Showing results for "Eternal" in World Literature

Rachel has an unusual problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles - widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son - are only the latest. She's already put up with scores of marriages and hundreds of children, over 2,000 years - ever since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied Jerusalem. There's only one other person in the world who understands: a man she once loved passionately, who has been stalking her through the centuries, convinced they belong together forever.

Rann falls for the beautiful and equally brilliant Stephanie Kung, who lives in Paris with her Chinese father and has not seen her American mother since she abandoned the family when Stephanie was six years old. Both Rann and Stephanie yearn for a sense of genuine identity. Rann feels plagued by his voracious intellectual curiosity and strives to integrate his life of the mind with his experience in the world. Stephanie struggles to reconcile the Chinese part of herself with her American and French selves.

This collection of short stories from E. M. Forster contains six tales that were initially written between 1903 and 1912. Many of these stories, including the modern classic 'The Machine Stops' - which is set in a world where humanity lives underground and relies on a giant machine to provide its needs - deal with science fiction and supernatural themes.

A dystopian classic, The Eternal Moment is the titular title in Forster's classic collection of short stories, The Eternal Moment and Other Stories. It follows Ms Raby, Colonel Leyland, and Eustace on their journey through the Alps as spirits, animals, and sprites guide the reader on a journey through ideas of nature, freedom, and transformation.

¿Alguna vez has pensado en el significado de tu presencia en la vida de alguien? Más allá de ser y estar, realmente qué hay detrás de tu estadía en la vida de un ser efímero que sigue su curso marcando con sus zapatos el camino de la vida. ¿Has pensando cuánto tiempo te queda? Solía hacerlo, me entraba miedo y los latidos del corazón se podían escuchar en cada rincón de mi casa. Ahora lidio con la sensación en muchos factores, creo que tengo más de cinco sentidos o puede que me esté volviendo loco.

Once upon a time in a far-off country, there lived a father and his daughter Beauty, along with his five other daughters and six sons.