In his National Book Award winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek ''an original relation to nature,'' drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher's Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisiacal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher's Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.

Butcher's Crossing (The Gregg Press Western Fiction Series)

Literature & Fiction

Williams, John Edward

Genre Fiction

Gregg Press

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A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves’ I, Claudius, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memoirs. A mere eighteen years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits rule of the Roman Republic. Surrounded by men who are jockeying for power–Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, and Mark Antony–young Octavius must work against the powerful Roman political machinations to claim his destiny as first Roman emperor. Sprung from meticulous research and the pen of a true poet, Augustus tells the story of one man’s dream to liberate a corrupt Rome from the fancy of the capriciously crooked and the wildly wealthy.

Augustus: A Novel

Contemporary

Vintage

Incarnating Christ: Reflections on Kundalini and the Holy Spirit

"Two thousand years ago, a singular event changed the evolutionary pathway for humanity. It was the Christ event. The time has now come for the world to understand the real significance of the sacrifice that took place. This book will reveal that which has been hidden for all these centuries. Incarnating Christ is a book about mankind, earth, the nature of reality, and the truth about the mission of Jesus of Nazareth. If you are searching for a deeper relationship with and experience of The Christ, or if you simply want to know more about the truth of Christianity, this book is a wonderful journey. At the heart of this manuscript is extensive discussion about kundalini and the Holy Spirit and what they represent in the ascension of humanity and the planet itself. The author comes from the traditions of Eastern spirituality, having independently learned and trained in its practices, and he experienced the kundalini awakening. After some time growing in the kundalini ascension process he experienced a second awakening, to the truth of The Christ. Now he has traveled deep into the Christing Process which has taken him into direct experiences of the higher realities. Within this book, you will read about true Christianity as well as the author s journey towards the ascent of matter into spirit, and the mysteries of the Holy Spirit and the Christing Process.Topics of Interest:The Occult Universe Adamic ManChrist s True MessageThe Mystery of GolgothaKundalini AwakeningHoly Spirit Inspired Meditation Dreams as a Frontier of Human ConsciousnessAscending Through the ChakrasOvercoming the Lower NatureChrist ConsciousnessFather ConsciousnessThe Kingdom of God"

Incarnating Christ

Religion & Spirituality

Xlibris

Stoner (University of Arkansas Press Reprint Series) by Williams, John Edward

Stoner (University of Arkansas Press Reprint Series)

United States

Univ of Arkansas Pr

Butcher's Crossing (University of Arkansas Press Reprint Series)

Now in its fourth edition, John Williams' Augustus - winner of the 1973 National Book Award - tells the story of Octavian, a shy and scholarly youth of nineteen who, on the death of his great uncle, Julius Caesar, suddenly finds himself heir to the vast power of the Roman Empire. He is destined to rule that world astonishingly well, given the odds and intrigues against him, and would later be known as Augustus Caesar (63 B.C.-14 A.D.), the first Roman emperor. Through the use of fictional letters, memoranda, and dispatches, we see how Augustus established his essential base of power and how he was continually obliged to put down, by a subtle combination of force and guile, the challenges of such men as Cicero, Brutus, Cassius and, finally, Mark Antony.

Augustus

Nulla, solo la notte

Fazi

Stoner

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