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The narrator is Henry Worthington, founder and head of an eminently successful management consultant firm. Come to be sixty-odd, and moved to wonder what if any meaning his life may have, he undertakes a review of it.

In true Faustian tradition The Picture of Dorian Gray tells the tale of a young man who sells his soul to the devil in return for youthful immortality, only to discover that the "devil's bargain" is no bargain at all. "What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" When Dorian Gray is asked this question he knows the answer. He has learned his lesson the hard way and has destroyed the lives of others into the bargain....

Truman's comments of politics and personalities are a refreshing look at history as it happened.

Written during Wells' brief "resort to God" period as he put it in his autobiography, The Undying Fire follows the story of the Biblical Job's modern (WWI era) and direct descendent, who's name happens to be Job as well - Job Huss. Mr. Huss finds himself tested in much the same ways as his ancester, and God and his dark counterpart wait to see if man still has the Undying Fire within him. --Geoffrey Doyle at cs.clemson.edu

Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever ...

"The story of a naive young grad student in computer science and his quest for meaning in a fragmented world provides the setting in which Wilber contrasts the alienated "flatland" of scientific materialism with the integral vision, which embraces body, mind, sould, and spirit in both self, culture, and nature."--Jacket.

Wakefield is a divorced, dispirited motivation speaker. He's Mr. Average until the Devil makes a deal with him.

""Intricate and extraordinary."--New York Times on The Fifth Season THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS ... FOR THE LAST TIME. The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk...

Dolores has agreed to stop "borrowing" things from her older sister Faye's dresser, but then she discovers a special Valentine's Day necklace there.