Author: Charles A. Frazee
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802848055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The story of Jesus dominates the history of the first century AD in the Near East, but what was happening elsewhere at this time? This book puts the life of Jesus and the events associated with him within a world context, not in terms of Jesus' world influence, which did not exist at this time, but purely as a means of interesting comparison.
For Two Thousand Years
Author: Mihail Sebastian
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241189624
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
'Absolutely, definitively alone', a young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't belong. Spending his days walking the streets and his nights drinking and gambling, meeting revolutionaries, zealots, lovers and libertines, he adjusts his eyes to the darkness that falls over Europe, and threatens to destroy him. Mihail Sebastian's 1934 masterpiece, now translated into English for the first time, was written amid the anti-Semitism which would, by the end of the decade, force him out of his career and turn his friends and colleagues against him. For Two Thousand Years is a prescient, heart-wrenching chronicle of resilience and despair, broken layers of memory and the terrible forces of history.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241189624
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
'Absolutely, definitively alone', a young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't belong. Spending his days walking the streets and his nights drinking and gambling, meeting revolutionaries, zealots, lovers and libertines, he adjusts his eyes to the darkness that falls over Europe, and threatens to destroy him. Mihail Sebastian's 1934 masterpiece, now translated into English for the first time, was written amid the anti-Semitism which would, by the end of the decade, force him out of his career and turn his friends and colleagues against him. For Two Thousand Years is a prescient, heart-wrenching chronicle of resilience and despair, broken layers of memory and the terrible forces of history.
Two Thousand Years in Exeter
Author: W G Hoskins
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 180399066X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Exeter is one of the oldest cities in Britain: people have lived here without a break for more than two thousand years. The High Street has been in continuous use as a thoroughfare throughout that long period. For centuries Exeter was one of the largest and wealthiest cities in the kingdom and has always been the mother city of the South West. In this book, first published in 1960 and acclaimed as a 'small masterpiece', the author traces the essential historic development and character of a leading provincial centre. He describes its adventure from a Roman camp to a modern city, with particular reference to its social history, to the lives and surroundings of ordinary people, to the buildings and landscapes of the past. Above all, he is concerned with the recent past and devotes three thorough chapters to the 19th and 20th centuries. W. G. Hoskins died in 1992. The task of bringing the work up to date and preparing text and illustrations for this new edition of a classic work has been undertaken by Hazel Harvey, a distinguished local historian of Exeter. Much of Exeter has been destroyed, but much of the historic past of this entrancing city still remains. Hoskins' incomparable text is supported by a new selection of illustrations and maps, with an appendix on the street names of the city and place names in the neighbourhood. This book will be as valuable to the visitor as to the citizen of Exeter, for it tells where to look for the memorials of the past and for the history that lies behind them.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 180399066X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Exeter is one of the oldest cities in Britain: people have lived here without a break for more than two thousand years. The High Street has been in continuous use as a thoroughfare throughout that long period. For centuries Exeter was one of the largest and wealthiest cities in the kingdom and has always been the mother city of the South West. In this book, first published in 1960 and acclaimed as a 'small masterpiece', the author traces the essential historic development and character of a leading provincial centre. He describes its adventure from a Roman camp to a modern city, with particular reference to its social history, to the lives and surroundings of ordinary people, to the buildings and landscapes of the past. Above all, he is concerned with the recent past and devotes three thorough chapters to the 19th and 20th centuries. W. G. Hoskins died in 1992. The task of bringing the work up to date and preparing text and illustrations for this new edition of a classic work has been undertaken by Hazel Harvey, a distinguished local historian of Exeter. Much of Exeter has been destroyed, but much of the historic past of this entrancing city still remains. Hoskins' incomparable text is supported by a new selection of illustrations and maps, with an appendix on the street names of the city and place names in the neighbourhood. This book will be as valuable to the visitor as to the citizen of Exeter, for it tells where to look for the memorials of the past and for the history that lies behind them.
Two Thousand Years Later
Author: Peter Longley
Publisher: Hovenden Press Incorporated
ISBN: 9780966677003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher: Hovenden Press Incorporated
ISBN: 9780966677003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Two Thousand Years of Gild Life
Author: Joseph Malet Lambert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guilds
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guilds
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Fifty years later
Author: Francisco Cândido Xavier
Publisher: FEB Editora
ISBN: 8594660650
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Emmanuel tells a story that is linked to Christianity in the 2nd century. In this novel, some characters of the novel Two thousand years ago return to their earthly journey as a result of the law of cause and effect. One of the central characters of that book, the Senator Publius Lentulus, appears in this sequel reincarnated as Nestorius – a slave. In his return to earth, this slave embraces a more humble stance, one that his proud heart had oppressed in his previous life. God’s mercy allows him to redeem all his excesses and arbitrary acts of the past, when, invested by public power, he vainly thought he held all rights and supremacy in his hands. However, this book’s main character is, in fact, a woman named Celia, whose sublime heroism was a beacon on the path of several disheartened and suffering spirits, as Emmanuel describes. Celia understood and lived Jesus’ teachings throughout her pain lled existence.
Publisher: FEB Editora
ISBN: 8594660650
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Emmanuel tells a story that is linked to Christianity in the 2nd century. In this novel, some characters of the novel Two thousand years ago return to their earthly journey as a result of the law of cause and effect. One of the central characters of that book, the Senator Publius Lentulus, appears in this sequel reincarnated as Nestorius – a slave. In his return to earth, this slave embraces a more humble stance, one that his proud heart had oppressed in his previous life. God’s mercy allows him to redeem all his excesses and arbitrary acts of the past, when, invested by public power, he vainly thought he held all rights and supremacy in his hands. However, this book’s main character is, in fact, a woman named Celia, whose sublime heroism was a beacon on the path of several disheartened and suffering spirits, as Emmanuel describes. Celia understood and lived Jesus’ teachings throughout her pain lled existence.
A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning
Author: Leslie Nathan Broughton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
Book Description
Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son
Author: Samuel Butler
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
'Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son' is a satirical novel by Samuel Butler. Erewhon, set in a thinly disguised New Zealand, ended with the escape of its unnamed protagonist from the native Erewhonians by balloon. In this book, narrated by his son John, we are told that our hero's name is Higgs. Higgs returns to Erewhon and meets his former lover Yram, who is now the mother of his son George. He discovers that he is now worshiped as "the Sunchild", his escape having been interpreted as an ascension into heaven, and that a church of Sunchildism has sprung up. He finds himself in danger from the villainous Professors Hanky and Panky, who are determined to protect Sunchildism from him. With George's help Higgs escapes from their clutches and returns to England.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
'Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son' is a satirical novel by Samuel Butler. Erewhon, set in a thinly disguised New Zealand, ended with the escape of its unnamed protagonist from the native Erewhonians by balloon. In this book, narrated by his son John, we are told that our hero's name is Higgs. Higgs returns to Erewhon and meets his former lover Yram, who is now the mother of his son George. He discovers that he is now worshiped as "the Sunchild", his escape having been interpreted as an ascension into heaven, and that a church of Sunchildism has sprung up. He finds himself in danger from the villainous Professors Hanky and Panky, who are determined to protect Sunchildism from him. With George's help Higgs escapes from their clutches and returns to England.
Later Years
Author: William Cowper Prime
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
309 Years Later
Author: Tarik Bouchnayf
Publisher: Tarik Bouchnayf
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Omar, a passionate physicist, can’t believe his luck when he is selected for a special time-travel mission. Chosen by the House agency using an algorithm, Omar’s mission is to study the effects of overpopulation more than three hundred years in the future. When the mission goes awry, Omar lands in a strange dystopian future as a condemned prisoner on death row, his dream mission now a nightmare. Will Omar be able to escape his execution, unravel the past and make it back home in time?
Publisher: Tarik Bouchnayf
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Omar, a passionate physicist, can’t believe his luck when he is selected for a special time-travel mission. Chosen by the House agency using an algorithm, Omar’s mission is to study the effects of overpopulation more than three hundred years in the future. When the mission goes awry, Omar lands in a strange dystopian future as a condemned prisoner on death row, his dream mission now a nightmare. Will Omar be able to escape his execution, unravel the past and make it back home in time?
Twenty Years Later
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Publisher: Aegitas
ISBN: 0369409329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Twenty Years Later" is a historical fiction novel by Alexandre Dumas Pere, first published in 1845. The novel is a sequel to The Three Musketeers, and follows the adventures of its characters two decades later, during the reign of Louis XIV. The novel begins with the return of d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, who have been separated for twenty years. They reunite in Paris, where they find themselves in the midst of a political and social upheaval. The novel explores themes of loyalty, honor, and betrayal as the four friends navigate the complex political landscape of France. In Twenty Years Later, Dumas provides a vivid portrayal of seventeenth-century France, its customs, and its people. The novel is filled with vivid descriptions of the Parisian streets, the royal court, and the countryside. Dumas also depicts the turbulent political climate of the time, including the rise of the Fronde rebellion, the exile of the royal family, and the eventual restoration of the monarchy. The characters in Twenty Years Later are complex and multifaceted. D'Artagnan, the protagonist, is a brave and loyal soldier, but also a cunning and ambitious courtier. Athos, the group's elder statesman, is wise and honorable, but also prone to melancholy and regret. Porthos, the brawny musketeer, is boisterous and jovial, but also deeply insecure about his social status. Aramis, the former monk, is a master of intrigue and deception, but also a deeply spiritual man. Throughout the novel, the four friends are challenged by a host of enemies, including the scheming Cardinal Mazarin, the treacherous Milady de Winter, and the ambitious Prince de Conde. Despite these challenges, however, they remain steadfast in their loyalty to one another and to their king. Overall, Twenty Years Later is a thrilling and immersive novel that combines history, adventure, and romance. Its complex characters, vivid settings, and intricate plot make it a masterpiece of French literature and a must-read for anyone interested in historical fiction.
Publisher: Aegitas
ISBN: 0369409329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Twenty Years Later" is a historical fiction novel by Alexandre Dumas Pere, first published in 1845. The novel is a sequel to The Three Musketeers, and follows the adventures of its characters two decades later, during the reign of Louis XIV. The novel begins with the return of d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, who have been separated for twenty years. They reunite in Paris, where they find themselves in the midst of a political and social upheaval. The novel explores themes of loyalty, honor, and betrayal as the four friends navigate the complex political landscape of France. In Twenty Years Later, Dumas provides a vivid portrayal of seventeenth-century France, its customs, and its people. The novel is filled with vivid descriptions of the Parisian streets, the royal court, and the countryside. Dumas also depicts the turbulent political climate of the time, including the rise of the Fronde rebellion, the exile of the royal family, and the eventual restoration of the monarchy. The characters in Twenty Years Later are complex and multifaceted. D'Artagnan, the protagonist, is a brave and loyal soldier, but also a cunning and ambitious courtier. Athos, the group's elder statesman, is wise and honorable, but also prone to melancholy and regret. Porthos, the brawny musketeer, is boisterous and jovial, but also deeply insecure about his social status. Aramis, the former monk, is a master of intrigue and deception, but also a deeply spiritual man. Throughout the novel, the four friends are challenged by a host of enemies, including the scheming Cardinal Mazarin, the treacherous Milady de Winter, and the ambitious Prince de Conde. Despite these challenges, however, they remain steadfast in their loyalty to one another and to their king. Overall, Twenty Years Later is a thrilling and immersive novel that combines history, adventure, and romance. Its complex characters, vivid settings, and intricate plot make it a masterpiece of French literature and a must-read for anyone interested in historical fiction.