Arms and the Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arms and the Man write by Bernard Shaw. This book was released on 1990. Arms and the Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A dramatic comedy combines high comedy with social commentary in deflating misconceptions about love and warfare.
Many Heads, Arms and Eyes
Many Heads, Arms and Eyes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Many Heads, Arms and Eyes write by Doris Meth Srinivasan. This book was released on 1997-09-01. Many Heads, Arms and Eyes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the first things that strike the Western viewer of Indian art is the multiplicity of heads, arms and eyes. This convention grows out of imagery conceived by Vedic sages to explain creation. This book for the first time investigates into the meaning of this convention. The author concentrates on its origins in Hindu art and on preceding textual references to the phenomenon of multiplicity. The first part establishes a general definition for the convention. Examination of all Brahmanical literature up to, and sometimes beyond, the 1st - 3rd century A.D., adds more information to this basic definition. The second part applies this literary information mainly to icons of the Yaksa, Śiva, Vāsudeva-Kṛsṇa and the Goddess, and indicates how Brahmanical cultural norms, exemplified in Mathurā, can transmit textual symbols. Both Part I and Part II provide iconic modules and a methodology to generate interpretations for icons with this remarkable feature through the Gupta age.
Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles
Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles write by Harold Bloom. This book was released on 2020-10-13. Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living. . . . Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at otherness beat you down. Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as soon as you can.” So Harold Bloom, the most famous literary critic of his generation, exhorts readers of his last book: one that praises the sustaining power of poetry. "Passionate. . . . Perhaps Bloom’s most personal work, this is a fitting last testament to one of America’s leading twentieth-century literary minds."—Publishers Weekly “An extraordinary testimony to a long life spent in the company of poetry and an affecting last declaration of [Bloom's] passionate and deeply unfashionable faith in the capacity of the imagination to make the world feel habitable”—Seamus Perry, Literary Review "Reading, this stirring collection testifies, ‘helps in staying alive.’“—Kirkus Reviews, starred review This dazzling celebration of the power of poetry to sublimate death—completed weeks before Harold Bloom died—shows how literature renews life amid what Milton called “a universe of death.” Bloom reads as a way of taking arms against the sea of life’s troubles, taking readers on a grand tour of the poetic voices that have haunted him through a lifetime of reading. “High literature,” he writes, “is a saving lie against time, loss of individuality, premature death.” In passages of breathtaking intimacy, we see him awake late at night, reciting lines from Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Montaigne, Blake, Wordsworth, Hart Crane, Jay Wright, and many others. He feels himself “edged by nothingness,” uncomprehending, but still sustained by reading. Generous and clear‑eyed, this is among Harold Bloom’s most ambitious and most moving books.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Farewell to Arms write by Ernest Hemingway. This book was released on 2014-07-08. A Farewell to Arms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An unforgettable World War I story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his love for an English nurse.
If Mom Had Three Arms
If Mom Had Three Arms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook If Mom Had Three Arms write by Karen Kaufman Orloff. This book was released on 2006. If Mom Had Three Arms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Imagine what might happen if your mother had more than two arms and could shake hands with an octopus or flip numerous pancakes at the same time.
