Book Description
This translation originally copyrighted in 2010.
Author : György Spiró
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 39,96 MB
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1632060493
This translation originally copyrighted in 2010.
Author : Toi Derricotte
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 1989-11-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0822978512
What are the forces that cause us to strike out and harm each other? Captivity explores the way in which the individual is held hostage by society; how the forces of racism, sexism, and classism frequently express themselves as violence within the family. The book also explores a deeper captivity, like the Jews in Egypt yearning for the Promised Land, the soul trapped in exile from God.
Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 12,45 MB
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0735217939
Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong? A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play. A man explains to the police why he told the employee of his local bodega that his colleague looked like the lead singer of Depeche Mode, a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violent crime. A college professor discusses with his friend his difficulties with the new generation of students. An obscure power pop band wrestles with its new-found fame when its song "Blizzard of Summer" becomes an anthem for white supremacists. A couple considers getting a medical procedure that will transfer the pain of childbirth from the woman to her husband. A woman interviews a hit man about killing her husband but is shocked by the method he proposes. A man is recruited to join a secret government research team investigating why coin flips are no longer exactly 50/50. A man sees a whale struck by lightning, and knows that everything about his life has to change. A lawyer grapples with the unintended side effects of a veterinarian's rabies vaccination. Fair warning: Raised in Captivity does not slot into a smooth preexisting groove. If Saul Steinberg and Italo Calvino had adopted a child from a Romanian orphanage and raised him on Gary Larsen and Thomas Bernhard, he would still be nothing like Chuck Klosterman. They might be good company, though. Funny, wise and weird in equal measure, Raised in Captivity bids fair to be one of the most original and exciting story collections in recent memory, a fever graph of our deepest unvoiced hopes, fears and preoccupations. Ceaselessly inventive, hostile to corniness in all its forms, and mean only to the things that really deserve it, it marks a cosmic leap forward for one of our most consistently interesting writers.
Author : Billy J. Stratton
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 10,30 MB
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816530289
"Billy J. Stratton's critical examination of Mary Rowlandson's 1682 publication, The Soveraignty and Goodness of God, reconsiders the role of the captivity narrative in American literary history and national identity. With pivotal new research into Puritan minister Increase Mather's influence on the narrative, Stratton calls for a reconsideration of past scholarly work on the genre"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Jews
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 1840
Category : Bible
ISBN :
Author : Mary White Rowlandson
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : History
ISBN :
Mary Rowlandson was a colonial American woman who was captured by Native Americans in 1676 during King Philip's War and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed. In 1682, six years after her ordeal, 'The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson' was published. It captures her ordeal in vivid details of its brutality. The book is considered a formative American work in the literary genre of captivity narratives.
Author : Mendez-Ferrell An
Publisher : Destiny Image Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 2010-07
Category : Spiritual warfare
ISBN : 9780768432336
Taking our captivity away from the devil represented one of the most important parts of Jesus sufferings. This affects all human beings from the most downtrodden to the most successful one. Somehow part of our soul is held prisoner rather through sin, sickness fear or pain
Author : Lisa Voigt
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0807831999
Drawing on texts written by and about European and Euro-American captives in a variety of languages and genres, Lisa Voigt explores the role of captivity in the production of knowledge, identity, and authority in the early modern imperial world. The pr
Author : Rowlandson
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1528785886
Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of the “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson” (1682). Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637-1711), nee Mary White, was born in Somerset, England. Her family moved to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the United States, and she settled in Lancaster, Massachusetts, marrying in 1656. It was here that Native Americans attacked during King Philip’s War, and Mary and her three children were taken hostage. This text is a profound first-hand account written by Mary detailing the experiences and conditions of her capture, and chronicling how she endured the 11 weeks in the wilderness under her Native American captors. It was published six years after her release, and explores the themes of mortal fragility, survival, faith and will, and the complexities of human nature. It is acknowledged as a seminal work of American historical literature.
Author : Lorenzo D. and Olive A. Oatman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 048614156X
Riveting true-life story of two sisters taken by Indians, their life in captivity, and their brother's search for them.