The WastelandA cruel atomic sun blasts the cloudless blue airuntil it radiates with blistering humidity. Its fiery energy flashes downon scorched earth thatshimmers with heat vapour, and hazes like a miragebefore our very eyes.These barren dead lands are valueless. An empty expanse of yellow and brownspreading out in endless monotony as far as we can see.In every direction.In ephemeral undulations constantly reformed.An ever changing landscape ofshingle and shifting sand. Blown by hot winds. Tossed by perpetual tides.Incessantly made and undone. Raising and lowering,covering and uncovering,sculpting and demolishing, in a slow denudation of particles that scratch at the parched surface remorselessly. This place isdamaged andfragmented likehalf forgottenmemories stirred up from the shadowsin those secret places where the sun will not reach.

Zane Grey, premier chronicler of the American West and legendary storyteller, is sure to captivate new and loyal fans with this reissue of the last of his four Western epics.

"The Design of "The Waste Land" offers a detailed, comprehensive explanation of T. S. Eliot's enigmatic poem. It relates The Waste Land to earlier and later poems by Eliot, demonstrating that the major poems describe a continuous spiritual odyssey or quest undertaken by the same individual, initiated by the moment of ecstasy in the Hyacinth garden." "Blistein's analysis of Eliot's sources reveals that the protagonist's glimpse of "the heart of light" is equivalent to drinking from the Grail, or communing with God. The incarnate deity momentarily transforms the Hyacinth garden into the likeness of the Edenic paradise. With the inevitable passing of the moment of communion, the protagonist in effect is expelled from the paradisiacal garden as mankind was from Eden. By contrast, the familiar world appears to him a wasteland. The protagonist seeks to drink again from the divine Source and return again to the garden as it was when transfigured by the divine presence. His is a quest for grail and homeland."--BOOK JACKET.

A sinister and shadowy organization. The young mages who oppose it. The hunt for ancient relics has begun. Cloud Village Arc: Lisette never thought she would return to the mountains she fled as a child. But when Tamsin, a Heartwood alumna, invites Amber, Naia, and her on a job in the area, Lisette figures it’s time to get over the past. However, this all-girls trip turns out to be anything but routine when the mages find Tamsin’s campsite in disarray and her colleagues missing. For the unscrupulous Red Dawn has moved into the mountains, and it will stop at nothing to obtain greater power. Mirror Vale Arc: Three girls went into the mountains, and they all came back changed. For Amber, the change brings about a resolve to finally unravel her complicated feelings about her dead father and deal with his memories that were gifted to her. But the people who wanted to use her abilities in Hopeswell haven’t given up on her. Taken to the mysterious Mirror Vale, an eerie place that plays havoc with her pattern senses, Amber is about to uncover a shocking secret. This volume of the anime-inspired fantasy The Heartwood Chronicles contains two completed arcs and a bonus short story featuring Troi and Naia.

Discusses the writing of The waste land by T.S. Eliot. Includes critical essays on the work and a brief biography of the author.

The Deceiver has broken free. War is raging across all the kingdoms while the alliance that Staszu has created is near collapse. As the Deceiver links the Well of Shadows to the Spring of Life, gaining the power to oppose the gods themselves, Staszu, their avatar, is taken.

Somewhere in the depths within us all we possess good & evil, honorable & shameful, ugly and beautiful. J.M. Tresaugue's Shadows Beyond the Flames and Other Stories proves just that. Within each of us we have the power to do great good, and in the blink of an eye we can turn into a depraved, immoral human being. You find variations of these human characteristics within the contents of stories such as The Manual and Sometimes Always. However, within Graphic Burn we are given a glimpse of what being a better person truly means. There are stories that grip us, stories that shake us to our cores, and stories that inspire. The stories contained within this volume touch on a little of everything; from the macabre, to the hopeful, but mainly the darkness within us. You won't be disappointed with the variety of science fiction, horror, fantasy, strange, unusual, and revenge thrown in for good measure in Shadows Beyond the Flames and Other Stories.