Oedipus in Jerusalem begins with the unexpected meeting of the blinded Oedipus and the biblical prophet Nathan outside of Thebes. As the play unfolds, Nathan brings Oedipus to the Great Sanhedrin in Jerusalem for a formal trial with regard to his actions of patricide and his subsequent incest with his mother. The author of this play uses the characters and facts that exist in Oedipus Rex, the Athenian tragedy by the Greek playwright Sophocles, b ...
In Romans 7:14-25, Paul declares, «For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want, is what I do» (KJV). St. Paul's statement is a universal truth for all human beings; humans–whether Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, or atheists–are prone to committing free actions that are not «good.» Furthermore, and irrespective of how we might construe the notion of «good» (whether as acting in accordance with some religious or ...
Dorian Gray, ein wohlhabender englischer Gentleman, ist nur von einem einzigen Gedanken besessen: die ewige Jugend zu erlangen! Von seiner eigenen Schonheit bezaubert, verkauft er seine Seele, um seinen Wunschtraum wahr werden zu lassen. Hemmungslos gibt er sich seinem Hang zu ma?loser Verschwendung, Verbrechen und Grausamkeit hin, denn er altert nicht mehr und sein zugelloser Lebensstil hinterlasst an seinem Korper keine Spuren. Doch auf seinem ...
In der Novelle von Theodor Stom, die auf einer Sage basiert, steht der fiktive Deichgraf Hauke Haien im Zentrum. Dieser ist ein Mann des Fortschritts und sein Ziel ist es den alten Deich am Dorf zu modernisieren. Doch die aberglaubischen Dorfbewohner stehen diesem Projekt sehr skeptisch gegenuber, wittern sie doch gro?es Ungluck hinter dem neuen Damm. Schon bald verkorpert Hauke Haien und sein wei?en Pferd fur sie das Damonische, welches in Form ...
Collected here for the first time in this massive omnibus collection are three novels and twenty-two short stories by multiple Hugo and Nebular Award nominated author, Keith Laumer. That’s more than nine hundred pages of top notch adventure science fiction. This book is jammed packed with some of Laumer’s best work including stories set in both the Retief and Bolo series. Laumer’s experience as an officer in the United States Air Force and a dip ...
Simon The only thing that stands in the way of my revenge is her. The lying scheming daughter of the man who killed my parents. She has the secrets I need to bring down her father. And I'll do anything to get them. I will lie to her. Steal from her. Use her. Ruin her. It helps that our chemistry is explosive. What I'm not expecting is for her to be so sweet. And so strong. So…irresistible. Penny After so many years of lying and hiding, ...
"A New Way to Spend Christmas" describes a Christmas visit to Randall's Island in the East River, where orphaned and sick children are looked after. A charitable woman brings gifts and spreads «sunshine in that shady place» to the unfortunate children who live there ...
In "The Locket?, a confederate soldier declines his fellow soldiers' request to reveal the contents of the locket around his neck. The locket, which holds pictures of his fiancee's parents and the date of their wedding is found on the battlefield after a battle. Later, the soldier's fiancee visits the battlefield with the soldier's father, both shaken with grief. The soldier's father asks his son's fiancee to remove ...
In Ma'ame Pelagie, two women inhabit the ruins of their coastal Louisiana plantation, hoarding their pennies so they can restore it to its pre-Civil war glory. Ma'am Pelagie and her younger sister, Pauline sip coffee on the veranda and share stories about the house's glorious past and their own narrow escape from danger during the war. When their niece arrives from the city for a visit, the sisters are compelled to make a hard ch ...