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Three Legs in the Evening

Author : Bette Ann Moskowitz
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803412070
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Three Legs in the Evening written by Bette Ann Moskowitz and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Legs in the Evening comes from the Sphinx's riddle in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, in which Oedipus is asked what creature walks on all fours in the morning, on two legs in the afternoon, and three in the evening. The answer, which Oedipus gets right, is Man, who crawls as a baby, walks upright as a man, and leans on a cane in his old age. Received wisdom, in other words, can be unreliable. Enter the story of Sally B, an over-sixty widow about to retire from her successful greeting card business in the aftermath of 9/11. She has a devoted family who relies on her wit and wisdom. But suddenly all hell breaks loose — her best friend dies, she falls into an open grave and she breaks her ankle. As this is happening, her children’s marital lives are unraveling, her grandchildren are in turmoil, and a man she has known from a time before comes back in her life. Taking place over a year, this is a story of love in a time of horror, as well as the profound and surprising ways in which everything Sally thought she knew changes. Sexy, funny and heart-wrenching, and much like Kent Haruf's Our Souls At Night, Three Legs in the Evening speaks about people running out of steam, running out of time, and finding solace and wisdom even in the finality of all that. A life carefully built can crumble in a moment, but what happens then? Sally B. plays it out as best she can.

A Romance on Three Legs

Author : Katie Hafner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608190455
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book A Romance on Three Legs written by Katie Hafner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glenn Gould was famous for his obsessions: the scarves, sweaters and fingerless gloves that he wore even on the hottest summer days; his deep fear of germs and illness; the odd wooden "pygmy" chair that he carried with him wherever he performed; and his sudden withdrawal from the public stage at the peak of his career. But perhaps Gould's greatest obsession of all was for a particular piano, a Steinway concert grand known as CD318 (C, meaning for the use of Steinway Concert Artists only, and D, denoting it as the largest that Steinway built). A Romance on Three Legs is the story of Gould's love for this piano, from the first moment of discovery, in a Toronto dept. store, to the tragic moment when the piano was dropped and seriously damaged while being transported from a concert overseas. Hafner also introduces us to the world and art of piano tuning, including a central character in Gould's life, the blind tuner Verne Edquist, who lovingly attended to CD318 for more than two decades. We learn how a concert grand is built, and the fascinating story of how Steinway & Sons weathered the war years by supplying materials for the military effort. Indeed, CD318 came very close to ending up as a series of glider parts or, worse, a casket. The book has already been lauded by Kevin Bazzana, author of the definitive Gould biography, who notes that Hafner "has clarified some old mysteries and turned up many fresh details."

Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life

Author : Marjorie Garber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136612831
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life written by Marjorie Garber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bisexuality is about three centuries overdue . . . nevertheless, here it is: a learned, witty study of how our curious culture has managed to get everything wrong about sex." -Gore Vidal

Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, Volume I

Author :
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191619272
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, Volume I written by and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition makes available an entirely new version of Hegel's lectures on the development and scope of world history. Volume I presents Hegel's surviving manuscripts of his introduction to the lectures and the full transcription of the first series of lectures (1822-23). These works treat the core of human history as the inexorable advance towards the establishment of a political state with just institutions-a state that consists of individuals with a free and fully-developed self-consciousness. Hegel interweaves major themes of spirit and culture-including social life, political systems, commerce, art and architecture, religion, and philosophy-with an historical account of peoples, dates, and events. Following spirit's quest for self-realization, the lectures presented here offer an imaginative voyage around the world, from the paternalistic, static realm of China to the cultural traditions of India; the vast but flawed political organization of the Persian Empire to Egypt and then the Orient; and the birth of freedom in the West to the Christian revelation of free political institutions emerging in the medieval and modern Germanic world. Brown and Hodgson's new translation is an essential resource for the English reader, and provides a fascinating account of the world as it was conceived by one of history's most influential philosophers. The Editorial Introduction surveys the history of the texts and provides an analytic summary of them, and editorial footnotes introduce readers to Hegel's many sources and allusions. For the first time an edition is made available that permits critical scholarly study, and translates to the needs of the general reader.

Lectures on the Philosophy of Art

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199694826
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Lectures on the Philosophy of Art written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hegel gave lecture series on aesthetics or the philosophy of art in various university terms, but never published a book of his own on this topic. His student, H. G. Hotho, compiled auditors' transcripts from these separate lecture series and produced from them the three volumes on aesthetics in the standard edition of Hegel's collected works. Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert has now published one of these transcripts, the Hotho transcript of the 1823 lecture series, and accompanied it with a very extensive introductory essay treating many issues pertinent to a proper understanding of Hegel's views on art. She persuasively argues that the evidence shows Hegel never finalized his views on the philosophy of art, but modified them in significant ways from one lecture series to the next. In addition, she makes the case that Hotho's compilation not only concealed this circumstance, by the harmony he created out of diverse source materials, but also imposed some of his own views on aesthetics, views that differ from Hegel's and that the ongoing interpretation of the aesthetics part of Hegel's philosophy has unfortunately taken to be Hegel's own. This translation of the German volume, which contains the first publication of the Hotho transcript and Gethmann-Siefert's essay, makes these important materials accessible to the English reader, materials that should put the English-speaking world's future understanding and interpretation of Hegel's philosophy of art on a sounder footing.

Interrogating the Tradition

Author : Charles E. Scott
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791444023
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Interrogating the Tradition written by Charles E. Scott and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-01-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constitutes a thoughtful survey of contemporary hermeneutics in its historical context.

The Three Legged Table: The Three Principles of Life Living

Author : Victor T Ehre Jr.
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 163338408X
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book The Three Legged Table: The Three Principles of Life Living written by Victor T Ehre Jr. and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaac Newton's Second Law of Inertia postulates that a body in motion tends to continue at the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an outside force. The book, The Three Legged Table, challenges the reader not to accept things in their lives as they are, but presents the three Principles in every person's life and how one can affect the changes needed to redirect them towards the goals they seek. The Three Legged Table offers eighteen words that, when they a

Morning, Noon, and Night

Author : Arnold Weinstein
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679604472
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Morning, Noon, and Night written by Arnold Weinstein and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Homer and Shakespeare to Toni Morrison and Jonathan Safran Foer, major works of literature have a great deal to teach us about two of life’s most significant stages—growing up and growing old. Distinguised scholar Arnold Weinstein’s provocative and engaging new book, Morning, Noon, and Night, explores classic writing’s insights into coming-of-age and surrendering to time, and considers the impact of these revelations upon our lives. With wisdom, humor, and moving personal observations, Weinstein leads us to look deep inside ourselves and these great books, to see how we can use art as both mirror and guide. He offers incisive readings of seminal novels about childhood—Huck Finn’s empathy for the runaway slave Jim illuminates a child’s moral education; Catherine and Heathcliff’s struggle with obsessive passion in Wuthering Heights is hauntingly familiar to many young lovers; Dickens’s Pip, in Great Expectations, must grapple with a world that wishes him harm; and in Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical Persepolis, little Marjane faces a different kind of struggle—growing into adolescence as her country moves through the pain of the Iranian Revolution. In turn, great writers also ponder the lessons learned in life’s twilight years: both King Lear and Willy Loman suffer as their patriarchal authority collapses and death creeps up; Brecht’s Mother Courage displays the inspiring indomitability of an aging woman who has “borne every possible blow. . . but is still standing, still moving.” And older love can sometimes be funny (Rip Van Winkle conveniently sleeps right through his marriage) and sometimes tragic (as J. M. Coetzee’s David Lurie learns the hard way, in Disgrace). Tapping into the hearts and minds of memorable characters, from Sophocles’ Oedipus to Artie in Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Morning, Noon, and Night makes an eloquent and powerful case for the role of great literature as a knowing window into our lives and times. Its intelligence, passion, and genuine appreciation for the written word remind us just how crucial books are to the business of being human.

The Rat-Pit

Author : Patrick MacGill
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Rat-Pit written by Patrick MacGill and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing work tells the tragic story of a Donegal girl named Norah Ryan. Righteous and intelligent Norah left her homeland after her father's death, desiring a better life across the water. Unable to get out of the cycle of poverty, Norah's fate is drastically affected when she becomes pregnant by Alec Morrison, the son of the farmer on whose land she lived and worked in awful conditions. Set in Ireland and Scotland in the early 1900s and based on actual events, 'The Rat-Pit' follows her struggles against poverty.

Home Game

Author : Paul Quarrington
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307364070
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Home Game written by Paul Quarrington and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathanael "Crybaby" Isbister was once the greatest baseball player in the world, but now he's a down-on-his-luck drifter on the road to oblivion. That is until he wanders into a circus sideshow troupe stranded in a tiny Michigan town dominated by a hellfire-and brimstone religious sect. The sect vows to drive the troupe out, but give them one unlikely chance to remain--the baseball game to end all baseball games. A funny, moving novel, Home Game walks the straight but delicate line between absurdity and compassion with dazzling style and expertise.

Necronomicon

Author : Donald Tyson
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 9780738706276
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Necronomicon written by Donald Tyson and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "supposed" translation of H.P. Lovecraft's 1920 forbidden text: Necronomicon.

Name-Given

Author : David McLean
Publisher : Palmer Higgs Pty Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0980809517
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Name-Given written by David McLean and published by Palmer Higgs Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cast into the night, four young travellers must venture from the comfort of their villages to find their names. Each has a staff, a challenge and a history of riddling to help them on their way. But the press-heavy sounds of animals approaching, the limb-sky of the forest and the fear of the unknown are all about. How will they survive? The answer may just be in the riddle – “What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?”

Riddles, Ancient and Modern

Author : Mark Bryant
Publisher : Peter Bedrick Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riddles, Ancient and Modern written by Mark Bryant and published by Peter Bedrick Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this unique book Mark Bryant has collected hundreds of the best riddles of all time, drawn from sources throughout the world. They range from simple jokes about fleas and worms enjoyed by earthy peasants to highly sophisticated puzzles composed by some of the greatest names in the world of letters, from Schiller, Swift and Cervantes to Edgar All Poe, Lewis Carroll and J.R.R. Tolkien. To introduce this anthology, Mark Bryant traces the history of riddles from their origins in pre-classical antiquity to modern times."--Jacket.

Serpent

Author : Nicholas Mosley
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564782441
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Serpent written by Nicholas Mosley and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason is a scriptwriter working on a film about Masada--the fortress where a thousand Jews killed themselves rather than be taken prisoner by the Romans in A. D. 73. He doubts that a film both honest and popular on such a subject can be made, and, while en route to the production site (Jason, producers and stars in first class--his wife and child in tourist), a dispute about the film and a crisis aboard the plane forces Jason to look at his life, his art, and the world around him in several different ways at once.

The Pantheon Gate

Author : Nicholas I. C. Dixon
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434997820
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The Pantheon Gate written by Nicholas I. C. Dixon and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wanderer

Author : Fritz Leiber
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497616972
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Wanderer written by Fritz Leiber and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Hugo Award–winning disaster epic from the Science Fiction Grand Master “ranks among [his] most ambitious works” (SFSite). The Wanderer inspires feelings of pure terror in the hearts of the five billion human beings inhabiting Planet Earth. The presence of an alien planet causes increasingly severe tragedies and chaos. However, one man stands apart from the mass of frightened humanity. For him, the legendary Wanderer is a mere tale of bizarre alien domination and human submission. His conception of the Wanderer bleeds into unrequited love for the mysterious “she” who owns him.

Holidays, Holy Days, and Special Days

Author : William Powell Tuck
Publisher : Energion Publications
ISBN 13 : 163199154X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Holidays, Holy Days, and Special Days written by William Powell Tuck and published by Energion Publications. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What’s a preacher to do with holidays? Some seem to almost preach themselves, especially those in the church calendar. Others are more secular or may seem to conflict with the church calendar. Some are even controversial and require a gentle, but firm touch of the preacher’s art. William Powell Tuck is a master preacher and in this book he demonstrates his sensitivity to the issues raised by some of the holidays and special days of the year along with his grounding in biblical studies, theology, and homiletics. You can read these sermons as essays if you want, but they are not light devotionals. They are serious efforts to grapple honestly with issues and to guide a church community in learning and growing as they celebrate their lives, their families, and their communities. For the preacher, these sermons can serve as models for how to approach these days, as well as providing insight into the various issues involved.