"This is a beautiful book for all seasons! Gunther Klinge illustrates that the difference between oriental and western mind is a myth and fantasy. His haiku never startle, never strain." --Book News Previews In this exquisite collection of haiku, accomplished haiku author Gunther Klinge takes us on a journey through the days and nights of each of the seasons, beginning with spring dawn and ending with winter midnight. It is the human journey which Gunther Klinge so movingly depicts as it progresses through the eternal youthfulness of spring toward the richness of summer, and on through the ripening maturity of autumn in the deepening stillness of winter. The universal appeal of these haiku and the contemplative comments which introduce and reiterate the mood of the seasons, bind us all together as we make our own journeys from day into night.

Unlock the more straightforward side of Long Day’s Journey into Night with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill, a tragic drama centred on the Tyrone family: James, the patriarch full of regrets over his career choices; Mary, a drug addict who regrets her choice to marry James; and their sons Jamie and Edmund, the latter being a semi-autobiographical portrait of the playwright himself. When Edmund is diagnosed with tuberculosis, the family’s bonds begin to fracture and crumble as they are each consumed by regrets, denial and addictions of one kind or another. Eugene O’Neill is considered one of the most influential dramatists of the 20th century, and Long Day’s Journey into Night is one of his best-known plays. It draws heavily on his own family life as a young man, and was not published until after his death. Find out everything you need to know about Long Day’s Journey into Night in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!

Los Angeles, 1950. Over the course of a single day, two friends grapple with the moral and professional uncertainties of the escalating Communist witch-hunt in Hollywood. Director John Marsh races to convince his actress wife not to turn informant for the House Committee on Un-American Activities, while leftist screenwriter Desmond Frank confronts the possibility of exile to live and work without fear of being blacklisted. As Marsh and Frank struggle to complete shooting on their film She Turned Away, which updates the myth of Orpheus to the gritty noir underworld of post-war Los Angeles, the chaos of their private lives pushes them towards a climactic confrontation with complicity, jealousy, and fear. Night for Day conjures a feverish vision of one of the country's most notorious periods of national crisis, illuminating the eternal dilemma of both art and politics: how to make the world anew. At once a definitively American novel, echoing Philip Roth and Raymond Chandler, it also nods to the mythic landscapes of Dante and the iconoclastic playfulness of James Joyce. With as much to say about the early years of the Cold War as about the political and social divisions that continue to divide the country today, Night for Day is expansive in scope and yet tenderly intimate, exploring the subtleties of belonging and the enormity of exile-not only from one's country but also from one's self.

A traveler goes on a year-long journey with a man known only as "The teacher," and absorbs a new teaching on spiritual truths for every day of the year.

"Spend a day and night in the rain forest! Learn about this lush habitat through the diverse animals that call it home. Start the morning suspended high in the canopy with a colorful toucan. Curl around a branch and bask in afternoon sun with an emerald boa. At sunset, pace the forest floor for prey alongside a sleek jaguar. After dark, spy a nocturnal sloth slowly wake after a full day of slumber. What will tomorrow bring in the rain forest?"--

Using empirical research to explore medieval writers' imaginings of time, this study presents a new morphology by which to study narratives of time in fifteenth-century literary culture, focusing on poems of John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve. Karen Smyth begins with an overview of medieval time-keeping devices and considers collective and individual attitudes and perceptions of time. She then examines a range of Middle English authors' appropriations and innovations in relation to such perceptions, identifying competitions of tradition and innovation, allowing for an interrogation of commonly accepted medieval theories of time. An empirically based morphology emerges and is used to examine narratives of time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's work. Through a series of close readings of selected short poems and Lydgate's Troy Book, Fall of Princes, and Siege of Thebes and of Hoccleve's Regiments of Princes and Series, Karen Smyth looks at expressions of time and examples of the authors' negotiation of time consciousness, illustrating how both poets manipulate a range of cultural narratives of time in order to create multiple and sometimes competing temporalities within a single poem. Smyth simultaneously draws attention to Lydgate's and Hoccleve's underestimated artistic skills and lays out a means to re-evaluate medieval cultural attitudes towards time.

Night and Day (1934), an unfinished dilogy by Uzbek author Abdulhamid Sulaymon o’g’li Cho’lpon, gives readers a glimpse into the everyday struggles of men and women in Russian imperial Turkestan. More than just historical prose, Cho’lpon’s magnum opus reads as poetic elegy and turns on dramatic irony. Though Night, the first and only extant book of the dilogy, depicts the terrible fate of a young girl condemned to marry a sexual glutton, nothing is what it seems. Readers find themselves questioning the nature of Russian colonialism, resistance to it, and even the intentions of the author, whose life and the second book of his dilogy, Day, were lost to Stalinist terror.

En la novela carnavalesca Super extra grande el maestro cubano de la ciencia ficción YOSS, ganador del codiciado premio UPC de Ciencia Ficción en 2010, nos ofrece una ópera narrativa donde el humor adquiere proporciones intergalácticas. En un futuro lejano, los seres humanos convivirán con criaturas de inmensa variedad: amebas que cubren mundos enteros, hembras sensuales que se alimentan de sustancias procedentes de los sistemas reproductivos de los machos de su raza, reptiles parlantes y otras creaciones extraídas de los clásicos de la ficción ciencia cubana e internacional. Jan Amos Sangan Dongo, el protagonista de Super extra grande, es un veterinario especializado en el tratamiento de animales sobredimensionados en las partes más recónditas de la galaxia. En una tarea casi sobrehumana, Dongo tiene como desafío penetrar las profundidades intestinales de una de estas bestias inmensas para proteger su humanidad y la nuestra. En esta cómica novela, YOSS une su extenso conocimiento de biología con su vasta curiosidad y su imaginación salvaje dándonos un ejemplo incomparable de la tradición paródica dentro de la CF cubana. Nacido en La Habana en 1988, el escritor José Miguel Sánchez Gómez adopta el nombre de pluma YOSS luego de ganar el prestigioso Premio David de Ciencia Ficción por su libro de cuentos Timshel. Se graduó con un título en Biología en 1991 y formó parte del curso inaugural sobre técnicas narrativas en el Centro de Jorge Cardoso Onelio de Formación Literaria en 1999. Yoss, que se destaca tanto por su estética de rockero como por su pasión por la ciencia y la mitología, es autor de obras de ficción realista así como de CF. Escribe novela, ensayo y crítica y es promotor de talleres literarios.