In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: And Other Stories, Paperback - William H. Gass

First published in 1968, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country established William Gass as one of America's finest and boldest writers of fictio...

Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a ...

A story told in prose as feverishly rich as William Faulkner's, In the Heart of the Country is a work of irresistable power. J.M. Coetzee's latest ...

Reducere. In iarna anului 1820, ambarcatiunea Essex este atacata si distrusa de o balena uriasa cu o vointa distrugatoare parca planificata. "In Inima Marii"...

„Cu aparatul foto in mana, ca o alta Alice in cautarea inocentei pierdute, autoarea dezvaluie un univers de mari nostalgii, de extaze si de infrico...

DescriptionPreaching today all too often tragically misses the point. We've all heard sermons that sound more like a lecture, filling the head but ...

Reducere. Form is emptiness; emptiness is form. This is the bold and intriguing assertion of the Heart Sutra, a text of seminal importance to the Buddhist tr...

This uncommon book is a journey of discovery in the truest sense of those words, a journey to unseen inner worlds. Mario Mantese's thorough investi...

Reducere. Plain English translations of the Heart Sutra, the Diamond-Cutter Sutra, and other "Perfection of Wisdom" texts with notes and commentaries. Intend...

A historical novel about one garden across 1, 000 years and the women who found solace within its walls.

In addition to the title story, this selection of twenty-seven stories includes one of Maupassant's most famous tales, "The Necklace, " and "Le Hor...

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Reducere. We don't live the way we could, but we have the capacity to activate and enter into a more evolved way of being human. In this wide-ranging survey ...

Publisher: SkiraIllustration(s): 250 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 249 x 282 x 22Cover type: Hard...

Reducere. The expanded, updated version of the best-selling classic, with a dozen new projects.``A delightfully readable and very useful guide to front- and ...

From artificial glaciers in the Himalayas to painted mountains in Peru, electrified reefs in the Maldives to garbage islands in the Caribbean, the ...

Reducere. IT WAS A CONSPIRACY TO HIDE A SECRET EXPERIMENT RAAF captures flying saucer on ranch in Roswell region. Ever since this provocative headline appear...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...

Takeo has finally achieved his dream; he has left behind the darkness of his past and become a Samurai. Yet Imperial Japan is in turmoil; General A...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jacques PauwThe ongoing assassinations of anti-apartheid activists led to rumours that some kind of third force must be res...

Anna Discovers the Heart of the Shepherd is a story that is written for children to teach the Beatitudes in a way that they may remember. The Beati...

This book offers a unique look at streets as locations that can evolve to support the economic, social, cultural and natural aspects of cities. It ...

Reducere. Despite the "crinkled pink petals strewn in the path of those who would have preferred red, " four generations of Eliots have survived the War and ...

Reducere. DescriptionAll 16-year-old Khaidu ever wanted was her own hunting eagle. Her ten brothers laugh at her. The rule-bound world of the Gumiren nomads ...

An exploration of the landscape of central England and the writing it has inspired.

The homily of John Scotus Eriugena, a jewel of lyrical mysticism, theology and cosmology, containing the essence of Celtic Christian wisdom.

Reducere. Kamir is on the verge of losing everything. Knowing full well he can't meet the ultimatum his parents have issued, he instead finally puts in motio...

Publisher: David Fickling BooksAuthor(s): Philip ReeveNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 25Cover type: Paperback / s...

With a foreword by Kathleen Jamie. The Heart of the Forest explores four enduring ways in which we connect to the woods - through Refuge, Sacrednes...

The Shocking Secrets of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ArtworkThe recent cleaning of the Sistine Chapel frescoes removed layer after layer of centur...

Nestled in the fertile hills of the Cotswolds, the village of Duntisbourne Abbots is a well-kept secret: beautiful, timeless and quintessentially E...

Reducere. "The Isle is supernatural and may produce anything. It is a place half in this world and half elsewhere. In spots, they say, it opens on the countr...

The Coral Triangle, straddling the confluence of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, harbours the greatest biodiversity of marine life on the planet. It...

Reducere. Caerwyn has answered the call of the sea. For those who answer, there are many choices of what you can be, and there are always grand discoveries. ...

Publisher: Sasquatch BooksAuthor(s): Sharon MentykaNumber of pages: 48Collection: Growing to GreatnessPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 225 x 284 x...

Reducere. Restany's groundbreaking, exegetic study show show the myth of fire was the culmination of the artist's quest for the immaterial. The visionary Fre...