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Diary of a Short-sighted Adolescent

Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908236210
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Diary of a Short-sighted Adolescent written by Mircea Eliade and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short-sighted adolescent is a passionate reader who takes various cultural figures as models, trying to emulate both their lives or their works. The pupil protagonist is a poor student, who likes science and reads a lot of books, sometimes staying up all night to do so. At the age of 17, he decides to write a novel to demonstrate to his teachers that he is not as mediocre as his other classmates, and that he is prepared to give up everything he holds dear in order to do so. The novel is written in a number of notebooks - the 'diary' of the title - but our myopic hero ultimately fails 3 subjects and has to repeat the school year. Set in the Romanian capital in the early 20th century, from the perspective of a schoolboy's diary of his daily life, - his teachers, his classmates' academic and amorous rivalries, his first sexual experiences - we are introduced to the themes of religion, self-knowledge, erotic sensibility, artistic creation and otherness, ideas which would preoccupy him until the end of his life. Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent was written by the young Mircea Eliade - one of Romania's greatest writers and intellectuals. The book can be viewed as an early 20th century 'Catcher in the Rye', and allows us an intimate view of the developing genius, whose literary output has been neglected in the English language for too lon.

DIARY OF A SHY GIRL

Author : Rejoyce Zikpi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 149316404X
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book DIARY OF A SHY GIRL written by Rejoyce Zikpi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diary Of A Shy Girl is a memoir of an adolescent girl. From a strict Pentecostal home, she feels alone and doesn’t open up easily to others about her home life, which she describes as unfair. She enjoys visiting her home country but she feels out of place. Her life is changed forever as she searches for the meaning of God in her life after her father passes away. When she finally falls in love, she doesn’t know how to make her feelings known to the one man she considers to be her first true love. Diary Of A Shy Girl is sure to amuse and perplex as it reveals the heart of an adolescent child growing up through the pressures and difficulties of puberty.

Journal of Romanian Studies

Author : Raluca Coman, Ioana Radu
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838216040
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Book Synopsis Journal of Romanian Studies by : Raluca Coman, Ioana Radu

Download or read book Journal of Romanian Studies written by Raluca Coman, Ioana Radu and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biannual, peer-reviewed Journal of Romanian Studies, jointly developed by The Society for Romanian Studies and ibidem Press, examines critical issues in Romanian studies, linking work in that field to wider theoretical debates and issues of current relevance, and serving as a forum for junior and senior scholars. The journal also presents articles that connect Romania and Moldova comparatively with other states and their ethnic majorities and minorities, and with other groups by investigating the challenges of migration and globalization and the impact of the European Union. Issue No. 6 is a Special Issue on Communication, guest-edited by Raluca Radu and Ioana Coman. It contains contributions by Radu Silaghi-Dumitrescu, Lucian-Vasile Szabo, Alla Rosca, Marius Dragomir, Dumitrița Holdiș, Cristina Lupu, Manuela Preoteasa, Marian Voicu, Antonio Momoc, Onoriu Colăcel, Tibori Szabo Zoltan, Andrei Richter, Paolo Mancini, Anca Șincan, Roland Clark, Dana Domsodi, R. Chris Davis.

Gaudeamus

Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908236340
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Gaudeamus written by Mircea Eliade and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exuberant and touching portrait of youth, Eliade recounts the fictional version of his university years in late 1920's Bucharest. Marked by a burgeoning desire to "suck out all the marrow of life," the protagonist throws himself into his studies; engaging his professors and peers in philosophical discourse, becoming one of the founding members of the Student's Union, and opening-up the attic refuge of his isolated teenage years as a hotspot for political debate and romantic exploration. Readers will recognize in these pages the joy of a life about to blossom, of the search for knowledge and the desire for true love. This follow-up to Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent reveals a keen observer of human behavior, a seeker of truth and spiritual fulfillment whose path would eventually lead him to become the ultimate historian of 20th-century religions.

Quaternity. Four Novellas from the Carpathians

Author : Maria Rybakova
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838215869
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Quaternity. Four Novellas from the Carpathians written by Maria Rybakova and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four thematically linked novellas that focus on obsessive relationships, stolen identities, and illusions of grandeur in the post-1989 Carpathian-Balkan region: ● An American expat in Europe appropriates the identity of a Romanian orphan in her desperate search for love. ● A dictator's daughter learns, while on a study trip to France, that her parents have been overthrown and are about to be executed. ● A minor character from a novel confronts her own insignificance. A wife announces to her husband of forty years that she's just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

An Unnatural History of Religions

Author : Leonardo Ambasciano
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350062405
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book An Unnatural History of Religions written by Leonardo Ambasciano and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Unnatural History of Religions examines the origins, development, and critical issues concerning the history of religion and its relationship with science. The book explores the ideological biases, logical fallacies, and unwarranted beliefs that surround the scientific foundations (or lack thereof) in the academic discipline of the history of religions, positioning them in today's 'post-truth' culture. Leonardo Ambasciano provides the necessary critical background to evaluate the most important theories and working concepts dedicated to the explanation of the historical developments of religion. He covers the most important topics and paradigm shifts in the field, such as phenomenology, postmodernism, and cognitive science. These are taken into consideration chronologically, each time with case studies on topics such as shamanism, gender biases, ethnocentrism, and biological evolution. Ambasciano argues that the roots of post-truth may be deep in human biases, but that historical justifications change each time, resulting in different combinations. The surprising rise of once-fringe beliefs, such as conspiracy theories, pseudoscientific claims, and so-called scientific creationism, demonstrates the alarming influence that post-truth ideas may exert on both politics and society. Recognising them before they spread anew may be the first step towards a scientifically renewed study of religion.

Sixteen

Author : Boy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Sixteen written by Boy and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The African Equation

Author : Yasmina Khadra
Publisher : Gallic Books
ISBN 13 : 1910477184
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The African Equation written by Yasmina Khadra and published by Gallic Books. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Khadra brings us deep into the hearts and minds of people living in unspeakable mental anguish."—Los Angeles Times Frankfurt MD Kurt Krausmann is devastated by his wife's suicide. Unable to make sense of what happened, Kurt agrees to join his friend Hans on a humanitarian mission to the Comoros. But, sailing down the Red Sea, their boat is boarded by Somali pirates and the men are taken hostage. The arduous journey to the pirates' desert hideout is only the beginning of Kurt's odyssey. He endures imprisonment and brutality at the hands of captors whose failings are all too human. As the situation deteriorates, it is fellow prisoner, Bruno, a long-time resident in Africa, who shows Kurt another side to the wounded yet defiant continent he loves. A giant of francophone writing, Algerian author Yasmina Khadra takes current events as a starting point to explore opposing views and myths of Africa and the West, ultimately delivering a powerful message of friendship, resilience, and redemption. Reviews "A skilled storyteller working at the height of his powers."—Times Literary Supplement "Like all the great storytellers of history, [Khadra] espouses the contradictions of his characters, who carry in themselves the entirety of the human condition."—Le Point "Algerian author Khadra (pen name of Mohammed Moulessehoul) shows us the dark side of Africa, but also one tinged with hope." Ultraviolent Lit "Yasmina Khadra takes current events as a starting point to explore opposing views and myths of Africa and the West, ultimately delivering a powerful message of friendship, resilience, and redemption." Africa Book Club.com "Polemic, but well worth reading." Zeb Kantrowitz, blogger

The Diary Of An Adolescent

Author : Saksham Chugh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781636333649
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book The Diary Of An Adolescent written by Saksham Chugh and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thsi book puts light on the life of teens.In this book you will see Sid and his friends doing crazy stuff but also realzising the value of life.

Youth Without Youth and Other Novellas

Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Youth Without Youth and Other Novellas written by Mircea Eliade and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three novellas set in Romania. In "The Cape," a saboteur prints phony copies of the Romanian party organ, Scinteia, antedating them by three years. The secret police, highly agitated, deduce that a worldwide peace organization is sending coded messages through the paper, derived from the beatitudes. In "Youth Without Youth," an old man is struck by a bolt of lightning and becomes young again. Now endowed with a fantastic memory and comprehension, he receives "thought" messages from the supernatural. "Nineteen Roses" concerns the secretary of a famous writer who finds himself reliving an experience that happened to his employer 30 years ago. The writer disappears and is presumed dead, but is he?

The Private Life of the Diary

Author : Sally Bayley
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783522232
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book The Private Life of the Diary written by Sally Bayley and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diaries keep secrets, harbouring our fantasies and fictional histories. They are substitute boyfriends, girlfriends, spouses and friends. But in this age of social media, the role of the diary as a private confidante has been replaced by a culture of public self-disclosure. The Private Life of the Diary: from Pepys to Tweets is an elegantly-told story of the evolution – and perhaps death – of the diary. It traces its origins to seventeenth-century naval administrator, Samuel Pepys, and continues to twentieth-century diarist Virginia Woolf, who recorded everything from her personal confessions about her irritation with her servants to her memories of Armistice Day and the solar eclipse of 1927. Sally Bayley explores how diaries can sometimes record our lives as we live them, but that we often indulge our fondness for self-dramatization, like the teenaged Sylvia Plath who proclaimed herself 'The Girl Who Would be God'. This book is an examination of the importance of writing and self-reflection as a means of forging identity. It mourns the loss of the diary as an acutely private form of writing. And it champions it as a conduit to self-discovery, allowing us to ask ourselves the question: Who or What am I in relation to the world?

Youth Without Youth

Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226204219
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Youth Without Youth written by Mircea Eliade and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-24 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the Iron Guard. Meanwhile, a man who has spent his life studying languages, poetry, and history—a man who thought his life was over—lies in a hospital bed, inexplicably alive and miraculously healthy, trying to figure out how to conceal his identity. At the intersection of the natural and supernatural, myth and history, dream and science, lies Mircea Eliade’s novella. Now in its first paperback edition, the psychological thriller features Dominic Matei, an elderly academic who experiences a cataclysmic event that allows him to live a new life with startling intellectual capacity. Sought by the Nazis for their medical experiments on the potentially life-prolonging power of electric shocks, Matei is helped to flee through Romania, Switzerland, Malta and India. Newly endowed with prodigious powers of memory and comprehension, he finds himself face to face with the glory and terror of the supernatural. In this surreal, philosophy-driven fantasy, Eliade tests the boundaries of literary genre as well as the reader’s imagination. Suspenseful, witty, and poignant, Youth Without Youth illuminates Eliade’s longing for past loves and new texts, his erotic imagination, and his love of a thrilling mystery. It was adapted for the screen in 2007 as Francis Ford Coppola’s first feature film in over ten years. “A wonderful blend of realism, surrealism, and fantasy, [Eliade’s novellas] suggest the importance of the mythic and the supernatural to finding meaning in the everyday. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal “Youth Without Youth reads like a surreal collaboration by Jorge Luis Borges, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Carl Jung. Mircea Eliade left me with the rare sense that I had been entertained by a genius.”—William Allen, author of Starkweather and The Fire in the Birdbath and Other Disturbances

The 6:41 to Paris

Author : Jean-Philippe Blondel
Publisher : New Vessel Press
ISBN 13 : 1939931312
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book The 6:41 to Paris written by Jean-Philippe Blondel and published by New Vessel Press. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades, former lovers come face to face in a novel filled with a “suspenseful dread that makes you want to turn every page at locomotive pace” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Cécile, a stylish forty-seven-year-old, has spent the weekend visiting her parents in a provincial town southeast of Paris. By early Monday morning, she’s exhausted. These trips back home are always stressful, and she settles into a train compartment with an empty seat beside her. But it’s soon occupied by a man she instantly recognizes: Philippe Leduc, with whom she had a passionate affair that ended in her brutal humiliation almost thirty years ago. In the fraught hour and a half that ensues, their express train hurtles toward the French capital. Cécile and Philippe undertake their own face-to-face journey—In silence? What could they possibly say to one another?—with the reader gaining entrée to the most private of thoughts. This intense, intimate novel offers “a taut, suspenseful psychological journey from which there is no escape . . . Gripping” (Kati Marton, author of Paris: A Love Story). “Perfectly written and a remarkably suspenseful read . . . Absorbing, intriguing, insightful.” —Library Journal (starred review)

The Teen Years Explained

Author : Clea McNeely
Publisher : Jayne Blanchard
ISBN 13 : 0615302467
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book The Teen Years Explained written by Clea McNeely and published by Jayne Blanchard. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide incorporates the latest scientific findings about physical, emotional, cognitive, identity formation, sexual and spiritual development in adolescent, with tips and strategies on how to use this information inreal-life situations involving teens.

Diary of a Teenage Mind

Author : Shavon Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781420869033
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Diary of a Teenage Mind written by Shavon Smith and published by . This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes I think happy the feeling just doesn't last. Sometimes I live for my future instead of living in my past. Sometimes I pray but God just don't listen. Sometimes I stare in the mirror and watch my tears glisten .. These are words coming straight from the pages of a teenage girl's diary. She has no name because this story, told in her own words, represents the face of what a lot of teenagers are experiencing today. She speaks for a generation of young adults no matter what the gender, race, or age. This is her diary, opened to tell the story of so many whose voices go unheard. Follow her through her dramatic times and witness her strength as she struggles to survive the pressures of being a teenager in this age of crime, violence, poverty, and death. Hopefully, as you read her story and embark on her emotional rollercoaster full of pain and confusion, as well as joy and triumph, you won't see the face of your own teen within these pages. If you do, let this story give you the confidence and the insight to reach out and save them.

Into the Wild

Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307476863
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Into the Wild written by Jon Krakauer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die. "It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —Entertainment Weekly McCandess had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Not long after, he was dead. Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the wild and whose story captured the world’s attention. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding—and not an ounce of sentimentality. Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.

For Two Thousand Years

Author : Mihail Sebastian
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241189624
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book For Two Thousand Years written by Mihail Sebastian and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Absolutely, definitively alone', a young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't belong. Spending his days walking the streets and his nights drinking and gambling, meeting revolutionaries, zealots, lovers and libertines, he adjusts his eyes to the darkness that falls over Europe, and threatens to destroy him. Mihail Sebastian's 1934 masterpiece, now translated into English for the first time, was written amid the anti-Semitism which would, by the end of the decade, force him out of his career and turn his friends and colleagues against him. For Two Thousand Years is a prescient, heart-wrenching chronicle of resilience and despair, broken layers of memory and the terrible forces of history.