Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780937044032
Category : Augusta (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Autobiography of a City in Arms
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780937044032
Category : Augusta (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
A Farewell to Arms
Author: Ernest HemingwayPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476764522
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
An unforgettable World War I story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his love for an English nurse.
Fleming, Berry. Autobiography of a City in Arms: Augusta, Georgia, 1861-1865
Author: The Autobiography of Charles H. Spurgeon Compiled from His Diary, Letters
Author: Charles Haddon SpurgeonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
C. H. Spurgeon's Autobiography: 1856-1878
Author: Charles Haddon SpurgeonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evangelists
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Autobiography of Charles H. Spurgeon: 1856-1878
Author: Charles Haddon SpurgeonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Man with Two Arms
Author: Billy LombardoPublisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1590206029
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
“Undoubtedly modern America’s finest literary tribute to the baseball since Bernard Malamud’s novel The Natural” (Chicago Tribune). Henry Granville, a baseball fanatic and high school teacher, spends hours in the basement with his young son Danny, introducing him to balls of all shapes and sizes. He even turns the basement into an indoor stadium. Danny quickly distinguishes himself from his peers, most conspicuously by his ability to throw perfectly with either arm—a feat virtually unheard of in baseball. But he also possesses a visionary gift that not even he understands. Danny becomes a superior athlete, skyrocketing through the minor leagues and into the majors where he experiences immediate success, breaking records held for decades. When a journalist, a former student of Henry’s and hungry for a national breakout story, exaggerates the teacher’s obsession and exposes him to the world as a monster, all hell breaks loose and the pressures of media and celebrity threaten to disrupt the world that Henry and Danny have created. A baseball novel—and much more—The Man with Two Arms is a story of the ways in which we protect, betray, forgive, love, and shape each other as we attempt to find our way through life. “Magical realism meets baseball in [this] debut novel . . . [A] Roy Hobbs-like narrative.” —Chicago Magazine “Sings with joy and tragedy . . . An amazing debut, as a lyrical paean to the national pastime and as a touching exploration of the life of a boy becoming a man both blessed and burdened with a unique and extraordinary talent.” —Flagpole
A Man at Arms: A Novel
Author: Steven PressfieldPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393540987
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From the acclaimed master of historical fiction comes an epic saga about a reluctant hero, the Roman Empire, and the rise of a new faith. Jerusalem and the Sinai desert, first century AD. In the turbulent aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, officers of the Roman Empire acquire intelligence of a pilgrim bearing an incendiary letter from a religious fanatic to insurrectionists in Corinth. The content of this letter could bring down the empire. The Romans hire a former legionary, the solitary man-at-arms, Telamon of Arcadia, to intercept the letter and capture its courier. Telamon operates by a dark code all his own, with no room for noble causes or lofty beliefs. But once he overtakes the courier, something happens that neither he nor the empire could have predicted. In his first novel of the ancient world in thirteen years, the best-selling author of Gates of Fire and Tides of War returns with a gripping saga of conquest and rebellion, bloodshed and faith.
Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry
Author: Charity Cannon WillardPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271043050
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
It is unexpected in any era to find a woman writing a book on the art of warfare, but in the fifteenth century it was unbelievable. Not surprisingly, therefore, Christine de Pizan's The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry, written around 1410, has often been regarded with disdain. Many have assumed that Christine was simply copying or pilfering earlier military manuals. But, as Sumner Willard and Charity Cannon Willard show in this faithful English translation, The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry contains much that is original to Christine. As a military manual it tells us a great deal about the strategy, tactics, and technology of medieval warfare and is one of our most important sources for early gunpowder weapon technology. It also includes a fascinating discussion of Just War. Since the end of the fifteenth century, The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry has been available primarily through Antoine Vérard's imprint of 1488 or William Caxton's 1489 translation, The Book of the Order of Chivalry. Vérard even suggested that the work was his own translation of the Roman writer Vegetius, making no mention of Christine 's name. Caxton attributed the work to Christine, but it is impossible to identify the manuscript he used for his translation. Moreoever, both translations are inaccurate. The Willards correct these inaccuracies in a clear and easy-to-read translation, which they supplement with notes and an introduction that will greatly benefit students, scholars, and enthusiasts alike. Publication of this work should change our perception both of medieval warfare and of Christine de Pizan.
Author: Thomas Paine