Dark Way To Paradise

Author : Jennifer D. Upton
Publisher : Sophia Perennis
ISBN 13 : 9781597310093
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Way to Paradise written by Jennifer D. Upton and published by Sophia Perennis. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante's Inferno is often presented today in lurid 'gothic' terms as if it were no more than an entertaining demonic freak-show. Alternately, it is taken as merely a cultural and political commentary on Dante's own place and time, cast in allegorical terms. But the Inferno, and the Divine Comedy as a whole, are much more than that. The human passions, and the Mystery of Iniquity of which they are expressions, are fundamentally the same in any place and time; the Inferno presents not so much a history of sin as a catalogue of the archetypes of sin, the fundamental ways in which all of us are tempted to betray the human form. Based on the works of a number of the Greek Fathers, on the writings of several members of the Traditionalist School, notably Frithjof Schuon and Rene Guenon, and on the kind of wide personal experience of the violation of the human form that is available to anyone in these times with both the requisite discernment-rooted in love-and the courage to keep his or her eyes open, Jennifer Doane Upton has once again seen Dante's Inferno as it really is. It is the record of the struggle of the human mind, will, and emotions to discover and name, by the grace of God, the sins resident in the human soul. As both a traditional re-presentation and a contemporary revisioning of the 'examination of conscience', individual and collective, Dark Way to Paradise is at once an exegetical masterpiece and a handbook of demonology of concrete use to any true physician of the soul. In its direct application of metaphysical principles to 'infernal psychology', it is unique among Dante commentaries. And in a time like ours, when the Western Church appears to be dissolving before our eyes, to save again what Dante himself saved out of the great medieval Christian synthesis has never been so timely.

Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385547943
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Paradise written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the award-winning, best-selling author of the classic A Little Life—a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: VOGUE • ESQUIRE • NPR • GOODREADS To Paradise is a fin de siècle novel of marvelous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagihara’s understanding of the aching desire to protect those we love—partners, lovers, children, friends, family, and even our fellow citizens—and the pain that ensues when we cannot. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist’s damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him—and solve the mystery of her husband’s disappearances. These three sections comprise an ingenious symphony, as recurring notes and themes deepen and enrich one another: A townhouse in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; illness, and treatments that come at a terrible cost; wealth and squalor; the weak and the strong; race; the definition of family, and of nationhood; the dangerous righteousness of the powerful, and of revolutionaries; the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise, and the gradual realization that it can’t exist. What unites not just the characters, but these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness.

Author : Geoffrey Robinson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501732188
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark Side of Paradise written by Geoffrey Robinson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "The Dark Side of Paradise".

Author : Robert A.J. McDonald
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774864745
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Long Way to Paradise written by Robert A.J. McDonald and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political landscape of British Columbia has been characterized by divisiveness since Confederation. But why and how did it become Canada’s most fractious province? A Long Way to Paradise traces the evolution of political ideas in the province from 1871 to 1972, exploring British Columbia’s journey to socio-political maturity. Robert McDonald explains its classic left-right divide as a product of “common sense” liberalism that also shaped how British Columbians met the demands and challenges of a modernizing world. This lively, richly detailed overview provides fresh insight into the fascinating story of provincial politics in Canada’s lotus land.

Author : Clay Gilbert
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781986112192
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Road to Paradise written by Clay Gilbert and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?" They are lines from the poet Walt Whitman, but for Cassie Edwards, they become something different entirely. Spoken to her by the man she loves, Martin Cabot-who is also one of the Night-Kind-what humanity calls vampires-the words frame a choice between certain death and eternal life. The year is 1991. Cassie Edwards has lived most of her life under a shadow-she has been HIV positive since a car accident when she was ten. At nineteen, she's finally getting out into the world, leaving her hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee behind to start college at Auburn University. There are no guarantees for the future, she knows, but she's determined things are going to get better. Meeting Cassie by chance, Martin thinks that he may have found a way to escape the hold his own past has on him, and the horrors he left behind on the West Coast, where he first left behind the daylight life to claim a dark immortality. When Cassie's illness takes hold at last, Martin must decide whether to tell her the truth about himself-a truth that will leave him exposed-and leave Cassie with a fateful choice. As if this weren't enough, the shadows of Martin's past aren't content to remain buried, and they are coming for him, and for Cassie. Enter a new world of supernatural horror and romance from Clay Gilbert, the author of the "Children of Evohe" science fiction series.

Author : Nancy R. Koerner
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0615141234
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belize Survivor written by Nancy R. Koerner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early seventies, the anti-establishment counterculture evolved into a new movement of health and agricultural purists. Rebelling against the politics and pollution of the U.S., these young people sought to create their own natural paradise outside its borders. This is the story of one such expatriated American, a starry-eyed wild child who searches for a fantasy lifestyle and gets more than she bargains for. The storyline, a colorful tapestry of romantic adventure set in the jungles of Belize, Central America, is flavored with vivid imagery, picturesque characters, wild animals, and Mayan archaeological intrigue. But it is also a compelling story of a maturing young woman and her battle with the darker side of human nature, of innocence lost, deception, infidelity, and heartbreaking exile. Full of poignant moral dilemma, it is a story of one woman's survival, of exceptional courage, strength in overcoming adversity, spiritual growth, and eventual triumph.

Author : John Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.8P/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradise Lost, Book 3 written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David T. COURTWRIGHT
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674029917
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Paradise written by David T. COURTWRIGHT and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a newly enlarged edition of this eye-opening book, David T. Courtwright offers an original interpretation of a puzzling chapter in American social and medical history: the dramatic change in the pattern of opiate addiction--from respectable upper-class matrons to lower-class urban males, often with a criminal record. Challenging the prevailing view that the shift resulted from harsh new laws, Courtwright shows that the crucial role was played by the medical rather than the legal profession. Dark Paradise tells the story not only from the standpoint of legal and medical sources, but also from the perspective of addicts themselves. With the addition of a new introduction and two new chapters on heroin addiction and treatment since 1940, Courtwright has updated this compelling work of social history for the present crisis of the Drug War.

Author : Margaret Widdemer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.NY/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Road to Paradise written by Margaret Widdemer and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Le Goffic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark Way of Love. (Le Crucifié de Keraliès) written by Charles Le Goffic and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: