Author: Sunkanmi Afolabi
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467885142
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
A Nigerian called Owokoniran, meaning money has no heritage, a 300-level university student from Ekiti, he grows in affection with a secondary school girl from Ijebu. Both tribes are in South West Nigeria. But because of the unfounded but palpable fear Ekitis nurse against the Ijebus and vice versa, Nirans parents staunchly opposed the marriage. Each of the dishonest characters in the novel is punished for his little acts of deceit, but like natures justice, the quantum of sin does not match the consequence born by each actor, which raises questions about the wishes of the human race.
Pride of Human Wishes
Author: Sunkanmi Afolabi
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467885142
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
A Nigerian called Owokoniran, meaning money has no heritage, a 300-level university student from Ekiti, he grows in affection with a secondary school girl from Ijebu. Both tribes are in South West Nigeria. But because of the unfounded but palpable fear Ekitis nurse against the Ijebus and vice versa, Nirans parents staunchly opposed the marriage. Each of the dishonest characters in the novel is punished for his little acts of deceit, but like natures justice, the quantum of sin does not match the consequence born by each actor, which raises questions about the wishes of the human race.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467885142
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
A Nigerian called Owokoniran, meaning money has no heritage, a 300-level university student from Ekiti, he grows in affection with a secondary school girl from Ijebu. Both tribes are in South West Nigeria. But because of the unfounded but palpable fear Ekitis nurse against the Ijebus and vice versa, Nirans parents staunchly opposed the marriage. Each of the dishonest characters in the novel is punished for his little acts of deceit, but like natures justice, the quantum of sin does not match the consequence born by each actor, which raises questions about the wishes of the human race.
The Vanity of Human Wishes
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Pride and the Conclusion to "The Vanity of Human Wishes"
Author: John Philip Deever
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Human Wishes/Enemy Combatant
Author: Edmond Caldwell
Publisher: Interbirth Books / Say It with Stones
ISBN: 9780615577951
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
He might be the dead-end flâneur of non-places like highway rest stops, airport terminals, and shopping malls, or he might be a Gitmo-bound enemy of the state. He might be the son of American working-class parents, or he might be the cousin of a Middle Eastern revolutionary the US labels a terrorist. He might be in possession of a lost Beckett play, or he might just have to go to the bathroom a lot. "He" is the nameless hero of Human Wishes / Enemy Combatant, and he's probably no more than a pronoun. With a looping itinerary that takes us from St. Petersburg, Russie to Salem, Massachusetts, from the Palestinian Nakba to a plot to replace New Yorker critic James Wood with a shadowy look-alike, Human Wishes / Enemy Combatant might just be the novel that explodes mainstream, corporate "literary fiction" from the inside out. "These 'anti-stories about In Between places' bristle with vibrant, fact-filled paranoia and good, old-fashioned self-deprecation, making constant, unexpected turns at breakneck pace. From St. Petersburg to Palestine, from coffin-shaped Joseph Cornell boxes to Monty Python doing Beckett, from reflections on the onslaught of Taylorism to violent, youthful misreadings ofAnimal Farm, the pure writerly intensity of the material, and the audacious panache of each new sentence, never for a moment flag." -Jacob Wren, *Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed* "Literary squatter . . . saboteur . . . an unreadable run-on paragraph . . . and unpublished, and, evidently, unpublishable novel." -Norah Piehl, Director of Communications, Boston Book Festival "Edmond Caldwell is right . . ." -James Wood
Publisher: Interbirth Books / Say It with Stones
ISBN: 9780615577951
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
He might be the dead-end flâneur of non-places like highway rest stops, airport terminals, and shopping malls, or he might be a Gitmo-bound enemy of the state. He might be the son of American working-class parents, or he might be the cousin of a Middle Eastern revolutionary the US labels a terrorist. He might be in possession of a lost Beckett play, or he might just have to go to the bathroom a lot. "He" is the nameless hero of Human Wishes / Enemy Combatant, and he's probably no more than a pronoun. With a looping itinerary that takes us from St. Petersburg, Russie to Salem, Massachusetts, from the Palestinian Nakba to a plot to replace New Yorker critic James Wood with a shadowy look-alike, Human Wishes / Enemy Combatant might just be the novel that explodes mainstream, corporate "literary fiction" from the inside out. "These 'anti-stories about In Between places' bristle with vibrant, fact-filled paranoia and good, old-fashioned self-deprecation, making constant, unexpected turns at breakneck pace. From St. Petersburg to Palestine, from coffin-shaped Joseph Cornell boxes to Monty Python doing Beckett, from reflections on the onslaught of Taylorism to violent, youthful misreadings ofAnimal Farm, the pure writerly intensity of the material, and the audacious panache of each new sentence, never for a moment flag." -Jacob Wren, *Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed* "Literary squatter . . . saboteur . . . an unreadable run-on paragraph . . . and unpublished, and, evidently, unpublishable novel." -Norah Piehl, Director of Communications, Boston Book Festival "Edmond Caldwell is right . . ." -James Wood
The Vanity of Human Wishes, 1749
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Verse satire, English
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Verse satire, English
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750)
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750)" by Samuel Johnson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750)" by Samuel Johnson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Mere Christianity
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0060652888
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A forceful and accessible discussion of Christian belief that has become one of the most popular introductions to Christianity and one of the most popular of Lewis's books. Uncovers common ground upon which all Christians can stand together.
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0060652888
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A forceful and accessible discussion of Christian belief that has become one of the most popular introductions to Christianity and one of the most popular of Lewis's books. Uncovers common ground upon which all Christians can stand together.
The World's Best Poetry ...
Author: John Vance Cheney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
The Vanity of Human Wishes. The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, Imitated by Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781379834915
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T054333 Verse. London: printed for R. Dodsley, and sold by M. Cooper, 1749. 28p.; 4°
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781379834915
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T054333 Verse. London: printed for R. Dodsley, and sold by M. Cooper, 1749. 28p.; 4°