Purgatory Mount

Author : Adam Roberts
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 1473230969
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Purgatory Mount written by Adam Roberts and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interstellar craft is decelerating after its century-long voyage. Its destination is V538 Aurigae ?, a now-empty planet dominated by one gigantic megastructure, a conical mountain of such height that its summit is high above the atmosphere. The ship's crew of five hope to discover how the long-departed builders made such a colossal thing, and why: a space elevator? a temple? a work of art? Its resemblance to the mountain of purgatory lead the crew to call this world Dante. In our near future, the United States is falling apart. A neurotoxin has interfered with the memory function of many of the population, leaving them reliant on their phones as makeshift memory prostheses. But life goes on. For Ottoline Barragão, a regular kid juggling school and her friends and her beehives in the back garden, things are about to get very dangerous, chased across the north-east by competing groups, each willing to do whatever it takes to get inside Ottoline's private network and recover the secret inside. Purgatory Mount, Adam Roberts's first SF novel for three years, combines wry space opera and a fast-paced thriller in equal measure. It is a novel about memory and atonement, about exploration and passion, and like all of Roberts's novels it's not quite like anything else.

Author : Adam Roberts
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 9781473230958
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Purgatory Mount written by Adam Roberts and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interstellar craft is decelerating after its century-long voyage. Its destination is V538 Aurigae ?, a now-empty planet dominated by one gigantic megastructure, a conical mountain of such height that its summit is high above the atmosphere. The ship's crew of five hope to discover how the long-departed builders made such a colossal thing, and why: a space elevator? a temple? a work of art? Its resemblance to the mountain of purgatory lead the crew to call this world Dante. In our near future, the United States is falling apart. A neurotoxin has interfered with the memory function of many of the population, leaving them reliant on their phones as makeshift memory prostheses. But life goes on. For Ottoline Barragão, a regular kid juggling school and her friends and her beehives in the back garden, things are about to get very dangerous, chased across the north-east by competing groups, each willing to do whatever it takes to get inside Ottoline's private network and recover the secret inside. Purgatory Mount, Adam Roberts's first SF novel for three years, combines wry space opera and a fast-paced thriller in equal measure. It is a novel about memory and atonement, about exploration and passion, and like all of Roberts's novels it's not quite like anything else.

Author : R. T.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Purgatory Survey'd. Or a particular accompt of the happy, and yet thrice unhappy state, of the Souls there, etc. [A translation of Estienne Binet's “De l'estat heureux et malheureux des ames souffrantes du Purgatoire.” The preface signed: R. T., i.e. Richard Thimelby.] written by R. T. and published by . This book was released on 1663 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780281073665
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seven Storey Mountain written by Thomas Merton and published by . This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title tells the story of Thomas Merton's search for faith and peace in a world which first fascinated and then appalled him. It is written with the profound insight of a man who has seen himself clearly.

Author : Jacques Le Goff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226470830
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birth of Purgatory written by Jacques Le Goff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1986-12-15 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noting that the doctrine of Purgatory does not appear in the Latin theology of the West before the late twelfth century, the author identifies the profound social and intellectual changes which caused its widespread acceptance.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681376059
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Purgatorio written by Dante Alighieri and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of Dante's Purgatorio that celebrates the human elements of the second part of The Divine Comedy. This is a bilingual edition with an illuminating introduction from the translator. Winner of the American Literary Translators Association 2022 National Translation Award in Poetry. Purgatorio, the middle section of Dante’s great poem about losing, and subsequently finding, one’s way in the middle of one’s life is, unsurprisingly, the beating heart of The Divine Comedy, as this powerful and lucid new translation by the poet D. M. Black makes wonderfully clear. After days spent plumbing the depths of hell, the pilgrim staggers back to the clear light of day in a state of shock, the sense of pervasive dread and deep bewilderment with which he began his pilgrimage as intensified as it is alleviated by his terminal vision of evil. The slow and initially arduous climb up the mount of Purgatory that ensues, guided as always by Virgil, his poetic model and mentor, is simultaneously a reckoning with human limits and a rediscovery of human potential in the light of divine promise. Dante’s Purgatorio, which has been an inspiration to poets as varied as Shelley and T. S. Eliot, is a book full of human stories and philosophical inquiry; it is also a tale of individual reintegration and healing. Black, a distinguished psychoanalyst as well as a poet, provides an introduction and commentary to this masterpiece by Dante from a contemporary point of view in this bilingual edition.

Author : Gary Panter
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1560975725
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jimbo in Purgatory written by Gary Panter and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2004-08-28 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} In this spectacular graphic novel, Panter has transformed his protean punk hero Jimbo into the protagonist of a reinterpretation of Dante's Purgatorio. After years of comparing Dante and Boccaccio to find commonalities between the two, Panter developed a narrative of his own that includes literary and pop references regularly injected throughout the captions of the reinterpreted cantos.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inferno written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marsha Daigle-Williamson
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1619706652
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflecting the Eternal written by Marsha Daigle-Williamson and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is no secret that C. S. Lewis's imagination was shaped by his beloved medieval and Renaissance literature. Here, Marsha Daigle-Williamson demonstrates that Lewis used Dante's Divine Comedy throughout his writing career, from The Pilgrim's Regress to The Chronicles of Narnia and Till We Have Faces. Book jacket.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253336514
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Purgatory. Commentary written by Dante Alighieri and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: