The Life Written By Himself

Author : Archpriest Avvakum
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231552491
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life Written by Himself written by Archpriest Avvakum and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moscow in the middle of the seventeenth century had a distinctly apocalyptic feel. An outbreak of the plague killed half the population. A solar eclipse and comet appeared in the sky, causing panic. And a religious reform movement intended to purify spiritual life and provide for the needy had become a violent political project that cleaved Russian society and the Orthodox Church in two. The autobiography of Archpriest Avvakum—a leader of the Old Believers, who opposed liturgical and ecclesiastical reforms—provides a vivid account of these cataclysmic events from a figure at their center. Written in the 1660s and ’70s from a cell in an Arctic village where the archpriest had been imprisoned by the tsar, Avvakum’s autobiography is a record of his life, ecclesiastical career, painful exile, religious persecution, and imprisonment. It is also a salvo in a contest about whether to follow the old Russian Orthodox liturgy or import Greek rites and practices. These concerns touched every stratum of Russian society—and for Avvakum, represented an urgent struggle between good and evil. Avvakum’s autobiography has been a cornerstone of Russian literature since it first circulated among religious dissidents. One of the first Russian-language autobiographies and works of any sort to make use of colloquial Russian, its language and style served as a model for writers such as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Gorky. The Life Written by Himself is not only an important historical document but also an emotionally charged and surprisingly conversational self-portrait of a crucial figure in a tumultuous time.

Author : Phineas Taylor Barnum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life of P. T. Barnum written by Phineas Taylor Barnum and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Avvakum Petrovich (Protopope)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archpriest Avvakum, the Life Written by Himself written by Avvakum Petrovich (Protopope) and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Box Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown, written by himself written by Henry Box Brown and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of a slave in Virginia and his escape to Philadelphia.

Author : Henry Bibb
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
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Download or read book Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave written by Henry Bibb and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Wesley Hardin
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387808605
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of John Wesley Hardin written by John Wesley Hardin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-05-12 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wesley Hardin was the only Wild West outlaw to write his autobiography. This new 2018 edition of his prison-penned memoirs includes an introduction and footnotes by author and translator Damian Stevenson ('On the Shortness of Life') which help shed light on this most enigmatic of Old West legends.

Author : John Ernest
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807888850
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself written by John Ernest and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the most celebrated escape in the history of American slavery. Henry Brown had himself sealed in a three-foot-by-two-foot box and shipped from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, a twenty-seven-hour journey to freedom. In Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself, Brown not only tells the story of his famed escape, but also recounts his later life as a black man making his way through white American and British culture. Most important, he paints a revealing portrait of the reality of slavery, of the wife and children sold away from him, the home to which he could not return, and his rejection of the slaveholders' religion--painful episodes that fueled his desire for freedom. This edition comprises the most complete and faithful representation of Brown's life, fully annotated for the first time. John Ernest also provides an insightful introduction that places Brown's life in its historical setting and illuminates the challenges Brown faced in an often threatening world, both before and after his legendary escape.

Author : Edward Hyde of Clarendon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Author : John Lennon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451625995
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works written by John Lennon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An omnibus edition of two works of John Lennon’s “fascinating…whimsy” (The Sunday Times, London) poetry, prose, and drawings that will “jolt [you] into gusts of laughter” (The Guardian). A humorous compilation of poetry, prose, and artwork from two of John Lennon’s classic works, In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works. Known as the Beatles’s Renaissance man, Lennon is widely regarded as one of the most impactful musicians in history. Originally published in 1964, this “quirky, funny collection of stories, poems, and drawings” (The New York Times) is a must-have for John Lennon and Beatles fans everywhere.

Author : Robert Montgomery Bird
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
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