Saints And Villains A Novel

Author : Denise Giardina
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393081664
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints and Villains: A Novel written by Denise Giardina and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishing historical novel in the tradition of Schindler's List--evoking powerfully the danger and heroism of the Nazi resistance. What is the price of acting morally in a time of great evil, when sin and necessity seem twinned? Saints and Villains is a strikingly resonant novel that dramatizes this painful dilemma through the fictional re-creation of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. This emblematic figure risked his life--and finally lost it--through his participation in the failed plot to assassinate Hitler and topple the Nazi regime. In a gripping and sweeping narrative that moves from Berlin to London to New York City, encompassing shattering historical events, clandestine meetings, perilous missions abroad, and eventual imprisonments and death, Denise Giardina brings to life an instance of shining courage in the charnel house that was Europe in the Second World War. A novel that is bold in conception and utterly convincing in its powers of fictional re-creation--a literary event.

Author : Denise Giardina
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393045710
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints and Villains written by Denise Giardina and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the price of acting morally in a time of great evil, when sin and necessity seem twinned? Saints and Villains is a strikingly resonant novel that dramatizes this painful dilemma through the fictional re-creation of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. This emblematic figure risked his life--and finally lost it--through his participation in the failed plot to assassinate Hitler and topple the Nazi regime. In a gripping and sweeping narrative that moves from Berlin to London to New York City, encompassing shattering historical events, clandestine meetings, perilous missions abroad, and eventual imprisonments and death, Denise Giardina brings to life an instance of shining courage in the charnel house that was Europe in the Second World War. A novel that is bold in conception and utterly convincing in its powers of fictional re-creation--a literary event.

Author : Denise Giardina
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613370387
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints And Villains written by Denise Giardina and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel based on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian and philosopher who was exectued by the Nazis in 1945 for plotting to assassinate Hitler.

Author : Denise Giardina
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0449004279
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints and Villains written by Denise Giardina and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1999-02-09 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the charnel house that was Europe in the Second World War, there were few instances of shining moral courage, let along secular sainthood. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian and Nazi resister was the exception. This emblematic figure risked his life--and finally lost it--through his participation in a failed plot to assassinate Hitler and topple his regime. Saints and Villains gives us this exemplary life in a sweeping narrative that is bold in conception and utterly convincing in its power of imaginative reconstruction.

Author : Stephen R. Haynes
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451418552
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bonhoeffer Phenomenon written by Stephen R. Haynes and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Haynes's provocative study articulates the many motives and agendas that readers and scholars have brought to their study of Bonhoeffer, making it difficult to assess objectively the relationship of his political and religious commitments, the real meaning of his theology, and his words and actions on behalf of Jews. Reading Haynes's book helps us learn not only what Bonhoeffer has to teach us but also what it is we most desire to learn.

Author : Denise Giardina
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393340279
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fallam's Secret: A Novel written by Denise Giardina and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-03-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master storyteller delivers an historical novel with a twist-what will become of a modern American woman in Cromwell's England? Returning home to West Virginia after her beloved Uncle John's death, Lydde finds that he has left her an odd legacy: a note with instructions that lead her to a remote mountain cave. When she falls into a crevasse, she finds she has followed her uncle farther than she thought-to Norchester, England, in 1657. Times are dark: the ruling Puritans have beheaded the king and prohibited song, dance, and even Christmas. Though she passes as a boy with her short hair and pants, local official Noah Fallam is still suspicious of her strange clothing and outspokenness. Luckily, she soon finds her uncle, and another man: the Raven, a bandit who provides for the poor through smuggling and robbery. The unlikely couple fall in love, and Lydde must decide where-and when-she belongs. This captivating story brings us close to Denise Giardina's signature concerns of faith and the way we treat the earth.

Author : Katherine Wood (editor of Writing America.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing America written by Katherine Wood (editor of Writing America.) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Keith Donohue
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780756707620
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing America written by Keith Donohue and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Writing America, published by the Nat. Endow. for the Arts (NEA), features the work of 50 NEA Literature Fellowship winners -- one from each state -- who paint a vivid portrait of the U.S. in the last decades of the 20th cent. They evoke the magnificent spectrum of people, places, and experiences that define America. Their biographies and personal narratives are stories in and of themselves, revealing each writer's own unique path to fulfill the call to write. The selections, which include a mix of poetry and prose, serve as inspiration to emerging writers and provide a glimpse of the tremendous vitality and diversity of contemporary American literature.

Author : Stephen R. Haynes
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451418545
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bonhoeffer Legacy written by Stephen R. Haynes and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stephen Haynes, whose volume The Bonhoeffer Phenomenon probed the many conflicting ways in which Bonhoeffer has been understood by Christians for their own uses, now brings new clarity to the vexed and controversial question of Bonhoeffer's relationship to Jews and the Jewish people. Haynes's text analyzes the historical record and Bonhoeffer's maturing theology and offers an analysis of Bonhoeffer himself, his work, and his legacy for a generation learning from the Holocaust."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Sigmund Brouwer
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780842365949
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lies of Saints written by Sigmund Brouwer and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Barrett is called in to solve a cold case, a former beauty queen's disappearance. Nick discovers an unlikely connection to a Citadel cadet's brutal hazing. His investigation circles closer to a century-old conspiracy to expose and punish the secret sins of Charleston's high society.