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Author: William E. Rand Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 059512853X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 242
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John Hardin arrives in Philadelphia to investigate the supposed suicide of his brother, a priest. Through Father Xavier, the pastor of his brother's parish, Hardin learns of a case of demonic possession and comes face to face with the victim, Jason Reynolds. As Father Xavier struggles to free Reynolds’s soul, the demon within Reynolds tries to influence Hardin with a series of brutal stories told to tempt the innocent man to the dark side. Each story, told through a telepathic link, turns Hardin further from Father Xavier, without the priest's knowledge, until the power struggle surfaces violently and Hardin must decide who the real liar is and who is to live and die.
Author: William E. Rand Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 059512853X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 242
Book Description
John Hardin arrives in Philadelphia to investigate the supposed suicide of his brother, a priest. Through Father Xavier, the pastor of his brother's parish, Hardin learns of a case of demonic possession and comes face to face with the victim, Jason Reynolds. As Father Xavier struggles to free Reynolds’s soul, the demon within Reynolds tries to influence Hardin with a series of brutal stories told to tempt the innocent man to the dark side. Each story, told through a telepathic link, turns Hardin further from Father Xavier, without the priest's knowledge, until the power struggle surfaces violently and Hardin must decide who the real liar is and who is to live and die.
Author: Jalaloddin Rumi Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1786726092 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 517
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Jalaloddin Rumi's Masnavi-ye Ma'navi, or 'Spiritual Couplets', composed in the 13th Century, is a monumental work of poetry in the Sufi tradition of Islamic mysticism. For centuries before his love poetry became a literary phenomenon in the West, Rumi's Masnavi had been revered in the Islamic world as its greatest mystical text. Drawing upon a vast array of characters, stories and fables, and deeply versed in spiritual teaching, it takes us on a profound and playful journey of discovery along the path of divine love, toward its ultimate goal of union with the source of all Truth. In Book Two of the Masnavi, the second of six volumes, we travel with Rumi toward an understanding of the deeper truth and reality, beyond the limits of the self. Alan Williams's authoritative new translation is rendered in highly readable blank verse and includes the original Persian text for reference. True to the spirit of Rumi's poem, this new translation establishes the Masnavi as one of the world's great literary achievements for a global readership. Translated with an introduction, notes and analysis by Alan Williams and including the Persian text edited by Mohammad Este'lami.
Author: Elina Gertsman Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108340466 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 253
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The extraordinary array of images included in this volume reveals the full and rich history of the Middle Ages. Exploring material objects from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds, the book casts a new light on the cultures that formed them, each culture illuminated by its treasures. The objects are divided among four topics: The Holy and the Faithful; The Sinful and the Spectral; Daily Life and Its Fictions, and Death and Its Aftermath. Each section is organized chronologically, and every object is accompanied by a penetrating essay that focuses on its visual and cultural significance within the wider context in which the object was made and used. Spot maps add yet another way to visualize and consider the significance of the objects and the history that they reveal. Lavishly illustrated, this is an appealing and original guide to the cultural history of the Middle Ages.
Author: Timothy Clark Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 200
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Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889), described as The Intoxicated Demon of Painting - who could paint a 50-foot theatre curtain in four hours - was a serious student of earlier styles, producing meticulous scrolls of beauties and Buddhist deities. He was also a comic artist of crazy pictures and political satires.
Author: Darcy L.B. Harnadek Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 146025824X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 129
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“In a small patch of woodland Deep in the green trees ... Is the place Where the fairies paint the sky” With these opening lines, first-time author Darcy L. B. Harnadek paints the picture of a young girl enraptured by the story that inspired this original collection of poetry. In song, spoken word, free verse poetry and classic forms like terza rima and haiku, Where the Fairies Paint the Sky recreates images from the author’s insights and experiences: a tree strung with wind chimes, a mother from the past weaving her own poetry, a family gathered on the beach in the wind and rain to scatter a grandfather’s ashes. The reader will encounter topics ranging from wartime and broken hearts to hope and renewal, from the wonder in everyday life to worlds of angels, demons and beauty. The poems are deep and dark, lovely and gentle, thought-provoking and beautifully simple, each ready to offer a message or rekindle a memory.
Author: Liz James Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 9781444320022 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 488
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Using new methodological and theoretical approaches, A Companionto Byzantium presents an overview of the Byzantine world fromits inception in 330 A.D. to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Provides an accessible overview of eleven centuries ofByzantine society Introduces the most recent scholarship that is transforming thefield of Byzantine studies Emphasizes Byzantium's social and cultural history, as well asits material culture Explores traditional topics and themes through freshperspectives
Author: Miles J. Unger Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 1476794227 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 480
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One of The Christian Science Monitor’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2018 “An engrossing read…a historically and psychologically rich account of the young Picasso and his coteries in Barcelona and Paris” (The Washington Post) and how he achieved his breakthrough and revolutionized modern art through his masterpiece, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. In 1900, eighteen-year-old Pablo Picasso journeyed from Barcelona to Paris, the glittering capital of the art world. For the next several years he endured poverty and neglect before emerging as the leader of a bohemian band of painters, sculptors, and poets. Here he met his first true love and enjoyed his first taste of fame. Decades later Picasso would look back on these years as the happiest of his long life. Recognition came first from the avant-garde, then from daring collectors like Leo and Gertrude Stein. In 1907, Picasso began the vast, disturbing masterpiece known as Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Inspired by the painting of Paul Cézanne and the inventions of African and tribal sculpture, Picasso created a work that captured the disorienting experience of modernity itself. The painting proved so shocking that even his friends assumed he’d gone mad, but over the months and years it exerted an ever greater fascination on the most advanced painters and sculptors, ultimately laying the foundation for the most innovative century in the history of art. In Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World, Miles J. Unger “combines the personal story of Picasso’s early years in Paris—his friendships, his romances, his great ambition, his fears—with the larger story of modernism and the avant-garde” (The Christian Science Monitor). This is the story of an artistic genius with a singular creative gift. It is “riveting…This engrossing book chronicles with precision and enthusiasm a painting with lasting impact in today’s art world” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), all of it played out against the backdrop of the world’s most captivating city.
Author: James B. Miller Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595453007 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 495
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The Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania is an area rich in history, none of which is more fascinating than in its origin. Settled not by the people of Pennsylvania, but rather of Connecticut due to conflicting land grants, it produced a titanic struggle between the Yankee settlers and Indians, British, Tories, and Pennamites, which stretched from the French and Indian War to well past the Revolutionary War. In these years many battles were fought, much blood was spilled; some say no area in America suffered more in proportion to population. Brother did turn against brother, and father did turn against son. Still, the settler stood fast, possessed by a spirit which in turn would conquer the American west. The Wyoming Valley did not sit on the fringes of the frontier but some sixty miles beyond it. These early pioneers carved out a settlement in the heart of a wilderness staunchly contested by people on all sides. Not only did they have to contend with the Indian threat, but with Pennsylvanians wishing to rid their northern borders of the Yankee intruders, and latter on when their firm support of the revolution became known, with the British Empire. Burned out, attacked from all sides, racked with betrayal from within their own numbers they stood fast in the face of impossible odds. Their spirit is a testament to the indomitable spirit of America. Their story is one of America. Read and discover within their struggle against the scalping knife and British Empire a great story, one that should never be forgotten, one that defines the American spirit.
Author: William E. Rand
Author: William E. Rand
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