Author: Wilfrid Scawen BluntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Songs (Medium voice) with orchestra
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
The Desolate City
Author: Wilfrid Scawen BluntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Songs (Medium voice) with orchestra
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
The Desolate City
Author: Anne Roche MuggeridgePublisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In the twenty-five years since Vatican II, the Church has undergone a classic revolution, like those that transform the structures of secular societies. Just as we can speak of a "post-Christian era" in the West, so we have a "post-Catholic era" in the Church. The undermining of the Catholic principle of authority has reduced religion to mere sentiment. The devastating effects of the revolution are evinced in the seminaries, the liturgy, in the bishops' committees, and in the controversies over such issues as celibacy, birth control, and the Church's political shift to the left. The Catholic Church has self-destructed. This book is an eloquent, carefully reasoned reflection on the ruin of the once-universal Church. [Book jacket].
The Desolate City
Author: Anne Roche MuggeridgePublisher: New York ; Toronto : Harper & Row
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Notes of a Desolate Man
Author: T’ien-wen ChuPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231500081
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan. The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and lovers, as he watches his childhood friend, Ah Yao, succumb to complications from AIDS. The brute fact of Ah Yao's death focuses Shao's simultaneously erudite and erotic reflections magnetically on the core theme of mortality. By turns humorous and despondent, the narrator struggles to come to terms with Ah Yao's risky lifestyle, radical political activism, and eventual death; the fragility of romantic love; the awesome power of eros; the solace of writing; the cold ennui of a younger generation enthralled only by video games; and life on the edge of mainstream Taiwanese society. His feverish journey through forests of metaphor and allusion—from Fellini and Lévi-Strauss to classical Chinese poetry—serves as a litany protecting him from the ravages of time and finitude. Impressive in scope and detail, Notes of a Desolate Man employs the motif of its characters' marginalized sexuality to highlight Taiwan's vivid and fragile existence on the periphery of mainland China. Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin's masterful translation brings Chu T'ien-wen's lyrical and inventive pastiche of political, poetic, and sexual desire to the English-speaking world.
Analytical Concordance to the Bible
Author: Robert YoungAn Anthology of World Poetry
Author: Mark Van DorenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
Book Description
The Unconquered City
Author: K. A. DoorePublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0765398605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The final volume in K. A. Doore's critically-acclaimed assassin fantasy series, praised by Publishers Weekly as “a hit with fans of Sarah J. Maas and George R.R. Martin” (starred review) Seven years have passed since the Siege—a time when the hungry dead had risen—but the memories still haunt Illi Basbowen. Though she was trained to be an elite assassin, now the Basbowen clan act as Ghadid's militia force protecting the resurrected city against a growing tide of monstrous guul that travel across the dunes. Illi's worst fears are confirmed when General Barca arrives, bearing news that her fledgling nation, Hathage, also faces this mounting danger. In her search for the source of the guul, the general exposes a catastrophic secret hidden on the outskirts of Ghadid. To protect her city and the realm, Illi must travel to Hathage and confront her inner demons in order to defeat a greater one—but how much can she sacrifice to protect everything she knows from devastation? The Chronicles of Ghadid #1: The Perfect Assassin #2: The Impossible Contract #3: The Unconquered City At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Apocalypse Explained According to the Spiritual Sense
Author: Emanuel SwedenborgPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Author: Bholanauth Chunder
Author: Charles Boutell