Michael McCurdy Livres

« On comprenait que les hommes pourraient être aussi efficaces que Dieu dans d'autres domaines que la destruction. » On ne peut qu'être d'accord avec le narrateur quand on voit la magnifique forêt qu'Elzéard Bouffier a élevée patiemment tout au long de sa vie. Écologiste avant l'heure ? Sans aucun doute. Ce berger a décidé de redonner sa superbe à cette lande déserte de Provence en plantant une forêt de chênes, de bouleaux, de hêtres de d'érables. Grâce à l'œuvre d'un seul homme, la vie revient peu à peu dans cette contrée désolée. Une histoire de patience, de respect et d'amour de la terre dont il faudrait certainement prendre de la graine…

Ever since the publication of Ishmael in 1992, readers have yearned for a glimpse into a dimension of spiritual revelation the author only hinted at in that and later books. Now at long last they have it in seven profound but delightfully simple tales that illuminate the world in which humans became humans. This is a world seen through animist as friendly to human life as it was to the life of gazelles, lions, lizards, mosquitos, jellyfish, and seals — not a world in which humans lived like trespassers who must conquer and subdue an alien territory. It's a world in which humans have a place in the community of life — not as rulers but as equals — with the paths of all held together in the hand of god.This is not an ancient world or a lost world. It exists as surely today as it ever did — for those who have eyes to see it. Tales of Adam, delightfully illustrated by Michael McCurdy, is a book that will come to be shelved alongside The Prophet , Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and The Alchemist .

Six of Poe’s most macabre tales are presented in this powerfully illustrated edition that comes with an unabridged CD narration of four of the shorter tales. The classic tales included on the 75 minute CD and read by Edward Blake are “The Masque of the Red Death,” “The Black Cat,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and “The Cask of Amontillado.” The two longer tales in the collection are the heart-stopping “The Pit and the Pendulum” and the chilling “The Fall of the House of Usher.” In addition to his striking woodcut-type illustrations, Michael McCurdy has written fascinating headnotes about the origin of each tale and an introduction about Poe.