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Author : Alice Montgomery Baldy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Spain
ISBN : NYPL:33433084129547
Author : Alice Montgomery Baldy
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1022258842
Set in 16th century Spain, The Romance of a Spanish Nun is a gripping tale of love, betrayal, and religious devotion. When a young nun falls in love with a dashing young nobleman, she embarks on a dangerous and illicit affair that could cost her everything. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Catalina De Erauso
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807095669
One of the earliest known autobiographies by a woman, this is the extraordinary tale of Catalina de Erauso, who in 1599 escaped from a Basque convent dressed as a man and went on to live one of the most wildly fantastic lives of any woman in history. A soldier in the Spanish army, she traveled to Peru and Chile, became a gambler, and even mistakenly killed her own brother in a duel. During her lifetime she emerged as the adored folkloric hero of the Spanish-speaking world. This delightful translation of Catalina's own work introduces a new audience to her audacious escapades.
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UGA:32108003568907
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:49757489
Author : Horacio Sierra
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781443819411
As chaste women devoted to God, nuns are viewed as the purest of the pure. Yet, as females who reject courtship, sex, marriage, child bearing, and materialism, they have been the anathema of how society has proscribed, expected, and regulated women: sex object, wife, mother, and capitalist consumer. They are perceived as otherworldly beings, yet revered for their salt-of-the-earth demeanor. This book illustrates how both English and Spanish Renaissance-era authors latched onto the figure of the nun as a way to evaluate the social construction of womanhood. This analysis of the nun’s role in the popular imagination via literature explores how writers on both sides of the Catholic-Protestant divide employed the role of the nun to showcase the powerful potential these women possessed in acting out as sanctified subversives. The texts under consideration include William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure, María de Zayas’s The Disenchantments of Love, Aphra Behn’s The History of the Nun, Catalina de Erauso’s The Lieutenant Nun, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s autobiographical and literary works. No other book addresses these issues through a concentrated study of these authors and their literary works, much less by offering an in-depth discussion of the literature and culture of seventeenth-century England, Spain, and Mexico.
Author : Peoria Public Library (Peoria, Ill.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : UIUC:30112087487036
A catalog of juvenile and fiction books held by the Peoria Public Library, in one alphabetical listing.
Author : César Aira
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811219822
"A good story and first-rate social science."—New York Times Book Review. A sinisterly funny modern-day Through the Looking Glass that begins with cyanide poisoning and ends in strawberry ice cream. The idea of the Native American living in perfect harmony with nature is one of the most cherished contemporary myths. But how truthful is this larger-than-life image? According to anthropologist Shepard Krech, the first humans in North America demonstrated all of the intelligence, self-interest, flexibility, and ability to make mistakes of human beings anywhere. As Nicholas Lemann put it in The New Yorker, "Krech is more than just a conventional-wisdom overturner; he has a serious larger point to make. . . . Concepts like ecology, waste, preservation, and even the natural (as distinct from human) world are entirely anachronistic when applied to Indians in the days before the European settlement of North America." "Offers a more complex portrait of Native American peoples, one that rejects mythologies, even those that both European and Native Americans might wish to embrace."—Washington Post "My story, the story of 'how I became a nun,' began very early in my life; I had just turned six. The beginning is marked by a vivid memory, which I can reconstruct down to the last detail. Before, there is nothing, and after, everything is an extension of the same vivid memory, continuous and unbroken, including the intervals of sleep, up to the point where I took the veil ." So starts Cesar Aira's astounding "autobiographical" novel. Intense and perfect, this invented narrative of childhood experience bristles with dramatic humor at each stage of growing up: a first ice cream, school, reading, games, friendship. The novel begins in Aira's hometown, Coronel Pringles. As self-awareness grows, the story rushes forward in a torrent of anecdotes which transform a world of uneventful happiness into something else: the anecdote becomes adventure, and adventure, fable, and then legend. Between memory and oblivion, reality and fiction, Cesar Aira's How I Became a Nun retains childhood's main treasures: the reality of fable and the delirium of invention. A few days after his fiftieth birthday, Aira noticed the thin rim of the moon, visible despite the rising sun. When his wife explained the phenomenon to him he was shocked that for fifty years he had known nothing about "something so obvious, so visible." This epiphany led him to write How I Became a Nun. With a subtle and melancholic sense of humor he reflects on his failures, on the meaning of life and the importance of literature.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : American literature
ISBN : UIUC:30112108101095
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : NYPL:33433069136111
Author : Free Public Library of Jersey City
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Dictionary catalogs
ISBN : UIUC:30112087486418
Author : George Parsons Lathrop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HW26QQ
Author : Milwaukee Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Classified catalogs
ISBN : UIUC:30112056599258
Author : Brooklyn Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:HN57K7