Author: Joe Moshenska
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541620690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
An innovative and elegant new biography of John Milton from an acclaimed Oxford professor John Milton was once essential reading for visionaries and revolutionaries, from William Blake to Ben Franklin. Now, however, he has become a literary institution—intimidating rather than inspiring. In Making Darkness Light, Oxford professor Joe Moshenska rediscovers a poet whose rich contradictions confound his monumental image. Immersing ourselves in the rhythms and textures of Milton’s world, we move from the music of his childhood home to his encounter with Galileo in Florence into his idiosyncratic belief system and his strange, electrifying imagination. Making Darkness Light will change the way we think about Milton, the place of his writings in his life, and his life in history. It is also a book about Milton’s place in our times: about our relationship with the Western canon, about why and how we read, and about what happens when we let someone else’s ideas inflect our own.
Making Darkness Light
Author: Joe Moshenska
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541620690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
An innovative and elegant new biography of John Milton from an acclaimed Oxford professor John Milton was once essential reading for visionaries and revolutionaries, from William Blake to Ben Franklin. Now, however, he has become a literary institution—intimidating rather than inspiring. In Making Darkness Light, Oxford professor Joe Moshenska rediscovers a poet whose rich contradictions confound his monumental image. Immersing ourselves in the rhythms and textures of Milton’s world, we move from the music of his childhood home to his encounter with Galileo in Florence into his idiosyncratic belief system and his strange, electrifying imagination. Making Darkness Light will change the way we think about Milton, the place of his writings in his life, and his life in history. It is also a book about Milton’s place in our times: about our relationship with the Western canon, about why and how we read, and about what happens when we let someone else’s ideas inflect our own.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541620690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
An innovative and elegant new biography of John Milton from an acclaimed Oxford professor John Milton was once essential reading for visionaries and revolutionaries, from William Blake to Ben Franklin. Now, however, he has become a literary institution—intimidating rather than inspiring. In Making Darkness Light, Oxford professor Joe Moshenska rediscovers a poet whose rich contradictions confound his monumental image. Immersing ourselves in the rhythms and textures of Milton’s world, we move from the music of his childhood home to his encounter with Galileo in Florence into his idiosyncratic belief system and his strange, electrifying imagination. Making Darkness Light will change the way we think about Milton, the place of his writings in his life, and his life in history. It is also a book about Milton’s place in our times: about our relationship with the Western canon, about why and how we read, and about what happens when we let someone else’s ideas inflect our own.
Milton the Mighty
Author: Emma Read
Publisher: Chicken House
ISBN: 1912626314
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
When little spider Milton discovers he's been branded deadly on social media - and is targeted by pest-killers BugKILL - he fears for his life and the future of his species. He must clear his name, but is he mighty enough to achieve the impossible: convincing humankind?
Publisher: Chicken House
ISBN: 1912626314
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
When little spider Milton discovers he's been branded deadly on social media - and is targeted by pest-killers BugKILL - he fears for his life and the future of his species. He must clear his name, but is he mighty enough to achieve the impossible: convincing humankind?
The Carriage Journal
Author: Jill Ryder
Publisher: Carriage Assoc. of America
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
J.A. Allen: The Horseman's Bookseller 51 Some Faults of Driving Horses 52 Memories of the 1993 CAA Conference 54 Trans-Mississippi Transport: Part IX 56 Canadian Carriage Driving Classic 61 Barbara Brewster Taylor 62 Conservation Treatment of a Grand Due 65 Carriage Museum Tour to Holland/Belgium 69 The Last English Mail Coaches 71 Photo: A Zebra Four-in-Hand 74 The Restoration of a Tip Cart 76 Devon Horse Show Pleasure Marathon 79 Freedman Harness Expands 80 departments View from the Box 50 Looking Back 78 Letters to the Editor 81 Questions & Answers 82 Book Reviews 83
Publisher: Carriage Assoc. of America
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
J.A. Allen: The Horseman's Bookseller 51 Some Faults of Driving Horses 52 Memories of the 1993 CAA Conference 54 Trans-Mississippi Transport: Part IX 56 Canadian Carriage Driving Classic 61 Barbara Brewster Taylor 62 Conservation Treatment of a Grand Due 65 Carriage Museum Tour to Holland/Belgium 69 The Last English Mail Coaches 71 Photo: A Zebra Four-in-Hand 74 The Restoration of a Tip Cart 76 Devon Horse Show Pleasure Marathon 79 Freedman Harness Expands 80 departments View from the Box 50 Looking Back 78 Letters to the Editor 81 Questions & Answers 82 Book Reviews 83
Saxby
Author: Emma Leslie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
"In this, the fourth volume of the second series of Church History series, a more familiar period is brought before our readers. The rise of the Puritans was the necessary outcome of the attempt to limit the growth and expansion of the Reformation in the Church of England." -- Preface (p. [5]).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
"In this, the fourth volume of the second series of Church History series, a more familiar period is brought before our readers. The rise of the Puritans was the necessary outcome of the attempt to limit the growth and expansion of the Reformation in the Church of England." -- Preface (p. [5]).
Only a Fool Would Have Believed It in the First Place
Author: Faith Hartmann
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9781479735945
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Sometimes comical or bizarre, and at other times pathetic and tragic, this cautionary story is for persons wanting and needing to find an ally as they struggle with breaking away from a destructive religious environment. Buoyant and hopeful overtones often battle with discordant angry and bitter undertones as this book consistently lays bare the detrimental dark core at the heart of one womans lengthy Christian experience. Since far too many other persons have fallen into similarly laid traps by con-artist leaders of the institutional church, this book provides possible psychological rescue tools.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9781479735945
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Sometimes comical or bizarre, and at other times pathetic and tragic, this cautionary story is for persons wanting and needing to find an ally as they struggle with breaking away from a destructive religious environment. Buoyant and hopeful overtones often battle with discordant angry and bitter undertones as this book consistently lays bare the detrimental dark core at the heart of one womans lengthy Christian experience. Since far too many other persons have fallen into similarly laid traps by con-artist leaders of the institutional church, this book provides possible psychological rescue tools.
Savannah Bound
Author: Nikki Stoddard Schofield
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1496910125
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Nikki Stoddard Schofield is the author of three previously-published Civil War novels. Bondage and Freedom, A Civil War Romance is about guerrilla warfare in East Tennessee with a Yankee nurse, Lydia, who is suffering from post traumatic stress, and Brinton Good, a Confederate captain who does his military duties while also caring for her. Alas Richmond, A Civil War Romance, is about Verity, a Southern belle, and Giles, an Englishman and a Union spy, during the final days of the capital of the Confederacy. Treason Afoot, A Civil War Romance, tells the story of the Indianapolis Treason Trials in 1864 in Ms. Schofield's hometown. Emeline Tanner and Jay Hadley live through those tumultuous times, which resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court decision of Ex Parte Milligan. Nikki is currently doing research on her next novel, Confederates in Canada. Ms. Schofield is the mother of two sons, Rob who lives with his wife Vicki in Ohio, and Gaven who lives with his wife Christine and three daughters in Virginia. She has five granddaughters, Bridget, Stephanie, Abigail, Gabrielle, and Lily; one grandson, Nicholas; one great-grandson, Gonzalo, and one great-granddaughter, Bella. From 1974 to 2012, Nikki was the law librarian at the Indianapolis office of Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP, formerly Bingham Summers Welsh & Spilman. Upon entering phased retirement, she took a second job as the Staff Genealogist at Crown Hill Cemetery, where she works on Fridays. Also at Crown Hill, the third largest private cemetery in the country, Nikki serves as a tour guide specializing in the Civil War personalities. In October 2011, Nikki began volunteering one day a week at the Indiana State Library, Manuscript and Rare Book Division, where she creates finding aids available on the Internet. Many of the items Nikki summarizes in these finding aids are from Civil War collections. This work enables her to read what people of that era wrote and thought, thus providing authenticity to her novels. A member of Speedway Baptist Church, Ms. Schofield is an ordained deacon, moderator of the business meetings, adult Sunday school teacher, and assistant treasurer. For five years, she served as one of two representatives from the North Central region on the Coordinating Council of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship with which her church is affiliated. As president of the Indianapolis Civil War Round Table for two terms, Nikki was elected for a third term in May 2013. She has also served the club as director for the annual trips, secretary, and newsletter editor. Ms. Schofield gave first-person presentations of Civil War women including Belle Boyd, Confederate spy; Mary Surratt, Lincoln conspirator; Mary Ann Morrison Jackson, wife of Stonewall Jackson; Helen Pitts Douglass, the second wife of orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass; Lucinda Morton, the wife of Indiana's Civil War Governor; Susan Slater, Confederate spy; and several others. Ms. Schofield is a member of the Baptist History & Heritage Society as well as a member of the Fellowship of Baptist Historians
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1496910125
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Nikki Stoddard Schofield is the author of three previously-published Civil War novels. Bondage and Freedom, A Civil War Romance is about guerrilla warfare in East Tennessee with a Yankee nurse, Lydia, who is suffering from post traumatic stress, and Brinton Good, a Confederate captain who does his military duties while also caring for her. Alas Richmond, A Civil War Romance, is about Verity, a Southern belle, and Giles, an Englishman and a Union spy, during the final days of the capital of the Confederacy. Treason Afoot, A Civil War Romance, tells the story of the Indianapolis Treason Trials in 1864 in Ms. Schofield's hometown. Emeline Tanner and Jay Hadley live through those tumultuous times, which resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court decision of Ex Parte Milligan. Nikki is currently doing research on her next novel, Confederates in Canada. Ms. Schofield is the mother of two sons, Rob who lives with his wife Vicki in Ohio, and Gaven who lives with his wife Christine and three daughters in Virginia. She has five granddaughters, Bridget, Stephanie, Abigail, Gabrielle, and Lily; one grandson, Nicholas; one great-grandson, Gonzalo, and one great-granddaughter, Bella. From 1974 to 2012, Nikki was the law librarian at the Indianapolis office of Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP, formerly Bingham Summers Welsh & Spilman. Upon entering phased retirement, she took a second job as the Staff Genealogist at Crown Hill Cemetery, where she works on Fridays. Also at Crown Hill, the third largest private cemetery in the country, Nikki serves as a tour guide specializing in the Civil War personalities. In October 2011, Nikki began volunteering one day a week at the Indiana State Library, Manuscript and Rare Book Division, where she creates finding aids available on the Internet. Many of the items Nikki summarizes in these finding aids are from Civil War collections. This work enables her to read what people of that era wrote and thought, thus providing authenticity to her novels. A member of Speedway Baptist Church, Ms. Schofield is an ordained deacon, moderator of the business meetings, adult Sunday school teacher, and assistant treasurer. For five years, she served as one of two representatives from the North Central region on the Coordinating Council of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship with which her church is affiliated. As president of the Indianapolis Civil War Round Table for two terms, Nikki was elected for a third term in May 2013. She has also served the club as director for the annual trips, secretary, and newsletter editor. Ms. Schofield gave first-person presentations of Civil War women including Belle Boyd, Confederate spy; Mary Surratt, Lincoln conspirator; Mary Ann Morrison Jackson, wife of Stonewall Jackson; Helen Pitts Douglass, the second wife of orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass; Lucinda Morton, the wife of Indiana's Civil War Governor; Susan Slater, Confederate spy; and several others. Ms. Schofield is a member of the Baptist History & Heritage Society as well as a member of the Fellowship of Baptist Historians
Practicing Utopia
Author: Rosemary Wakeman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022634603X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Rosemary Wakeman provides a sweeping history of "new towns"--those created by fiat rather than out of geographic or economic logic and often intended to break with the tendencies of past development. Heralded throughout the twentieth century as solutions to congestion, environmental threats, architectural malaise, and cultural anomie, today they are often seen as sad, pernicious, or merely suburban. Wakeman shows that hundreds of such towns sprang from templates and designs not only in North America and across Europe but around the world, revealing how different cultures dreamed of (re)organizing themselves. Wakeman also illuminates the missteps and unanticipated results of the initial optimistic choices and impulses.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022634603X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Rosemary Wakeman provides a sweeping history of "new towns"--those created by fiat rather than out of geographic or economic logic and often intended to break with the tendencies of past development. Heralded throughout the twentieth century as solutions to congestion, environmental threats, architectural malaise, and cultural anomie, today they are often seen as sad, pernicious, or merely suburban. Wakeman shows that hundreds of such towns sprang from templates and designs not only in North America and across Europe but around the world, revealing how different cultures dreamed of (re)organizing themselves. Wakeman also illuminates the missteps and unanticipated results of the initial optimistic choices and impulses.
Paradise Lost, Book 3
Author: John Milton
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Languages : en
Pages : 68
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The North British Review
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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The American Bibliopolist....
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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