Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 11 November 2010
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After Many a Summer
After Many a Summer (1939) is a novel by Aldous Huxley that tells the story of a Hollywood millionaire who fears his impending death; it was published in the USA as After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. This satire raises philosophical and social issues, some of which would later take the forefront in Huxley's final novel Island. The title is taken from Tennyson's poem Tithonus, about a figure in Greek mythology to whom Aurora, the goddess of dawn, gave eternal life but not eternal youth. The book was awarded the 1939 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid takes on his sixth case, that of a former football hero who leads police on a car chase after his wife and children are found murdered.
The postmodern condition, in which instrumentalism finally usurps all other considerations, has produced a kind of intellectual paralysis in the world of education. The authors of this book show how such postmodernist thinkers as Derrida, Foucault, and Lyotard illuminate puzzling aspects of education, arguing that educational theory is currently at an impasse.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 8 November 2010
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Burning Daylight
"Burning Daylight" was Jack London's best selling book during his lifetime, yet amazingly since his death, the book has been totally neglected except for an occassional reprint, and currently it is again out of print. The book begins as a two-fisted macho adventure on the Klondike, as the hero --nicknamed Burning Daylight -- becomes the most successful entrepreneur during the Alaskan Gold Rush. However, after acheiving his fame and fortune, he finds no more challenge in the north and heads to the States for new worlds to conquer. But, first he is flim-flammed out of his fortune by Wall Streeters.
Dr. Bloodmoney: or, How we got along after the bomb
This post-nuclear-holocaust masterpiece presents a mesmerizing vision of a world transformed, where technology has reverted back to the nineteenth century while mutations have given animals speech and humans telekinetic powers. The novel was published in 1965, and owed its title to the inspiration of Stanley Kubrick's film. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel.
