It Tolls For Thee

Author : Tom Morton
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781786784797

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It Tolls For Thee by Tom Morton Pdf

A funeral celebrant's story about how celebrating death, and creating personalised space for grief, can enrich lives and give meaning to death. After a close encounter with death, Tom Morton realised he needed a change of pace and perspective. He decided to become the only independent funeral celebrant on the remote Shetland Islands, an unusual new profession that would lead him on an extraordinary journey into the world of the dead. In a vivid narrative that reveals the fascinating realm of the unspoken - from extraordinary undertakers and death cafés, to pilgrimages and taboos - Tom quickly learns that death and speaking for the dead requires you to think on your feet and often take a magpie approach to faith and philosophy. From Humanism to hymns, Theravada Buddhism to Star Wars theology, he discovers the importance of ritual, humour, and the empowering act of trying to find words for something beyond language itself. This is an accessible and thought-provoking guide to celebrating mortality. When grief must be an inevitable part of life, Tom shows how we can mourn together in a way that feels appropriate to the life of the one who has passed on, and ultimately cultivate a healthy attitude to our own eventual demise.

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Americans
ISBN : 0812420039

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For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway Pdf

This masterpiece of time and place tells a profound and timeless story of courage and commitment, love and loss, that takes place over a fleeting 72 hours. Drawing on Hemingway's own involvement in the Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls reflects his passionate feelings about the nature of war and the meaning of loyalty.

Author : John Donne,Izaak Walton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Devotion
ISBN : PRNC:32101068151032

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Devotions by John Donne,Izaak Walton Pdf

Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789143942

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John Donne by Andrew Hadfield Pdf

John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion explores the life of one of the most significant figures of the English Renaissance. The book not only provides an overview of Donne’s life and work, but connects his writing and thinking to the ideas, institutions, and networks that influenced him. The book shows how Donne’s faith underpinned his career, from aspirational courtier to phenomenally successful clergyman and preacher, when he became dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral. Donne emerges as a figure obsessed with himself, tormented by the fear that his transgressions may have condemned him to eternal damnation. This fine new account uses Donne’s correspondence, writing, and poetry to give a rounded portrait of a bold, experimental thinker, who was never afraid of taking risks that few others would have countenanced.

Author : Oliver Tearle
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781782435587

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The Secret Library by Oliver Tearle Pdf

As well as taking in the well-known titles that have helped shape the world in which we live, The Secret Library brings to light more neglected items among the bookshelves of the world.

Author : Vidit Uppal
Publisher : One Point Six Technologies Pvt Ltd
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788194804420

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A Stick in the Dirt by Vidit Uppal Pdf

Saurabh’s birth is celebrated across the town of Konkur, where people rejoice in the arrival of the much-admired Vinod and Shashi Parashars’ first offspring. Soon, their neighbour’s 5-year-old daughter Vidya is entrusted with the responsibility of Saurabh’s daily wellbeing. They grow up together among the secluded trees, hills and narrow roads of the small town, spending much of their time in an abandoned graveyard they discover near their homes. But when Saurabh starts showing signs of trouble, their seemingly idyllic world begins to quickly unravel. As the incidents become more frequent and violent, he is brandished a pariah by the very people who had once held him aloft. Vidya, Shashi and Vinod’s struggle to come to terms with Saurabh’s impulses, becomes the uncomfortable thread that binds them together and leads them to re-evaluate their own lives and relationships. Traversing through the realms of guilt and solitude, A Stick in the Dirt attempts to grapple with the uncomfortable nature of the unknown and with what it means to be misunderstood by those closest to us.

Author : John Donne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000054369993

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No Man is an Island by John Donne Pdf

Author : John Donne
Publisher : Souvenir Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Death
ISBN : 0285628747

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No Man Is an Island by John Donne Pdf

This meditative prose conveys the essence of the human place in the world -- past and present.

Author : Jason Anspach,Nick Cole
Publisher : Galaxy's Edge: Savage Wars
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1949731200

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Savage Wars by Jason Anspach,Nick Cole Pdf

The greatest conflict the galaxy has ever known... They were the Savages. Raiders from our distant past. Elites who left Earth to create tailor-made utopias aboard the massive lighthuggers that crawled through the darkness between the stars. But the people they left behind on a dying planet didn't perish in the dystopian nightmare the Savages had themselves created: they thrived, discovering faster-than-light technology and using it to colonize the galaxy ahead of the Savages, forming fantastic new civilizations that surpassed the wildest dreams of Old Earth. Until the Savages came in from the Darkness... When a Savage hulk lands on glittering New Vega, one of the crown jewels of the post-Earth galaxy, a coalition of planetary governments amasses their forces to respond to the post-human Savage Marines who've come to sack and enslave. But what the coalition forces find is something far more sinister than the typical Savage hit-and-run: this time, the Savages have come to stay. Witness the intense beginning of THE SAVAGE WARS, the epic conflict, built into the lore of GALAXY'S EDGE, that will encompass over a thousand years of brutal fighting. Only the greatest military force in the galaxy can bring this war to an end... and the galaxy will never again be the same. Experience the beginning of the Legion. Experience the Savage Wars. Also available in audio book format performed by Stephen Lang (Avatar, Gods & Generals).

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547785057

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Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway Pdf

Green Hills of Africa is a work of nonfiction by American writer Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's second work of nonfiction, Green Hills of Africa is an account of a month on safari he and his wife, Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, took in East Africa during December 1933. Much of the narrative describes Hemingway's adventures hunting in East Africa, interspersed with ruminations about literature and authors. Generally the East African landscape Hemingway describes is in the region of Lake Manyara in Tanzania.

Author : Peter Christen Asbjørnsen,Jørgen Engebretsen Moe
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0156901501

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The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen,Jørgen Engebretsen Moe Pdf

The three billy goats outsmart the hungry troll who lives under the bridge.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Philadelphia : Porter & Coates
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Bells
ISBN : UOM:39015023938007

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The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

Author : Pablo Neruda
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466894525

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I Explain a Few Things by Pablo Neruda Pdf

"Laughter is the language of the soul," Pablo Neruda said. Among the most lasting voices of the most tumultuous (in his own words, "the saddest") century, a witness and a chronicler of its most decisive events, he is the author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin America's most revered writers, the emblem of the engaged poet, an artist whose heart, always with the people, is literally consumed by passion. His work, oscillating from epic meditations on politics and history to intimate reflections on animals, food, and everyday objects, is filled with humor and affection. This bilingual selection of more than fifty of Neruda's best poems, edited and with an introduction by the distinguished Latin American scholar Ilan Stavans and brilliantly translated by an array of well-known poets, also includes some poems previously unavailable in English. I Explain a Few Things distills the poet's brilliance to its most essential and illuminates Neruda's commitment to using the pen as a calibrator for his age.

Author : Victoria Reasor Nelson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359436484

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My Burdens Down by Victoria Reasor Nelson Pdf

Author : Claire Ridgway
Publisher : Madeglobal Publishing
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 849437219X

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On This Day in Tudor History by Claire Ridgway Pdf

"On This Day in Tudor History" gives a day-by-day look at events from the Tudor era, including births, deaths, baptisms, marriages, battles, arrests, executions and more. This must-have book for Tudor history lovers is perfect for: - Dipping into daily over your morning coffee - Using in the classroom - Trivia nights and quizzes - Finding out what happened on your birthday or special day - Wowing friends and family with your Tudor history knowledge - Researching the Tudor period Written by best-selling Tudor history author Claire Ridgway, "On This Day in Tudor History" contains a wealth of information about your favourite Tudor monarchs, their subjects and the times they lived in. Did you know: on 17th January 1569 Agnes Bowker gave birth to a cat?