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One of literature's keenest social critics, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Edith Wharton weaves a tragic small-town tale of epic proportions in this masterful novella Physically disfigured and trapped in a loveless marriage to a sickly older woman, Ethan Frome is a broken man. He lives a desolate, impoverished life in the town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, bound by an unassailable sense of duty. But long ago, Ethan dreamed of something beyond his bleak and tedious New England existence. Once, he had dared to have hope for the future. Ethan Frome tells the wrenching story of a love destined not to be and a man mired in his own private hell. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

One of literature's keenest social critics, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton weaves a tragic small-town tale of epic proportions in this masterful novella Physically disfigured and trapped in a loveless marriage to a sickly older woman, Ethan Frome is a broken man.

A young man lies in a hospital bed. He can neither feel nor move his limbs. He can only stare at the ceiling. The nurses and doctors speak about him as if he weren’t present in the room. They are saying he will never walk again. Thus begins the travails of 20 year-old Ben, whose dreams are as broken as his spine. Based on the autobiography of French slam poet Fabien Marsaud, popularly known as Grand Corps Malade, this inspiring story recounts the hardships and the tears, as well as the ultimate victories of a life re-invented. Ben’s hopes of becoming a pro basketball player are dead in the water, but luckily, his sense of humor remains intact. Confined to a rehabilitation center with an assortment of fellow invalids, cripples, paras and quadras, or friends, as he eventually calls them, Ben makes his mind up to walk again. His patience will be put to the ultimate test, but support and even love will come in ways he never expected.

In early 1417 Peru, an old Inca rope bridge in the Andes collapses, plunging five travelers to their deaths. Brother Juniper becomes obsessed with discovering how these five people came to be on the bridge at that moment, wanting to know if it was mere existential happenstance or part of God's cosmic plan. Eventually, he is accused of heresy put on trial for his life by the Inquisition.

This article is a personal narrative of a family drama enacted in the aftermath of my brother's death in an airplane crash. \"True\" stories such as this fit in the space between fiction and social science, joining ethnographic and literary writing, and autobiographical and sociological understanding. My goal is to reposition readers vis a vis authors of texts of social science by acknowledging potential for optional readings and encouraging readers to \"experience an experience\" that can reveal not only how it was for me, but how it could be or once was for them. This experimental form permits researchers and readers to acknowledge and give voice to their own emotional experiences and encourages ethnographic subjects (co-authors) to reclaim and write their own lives.

A thrilling documentation of the first sinking of a ship by a whale.

Aug. 31--When I finished speaking with Richard Spencer on Sunday afternoon, I better understood why he vehemently opposes immigration, feels the white race will soon be a \"hated minority\" in America, and supports Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump even though he never imagined he would. (The institute's publishing division, which Spencer oversees, however, has published work on racial differences in intellect and behavior.) Spencer also doesn't want to be called a \"white nationalist,\" because \"nationalism is about chauvinism.\"

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein last week ordered the city and its creditors to negotiate a reduced-repayment deal, or Plan of Adjustment. Commenting on the city's proposed plan, which would leave city employee pensions uncut -- and on Wall Street's shrill objections --