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The Fields of sorrow or Fields of mourning (Latin: Lugentes campi) [1] are an afterlife location that is mentioned by Virgil during Aeneas' trip to the underworld. In his Aeneid , Virgil locates the fields of sorrow close to the rough waters of the river Styx and describes them as having gloomy paths and dark myrtle groves .
Mourning Dove finished writing Cogewea in 1912 but it was not published by Four Seas Press until 1927. Her friend and editor, Lucullus Virgil McWhorter had threatened to sue the press to have the book released. [3] Difficulties and delays in publishing the novel were partly due to shortages in paper and printing materials during World War I.
While all the books and novellas are currently in print as ebooks, in America they are in print as omnibus editions. The roots of the Vorkosigan Saga lie in an early collection by Bujold called Dreamweaver's Dilemma. The title story features Beta Colony, and another story contains a character named Cordelia Naismith, perhaps a distant ancestor ...
These underground passages have long exercised a fascination over local people, bringing stories of buried treasure, secret escape routes, passages for nuns and priests—even a ghost on a bicycle. Their purpose was simple: to bring clean drinking water from natural springs in fields lying outside the walled city through lead pipes into the ...
Director Joshua Oppenheimer, previously a documentarian who has chronicled dark acts of self-delusion, shifts to a postapocalyptic musical with similar themes.
The Mountains of Mourning is a science fiction novella by American author Lois McMaster Bujold. [1] [2] It is part of her Vorkosigan Saga, chronologically taking place between the novels The Warrior's Apprentice and The Vor Game. It won the 1990 Hugo Award for Best Novella and the Nebula Award for Best Novella of 1989.
Mourning is the emotional expression [2] in response to a major life event causing grief, especially loss. [3] [2] It typically occurs as a result of someone's death, especially a loved one. [3] The word is used to describe a complex of behaviors in which the bereaved participate or are expected to participate, the expression of which varies by ...
Notes from Underground (pre-reform Russian: Записки изъ подполья; post-reform Russian: Записки из подполья, Zapíski iz podpólʹya; also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld) [a] is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky first published in the journal Epoch in 1864.