THRILLER / SUSPENSE. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba. Several months have passed since The Drawing of the Three, and in The Waste Lands, Roland's two new tet-mates have become trained gunslingers. Eddie Dean has given up heroin, and Odetta's two selves have joined, becoming the stronger and more balanced personality of Susannah Dean. But Roland altered ka by saving the life of Jake Chambers, a boy who-in...

This superb collection of 26 works features the poet's masterpiece "The Waste Land", the complete Prufrock and Other Observations, "The Hollow Men," and the collection Poems.

When the day came, the second post-apocalyptic virus storm swept across the land, sin, desire, the darkness of bestiality, began to unrestrained bondage on top of the earth of death. The witch fly, with their own magic code, out of the shelter, out of the ruins, facing the dying wrecked world, only to lose the desired. And one day, if humans can't live, they will look for survival, to the sea of stars above their heads.

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"On the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land's creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence. When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put its 34-year-old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. "But," as Jed Rasula writes, "The Waste Land is not only a poem: it names an event, like a tornado or an earthquake. Its publication was a watershed, marking a...

Biographical material accompanies reproductions of T. S. Eliot's original manuscript and notes.

One of the great masterpieces of contemporary letters, "The Waste Land" broke with the conventions (and metaphysics) of nineteenth-century poetry and, through Eliot's unfettered verse, explored themes of barrenness and fertility, ritual and alienation, hope and the absence of love, all set amid the yawning desolation of modern life.

"This second Norton Critical Edition of The Waste Land and Other Poems features T.S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece, alongside his defining earlier collections. Heavy with contemporary allusions and searing imagery, Eliot's five-part poem The Waste Land (1922) has equally impressed and befuddled scholars. His earlier works Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) and Poems (1920) speak to his refinement as an artist and provide context to The Waste Land's...