The Great Passion - 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 The Great Passion write by James Runcie. This book was released on 2022-03-31. The Great Passion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A masterpiece' SCOTSMAN 'A wise, refreshing novel, and a touching human story ... Runcie has an expert imagination' HILARY MANTEL Love and Death. Grief and Joy. Music that lasts forever. Leipzig, 1726. Eleven-year-old Stefan Silbermann, a humble organ-maker's son, has just lost his mother. Sent to Leipzig to train as a singer in the St Thomas Church choir, he struggles to stay afloat in a school where the teachers are as casually cruel as the students. Stefan's talent draws the attention of the Cantor – Johann Sebastian Bach. Eccentric, obsessive and kind, he rescues Stefan from the miseries of school by bringing him into his home as an apprentice. Soon Stefan feels that this ferociously clever, chaotic family is his own. But when tragedy strikes, Stefan's period of sanctuary in their household comes to a close. Something is happening, though. In the depths of his loss, the Cantor is writing a new work: the Saint Matthew Passion, to be performed for the first time on Good Friday. As Stefan watches the work rehearsed, he realises he is witness to the creation of one of the most extraordinary pieces of music that has ever been written. 'Brilliant ... Readers will be enriched by this novel and its glimpse at genius' The Times, Historical Fiction of the Month 'Warmly, reverently, Runcie brings alive what it is like to take part, for the very first time, in one of the most extraordinary pieces of music ever written' Daily Telegraph
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach - 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 Johann Sebastian Bach write by Christoph Wolff. This book was released on 2000. Johann Sebastian Bach available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chronicles the life, work, and legacy of the inventive musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher.
The Gospel in the Light of the Great War
The Gospel in the Light of the Great War - 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 The Gospel in the Light of the Great War write by Ozora Stearns Davis. This book was released on 1919. The Gospel in the Light of the Great War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Dangerous Passion
The Dangerous Passion - 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 The Dangerous Passion write by David M. Buss. This book was released on 2000-02-14. The Dangerous Passion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do men and women cheat on each other? How do men really feel when their partners have sex with other men? What worries women more -- men who turn to other women for love or men who simply want sexual variety in their lives? Can the jealousy husbands and wives experience over real or imagined infidelities be cured? Should it be? In this surprising and engaging exploration of men's and women's darker passions, David Buss, acclaimed author of The Evolution of Desire, reveals that both men and women are actually designed for jealousy. Drawing on experiments, surveys, and interviews conducted in thirty-seven countries on six continents, as well as insights from recent discoveries in biology, anthropology, and psychology, Buss discovers that the evolutionary origins of our sexual desires still shape our passions today. According to Buss, more men than women want to have sex with multiple partners. Furthermore, women who cheat on their husbands do so when they are most likely to conceive, but have sex with their spouses when they are least likely to conceive. These findings show that evolutionary tendencies to acquire better genes through different partners still lurk beneath modern sexual behavior. To counteract these desires to stray -- and to strengthen the bonds between partners -- jealousy evolved as an early detection system of infidelity in the ancient and mysterious ritual of mating. Buss takes us on a fascinating journey through many cultures, from pre-historic to the present, to show the profound evolutionary effect jealousy has had on all of us. Only with a healthy balance of jealousy and trust can we be certain of a mate's commitment, devotion, and true love.
The Great Magdalens
The Great Magdalens - 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 The Great Magdalens write by Hugh Francis Blunt. This book was released on 1928. The Great Magdalens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
