Download or read book Whispers and Wonders Tales from Distant Lands and Inner Depths Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky American Notes by Charles Dickens Fables of La Fontaine a New Edition with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-06-22 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1: Descend into the depths of human consciousness with “Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella explores the psyche of an unnamed narrator, delving into existential angst, societal alienation, and the complexities of human nature. This introspective work challenges conventional thinking and remains a cornerstone of existential literature. Book 2: Embark on a literary journey across the Atlantic with “American Notes by Charles Dickens.” Charles Dickens provides a vivid account of his travels through the United States in the 19th century. Through Dickens's keen observations and sharp wit, readers gain insights into American society, culture, and Dickens's own reflections on the nation's character. Book 3: Immerse yourself in the timeless wisdom of “Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine.” Jean de La Fontaine's fables, renowned for their wit and moral lessons, are presented in a new edition with additional notes. These timeless tales use anthropomorphic animals to convey profound truths, making them a delightful and thought-provoking collection for readers of all ages.
Download or read book My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands written by George Francis Train and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands by George Francis Train
Download or read book My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy Fourth Year written by George Francis Train and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands, Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year" by George Francis Train. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Truly Beyond Wonders written by Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Truly Beyond Wonders Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis investigates texts and material evidence associated with healing pilgrimage in the Roman empire during the second century AD. Her focus is upon one particular pilgrim, the famous orator Aelius Aristides, whose Sacred Tales, his fascinating account of dream visions, gruelling physical treatments, and sacred journeys, has been largely misunderstood and marginalized. Petsalis-Diomidis rehabilitates this text by placing it within the material context of the sanctuary of Asklepios at Pergamon, where the author spent two years in search of healing. The architecture, votive offerings, and ritual rules which governed the behaviour of pilgrims are used to build a picture of the experience of pilgrimage to this sanctuary. Truly Beyond Wonders ranges broadly over discourses of the body and travel and in so doing explores the place of healing pilgrimage and religion in Graeco-Roman society and culture. It is generously illustrated with more than 80 drawinsg and photographs, and four colour plates.
Download or read book Over the Ocean or Sights and Scenes in Foreign Lands written by Curtis Guild and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Over the Ocean; or, Sights and Scenes in Foreign Lands' is the travel memoir of author and journalist Curtis Guild about a tour he made of Europe in the 1870s. Its original form was in a series of sketches in the columns of the Boston Commercial Bulletin, of which he was Editor. In these the writer attempted to give a vivid image of the sights and scenes which he witnessed as could be conveyed to those who had never visited Europe.
Download or read book Scenes and Thoughts in Foreign Lands written by Charles Terry (traveller.) and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert Crum in the Land of Wonder and Enchantment written by Scott Martin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alone, in the dark cave of an ancient mountain, something sinister sits and waits for all eternity for the arrival of Robert Crum... Enter into the Land of Wonder and Enchantment, a mythological world inhabited by witches and goblins, knights and fairies where Robert Crum, aided by the mysterious Lady of the Forest, is forced to travel a painful, terrifying road through places of beauty and danger to finally face his own, worst nightmare. This first book in the series of Robert Crum's adventures chronicles his Becoming; a quest unlooked for that costs him everything he holds dear.
Download or read book The Past Is a Foreign Country Revisited written by David Lowenthal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He shows how nostalgia and heritage now pervade every facet of public and popular culture. History embraces nature and the cosmos as well as humanity. The past is seen and touched and tasted and smelt as well as heard and read about. Empathy, re-enactment, memory and commemoration overwhelm traditional history. A unified past once certified by experts and reliant on written texts has become a fragmented, contested history forged by us all. New insights into history and memory, bias and objectivity, artefacts and monuments, identity and authenticity, and remorse and contrition, make this book once again the essential guide to the past that we inherit, reshape and bequeath to the future.
Download or read book Science gleanings in many fields studies in natural history written by John Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the temperate regions or Nature and natural history in the temperate zones written by Temperate regions and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Polar Regions written by Polar regions and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Wonder written by Fred Reinhard Dallmayr and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Wonder presents the dangers of the 'underside of modernity': the unleashing of unlimited lust for (global) power and wealth. Relying on leading critical intellectuals, Dallmayr offers a critique of the self-deceptions of our age, pleading in favor of the cultivation of the 'small wonder' of everyday life.
Download or read book Wonder in Contemporary Artistic Practice written by Christian Mieves and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonder has an established link to the history and philosophy of science. However, there is little acknowledgement of the relationship between the visual arts and wonder. This book presents a new perspective on this overlooked connection, allowing a unique insight into the role of wonder in contemporary visual practice. Artists, curators and art theorists give accounts of their approach to wonder through the use of materials, objects and ways of exhibiting. These accounts not only raise issues of a particular relevance to the way in which we encounter our reality today but ask to what extent artists utilize the function of wonder purposely in their work.
Download or read book Virgil on the Nature of Things written by Monica R. Gale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Georgics has for many years been a source of fierce controversy among scholars of Latin literature. Is the work optimistic or pessimistic, pro- or anti-Augustan? Should we read it as a eulogy or a bitter critique of Rome and her imperial ambitions? This book suggests that the ambiguity of the poem is the product of a complex and thorough-going engagement with earlier writers in the didactic tradition: Hesiod, Aratus and - above all - Lucretius. Drawing on both traditional, philological approaches to allusion, and modern theories of intertextuality, it shows how the world-views of the earlier poets are subjected to scrutiny and brought into conflict with each other. Detailed consideration of verbal parallels and of Lucretian themes, imagery and structural patterns in the Georgics forms the basis for a reading of Virgil's poem as an extended meditation on the relations between the individual and society, the gods and the natural environment.
Download or read book Wonder Tales in the Fiction of A S Byatt written by Alexandra Cheira and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides sustained critical attention on Byatt’s wonder tales, both the stand-alone tales and those which are embedded in the wider frame of a novel or novella. In this light, it examines Byatt’s claim that her wonder tales “are modern literary stories and they do play quite consciously with a postmodern creation and recreation of old forms” through a revisitation of the wonder tale in a productive dialogue with tradition as an expanded recognition of this fertile creative-critical dialogue with regards to the significance of the wonder tale in Byatt’s fictional work. The book evinces a fresh variety of conceptions and approaches to Byatt’s wonder tales, some spanning several tales and others focussing on a specific wonder tale, all thoroughly observant of the nature and workings of the relationship between story or novel and genre or tale, and theoretically informed by innovative critical approaches.
Download or read book The Wonder of GOD S LOVE written by John B. Daniels and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Can Words Express Our Wonder written by Rosalind Brown and published by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Words Express Our Wonder? is written to help preachers recognizse and put to use the rich array of gifts and resources they have been given for the exercise of this ministry, whether week by week with a local congregation, as an occasional or supply preacher, or at critical times in people's lives at pastoral services.
