The Orpheus Descent - 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 Orpheus Descent write by Tom Harper. This book was released on 2014-05-27. The Orpheus Descent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A cerebral literary thriller in the vein of Dan Brown, Matthew Pearl, and Sam Bourne, The Orpheus Descent follows classical philosopher Plato on a mysterious journey to Italy that will ignite a conspiracy that burns into the present. The greatest thinker in human history, Plato, travels to Italy seeking initiation into the Orphic mysteries: the secret to the Underworld known only to the gods. But the knowledge he discovers is terrifying. Two millennia later, twelve ancient golden tablets secreted in museums around the world hold sacred information known to only a few—the pathway the dead must follow to the afterlife. And archaeologist Lily Barnes has just found another on a dig in southern Italy. But this tablet is far more valuable—and dangerous—than the rest. It holds the key to hell itself. Now, Lily is gone and her husband, Jonah, is desperate to find her. He knows she is alive—and in mortal danger—and he’s willing to go to hell itself to find her. But the deeper he descends on this dark and twisting journey, the more Jonah’s fear rises, for not everyone who travels where Lily has gone will find their way back. . . .
Orpheus
Orpheus - 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 Orpheus write by Ann Wroe. This book was released on 2011-07-14. Orpheus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing everything that hears it: animals, trees, water, stones, and men. In this extraordinary work Ann Wroe goes in search of Orpheus, from the forests where he walked and the mountains where he worshipped to the artefacts, texts and philosophies built up round him. She traces the man, and the power he represents, through the myriad versions of a fantastical life: his birth in Thrace, his studies in Egypt, his voyage with the Argonauts to fetch the Golden Fleece, his love for Eurydice and journey to Hades, and his terrible death. We see him tantalising Cicero and Plato, and breathing new music into Gluck and Monteverdi; occupying the mind of Jung and the surreal dreams of Cocteau; scandalising the Fathers of the early Church, and filling Rilke with poems like a whirlwind. He emerges as not simply another mythical figure but the force of creation itself, singing the song of light out of darkness and life out of death.
Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black
Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black - 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 Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black write by Marcus Sedgwick. This book was released on 2019-09-03. Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Harry Black is lost between the world of war and the land of myth in this illustrated novel that transports the tale of Orpheus to World War II–era London. Brothers Marcus and Julian Sedgwick team up to pen this haunting tale of another pair of brothers, caught between life and death in World War II. Harry Black, a conscientious objector, artist, and firefighter battling the blazes of German bombing in London in 1944, wakes in the hospital to news that his soldier brother, Ellis, has been killed. In the delirium of his wounded state, Harry’s mind begins to blur the distinctions between the reality of war-torn London, the fiction of his unpublished sci-fi novel, and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Driven by visions of Ellis still alive and a sense of poetic inevitability, Harry sets off on a search for his brother that will lead him deep into the city’s Underworld. With otherworldly paintings by Alexis Deacon depicting Harry’s surreal descent further into the depths of hell, this eerily beautiful blend of prose, verse, and illustration delves into love, loyalty, and the unbreakable bonds of brotherhood as it builds to a fierce indictment of mechanized warfare.
Orpheus Descending
Orpheus Descending - 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 Orpheus Descending write by Tennessee Williams. This book was released on 1983. Orpheus Descending available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. THE STORY: As The New York Times describes, The play tells of a woman storekeeper and a handsome, guileless youth who comes in off the highway. A guitar-player, he is a rural Orpheus who descends to rescue his love--not in Hades, precisely,
Redefining Ancient Orphism
Redefining Ancient Orphism - 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 Redefining Ancient Orphism write by Radcliffe G. Edmonds III. This book was released on 2013-11-07. Redefining Ancient Orphism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a paradigm shift, this book redefines Orphism as a polemical label for extra-ordinary religion, good or bad.
