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Author: Melinda Johnson
Publisher:
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781936270088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lydia -- who is about to leave for college and whose family has converted to Orthodox Christianity -- works through her own spiritual crisis by writing letters to an icon of St. Lydia.
Author: Barbara Eaton
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2007-07-01
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1847536301
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fact and Fiction: the 19th Century love affair between Henry Hartyn, a chaplain of the East India Company, and his 'beloved Persis' in Cornwall, Lydia Grenfell, based on their letters and diaries.
Author: Lydia Davis
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2014-04-08
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0374711437
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new collection of short stories from the woman Rick Moody has called "the best prose stylist in America" Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of "Bloomington" reads, "Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before." Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," a professor receives a gift of thirty-two small chocolates and is paralyzed by the multitude of options she imagines for their consumption. The stories may appear in the form of letters of complaint; they may be extracted from Flaubert's correspondence; or they may be inspired by the author's own dreams, or the dreams of friends. What does not vary throughout Can't and Won't, Lydia Davis's fifth collection of stories, is the power of her finely honed prose. Davis is sharply observant; she is wry or witty or poignant. Above all, she is refreshing. Davis writes with bracing candor and sly humor about the quotidian, revealing the mysterious, the foreign, the alienating, and the pleasurable within the predictable patterns of daily life.
Author: Lydia Maria Child
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-04-17
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 3385121426
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Author: Sir William Mitchell Ramsay
Publisher:
Published: 1904
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard S. Ascough
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780814652695
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Ascough constructs an image of Lydia based on what is known about the political, commercial, social and religious norms of the first-century world"--Back cover
Author: Lydia Millet
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016-05-03
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0393285553
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction: Blending domestic thriller and psychological horror, this compelling page-turner follows a mother fleeing her estranged husband. Lydia Millet’s previous work has been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Likewise greeted with rapturous praise, Sweet Lamb of Heaven is a first-person account of a young mother, Anna, fleeing her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who’s just launched his first campaign for political office. When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. But the longer they stay, the less the guests in the dingy motel look like typical tourists—and the less Ned resembles a typical candidate. As his pursuit of Anna and their child moves from threatening to criminal, Ned begins to alter his wife’s world in ways she never could have imagined. A double-edged and satisfying story with a strong female protagonist, a thrilling plot, and a creeping sense of the apocalyptic, Sweet Lamb of Heaven builds to a shattering ending with profound implications for its characters—and for all of us.
