A Literary Cavalcade Ii

Author : Robert A. Parker
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781304599155

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A Literary Cavalcade-II by Robert A. Parker Pdf

For six decades, writer and editor Robert A. Parker has followed up each book he reads, mainly novels, with an evaluation. His comments are informed by an independent critical view that balances a moral and literary sensibility. In this second of six volumes, the authors covered range from Henri Daniel-Rops to Jose Maria Gironalla. They include Don DeLillo, Peter Dexter, E. L. Doctorow, Umberto Eco, Shusaku Endo, Louise Erdrich, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Fowles, E. M. Forster, Carlos Fuentes, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as well as a few mystery authors and historians. The commentaries are listed alphabetically by author, and the books by the date of publication for each author. The writers here represent a broad range of writing styles, cultural influences, and moral philosophies. And all are rated on their literary achievement, the effectiveness of plot, character, and setting, plus their recognition of the moral, ethical, and spiritual values of mankind.

Author : Robert A. Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Literature, Modern
ISBN : 1304488993

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A Literary Cavalcade-I by Robert A. Parker Pdf

Author : Robert A. Parker
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781304036995

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A Literary Cavalcade-V by Robert A. Parker Pdf

For six decades, writer and editor Robert A. Parker has followed up each book he reads, mainly novels, with an evaluation of that book. His comments reflect an independent view that balances a moral and literary sensibility. In this fifth of six volumes, the authors covered range from Brian Moore to Neil Sheehan, and include O'Connor, Pamuk, Patchett, Percy, Plante, Price, Richler, Roth, Rowling, Saramago, and Sartre. At least 120 authors are listed in this volume. They represent a range of writing styles, cultural influences, and moral philosophies. All are rated on their literary achievement, the effectiveness of plot, character, and setting, plus their recognition of the moral, ethical, and spiritual values of mankind.

Author : Robert A. Parker
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781365957697

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A Literary Cavalcade-VII by Robert A. Parker Pdf

Writer and editor Robert A. Parker has followed up his six-volume A Literary Cavalcade with a seventh volume. This volume of criticism covers mainly the fiction he has read from 2013 to early 2017. His comments are informed by his Jesuit upbringing but also by an independent critical view that balances a moral and literary sensibility. The writers here represent a broad range of writing styles, cultural influences, and moral philosophies. And all are rated on their literary achievement, the effectiveness of plot, character, and setting, plus their recognition of the moral, ethical, and spiritual values of mankind. Here is a unique critical perspective that measures the meaning of literature against the meaning of life.

Author : Robert A. Parker
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781304321282

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A Literary Cavalcade-VI by Robert A. Parker Pdf

For six decades, writer and editor Robert A. Parker has followed up each book he reads, mainly novels, with an evaluation of that book. His comments are informed by his Jesuit upbringing but also by an independent critical view that balances a moral and literary sensibility. In this sixth of six volumes, the authors covered range from Ignazio Silone to Emile Zola. They include Solzhenitsyn, Spark, Stegner, Styron, Tanizaki, Tolstoy, Turow, Unsworth, Updike, Vargas Llosa, Warren, Waugh, and Wilder. The commentaries are listed alphabetically by author, and the books by the date of publication. At least 115 authors are included in this volume, some represented by one book, some by five or more. The writers here represent a broad range of writing styles, cultural influences, and moral philosophies. And all are rated on their literary achievement, on plot, character, and setting, plus the moral, ethical, and spiritual values of mankind. Here, the meaning of literature is measured against the meaning of life.

Author : Robert A. Parker
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781300687405

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A Literary Cavalcade-IV by Robert A. Parker Pdf

Robert A. Parker follows up each book he reads, mainly novels, with an evaluation of that book. His comments are informed by his Jesuit upbringing but also by an independent critical view that balances a moral and literary sensibility. In this fourth of six volumes, the authors covered range from Jean Lacouture to Montherlant. The commentaries are listed alphabetically by author, and about 100 authors are included in this volume. Future volumes will cover additional authors alphabetically. The writers here represent a broad range of writing styles, cultural influences, and moral philosophies.

Author : Robert A. Parker
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781300248385

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A Literary Cavalcade—III by Robert A. Parker Pdf

Author Robert A. Parker has compiled here his critique of hundreds of novels he has read. This is the third of six volumes that cover authors alphabetically, in this case from George Gissing to Milan Kundera. More than 85 authors are represented, including Greene, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Hersey, Horgan, James, Joyce, Kazantzakis Kafka, Kennedy, and King. They reflect a broad range of writing styles, cultural influences, and moral philosophies. All works are rated on their literary achievement, the effectiveness of plot, character, and setting, plus their recognition of the moral, ethical and spiritual values of mankind. Here is a unique critical perspective that measures the meaning of literature against the meaning of life.

Author : Robert A. Parker
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781304488862

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A Literary Cavalcade-I by Robert A. Parker Pdf

For six decades, writer and editor Robert A. Parker has followed up each book he reads, mainly novels, with an evaluation. His comments are informed by an independent critical view that balances a moral and literary sensibility. In this first of six volumes, the authors covered range from Kobo Abe to Michael Cunningham. They include Richard Adams, Russell Banks, Anthony Burgess, A.S. Byatt, James Carroll, Willa Cather, J. M. Coetzee, and Joseph Conrad. The commentaries are listed alphabetically by author, and the books by the date of publication for each author. Some authors are represented by one book, some by five or more. Future volumes will cover additional authors alphabetically. The writers here represent a broad range of writing styles, cultural influences, and moral philosophies. And all are rated on their literary achievement, the effectiveness of plot, character, and setting, plus their recognition of the moral, ethical, and spiritual values of mankind.

Author : Robert A. Parker
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781300237969

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A Literary Cavalcade—III by Robert A. Parker Pdf

Author Robert A. Parker has compiled here his critique of hundreds of novels he has read. This is the third of six volumes that cover authors alphabetically, in this case from George Gissing to Milan Kundera. More than 85 authors are represented, including Greene, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Hersey, Horgan, James, Joyce, Kazantzakis Kafka, Kennedy, and King. They reflect a broad range of writing styles, cultural influences, and moral philosophies. All works are rated on their literary achievement, the effectiveness of plot, character, and setting, plus their recognition of the moral, ethical and spiritual values of mankind. Here is a unique critical perspective that measures the meaning of literature against the meaning of life.

Author : Robert A. Parker
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781300677000

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A Literary Cavalcade—IV by Robert A. Parker Pdf

Robert A. Parker has long evaluated each novel he reads. His comments are informed by an independent critical view that balances a moral and literary sensibility. In this fourth of six volumes, authors covered range from Jean Lacouture to Montherlant. The commentaries are listed alphabetically by author, and the books by the date of publication. The writers here represent a broad range of writing styles, cultural influences, and moral philosophies. And all are rated on their literary achievement.

Author : Robert A. Parker
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781304321121

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A Literary Cavalcade-VI by Robert A. Parker Pdf

For six decades, writer and editor Robert A. Parker has followed up each book he reads, mainly novels, with an evaluation of that book. His comments are informed by his Jesuit upbringing but also by an independent critical view that balances a moral and literary sensibility. In this sixth of six volumes, the authors covered range from Ignazio Silone to Emile Zola. They include Solzhenitsyn, Spark, Stegner, Styron, Tanizaki, Tolstoy, Turow, Unsworth, Updike, Vargas Llosa, Warren, Waugh, and Wilder. The commentaries are listed alphabetically by author, and the books by the date of publication. At least 115 authors are included in this volume, some represented by one book, some by five or more. The writers here represent a broad range of writing styles, cultural influences, and moral philosophies. And all are rated on their literary achievement, on plot, character, and setting, plus the moral, ethical, and spiritual values of mankind. Here, the meaning of literature is measured against the meaning of life.

Author : Richard Condon
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504027724

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An Infinity of Mirrors by Richard Condon Pdf

A Jewish woman in love with a Prussian officer moves to Hitler’s Berlin in this ominous, “spectacular” novel by the New York Times–bestselling author (Kirkus Reviews). Every afternoon, Paule tends to her father’s newspaper clippings and listens to his stories. An actor, Paul-Alain Bernheim has a sexual appetite and a lust for life that have made him a legend of the Paris stage. He is also a fiercely proud Jew, and he has imbued his daughter with an unshakeable pride in the history of her people. So why, she wonders, has she fallen in love with a German? From the moment Paule spots Wilhelm von Rhode at an embassy reception, she can’t take her eyes off him. So after a whirlwind Paris romance, when von Rhode is recalled to Berlin, Paule follows as his wife. But as the Nazis tighten their stranglehold on Germany and the world prepares for war, their love may not survive what is to come. “Fascinating.” —Life

Author : Janko Andrijasevic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429795855

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God Behind the Screen by Janko Andrijasevic Pdf

This interdisciplinary study of literary characters sheds light on the relatively under-studied phenomenon of religious psychopathy. God Behind the Screen: Literary Portrais of Religious Psychopathy identifies and rigorously examines protagonists in works from a variety of genres, written by authors such as Aldous Huxley, Jane Austin, Sinclair Lewis, and Steven King, who are both fervently religous and suffer from a range of disorders underneath the umbrella of psychopathy.

Author : Robert A. Parker
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781304037428

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A Literary Cavalcade-V by Robert A. Parker Pdf

For six decades, writer and editor Robert A. Parker has followed up each book he reads, mainly novels, with an evaluation of that book. His comments are informed by an independent critical view that balances a moral and literary sensibility. In this fifth of six volumes, the authors covered range from Brian Moore to Neil Sheehan, and include O'Connor, Pamuk, Patchett, Percy, Plante, Price, Read, Richler, Roth, Rowling, and Saramago. There are at least 120 authors included in this volume. These writers represent a range of writing styles, cultural influences, and moral philosophies. All are rated on their literary achievement, the effectiveness of plot, character, and setting, plus their recognition of the moral, ethical, and spiritual values of mankind.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Night in Funland And Other Stories From Literary Cavalcade by Anonim Pdf