Author : Myles Connolly
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 2024-06-26T00:00:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 177464889X
First published in 1951 in the US, now public domain. Dan England and the Noonday Devil is a portrait of pedestrian holiness, not an interior biography of conversion but the external observation of a man who transformed others people’s lives through his charity and friendship, and whose own inner struggles bear fruit in the heroism of forgiveness.
Author : Myles Connolly
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 12,28 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Myles Connolly
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,66 MB
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1789122244
A joyous gent who sings of the glory of the true realities of life, Dan England chose “talking” as his vocation in life. This he did, joyously and beautifully. He talked to the poets without dreams, actors who couldn’t act, and writers who couldn’t write who came to his house for an evening to listen and stayed on for months...years. Not a few found new hope as they heard him capture the poetry of living in his talk of saints, and in stories about his greatness of God’s gifts (among which was the wine that gave added sparkle to his words). There was Briggs, the religion editor without religion to become a fearless “defender of the faith” under Dan’s influence. And Tim, the janitor who “exposed” the corruption of the Match Industry when in an idle hour’s count of a box of matches he found “four” missing. For the glorious length of a Dan England discourse the retiring little janitor became a tiger for reform. This is the latest troubadour of life-beautiful to come from the pen of the author of the classic Mr. Blue.
Author : Jean-Charles Nault
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 2015-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1681496879
The noonday devil is the demon of acedia, the vice also known as sloth. The word “sloth”, however, can be misleading, for acedia is not laziness; in fact it can manifest as busyness or activism. Rather, acedia is a gloomy combination of weariness, sadness, and a lack of purposefulness. It robs a person of his capacity for joy and leaves him feeling empty, or void of meaning Abbot Nault says that acedia is the most oppressive of demons. Although its name harkens back to antiquity and the Middle Ages, and seems to have been largely forgotten, acedia is experienced by countless modern people who describe their condition as depression, melancholy, burn-out, or even mid-life crisis. He begins his study of acedia by tracing the wisdom of the Church on the subject from the Desert Fathers to Saint Thomas Aquinas. He shows how acedia afflicts persons in all states of life— priests, religious, and married or single laymen. He details not only the symptoms and effects of acedia, but also remedies for it.
Author : Andrew Solomon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 145161103X
The author offers a look at depression in which he draws on his own battle with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, researchers, doctors, and others to assess the complexities of the disease, its causes and symptoms, and available therapies. This book examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications, the efficacy of alternative treatments, and the impact the malady has on various demographic populations, around the world and throughout history. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by emerging biological explanations for mental illness. He takes readers on a journey into the most pervasive of family secrets and contributes to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition.
Author : Myles Connolly
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 2023-03
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ISBN : 9781944418960
J. Blue is a mysterious man. Charming and carefree, he goes from rags to riches after the inheritance of an unexpected fortune, only to forgo money and power for the love of Lady Poverty. He embraces fully his Christian faith-loving the unlovable, instructing the ignorant, and remembering that it is by grace that we are saved.
Author : Stephen Vincent Benet
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 1943-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780822203032
THE STORY: Jabez Stone, young farmer, has just been married, and the guests are dancing at his wedding. But Jabez carries a burden, for he knows that, having sold his soul to the Devil, he must, on the stroke of midnight, deliver it up to him. Shortly before twelve Mr. Scratch, lawyer, enters and the company is thunderstruck. Jabez bids his guests begone; he has made his bargain and will pay the price. His bride, however, stands by him, and so will Daniel Webster, who has come for the festivities. Webster takes the case. But Scratch is a lawyer himself and out-argues the statesman. Webster demands a jury of real Americans, living or dead. Very well, agrees the Devil, he shall have them, and ghosts appear. Webster thunders, but to no avail, and at last realizing Scratch can better him on technical grounds, he changes his tactics and appeals to the ghostly jury, men who have retained some love of country. Rising to the height of his powers, Webster performs the miracle of winning a verdict of Not Guilty.
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Publisher : Tumblar House
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
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ISBN : 0971278644
Author : George Eliot
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 1876
Category : England
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Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release : 1956
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