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Author : Warren Hamilton Lewis
Publisher : London, Eyre & Spottiswoode
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Sunset of the Splendid Century written by Warren Hamilton Lewis and published by London, Eyre & Spottiswoode. This book was released on 1955 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jamel Ostwald
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004154892
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Vauban Under Siege written by Jamel Ostwald and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vauban under Siege" is the first systematic comparison of the theory of Vaubanian siegecraft with its reality, contrasting military engineering's pursuit of the efficient siege with generals' contradictory search for rapid conquest, purchased at the cost of additional lives.
Author : Henri Pirenne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.P/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Medieval Cities written by Henri Pirenne and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger White
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019021435X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book C. S. Lewis and His Circle written by Roger White and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over thirty years, the Oxford C. S. Lewis Society has met weekly in the medieval colleges of the University of Oxford. During that time, it has hosted as speakers nearly all those still living who were associated with the Inklings-the Oxford literary circle led by C. S. Lewis--as well as authors and thinkers of a prominence that nears Lewis's own. C. S. Lewis and His Circle offers the reader a chance to join this unique group. Roger White has worked with Society past presidents Brendan and Judith Wolfe to select the most important talks, which are here made available to the wider public for the first time. They exemplify the best of traditional academic essays, thoughtful memoirs, and informal reminiscences about C. S. Lewis and his circle. The reader will reimagine Lewis's Cosmic Trilogy with former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, read philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe's final word on Lewis's arguments for Christianity, hear the Reverend Peter Bide's memories of marrying Lewis and Joy Davidman in an Oxford hospital, and learn about Lewis's Narnia Chronicles from his former secretary. Representing the finest of both personal and scholarly engagement with C. S. Lewis and the Inklings, the talks collected here set a new tone for engagement with this iconic Oxford literary circle--a tone close to Lewis's own Oxford--bred sharpness and wryness, seasoned with good humor and genuine affection for C. S. Lewis and his circle.
Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0060819227
Total Pages : 1844 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3 written by C. S. Lewis and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters found in Volume II reveal inside accounts of how The Screwtape Letters came to be written, the early meetings of the Inklings (with J.R.R. Tolkien giving readings about "hobbits" and "Middle Earth"), how C.S. Lewis became popular through BBC radio talks, but mostly how this quiet professor in England touched the lives of many through an amazing discipline of personal correspondence.
Author : Cecelia Hopkins Porter
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252094131
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Five Lives in Music written by Cecelia Hopkins Porter and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing a historical cross-section of performance and training in Western music since the seventeenth century, Five Lives in Music brings to light the private and performance lives of five remarkable women musicians and composers. Elegantly guiding readers through the Thirty Years War in central Europe, elite courts in Germany, urban salons in Paris, Nazi control of Germany and Austria, and American musical life today, as well as personal experiences of marriage, motherhood, and widowhood, Cecelia Hopkins Porter provides valuable insights into the culture in which each woman was active. Porter begins with the Duchess Sophie-Elisabeth of Braunschweig-Lueneberg, a harpsichordist who also presided over seventeenth-century North German court music as an impresario. At the forefront of French Baroque composition, composer Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre bridged a widening cultural gap between the Versailles nobility and the urban bourgeoisie of Paris. A century later, Josephine Lang, a prodigiously talented pianist and dedicated composer, participated at various times in the German Romantic world of lieder through her important arts salon. Lastly, the twentieth century brought forth two exceptional women: Baroness Maria Bach, a composer and pianist of twentieth-century Vienna's upper bourgeoisie and its brilliant musical milieu in the era of Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, and Erich Korngold; and Ann Schein, a brilliant and dauntless American piano prodigy whose career, ongoing today though only partially recognized, led her to study with the legendary virtuosos Arthur Rubinstein and Myra Hess. Mining musical autographs, unpublished letters and press reviews, interviews, and music archives in the United States and Europe, Porter probes each musician's social and economic status, her education and musical training, the cultural expectations within the traditions and restrictions of each woman's society, and other factors. Throughout the lively and focused portraits of these five women, Porter finds common threads, both personal and contextual, that extend to a larger discussion of the lives and careers of female composers and performers throughout centuries of music history.
Author : Philip Zaleski
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374154090
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)
Download or read book The Fellowship written by Philip Zaleski and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A stirring group biography of the Inklings, the Oxford writing club featuring J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis."--
Author : David C. Downing
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666718939
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)
Download or read book The Most Reluctant Convert written by David C. Downing and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his teens, a young man wrote, “I believe in no religion. There is absolutely no proof for any of them.” After serving in the trenches of WW1, the same young man said, “I never sank so low as to pray.” To a religious friend, he wrote impatiently, “You can’t start with God. I don’t accept God!” This young man was C. S. Lewis, the “foul-mouthed atheist” who would become one of the most eloquent Christian writers of the twentieth century. David C. Downing offers a unique look at Lewis’s personal journey to faith and the profound influence it had on his life as a writer and eventual follower of Christ. This is the first book to focus on the period from Lewis’s childhood to his early thirties, a tumultuous journey of spiritual and intellectual exploration. It was not despite this journey but precisely because of it that Lewis understood the search for life’s meaning so well.
Author : Don W. King
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 080286936X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Yet One More Spring written by Don W. King and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joy Davidman (1915-1960) is probably best known today as the woman that C.S. Lewis married in the last decade of his life. But she was also an accomplished writer in her own right - an award-winning poet and a prolific book, theatre, and film reviewer during the late 1930s and early 1940s. This title provides a comprehensive critical study of Joy Davidman's poetry, nonfiction, and fiction.
Author : Susan Petit
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042012165
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Françoise Mallet-Joris written by Susan Petit and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1950's, with Le Rempart des béguines, La Chambre rouge, Cordélia, Les Mensonges and L'Empire céleste, down into the 1990's, with Adriana Sposa, Divine, Les Larmes, La Maison dont le chien est fou and Sept démons dans la ville, the work of Françoise Mallet-Joris has exercised a very special fascination over a very large readership. The content of her work, ever developing yet faithful to residual, either lived or observed, studied experience, is wide-ranging and unflinching - family relationships, the individual psyche, belief systems that move from quasi-nihilism to the mystical, sexuality, feminine consciousness, creativity, larger social frameworks, etc. - and she can move with ease from portrayal of the hypercontemporary to the researched - and finely imagined - historical reconstruction. Susan Petit, whose lively and elegantly written study addresses all these, and other, factors, argues modestly but wisely that "the works of Mallet-Joris provide stimulating, thought-provoking and coherent ways of apprehending ourselves and our human situation". One need ask no more of an author who, though perhaps personally drawn to certain perspectives, maintains an admirable openness and multiplicity of interrogation of existence.
Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hegel: Texts and Commentary written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1966 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : August Strindberg
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Six Plays of Strindberg written by August Strindberg and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1955 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Father; Miss Julie; The Stronger; Easter; A Dream Play; The Ghost Sonata.
Author : August Strindberg
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Madman's Defense written by August Strindberg and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Books. This book was released on 1967 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Madman's Defense, one of the series of autobiographical novels by the great Swedish playwright, gives the author's version of his marriage to his first wife, Siri von Essen. The book is a searing and astonishingly frank account of the dissolution of a union in which the protagonist depicts himself slowly being driven mad as his wife mocks his work and his manhood, consorts with other men, and leaves him to live with a Lesbian friend. Although this book stands on its own as a novel, it has particular interest for the student of Strindberg's dramatic works. As Evert Sprinchorn points out in his Introduction: "A Madman's Defense is one of the most fascinating of Strindberg's works for the light it sheds on his genius as a playwright. The situation it presents is resolved in The Father, which was written before it, and in which the wife is permitted to drive her husband to utter insanity. In Miss Julie and The Creditors, which followed closely upon Defense, the Siri-Strindberg relationship is studied from two other points of view, both clearly set forth in the novel. Few authors have let us examine so closely the creative process -- the process by which 'real experiences' are subjected to the pattern-making genius of the artist to produce different versions of the truth."
Author : Monroe Stearns
Publisher : Franklin Watts
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV. written by Monroe Stearns and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1971 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Monroe Stearns
Publisher : Franklin Watts
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Louis XIV of France written by Monroe Stearns and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1971 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Sun King who strengthened France in many ways but at the same time planted the seeds for the French Revolution through his neglect and persecution of peasants and Huguenots.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
