Book Description
This warm, richly detailed biography brings the beloved saint alive in all his human and profoundly spiritual dimensions.
Author : Julien Green
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 1987-09-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0060634642
This warm, richly detailed biography brings the beloved saint alive in all his human and profoundly spiritual dimensions.
Author : Maarten Maartens
Publisher :
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 1892
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Author : Hamlin Hill
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226336476
After laughing their way through his classic and beloved depictions of nineteenth-century American life, few readers would suspect that Mark Twain’s last years were anything but happy and joyful. They would be wrong. Contrary to the myth perpetrated by his literary executors Twain ended his life as a frustrated writer plagued by paranoia. He suffered personal tragedies, got involved in questionable business ventures, and was a demanding and controlling father and husband. As Mark Twain: God’s Fool demonstrates, the difficult circumstances of Twain’s personal life make his humorous output all the more surprising and admirable. “Ham[lin] Hill remains among the smartest, most honest, and most humane of Twain scholars—and . . . God’s Fool parades those qualities on every page.” Jeff Steinbrink, Franklin & Marshall College “Fills a great, long-standing need for a thoroughly researched book about Mark Twain’s twilight years. . . . Splendidly, grippingly written and excellently documented. . . . Likely to be a standard work for as long as anyone can foresee.” Choice
Author : Mark Slouka
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 18,21 MB
Release : 2011-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307789756
Born attached at the chest, Chang and Eng were considered a marvel, an omen, an act of God, evidence of His glory or proof of His wrath. Uniquely cursed, enslaved to one another for life, they were a joke of nature variously feared and abhorred, disturbing our most basic assumptions about the human condition. Mark Slouka’s dazzling achievement in God’s Fool is the ease and compassion with which he draws the story of one human being from this ghastly predicament. Looking beyond the twins’ physical connection, he imagines one man’s life of ordinary grace and suffering, longing and resistance, and the ties of love, as well as of blood, that bind and redeem us all. By any standard, theirs is a history of epic variety and drama. Their birth, to an illiterate fishmonger, sent midwives screaming from the room. Condemned to death, they survived to be brought, at the age of thirteen, to the Royal Palace in Bangkok for an audience with King Rama III. At seventeen, laboring as merchants on the Meklong River, they saw their world erased by a typhoon. Consigned for three hundred pounds to an opium trader by their mother, who was desperate to ensure their survival, they sailed for Europe. There they entertained kings and counselors in salons and drawing rooms from Brussels to Rome, and, in Paris, met the woman who would divide them as no surgeon ever could. When the culture that had lifted them up inevitably cast them down, they landed in the flophouses of London, where, penniless and starving, they were discovered by Phineas T. Barnum, who packed them off to America along with an assortment of bearded ladies and two-headed calves, albino beauties and dog boys, German midgets and twelve-fingered flute players. Leaving Barnum at the height of their fame to take a last stab at normal life, they settled in North Carolina, where, despite the tensions growing between them, they found, for a time, tranquillity as farmers and slave owners, marrying a pair of sisters and fathering, between them, twenty children. Their peace, however, would prove to be short-lived. As the Civil War drew closer, and their world began to tilt, they would first turn against each other and then, faced with a trial unlike any they had ever known, draw together once more. No longer young, they set off to find the war, and to save what could be saved. It would be there, on that very real battlefield, that Chang would enact his final, terrifying battle with fate. Sweeping and intimate, vibrant and austere, God’s Fool is a novel of soaring ambition and accomplishment from a fiercely gifted storyteller.
Author : Maarten Maartens
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Dutch fiction
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Author : Louis Cochran
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 1959
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Author : Lois A. Cheney
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Meditations
ISBN : 9780825305955
The short musings in the book are funny, earnest, loving, probing and full of joy. You will embark on a journey whose ultimate destination is a better understanding of faith, people and the world around you.
Author : Jozua Marius Willem van der Poorten Schwartz
Publisher :
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,31 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Bookbinding
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Author : Os Guinness
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,47 MB
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830898506
Our world is changing dramatically, yet many Christians still rely on cookie-cutter approaches to evangelism and apologetics. In his magnum opus, Os Guinness presents the art and power of creative persuasion—the ability to talk to people who are closed to what we are saying. Discover afresh the persuasive power of Christian witness.
Author : Jan Silvious
Publisher : Waterbrook Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1578560063
The world is filled with difficult people; it is impossible to avoid them. You've tried confrontation, passivity-- now discover what works. Gain the tools you need to get along with others and conduct your relationships in a manner that honors God-- and preserves your sanity!