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Author : Ethel Lilian Voynich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Gadfly written by Ethel Lilian Voynich and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer Miller
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547569661
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The Year of the Gadfly written by Jennifer Miller and published by HMH. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A darkly witty mystery set at a New England prep school: “Part Dead Poets Society. Part Heathers. Entirely addictive” (Glamour). “Do you know what it took for Socrates’ enemies to make him stop pursuing the truth?” “Hemlock.” The fiercely competitive Mariana Academy was founded with a serious honor code; its reputation has been unsullied for decades. But now, a long-dormant secret society called Prisom’s Party seems to have reemerged, threatening the school’s placid halls with vigilante justice, exposing students and teachers alike for even the most minor infraction. Iris Dupont, a budding journalist whose only confidant is the chain-smoking specter of Edward R. Murrow, feels sure she can break into the ranks of the Devil’s Advocate, the Party’s underground newspaper, and there uncover the source of its blackmail schemes and vilifying rumors. Some involve the school’s new science teacher, who also seems to be investigating the Party. Others point to an albino student who left school abruptly ten years before, never to return. And everything connects to a rare book called Marvelous Species. But the truth comes with its own dangers, and Iris is torn between her allegiances, her reporter’s instinct, and her own troubled past, in this “darkly comic romp” filled with double-crosses and deeply buried secrets (The Washington Post).
Author : E. L. Voynich
Publisher : Aeterna Classics
ISBN 13 : 3964542148
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (645 download)
Download or read book The Gadfly written by E. L. Voynich and published by Aeterna Classics. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gadfly is a novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich, published in 1897, set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings. The story centers on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton, as a member of the Youth movement, and his antagonist, Padre Montanelli. A thread of a tragic relationship between Arthur and his love Gemma simultaneously runs through the story. It is a story of faith, disillusionment, revolution, romance, and heroism.
Author : Todd Eklof
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781070524481
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (244 download)
Download or read book The Gadfly Papers written by Todd Eklof and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gadfly Papers is a collection of three essays written by Rev. Dr. Todd F. Eklof about the negative impacts the emerging culture of Political Correctness, Safetyism, and Identitarianism is having on America's most liberal religion. It's written specifically for Unitarian Universalists who care about the future of their faith, but will prove of interest to anyone seeking to understand how today's identity politics can fundamentally alter any institution, and presents a seminal case-study for researchers of this timely subject. The Gadfly Papers is a substantive, well argued work that's based on plenty of credible scholarship, yet is written in a conversational tone that makes its complex subject matter easy to understand. Whether you're a Unitarian Universalist, a student of history, social science, politics, or simply value the rare but refreshing application of logic, The Gadfly Papers is a book you won't put down until it's finished.
Author : Ethel Voynich
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1678199605
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (781 download)
Download or read book The Gadfly written by Ethel Voynich and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-03-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gadfly is a novel by Irish writer Ethel Voynich, published in 1897 (United States, June; Great Britain, September of the same year), set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings.[1] The story centres on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton, as a member of the Youth movement, and his antagonist, Padre Montanelli. A thread of a tragic relationship between Arthur and his love, Gemma, simultaneously runs through the story. It is a story of faith, disillusionment, revolution, romance, and
Author : Ethel Voynich
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (58 download)
Download or read book The Gadfly written by Ethel Voynich and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2017-03-26T04:39:04Z with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gadfly is set in 1840s Italy, at a time when the country was chafing under Austrian rule. The titular character is a charming, witty writer of pointed political satires who finds himself running with a crowd of revolutionaries. The plot develops as the revolutionaries struggle against the government and as the Gadfly struggles with a mysterious hatred of the Church, and of a certain Cardinal. The novel, with its complex themes of loyalty, romance, revolution, and struggle against both establishment and religion, was very popular in its day both in its native Ireland and other countries like Russia and China. In Russia, the book was so popular that it became required reading. Since its publication it has also been adapted into film, opera, theater, and ballet, and its popularity spurred Voynich to write sequels and prequels. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author : Todd F Eklof
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Gadfly Affair written by Todd F Eklof and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom, reason, tolerance. These are the values American Unitarianism was founded upon in the late 18th century: the same Enlightenment principles that had also inspired the nation's founders. Until recently, it was unthinkable that this liberal religion would be capable of banning books and silencing dissenters. But this is precisely what happened after Unitarian Universalist minister Todd Eklof wrote his book, "The Gadfly Papers: Three Inconvenient Essays by One Pesky Minister." Just hours after he began distributing it during the Unitarian Universalist Association's 2019 General Assembly, he was surrounded by five angry representatives of the Association, chastising him for the "harm" he was causing with a book none of them had read. Before the day ended, he was banned from returning to the Assembly and boxes of his book were soon confiscated and thrown away. He was then publicly condemned by hundreds of his colleagues in a letter calling his book racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, and classist, without citing a single example from within its pages. "The Gadfly Affair" is this 21st century heretic's gripping and meticulously documented account of what transpired between the time he was banned and eventually excommunicated from America's most liberal religion. "The Gadfly Affair" further exposes the ideological intolerance now manifesting in progressive organizations everywhere, a social phenomenon that is ushering the whole of Western culture into a new Dark Ages. "The Gadfly Affair" is about finding the moral courage to respond to what's happening in our society with the same forces that have always illuminated humanity's path in the darkest of times-freedom, reason, and tolerance.
Author : Ethel Voynich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922491268
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Gadfly written by Ethel Voynich and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most exciting novel I have ever read" - Bertrand Russell "Masterpiece of story telling" - The New York Times
Author : Kathleen Kinsolving
Publisher : Wnd Books
ISBN 13 : 9781935071808
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)
Download or read book Gadfly written by Kathleen Kinsolving and published by Wnd Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From time to time, in every era, there emerges a journalist who roams the halls of power like a roaring lion, seeking whatever liars he may devour. Les Kinsolving has filled that role for decades, and his maverick reporting style has endeared him to a host of fans that watch with glee while Kinsolving makes politicians squirm.
Author : Ethel Lilian Voynich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Gadfly written by Ethel Lilian Voynich and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul W. Van der Veur
Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Lion and the Gadfly written by Paul W. Van der Veur and published by Brill. This book was released on 2006 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principles of Anatomy and Physiology is designed to be comprehensive enough to provide the background necessary for those courses not requiring prerequisites and yet is concise so as not to confuse and overwhelm students. The Tate text features realistic illustrations and exceptional photographs that, along with clear, straight-forward writing and an emphasis on clinical material help students develop a solid understanding of anatomy and physiology concepts. Explanations have just the right amount of detail, with usually only one example instead of two or three. Other texts use several complex figures to illustrate many concepts—Tate uses less, but more efficient, art. The result is a shorter, simplified textbook that covers all of the major points found in more lengthy texts, but is easier to read and more economical in price.
Author : Ethel Lilian Voynich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Gadfly written by Ethel Lilian Voynich and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Gadfly is a novel by Irish-born British writer Ethel Voynich, published in 1897 ... set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings. The story centres on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton. A thread of a tragic relationship between Arthur and his love, Gemma, simultaneously runs through the story. It is a tale of faith, disillusionment, revolution, romance, and heroism ... Arthur Burton, an English Catholic, travels to Italy to study to be a priest. He discovers radical ideas, renounces Catholicism, fakes his death and leaves Italy. While away he suffers great hardship, but returns with renewed revolutionary fervour. He becomes a journalist, expounding radical ideas in brilliant satirical tracts published under the pseudonym "the gadfly". The local authorities are soon dedicated to capturing him. Gemma, his lover, and Padre Montanelli, his Priest (and also secretly his biological father), show various forms of love via their tragic relations with the focal character of Arthur: religious, romantic, and family. The story compares these emotions to those Arthur experiences as a revolutionary, particularly drawing on the relationship between religious and revolutionary feelings. This is especially explicit at the climax of the book, where sacred descriptions intertwine with reflections on the Gadfly's fate"--From Wikipedia, viewed November 10, 2023.
Author : Eliseo Perez-Alvarez
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227903587
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)
Download or read book A Vexing Gadfly written by Eliseo Perez-Alvarez and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay on Soren Kierkegaard and economic matters from a theological perspective is well grounded in the Dane's journals. In these writings, the late nineteenth-century thinker shows his solidarity with rural residents (90 percent of the population) and urbanite menial workers. Topics include the option for the poor; the ideology of impotence; the denouncing of a competitive society; the correlation of wealth and poverty; media, church, university, and theatre as social institutions shaping reality; Christendom; and the retribution doctrine.
Author : Alan Sillitoe
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504035046
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Gadfly in Russia written by Alan Sillitoe and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir and literary travelogue from one of the UK’s most esteemed novelists offers rare insight into Cold War–era Russia. In 1967, seeking an escape from his writing life, bestselling British novelist Alan Sillitoe embarks on a road trip from England to Russia via Harwich and Finland in his sturdy Peugeot. During his teens, the author had a cartographic fascination with the Battle of Stalingrad, and decades later he is still armed with intricate maps of the country based on British military intelligence, including one of the road from Leningrad to Moscow to Kiev, which he drew himself. Also in tow are a prismatic compass, binoculars, and a shortwave radio receiver. However, despite being so well prepared, Sillitoe embarks with naiveté about the political precariousness of an Englishman in the eyes of the Soviet regime. After passing through the endless days of a Scandinavian summer and a prolonged stop at a border control checkpoint—with his maps hidden in a secret compartment of the car—Sillitoe arrives in Leningrad. There, he meets George Andjaparidze, a worldly and candid English student who has been assigned by the Writers’ Union to serve as the author’s guide and keep him out of trouble. Though Sillitoe would rather continue his journey solo, Andjaparidze grows on him, and they begin what will become a lasting friendship. As soon as the duo leaves Leningrad, adventures and misadventures ensue. En route to Moscow, Sillitoe and Andjaparidze end up racing a pack of middle-age men in German sports cars partaking in a Berlin-to-Moscow rally. Sillitoe and Andjaparidze’s time in the capital is equally fast-paced, consisting of late nights fueled by vodka, impounded rubles, caviar breakfasts, erudite parties, and a pat on the back from a traffic cop for writing about the working class. A winding drive across western Russia and into Yugoslavia follows, replete with rebellious literature students, a speech on freedom, a visit to Tolstoy’s estate, accusations of espionage, and a near-fatal run-in with a brigade of Red Army tanks. At last the writer and guide reach their destination: Kursk, that fateful place where a Soviet victory in 1943 turned back the Nazi tide. But the story continues long after the road trip ends. Back in England, Andjaparidze visits Sillitoe and the two are caught up in a controversy surrounding the defection of the Soviet writer Anatoly Kuznetsov. Written from the perspective of another trip to Russia forty years later (Sillitoe was invited in 2005 by the British Council to return to Moscow), this travelogue provides a rare and intimate look at the country’s history, a compassionate understanding of its troubled ideology, and a frank portrayal of its undeniable lure.
Author : E. a. Bucchianeri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789899684454
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Brushstrokes of a Gadfly written by E. a. Bucchianeri and published by . This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in New York and New Jersey during the early 1990s, "Brushstrokes of a Gadfly" reveals the story of Katherine Walsingham, the only daughter of the CEO and Chairman of Walsingham Industries, an international cosmetic and pharmaceutical company that has been in the family for generations. Daunted by its global proportions, she has no real interest in the business other than its sentimental value. An artist by calling and temperament, a lover of literature, a philosophical idealist and animal rights activist unafraid to speak her mind, Katherine has a talent for leaping ahead with anything that seems like a good idea at the time ... often landing in hot water with her sharp tongue and allegorical paintings to the consternation and amusement of everyone around her. Setting her heart on opening her own gallery when she graduates from an elite art college, life is good. With a trust fund to secure her, she has no real worries that are the plague of struggling artists, but soon discovers wealth does not guarantee a smooth passage in life, for all her plans do not turn out exactly as she expected. Opening a gallery is not an easy task, and Katherine must quickly learn to balance art and business, demanding customers and harsh art critics, family tragedies and disappointments. With so much to do, romance is the last thing on her mind, and despite her best efforts to avoid any entanglements, falls in love with one of New York's most eligible bachelors. From her own reticence to become involved with anyone, to the rumours spread about his family, it is a relationship that seems doomed, but Katherine finds that love will blossom where it will and cannot be controlled or stifled, nor the joy and heartache that accompanies it. "Brushstrokes of a Gadfly" is a story brimming with vibrant and entertaining characters that only New York's High Society and art circles can provide. It is a colourful and amusing novel tinged with human tragedy.
Author : Peter Bridges
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781606351161
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Donn Piatt written by Peter Bridges and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Peter Bridges presents the life of an American who in his day was both famous and influential, and, through Piatt, sheds light on much of the corruption and injustice of the Gilded Age. This biography is the latest volume in the ADST-DACOR series on Diplomats and Diplomacy.Peter Bridges holds degrees from Dartmouth College and Columbia University.
Author : E. L. Voynich
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775418928
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)
Download or read book The Gadfly written by E. L. Voynich and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous period in the nineteenth century during which parts of Italy fell under Austria's control, The Gadfly is an engrossing historical romance that blends the passion of a revolutionary uprising with the intensity of a newly blossoming relationship. A must-read for fans of historically compelling romances.
