An almost unclassifiable work, Sartor Resartus is at once inaccessible and irresitable. Repeated readings always bring new illumination and unearth previously hidden lessons. Carlyle wrote this book to instruct, entertain and, most importantly, to challenge. Its message appears more timely now than ever. Sic vos non vobis!

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Although John Gray is known mainly for his poetry, this volume collects many of his prose works. His short novel Park is included in full, as are reviews and short stories collected from various sources. Many are reprinted here for the first time since their initial publication. This is an invaluable companion volume to Ian Fletcher's collection of Gray's poetry, and an excellent insight into a much neglected writer from Britain's late Victorian era.

this is a very percice and detailed book.I found it amasingly simple to follow.beng dignosed with chronic fatigue in a very bad way ,Reading the book and scoring your selve certianly was not only help fully understand just what your body was going through ,but all so how to reverse the damage done .In my case DR Case wrote it toke a long time to get to this state it will take a long time to recover.And so it did , all 4 years following his advise to a t .How ever each month tha went the rogress could be measured

This collection of poetry has insight into the state of the world and minds of we as a people today. This is one of the best educational and entertaining poetry books I have read in a long time. I would recommend all get this book before people catch on to what a find this is. TRULY WONDERFUL

It's easy to look back and view wars as things of glory - the history books tend to lead us in that direction by viewing the action from lofty heights, speaking in terms of armies and strategies and generals. The reality - as those who have 'been there' know too well (and no, I'm not claiming to be a veteran) - is that the old adage is all too true: war is definitely hell, and we should never, ever forget that fact.

Ambrose Bierce is known today mainly through his fiction - many fine examples of which appear in this collection - and through THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY. He 'might or might not' be the subject and/or inspiration for Carlos Fuentes' novel THE OLD GRINGO, also made into a film. His stories have a decidedly 'creepy' feel to them - he was no Edgar Allan Poe, perhaps, but he was a talented writer nonetheless...and as not only the short stories, but also the non-fiction pieces collected here demonstrate, he was a careful and articulate observer. We are truly blessed that he chose to recount what he had seen, both in the form of short stories and memoirs. His disappearance in 1914 in Mexico has added to his mystique over the ensuing years.

The most famous of the short stories contained in this volume is undoubtedly 'An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'. I remember reading it in high school (NO, I won't say how long ago that was...) - and it was filmed to great effect by director Roberto Enrico in 1962, and was subsequently aired in the US as an episode in the last season of THE TWILGHT ZONE on CBS. It won an Oscar in 1964 as Best Foreign Short Film. The story is a masterpiece of suspense - it's a great literary epitaph for Bierce.

Bierce served in the Civil War - he enlisted at its outset and saw quite a bit of action. He rose through the ranks to lieutenant and served on the staff of various high-ranking officers. It is his observations and experiences - and his empathy with the troops, the enlisted men, the common man - that lend such a value to his writings. Too much 'Hollywood-izing' has been forced upon the truth - about the Civil War and almost everything the film industry touches. It's a treasure to have the pieces here to vividly remind us of what the experience was really like.

There is humor here as well - Bierce's wit was an acerbic sword, and he unsheathed it on the high and low alike, without sparing himself in the process. His characterizations of the generals under whom he served, as well as the enlisted soldiers, the post-war opportunists, and the intellectual crowd with whom he mingled both in the US and abroad, are rich indeed.

The language is understandably a bit archaic in places - but I found myself getting used to it pretty quickly. As a result, the book took me a bit longer to read than the contemporary fiction I normally favor - but it was definitely worth the time. I can recommend this collection to aficionados of fiction and history buffs alike - a great read.

This splendid book is aptly named, for the powerful glimpses in these chapters, full of emotion and drama, carry the resonance and significance of a sighting of the heart-shaped breath plume and knuckled back of one of the largest, gentlest, and most enigmatic creatures on the planet.
Sightings is beautiful reading. Each of the short chapters is rich as a poem, and indeed, many read like song or poetry, each woman's distinctive voice blending and harmonizing with her co-author's.
This book is not the standard National Geographic fare--though the authors are skilled reporters and intrepid travellers, following the whales in kayaks, small planes, boats and ferries. Theirs are the sightings of writers who don't merely observe, but who feel their subjects and feel them deeply, who use their intuitions and emotions as well as their intellects to come to their powerful conclusion: that, in this era of mass extinction, to kill such a creature as the gray whale is "an act against creation."
How lucky are we that these talented, spirited women have written this compelling and important testament to that truth.

i found this book carelessly deposited in a dump.it was dated by it's owner "1892"..i salavaged it because i love old books..i found a rare piece of excellent literature..the writing style should be taught in english classes in every high school in america..the storyline is saturated with twists, turns and suspense but ultimatly deals with human nature and the consequences of human behavoir..we should be hammering the publisher to reprint it so no one else has to rummage through a dump to have their mind enlarged.

Being in an inter-racial relationship myself this book really hit home with my young son. The kids at his new school could not understand how one of his parents was black and the other white. The Simple Wisdon of Albert Owl is the best way to show adults and kids alike that prejudice is just pre-judging someone before you really get to know them.

Thanks, Albert

M. Gordon

P.S. Keep up the good work!

I read this book 18 years ago! But it was one of those stories that I never forgot, and wish I could find others as engrossing and hard to put down! The writing is comparable to the Earlier works of Stephen King.
It combines old mythology with a modern story. My only regret is that Linda Crockett Gray never wrote a sequel. I usually hate sequels, but I really had hoped for one from this story. ... As I said... It is comparable to Stephen Kings "Carrie" and "Firestarter." Read it and I am sure you'll agree !!!!