Love of the World. Essays, Paperback - John McGahern

In them his canon of great writers - Tolstoy, Chekhov, James, Proust and Joyce - is cited many times, with deep and subtle appreciation. His interv...

Concentrating mainly on India, the Americas, Africa and the Diaspora, this wonderful collection of essays is a clear-eyed and magnificent introduct...

DescriptionThis collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern scholars, provides solid reasons for why the Leitrim writer has assu...

The collected letters of John McGahern, 'arguably the most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett.' (Guardian)Publisher: Faber & FaberNumber...

With a newly written preface relating his theology to the current global situation, The Future of Love contains revised versions of eighteen of Joh...

Reducere. DescriptionThe studies offered in this volume contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using li...

Publisher: University Press of AmericaAuthor(s): Lori RogersNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 138 x 215 x 12Cover type: Paperba...

Surveys the life and work of the successful Irish novelist and short story writer whose career was launched with the 1963 publication of ""The Barr...

This is the story of John McGahern's childhood, his mother's death, his father's anger and violence, and how, through his discovery of books, his d...

A day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who has returned to Ireland after a year's sabbatical in London where h...

Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. her husband is straining to ...

That They May Face the Rising Sun was the last novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland's greatest novelists. In passages of beauty and truth, the ...

Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age...

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This remarkable volume brings together all of John McGahern's short fiction, fully revised, in a definitive text. McGahern has long been recognized...

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Over the last decade, author and activist Astra Taylor has helped shift the national conversation on topics including technology, inequality, indeb...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

John McGahern is widely considered to be one of Ireland's greatest writers, with fans including John Updike, Hilary Mantel, Colm Toibin and John Ba...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): David John BairdIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 292Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 233 x...

"A magisterial study...by a historian at the top of his game. Political theorists, intellectual historians, and students of empire are once again i...

Reducere. It may seem the Fatima all-night vigils of reparation to the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts are a thing of the past. But not so. In John Haffert's cl...

This highly acclaimed, prize-winning biography of one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century is here reissued in a trade p...

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In this classic exposition of 1 Corinthians 13: 8-10, Jonathan Edwards exhorts Christians to ponder the love of God--both here in the world and in ...

A vibrant, surprising and thought-provoking collection of essays from an exciting new literary voice who has been compared to John Jeremiah Sulliva...

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Reducere. While exploring a stream with his dog and a pet crow the author at age 11, came upon a 90-year-old man who lived in the woods in a small cottage. T...

Reducere. DescriptionAn inspiring chronicle of life-changing encounters, personal transformation and a vision of love that transcends the everyday definition...

Reducere. The secret of Woolman's purity of style is that his eye is single, and that conscience dictated his words. This Quaker preacher and tailor was a ma...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): John TaggIllustration(s): 40 black & whilte illustrationsNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2...

Booker wining novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic - even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations. This collec...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Karl Sir PopperIllustration(s): 18 Line drawings, black and whiteNumber of pages: 300Collection: Routledg...

Reducere. LOVE. It's a huge word! What does it mean? To each of us, it is something different.I Choose Love is an invitation to define love for yourself; to ...

Sharing My Love With The World About Love: Poetry pinned to remind the bitter waters of Love, is a book offering the written Word of God, with scri...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Debbie L. HumphriesForeword by: Diane RandallThe Quaker tradition at its best is a practice-based religious path that embod...

p.p1 margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 22.0px HelveticaA celebration of love and how it unites people across the world.

You don't have to be mad to read this book. But a dash of the right kind of crazy won't go amiss... Adrian Plass is back - with a new selection of ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe unifying theme of these thirteen essays is understanding. What is it? What does it take to have it? What does it presuppose in what ...

After thirty-five years of quiet acceptance, Tonia Rotkopf Blair returned to Poland and confronted the Holocaust. Growing into an outspoken survivo...

What can those in spirit teach us about the enduring bond of love, the immense power of forgiveness, discovering our life's purpose and finding pea...

Reducere. History compels us to fasten on abiding issues and rescues us from the temporary and transient. Volume II brings together Acton's distinguished wri...

Reducere. A selection of the best short work by France's greatest living nonfiction writer No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carr re. Although he takes ...

In The Written World, Kevin Power explains how he became a critic and what he thinks criticism is.Publisher: The Lilliput Press LtdAuthor(s): Kevin...

Reducere. In the summer of 1932, with the Cubs in the thick of the pennant race, Billy Jurges broke off his relationship with Violet Popovich to focus on bas...

Reducere. A rare, intimate account of a world-renowned Buddhist monk's near-death experience and the life-changing wisdom he gained from it"One of the most i...

Written by a pioneer in the quantitative and macroeconomic analysis of economic history, this book combines qualitative histories with quantitative...

Pilger tackles the injustices and double standards inherent in the politics of globalization and exposes the terrible truth behind the power and we...

Reducere. Twins Summer and Winter live alone on a remote island, sheltered from a destroyed world. Until a man arrives who will reshape their lives...She sai...

Reducere. With a lifetime of experience, knowledge, and appreciation, the internationally celebrated conductor and teacher answers the questions: Why should ...