Percy's Predicament

Percy's Predicament PDF Author: W. Awdry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781855912083
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Percy's Predicament

Percy's Predicament PDF Author: W. Awdry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781855912083
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Lost in the Cosmos

Lost in the Cosmos PDF Author: Walker Percy
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453216340
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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“A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke . . . to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Filled with quizzes, essays, short stories, and diagrams, Lost in the Cosmos is National Book Award–winning author Walker Percy’s humorous take on a familiar genre—as well as an invitation to serious contemplation of life’s biggest questions. One part parody and two parts philosophy, Lost in the Cosmos is an enlightening guide to the dilemmas of human existence, and an unrivaled spin on self-help manuals by one of modern America’s greatest literary masters.

The Moviegoer

The Moviegoer PDF Author: Walker Percy
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453216251
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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In this National Book Award–winning novel from a “brilliantly breathtaking writer,” a young Southerner searches for meaning in the midst of Mardi Gras (The New York Times Book Review). On the cusp of his thirtieth birthday, Binx Bolling is a lost soul. A stockbroker and member of an established New Orleans family, Binx’s one escape is the movie theater that transports him from the falseness of his life. With Mardi Gras in full swing, Binx, along with his cousin Kate, sets out to find his true purpose amid the excesses of the carnival that surrounds him. Buoyant yet powerful, The Moviegoer is a poignant indictment of modern values, and an unforgettable story of a week that will change two lives forever. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Walker Percy including rare photos from the author’s estate.

Walker Percy and the Crisis of Meaning

Walker Percy and the Crisis of Meaning PDF Author: Justin N. Bonanno
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031370236
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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In this book, Justin N. Bonanno builds off of the recent philosophical work on Walker Percy’s writings. While it is valuable to appreciate Percy as a novelist, Bonanno approaches Percy from the perspective of Continental philosophy and the rhetorical tradition. Unpacking the works of several key authors that influenced Percy (e.g. Sartre and Heidegger), Bonanno offers a fresh philosophical account of Percy's ideas concerning the relationship between symbols and existence. In particular, he focuses on how Percy’s ideas emerge from the thought of Ernst Cassirer, Susanne Langer, Jacques Maritain, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gabriel Marcel, Martin Heidegger, Viktor Shklovsky, Søren Kierkegaard, and St. Thomas Aquinas.

Daisy

Daisy PDF Author: W. Awdry
Publisher: Egmont Books (UK)
ISBN: 9781405234764
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Each book in this series features one of Thomas the Tank Engine's very good friends.

Branch Line Engines

Branch Line Engines PDF Author: Wilbert Awdry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780603575518
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A collection of four stories chronicling the adventures of several railway engines.

Signposts in a Strange Land

Signposts in a Strange Land PDF Author: Walker Percy
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312254193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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At his death in 1990, Walker Percy left a considerable legacy of uncollected nonfiction. Assembled in Signposts in a Strange Land, these essays on language, literature, philosophy, religion, psychiatry, morality, and life and letters in the South display the imaginative versatility of an author considered by many to be one the greatest modern American writers.

The Life You Save May Be Your Own

The Life You Save May Be Your Own PDF Author: Paul Elie
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374529215
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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Elie tells the story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God: Thomas Merton; Dorothy Day; Walker Percy; and Flannery OConnor.

Walker Percy's Search for Community

Walker Percy's Search for Community PDF Author: John F. Desmond
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820325880
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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In this criticism of Percy, John F. Desmond traces the writer's enduring concerns with community. These concerns, Desmond argues, were grounded in the realism of such Scholastics as Aquinas and Duns Scotus.

Percy and Harold

Percy and Harold PDF Author: W. Awdry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439338363
Category : Helicopters
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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In the first story, being cheeky Percy the tank engine gets in trouble then runs away. In the second story, Percy meets Harold the helicopter and races him.