Download or read book A Tale of Two Omars written by Omar Sharif and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A powerful and essential memoir of self-discovery . . . Brimming with beautiful remembrances of his grandfather and terrifying stories of abuse and homophobia, this is an essential book that shines a much-needed light on the intersection of Arab and queer identity." —Abdi Nazemian, Lambda Literary Award–winning author of Like a Love Story, a Stonewall Honor Book The grandson of Hollywood royalty on his father’s side and Holocaust survivors on his mother’s, Omar Sharif Jr. learned early on how to move between worlds, from the Montreal suburbs to the glamorous orbit of his grandparents’ Cairo. His famous name always protected him wherever he went. When, in the wake of the Arab Spring, he made the difficult decision to come out in the pages of The Advocate, he knew his life would forever change. What he didn’t expect was the backlash that followed. From bullying, to illness, attempted suicide, becoming a victim of sex trafficking, death threats by the thousands, revolution and never being able to return to a country he once called home, Omar Sharif Jr. has overcome more challenges than one might imagine. Drawing on the lessons he learned from both sides of his family, A Tale of Two Omars charts the course of an iconoclastic life, revealing in the process the struggles and successes that attend a public journey of self-acceptance and a life dedicated in service to others.
Download or read book The Robbers Cave A Tale of Italy written by Charlotte Maria Tucker and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Robbers' Cave: A Tale of Italy" by Charlotte Maria Tucker. 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 Founding Myths written by Ray Raphael and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published ten years ago, award-winning historian Ray Raphael’s Founding Myths has since established itself as a landmark of historical myth-busting. With the author’s trademark wit and flair, Founding Myths exposes the errors and inventions in America’s most cherished tales, from Paul Revere’s famous ride to Patrick Henry’s “Liberty or Death” speech. For the seventy thousand readers who have been captivated by Raphael’s eye-opening accounts, history has never been the same. In this revised tenth-anniversary edition, Raphael revisits the original myths and explores their further evolution over the past decade, uncovering new stories and peeling back additional layers of misinformation. This new edition also examines the highly politicized debates over America’s past, as well as how school textbooks and popular histories often reinforce rather than correct historical mistakes. A book that “explores the truth behind the stories of the making of our nation” (National Public Radio), this revised edition of Founding Myths will be a welcome resource for anyone seeking to separate historical fact from fiction.
Download or read book Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory written by Raphael Bob-Waksberg and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack Horseman, Raphael Bob-Waksberg delivers a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love—the best and worst thing in the universe. Featuring: • A young engaged couple forced to deal with interfering relatives dictating the appropriate number of ritual goat sacrifices for their wedding. • A pair of lonely commuters who ride the subway in silence, forever, eternally failing to make that longed-for contact. • A struggling employee at a theme park of U.S. presidents who discovers that love can’t be genetically modified. And fifteen more tales of humor, romance, whimsy, cultural commentary, and crushing emotional vulnerability.
Download or read book A Memoir of Mother Francis Raphael O S D written by Augusta Theodosia Drane and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Computational Fairy Tales written by Jeremy Kubica and published by Jeremy Kubica. This book was released on 2012 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introduces principles of computational thinking, illustrating high-level computer science concepts, the motivation behind them, and their application in a non-computer fairy tale domain."--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Raphael s Ostrich written by Una Roman D’Elia and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raphael’s Ostrich begins with a little-studied aspect of Raphael’s painting—the ostrich, which appears as an attribute of Justice, painted in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican. Una Roman D’Elia traces the cultural and artistic history of the ostrich from its appearances in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to the menageries and grotesque ornaments of sixteenth-century Italy. Following the complex history of shifting interpretations given to the ostrich in scientific, literary, religious, poetic, and satirical texts and images, D’Elia demonstrates the rich variety of ways in which people made sense of this living “monster,” which was depicted as the embodiment of heresy, stupidity, perseverance, justice, fortune, gluttony, and other virtues and vices. Because Raphael was revered as a god of art, artists imitated and competed with his ostrich, while religious and cultural critics complained about the potential for misinterpreting such obscure imagery. This book not only considers the history of the ostrich but also explores how Raphael’s painting forced viewers to question how meaning is attributed to the natural world, a debate of central importance in early modern Europe at a time when the disciplines of modern art history and natural history were developing. The strangeness of Raphael’s ostrich, situated at the crossroads of art, religion, myth, and natural history, both reveals lesser-known sides of Raphael’s painting and illuminates major cultural shifts in attitudes toward nature and images in the Renaissance. More than simply an examination of a single artist or a single subject, Raphael’s Ostrich offers an accessible, erudite, and charming alternative to Vasari’s pervasive model of the history of sixteenth-century Italian art.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Lending Department written by Battersea (London, England). Public Libraries and Museums Commissioners. Lavender Hill and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chivalric Stories as Children s Literature written by Velma Bourgeois Richmond and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knights and ladies, giants and dragons, tournaments, battles, quests and crusades are commonplace in stories for children. This book examines how late Victorians and Edwardians retold medieval narratives of chivalry--epics, romances, sagas, legends and ballads. Stories of Beowulf, Arthur, Gawain, St. George, Roland, Robin Hood and many more thrilled and instructed children, and encouraged adult reading. Lavish volumes and schoolbooks of the era featured illustrated texts, many by major artists. Children's books, an essential part of Edwardian publishing, were disseminated throughout the English-speaking world. Many are being reprinted today. This book examines related contexts of Medievalism expressed in painting, architecture, music and public celebrations, and the works of major authors, including Sir Walter Scott, Tennyson, Longfellow and William Morris. The book explores national identity expressed through literature, ideals of honor and valor in the years before World War I, and how childhood reading influenced 20th-century writers as diverse as C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Siegfried Sassoon, David Jones, Graham Greene, Ian Fleming and John Le Carre.
Download or read book A Memoir of Mother Francis Raphael Augusta Theodosia Drane written by Augusta Theodosia Drane and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1501 written by Rod Buntzen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelangelo, explain this passage from Dante for us, Leonardo Da Vinci cries out across the piazza, They say hes your favorite poet. Words such as these might have begun a brief interaction between the two creative giants that prompted the historian, Giorgio Vasari, to write that the two felt an intense dislike for each other. History shows Michelangelo and Leonardo were fierce competitors in the late Renaissance, but fails to explain just when this animosity began, or its origin. Leonardo and Michelangelos dislike of each other began somehow. It is difficult to believe the intensity of dislike that Vasari and others relate derives from simple differences in style and personality; it started before Michelangelo began to paint seriously and Leonardo had never competed with him in marble. In reading Vasari, it seemed as though there must have been a physical incident involved. What really happened between them? I began the tale about their personalities and relationships as a novella to emphasize the technical aspects of their creative techniques. I wanted to tell how they might have reacted to each others techniques and methods, as well as how their personalities might have evolved in the process. Soon, I realized that these gigantic personalities needed to be acted out on stage, not confined to a short story. As a play, I have tried to create a blend of technical details and personal interactions suitable to light theater. 1501 takes place in the late Renaissance in Florence, after Leonardo had completed The Last Supper in Milan, but before painting the Mona Lisa. Michelangelo, unknown for painting, has recently received the commission for David, and young Raphael is becoming recognized locally for his potential to become a master. The intense competitive spirit among the artists is not fully developed when they happen to meet and decide to form a cooperative project under the guise of testing the publics preferences between reality and beauty when viewing current art. Together, they struggle toward their goal, while unknown forces determine their success. Raphael suggests the three artists together create a single work that would be both real and beautiful and use it to test the publics response. Amused by the suggestion, Leonardo readily accepts. Although Michelangelo hesitates, he is urged to accept the challenge during a visit from Savonarolas ghost who threatens his work with David. The artists agree to follow Raphaels suggestion to work together while still satisfying their individual goals. As they work together in Leonardos hidden workshop, the artists discuss philosophy and artistic technique. As they become familiar with one anothers personality and style, Michelangelo feels a growing sexual attraction to Leonardo, prompting Savonarolas ghost to appear and remind him of their plot against Leonardo. But Leonardos charm is too great, and Michelangelo breaks his vow to David. Meanwhile, Machiavelli, periodically snooping about, has discovered Leonardos workshop and becomes suspicious about the two artists behavior. Unbeknownst to Michelangelo and Raphael, Machiavelli leverages his discovery to achieve his own political goal. While the artists wait in the workshop for the finished work to be discovered and evaluated by the public, their mutual animosities and historic ill feelings flare.
Download or read book The Knight of the Burning Pestle and A King and No King written by Francis Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The anchor s weighed Cannes Agay Saint Raphael Saint Tropez The Chartreuse de la Verne Monte Carlo The wall A sunstroke Horror A conquest A snowy night A message of love At the water s side The wild geese The grandfather Discovery The birdcatcher Longings The last escapade Song of the moonlight A walk at sixteen A protest Love s ending A street chat A rustic Venus To a child On the death of Louis Bouilhet Souvenance written by Guy de Maupassant and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yale Studies in English written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Knight of the Burning Pestle written by Francis Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vision and the Visionary in Raphael written by Christian K. Kleinbub and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Studies Raphael's images of supernatural phenomena, including apparitions and prophetic visions, within their contemporary artistic and religious contexts. Asks how a fundamentally naturalistic style of painting like that of the Italian Renaissance can accommodate representations of the supernatural without self-contradiction"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Raphael written by Adolf Paul Oppé and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
