This book is a true story about a lady who experienced rejection at 4 years old and not by a stranger but by her mother. She grew up feeling abandoned, suicidal, depressed most of the time and had very low self-esteem. She had not been able to cry publicly for over 32 years of her teenage and adult life due to the many tears she shed at 4 years old. However, she had a divine revelation from the Holy Spirit one evening in October 2003 right after she had been bombarded with thoughts to end her life by pulling out in front of an 18-wheeler truck. She ignored the voice and made it to her destination where she was immediately told by the Holy Spirit to get a pen and paper and write what she heard. This is an awesome story of an OVERCOMER in life!!!
Misanthropic Tales, first published in 1831, is the first collection of stories in a genre that was given numerous other titles?all equally inappropriate?by various practitioners before and after the one that eventually caught on to a greater extent than its rivals: Contes cruels. These are stories that set out to oppose the conventions of fiction that encourage embellishments of various sorts, including and especially the contrivance of ?happy endings,? deliberately violating the ordinary reader?s hope and expectation that a story will end ?well.?In this, S. Henry Berthoud?s seminal volume, translated into English for the first time by Brian Stableford, we are offered thirty-four such tales of disenchantment, not so much stories as anti-stories to be enjoyed, in a connoisseur fashion, by discriminating readers possessed of refined taste, who are aware of the essential hypocrisy of the fictional conventions the tales defy and deny.
This book is a true story about a lady who experienced rejection at 4 years old and not by a stranger but by her mother. She grew up feeling abandoned, suicidal, depressed most of the time and had very low self-esteem. She had not been able to cry publicly for over 32 years of her teenage and adult life due to the many tears she shed at 4 years old. However, she had a divine revelation from the Holy Spirit one evening in October 2003 right after she had been bombarded with thoughts to end her life by pulling out in front of an 18-wheeler truck. She ignored the voice and made it to her destination where she was immediately told by the Holy Spirit to get a pen and paper and write what she heard. This is an awesome story of an OVERCOMER in life!!!
Misanthropic Tales, first published in 1831, is the first collection of stories in a genre that was given numerous other titles?all equally inappropriate?by various practitioners before and after the one that eventually caught on to a greater extent than its rivals: Contes cruels. These are stories that set out to oppose the conventions of fiction that encourage embellishments of various sorts, including and especially the contrivance of ?happy endings,? deliberately violating the ordinary reader?s hope and expectation that a story will end ?well.?In this, S. Henry Berthoud?s seminal volume, translated into English for the first time by Brian Stableford, we are offered thirty-four such tales of disenchantment, not so much stories as anti-stories to be enjoyed, in a connoisseur fashion, by discriminating readers possessed of refined taste, who are aware of the essential hypocrisy of the fictional conventions the tales defy and deny.