Author: E. M. Cioran
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: despair, heights
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 1996-10-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0226106713
ISBN-13: 9780226106717
Born of a terrible insomnia—"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"—this book presents the youthful Cioran, a self-described "Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, his poses, his mystical clown’s tricks, a whole circus of the heights."On the Heights of Despair shows Cioran’s first grappling with themes he would return to in his mature works: despair and decay, absurdity and alienation, futility and the irrationality of existence. It also presents Cioran as a connoisseur of apocalypse, a theoretician of despair, for whom writing and philosophy bot
Author: E. M. Cioran
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: despair, heights
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 1992-06-15
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0226106705
ISBN-13: 9780226106700
Born of a terrible insomnia--"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"--this book presents the youthful Cioran, a self- described "Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, his poses, his mystical clown’s tricks, a whole circus of the heights." On the Heights of Despair shows Cioran’s first grappling with themes he would return to in his mature works: despair and decay, absurdity and alienation, futility and the irrationality of existence. It also presents Cioran as a connoisseur of apocalypse, a theoretician of despair, for whom writing an
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: despair
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1989-05-14
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0679723439
ISBN-13: 9780679723431
Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder.
Author: Jane Lindskold
Publisher: Tor Books
Keywords: despair, dragon
Number of Pages: 768
Published: 2004-04-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0765341581
ISBN-13: 9780765341587
Raised by smart, language-using wolves, far from humans, then brought back to the court of Hawk Haven, young Firekeeper had to learn to cope with human society. Fortunately, for one raised amidst intelligent pack animals, the intrigues of humans are neither complex nor wholly unfamiliar.Now Melina Shield, the beautiful, unscrupulous, and thoroughly discredited sorceress whose power-hungry intrigues have already made so much trouble for Firekeeper, has once more used her power to cloud men’s minds, and has induced the ruler of New Kelvin to marry her. This is bad news on a lot of fronts.
Author: Roman Payne
Publisher: ModeRoom Press
Keywords: despair, hope
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-03-16
List price: $15.88
ISBN-10: 0615186505
ISBN-13: 9780615186504
A feast of sensuality, Payne’s third epic novel narrates the story of the beautiful young Nadja, and her brooding lover Nikolai, as the two come of age in a springtime garden. When their world of earthly delights fades with the dying season, the two are exiled from their pastoral romance into a fiery world of seedy urban haunts, intoxicated dreams and electric lights. When tragedy heralds the birth of a new day, light is shed on everyone’s fate as the greatest adventure of all begins: a cunning swindler sets off on a heroic voyage to find the love of his youth. Through tears of hop
Author: Jasmin, O Brown
Publisher: Xulon Press
Keywords: despair, broken, bruised
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1600343309
ISBN-13: 9781600343308
Author: Tom Hunt
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: edge, journey, despair, cliffs
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-01-24
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0375507159
ISBN-13: 9780375507151
Beachy Head is a bit of quintessential England–a seaside promontory where green pastures roll to the edge of chalk cliffs, a place of sheep and wind and ineffable beauty. But it is also a major landmark on the map of self-inflicted death. Since 1965, some five hundred people have ended their lives by jumping or driving or simply walking off the 535-foot cliffs, making Beachy Head one of the most popular suicide spots in the world. And still they come, every week another one or two–the young and the old, the terminally ill and the vigorously healthy, the bereft, the insane, the despairing.
