The Joseph Smith Papers
Author : Royal Skousen
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 2021-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781629729718
Author : Royal Skousen
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 2021-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781629729718
Author : Ashley Macdougal
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 2010-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1446656381
A manuscript is found in a box on a beach. The manuscript contains what appears to be a first-hand account of an event that took place in Cannes on the French Riviera in September 2003. Written by a young man called Smith who is tormented by the unresolved murder of his father in Cannes three years earlier, and the subsequent death of his mother; the manuscript takes us on a week long journey in pursuit of a man who appears as an evil omen in Smith's recurring nightmares. In the uber-chic side street neon bars and clubs of Cannes, Smith forms a bond with the sassy and beguiling Clara, but their new found love for each other and dreams of the future are shattered by one decision, one mistake. The Smith Manuscript is a comical yet ultimately bleak and uncompromising lesson in the cold metallic reality of life and living - and of death and dying.
Author : Kent P. Jackson
Publisher : Brigham Young Univ Univ Publications
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780842525893
A detailed look at the Book of Moses in the Latter-day Saint scriptures as well as discussion of how it fits in whith the Joseph Smith Translation manuscripts.
Author : Royal Skousen
Publisher : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Reference
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Author : Robert Lee Brewer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0593332091
The Best Resource Available for Finding a Literary Agent, fully revised and updated No matter what you're writing--fiction or nonfiction, books for adults or children--you need a literary agent to get the best book deal possible from a traditional publisher. Guide to Literary Agents 30th edition is your go-to resource for finding that literary agent and earning a contract from a reputable publisher. Along with listing information for more than 1,000 agents who represent writers and their books, the 30th edition of GLA includes: Hundreds of updated listings for literary agents and writing conferences Informative articles on crafting effective queries, synopses, and book proposals (and the agent query tracker) Plus, a 30-Day Platform Challenge to help writers build their writing platforms Includes 20 literary agents actively seeking writers and their writing
Author : William L. Davis
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1469655675
In this interdisciplinary work, William L. Davis examines Joseph Smith's 1829 creation of the Book of Mormon, the foundational text of the Latter Day Saint movement. Positioning the text in the history of early American oratorical techniques, sermon culture, educational practices, and the passion for self-improvement, Davis elucidates both the fascinating cultural context for the creation of the Book of Mormon and the central role of oral culture in early nineteenth-century America. Drawing on performance studies, religious studies, literary culture, and the history of early American education, Davis analyzes Smith's process of oral composition. How did he produce a history spanning a period of 1,000 years, filled with hundreds of distinct characters and episodes, all cohesively tied together in an overarching narrative? Eyewitnesses claimed that Smith never looked at notes, manuscripts, or books—he simply spoke the words of this American religious epic into existence. Judging the truth of this process is not Davis's interest. Rather, he reveals a kaleidoscope of practices and styles that converged around Smith's creation, with an emphasis on the evangelical preaching styles popularized by the renowned George Whitefield and John Wesley.
Author : Helene Wecker
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062110853
“An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . Wecker’s storytelling skills dazzle." —Entertainment Weekly A marvelous and absorbing debut novel about a chance meeting between two supernatural creatures in turn-of-the-century immigrant New York. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay by a disgraced rabbi knowledgeable in the ways of dark Kabbalistic magic. She serves as the wife to a Polish merchant who dies at sea on the voyage to America. As the ship arrives in New York in 1899, Chava is unmoored and adrift until a rabbi on the Lower East Side recognizes her for the creature she is and takes her in. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert and trapped centuries ago in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard. Released by a Syrian tinsmith in a Manhattan shop, Ahmad appears in human form but is still not free. An iron band around his wrist binds him to the wizard and to the physical world. Chava and Ahmad meet accidentally and become friends and soul mates despite their opposing natures. But when the golem’s violent nature overtakes her one evening, their bond is challenged. An even more powerful threat will emerge, however, and bring Chava and Ahmad together again, challenging their very existence and forcing them to make a fateful choice. Compulsively readable, The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, in a wondrously inventive tale that is mesmerizing and unforgettable.
Author : Solomon Spaulding
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 1886
Category : America
ISBN :
Author : Lucy Smith
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 1853
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Christen A Smith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 38,30 MB
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252098099
Tourists exult in Bahia, Brazil, as a tropical paradise infused with the black population's one-of-a-kind vitality. But the alluring images of smiling black faces and dancing black bodies masks an ugly reality of anti-black authoritarian violence. Christen A. Smith argues that the dialectic of glorified representations of black bodies and subsequent state repression reinforces Brazil's racially hierarchal society. Interpreting the violence as both institutional and performative, Smith follows a grassroots movement and social protest theater troupe in their campaigns against racial violence. As Smith reveals, economies of black pain and suffering form the backdrop for the staged, scripted, and choreographed afro-paradise that dazzles visitors. The work of grassroots organizers exposes this relationship, exploding illusions and asking unwelcome questions about the impact of state violence performed against the still-marginalized mass of Afro-Brazilians. Based on years of field work, Afro-Paradise is a passionate account of a long-overlooked struggle for life and dignity in contemporary Brazil.