Résultats pour "The Mad Man" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

A mysterious force tears around the globe, erasing anything man-made. Skyscrapers vanish with their occupants flailing to the ground, and jetliners disappear, leaving the passengers to plunge to their deaths. No one is killed directly, but hip replacements and dental work disappear, along with everything fashioned by the hand of man, from hydroelectric dams to museums to GMO crops. Is it a natural phenomenon, a prelude to alien invasion, an act of God, or a reappearance of magic in the world? And most important, what (if anything) can we do to stop this potential extinction event?

This is A Madman's Diary, and Other Stories by Lu Xun, a renowned writer of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun was a novelist, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet who wrote both in Vernacular Chinese and Classical Chinese. He became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai in the 1930s.

Despite being required to wade through the deep Louisiana swamps all day, Pete loves his job. There's nothing quite like the thrill of discovering a new species, and the most thrilling of all would be to find the Louisiana Lizard Men. Too bad they're only legends.