Today's (5/19/2012) New Book Releases on Literature & Fiction

SIDDHARTHA is among the most powerful novels dealing with the spiritual search for meaning in one's life. It deals with such a journey in the life of an Indian prince called Siddhartha during the time of the Buddha. Written in a simple, yet powerful and lyrical style, this story about the struggle between the soul and the flesh has resonated through the decades with each new generation. It remains one of the timeless masterpieces of 20th century literature.

“One of the three or four finest book-length American poems ever-written.”—Poetry

First published in 1970, The Donner Party is the story of a wagon train, led by George Donner, which set out from Springfield, Illinois, in 1846, headed for California. George Keithley’s restrained and vivid narrative poem is a harrowing portrait of a group that was pushed to extreme measures in order to survive.

Evening Songs. In the state of being confined within myself, of which I have been telH ng-, I wrote a number of poems which have been grouped together, under the description of the Heart-W ilderness, in Mohita Babu sedition of my works. In one of the poems subsequently published in a volume called Morning Songs, the following lines occur: There is a vast wilderness whose name is Heart; Whose interlacing forest branches dandle and rock darkness like an infant. I lost my way in its depths, from which came the idea of the title of this group of poems. Much of what I wrote, when thus my life had no commerce with the outside, when I was engrossed in the contemplation of my own heart, when my imaginings, wandered in many a disguise amidst causeless emotions and aimless longings, has been left out of that edition; only a few of the poems originally published in the volume entitled Evening Songs finding a place there, under the Heart-W ilderness group. My brother Jyotirindra and his wife had left home travelling on a long journey, and their rooms on the third storey, facing the terraced-roof, were empty. I took possession of these and the terrace, and spent my days in solitude.
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