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Book Synopsis A Place Called Canterbury by : Dudley Clendinen
Download or read book A Place Called Canterbury written by Dudley Clendinen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist chronicles the lives of the elderly residents of Canterbury Towers, an assisted living community, and their philosophies on old age, including the journalist's mother.
Book Synopsis Walking to Canterbury by : Jerry Ellis
Download or read book Walking to Canterbury written by Jerry Ellis and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than six hundred years ago, the Archbishop of Canterbury was murdered by King Henry II’s knights. Before the Archbishop’s blood dried on the Cathedral floor, the miracles began. The number of pilgrims visiting his shrine in the Middle Ages was so massive that the stone floor wore thin where they knelt to pray. They came seeking healing, penance, or a sign from God. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, one of the greatest, most enduring works of English literature, is a bigger-than-life drama based on the experience of the medieval pilgrim. Power, politics, friendship, betrayal, martyrdom, miracles, and stories all had a place on the sixty mile path from London to Canterbury, known as the Pilgrim’s Way. Walking to Canterbury is Jerry Ellis’s moving and fascinating account of his own modern pilgrimage along that famous path. Filled with incredible details about medieval life, Ellis’s tale strikingly juxtaposes the contemporary world he passes through on his long hike with the history that peeks out from behind an ancient stone wall or a church. Carrying everything he needs on his back, Ellis stops at pubs and taverns for food and shelter and trades tales with the truly captivating people he meets along the way, just as the pilgrims from the twelfth century would have done. Embarking on a journey that is spiritual and historical, Ellis reveals the wonders of an ancient trek through modern England toward the ultimate goal: enlightenment.
Book Synopsis The Canterbury Sisters by : Kim Wright
Download or read book The Canterbury Sisters written by Kim Wright and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the vein of Jojo Moyes and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, a warm and touching novel about a woman who embarks on a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral after losing her mother, sharing life lessons—in the best Chaucer tradition—with eight other women along the way, from the author of the upcoming novel Last Ride to Graceland. Che Milan’s life is falling apart. Not only has her longtime lover abruptly dumped her, but her eccentric, demanding mother has recently died. When an urn of ashes arrives, along with a note reminding Che of a half-forgotten promise to take her mother to Canterbury, Che finds herself reluctantly undertaking a pilgrimage. Within days she joins a group of women who are walking the sixty miles from London to the shrine of Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, reputed to be the site of miracles. In the best Chaucer tradition, the women swap stories as they walk, each vying to see who can best describe true love. Che, who is a perfectionist and workaholic, loses her cell phone at the first stop and is forced to slow down and really notice the world around her, perhaps for the first time in years. Through her adventures along the trail, Che finds herself opening up to new possibilities in life and discovers that the miracles of Canterbury can take surprising forms.
Download or read book Chaucer's Tale written by Paul Strohm and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A lively microbiography of Geoffrey Chaucer, the "father of English literature", focusing on the surprising and fascinating story of the tumultuous year that led to the creation of the Canterbury Tales"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis A Place Called Zamora by : L. B. Gschwandtner
Download or read book A Place Called Zamora written by L. B. Gschwandtner and published by Zamora Chronicles. This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The love story of Niko and El unfolds against the backdrop of a brutal dystopian regime in a city ruled by Premier Villinkash, his Overseers, Protectors and Watchers.Following the "Collapse," trust and hope have ceased to exist, memory has been "Cleansed" and electronic InCom screens monitor the people with daily lists to follow while they urge people to inform on neighbors. Children born during the Collapse are housed in penitentiary-like "Centers."When Niko escapes one of these centers, he melts into the city and begins life on the street. One day he meets lovely, innocent, El, who's been raised by two elderly nuns in the last convent to survive the Collapse.Niko and El's developing love is threatened when Niko is forced to compete in the regime's cynical rooftop motorcycle race where only one rider can possibly survive.Although Niko survives, when he chooses as his prize not one of the pimped up girls the regime has pre-selected, but the girl he loves - natural, innocent, El - he instantly becomes an enemy of the state. Relentlessly hunted after a bold escape from the Compound where he and El have been sequestered, even El has turned on him after being humiliated at the hands of the regime. But they are thrown together again in a desperate attempt to survive the Regime's wrath. While Niko and El hide and run, an urban guerrilla force of children trained by renegade priest, Father Ignatius, using the name "Niko" as their resistance cry, wreak havoc on the regime while Niko and El reluctantly rely on each other for a dangerous overland expedition to Zamora, a possibly mythical place where, if they can find it, they hope to be safe.Zamora probes whether love can survive a brutal political regime that pits people against each other to secure its hold on power. Surprise twists and turns in this intricate plot will keep readers guessing about who is really on the side of good and who can be trusted when all is not what it appears.
Book Synopsis A Pilgrimage to Eternity by : Timothy Egan
Download or read book A Pilgrimage to Eternity written by Timothy Egan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "the world's greatest tour guide," a deeply-researched, captivating journey through the rich history of Christianity and the winding paths of the French and Italian countryside that will feed mind, body, and soul (New York Times). "What a wondrous work! This beautifully written and totally clear-eyed account of his pilgrimage will have you wondering whether we should all embark on such a journey, either of the body, the soul or, as in Egan's case, both." --Cokie Roberts "Egan draws us in, making us feel frozen in the snow-covered Alps, joyful in valleys of trees with low-hanging fruit, skeptical of the relics of embalmed saints and hopeful for the healing of his encrusted toes, so worn and weathered from their walk."--The Washington Post Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Timothy Egan decided to follow in the footsteps of centuries of seekers to force a reckoning with his own beliefs. He embarked on a thousand-mile pilgrimage through the theological cradle of Christianity to explore the religion in the world that it created. Egan sets out along the Via Francigena, once the major medieval trail leading the devout to Rome, and travels overland via the alpine peaks and small mountain towns of France, Switzerland and Italy, accompanied by a quirky cast of fellow pilgrims and by some of the towering figures of the faith--Joan of Arc, Henry VIII, Martin Luther. The goal: walking to St. Peter's Square, in hopes of meeting the galvanizing pope who is struggling to hold together the church through the worst crisis in half a millennium. A thrilling journey, a family story, and a revealing history, A Pilgrimage to Eternity looks for our future in its search for God.
Book Synopsis Canterbury Tales by : Geoffrey Chaucer
Download or read book Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere Text) by : Geoffrey Chaucer
Download or read book Selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere Text) written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Lion's World by : Rowan Williams
Download or read book The Lion's World written by Rowan Williams and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams offers fascinating insight into The Chronicles of Narnia, the popular series of novels by one of the most influential Christian authors of the modern era, C. S. Lewis. Lewis once referred to certain kinds of book as a "mouthwash for the imagination." This is what he attempted to provide in the Narnia stories, argues Williams: an unfamiliar world in which we could rinse out what is stale in our thinking about Christianity--"which is almost everything," says Williams--and rediscover what it might mean to meet the holy. Indeed, Lewis's great achievement in the Narnia books is just that-he enables readers to encounter the Christian story "as if for the first time." How does Lewis makes fresh and strange the familiar themes of Christian doctrine? Williams points out that, for one, Narnia itself is a strange place: a parallel universe, if you like. There is no "church" in Narnia, no religion even. The interaction between Aslan as a "divine" figure and the inhabitants of this world is something that is worked out in the routines of life itself. Moreover, we are made to see humanity in a fresh perspective, the pride or arrogance of the human spirit is chastened by the revelation that, in Narnia, you may be on precisely the same spiritual level as a badger or a mouse. It is through these imaginative dislocations that Lewis is able to communicate--to a world that thinks it knows what faith is--the character, the feel, of a real experience of surrender in the face of absolute incarnate love. This lucid, learned, humane, and beautifully written book opens a new window onto Lewis's beloved stories, revealing the moral wisdom and passionate faith beneath their perennial appeal.
Book Synopsis Black's Picturesque Tourist and Road-book of England and Wales by : Adam and Charles Black (Firm)
Download or read book Black's Picturesque Tourist and Road-book of England and Wales written by Adam and Charles Black (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Black's Picturesque Tourist and Road-book of England and Wales written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Handmaid's Tale by : Margaret Atwood
Download or read book The Handmaid's Tale written by Margaret Atwood and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.
Download or read book Refugee Tales written by Ali Smith and published by Comma Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway across… A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers ‘acting on a tip-off’ and, despite having paid taxes for 28 years, is suddenly cast into the detention system with no obvious means of escape… An orphan whose entire life has been spent in slavery – first on a Ghanaian farm, then as a victim of trafficking – writes to the Home Office for help, only to be rewarded with a jail sentence and indefinite detention… These are not fictions. Nor are they testimonies from some distant, brutal past, but the frighteningly common experiences of Europe’s new underclass – its refugees. While those with ‘citizenship’ enjoy basic human rights (like the right not to be detained without charge for more than 14 days), people seeking asylum can be suspended for years in Kafka-esque uncertainty. Here, poets and novelists retell the stories of individuals who have direct experience of Britain’s policy of indefinite immigration detention. Presenting their accounts anonymously, as modern day counterparts to the pilgrims’ stories in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, this book offers rare, intimate glimpses into otherwise untold suffering.
Book Synopsis Table of references to royal charters, from Æthilbert of Kent to Edward I., contained in the Cartæ Antiquæ and the Confirmation Rolls of Chancery. Also Calendar of royal charters occurring in letters of inspeximus, exemplification or confirmation, and in Cartularies in the Public Record Office, extending from Æthilbert of Kent to Henry I. Prepared by W. H. H. Taken from the 27th, 29th, and 30th Reports of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records by : William Henry HART (F.S.A.)
Download or read book Table of references to royal charters, from Æthilbert of Kent to Edward I., contained in the Cartæ Antiquæ and the Confirmation Rolls of Chancery. Also Calendar of royal charters occurring in letters of inspeximus, exemplification or confirmation, and in Cartularies in the Public Record Office, extending from Æthilbert of Kent to Henry I. Prepared by W. H. H. Taken from the 27th, 29th, and 30th Reports of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records written by William Henry HART (F.S.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Man of Law's Tale by : Geoffrey Chaucer
Download or read book The Man of Law's Tale written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Canterbury Tales by : Geoffrey Chaucer
Download or read book The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 963 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Then you compared a woman's love to Hell, To barren land where water will not dwell, And you compared it to a quenchless fire, The more it burns the more is its desire To burn up everything that burnt can be. You say that just as worms destroy a tree A wife destroys her husband and contrives, As husbands know, the ruin of their lives. ” ― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales are collection of stories by Chaucer, each attributed to a fictional medieval pilgrim.
Book Synopsis Bibliotheca Cantiana: a Bibliographical Account of what Has Been Published on the History, Topography, Antiquities ... of the County of Kent by : John Russel Smith
Download or read book Bibliotheca Cantiana: a Bibliographical Account of what Has Been Published on the History, Topography, Antiquities ... of the County of Kent written by John Russel Smith and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
