Author : John Donne
Publisher : Souvenir Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,71 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Death
ISBN : 9780285628748
This meditative prose conveys the essence of the human place in the world -- past and present.
Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 43,43 MB
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : 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 : Nigel Patten
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 32,35 MB
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1951530624
By the end of the 18th century, Corsica had been occupied by France for over thirty years. Islanders yearned to recover their lost independence, and the French Revolution gave them the opportunity. Their leader, Pasquale Paoli, realized that alone they could never defeat the well-organized French forces. He offered Corsica to King George III of England, on condition that the French were driven from the island. Based on documented historical fact, the author paints a detailed portrait of Corsica through the captivating adventures of Damian Berra, a young man from what is today the Swiss canton of Valais. After wandering through Lombardy to the Ligurian coast, as the victim of a press gang on a French frigate, he becomes marooned on Corsica, an island infested with bandits and crippled with vendettas, where murders are seven times more numerous than in mainland France. The story also describes the attempts of the English to administer an island they eventually called “The Ungovernable Rock.”
Author : John Donne
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 1840
Category : Devotion
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 28,92 MB
Release : 2005
Category : 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 : Stephan R. Epstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 42,54 MB
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521525077
Late medeival Sicily is shown to have been neither underdeveloped nor dependent on foreign trade.
Author : Gary Snyder
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811205467
Poems.
Author : Pablo Neruda
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1466894520
"Laughter is the language of the soul," Pablo Neruda said. Among the most lasting voices of the most tumultuous (in his own words, "the saddest") century, a witness and a chronicler of its most decisive events, he is the author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin America's most revered writers, the emblem of the engaged poet, an artist whose heart, always with the people, is literally consumed by passion. His work, oscillating from epic meditations on politics and history to intimate reflections on animals, food, and everyday objects, is filled with humor and affection. This bilingual selection of more than fifty of Neruda's best poems, edited and with an introduction by the distinguished Latin American scholar Ilan Stavans and brilliantly translated by an array of well-known poets, also includes some poems previously unavailable in English. I Explain a Few Things distills the poet's brilliance to its most essential and illuminates Neruda's commitment to using the pen as a calibrator for his age.
Author : Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
Publisher :
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 14,13 MB
Release : 1869
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Scott O'Dell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0395069629
Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.
