Author: Julia Rich
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595454526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Life. It is slipping by right now. Quietly. Unassumingly. Behind our backs. It happens to husbands and wives, to sculptors and schemers, to the saved and the damned, to me, and to you. Unprofitable Dreams is a collection of eight short stories about dreamers who are blinded by potential, pretense, and past phantoms. Can they wake up to their lives before it is too late? Will Sam be able to see his wife for who she truly is? Will Jane be able to see her new husband for who he is not? Can Daniel and Tricia overcome the scarring events of their pasts? Will Chester ever make it into Heaven? When dreams collide with reality, anything is possible and choices have to be made. Passivity is no longer an option. Hope is no longer an option. Because life lasts for just an instant and then it's .
Unprofitable Dreams
Author: Julia Rich
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595454526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Life. It is slipping by right now. Quietly. Unassumingly. Behind our backs. It happens to husbands and wives, to sculptors and schemers, to the saved and the damned, to me, and to you. Unprofitable Dreams is a collection of eight short stories about dreamers who are blinded by potential, pretense, and past phantoms. Can they wake up to their lives before it is too late? Will Sam be able to see his wife for who she truly is? Will Jane be able to see her new husband for who he is not? Can Daniel and Tricia overcome the scarring events of their pasts? Will Chester ever make it into Heaven? When dreams collide with reality, anything is possible and choices have to be made. Passivity is no longer an option. Hope is no longer an option. Because life lasts for just an instant and then it's .
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595454526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Life. It is slipping by right now. Quietly. Unassumingly. Behind our backs. It happens to husbands and wives, to sculptors and schemers, to the saved and the damned, to me, and to you. Unprofitable Dreams is a collection of eight short stories about dreamers who are blinded by potential, pretense, and past phantoms. Can they wake up to their lives before it is too late? Will Sam be able to see his wife for who she truly is? Will Jane be able to see her new husband for who he is not? Can Daniel and Tricia overcome the scarring events of their pasts? Will Chester ever make it into Heaven? When dreams collide with reality, anything is possible and choices have to be made. Passivity is no longer an option. Hope is no longer an option. Because life lasts for just an instant and then it's .
The Public
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Pages : 842
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Disturb Not Our Dreams
Author: Hobert Douglas Skidmore
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Category : Abandoned children
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Category : Abandoned children
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Reminiscences containing facts, anecdotes, reflections, and essays ... intended to illustrate human character, etc
Author: John PARRY (Minister of the Tabernacle, Leeds.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Chambers' Edinburgh Journal
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Pages : 438
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The Green Lacquer Pavilion
Author: Helen Beauclerk
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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'An enchanted pavilion which transports Mr. Valentine Clare back in time.' [Abebooks.com Website catalogue entry for this, 12 February 2001].
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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'An enchanted pavilion which transports Mr. Valentine Clare back in time.' [Abebooks.com Website catalogue entry for this, 12 February 2001].
The Shadow of Ashlydyat
Author: Henry Mrs. Wood
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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"The Shadow of Ashlydyat" by Henry Mrs. Wood is a novel about the Godolphin family set in the 19th century. The family runs a bank in a small town. After Sir Thomas Godolphin dies, Thomas and George, his two sons, take over the business. The brothers are completely opposite in nature. The younger one brings hardships for the elder which ends up in the Godolphin's bankruptcy. The family faces major deaths, especially George's wife Mary, who dies from "a broken heart". But that's only one reason for her death...
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
"The Shadow of Ashlydyat" by Henry Mrs. Wood is a novel about the Godolphin family set in the 19th century. The family runs a bank in a small town. After Sir Thomas Godolphin dies, Thomas and George, his two sons, take over the business. The brothers are completely opposite in nature. The younger one brings hardships for the elder which ends up in the Godolphin's bankruptcy. The family faces major deaths, especially George's wife Mary, who dies from "a broken heart". But that's only one reason for her death...
Subjectivity and Truth
Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349739006
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
“The working hypothesis is this: it is true that sexuality as experience is obviously not independent of codes and systems of prohibitions, but it needs to be recalled straightaway that these codes are astonishingly stable, continuous, and slow to change. It needs to be recalled also that the way in which they are observed or transgressed also seems to be very stable and very repetitive. On the other hand, the point of historical mobility, what no doubt change most often, what are most fragile, are modalities of experience.” - Michel Foucault In 1981 Foucault delivered a course of lectures which marked a decisive reorientation in his thought and of the project of a History of Sexuality outlined in 1976. It was in these lectures that arts of living became the focal point around which he developed a new way of thinking about subjectivity. It was also the moment when Foucault problematized a conception of ethics understood as the patient elaboration of a relationship of self to self. It was the study of the sexual experience of the Ancients that made these new conceptual developments possible. Within this framework, Foucault examined medical writings, tracts on marriage, the philosophy of love, or the prognostic value of erotic dreams, for evidence of a structuration of the subject in his relationship to pleasures (aphrodisia) which is prior to the modern construction of a science of sexuality as well as to the Christian fearful obsession with the flesh. What was actually at stake was establishing that the imposition of a scrupulous and interminable hermeneutics of desire was the invention of Christianity. But to do this it was necessary to establish the irreducible specificity of ancient techniques of self. In these lectures, which clearly foreshadow The Use of Pleasures and The Care of Self, Foucault examines the Greek subordination of gender differences to the primacy of an opposition between active and passive, as well as the development by Imperial stoicism of a model of the conjugal bond which advocates unwavering fidelity and shared feelings and which leads to the disqualification of homosexuality.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349739006
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
“The working hypothesis is this: it is true that sexuality as experience is obviously not independent of codes and systems of prohibitions, but it needs to be recalled straightaway that these codes are astonishingly stable, continuous, and slow to change. It needs to be recalled also that the way in which they are observed or transgressed also seems to be very stable and very repetitive. On the other hand, the point of historical mobility, what no doubt change most often, what are most fragile, are modalities of experience.” - Michel Foucault In 1981 Foucault delivered a course of lectures which marked a decisive reorientation in his thought and of the project of a History of Sexuality outlined in 1976. It was in these lectures that arts of living became the focal point around which he developed a new way of thinking about subjectivity. It was also the moment when Foucault problematized a conception of ethics understood as the patient elaboration of a relationship of self to self. It was the study of the sexual experience of the Ancients that made these new conceptual developments possible. Within this framework, Foucault examined medical writings, tracts on marriage, the philosophy of love, or the prognostic value of erotic dreams, for evidence of a structuration of the subject in his relationship to pleasures (aphrodisia) which is prior to the modern construction of a science of sexuality as well as to the Christian fearful obsession with the flesh. What was actually at stake was establishing that the imposition of a scrupulous and interminable hermeneutics of desire was the invention of Christianity. But to do this it was necessary to establish the irreducible specificity of ancient techniques of self. In these lectures, which clearly foreshadow The Use of Pleasures and The Care of Self, Foucault examines the Greek subordination of gender differences to the primacy of an opposition between active and passive, as well as the development by Imperial stoicism of a model of the conjugal bond which advocates unwavering fidelity and shared feelings and which leads to the disqualification of homosexuality.
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Only for the Eye of a Friend
Author: Annis Boudinot Stockton
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813916132
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Known among the Middle Atlantic intelligentsia and literati as a witty and versatile writer, considered by George Washington and the Chevalier de La Luzerne a gracious and elegant host, Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736-1801) wrote over a hundred poems on the most important political and social issues of her day. Only for the Eye of a Friend brings back into public view the works of a poet whose published works and manuscrits earned her, in her day, a wide audience among colonists and international readers alike. The quality and quantity of Stockton's literary output makes her an apt counterpart to he seventeenth-century predecessor Anne Bradstreet and the nineteenth-century poet Emily Dickinson.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813916132
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Known among the Middle Atlantic intelligentsia and literati as a witty and versatile writer, considered by George Washington and the Chevalier de La Luzerne a gracious and elegant host, Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736-1801) wrote over a hundred poems on the most important political and social issues of her day. Only for the Eye of a Friend brings back into public view the works of a poet whose published works and manuscrits earned her, in her day, a wide audience among colonists and international readers alike. The quality and quantity of Stockton's literary output makes her an apt counterpart to he seventeenth-century predecessor Anne Bradstreet and the nineteenth-century poet Emily Dickinson.