Author: Craig Curtis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
When death proves as elusive as a meaningful life, when HIV is no longer a license to party into the final sunrise, when reality finally jars the nameless protagonist fully awake, the rootless, wayfaring opportunist of Curtis's debut novel turns on the demons at his heels and bites back."--BOOK JACKET.
Fabulous Hell
Author: Craig Curtis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
When death proves as elusive as a meaningful life, when HIV is no longer a license to party into the final sunrise, when reality finally jars the nameless protagonist fully awake, the rootless, wayfaring opportunist of Curtis's debut novel turns on the demons at his heels and bites back."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
When death proves as elusive as a meaningful life, when HIV is no longer a license to party into the final sunrise, when reality finally jars the nameless protagonist fully awake, the rootless, wayfaring opportunist of Curtis's debut novel turns on the demons at his heels and bites back."--BOOK JACKET.
Works
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
Author: John Matteson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393247082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their enduring legacy for America. December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln’s government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country’s law, literature, politics, and popular mythology. Taken together, their stories offer a striking restatement of what it means to be American. Guided by patriotism, driven by desire, all five moved toward singular destinies. A young Harvard intellectual steeped in courageous ideals, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. confronted grave challenges to his concept of duty. The one-eyed army chaplain Arthur Fuller pitted his frail body against the evils of slavery. Walt Whitman, a gay Brooklyn poet condemned by the guardians of propriety, and Louisa May Alcott, a struggling writer seeking an authentic voice and her father’s admiration, tended soldiers’ wracked bodies as nurses. On the other side of the national schism, John Pelham, a West Point cadet from Alabama, achieved a unique excellence in artillery tactics as he served a doomed and misbegotten cause. A Worse Place Than Hell brings together the prodigious forces of war with the intimacy of individual lives. Matteson interweaves the historic and the personal in a work as beautiful as it is powerful.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393247082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their enduring legacy for America. December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln’s government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country’s law, literature, politics, and popular mythology. Taken together, their stories offer a striking restatement of what it means to be American. Guided by patriotism, driven by desire, all five moved toward singular destinies. A young Harvard intellectual steeped in courageous ideals, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. confronted grave challenges to his concept of duty. The one-eyed army chaplain Arthur Fuller pitted his frail body against the evils of slavery. Walt Whitman, a gay Brooklyn poet condemned by the guardians of propriety, and Louisa May Alcott, a struggling writer seeking an authentic voice and her father’s admiration, tended soldiers’ wracked bodies as nurses. On the other side of the national schism, John Pelham, a West Point cadet from Alabama, achieved a unique excellence in artillery tactics as he served a doomed and misbegotten cause. A Worse Place Than Hell brings together the prodigious forces of war with the intimacy of individual lives. Matteson interweaves the historic and the personal in a work as beautiful as it is powerful.
The Poetical Works of John Milton
Author: John Milton
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Universal Classics Library
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Religion Medici
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387000677
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387000677
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
English Belles-lettres
Author: Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Dante in English Literature from Chaucer to Cary (c. 1380-1844)
Author: Paget Jackson Toynbee
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
The Poetical Works of John Milton. With Notes of Various Authors. Third Edition, with Other Illustrations; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Documents in His Majesty's State-Paper Office, Now First Published. By ... H. J. Todd
Author: John Milton
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description