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SC-SPCOLL (copy 1): From the James and Margaret Beveridge Fonds.
Author : Gustave Flaubert
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 1915
Category : French fiction
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SC-SPCOLL (copy 1): From the James and Margaret Beveridge Fonds.
Author : Gustave Flaubert
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 38,4 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Christian saints
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Author : St Athanasius of Alexandria
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 2018-08-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781387787333
The biographic text of St. Anthony is presented complete in this edition for the reader's absorption and contemplation. First published in the 4th century A.D., Anthony the Great's biography was authored by Christian Saint Athanasius of Alexandria. Since its release, the book has helped spread the beliefs, practices and arduous faith of Anthony the Great. A significant progenitor of the monastic tradition, Saint Anthony lived an ascetic lifestyle in the arid lands of Egypt. Although not the earliest of religious figures committed to this tradition, through actions and preaching Anthony helped popularise and spread principles that would contribute heavily to the establishment of Christian monasteries in Europe and beyond. One event in St. Anthony's life was his encounter with the supernatural in the remote Egyptian desert. This occurrence, where the otherworldly presence tried to tempt him from his spartan philosophy of living, is much recreated in Western art and literature.
Author : Gustave Flaubert
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 24,85 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Christian saints
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Author : Gustave Flaubert
Publisher :
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 1904
Category :
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Author : Atanasio (Santo)
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 26,6 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The most important document of early monasticism, written in 357, this is a biography of the recognized founder and father of monasticism. +
Author : Gustave Flaubert
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 31,12 MB
Release : 1996-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780140435825
Flaubert's unforgettable memoirs of travels abroad At once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a “sensibility on tour,” Flaubert in Egypt wonderfully captures the young writer’s impressions during his 1849 voyages. Using diaries, letters, travel notes, and the evidence of Flaubert’s traveling companion, Maxime Du Camp, Francis Steegmuller reconstructs his journey through the bazaars and brothels of Cairo and down the Nile to the Red Sea. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Anthony Uhlmann
Publisher : University of Western Australia Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781742589787
An ambitious novel of ideas set against a phantasmagoric Sydney. ~J. M. Coetzee A defrocked priest, Antony Elm, has made his way into a desert outside Alice Springs, where he intends to stay for forty days and forty nights. He is undergoing a crisis of faith and has brought with him the typescript for a book he has failed to finish about a meeting between Albert Einstein and the French philosopher Henri Bergson. This story concerns a crisis of understanding, as Bergson confronts Einstein about the meaning of time. On the back of his typescript Antony writes another story, somehow close to his heart, which concerns two young men traveling to Sydney from Canberra for the first time in the early 1980s. This story about a crisis of love takes place in a single night as the boys encounter temptation, damnation, and salvation in the world of alternative music. Antony becomes increasingly delirious, observing temptations of the flesh and spirit, scribbling in the margins of his two unspooling narratives, awaiting a rescue that may or may not come.
Author : Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0525509852
From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time. “A great poet’s reflections on our greatest mystery.”—Billy Collins “A treasure . . . The solace Rilke offers is uncommon, uplifting and necessary.”—The Guardian Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke’s voluminous, never-before-translated letters to bereaved friends and acquaintances, The Dark Interval is a profound vision of the mourning process and a meditation on death’s place in our lives. Following the format of Letters to a Young Poet, this book arranges Rilke’s letters into an uninterrupted sequence, showcasing the full range of the great author’s thoughts on death and dying, as well as his sensitive and moving expressions of consolation and condolence. Presented with care and authority by master translator Ulrich Baer, The Dark Interval is a literary treasure, an indispensable resource for anyone searching for solace, comfort, and meaning in a time of grief. Praise for The Dark Interval “Even though each of these letters of condolence is personalized with intimate detail, together they hammer home Rilke’s remarkable truth about the death of another: that the pain of it can force us into a ‘deeper . . . level of life’ and render us more ‘vibrant.’ Here we have a great poet’s reflections on our greatest mystery.”—Billy Collins “As we live our lives, it is possible to feel not sadness or melancholy but a rush of power as the life of others passes into us. This rhapsodic volume teaches us that death is not a negation but a deepening experience in the onslaught of existence. What a wise and victorious book!”—Henri Cole
Author : Saint Athanasius (Patriarch of Alexandria)
Publisher : Cistercian Publications Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780879079024
Instrumental in the conversion of many, including Augustine, The Life of Antony provided the model for subsequent saints' life and constituted, in the words of patristics scholar Johannes Quasten, 'the most important document of early monasticism.'