Download or read book Back to Delphi written by Ioanna Karistiani and published by Europa Editions UK. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linos has been granted a five-day furlough from prison, where he is serving a life sentence for murder. His mother ha decided to take him to Delphi. A few days spent in that magical place, she thinks, might distract him from his awful fate. She also hopes that this brief time together might be a chance for them to repair what has become a damaged relationship. To that end, she has a difficult revelation to share with her son: ten years earlier, it was she who led the police to him; she is responsible for his arrest and imprisonment. Over the course of five days, as mother and son watch the magnificent ruins of Delphi, matters concerning Linos's childhood that have been buried for decades resurface. This ambitious and magnificent work of literary fiction is a return to the origins of Greek tragedy, a story about guilt and innocence, about the monsters that lurk even in everyday life, and about the complex relationship between mothers and their sons.
Download or read book Delphi written by Clare Pollard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Guardian Best Book of 2022 * “Clever and surprising.” —BuzzFeed * “Brilliantly funny.” —San Francisco Chronicle * “Ingenious.”—The Millions * “Powerful.” —Harper’s Bazaar A captivating debut novel about a classics professor immersed in research for a new book on a prophecy in the ancient world who confronts chilling questions about her own life just as the pandemic descends—for readers of Jenny Offill, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Sally Rooney. Covid-19 has arrived in London, and the entire world quickly succumbs to the surreal, chaotic mundanity of screens, isolation, and the disasters big and small that have plagued recent history. As our unnamed narrator—a classics professor immersed in her studies of ancient prophecies—navigates the tightening grip of lockdown, a marriage in crisis, and a ten-year-old son who seems increasingly unreachable, she becomes obsessed with predicting the future. Shifting her focus from chiromancy (prophecy by palm reading) to zoomancy (prophecy by animal behavior) to oenomancy (prophecy by wine), she fails to notice the future creeping into the heart of her very own home, and when she finally does, the threat has already breached the gates. Brainy and ominous, imaginative and funny, Delphi is a snapshot and a time capsule—it vividly captures our current moment and places our reality in the context of myth. Clare Pollard has delivered one of our first great pandemic novels, a mesmerizing and richly layered story about how we keep on living in a world that is ever-more uncertain and absurd.
Download or read book Have You Been to Delphi written by Roger Lipsey and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2001-01-11 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of tales of the ancient Oracle at Delphi, freshly interpreted from ancient literature, restores a lost wisdom tradition. This tradition is conveyed not through philosophical or religious exposition but through story, ranging from the grandeur of myth to charming anecdotes and dark riddles. At the Delphic temple of Apollo, for nearly a thousand years, a priestess in trance listened to the urgent inquiries of questioners from all parts of the ancient world and responded on behalf of the god. From this sacred conversation there resulted both a set of enduring values and a collection of tales that relate the encounter with the divine and its consequences in the lives of questioners. In addition to a generous selection of these wisdom tales, the book also contains chapters on the priestess and ancient concepts of trance mediumship; on the Delphic commandment, "Know thyself"; and on the still-surviving Chief State Oracle of Tibet, which offers a living parallel to the ancient Delphic oracle.
Download or read book Delphi written by Michael Scott and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This work engages with the complex archaeological development of the religious sanctuaries of Delphi and Olympia. It investigates the physical remains of both sanctuaries to show how different visitors interacted with the sacred spaces of Delphi and Olympia in an important variety of ways during the archaic and classical periods.
Download or read book Seven Lives and One Great Love written by Lena Divani and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haughty and hilarious cat narrates this tale about seducing a resistant human . . . Anyone who has ever lived with cats knows how cunning, tender, smart, ferocious, underhanded, ingenious, foolish, and completely adorable they can be. These words describe Sugar Zach to a T. This is the epic story of the love between Sugar Zach—in his seventh life, a keenly intelligent and observant cat—and the Damsel, a writer with a frenetic lifestyle and an apparent abhorrence of things feline. Sugar Zach’s powers of observation and analysis are unparalleled, and after six lives lived among people from all walks of life he has countless stories to tell and a remarkable talent for telling them. His real area of expertise, however, lies in his preternatural ability to domesticate his humans—whatever you do, don’t even suggest that the humans are the ones who domesticate him. Yet he is flummoxed by the Damsel’s indifference to his charms. But he is not going to let her coldness stop him: One way or another, he is going to insinuate himself into her life and her art. With wit and a broad repertoire of cultural references, Sugar Zach recounts his days and nights spent with the Damsel in a novel that fits squarely into the illustrious tradition of feline literature à la T. S. Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Bukowski, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
Download or read book The Secret Sister written by Fotini Tsalikoglou and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A third-generation Greek American visits his ancestral homeland, and discovers a century of family secrets, in this “hauntingly poignant” novel (World Literature Today). From the burning quay at Smyrna to present-day Manhattan, the Argyriou family has been pursued by disaster. In the 1922 Greco-Turkish War, little Frosso and her sister Erasmia flee as Turkish soldiers descend on their village. Orphaned and destitute, the two girls have only each other to rely on as they scrape together a life in the immigrant slums around Athens. Eighteen years later, Europe is stewing and Erasmia is offered a chance for a new life in America by her fiancé. Compelled to leave by the impending war, Erasmia boards the ship New Greece with a heavy heart, but before the ship reaches harbor her grief takes hold and Erasmia throws herself into the ocean—leading her fiancé to marry her surviving sister instead. Now Erasmia’s great-nephew, who has never seen Greece, will journey to the crisis-ridden country in the twenty-first century to uncover the shadowy past of the Argyriou family—in this atmospheric and psychologically complex novel that explores the blurred line between history and memory.
Download or read book Delphi in a Nutshell written by Ray Lischner and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2000-03-16 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new name and a new focus on CORBA, database drivers, and Microsoft Back Office applications, Inprise/Borland Delphi is enjoying a resurgence, with a growing user base of programmers who use Delphi for rapid development of enterprise computing applications. Not to rest on success, the latest version of Delphi, Version 5, includes further expansion and refinement of the 3-tier application framework introduced in Delphi 4 and has resulted in a prize-winning product.Delphi in a Nutshell is the first concise reference to Borland/Inprise Delphi available. It succinctly collects all the information you need in one easy-to-use, complete, and accurate volume that goes beyond the product documentation itself.Delphi in a Nutshell starts with the Delphi object model and how to use RTTI (Run Time Type Information) for efficient programming. The rest of the book is the most complete Delphi Pascal language reference available in print, detailing every language element with complete syntax, examples, and methods for use. The book concludes with a look at the compiler, discussing compiler directives in depth.
Download or read book New York Court of Appeals Records and Briefs written by New York (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Delphi Revolution written by Rysa Walker and published by Skyscape. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychotic killer hijacked her mind and her body. She's taking them back. Eighteen-year-old Anna Morgan is on the run from the very government project that created her abilities. Now they seek to weaponize the gift she doesn't want and can't control: the invasion of her mind and her body by spirits, some of whom have their own unusual powers. Her latest "hitcher" is a former top Delphi executive. Unlike Anna's previous guests, this one has taken over, and he's on a personal mission of revenge. The target is Senator Ronald Cregg, a corrupt, power-hungry presidential candidate. One of Delphi's creators, he's now manipulating the public into believing "psychic terrorists" are a scourge to be eliminated. There's only one way to stop him, but Anna draws the line at murder. Pulled into a dark conspiracy, Anna struggles to reclaim her body, mind, and soul as she and the other Delphi psychics join together to fight for their right to exist.
Download or read book Revisiting Delphi written by Julia Kindt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative reading of how different authors tell stories about the Delphic Oracle, focusing on the religious views thereby conveyed.
Download or read book Wild Hearts written by Heather Tullis and published by Jelly Bean Press. This book was released on 2013-12-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding Love in the Rocky Mountains was not in her plans--and she was a devil with plans Delphi Gifford has nearly given up on finding someone she could love as much as her dead husband, Fallon, who had died while they were still in college. Certainly local photographer Jeremy Litster wasn't at the top of her list, egomaniac that he is--even if he did drive the hottest racing motorbike she'd ever touched. Jeremy knew George DiCarlo had hand-picked him to marry Delphi, but hadn't counted on her not being in the loop. After working together for six months, though, he seriously regrets his misstep and begins a careful campaign to win her over. When someone tries to take the two of them out, he has to figure out what they did or saw that put them both in danger.
Download or read book The Delphi Resistance written by Rysa Walker and published by Skyscape. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's never wise to talk to strangers ... and that goes double when they're dead. Unfortunately, seventeen-year-old Anna Morgan has no choice. Resting on a park bench, touching the turnstile at the Metro station--she never knows where she'll encounter a ghost. These mental hitchhikers are the reason Anna has been tossed from one foster home and psychiatric institution to the next for most of her life. When a chance touch leads her to pick up the insistent spirit of a girl who was brutally murdered, Anna is pulled headlong into a deadly conspiracy that extends to the highest levels of government. Facing the forces behind her new hitcher's death will challenge the barriers, both good and bad, that Anna has erected over the years and shed light on her power's origins. And when the covert organization seeking to recruit her crosses the line by kidnapping her friend, it will discover just how far Anna is willing to go to bring it down.
Download or read book Greece written by and published by Passenger. This book was released on 2020 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays, investigative journalism, literary reportage, and visual narratives in order to tell the story of Greece and to portray its shifting culture and identity, its public debates, the sensibilities of its people, its burning issues, conflicts, and open wounds
Download or read book Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi written by Rob MacGregor and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indy is being used by Dorian, a beautiful lady with big ideas.
Download or read book The View from Delphi written by Jonathan Odell and published by MacAdam/Cage Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In pre-civil rights era in Mississippi, two young mothers--one white and one black--have only two things in common: the devastating loss of their sons, and a deep loathing for one another. Now, they reluctantly start to see the other as her last chance at personal redemption.
Download or read book Delphi 2 Unleashed written by Charles Calvert and published by Sams. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on all of the components needed for professional application development, topics covered in this comprehensive guide include the Windows 95 environment, variables and types, arrays and structures, visual control libraries, and much more. The CD-ROM includes sample applications and demo software.
Download or read book Decision at Delphi written by Helen MacInnes and published by Titan Books. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trust, thought Strang, is more than a delicate business when involved politics are at stake. When Kenneth Strang, a young New York architect, is dispatched to the Mediterranean to sketch ancient ruins for a national travel magazine, he believes the trip is just another routine assignment. However, during his journey from Athens to Sparta - and at last to Dephi - he becomes involved with a dangerous conspiracy that threatens both Strang and his photographer companion, Cecilia Hillard. For Strang, danger is no object, but when he fell in love with the beautiful Cecilia, he gave his enemies the one weapon they needed
