David Lindsay

The Haunted Woman (1922) is a fantasy novel by David Lindsay. Following the commercial failure of his critically acclaimed novel A Voyage to Arcturus (1920), Lindsay hoped to achieve financial stability with a more conventional tale of suspense and the occult. Although he once more failed to reach a popular audience, Lindsay produced a powerful story of alternate worlds, the burden of convention, and the nature of human desire. “Never self-conscious, never embarrassed, always quiet and rather ennuyé, she fascinated by the very strength of her silence, which, it was abundantly clear, had nothing in common with stupidity. She had already declined three offers of marriage, before Marshall had appeared on her horizon.” Isbel Loment has always cherished her independence, never consenting to tie her fate to that of a man, especially not for love. Now engaged to successful underwriter Marshall Stokes, she finds herself nearing the end of the rootless lifestyle she has led since the age of sixteen, when the death of her father left her a ward of an eccentric aunt. While on vacation at an ancient estate in the hills of Sussex, Isbel discovers a mysterious staircase leading to three identical doors. Choosing one, she is transported to a mirror world where, though the details are lost upon leaving, she seems to be encountering her host Henry Judge. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of David Lindsay’s The Haunted Woman is a classic of British literature reimagined for modern readers.

Der Roman "Eine Reise nach Arcturus" verbindet Fantasy, Philosophie und Science-Fiction in einer Erkundung der Natur von Gut und B se und ihrer Beziehung zur Existenz. Eine interstellare Reise durch fantastische Regionen ist der Rahmen. Die Geschichte spielt auf Tormance, einem imagin ren Planeten, der Arcturus umkreist, der im Roman ein Doppelsternsystem ist, bestehend aus den Sternen Branchspell und Alppain. Die L nder, durch die die Romanfiguren reisen, stellen philosophische Systeme oder Geisteszust nde dar, durch die die Hauptfigur Maskull auf seiner Suche nach dem Sinn des Lebens geht. Wird Maskull den Sinn des Lebens finden? Der Kritiker Colin Wilson bezeichnete es als den "gr ten Roman des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts". Clive Barker nannte es "ein Meisterwerk" und "ein au ergew hnliches Werk ... ganz gro artig". Der Romancier Michael Moorcock hat festgestellt, dass das Buch wegen seines "Engagements f r das Absolute" und seines "nach Gott fragenden Geistes", sehr eindrucksvoll ist. Hier liegt nun dieser gro artige Roman in einer neuen deutschen bersetzung vor.

Scottish novelist David Lindsay was born to a middle-class Calvinist family, forced by poverty to work as an insurance clerk instead of attending university, and at the age of forty took up the cause and worked his way to Corporal of the Royal Army Pay Corps in World War I. After the war he moved to Cornwall with his wife and began writing full-time, publishing his first novel, "A Voyage to Arcturus", in 1920. Although the science fiction novel initially sold less than six hundred copies, it has come to be known as a major "underground" novel of the 20th century, and heavily influenced C. S. Lewis's "Out of the Silent Planet". The story is set at Tormance, an imaginary planet orbiting Arcturus, where an adventurous Scot named Muskall has traveled following a s ance at an Observatory. While there he encounters myriad characters and lands which Lindsay employs as a critique of various philosophical systems. A fascinating combination of fantasy and philosophical reflection, "A Voyage to Arcturus" remains as a hugely influential novel for other writers of the genre ever since its initial publication. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

'Extraordinary' Philip PullmanFollowing one man's journey from earth to an alien landscape of ethereal beauty and existential terror, A Voyage to Arcturus is a profound questioning of the nature of evil. Dreamlike and philosophical, this landmark cult novel has influenced generations of writers.'That shattering, intolerable and irresistible work' C. S. Lewis'A Nietzschean Pilgrim's Progress ... Lindsay's engrossing book, a mixture of metaphysics and surreal dream-quest, stands as one of the great originals' Guardian

Maskull on kyllästynyt tylsään elämään ja janoaa seikkailuja. Spiritistisen istunnon jälkeen hänet houkutellaan mukaan avaruusmatkalle kaukaiseen Arcturukseen. Sen ainoa asuttu planeetta Hekumania tarjoaa monenlaisia ihmeitä ja erikoisia ajattelutapoja, jotka Maskullin on matkallaan kohdattava. David Lindsayn (1876-1945) Matka Arcturukseen on kiehtova yhdistelmä mielikuvituksellista fantasiaa ja tieteiskirjallisuutta. Seikkailujen ohella se tarjoaa pohdintaa hyvästä ja pahasta, olemassaolosta sekä erilaisista filosofioista ja uskonnoista. Romaani on välillä suorastaan psykedeelinen sukellus omaperäiseen fantasiamaailmaan, jossa meidän maailmamme periaatteet eivät päde. Matka Arcturukseen on innostanut lukuisia kirjailijoita J. R. R. Tolkienista ja C. S. Lewisista Michael Moorcockiin, Clive Barkeriin ja Alan Mooreen. Vuonna 1920 ilmestynyt romaani on englanninkielisen kirjallisuuden klassikko ja käännetty monille kielille. Suomeksi se ilmestyy nyt ensimmäistä kertaa Markus Harjun taidokkaana suomennoksena.” David Lindsay - upea kirjailija! Matka Arcturukseen on mestariteos!” - Clive Barker”Luin Matkan Arcturukseen innolla - se kestää vertailun muihin teoksiin, se on sekä voimakkaampi että myyttisempi. [- -] Sitä ei voi lukea pelkkänä jännärinä.” - J. R. R. Tolkien”Yksi vuosisadan mahtavimmista kirjoista.” - Colin Wilson

Telling people about research is just as important as doing it. But many competent researchers are wary of scientific writing, despite its importance for sharpening scientific thinking, advancing their career, obtaining funding for their work and growing the prestige of their institution. This second edition of David Lindsay’s popular book Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words presents a way of thinking about writing that builds on the way good scientists think about research. The simple principles in this book will help you to clarify the objectives of your work and present your results with impact. Fully updated throughout, with practical examples of good and bad writing, an expanded chapter on writing for non-scientists and a new chapter on writing grant applications, this book makes communicating research easier and encourages researchers to write confidently. It is an ideal reference for researchers preparing journal articles, posters, conference presentations, reviews and popular articles; for students preparing theses; and for researchers whose first language is not English. FeaturesMakes it easy to understand what goes where in scientific publications and, equally importantly, whyReinforces principles with examples of good and bad writingAddresses new issues for publishing, including open access and predatory journalsEmphasises writing effectively in other media that scientists must use, including conference papers, posters, theses, reviews, popular articles and grant applicationsExplains the principles behind writing and how it affects readers rather than proposing recipes for good writing

The subjects addressed here include Radical Orthodoxy, the relationship between the Hebraic and Hellenic traditions, the Second Vatican Council, Catholicism as completing and transcending the various strands of Protestantism, Early Modern English Catholic literature, English Catholic literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Established status of the Church of England, the Jacobite roots of the Radical traditions in British politics, Opus Dei and the Left, the Catholic origins of modern science, and the Church's record on HIV infection in Africa, on the Holocaust, and on the Roman and Spanish Inquisitions." An erudite defence of the Catholic position, this collection of theological, philosophical, literary and historical essays invites the reader to dive deep into the intellectual issues that challenge the Church today." Fr Dwight Longenecker, Catholic priest, blogger and author of The Quest for the Creed and The Romance of Religion.

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Classic 1920s novel about a man who invents a machine for recording dreams.

France, 1700 -- an age of wit and sophistication, frippery and flattery, reputation and ridicule; an age of politics, romance, intrigue and the sword. Gaston de Mailly, ex-solider and down-at-heel gentleman, is living in a Paris that has little use for his skill with a blade. Fortunately, his wit is equally sharp. Allying himself to the sceptical lawyer Fleurus, Mailly offers to try his hand at any case that can't be pursued through the normal channels of the law. And so, in a series of adventures ranging from Mailly having to save himself from a reputation-destroying joke at the Court of the Sun King Louis XIV at Versailles, to fighting his way out, with both wits and sword, from the tangles of an assassination plot, Mailly puts his shoulder to the Wheel of Fortune in an age of rapid rise and fall, sudden danger and artful deception. In the rakish charm and misanthropic wit of his hero Gaston de Mailly, David Lindsay, author of the early-20th century classic A Voyage to Arcturus, found a way to cut loose from his more serious fiction and indulge in theatrical intrigue, witty adventure and the artful picaresque to a highly entertaining degree. But readers of Lindsay's work will still find his key themes here: the lone hero caught between conflicting powers in a deceptive world; the individual's struggle to retain integrity in a constrained yet superficial society; and the search for a lasting and genuine soul-mate -- all served with adventure and intrigue, wit and witticism, sword and poniard This edition includes annotations and explanatory notes.(The Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly was first published in the US as A Blade for Sale.)

Ingrid Fleming has always believed a goddess lies buried beneath the forbidding, Devil-headed rock-pile atop Devil's Tor. But when the pile is shattered in a sudden storm, it's her cousin, Hugh Drapier, who enters the newly-revealed tomb. Drapier has recently arrived from Tibet, where an encounter with the adventurer Henry Saltfleet and the archeologist Stephen Arsinal has left him in possession of a stolen sacred stone, the half of a broken whole, which has the power to induce visions of its arrival on Earth in the early days of primitive humanity. Arsinal believes the stone to be sacred to the Great Mother, and key to a prophecy that will unite a chosen man and woman, and bring about the birth of a new saviour. He and Saltfleet return to England on Drapier's trail, and arrive in Dartmoor just as the machinery of a thousands-year-long supernatural fate begins its final turn... A troubled, troubling, ambitious and difficult work that David Lindsay himself called his "monster," Devil's Tor answers the imaginative pyrotechnics of Lindsay's first novel, A Voyage to Arcturus, with a sustained maturity of insight into the intensely-felt and deeply-examined inner lives of its handful of characters, and the fate that has brought them together at the dawn of a new human era. At times irrecoverably tangled in the attitudes of its day, Devil's Tor nevertheless builds to a transcendent final vision of the ultimate purpose of human life and suffering.

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