Showing results for "Fraternity" in Literature & Fiction

Drew Maclane was a star agent - until the day the killing had to stop. He withdrew, and for six years lived the life of a hermit in a monastery. But someone has tracked him down, leaving a trail of corpses...someone who knows all about him, who knows how to draw him back into that electrifying world where no one is as he seems, and where life's most horrifying and harrowing game is played.

Martor la evenimentele dramatice care au zguduit țara sa din decembrie 1944 până în 1949, Kazantzakis începe să scrie Fratricizii în 1949, dându-i tușa finală în 1954. Temerea sa – "presimt că în Grecia nu se va publica decât mult mai târziu" – s-a adeverit, ediția ateniană apărând abia în 1963. Tradus, cu multiple reeditări, în peste 20 de limbi, romanul păstrează același dramatism și aceeași vibrație specifice marilor opere ale titanului literaturii grecești, fiind cel mai aproape de lumea noastră, măcinată de lupte fratricide.

"Being sundry explorations, made while afoot and penniless in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. These adventures convey and illustrate the rules of beggary for poets and some others." Published in 1919, this is poet Vachel Lindsay's description of his travels "afoot and penniless" across the southern and eastern United States, staying with strangers, reciting or trading poetry for dinner, and along the way, describing in stories and poetry, mostly stories, the people and places he encountered. Think "Travels With Charlie," minus the dog and ...