Love In The Ruins

Author : Walker Percy
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453216200
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love in the Ruins written by Walker Percy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIV“A great adventure . . . So outrageous and so real, one is left speechless.” —Chicago Sun Times/divDIV/divDIVIn Walker Percy’s future America, the country is on the brink of disaster. With citizens violently polarized along racial, political, and social lines, and a fifteen-year war still raging abroad, America is crumbling quickly into ruin. The country’s one remaining hope is Dr. Thomas More, whose “lapsometer” is capable of diagnosing the spiritual afflictions—anxiety, depression, alienation—driving everyone’s destructive and disastrous behavior./divDIV /divDIVBut such a potent machine has its pitfalls. As Dr. More soon learns, in the wrong hands, the powerful lapsometer could lead to open warfare, pushing America into anarchy at full-speed./div /div

Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0735252998
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Among the Ruins written by Evelyn Waugh and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evelyn Waugh dips his toes into the world of science fiction. In a future, dystopian Britain, Miles Plastic is in prison for arson. Which isn’t so bad, really – the prisons are actually quite nice. When he is released, he finds himself a nice, wholesome job at a state-run euthanasia clinic trying to control the crushing volume of voluntary applicants. At the clinic he meets Clara, a beautiful, bearded woman, and falls in love. But, as it turns out, love formed at a euthanasia clinic is fraught with its own unique challenges. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Author : Ralph C. Wood
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802829993
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South written by Ralph C. Wood and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2005-05-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those looking to deepen their appreciation of Flannery O'Connor, Wood shows how this literary icon's stories, novels, and essays impinge on America's cultural and ecclesial condition.

Author : Angela Thirkell
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 0349018642
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Among the Ruins written by Angela Thirkell and published by Virago. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times It's the summer of 1947, and peacetime has brought new challenges to Barsetshire. Beliers Priory, once a military hospital during the War, has now become a flourishing preparatory school for boys run by Leslie and Philip Winter. When Charles Belton is hired as the new school master, six young people are thrown together in a web of flirtations and misunderstandings: Charles and his elder brother, Naval Captain Freddy Belton; Susan Dean, now Red Cross Depot Librarian, and her glamorous sister Jessica, an actress in thrall to the theatre; pragmatic Lucy Marling and her brother Oliver. And with the old social order in ruins, the scene is set for a delicious summer of comic - and romantic - possibilities. Love Among the Ruins is a delightful, clever and wryly poignant classic, and the 17th novel in Angela Thirkell's beloved Barsetshire series.

Author : Robert Clark
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393020151
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Among the Ruins written by Robert Clark and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the turmoil of the summer of 1968, teenaged lovers Emily and William, drawn together by physical passion and idealistic fervor, run away to build a new life together in the wilderness, leaving behind parents whose own lives suddenly take an entirely different course and an America about to lose its innocence forever. By the author of In the Deep Midwinter.

Author : Anne M. Larson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781892331663
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love in the Ruins written by Anne M. Larson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walker Percy
Publisher : Harvill Secker
ISBN 13 : 9780436366611
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love in the Ruins written by Walker Percy and published by Harvill Secker. This book was released on 1978 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Tom More has created a stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he embarks on an unforgettable odyssey to cure mankind's spiritual flu. This novel confronts both the value of life and its susceptibility to chance and ruin.

Author : Walker Percy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780586087756
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love in the Ruins written by Walker Percy and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Tom More has created a stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he embarks on an unforgettable odyssey to cure mankind's spiritual flu. This novel confronts both the value of life and its susceptibility to chance and ruin.

Author : Barbara Cartland
Publisher : Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN 13 : 1782138870
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love in the Ruins written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walker Percy
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504053958
Total Pages : 715 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love in the Ruins and The Thanatos Syndrome written by Walker Percy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pair of profound dystopian novels from the “brilliantly breathtaking” New York Times–bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of The Moviegoer (The New York Times Book Review). Winner of the National Book Award for The Moviegoer, the “dazzlingly gifted” Southern philosophical author Walker Percy wrote two vividly imagined satirical novels of America’s future featuring deeply flawed psychiatrist and spiritual seeker Tom More (USA Today). Love in the Ruins is “a great adventure . . . so outrageous and so real, one is left speechless” (Chicago Sun-Times), and its sequel The Thanatos Syndrome “shimmers with intelligence and verve” (Newsday). Love in the Ruins: The great experiment of the American dream has failed. The United States is on the brink of catastrophe. Can an alcoholic, womanizing, lapsed-Catholic psychiatrist really save a society speeding toward inevitable collapse? Dr. Thomas More certainly thinks so. He has invented the lapsometer, a machine capable of diagnosing and curing the country’s spiritual afflictions. If used correctly, the lapsometer could make anxiety, depression, alienation, and racism things of the past. But in the wrong hands, it could rapidly propel the nation into chaos. “A comedy of love against a field of anarchy . . . Percy is easily one of the finest writers we have.” —The New York Times Book Review The Thanatos Syndrome: In Percy’s “ingenious” sequel, Dr. Tom More, fresh out of prison after getting caught selling uppers to truck drivers, returns home to Louisiana, determined to live a simpler life (The New York Times). But when everyone in town starts acting strangely—from losing their sexual inhibitions to speaking only in blunt, truncated sentences—More, with help from his cousin, epidemiologist Lucy Lipscomb, takes it upon himself to investigate. Together, they uncover a government conspiracy poised to rob its citizens of their selves, their free will, and ultimately their humanity. “The Thanatos Syndrome has the ambition and purposefulness to take on the world, to wrestle with its shortcomings, and to celebrate its glories.” —The Washington Post Book World