The Story Of Don Juan

Author : Alessandro Baricco
Publisher : Pushkin Children's Books
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781782690153

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The Story of Don Juan by Alessandro Baricco Pdf

"The crazy life and courageous death of a man who loved women too much to want only one." Don Juan is a passionate lover of life and nearly 1,000 women. One night, the Commendatore of Calatrava catches him kissing his daughter, and challenges him to a duel. Don Juan wins the duel, which of course means that the Commendatore is slain-and so begins the end for the incorrigible seducer. Dave Eggers says, of the series: "I couldn't be prouder to be a part of it. Ever since Alessandro conceived this idea I thought it was brilliant. The editions that they've complied have been lushly illustrated and elegantly designed."

Author : Douglas Carlton Abrams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416532521

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The Lost Diary of Don Juan by Douglas Carlton Abrams Pdf

Capturing the decadent and dangerous world of the Spanish Golden Age, this historical novel explores universal questions about the nature of love and desire--brought to life through Don Juan's secret childhood in a convent to his inescapable fall into the madness of love.

Author : Carlos Castaneda
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520290761

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The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda Pdf

In 1968 University of California Press published an unusual manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda.ÊThe Teachings of Don Juan enthralled a generation of seekers dissatisfied with the limitations of the Western worldview. Castaneda's now classic book remains controversial for the alternative way of seeing that it presents and the revolution in cognition it demands. Whether read as ethnographic fact or creative fiction, it is the story of a remarkable journey that has left an indelible impression on the life of more than a million readers around the world.

Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429936347

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Don Juan: His Own Version by Peter Handke Pdf

Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers a wry and entertaining take on history's most famous seducer as he takes a respite from his stressful existence Don Juan's story—"his own version"—is filtered through the consciousness of an anonymous narrator, a failed innkeeper and chef, into whose solitude Don Juan bursts one day. On each day of the week that follows, Don Juan describes the adventures he experienced on that same day a week earlier. The adventures are erotic, but Handke's Don Juan is more pursued than pursuer. What makes his accounts riveting are the remarkable evocations of places and people, and the nature of his narration. Don Juan: His Own Version is, above all, a book about storytelling and its ability to burst the ordinary boundaries of time and space. In this brief and wry volume, Peter Handke conjures images and depicts the subtleties of human interaction with an unforgettable vividness. Along the way, he offers a sharp commentary on many features of contemporary life.

Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141994796

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After the Death of Don Juan by Sylvia Townsend Warner Pdf

'She has a talent amounting to genius' John Updike Don Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, as rumoured - or has he escaped? Doña Ana, the woman he tried to seduce, will stop at nothing to discover the truth. Set in a rural eighteenth-century Spain rife with suspicion and cruelty, and featuring a glorious cast of peasants, aristocrats and vengeful ghosts, this moving, surprising tragicomedy is also Sylvia Townsend Warner's response to the dark days of the Spanish Civil War. 'The kind of novelist who inspires an intense sense of ownership in her fans' Sarah Waters

Author : José Zorrilla
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781783192571

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The Real Don Juan by José Zorrilla Pdf

Don Juan Tenorio is an important and influential Spanish classic which gives a softened, romanticised version of the infamous hero and ends, uniquely, in his repentance and salvation. First seen in 1844, it is Zorrilla's best-known play and is still performed every year in Spain on All Souls' Day. The play, in Ranjit Bolt's stunning rhyming verse translations, was given an extensive tour by the Oxford Stage Company in late 1990.

Author : Carlos Castaneda
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781476730981

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Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda Pdf

Carlos Castaneda takes the reader into the very heart of sorcery, challenging both imagination and reason, shaking the very foundations of our belief in what is "natural" and "logical." In 1961, a young anthropologist subjected himself to an extraordinary apprenticeship with Yaqui Indian spiritual leader don Juan Matus to bring back a fascinating glimpse of a Yaqui Indian's world of "non-ordinary reality" and the difficult and dangerous road a man must travel to become "a man of knowledge." Yet on the bring of that world, challenging to all that we believe, he drew back. Then in 1968, Carlos Castaneda returned to Mexico, to don Juan and his hallucinogenic drugs, and to a world of experience no man from our Western civilization had ever entered before.

Author : Carlos Castaneda
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781439121849

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Journey To Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda Pdf

In Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Castaneda introduces readers to this new approach for the first time and explores, as he comes to experience it himself, his own final voyage into the teachings of don Juan, sharing with us what it is like to truly “stop the world” and perceive reality on his own terms. Originally drawn to Yaqui Indian spiritual leader don Juan Matus for his knowledge of mind-altering plants, bestselling author Carlos Castaneda immersed himself in the sorcerer’s magical world entirely. Ten years after his first encounter with the shaman, Castaneda examines his field notes and comes to understand what don Juan knew all along—that these plants are merely a means to understanding the alternative realities that one cannot fully embrace on one’s own.

Author : Ann Bromfield,Don Juan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 053310873X

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From Pimp Stick to Pulpit-- It's Magic by Ann Bromfield,Don Juan Pdf

A notorius Chicago pimp--leading a lifestyle of unimaginable wealth-- recalls with brutal candor his rise from ghettto to celebrity as leader of Chicago's Magic World Christion.

Author : David Greygoose
Publisher : Pushkin Children's Books
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781782692102

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Brunt Boggart by David Greygoose Pdf

A unique novel comprised of a cycle of beautiful and mysterious fantasy folk tales which combine to tell an unforgettable story This is a book like no other: a magical tapestry of folk tales, woven together to build a world that is as strange yet familiar as a half-remembered dream. It is an old world, a world of enchanted corn dollies and wild dances in poppy fields, a world of tricksters, lovers and fools. Through this world, Greychild must journey in search of his mother: from the village of Brunt Boggart, down the treacherous Pedlar Man's track, all the way to distant Arleccra, a city of treasures and temptation. If you follow him, a part of you will never come back.

Author : David Ives
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822214792

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Don Juan in Chicago by David Ives Pdf

THE STORY: Don Juan is a handsome, rich, sexually naive nobleman in sixteenth-century Spain. His servant, Leporello, urges him to find a girlfriend and lead a normal life, but the Don is more interested in finding the meaning of life through books

Author : Baron George Gordon Byron Byron
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1979700419

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Don Juan by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron Pdf

Don Juan is a satiric poem by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womanizer but as someone easily seduced by women. Don Juan lives in Seville with his father and his mother Donna Inez. Donna Julia, 23 years old and married to Don Alfonso, begins to desire Don Juan when he is 16 years old. Despite her attempt to resist, Julia begins an affair with Juan. Julia falls in love with Juan.

Author : Molière
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780547538822

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Don Juan by Molière Pdf

Don Juan, the "Seducer of Seville," originated as a hero-villain of Spanish folk legend, is a famous lover and scoundrel who has made more than a thousand sexual conquests. One of Molière's best-known plays, Don Juan was written while Tartuffe was still banned on the stages of Paris, and shared much with the outlawed play. Modern directors transform Don Juan in every new era, as each director finds something new to highlight in this timeless classic. Richard Wilbur's flawless translation will be the standard for generations to come, as have his translations of Molière's other plays. Witty, urbane, and poetic in its prose, Don Juan is, most importantly, as funny now as it was for audiences when it was first presented.

Author : James Mandrell
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271040726

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Don Juan and the Point of Honor by James Mandrell Pdf

In Don Juan and the Point of Honor, James Mandrell undertakes a systematic examination of the many questions surrounding the legendary character. What emerges is a view of Don Juan as a positive social force in patriarchal society and culture. Mandrell shows that Don Juan should not be treated as an innocent or outmoded cultural artifact.

Author : Leo Weinstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027578439

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The Metamorphoses of Don Juan by Leo Weinstein Pdf