The Devils Church And Other Stories

Author : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786336
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Church and Other Stories written by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modem Brazilian short story begins with the mature work of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), acclaimed almost unanimously as Brazil's greatest writer. Collectively, these nineteen stories are representative of Machado's unique style and world view, and this translation doubles the number of his stories previously available in English. The stories in this volume reflect Machado's post-1880 emphasis on social satire and experimentation in psychological realism. If he had continued to produce the moralistic love stories and parlor intrigues of his earlier fiction, Machado's legacy would have been an entertaining but inconsequent body of work. However, by 1880 he had begun a devastating satirical assault on society through his fiction. In spite of his ruthlessness, Machado does at times reveal an ironic sympathy for his characters. He is not indifferent to human conflict but uses humor and irony to stress the absurdity of these conflicts, acted out against the backdrop of an indifferent universe. Such a spectacle creates a sense of helplessness that can only inspire wistful amusement. In his technical mastery of the short story. Machado was decades ahead of his contemporaries and can still be considered more modern than most of the modernists themselves. That his stories elicit such strong and diverse reactions today is a tribute to their richness, complexity, and significance.

Author : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780292753402
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Church and Other Stories written by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Machado de Assis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780586071298
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Church written by Machado de Assis and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Os Guinness
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1585586021
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dining with the Devil written by Os Guinness and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What shapes the message of the church? The Bible and Spirit? Or society and culture? Os Guinness points out perils of compromise in the church growth movement.

Author : Machado de Assis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780856355745
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Church written by Machado de Assis and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Monica Walters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781983092183
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil Goes to Church Too written by Monica Walters and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why some people in the church can be so mean, judgmental, and holier than thou? Raquel Brooks finds out first-hand when at the tender age of fifteen, her life takes a drastic turn. She grows up, living a sheltered life, thanks to her mother, being naïve to the ways of the world. Due to that, her eyes are closed to the fact that going to church doesn't make a person holy. She learns that from her own parents, then from members at the church she goes to. Raquel's life is nothing short of a roller coaster ride, filled with sadness, depression, but most of all, her desire to be loved. Things happen that could be detrimental to Raquel's future, but she refuses to give up. There is one particular person that needs her to keep her sanity. So, Raquel is determined to succeed, despite the circumstances. Will she be able to overcome adversity or will the people that's supposed to mean her the most good, contribute to her downfall?

Author : Alexei Remizov
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231545169
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Devil and Other Stories written by Alexei Remizov and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a dilapidated and isolated old house, something peculiar seems to happen whenever the town’s bestial exterminator visits. On a seemingly bucolic country estate, the head of the household is a living corpse obsessed with other corpses. An adolescent boy who passes his days in private dream worlds experiences a sexual awakening spurred by his family’s scandalous tenant. In these and other stories, the modernist writer Alexei Remizov offers a panorama of Russian mythology, the supernatural, rural grotesques, and profound religious faith in fiery revolutionary settings. Alexei Remizov was one of the greatest writers of the Russian symbolist movement of the early twentieth century. In the thirteen stories collected in this volume, his exceptional stylistic achievements are on full display. Equally drawing on rural colloquial speech, the language of Russian fairy tales, and the customs of the Old Believers and Russian Orthodoxy, they transport the reader into a mysterious world in between uncanny folktales and encroaching modernity. The Little Devil and Other Stories includes works from across Remizov’s career, encompassing his thematic preoccupations and stylistic experimentation. Antonina W. Bouis’s translation captures Remizov’s many registers to offer English-language readers a sampling of a remarkable Russian writer.

Author : Ahmed Hany Hassanain
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1409210103
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil Repents and Other Stories written by Ahmed Hany Hassanain and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-06-27 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Novlettes:The Devil Repents: The devil wanted to be a believer and went to the USA president who asked representatives of religions to decide. Could they decide easily?Nefert:The sould of an old Egyptian princess returns to find her lover after the temple's men killed them. Is it true?The Intelligence Comedy;An Iraqi professor fled from Saddam regime to reach the USA to be accused of being a terrorist acting to spread Anthrax after 9/11. He came with a forged passport and a faked identity. Could he prove his real identity while being in a conflict between CIA and FBI?Secrets of Nora:When mothers have sexual problems what is the effect upon kids?

Author : Gavin Baddeley
Publisher : Plexus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0859658783
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucifer Rising written by Gavin Baddeley and published by Plexus Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucifer Rising is a popular history of Satanism: from Old Testament lore to the posturing of the world's most notorious heavy metal rock bands, all is made accessible. Containing many candid interviews with modern-day Satanists and controversial rock stars, this book makes light of popular culture's darkest secret.

Author : Louis Becke
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rídan the Devil and Other Stories written by Louis Becke and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So back he went to Mulifanua. The boat voyage from Apia down the coast inside the reef is not a long one, but the Samoan crew were frightened to have such a man free; so they tied him hand and foot and then lashed him down tightly under the midship thwart with strips of green fau bark. Not that they did so with unnecessary cruelty, but ex-Lieutenant Schwartzkoff, the foreman, was looking on, and then, besides that, this big-boned, light-skinned man was a foreigner, and a Samoan hates a foreigner of his own colour if he is poor and friendless. And then he was an aitu a devil, and could speak neither Samoan, nor Fijian, nor Tokelau, nor yet any English or German....FROM THE BOOKS.