Three Roads Back

Author : Robert D. Richardson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691224312

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From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thought In Three Roads Back, Robert Richardson, the author of magisterial biographies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James, tells the connected stories of how these foundational American writers and thinkers dealt with personal tragedies early in their careers. For Emerson, it was the death of his young wife and, eleven years later, his five-year-old son; for Thoreau, it was the death of his brother; and for James, it was the death of his beloved cousin Minnie Temple. Filled with rich biographical detail and unforgettable passages from the journals and letters of Emerson, Thoreau, and James, these vivid and moving stories of loss and hard-fought resilience show how the writers’ responses to these deaths helped spur them on to their greatest work, influencing the birth and course of American literature and philosophy. In reaction to his traumatic loss, Emerson lost his Unitarian faith and found solace in nature. Thoreau, too, leaned on nature and its regenerative power, discovering that “death is the law of new life,” an insight that would find expression in Walden. And James, following a period of panic and despair, experienced a redemptive conversion and new ideas that would drive his work as a psychologist and philosopher. As Richardson shows, all three emerged from their grief with a new way of seeing, one shaped by a belief in what Emerson called “the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.” An inspiring book about resilience and the new growth and creativity that can stem from devastating loss, Three Roads Back is also an extraordinary account of the hidden wellsprings of American thought.

Author : Charles Lever
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105048054238

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The Daltons, Or, Three Roads in Life by Charles Lever Pdf

Author : George Franklin Skipworth
Publisher : George Skipworth
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780982471036

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Three Roads to Waitsburg, Fables of the Carpailtin Campfire, Vol. 3 by George Franklin Skipworth Pdf

Meet the Conundrum...in the wheat fields of Washington, in vol.3 of "Fables of the Carpailtin Campfire." The Conundrum is where logic goes to die. It is the ultimate test of functioning in utter disorientation. Lewis Carroll would be proud, though, as his Alice, armed to the teeth this time, goes down the rabbit hole once more to play a deadly game of baseball, stand trial, chat with God and duel atop a runaway train.

Author : Robert D. Richardson Jr.
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520918375

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Emerson by Robert D. Richardson Jr. Pdf

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord. Drawing on a vast amount of new material, including correspondence among the Emerson brothers, Richardson gives us a rewarding intellectual biography that is also a portrait of the whole man. These pages present a young suitor, a grief-stricken widower, an affectionate father, and a man with an abiding genius for friendship. The great spokesman for individualism and self-reliance turns out to have been a good neighbor, an activist citizen, a loyal brother. Here is an Emerson who knew how to laugh, who was self-doubting as well as self-reliant, and who became the greatest intellectual adventurer of his age. Richardson has, as much as possible, let Emerson speak for himself through his published works, his many journals and notebooks, his letters, his reported conversations. This is not merely a study of Emerson's writing and his influence on others; it is Emerson's life as he experienced it. We see the failed minister, the struggling writer, the political reformer, the poetic liberator. The Emerson of this book not only influenced Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, Dickinson, and Frost, he also inspired Nietzsche, William James, Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Jorge Luis Borges. Emerson's timeliness is persistent and striking: his insistence that literature and science are not separate cultures, his emphasis on the worth of every individual, his respect for nature. Richardson gives careful attention to the enormous range of Emerson's readings—from Persian poets to George Sand—and to his many friendships and personal encounters—from Mary Moody Emerson to the Cherokee chiefs in Boston—evoking both the man and the times in which he lived. Throughout this book, Emerson's unquenchable vitality reaches across the decades, and his hold on us endures.

Author : William C. Davis
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061754074

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Three Roads to the Alamo by William C. Davis Pdf

"William C. Davis's Three Roads to the Alamo is far and away the best account of the Alamo I have ever read. The portraits of Crockett, Bowie, and Travis are brilliantly sketched in a fast-moving story that keeps the reader riveted to the very last word." — Stephen B. Oates Three Roads to the Alamois the definitive book about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie and William Barret Travis—the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their destiny at the Alamo in one of the most famous and tragic battles in American history—and about what really happened in that battle.

Author : John Barth
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780618773428

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Where Three Roads Meet by John Barth Pdf

Exploring the themes of heroism, sex, and death, a trio of novellas includes "Tell Me," about a young undergraduate's initiation into the mysteries of love, life, and the heroic cycle.

Author : Tawni O'Dell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101209271

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Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell Pdf

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Funny and heartbreaking, this New York Times bestselling debut perfectly captures the maddening confusion of adolescence and the prickly nature of family with irony and unerring honesty. Harley Altmyer should be in college having the time of his life. He should be free from the backwards Pennsylvania coal town he calls home, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he’s constantly reminded of just how messed up everything is... Harley’s mother is in prison for killing his father, so he’s in charge of bringing up his younger sisters and working two jobs to pay the bills—and that doesn’t leave a lot of time for distractions. But lately, he’s getting more and more sidetracked by lusting after Callie Mercer, his middle-aged neighbor. As he struggles to keep it together, things begin to spin out of control. Soon Harley finds that as shattered as his family is, there are still more crushing surprises in store. “In Harley, O’Dell has created a hero who’s heartbreakingly believable; like Holden Caulfield, he uses caustic humor to hide his pain. Readers will care very much about him and his future, if indeed he has one.”—St. Petersburg Times

Author : Salley Vickers
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847676528

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Where Three Roads Meet by Salley Vickers Pdf

It is 1938 and Sigmund Freud, suffering from the debilitating effects of cancer, has been permitted by the Nazis to leave Vienna. He seeks refuge in England, taking up residence in the house in Hampstead in which he will die only fifteen months later. But his last months are made vivid by the arrival of a stranger, who comes and goes according to Freud's state of health. Who is the mysterious visitor and why has he come to tell the famed proponent of the Oedipus complex his strange story? Set partly in pre-war London and partly in ancient Greece, Where Three Roads Meet is as brilliantly compelling as it is moving. Former psychoanalyst and acclaimed novelist Salley Vickers revisits a crime committed long ago which still has disturbing reverberations for us all.

Author : Robert D. Richardson
Publisher : HMH
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547526737

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William James by Robert D. Richardson Pdf

The definitive biography of the fascinating William James, whose life and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion—on modernism itself. Often cited as the “father of American psychology,” William James was an intellectual luminary who made significant contributions to at least five fields: psychology, philosophy, religious studies, teaching, and literature. A member of one of the most unusual and notable of American families, James struggled to achieve greatness amid the brilliance of his theologian father; his brother, the novelist Henry James; and his sister, Alice James. After studying medicine, he ultimately realized that his true interests lay in philosophy and psychology, a choice that guided his storied career at Harvard, where he taught some of America’s greatest minds. But it is James’s contributions to intellectual study that reveal the true complexity of man. In this biography that seeks to understand James’s life through his work—including Principles of Psychology, The Varieties of Religious Experience, and Pragmatism—Robert D. Richardson has crafted an exceptionally insightful work that explores the mind of a genius, resulting in “a gripping and often inspiring story of intellectual and spiritual adventure” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). “A magnificent biography.” —The Washington Post

Author : Kenneth Pritchard Jr,Sheika Pritchard
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781525583094

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When Three Roads Collide by Kenneth Pritchard Jr,Sheika Pritchard Pdf

No matter how difficult the situations you have faced or are facing, you can still overcome them. The things we go through are only shaping us to be able to receive the greater things that God has in store for us later in life. These situations are just pushing us into the purpose and destiny that God has for us. Life can sometimes be a struggle, and we may feel hopeless. Often, we go through things that we have no control over; things that were never our fault, and that we shouldn't have to go through. It's not fair. It's not pleasant. But this is the life that we live. This book tells the true story of two lives that spiraled through some of the most difficult things you can imagine during their childhood and teenage years. There was a lot of pain, a lot of hurt, a lot of disappointment, and most of all, a lot of hopelessness. Still—somehow—there was a glimmer of light. This is the story of the lives of Rev. Kenneth Pritchard Jr. and Rev. Sheika Pritchard and how, what seemed like the end of the world, turned out to be the handiwork of God's grace. Our story shows how God was able to work in our lives, and includes some advice about the kinds of support we needed when we first found our faith. Our story and the tools we describe could also help you, and those you know.

Author : Charles James Lever
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600069732

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The Daltons; or, Three roads in life. With illustr. by Phiz by Charles James Lever Pdf

Author : Charles James Lever
Publisher : VM eBooks
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever Pdf

IF the original conception of this tale was owing to the story of an old and valued schoolfellow who took service in Austria, and rose to rank and honors there, all the rest was purely fictitious. My friend had made a deep impression on my mind by his narratives of that strange life, wherein, in the very midst of our modern civilization, an old-world tradition still has its influence, making the army of to-day the veritable sons and descendants of those who grouped around the bivouac fires in Wallenstein's camp. Of that more than Oriental submission that graduated deference to military rank that chivalrous devotion to the "Kaiser" whicli enter into the soldier heart of Austria, I have been unable to reproduce any but the very faintest outlines, and yet these were the traits which, pervaded all my friend's stories and gave them character and distinctiveness.

Author : Robert D. Richardson Jr.
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520908857

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Henry Thoreau by Robert D. Richardson Jr. Pdf

The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landscape. In this new biography, based on a reexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life and achievement in their full nineteenth century context.

Author : Dennis Patrick Slattery
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791443825

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The Wounded Body by Dennis Patrick Slattery Pdf

Explores the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison, examining how it functions archetypally as both a cultural metaphor and a poetic image.

Author : Charles James Lever
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z256880200

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The Daltons Or Three Roads in Life by Charles James Lever Pdf