Author: George Sand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Spiridion. Translated from the French
Author: George Sand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Spiridion ... Translated from the French
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ISBN: 9780461240818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780461240818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Spiridion
Author: George Sand
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438456263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Both Gothic and philosophical, Spiridion tells the story of a young novice, Angel, who finds himself cruelly ostracized by his monastic superiors and terrified by the ghostly visits of his monastery's founder, the abbot Spiridion. Though he founded the monastery on the search for truth, Spiridion watched his once intelligent and virtuous monks degenerate into a cruel, mindless community. Turning away from the Church and withdrawing into his cell, he poured his energy into a manuscript that tells the "truth" about Roman Catholic doctrine and monastic life and provides a vision of a new and eternal gospel. The manuscript was buried with him, and his spirit now searches for a monk who is intelligent enough to exhume it from his crypt, which is guarded by hellish spirits, and share its vision with the world. Translated into English for the first time in more than 160 years, Spiridion offers a fierce critique of Catholic doctrine as well as solutions for living with the Church's teachings. Although Sand had broken with the Church several years earlier, she nevertheless continued to believe in an omnipotent God, and her novel makes the distinction, as Angel's protector, Father Alexis, puts it, "between the authority of faith and the application of this authority in the hands of men." As translator Patricia J. F. Worth argues in her introduction, the novel's emphasis on freedom of inquiry, benevolence, and moral reform inspired other nineteenth-century writers, including Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Matthew Arnold, and Henry James, and the novel is also relevant to twenty-first-century discussions of religious authority and rigid adherence to doctrine.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438456263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Both Gothic and philosophical, Spiridion tells the story of a young novice, Angel, who finds himself cruelly ostracized by his monastic superiors and terrified by the ghostly visits of his monastery's founder, the abbot Spiridion. Though he founded the monastery on the search for truth, Spiridion watched his once intelligent and virtuous monks degenerate into a cruel, mindless community. Turning away from the Church and withdrawing into his cell, he poured his energy into a manuscript that tells the "truth" about Roman Catholic doctrine and monastic life and provides a vision of a new and eternal gospel. The manuscript was buried with him, and his spirit now searches for a monk who is intelligent enough to exhume it from his crypt, which is guarded by hellish spirits, and share its vision with the world. Translated into English for the first time in more than 160 years, Spiridion offers a fierce critique of Catholic doctrine as well as solutions for living with the Church's teachings. Although Sand had broken with the Church several years earlier, she nevertheless continued to believe in an omnipotent God, and her novel makes the distinction, as Angel's protector, Father Alexis, puts it, "between the authority of faith and the application of this authority in the hands of men." As translator Patricia J. F. Worth argues in her introduction, the novel's emphasis on freedom of inquiry, benevolence, and moral reform inspired other nineteenth-century writers, including Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Matthew Arnold, and Henry James, and the novel is also relevant to twenty-first-century discussions of religious authority and rigid adherence to doctrine.
Forster Collection
Author: South Kensington Museum. Forster Collection
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets, Tracts, Etc., Chiefly Political and Controversial
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Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Spiridion (1839)
Author: Title George Sand, pse
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498158152
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1839 Edition.
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498158152
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1839 Edition.
Spiridion
Author: George Sand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Encyclopedia of the Novel
Author: Paul Schellinger
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135918333
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 2557
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of the Novel is the first reference book that focuses on the development of the novel throughout the world. Entries on individual writers assess the place of that writer within the development of the novel form, explaining why and in exactly what ways that writer is importnant. Similarly, an entry on an individual novel discusses the importance of that novel not only form, analyzing the particular innovations that novel has introduced and the ways in which it has influenced the subsequent course of the genre. A wide range of topic entries explore the history, criticism, theory, production, dissemination and reception of the novel. A very important component of the Encyclopedia of the Novel is its long surveys of development of the novel in various regions of the world.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135918333
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 2557
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of the Novel is the first reference book that focuses on the development of the novel throughout the world. Entries on individual writers assess the place of that writer within the development of the novel form, explaining why and in exactly what ways that writer is importnant. Similarly, an entry on an individual novel discusses the importance of that novel not only form, analyzing the particular innovations that novel has introduced and the ways in which it has influenced the subsequent course of the genre. A wide range of topic entries explore the history, criticism, theory, production, dissemination and reception of the novel. A very important component of the Encyclopedia of the Novel is its long surveys of development of the novel in various regions of the world.
The London Catalogue of Books
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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