Download or read book Absurd Ambition written by E. H. McCormick and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric McCormick was, from about 1940 until his death in 1995, one of New Zealand's most distinguished writers and scholars. He pioneered the appreciation and study of the painter Francis Hodgkins, and he wrote several biographies. The autobiographical fragments collected here have been edited to make a coherent volume, tracing his origins in Taihape, to school and university in Wellington, to schoolteaching in Nelson, to Cambridge and through his wartime experiences and role as editor of Centennial Publications. It includes his shrewd observations of social behaviour, recorded with a dry wit.
Download or read book An Absurd Ambition written by Eric Hall McCormick and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric McCormick was, from about 1940 until his death in 1995, one of New Zealand's most distinguished writers and scholars. He pioneered the appreciation and study of the painter Francis Hodgkins, and he wrote several biographies. The autobiographical fragments collected here have been edited to make a coherent volume, tracing his origins in Taihape, to school and university in Wellington, to schoolteaching in Nelson, to Cambridge and through his wartime experiences and role as editor of Centennial Publications. It includes his shrewd observations of social behaviour, recorded with a dry wit.
Download or read book Run to the Mountain written by Thomas Merton and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Thomas Merton died accidentally in Bangkok in 1968, the beloved Trappist monk's will specified that his personal diaries not be published for 25 years -- presumably because they contained his uncensored thoughts and feelings. Now, a quarter of a century has passed since Merton's death, and the journals are the last major piece of writing to appear by the 20th century's most important spiritual writer. The first of seven volumes, Run to the Mountain offers an intimate glimpse at the inner life of a young, pre-monastic Merton. Here readers will witness the insatiably curious graduate student in New York's Greenwich Village give way to the tentative spiritual seeker and brilliant writer. Merton playfully lists everything from his favorite lines of poetry and songs to the things he most loves and hates. Thomas Merton was an inveterate diarist; his journals offer a complete and candid look at the rich transformations of his adult life. As Brother Patrick Hart, general editor of the series notes, "Perhaps his best writing can be found in the journals, where he was expressing what was deepest in his heart with no thought of censorship. With their publication we will have as complete a picture of Thomas Merton as we can hope to have."
Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Half a Hero written by Anthony Hope and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book James Merle an autobiography ed or rather written by W Black written by William Black and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ambition written by Eckart Goebel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We describe people who are “consumed” or “devoured” by ambition as if by a predator or an out-of-control inferno. Thinkers since deepest antiquity have raised these questions, approaching the subject of ambition with ambivalence and often trepidation-as when the ancient Greek poet Hesiod proposed a differentiation between the good and the bad goddess Eris. Indeed, ambition as a longing for immortal fame seems to be one of the unique hallmarks of the human species. While philosophy has touched only occasionally on the problem of burning ambition, sociology, psychoanalysis, and world literature have provided rich and more revealing descriptions and examples of its shaping role in human history. Drawing on a long and varied tradition of writing on this topic, ranging from the works of Homer through Shakespeare, Freud, and Kafka and from the history of ancient Greece and Rome to the Italian Renaissance and up to the present day (to modernity and the current neoliberal era), Eckart Goebel explores our driving passion for recognition - that insatiable hunter in the mirror - and power.
Download or read book Selections from the Spectator of Addison and Steele written by A. Meserole and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spectator written by Alexander Chalmers and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder written by Brigitte Peucker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder is the first of its kind to engage with this important figure. Twenty-eight essays by an international group of scholars consider this controversial director's contribution to German cinema, German history, gender studies, and auteurship. A fresh collection of original research providing diverse perspectives on Fassbinder’s work in films, television, poetry, and underground theatre. Rainer Werner Fassbinder remains the preeminent filmmaker of the New German Cinema whose brief but prolific body of work spans from the latter half of the 1960s to the artist’s death in 1982. Interrogates Fassbinder’s influence on the seminal ideas of his time: auteurship, identity, race, queer studies, and the cataclysmic events of German twentieth century history Contributions from internationally diverse scholars specializing in film, culture, and German studies. Includes coverage of his key films including: Gods of the Plague (1970), Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Martha (1973) (TV), World on a Wire (1973), Effi Briest (1974), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Fox and His Friends (1975), Fear of Fear (1975), Chinese Roulette (1976), In a Year With 13 Moons (1978), Despair (1978), The Third Generation (1979), Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (TV), and Querelle (1982).
Download or read book Zanoni Rev Ed written by Edward George Earle Bulwer Lord Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Novels of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton Zanoni written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Novels and Romances of Edward Bulwer Lytton written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zanoni written by Lord Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Works written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Novels of Lord Lytton Zanoni written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zanoni written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
