Love S Madness

Author : Louis de Bernières
Publisher : Random House
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446499207

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Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières Pdf

**AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS** 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR 'A true diamond of a novel, glinting with comedy and tragedy' Daily Mail It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals but over time he proves himself to be civilised, humorous – and a consummate musician. When Pelagia, the local doctor's daughter, finds her letters to her fiancé go unanswered, Antonio and Pelagia draw close and the working of the eternal triangle seems inevitable. But can this fragile love survive as a war of bestial savagery gets closer and the lines are drawn between invader and defender? 'Louis de Bernières is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh...he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste' Evening Standard

Author : Helen Small
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0198184913

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Love's Madness by Helen Small Pdf

Love's Madness is an important new contribution to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, it presents a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the nineteenth century thought about madness, femininity, and narrative convention. The book centers around studies of novels by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bront , Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens, as well as of previously neglected writings by Charles Maturin, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, among others.

Author : Karen Cimms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798668501373

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Better Man by Karen Cimms Pdf

Whoever said change is good should have their head examined. As far as Billy McDonald is concerned, he's changed enough for one lifetime. He's been clean and sober for two years, he's learned to manage his anger, and he's uprooted his life and relocated to Maine to reunite with his wife, Katie. He's even helped Katie create a resource center for at-risk youth, where he teaches guitar to any kid who's interested.He's paid his dues. He's evolved. He's a better man. It was hard work, but his personal life is the best it's ever been, and his music career is finally on track.Life should be easier now. Smooth sailing. No surprises, right?Yeah, well. Not so fast.Katie wants him to become a father-again.As the saying goes, been there, done that. He sucked as a parent the first time around, and as far as he's concerned, you don't get a do-over.Too bad she doesn't see it that way.After everything they've been through and all they've fought to overcome, could this be the one thing they can't get past?Better Man is the fourth and final book in the Of Love and Madness series.

Author : Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812976922

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Love, Anger, Madness by Marie Vieux-Chauvet Pdf

The only English translation of “a masterpiece” (The Nation)—a stunning trilogy of novellas about the soul-crushing cost of life under a violent Haitian dictatorship, featuring an introduction by Edwidge Danticat Originally published in 1968, Love, Anger, Madness virtually disappeared from circulation until its republication in France in 2005. Set in the barely fictionalized Haiti of “Papa Doc” Duvalier’s repressive rule, Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s writing was so powerful and so incendiary that she was forced to flee to the United States. Yet Love, Anger, Madness endures. Claire, the narrator of Love, is the eldest of three daughters who surrenders her dreams of marriage to run the household after her parents die. Insecure about her dark skin, she fantasizes about her middle sister’s French husband, while he has an affair with the youngest sister, setting in motion a complicated family dynamic that echoes the growing chaos outside their home. In Anger, the police terrorize a middle-class family by threatening to seize their land. The father insinuates that their only hope of salvation lies with an unspeakable act—his daughter Rose must prostitute herself—which leads to all-consuming guilt, shame, and rage. And finally, Madness paints a terrifying portrait of a Haitian village that has been ravaged by militants. René, a young poet, is trapped in his family’s house for days with no food and becomes obsessed with the souls of the dead that surround him.

Author : Mary Ruefle
Publisher : Wave Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798891060036

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Madness, Rack, and Honey by Mary Ruefle Pdf

This is one of the wisest books I've read in years... —New York Times Book Review No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledges and celebrates in the odd mystery and mysticism of the act—the fact that poetry must both guard and reveal, hint at and pull back... Also, and maybe most crucially, Ruefle’s work is never once stuffy or overdone: she writes this stuff with a level of seriousness-as-play that’s vital and welcome, that doesn’t make writing poetry sound anything but wild, strange, life-enlargening fun. -The Kenyon Review Profound, unpredictable, charming, and outright funny...These informal talks have far more staying power and verve than most of their kind. Readers may come away dazzled, as well as amused... —Publishers Weekly This is a book not just for poets but for anyone interested in the human heart, the inner-life, the breath exhaling a completion of an idea that will make you feel changed in some way. This is a desert island book. —Matthew Dickman The accomplished poet is humorous and self-deprecating in this collection of illuminating essays on poetry, aesthetics and literature... —San Francisco Examiner Over the course of fifteen years, Mary Ruefle delivered a lecture every six months to a group of poetry graduate students. Collected here for the first time, these lectures include "Poetry and the Moon," "Someone Reading a Book Is a Sign of Order in the World," and "Lectures I Will Never Give." Intellectually virtuosic, instructive, and experiential, Madness, Rack, and Honey resists definition, demanding instead an utter—and utterly pleasurable—immersion. Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award. Mary Ruefle has published more than a dozen books of poetry, prose, and erasures. She lives in Vermont.

Author : Athina Paris
Publisher : Rockhill Publishing LLC
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1945286555

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Love & Madness by Athina Paris Pdf

Benjamin Powell believes he has begun an empire. He has three sons and owns the most successful construction company. But it all begins to crumble when he chooses to manipulate their lives. Three women enter this world and fall in love with the Powell men - Sofia, Christie, and Gloria - they will suffer, fight, win, and lose.

Author : John R. Haule
Publisher : Fisher King Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781926715049

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Divine Madness by John R. Haule Pdf

'Divine Madness: Archetypes of Romantic Love' examines the transforming experience of romantic love in literature, myth, religion, and everyday life. A series of psychological meditations on the nature of romantic love and human relationship, Divine Madness takes the perspective that human love is a species of divine love and that our experience of romantic love both conceals and reveals the ultimate Lover and Beloved. John Haule draws on depth psychology, the mystical traditions of the world, and literature from Virgil to Milan Kundera to lead the reader inside the mind and heart of the lover. Each chapter explores a characteristic aspect of relationship, such as seduction and love play, the rapture of union, the agony of separation, madness, woundedness, and transcendence. Focusing on the soulful and spiritual meaning of these experiences, Divine Madness sheds light on our elations, obsessions, and broken hearts, but it also reconnects us with the wisdom of time immemorial. As a practicing Jungian analyst and former professor of religious studies, John Haule masterfully guides his readers through the labyrinth of everyday experience, and the often hidden layers of archetypal realities, sketching a philosophy of romantic love through the stories of the world's literature and mythology.

Author : Ferit Guven
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 079146394X

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Madness and Death in Philosophy by Ferit Guven Pdf

Demonstrates the significance of the concepts of madness and death for the history of philosophy.

Author : Neil Strauss
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062207098

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Everyone Loves You When You're Dead by Neil Strauss Pdf

Neil Strauss can uncover the naked truth like nobody else. With his groundbreaking book The Game, Strauss penetrated the secret society of pickup artists. Now, in Everyone Loves You When You're Dead, the Rolling Stone journalist collects the greatest moments from the most insane music interviews of all time. Join Neil Strauss, "The Mike Tyson of interviewers," (Dave Pirner, Soul Asylum), as he Makes Lady Gaga cry, tries to keep Mötley Crüe out of jail & is asked to smoke Kurt Cobain's ashes by Courtney Love Shoots guns with Ludacris, takes a ride with Neil Young & goes to church with Tom Cruise and his mother Spends the night with Trent Reznor, reads the mind of Britney Spears & finds religion with Stephen Colbert Gets picked on by Led Zeppelin, threatened by the mafia & serenaded by Leonard Cohen Picks up psychic clues with the CIA, diapers with Snoop Dog & prison survival tips from Rick James Goes drinking with Bruce Springsteen, dining with Gwen Stefani & hot tubbing with Marilyn Manson Talks glam with David Bowie, drugs with Madonna, death with Johnny Cash & sex with Chuck Berry Gets molested by the Strokes, in trouble with Prince & in bed with . . . you'll find out who inside. Enjoy many, many more awkward moments and accidental adventures with the world's number one stars in Everyone Love You When You're Dead.

Author : Kailee Reese Samuels
Publisher : Sugargrove Book Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1947362976

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Madness by Kailee Reese Samuels Pdf

Author : J'Wan Yvette
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781300504054

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Justified Madness: Living & Loving Out Loud in a Mad World by J'Wan Yvette Pdf

Author : Rahla Xenopoulos
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781770221895

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A Memoir of Love and Madness by Rahla Xenopoulos Pdf

In 1992, Rahla Xenopoulos was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Despite the devastating diagnosis, she sought education on her affliction. Although she found an abundance of literature on various mental illnesses, none of it seemed applicable to her. This situation inspired her to write a book chronicling her ongoing efforts to come to terms with a disease that is, in effect, a life sentence. The book recounts her upbringing in an eccentric, loving Jewish family, her struggle with bulimia, anorexia and self-mutilation, her attempts at suicide, finding true love and, finally, the ‘crazy, utterly unpredictable experience of giving birth to triplets’. This is neither a self-help book nor a med­ical guide. Reading this book will not cure anyone; bipolar disorder is a chronic illness. But it did help Rahla - as it will countless others - ‘to understand the rhythm in the cacophony of this condition’.

Author : Maureen Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101607831

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The Madness Underneath by Maureen Johnson Pdf

The New York Times bestseller! A new threat haunts the streets of London… Rory Deveaux has changed in ways she never could have imagined since moving to London and beginning a new life at boarding school. As if her newfound ability to see ghosts hadn’t complicated her life enough, Rory’s recent brush with the Jack the Ripper copycat has left her with an even more unusual and intense power. Now, a new string of inexplicable deaths is threatening London, and Rory has evidence that they are no coincidence. Something sinister is going on, and it is up to her to convince the city’s secret ghost-policing squad to listen before it’s too late.

Author : S. Harper
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230249509

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Madness, Power and the Media by S. Harper Pdf

Questioning the psychiatric construction of mental distress as 'illness', and challenging existing studies of media stigmatization, Stephen Harper argues that today's media images of mental distress are often sympathetic, yet tend to reproduce the sexist, classist, racist and individualist ideologies of contemporary capitalism.

Author : S. Cross
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230276079

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Mediating Madness by S. Cross Pdf

Mediating Madness examines how mediations of madness emerge, disappear and interleave, only to re-emerge at unexpected moments. Drawing on social and cultural histories of madness, history of art, and popular journalism, the book offers a unique interdisciplinary understanding of historical and contemporary media representations of madness.