Poison for Breakfast is a marvelous collaboration of
Snicket’s wit, wisdom, and fictitious excellency.
This book pushes the reader
to examine their life in novel ways while also pushing them to take a step
back and make sure not to overanalyze the simplicity. Snicket combines fiction
with philosophy and humor with knowledge in ways not commonly found
today.
It is both insightful and eye-opening while charming and funny at the same time.
In the years since this publishing house was founded, we have worked with an array of wondrous authors who have brought illuminating clarity to our bewildering world. Now, instead, we bring you Lemony Snicket.
Over the course of his long and suspicious career, Mr. Snicket has investigated many things, including villainy, treachery, conspiracy, ennui, and various suspicious fires. In this book, he is investigating his own death.
Poison for Breakfast is a different sort of book than others we have published, and from others you may have read. It is different from other books Mr. Snicket has written. It could…
The sheer simplicity and elegance found within Mary Ventura and
the Ninth Kingdom by Sylvia Plath is unmatched.
The reader is taken on a journey
to the ninth kingdom; however, whether or not we truly make it there is up to
the reader. What is the ninth kingdom? How do we get there? What does
it mean to go to the ninth kingdom? Are we all headed there? If so, can we
escape such a fate?
My answers to all of these questions and more differ with
time. That is why this short work fascinates me.
“[Plath’s] story is stirring, in sneaky, unexpected ways. . . . Look carefully and there’s a new angle here — on how, and why, we read Plath today.”— Parul Sehgal, New York Times
Never before published, this newly discovered story by literary legend Sylvia Plath stands on its own and is remarkable for its symbolic, allegorical approach to a young woman’s rebellion against convention and forceful taking control of her own life.
Written while Sylvia Plath was a student at Smith College in 1952, Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom tells the story of a young woman’s fateful train journey.…
One Day in the Life of
Ivan Denisovich highlights the harshness of human life, particularly those
experienced by prisoners during World War 2 in the Soviet Union.
The tale
follows the life of a man, Ivan Denisovich, and although we are only met with
the reality of a day in his life, we can only assume that not much differs day by day. This book is a powerful portrayal of what human beings can endure in order to be who they are.
It explores how people will cling to
their ideologies, and, in the case of the author himself, promote an
understanding of the inequalities that plague the people of the world, which, more often than not, are derivatives of the political situation of the area
which a person is subjected to.
Foreshadowing his later detailed accounts of the Soviet prison-camp system, Solzhenitsyn's classic portrayal of life in the gulag is all the more powerful for being slighter and more personal than those later monumental volumes. Continuing the tradition of the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, especially Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn is fully worthy of them in narrative power and moral authority. His greatest work.
The Advancement of Humanity is an essay relating
human creativity and intellect to the perspectives needed for humanity to move forward positively toward societal advancement.
