Download or read book The Marble Man written by Thomas Lawrence Connelly and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1978-07-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert E. Lee was both a military genius and a spiritual leader, considered by many—southerners and nonsoutherners alike—to have been a near saint. In The Marble Man a leading Civil War military historian examines the hold of Lee on the American mind and traces the campaign in historiography that elevated him to national hero status.
Download or read book The marble man written by Thomas Lawrence Connelly and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Man Size In Marble written by E Nesbit and published by Machine Books. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life has taken a sudden interior turn but the literature of the lockdown may have already been written. A century ago writers throughout the supposedly civilised world realised their once familiar, domestic world had changed profoundly and began to describe it in singular unsettling ways. The best word for what they found and how they described it is the German one ‘unheimlich’ whereby the familiar or homely is suddenly strange; a unique word for which we have in English the unsatisfactory ‘uncanny’. In his essay of 1919, Freud used the word ‘unheimlich’ to describe the disquieting, unsettling short fiction of his time. As has been noted by the critic Mark Fisher and others however, he structured his inquiry into the unheimlich on the stories themselves, unable to create a theory which superseded them. These stories have endured. We have collected together the best of them — the funny, the horrific and the simply disturbing — to offer insight and commentary on the strange world we have been living in. E Nesbitt’s ghost story is elevated from the thousands that were published in popular magazines such as the Strand in the early 20th century by the way she places a barely-competent middle class couple in a situation frighteningly beyond their depth.
Download or read book The Gingerbread Man Loose at Christmas written by Laura Murray and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The holidays are for giving thanks and nothing can stop this Gingerbread Man from delivering his to his favorite member of the community! Everyone in class is busy practicing songs and making goodies for their trip to town to thank community helpers, and the Gingerbread Man has made a card for someone extra sweet. But before he can deliver his gift, whipping wind and swirling snow come to town, too. Slushy sidewalks are no place for a cookie, but this Gingerbread Man won’t let a little bad weather stop him! “I’ll search on my own, as fast as I can! I’ll dash through this snow. I’m the Gingerbread Man!” With all the flavors of the season and generous dashes of kindness and gratitude, the Gingerbread Man’s newest adventure makes for a perfect read-aloud throughout the holidays. Look for all of this hilarious Gingerbread Man's adventures: The Gingerbread Man Loose at School, The Gingerbread Man Loose on the Fire Truck, The Gingerbread Man Loose at Christmas, The Gingerbread Man Loose at the Zoo, and The Gingerbread Man and the Leprechaun Loose at School!
Download or read book Reading the Man written by Elizabeth Brown Pryor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-05-03 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Pryor’s biography helps part with a lot of stupid out there about Lee – chiefly, that he was, somehow, ‘anti-slavery.’” – Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com An “unorthodox, critical, and engaging biography” (Boston Globe) – Winner of The Lincoln Prize Robert E. Lee is remembered by history as a tragic figure, stoic and brave but distant and enigmatic. Using dozens of previously unpublished letters as departure points, Pryor produces a stunning personal account of Lee's military ability, shedding new light on every aspect of the complex and contradictory general's life story. Explained for the first time in the context of the young United States's tumultuous societal developments, Lee's actions reveal a man forced to play a leading role in the formation of the nation at the cost of his private happiness.
Download or read book The Marble Man written by Thomas Lawrence Connelly and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1978-07-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert E. Lee was both a military genius and a spiritual leader, considered by many—southerners and nonsoutherners alike—to have been a near saint. In The Marble Man a leading Civil War military historian examines the hold of Lee on the American mind and traces the campaign in historiography that elevated him to national hero status.
Download or read book Robert E Lee written by Allen C. Guelzo and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Confederate general in all his complexity—his hypocrisy and courage, his inner turmoil and outward calm, his disloyalty and his honor. "An important contribution to reconciling the myths with the facts." —New York Times Book Review Robert E. Lee is one of the most confounding figures in American history. Lee betrayed his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose. He was a traitor to the country he swore to serve as an Army officer, and yet he was admired even by his enemies for his composure and leadership. He considered slavery immoral, but benefited from inherited slaves and fought to defend the institution. And behind his genteel demeanor and perfectionism lurked the insecurities of a man haunted by the legacy of a father who stained the family name by declaring bankruptcy and who disappeared when Robert was just six years old. In Robert E. Lee, the award-winning historian Allen Guelzo has written the definitive biography of the general, following him from his refined upbringing in Virginia high society, to his long career in the U.S. Army, his agonized decision to side with Virginia when it seceded from the Union, and his leadership during the Civil War. Above all, Guelzo captures Robert E. Lee in all his complexity--his hypocrisy and courage, his outward calm and inner turmoil, his honor and his disloyalty.
Download or read book The Marble Room written by Bill Hatcher and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought up in an evangelical household in the Bible Belt, Hatcher's religion had provided no answers to his parents' broken marriage, or his own divorce. The key to his salvation would come from a most unlikely source: a flyer calling for Peace Corps volunteers. As a geography teacher at an all-girls' boarding school in Tanzania, he's expected broaden his students' horizons, but instead it is his own worldview that is challenged. Through tragedy and triumph, by questioning the very core of his being, he manages to escape the confines of his "marble room" and gain a new understanding of himself and God.
Download or read book Oil and Marble written by Stephanie Storey and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. The two despise each other."--Front jacket flap.
Download or read book The Marble Chronicles written by Ralph E. Parks and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mabel and her dream of a place she has not yet been, The Square Blue Canyon, with its two Roquefort Blue Moons. It is here where Mabel on her quest for the world’s most perfect marble shooter discovers the Marble Man. The Marble Man has a very real fire in his belly and eats the sand-wich is there (by the fist full) and then belches out the finest Marbles, Major Mabel has ever seen. The old Hoot Owl started much of this with this brain teaser, “Major Mabel may have lost her Marbles, but Mabel may not miss her marbles!” Though I am sure Mabel surely would.
Download or read book Lee Considered written by Alan T. Nolan and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the heroes produced by the Civil War, Robert E. Lee is the most revered and perhaps the most misunderstood. Lee is widely portrayed as an ardent antisecessionist who left the United States Army only because he would not draw his sword against his native Virginia, a Southern aristocrat who opposed slavery, and a brilliant military leader whose exploits sustained the Confederate cause. Alan Nolan explodes these and other assumptions about Lee and the war through a rigorous reexamination of familiar and long-available historical sources, including Lee's personal and official correspondence and the large body of writings about Lee. Looking at this evidence in a critical way, Nolan concludes that there is little truth to the dogmas traditionally set forth about Lee and the war.
Download or read book The Marble Boy written by Andrew Daws and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Write kindness in marble and injuries in the dust.'Persian ProverbEdmund Payne, a good, respected teacher, has taught art in a boy's school for many years. When his life is suddenly compromised by rumours of an improper relationship with a schoolboy, a life he has kept secret for so long is revealed and he is called to account for himself. He can no longer conceal the real affair he had with a man many years his junior. Forced to leave his job, his wife, and his home, he decides to travel, choosing a region he once knew well as an idealistic young man with high hopes for the future: the classical landscapes of the Mediterranean. Thrilled by new experiences, and new loves, his life becomes an odyssey of the heart and imagination. But he cannot escape the past and, as his travels push him further into exile and unreality, he relives his memories and begins to face up to the future. Lyrical and sexually exhilarating, The Marble Boy is a reconstruction of Edmund's journey, and a record of his relationships, past and present, real, longed for, and imagined, as he continues his search for love."The Marble Boy is a novel about infatuation and longing: a sensual, sexual pot-boiler of a man waiting to explode, waiting to find true love, waiting to find who he is. It's a novel brilliantly disguised as a travel book..." (Reader Review)"Anyone who loves Greece will find this assured and finely written novel a nostalgic evocation of that land's scenery and culture, and it must now deservedly join the different genres of travel as well as romantic literature.” (Reader Review)
Download or read book The Political Films of Andrzej Wajda written by Janina Falkowska and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controversial, painful, stimulating, and cinematically beautiful, they never fail to fully engage the spectator. This is particularly true for his major political films, which form the basis of this study. Applying Bakhtin's concept of dialogism, the author shows how a creative interaction between the image on the screen and the viewer is established through Wajda's films.
Download or read book The Marble Man written by Adolphus George Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Marble Faun and A Green Bough written by William Faulkner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published early in the author’s legendary career and collected here in a single illuminating volume, these are William Faulkner’s only two works of poetry: The Marble Faun (1924) and A Green Bough (1933). “These are primarily the poems of youth and a simple heart. They are the poems of a mind that reacts directly to sunlight and trees and skies and blue hills, reacts without evasion or self-consciousness. They are drenched in sunlight and color as is the land in which they were written, the land which gave birth and sustenance to their author. He has roots in this soil as surely and inevitably as has a tree. . . . The author of these poems is a man steeped in the soil of his native land, a Southerner by every instinct, and, more than that, a Mississippian. George Moor sad that all universal art became great by first being provincial, and the sunlight and mocking-birds and blue hills of North Mississippi are a part of this young man’s very being.”—from the preface to The Marble Faun, by Phil Stone
Download or read book The Marble and the Sculptor written by Keith Robert Lee and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marble and the Sculptor provides readers with a clear path from law student to lawyer, with a fundamental understanding of what it expected of him or her as a new attorney: the triumphs and tragedies, the ups and downs, and the wins and losses. It will provide a foundation from which new lawyers can grow and build their own successful careers. In other words, it is THE go-to handbook for all aspiring new lawyers.
Download or read book A Complete Loss of Marbles written by Ralph E. Parks and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "ROBBERY!" The mind works in strangely odd ways that is no doubt what Wonda would have said. Wonda is so smart at math, yet she still put in twice as much money as she knew full well the bank insured. Thus, she foolishly had too many eggs in one basket or too much money in one bank..... Friends don't rob other friends or do they? The winnings of Major Mable, Mea Culpa's Marble Maven were also in the same bank and Mable had played very hard at the latest marble tournament for those winnings and then some. The chase for the robbers is on.
