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Author : Cees Nooteboom (Translators
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781320879071
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters to Poseidon written by Cees Nooteboom (Translators and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cees Nooteboom
Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 1623659167
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters to Poseidon written by Cees Nooteboom and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is said that during his abortive campaign to invade Britannia, the infamous Roman emperor Caligula ordered his legions into the surf to attack Poseidon and claim seashells as trophies of war. Cees Nooteboom is considerably more thoughtful in his relationship with the god of the sea. As autumn falls each year, Nooteboom writes Poseidon a letter requesting permission to return to his home in Minorca the following spring. Of course, it would be the height of discourtesy if Nooteboom's letters were no more than a series of demands. So Cees takes the opportunity to seek the wisdom of the trident-wielding deity, and to offer the god updates about his own life and thoughts. At once playful and poignant, beautiful and at times slightly bizarre, this masterful exploration of humankind's relationship with the sea uses the minutiae of everyday life to illuminate the broadest questions of human existence, all couched in the lapidary prose of one of Europe's outstanding stylists.
Author : Gary W. Neidhardt
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481740431
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)
Download or read book Poseidon and the Pc written by Gary W. Neidhardt and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poseidon and the PC documents the adventures of Lt. Paul W. Neidhardt (USNR) through one hundred and fifteen of his letters written to his wife during World War II. Long before PC became equated with a personal computer or politically correct, the two letters were associated with Patrol Craft. These World War II ships had the mission of performing convoy escort duty and antisubmarine warfare. The PCs were meant to relieve the larger, far more valuable ships from the often monotonous duties of sailing at the speed of the slowest ship in a convoy. The 174 foot long PCs were so small that they were considered safe duty as more worthy targets were always available. In high seas PCs floated as light as a cork in a bottle and as rough as riding a bull. A PC could entirely disappear from view in the trough of a large wave. The seasickness that resulted from the pitching and rolling of the PC was truly gut wrenching. If you didnt get sick on a PC, you were seaworthy on any other Navy ship in the fleet. Had the war not ended when it did, Poseidons typhoons might have substantially prolonged the war in the Pacific. A great typhoon sunk, beached or damaged more than two hundred American ships at Okinawa after the war had ended that were to be used for the invasion of Japan. Paul was the executive officer on one of the many PCs destroyed by this great storm, which struck on October 9, 1945. When Poseidon showed his power, Paul knew his PC needed all the help and good fortune there was to be found if they were to survive the fury of what Americans came to call Typhoon Louise.
Author : Hardie Gramatky
Publisher : StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN 13 : 1623347270
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nikos and the Sea God written by Hardie Gramatky and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern fairy tale of a Greek boy who believes ardently in Poseidon, God of the sea, is presented with conviction by the author of Little Toot.
Author : Raffaella Cribiore
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801469082
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book Libanius the Sophist written by Raffaella Cribiore and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libanius of Antioch was a rhetorician of rare skill and eloquence. So renowned was he in the fourth century that his school of rhetoric in Roman Syria became among the most prestigious in the Eastern Empire. In this book, Raffaella Cribiore draws on her unique knowledge of the entire body of Libanius’s vast literary output—including 64 orations, 1,544 letters, and exercises for his students—to offer the fullest intellectual portrait yet of this remarkable figure whom John Chrystostom called “the sophist of the city." Libanius (314–ca. 393) lived at a time when Christianity was celebrating its triumph but paganism tried to resist. Although himself a pagan, Libanius cultivated friendships within Antioch’s Christian community and taught leaders of the Church including Chrysostom and Basil of Caesarea. Cribiore calls him a “gray pagan” who did not share the fanaticism of the Emperor Julian. Cribiore considers the role that a major intellectual of Libanius’s caliber played in this religiously diverse society and culture. When he wrote a letter or delivered an oration, who was he addressing and what did he hope to accomplish? One thing that stands out in Libanius’s speeches is the startling amount of invective against his enemies. How common was character assassination of this sort? What was the subtext to these speeches and how would they have been received? Adapted from the Townsend Lectures that Cribiore delivered at Cornell University in 2010, this book brilliantly restores Libanius to his rightful place in the rich and culturally complex world of Late Antiquity.
Author : Christopher P. Magra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107112141
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book Poseidon's Curse written by Christopher P. Magra and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the Atlantic origins of the American Revolution, focusing on the British navy's impressment of American ships and mariners.
Author : Goodrich, Peter
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839102268
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book Research Handbook on Law and Literature written by Goodrich, Peter and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original and thought-provoking Research Handbook, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, artists, lawyers, judges, and writers offer a range of perspectives on rethinking law by means of literary concepts. Presenting a comprehensive introduction to jurisliterary themes, it destabilises the traditional hierarchy that places law before literature and exposes the literary nature of the legal.
Author : Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher : Peace Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 1933339004
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book Story Of The World #1 Ancient Times Revised written by Susan Wise Bauer and published by Peace Hill Press. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the ancient world, from 6000 B.C. to 400 A.D.
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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292774087
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Download or read book Demosthenes, Speeches 60 and 61, Prologues, Letters written by and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the tenth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today's undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public. Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, law and legal procedure, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have recently been attracting particular interest: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. Demosthenes is regarded as the greatest orator of classical antiquity. This volume contains his Funeral Oration (Speech 60) for those who died in the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC, in which Philip of Macedonia secured his dominance over Greece, as well as the so-called Erotic Essay (Speech 61), a rhetorical exercise in which the speaker eulogizes the youth Epicrates for his looks and physical prowess and encourages him to study philosophy in order to become a virtuous and morally upright citizen. The volume also includes fifty-six prologues (the openings to political speeches to the Athenian Assembly) and six letters apparently written during the orator's exile from Athens. Because so little literature survives from the 330s and 320s BC, these works provide valuable insights into Athenian culture and politics of that era.
Author : William Gaddis
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1564788377
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters of William Gaddis written by William Gaddis and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis (1922–98) shunned the spotlight during his life, which makes this collection of his letters a revelation. Beginning in 1930 when Gaddis was at boarding-school and ending in September 1998, a few months before his death, these letters function as a kind of autobiography, and are all the more valuable because Gaddis was not an autobiographical writer. Here we see him forging his first novel The Recognitions (1955) while living in Mexico, fighting in a revolution in Costa Rica, and working in Spain, France, and North Africa. Over the next twenty years he struggles to find time to write the National Book Award-winning J R (1975) amid the complications of work and family; deals with divorce and disillusionment before reviving his career with Carpenter's Gothic (1985); then teaches himself enough about the law to indite A Frolic of His Own (1994), which earned him another NBA. Returning to a topic he first wrote about in the 1940s, he finishes his last novel Agape Agape as he lay dying.
