Parallel Lives

Author : Phyllis Rose
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0394725808
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parallel Lives written by Phyllis Rose and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1984-10-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor: Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, and George Eliot--née Marian Evans.

Author : Olivier Schrauwen
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1683961404
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parallel Lives written by Olivier Schrauwen and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collects six wildly inventive short comics stories that might collectively be dubbed “speculative memoir.” Schrauwen’s deadpan depictions of his and his offspring's upcoming lives include alien abduction, dialogue with future agents, and coded messages in envelopes at breakfast.

Author : Dan Gerber
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320681
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Primer on Parallel Lives written by Dan Gerber and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dan Gerber tenderly reels his readers through the ‘beautiful movie’ he calls the passing of time on earth in a language completely unadorned and Zen-like in its quietude. The thing itself carries the weight of these poems, which recall the deep imagery of Vallejo, Neruda and Wright.”—Rain Taxi Dan Gerber is a master of layered, bittersweet imagery. In his seventh book of poems, he writes of childhood misgivings and fears, the oak savannah landscape of California’s central coast, and a near-mystical relationship with nature. As novelist John Nichols once wrote of Gerber’s poetry, “Dan Gerber has an exquisitely muted, yet profound understanding of tragedy, love, family, and the haunting vagaries of nature.” “Some Distance” I wanted to be a stone in the field, simply that, and then I wanted to be the grass around it, and then the cattle grazing under the too blue sky, and then the blue, which has of itself no substance, and yet goes on and on and on. Dan Gerber is the author of a dozen books of poetry, fiction, essays, and memoir. He has earned the Mark Twain Award, Book of the Year honors from ForeWord Magazine, and inclusion in The Best American Poetry. He lives in Santa Ynez, California.

Author : Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351188493
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nehru and Bose written by Rudrangshu Mukherjee and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Nobody has done more harm to me . . . than Jawaharlal Nehru,’ wrote Subhas Chandra Bose in 1939. Had relations between the two great nationalist leaders soured to the extent that Bose had begun to view Nehru as his enemy? But then, why did he name one of the regiments of the Indian National Army after Jawaharlal? And what prompted Nehru to weep when he heard of Bose’s untimely death in 1945, and to recount soon after, ‘I used to treat him as my younger brother’? Rudrangshu Mukherjee’s fascinating book traces the contours of a friendship that did not quite blossom as political ideologies diverged, and delineates the shadow that fell between them—for, Gandhi saw Nehru as his chosen heir and Bose as a prodigal son.

Author : Mo Gaffney
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822213086
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parallel Lives written by Mo Gaffney and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In the opening scene, two Supreme Beings plan the beginning of the world with the relish of two slightly sadistic suburban wives decorating a living room. Once they've decided on the color scheme of the races, a little concerned that whi

Author : Karl Baughman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000591115
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parallel Lives written by Karl Baughman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compares selected Romans of the late Republic with American Founders in the style of Plutarch, encouraging readers to rethink how we view heroes and villains and their conceptions of republicanism. Through entertaining yet informative short comparisons, this volume demonstrates the humanity of heroes and villains from different times and places through their often idiosyncratic similarities and differences. Readers gain not only a fuller understanding of the late Roman and early American Republics and their leaders but also an appreciation for comparative biography in its ability to make connections across the human experience. The book provides a way to connect two different areas of study, focusing on how republicanism shaped both Romans and American Founders and providing a previously unexplored contribution to a growing trend of broadening historical exposure. In doing so, Baughman and Poston demonstrate the continued need for connecting different fields of history while also helping students understand their connection to the ancient past. This book is suitable for students and scholars interested in the late Roman and the early American Republics and also appeals to readers of varied interests across historical times and places, particularly those studying the connections between the classical past and modern world.

Author : Michael Martins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964124813
Total Pages : 1138 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parallel Lives written by Michael Martins and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shed[s] new light on the life of Lizzie Andrew Borden and, at the same time, provide a unique, and previously neglected, look at the social history of Fall River during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries." [from publisher website]

Author : Jennifer Andrewes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473443351
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parallel Lives written by Jennifer Andrewes and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Increasingly dissatisfied with the humdrum routine of corporate life, Jennifer Andrewes does what many of us can only dream about when in 2014 she and her family pack up and spend two seasons living in a French village in the south-west region of France. But it's not just any region as Jennifer discovers - the Aude region is on the 42nd parallel north. Wellington, her home city here in New Zealand, is on the 42nd parallel south, and is the nearest thing the Aude has to an antipodal sister city. Was it a coincidence then that for so many years this long-time Francophile had a sense of living her life in parallel? On the one hand, very much present in the minutiae of her family's everyday lives in New Zealand - and yet always with half a mind thousands of kilometres away in the perfect French village. A family that shares a love of travel and a passion for language and culture, they find they enjoy the experience so much that they repeat it two years later. And then become dedicated to finding their very own long-term pied-à-terre. Parallel Lives tells the story of their time in a small town in the south of France in the foothills of the Pyrenees: how they came to live there, the experiences gained and life lessons learned while living - on two separate occasions - on two sides of the same historic square"--Back cover.

Author : Judith A. Ferry
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9781098392796
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parallel Lives written by Judith A. Ferry and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a split-second, Patrick was gone; that moment would haunt Alexander forever. "Parallel Lives" is an enthralling novel that tells the story of Alexander Eastgard and his best friend, Patrick Close. Alexander is an athlete and a scholar with an adventurous spirit and an intense fascination with the past. When Alexander's rival, Hector Gonzalez, causes Patrick's death, the tragedy torments Alexander for the rest of his life and sets in motion a chain of events that darkens the lives of those around him- Helen, a woman of great beauty and astonishingly poor judgment; Mark, her devoted son; Julia, the Harvard undergrad whose romance with Mark proves unexpectedly dangerous; and Giulietta, the prescient but lovelorn fortune-teller- across two generations. This is an unforgettable novel filled with compelling characters. It is the story of a passionate, illicit affair, the apprehension and imprisonment of a drug lord, the descent of his son into addiction, a suicide with no body, and a hidden gun that falls into the wrong hands.

Author : Jerome Murphy-O'Connor
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814683754
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus and Paul written by Jerome Murphy-O'Connor and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belying the assumption that there is nothing more to discover about the similarities between Jesus and the apostle Paul, Jerome Murphy-O 'Connor gives us this enticing study. Extracting his information from a variety of sources 'pagan, Jewish, and Christian 'Murphy-O 'Connor imaginatively interweaves geographical, cultural, and historical elements into configurations that reveal important parallel trajectories in the lives of Jesus and Paul. Murphy-O 'Connor begins by discussing the births, early years, and family settings of Jesus and Paul. He continues with an examination of their education, refugee status, social class, economic position, political circumstances, cultural influences, and conversion experiences. Finally, he explores details surrounding their deaths. In the end, Jesus and Paul: Parallel Lives gives us incisive comparisons that include but also go beyond the Scriptures to suggest novel ways of picturing Jesus-Paul. Readers will appreciate the labors of Murphy-O 'Connor to contextualize Jesus, the God-Man, alongside Paul, Man of God and Apostle to the Gentiles 'and will thereby have a greater appreciation for the missions of both. Jerome Murphy-O 'Connor, OP, has been a Professor of New Testament at the Ecole Biblique of Jerusalem since 1967. He has lectured throughout the world and is the author of numerous books, including the popular Oxford Press archaeological guidebook, The Holy Land, as well as Paul the Letter-Writer: His World, His Options, His Skills and St. Paul's Corinth: Texts and Archeology, both published by Liturgical Press.