This magnificent compilation of sacred writings from all traditions includes discourses, essays, sermons, and aphorisms from Heraclitus, Plato, Julian of Norwich, Hasidic masters, Chinese Zen masters, plus works by such modern writers as Blake, Kafka, and Einstein. A perfect companion to Mitchell's poetry anthology, The Enlightened Heart.
Raised in the British colony of Valparaiso, Chile, after being abandoned as a baby, a pregnant Eliza follows her lover, Joaquin Andieta, to California at the height of the Gold Rush and finds adventure and adversity on her road to independence and love. Reprint.
A book takes on some two hundred scholars who claim that Jesus said only 18% of what the Gospels attribute to him, arguing that the ""real Jesus"" is the one experienced in the present through faith. Reprint. LJ.
Folger Shakespeare Library The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • Scene-by-scene plot summaries • A key to famous lines and phrases • An int...more
The hilarious and tragic story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged Russian man who feels passion only for young the "nymphet" Dolores Haze, whom he renames Lolita.
A feminist analysis of the first chapters of Matthew and Luke argues that they describe an illegitimate pregnancy and divine sonship and that God sided with a socially rejected woman and her child.
Examines the responses to the fall of Rome by the Church Fathers, who set the pattern for interpreting the momentus event for all succeeding centuries.
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
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