Added by: ebuensar | Karma: 263.16 | Fiction literature | 11 August 2010
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Killing Me Softly
The Nightcap Strangler, who terrorized the town of Shadow Falls sixteen years ago, has finally been executed. Case closed. Until Bryan Kendall's lover is murdered in the notorious killer's unique style and the rookie cop stands accused. Has someone committed the perfect copycat crime...or was the wrong man put to death?
What happens to us after we die? Chris Nielsen had no idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short, separating him from his beloved wife, Annie. Now Chris must discover the true nature of life after death. But even Heaven is not complete without Annie, and the divided soul mates will do anything to reach each other across the boundaries between life and death. When tragedy threatens to divide them forever, Chris risks his very soul to save Annie from an eternity of despair.
This poem marks the beginning of T.S. Eliot's career as one of the twentieth century's most influential poets. As it shows only surface thought and images, it is considered difficult to interpret exactly what is going on in the poem.
The Waste Land is a highly influential and controversial 433-line modernist poem written by T. S. Eliot. It is perhaps the most famous and most written-about long poem of the 20th century, detailing the journey of the human soul searching for redemption, the decline of civilization and the impossibility of recovering meaning in life. Despite the alleged obscurity of the poem—its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its elegiac but intimidating...
In this short story, O. Henry introduces The Cisco Kid, who is a ruthless caballero on horseback. Cisco warns, “Don't you monkey with my Lulu girl, or I’ll tell you what I'll do…” But you have to listen to the story to find out exactly what he would do.
