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Author | : Thomas Merton |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1590302532 |
This volume is a stimulating series of spiritual reflections which will prove helpful for all struggling to find the meaning of human existence and to live the richest, fullest and noblest life. --Chicago Tribune
Author | : John Donne |
Publisher | : Souvenir Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Death |
ISBN | : 9780285628748 |
This meditative prose conveys the essence of the human place in the world -- past and present.
Author | : John Donne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : James Udden |
Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2009-06-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9622090745 |
This is a book-length study of Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Taiwan's famous director of movies such as 'The Puppetmaster', 'City of Sadness', 'Flowers of Shanghai', and 'Goodbye South, Goodbye'. His body of work reflects a unique film style chracterized by intricatelighting, improvisational acting, and long, static shots.
Author | : Carlo Ginzburg |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780231116282 |
From the author of "The Cheese and the Worms" comes a quartet of luminous explorations into English literature, from Sir Thomas More to Robert Louis Stevenson. 14 illustrations.
Author | : Susan Sallis |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Inheritance and succession |
ISBN | : 0552154458 |
When news of the death of her ex-husband reaches Binnie, it seems that her tranquil life will come to an end. To her surprise, she discovers that he has left her a beautiful island off the coast of Cornwall. Now, leaving behind a mysterious stranger, Binnie has to embark upon a new life and come to terms with a dark past.
Author | : Ernest Hemingway |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2014-05-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1476770115 |
In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from “the good fight,” For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving, and wise. “If the function of a writer is to reveal reality,” Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, “no one ever so completely performed it.” Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.
Author | : John Donne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1840 |
Genre | : Devotion |
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Author | : Elizabeth Mcmahon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2019-09-16 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : 9781785271892 |
Australia is the planet's sole island continent. This book argues that the uniqueness of this geography has shaped Australian history and culture, including its literature. Further, it shows how the fluctuating definition of the island continent throws new light on the relationship between islands and continents in the mapping of modernity. The book links the historical and geographical conditions of islands with their potent role in the imaginaries of European colonisation. It prises apart the tangled web of geography, fantasy, desire and writing that has framed the Western understanding of islands, both their real and material conditions and their symbolic power, from antiquity into globalised modernity. The book also traces how this spatial imaginary has shaped the modern 'man' who is imagined as being the island's mirror. The inter-relationship of the island fantasy, colonial expansion, and the literary construction of place and history, created a new 'man': the dislocated and alienated subject of post-colonial modernity. This book looks at the contradictory images of islands, from the allure of the desert island as a paradise where the world can be made anew to their roles as prisons, as these ideas are made concrete at moments of British colonialism. It also considers alternatives to viewing islands as objects of possession in the archipelagic visions of island theorists and writers. It compares the European understandings of the first and last of the new worlds, the Caribbean archipelago and the Australian island continent, to calibrate the different ways these disparate geographies unifed and fractured the concept of the planetary globe. In particular it examines the role of the island in this process, specifically its capacity to figure a 'graspable globe' in the mind. The book draws on the colonial archive and ranges across Australian literature from the first novel written and published in Australia (by a convict on the island of Tasmania) to both the ancient dreaming and the burgeoning literature of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the twenty-first century. It discusses Australian literature in an international context, drawing on the long traditions of literary islands across a range of cultures. The book's approach is theoretical and engages with contemporary philosophy, which uses the island and the archipleago as a key metaphor. It is also historicist and includes considerable original historical research.
Author | : Karen Jennings |
Publisher | : Hogarth |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2022-05-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0593446526 |
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A “beautifully and sparingly constructed” (The New York Times) novel about a lighthouse keeper with a mysterious past, and the stranger who washes up on his shores—An Island is the American debut of a major voice in world literature. “An Island by Karen Jennings is quite simply a revelation—a ferocious, swift chess game of a novel.”—Paul Yoon, author of Run Me to Earth Samuel has lived alone on an island off the coast of an unnamed African country for more than two decades. He tends to his garden, his lighthouse, and his chickens, content with a solitary life. Routinely, the nameless bodies of refugees wash ashore, but Samuel—who understands that the government only values certain lives, certain deaths—always buries them himself. One day, though, he finds that one of these bodies is still breathing. As he nurses the stranger back to life, Samuel—feeling strangely threatened—is soon swept up in memories of his former life as a political prisoner on the mainland. This was a life that saw his country exploited under colonial rule, followed by a period of revolution and a brief, hard-won independence—only for the cycle of suffering to continue under a cruel dictator. And he can’t help but recall his own shameful role in that history. In this stranger’s presence, he begins to consider, as he did in his youth: What does it mean to own land, or to belong to it? And what does it cost to have, and lose, a home? A timeless and gripping portrait of regret, terror, and the extraordinary stakes of companionship, An Island is a story as page-turning as it is profound.