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The book was a milestone that signalled a radical departure from the typical Gothic fiction of the late 19th century. Hodgson created a newer and more realistic/scientific cosmic horror that left a marked impression on those who would become the great writers of the weird tales of the middle of the 20th century, particularly Clark Ashton Smith, and H. P. Lovecraft. [3]
Despair is the second Nabokov novel to feature unreliable narration from a first-person point of view, the first being The Eye with the character Smurov. However, The Eye was more of an experiment condensed in a hundred-page novella , whereas Despair takes the unreliable first-person narrator to its fully fledged form, rivaling Humbert Humbert ...
The title Rhys chose for her depiction of European modernity recalls another work of modernist literature, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (first serialized in 1899). Rhys's title turns Conrad's on its head: instead of a journey from England to the dark depths of savagery in colonial Africa, it is in England that Anna travels through darkness ...
The Sickness unto Death (Danish: Sygdommen til Døden) is a book written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus. A work of Christian existentialism, the book is about Kierkegaard's concept of despair, which he equates with the Christian concept of sin, which he terms "the sin of despair".
The novel continues, Reacher, having achieved justice and restored hope to Despair, continues his journey across the country, leaving behind a town that is no longer shrouded in darkness. The people of Despair are finally free to rebuild their lives without the oppressive control of Thurman and his corrupt allies.
The novel is set in December 1998, ending on Jan. 1, 1999. All the action takes place in the runup to the 1999 Scottish Parliament election.. The novel is divided into three parts, with a general epigraph of the last two lines from the poem “The Old Astronomer to His Pupil,” [2] by Sarah Williams (set, in the epigraph, as a quatrain); this epigraph provides the book's title, and the ...
The novel explores themes of innocence versus experience, as Jeffia grapples with the revelation of his father's violent nature and the impact it has had on his own life. Amidst the despair, Jeffia finds hope in Cynthia, a young woman whose resilience and love serve as a beacon of light in the darkness.
One by One in the Darkness is a novel by Northern Irish author Deirdre Madden, published in 1996 by Faber & Faber. The novel explores the Troubles from a Catholic Nationalist point of view. The book was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction .