Showing results for "Benjamin Taylor" in Literature & Fiction

In the city of fear, money holds dominion over all. With a new designer drug numbing the population, a rash of mysterious disappearances, and a murder rate rising higher than the tallest skyscraper, the only people with the means to distance themselves from the corruption are the ones fostering it. Enter Benjamin—a lone hundred-dollar bill caught in the middle. In a storm of pills, bullets, and bloodshed, Benjamin passes through the hands of several desperate criminals.

When a boy volunteers for a government experiment, he returns transformed: body accelerated, mind saturated with lifetimes of knowledge. On Earth, wolves terrorize neighborhoods, machines fuse with flesh, and the state whispers promises of immortality. In the vein of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984, Boy in Space is a chilling dystopian vision — a story of innocence stripped away, of control disguised as progress, and of what happens when humanity itself becomes the experiment.

Marcel Proust came into his own as a novelist comparatively late in life, yet only Shakespeare, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky were his equals when it came to creating characters as memorably human. As biographer Benjamin Taylor suggests, Proust was a literary lightweight before writing his multivolume masterwork In Search of Lost Time, but following a series of momentous historical and personal events, he became—against all expectations—one of the greatest writers of his, and indeed any, era.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in collaboration with his friend, William Wordsworth, revolutionized English poetry. In 1798 they produced their Lyrical Ballads, poems of imagination and reflection using "the language of men" - pointing the way forward for a generation of Romantic poets.

Courtesy of my controlling father, Marshall and I have been living together for the last couple of years. Because of his profession, we’d managed to stay out of each other’s way. His age and respect for my father is what kept him from giving in to my flirtatious advances. Over the years, we’d managed not to cross that line, until that one slightly drunken night.

Deployment is hard. War is costly. And Recon Marine Sergeant Finn Cobalt is paying the price--overseas and at home. Courageous action jeopardizes his military career. Two rescue attempts go south, and secrets strain his family relationships. As guilt stalks his footsteps, his faith is brought into question. Is there anything left? Or has it been destroyed?