Автор: Oates Joyce Carol Название: My Heart Laid Bare ISBN: 0062269259 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062269256 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 1566.00 р. Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление.
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Finally returned to print in a beautiful paperback edition, a haunting gothic tale of a nineteenth-century immigrant family of confidence artists a story of morality, duplicity, and retribution that explores the depths of human manipulation and vulnerability
The patriarch of the Licht family, Abraham has raised a brood of talented con artists, children molded in his image, and experts in The Game, his calling and philosophy of life. Traveling from one small town to the next across the continent, from the Northeast to the frontier West, they skillfully swindle unsuspecting victims, playing on their greed, lust, pride, and small-mindedness. Despite their success, Abraham cannot banish a past that haunts him: the ghost of his ancestor Sarah Licht, a former con woman who met with a gruesome fate.
As Abraham involves his family in more and more complex and impressive schemes, he finds himself caught between the specter of Sarah and the growing terrors of his present. While his carefully crafted lies and schemes begin to fracture and disintegrate before his eyes, Abraham discovers that the bond of family is as tenuous and treacherous as the tricks he perpetrates upon unsuspecting strangers."
Автор: Baudelaire Charles Название: My Heart Laid Bare: & Other Texts ISBN: 1940625211 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781940625218 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3449.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In My Heart Laid Bare, an apodictic work of aphorism, maxim, note, and extended reflection, we encounter a fierce dandy who revolts against utilitarianism: to be useful, Baudelaire gibes, is to be hideous. Yet, contrarily, it is not dissolution that this po te maudit praises or celebrates. Although he rejects Progress, he prizes what he calls true progress, for him moral, the work of the individual alone. The dandy is not disaffected, but a rigorous spectator that burrows into the heart of reality itself; situated at the center of the world, yet hidden from it, this incognito figure tears back the flesh of humanity like a devilish surgeon. Through this act of absorption, observation, and analysis, like Rimbaud's Supreme Scientist, Baudelaire's dandy acquires "a subtle understanding of the entire moral mechanism of this world." Here we have the poet as philosopher king and transvaluator of values; here we have the disciplined fl neur. Baudelaire the keen symptomatologist who escapes "the nightmare of Time" via Pleasure or Work. If Pleasure is consumptive for him, Work is fortifying, that is, not the work of a profession, -- curs d thing, -- but the work of poiesis. A kind of poetic Marcus Aurelius forging his inner citadel, Baudelaire's dandy-fl neur does not retreat into a monastic cell, but situates himself amidst society: poet as vast mirror, poet as thinking kaleidoscope. To Nietzsche, My Heart Laid Bare contains "invaluable psychological observations relating to decadence of the kind in which Schopenhauer's and Byron's case has been burned."
Reflecting on the conceivable potency of his proposed book when writing to his mother, Baudelaire avowed that in it he would accumulate all his rage. "Ah " he exulted, "if ever that sees the light of day, J-J's Confessions will seem pale." This po te maudit does not however offer us a heart laid bare in terms of some quotidian, memoir-like spewing of his bios; rather, it is the baring of l'esprit, a crystallization of his mind, hence the most genuine revelation of his self. In this unfinished but dense, pressurized, and magnetic work of chaotic enumeration, we have Baudelaire's meditations.
Also included in this volume are other texts of Baudelaire's such as the Consoling Maxims on Love, the equally burning Flares, his notes for a projected magazine, The Philosopher Owl, and select pieces from his cahiers as well as an introduction by the translator.
Автор: Breakwell James Название: Bare Minimum Parenting ISBN: 1786496968 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786496966 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1424.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The slacker`s guide to parenting from the Twitter`s most popular dad!
Автор: Krotow, Geri Название: Bare Devotion (Kpd) ISBN: 1516106032 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781516106035 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1379.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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"Sweet and sultry, hot and wild...that's desire, Louisiana-style. And there's no one better to explore it with than one of the Bayou Bachelors...
Returning to her flooded New Orleans home to face Henry Boudreaux, the man she jilted at the altar, is the hardest thing attorney Sonja Bosco has ever done--even before she discovers she's pregnant. Sonja backed out of the marriage for Henry's sake. He wants to be part of his father's law firm, and his parents will never approve of an interracial marriage. Better to bruise his heart than ruin his life.
Henry can't forgive Sonja, and doubts that he can trust her again. But learning that they're going to be parents means there's no avoiding each other. Springtime on the bayou is already steamy enough...now they're living in the same small space while their damaged house is repaired. And with each passing day they're getting a little more honest. A lot more real. And realizing that nothing--not even New Orleans at Mardi Gras--glows brighter than the desire they're trying to deny... "
Автор: Powell Shrigley Marti Название: Bare Feet, Chicken Beaks and Blackberry Pie ISBN: 1545645140 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781545645147 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2137.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Marti Shrigley is a wife, mother, and grandmother, all by Grand Design. She and her husband, Larry, have been involved in children and adult ministries much of their fifty-two years of marriage. Marti wrote this book, so that we, perhaps, can take a moment out of our fast paced day, to laugh. The main goal, though, is to alert the reader that eternity is fastly approaching for each of us and the decision of what he or she will do with Jesus cannot be ignored. Today is the day of salvation. Marti and Larry are life long residents of Ohio. They make their home in Granville, Ohio.
Emails are welcomed at n8churnut@yahoo.com.
"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God to everyone that believeth---" (Romans 1:16)
A country girl's tale of growing up in the fifties and sixties, when childhood play was simple and pure. Funny stories and recollections of goings-on on the playground and tales of close family traditions are humorously told. Then, with one major decision, her life is changed from mediocrity to having a mansion and riches untold. She shares how you, too, my have the same fortune.
This accessible, lighthearted look at language introduces homonyms and homophones. Playful rhymes and comical cartoons make both concepts memorable. Each corresponding pair of homonyms and homophones is printed in color for easy identification. At the end, readers are challenged to apply what they've learned--and they'll have fun doing so.
Reveals the history of Black Fundamentalists during the early part of the twentieth century
As the modernist-fundamentalist controversy came to a head in the early twentieth century, an image of the “fighting fundamentalist” was imprinted on the American cultural consciousness. To this day, the word “fundamentalist” often conjures the image of a fire-breathing preacher—strident, unyielding in conviction . . . and almost always white. But did this major religious perspective really stop cold in its tracks at the color line? Black Fundamentalists challenges the idea that fundamentalism was an exclusively white phenomenon. The volume uncovers voices from the Black community that embraced the doctrinal tenets of the movement and, in many cases, explicitly self-identified as fundamentalists. Fundamentalists of the early twentieth century felt the pressing need to defend the “fundamental” doctrines of their conservative Christian faith—doctrines like biblical inerrancy, the divinity of Christ, and the virgin birth—against what they saw as the predations of modernists who represented a threat to true Christianity. Such concerns, attitudes, and arguments emerged among Black Christians as well as white, even as the oppressive hand of Jim Crow excluded African Americans from the most prominent white-controlled fundamentalist institutions and social crusades, rendering them largely invisible to scholars examining such movements.
Black fundamentalists aligned closely with their white counterparts on the theological particulars of “the fundamentals.” Yet they often applied their conservative theology in more progressive, racially contextualized ways. While white fundamentalists were focused on battling the teaching of evolution, Black fundamentalists were tying their conservative faith to advocacy for reforms in public education, voting rights, and the overturning of legal bans on intermarriage. Beyond the narrow confines of the fundamentalist movement, Daniel R. Bare shows how these historical dynamics illuminate larger themes, still applicable today, about how racial context influences religious expression.
Автор: Here Design Название: A Bare Bear: A book of words that sound the same ISBN: 0241312035 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241312032 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1715.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A funny, thought-provoking introduction to homonyms and homophones, with crisply bright, contemporary illustrations. Meet a yack who can't stop yackety-yacking, a hare with huge hair and a bear who's, well, rather bare! Playing with language in a wonderfully fun and memorable way, this beautifully designed book will entertain and delight children everywhere.Also available: In A Minute: Take the 60-second challenge! 9780241312063
Автор: Miller Russell Название: Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard ISBN: 1909269360 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781909269361 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3669.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published: Great Britain, Penguin Books, 1987.
Автор: M. Bare Daniel, Bruce Bare Robert Название: Genealogy of Johannes Baer, 1749-1910 ISBN: 9354024777 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789354024771 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 7279.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
