The Head of the Saint
Author: Socorro Acioli
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 055353792X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This translation originally published: London: Hot Key Books, 2014.
Author: Socorro Acioli
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 055353792X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This translation originally published: London: Hot Key Books, 2014.
Author: Burl Barer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0671009516
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Simon Templar--international thief, millionaire, and master of disguise--is hired by a corrupt Russian dictator to steal the formula for cold fusion from an American nuclear physicist, Dr. Emma Russell. But when the Saint falls in love with his target, he must save both her and Russia from the power-mad politician and his deadly forces.
Author: Kortnee Senn
Publisher:
Published: 2022-03-09
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781735450827
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Catholic children's book about the Saints. Following the alphabet, 'You Were Born to Be a Saint' takes a look at all the different ways you can fulfill your call to Sainthood.
Author: Leslie Charteris
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2014-06-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781477842614
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →He may not always be on the right side of the law, but with his charm and Robin Hood morality, he is clearly on the side of angels: he is the Saint.
Author: Leslie Charteris
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2014-07-29
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781477842744
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The bestselling Saint novel which sees Simon hired to clean up the criminals from Prohibition-era New York, only to discover that the Big Fellow is pulling the strings"--Unedited summary from the book.
Author: Kevin Birmingham
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2021-11-16
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 069818288X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * One of The East Hampton Star's 10 Best Books of the Year* From the New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Book, the true story behind the creation of another masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. The Sinner and the Saint is the deeply researched and immersive tale of how Dostoevsky came to write this great murder story—and why it changed the world. As a young man, Dostoevsky was a celebrated writer, but his involvement with the radical politics of his day condemned him to a long Siberian exile. There, he spent years studying the criminals that were his companions. Upon his return to St. Petersburg in the 1860s, he fought his way through gambling addiction, debilitating debt, epilepsy, the deaths of those closest to him, and literary banishment to craft an enduring classic. The germ of Crime and Punishment came from the sensational story of Pierre François Lacenaire, a notorious murderer who charmed and outraged Paris in the 1830s. Lacenaire was a glamorous egoist who embodied the instincts that lie beneath nihilism, a western-influenced philosophy inspiring a new generation of Russian revolutionaries. Dostoevsky began creating a Russian incarnation of Lacenaire, a character who could demonstrate the errors of radical politics and ideas. His name would be Raskolnikov. Lacenaire shaped Raskolnikov in profound ways, but the deeper insight, as Birmingham shows, is that Raskolnikov began to merge with Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky was determined to tell a murder story from the murderer's perspective, but his character couldn't be a monster. No. The murderer would be chilling because he wants so desperately to be good. The writing consumed Dostoevsky. As his debts and the predatory terms of his contract caught up with him, he hired a stenographer to dictate the final chapters in time. Anna Grigorievna became Dostoevsky's first reader and chief critic and changed the way he wrote forever. By the time Dostoevsky finished his great novel, he had fallen in love. Dostoevsky's great subject was self-consciousness. Crime and Punishment advanced a revolution in artistic thinking and began the greatest phase of Dostoevsky's career. The Sinner and the Saint now gives us the thrilling and definitive story of that triumph.
Author: Arundhati Roy
Publisher: Haymarket Books+ORM
Published: 2017-05-01
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1608467988
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The little-known story of Gandhi’s reluctance to challenge the caste system, and the man who fought fiercely for India’s downtrodden. Democracy hasn’t eradicated caste, argues bestselling author and Booker Prize–winner Arundhati Roy—it has entrenched and modernized it. To understand caste today in India, Roy insists we must examine the influence of Gandhi in shaping what India ultimately became: independent of British rule, globally powerful, and marked to this day by the caste system. Roy states that for more than a half century, Gandhi’s pronouncements on the inherent qualities of black Africans, Dalit “untouchables,” and the laboring classes remained consistently insulting, and he also refused to allow lower castes to create their own political organizations and elect their own representatives. But there was someone else who had a larger vision of justice—a founding father of the republic and the chief architect of its constitution. In The Doctor and the Saint, Roy introduces us to this contemporary of Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, who challenged the thinking of the time and fought to promote not merely formal democracy, but liberation from the oppression, shame, and poverty imposed on millions of Indians by an archaic caste system. This is a fascinating and surprising look at two men—one of whom has become a worldwide symbol and the other of whom remains unfamiliar to most outside his native country. Praise for Arundhati Roy “Arundhati Roy is incandescent in her brilliance and her fearlessness.” —Junot Díaz “The fierceness with which Arundhati Roy loves humanity moves my heart.” —Alice Walker
Author: Leslie Charteris
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2014-06-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781477842645
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Whether battling an adrenaline junkie who says he can cheat death, starting a revolution, or putting a drug and human trafficker out of business, the Saint always seems to have fun.
Author: Mrs. Lang
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1933184132
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →True stories and legends about the saints.