, of illusion, of the "secret place" that every boat and every person harbors, of a meticulousness, a prudent attention to the details of life, which can blind a man to the whole of reality, and also of endurance, of instinctively courageous seamanship, and of strength that the strong may not know they possess even as they exert it. The skipper, a young doctor, follows his obsession to the terrible goal to which it must lead him at the moment wehn the calm eye of the storm looks down on the tiny boat in the violent sea. The four visions of the characters, which seem to have been focused on the one experience, reveal themselves as sharply at variance with each other, so that a final "truth" of the story has to be bargained out. And in the end that truth turns out to be an irony.
The Eye of Argon
Author: Jim Theis
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0809562618
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
This is not a hoax. Jim Theis was a real person, who wrote The Eye of Argon in all seriousness as a teenager, and published it in a fanzine, Osfan in 1970. But the story did not pass into the oblivion that awaits most amateur fiction. Instead, a miracle happened, and transcribed and photocopied texts began to circulate in science fiction circles, gaining a wide and incredulous audience among both professionals and fans. It became the ultimate samizdat, an underground classic, and for more than thirty years it has been the subject of midnight readings at conventions, as thousands have come to appreciate the negative genius of this amazing Ed Wood of prose.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0809562618
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
This is not a hoax. Jim Theis was a real person, who wrote The Eye of Argon in all seriousness as a teenager, and published it in a fanzine, Osfan in 1970. But the story did not pass into the oblivion that awaits most amateur fiction. Instead, a miracle happened, and transcribed and photocopied texts began to circulate in science fiction circles, gaining a wide and incredulous audience among both professionals and fans. It became the ultimate samizdat, an underground classic, and for more than thirty years it has been the subject of midnight readings at conventions, as thousands have come to appreciate the negative genius of this amazing Ed Wood of prose.