House Of Spirits

Author : Isabel Allende
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 1400043182
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of the Spirits written by Isabel Allende and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2005-04-19 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Chilean writer Isabel Allende’s classic novel is both a richly symbolic family saga and the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American country’s turbulent history. In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colorful and all-too-human inhabitants. The Trueba family’s passions, struggles, and secrets span three generations and a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that brings the proud and tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter to opposite sides of the barricades. Against a backdrop of revolution and counterrevolution, Allende brings to life a family whose private bonds of love and hatred are more complex and enduring than the political allegiances that set them at odds. The House of the Spirits not only brings another nation’s history thrillingly to life, but also makes its people’s joys and anguishes wholly our own.

Author : Karen Wooley Martin
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1855662000
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits Trilogy written by Karen Wooley Martin and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The source of the narrative energy that creates such absorbing stories. Allende's very popular novels have attracted both critical approval and opprobrium, often at the expense of genuine analysis. This sophisticated study explores the narrative architecture of Allende's House of the Spirits [1982], Daughter of Fortune [1999], and Portrait in Sepia [2000] as a trilogy, proposing that the places created in these novels subvert the patriarchal norms that have governed politics, sexuality, and ethnicity. Rooted in the Foucauldian premise that the history of space is essentially the history of power, and supported by Susan Stanford Friedman's cultural geographies of encounter as well as Gloria Anzaldúa's study of borderlands, this study shows that, by rejecting traditional spatial hierarchies, Allende's trilogy systematically deterritorializes the elite while shifting the previously marginalized to the physical and thematic centers of her works. This movement provides the narrative energy which draws the reader into Allende's universe, and sustains the 'good story' for which she has been universally acclaimed. KAREN WOOLEY MARTIN is Associate Professor of Spanish at Union University, Jackson, Tennessee.

Author : Annie Wilder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House of Spirits and Whispers written by Annie Wilder and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of House of Spirits and Whispers features a new preface from the author, photographs, and bonus material We had been instructed to enter by the back door. That's the part of the house where the old man had lived. It was where he still lived. Turns out he was watching us that day, too, silent and heavy as the air, bound to the earth and his former home.We had been instructed to enter by the back door. In 1994, Annie Wilder and her children moved into a 100-year-old house in a historic Mississippi River town. Beautiful but spooky, the house had been on the market for six months with no offers. It felt like-and proved to be-a very haunted house. Essentially the story of a remarkable old Victorian house that seems to be a threshold to the spirit world and the astral realm, House of Spirits and Whispers has a backstory of the Wilder family's relationship with the ghost of the home's previous owner, an old man named Leon. Covering a decade's worth of ghostly activity and supernatural encounters, from whispering radiators to visits and appearances from all manner of spirits and entities, this unusual story is the true account of Annie Wilder's experiences living in a haunted house.

Author : Efraín Kristal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827057
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel written by Efraín Kristal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel García Márquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. The essays collected here offer several entryways into the understanding and appreciation of the Latin American novel in Spanish-speaking America and Brazil. The volume conveys a real sense of the heterogeneity of Latin American literature, highlighting regions whose cultural and geopolitical particularities are often overlooked. Indispensable to students of Latin American or Hispanic studies and those interested in comparative literature and the development of the novel as genre, the Companion features a comprehensive bibliography and chronology and concludes with an essay about the success of Latin American novels in translation.

Author : Peter Taylor
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312146955
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Forest and Other Stories written by Peter Taylor and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-08-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen tales of domestic life in the south during the thirties and forties.

Author : Gary Kamiya
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635575893
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirits of San Francisco written by Gary Kamiya and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling book from two prizewinning, critically acclaimed contemporary chroniclers of San Francisco-a rich, illustrated, idiosyncratic portrait of this great city. In Spirits of San Francisco, #1 bestselling Cool Gray City of Love author Gary Kamiya joins forces with celebrated, bestselling artist Paul Madonna to take a fresh look at this one-of-a-kind city. Marrying image and text in a way no book about this city has done before, Kamiya's illuminating narratives accompany Madonna's masterful pen-and-ink drawings, breathing life into San Francisco sites both iconic and obscure. Paul Madonna's atmospheric images will awe: his wide-angle drawings offer a new perspective on the “crookedest street in the world” and vistas across the city. And Kamiya's engaging prose, accompanying each image, offers striking vignettes of this incredible city: witness his story of “Dumpville,” the bizarre community that sprang up in the 19th century on top of a massive garbage dump. Handsome and irresistible-much like the city it chronicles-Spirits of San Francisco is both a visual feast and a detailed, personal, loving, informed portrait of a beloved city.

Author : Nancy Churnin
Publisher : Creston Books
ISBN 13 : 1954354029
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martin & Anne written by Nancy Churnin and published by Creston Books. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born the same year a world apart. Both faced ugly prejudices and violence, which both answered with words of love and faith in humanity. This is the story of their parallel journeys to find hope in darkness and to follow their dreams.

Author : Jonathan Cahn
Publisher : Charisma Media
ISBN 13 : 1629989428
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Mysteries written by Jonathan Cahn and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Best Seller! 1500 5-Star Reviews! From the author that brought you NEW YORK TIMES best selling books The Harbinger, The Mystery of the Shemitah, and The Paradigm selling over 3 MILLION copies Imagine if you discovered a treasure chest in which were hidden ancient mysteries, revelations from heaven, secrets of the ages, the answers to man’s most enduring, age-old questions, and the hidden keys that can transform your life to joy, success, and blessing…This is The Book of Mysteries.

Author : Kimberly Daniels
Publisher : Charisma Media
ISBN 13 : 1629995290
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking the Power of Familiar Spirits written by Kimberly Daniels and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2018 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defeat the Unknown Enemy in Your Home This book will help you gain insight, and if needed, deliverance from familiar spirits, which if even entertained can cause havoc.

Author : Jane Alexander
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008318093
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit of the Home: How to make your home a sanctuary written by Jane Alexander and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirit of the Home is a wonderful guide to creating your own sacred space and sanctuary and discovering peace and tranquillity.