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Author : Tee Lin Say
Publisher : Joey Yap Research Group
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789671520925
Author : Elizabeth A. Campbell
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cycles in literature
ISBN : 9780821415146
This volume explores the ways that Charles Dickens appropriated and made central to his novels the dominant symbol of his age. The author argues that Dickens' contribution to the iconographic and narrative traditions was to fuse the classical image of the wheel - fortune - with the industrial one.
Author : Daniel Heller-Roazen
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801881558
Arguably the single most influential literary work of the European Middle Ages, the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun has traditionally posed a number of difficulties to modern critics, who have viewed its many interruptions and philosophical discussions as signs of a lack of formal organization and a characteristically medieval predilection for encyclopedic summation. In Fortune's Faces, Daniel Heller-Roazen calls into question these assessments, offering a new and compelling interpretation of the romance as a carefully constructed and far-reaching exploration of the place of fortune, chance, and contingency in literary writing. Situating the Romance of the Rose at the intersection of medieval literature and philosophy, Heller-Roazen shows how the thirteenth-century work invokes and radicalizes two classical and medieval traditions of reflection on language and contingency: that of the Provençal, French, and Italian love poets, who sought to compose their "verses of pure nothing"in a language Dante defined as "without grammar," and that of Aristotle's discussion of "future contingents" as it was received and refined in the logic, physics, theology, and epistemology of Boethius, Abelard, Albert the Great, and Thomas Aquinas.Through a close analysis of the poetic text and a detailed reconstruction of the logical and metaphysical concept of contingency, Fortune's Faces charts the transformations that literary structures (such as subjectivity, autobiography, prosopopoeia, allegory, and self-reference) undergo in a work that defines itself as radically contingent. Considered in its full poetic and philosophical dimensions, the Romance of the Rose thus acquires an altogether new significance in the history of literature: it appears as a work that incessantly explores its own capacity to be other than it is.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business
ISBN : UCSD:31822034030783
Author : James Barrington
Publisher : Canelo
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781800322400
The author of the acclaimed Empire of the Moghul novels returns to eighteenth-century India in this series debut of daring adventure and imperial plunder. Scotland, 1744. An avid student of classical literature, young Nicholas Ballantyne’s life is turned upside down when his uncle, the Laird of Glenmire, dispatches him to India. Nicholas is told that this sudden journey is necessary for his own safety, and that once arrived, he is to join the East India Company. After decades of struggle, the Company is ready to expand. Nicholas and his new colleague, the mercurial Robert Clive, rise quickly within the Company’s ranks, masterminding plans to counter French designs in India. But the fight for India will only be resolved in battle. On the fields of Plassey, the two armies draw up for a climactic encounter. For Robert and Nicholas, commanding the Company’s forces, this will be their making, or their end . . .
Author : Robert Chalmers
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802199737
“A spontaneous seduction prompts a surreal chain of events in this raucous new novel . . . This is a wry, writhing tale about the forces that shape our fate.” —Booklist After his highly popular Who’s Who in Hell, Robert Chalmers delivers his second novel, a painfully funny story of disaster and redemption that recalls Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love. One morning Edward Miller, tabloid newspaper editor and reactionary alpha male, spontaneously seduces his temp in an office storeroom. The news doesn’t take long to reach his cold, beautiful wife—and it just happens to be their anniversary. By morning, his marriage is over, his career in shambles, and his house is on fire. Clearly, it’s time to leave town. After a brief stint in Spain as an English teacher, Miller flees again when his cover is blown, winding up in a Florida town populated by carnies and circus freaks and ruled with an iron fist by the Half Man, a criminal and sadist with no legs. Unexpectedly, despite even a one-eyed albino hit man who seems to overhear every compromising conversation between Miller and the Half Man’s wife the Lizard Woman, Miller gradually realizes this may be where he belongs. A brilliant ensemble black comedy and a touching statement on the redemptive power of love, Fortune’s Bastard confirms Robert Chalmers as one of Britain’s freshest and wittiest new voices. “A novel of wonderful surprises, an emotional see-saw that can be very funny, very sad and very brutal. This is a story about a love that shouldn’t work at all, but triumphs against the odds.” —Michael Palin, Monty Python alumnus
Author : Anita Shreve
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 1314 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316183574
This magnificent novel transports readers to the world of a prominent Boston family summering on the New Hampshire coast, and to the social orbit of a spirited young woman who falls into a passionate, illicit affair with an older man, with cataclysmic results. The Fortune Rock's Quartet collects four of Anita Shreve's most beloved novels-Fortune's Rocks, The Pilot's Wife, Sea Glass, and Body Surfing-for the first time. The novels highlight Shreve's ability to illuminate women's lives across different eras and share a delightful detail: they are all set in the same coastal New England home, one that has inspired Shreve for over a decade. Any house with age to it can tell a million stories about the families who have lived there, and Shreve has been quoted as saying, ''You could base an entire life's work on the people who come in and out of a house.'' Fortune's Rocks depicts a spirited young woman at the turn of the 20th century who falls into a passionate, illicit affair with an older man. In Sea Glass, a young couple's new marriage is rocked to the core by the 1929 stock market crash. The Pilot's Wife brings us to the present day, where Kathryn is unprepared her for the late-night knock that lets her know her husband has been killed in a plane crash. Sydney, the heroine of Body Surfing has already been once divorced and once widowed by the age of 29, and finds the fragile existence she has rebuilt for herself threatened when two brothers vie for her affections. "There's something addictive about Shreve's tales," according to USA Today, and this quality is on full display in the critically acclaimed novels of The Fortune Rock's Quartet. No one writes more compellingly than Anita Shreve about marriage, family, the depths of our strength and resolve, and the supreme courage that it takes to love.
Author : Tee Lin Say
Publisher : Jy Books Sdn. Bhd. (Joey Yap)
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Billionaires
ISBN : 9675395966
This is Tee Lin Say's first book on the subject of Mian Xiang or Chinese Face Reading. As an accomplished Face Reading student of Joey Yap and an experienced business journalist, Lin Say merged both her knowledge into this volume, profiling twenty prominent tycoons in Asia based on the art of Face Reading. This book, with a foreword by Joey Yap, takes a step further than the usual financial analysis. Lin Say delves into each tycoon's current age luck and best age phase according to their faces and reveals useful information on their potential success in the next ten years. There are also relevant diagrams and charts to provide further comprehension as well as commentaries for the reader. Face Reading and business are inter-related because the financial markets, commodities, properties, and a country's entire economy are centred around the same thing people. Being able to read people gives one the upper hand, especially when it comes to business. If you understand people and how they operate, you are equipped with the best tool to seal that deal, buy that winning stock, make more money and, above all, be happy. This book makes a great read for anyone keen or even curious about Face Reading and its relation to the world of business and investment. The book will explain what makes tycoons look different than others and show how good fortune is written on their faces sure signs you can bet on over the next ten years.
Author : S. P. Huddleston
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628571370
It is said that the more things change, the more they stay the same. But do they really? Fortune's Yoke explores in depth the lives of characters coming from diverse backgrounds and stations in life. The common thread among them is that all lead lives set in motion toward a clearly carved-out destiny. Set in the dark and bloody ground of the Appalachian coalfields, the novel is a gritty, unapologetic examination of the human spirit, with all its frailties, imperfections, and magnificence. It is the mid-1970s and the coal market is booming. Life in the small coal town Whitehurst is vibrant. Prosperity and optimism reign. Coal trucks grind incessantly through the hills and mining jobs abound. Within this hum of activity, plans are made and schemes hatched. How does one react when life's road comes upon an unexpected fork? Bankers and hermits, tavern keepers and debutantes, lawyers and miners, good Samaritans and adulterers must all confront that dilemma and themselves. The results are various and surprising. The tumultuous story offers a thorough view of the rich life, culture, and politics of a rough-and-tumble part of the world in a time gone by, putting the reader in Whitehurst, with all its glory and infamy. The author imposes no value judgments. The tale is told, and readers are given the respect to make of it what they will.
Author : Diana Julia Marr Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Fiction in English, 1900- Texts
ISBN : 0851271006
Author : Julian Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HX6I4L
Author : George Brown Burgin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435032767758
Author : E. Nesbit
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734046001
Reproduction of the original: The Incomplete Amorist by E. Nesbit
Author : Eric Flint,David Drake
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618242341
EVIL FROM BEYOND TIME RULES THE GREATEST EMPIRE ON EARTH! Link, the supercomputer from a future that should not exist, has used terror and gunpowder weapons to forge the Malwa Empire: harnessing the vast manpower of the Indian subcontinent and using the barbarian races of the periphery to bind the whole together. No power on Earth in the 6th century could stand against Link's evil. Aide, a human soul embodied in a jewel, has come back to halt evil's progress. Aide has no power but that of truth, but truth is the only power that could move the greatest general of the age, Belisarius. With his sword, his paladins, and his genius, Belisarius has turned the armies of Byzantium into a weapon capable of blunting the first assault of the Malwa hordes. Now, supported by allies from all the world yet free, Belisarius, with his wife and co-commander Antonia, faces overwhelming Malwa numbers in a ring that tightens about them. There is no room for maneuver and no safety in defeat. The armies of Good and Evil gathered on the fertile plains of Mesopotamia will decide the fate of the world. And the fate of all the future! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Author : Max Brand
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9788027301461
Anthony Hazzard is a brute money lender with a dark secret. On Christmas Eve, he finds a young man half-frozen in the snow and recognizes him as escaped convict Harry Fortune. Hazzard rescues him and takes him home, intending to turn him in for the reward, but both Harry Fortune and Hazzard's warm-hearted niece mistake his action for one of kindness. As Hazzard cunningly maneuvers so as to realize how to make the largest profit possible for his planned betrayal, his selfish acts keep on being misinterpreted as more kindness and benevolence. Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Prolific in many genres he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more.