The Unsubdued Forest
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The Unsubdued Forest
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Author : Lewis E. Birdseye
language : en
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Release Date : 2013-06-12
The Unsubdued Forest written by Lewis E. Birdseye and has been published by Archway Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-12 with Fiction categories.
Dr. Donald Michaelson knows it is impossible to exist for any length of time without wondering whether life is worth living at all. For five years, he has watched the eyes of his students glaze over with boredom as he lectures about beauty, truth, and justice. But now he has just taught his last English class at Bluestone University, the victim of a forced resignation. He decides on suicide as the means to end his pain and confusiononly to find that self-inflicted death is neither an easy nor satisfactory way to end his problems. As he attempts to make his way off campus for the last time, he is recruited by a student dissident to speak in front of hundreds, causing a chain of unpredictable events that leaves Donald horizontal and bleeding, with a lust-driven coed on top of him. Confused and unhappy he is still breathing, Donald begins searching for the perfect way to end his life. In order to achieve his goal, Donald must travel a curious road filled with obstacles and absurdities that include a group of anarchists, a seismologist more interested in measuring her sexual prowess than in determining the power of earthquakes, the ghost of a long-dead Confederate soldier, and figures from his dreams. The Unsubdued Forest shares one mans tragic yet curiously comedic quest to seek a simple death that ultimately leads him down a path where life-changing answers await.
The Unsubdued Forest
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Author : Lewis E. Birdseye
language : en
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Release Date : 2013-06-10
The Unsubdued Forest written by Lewis E. Birdseye and has been published by Archway Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-10 with Fiction categories.
Dr. Donald Michaelson knows it is impossible to exist for any length of time without wondering whether life is worth living at all. For five years, he has watched the eyes of his students glaze over with boredom as he lectures about beauty, truth, and justice. But now he has just taught his last English class at Bluestone University, the victim of a forced resignation. He decides on suicide as the means to end his pain and confusion only to find that self-inflicted death is neither an easy nor satisfactory way to end his problems. As he attempts to make his way off campus for the last time, he is recruited by a student dissident to speak in front of hundreds, causing a chain of unpredictable events that leaves Donald horizontal and bleeding, with a lust-driven coed on top of him. Confused and unhappy he is still breathing, Donald begins searching for the perfect way to end his life. In order to achieve his goal, Donald must travel a curious road filled with obstacles and absurdities that include a group of anarchists, a seismologist more interested in measuring her sexual prowess than in determining the power of earthquakes, the ghost of a long-dead Confederate soldier, and figures from his dreams. The Unsubdued Forest shares one man's tragic yet curiously comedic quest to seek a simple death that ultimately leads him down a path where life-changing answers await.
Joseph Anton
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Author : Salman Rushdie
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-09-18
Joseph Anton written by Salman Rushdie and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Newsweek/The Daily Beast • The Seattle Times • The Economist • Kansas City Star • BookPage On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran.” So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names; then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov—Joseph Anton. How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, how and why does he stumble, how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech. He talks about the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and of the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained his freedom. It is a book of exceptional frankness and honesty, compelling, provocative, moving, and of vital importance. Because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every day. Praise for Joseph Anton “A harrowing, deeply felt and revealing document: an autobiographical mirror of the big, philosophical preoccupations that have animated Mr. Rushdie’s work throughout his career.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “A splendid book, the finest . . . memoir to cross my desk in many a year.”—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post “Thoughtful and astute . . . an important book.”—USA Today “Compelling, affecting . . . demonstrates Mr. Rushdie’s ability as a stylist and storytelle. . . . [He] reacted with great bravery and even heroism.”—The Wall Street Journal “Gripping, moving and entertaining . . . nothing like it has ever been written.”—The Independent (UK) “A thriller, an epic, a political essay, a love story, an ode to liberty.”—Le Point (France) “Action-packed . . . in a literary class by itself . . . Like Isherwood, Rushdie’s eye is a camera lens —firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “Unflinchingly honest . . . an engrossing, exciting, revealing and often shocking book.”—de Volkskrant (The Netherlands) “One of the best memoirs you may ever read.”—DNA (India) “Extraordinary . . . Joseph Anton beautifully modulates between . . . moments of accidental hilarity, and the higher purpose Rushdie saw in opposing—at all costs—any curtailment on a writer’s freedom.”—The Boston Globe
Sermons And Episcopal Charges
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Author : Henry Ustick Onderdonk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1851
Sermons And Episcopal Charges written by Henry Ustick Onderdonk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1851 with Sermons, American categories.
Curiosity
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Author : Alberto Manguel
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-01
Curiosity written by Alberto Manguel and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question “Why?” has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human history. Why does evil exist? What is beauty? How does language inform us? What defines our identity? What is our responsibility to the world? In Alberto Manguel’s most personal book to date, the author tracks his own life of curiosity through the reading that has mapped his way. Manguel chooses as his guides a selection of writers who sparked his imagination. He dedicates each chapter to a single thinker, scientist, artist, or other figure who demonstrated in a fresh way how to ask “Why?” Leading us through a full gallery of inquisitives, among them Thomas Aquinas, David Hume, Lewis Carroll, Rachel Carson, Socrates, and, most importantly, Dante, Manguel affirms how deeply connected our curiosity is to the readings that most astonish us, and how essential to the soaring of our own imaginations.
In The Footsteps Of Dante
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Author : Teresa Bartolomei
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-01-30
In The Footsteps Of Dante written by Teresa Bartolomei and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Dante, the pilgrim, is the image of an author who stubbornly looks ahead, seeking and building the "Great Beyond" (Manguel). Following in his footsteps is therefore not a return to the past, going à rebours, but a commitment to the future, to exploring the potential of humanity to "transhumanise". This dynamic of self-transcendence in Dante’s humanism (Ossola), which claims for European civilisation a vocation for universalism (Ferroni), is analysed in the volume at three crucial moments: Firstly, the establishment of an emancipatory relationship between author and reader (Ascoli), in which authorship is authority and not power; secondly, the conception of vision as a learning process and horizon of eschatological overcoming (Mendonça); finally, the relationship with the past, which is never purely monumental, but ethically and intertextually dynamic, in an original rewriting of the original scriptural, medieval, and classical culture (Nasti, Bolzoni, Bartolomei). A second group of contributions is dedicated to the reconstruction of Dante’s presence in Portuguese literature (Almeida, Espírito Santo, Figueiredo, Marnoto, Vaz de Carvalho): they attest to the innovative impact of Dante’s work even in literary traditions more distant from it.
History Of The Late East Genesee Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church
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Author : Freeborn Garretson Hibbard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
History Of The Late East Genesee Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church written by Freeborn Garretson Hibbard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Methodists categories.
Address Delivered Before The Literary Association Blandford Mass Sept 21 1850
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Author : William H. Gibbs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1850
Address Delivered Before The Literary Association Blandford Mass Sept 21 1850 written by William H. Gibbs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1850 with Blandford (Mass.) categories.
The Celebration Of The Two Hundred And Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Settlement Of The Town Of Hingham Massachusetts September 15 1885
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Author : Hingham (Mass.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
The Celebration Of The Two Hundred And Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Settlement Of The Town Of Hingham Massachusetts September 15 1885 written by Hingham (Mass.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Hingham (Mass.) categories.
The Letters Of Agricola On The Principles Of Vegetation And Tillage
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Author : John Young
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1822
The Letters Of Agricola On The Principles Of Vegetation And Tillage written by John Young and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1822 with Agriculture categories.
John Young, Scottish born agriculturist, under the pseudonym "Agricola", wrote a series of papers to the Acadian Recorder, in which he drew attention to the backward state of agricultural in the province. These papers were then published as "Letters of Agricola" and were directly responsible for the establishment of a Board of Agriculture, in which Young acted as its first secretary.