Gittin' Through

2011-08-02 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Roy T. Matthews
Release : 2011-08-02
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Download or read book Gittin' Through written by Roy T. Matthews. This book was released on 2011-08-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GittinThrough sets this turning point in American history in a small southern town where traditions, class and race defined its citizens and the roles they played. It shows how the three generations coped with the conflict while they made a living, reared their families, took care of the elderly, fell in love, lost loved ones, struggled to hold a marriage together, and choose right and wrong ways to profit from the war. Like all generations, they carried the burdens of the past into their own times in order to prepare for the future.

Rabbinic Tales of Destruction

2018 RELIGION

Author : Julia Watts Belser
Release : 2018
Genre : RELIGION
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Book Rating : 470/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Rabbinic Tales of Destruction written by Julia Watts Belser. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rabbinic Tales of Destruction examines early Jewish accounts of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem from the perspective of the wounded body and the scarred land. Amidst stories saturated with sexual violence, enslavement, forced prostitution, disability, and bodily risk, the book argues that rabbinic narrative wrestles with the brutal body costs of Roman imperial domination. It brings disability studies, feminist theory, and new materialist ecological thought to accounts of rabbinic catastrophe, revealing how rabbinic discourses of gender, sexuality, and the body are shaped in the shadow of empire. Focusing on the Babylonian Talmud's longest account of the destruction of the Second Temple, the book reveals the distinctive sex and gender politics of Bavli Gittin. While Palestinian tales frequently castigate the "wayward woman" for sexual transgressions that imperil the nation, Bavli Gittin's stories resist portraying women's sexuality as a cause of catastrophe. Rather than castigate women's beauty as the cause of sexual sin, Bavli Gittin's tales express a strikingly egalitarian discourse that laments the vulnerability of both male and female bodies before the conqueror. Bavli Gittin's body politics align with a significant theological reorientation. Bavli Gittin does not explain catastrophe as divine chastisement. Instead of imagining God as the architect of Jewish suffering, it evokes God's empathy with the subjugated Jewish body and forges a sharp critique of empire. Its critical discourse aims to pierce the power politics of Roman conquest, to protest the brutality of imperial dominance, and to make plain the scar that Roman violence leaves upon Jewish flesh"--

Bugles Blow No More

2019-01-13 History

Author : Clifford Dowdey
Release : 2019-01-13
Genre : History
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Download or read book Bugles Blow No More written by Clifford Dowdey. This book was released on 2019-01-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “YOU WON’T FORGET ME...” Mildred knew that Brose was right. She would never forget him—his hard, black eyes—his manner of clam assurance. Ever since their first meeting so long ago, she had thought of him unceasingly. He was different from any man she had ever met. There was something about him that was evil—and yet she had to have him... Brose Kirby came up through the ranks. He was a man born to make a name. Tough, driving—a man who would stop at nothing to get what he wanted. And he wanted Mildred Wade. But she was the daughter of one of Richmond’s greatest families—and Brose—Brose was scum... This is one of the truly great novels of the Civil War. Powerful, vivid—panoramic in scope, it is a brilliant picture of the scorched and bloody days that helped to form today’s America.

Transportation

1902

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Release : 1902
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Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Wolfe (Illustrated)

2022-02-17 Fiction

Author : Thomas Wolfe
Release : 2022-02-17
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 508/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Wolfe (Illustrated) written by Thomas Wolfe. This book was released on 2022-02-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early 20th century American novelist Thomas Wolfe produced highly original, poetic, rhapsodic and impressionistic prose, framed in the guise of autobiographical writing. His novels vividly reflect on 1930’s American culture and the mores of that period, filtered through a sensitive and hyper-analytical perspective. His first novel, ‘Look Homeward, Angel’, is now widely regarded as an American classic, characterised for its intense consciousness of scene and place, combined with an extraordinary lyric power. Wolfe imbues his life story with a lofty romantic quality, employing epic overtones. After Wolfe's untimely death at the age of thirty-seven, William Faulkner described him as “the greatest talent of his generation”. This eBook presents Wolfe’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Wolfe’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All the published novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare stories and poems * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the stories * The complete plays, with rare dramas appearing here for the first time, including both versions of ‘The Mountains’ * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Includes Wolfe’s memoirs and essays * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please note: a few posthumous works published many years after Wolfe’s death cannot appear due to copyright restrictions. When new texts become available, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. CONTENTS: The Novels Look Homeward, Angel (1929) Of Time and the River (1935) The Web and the Rock (1939) You Can’t Go Home Again (1940) The Hills Beyond (1941) The Shorter Fiction From Death to Morning (1935) Stories from ‘The Hills Beyond’ (1941) Miscellaneous Short Stories The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Plays Deferred Payment (1919) The Streets of Durham (1919) Concerning Honest Bob (1920) The Return of Buck Gavin (1924) The Third Night (1938) Mannerhouse (1948) The Mountains: A Play in One Act (1970) The Mountains: A Drama in Three Acts and a Prologue (1970) The Poetry Collected Poems The Non-Fiction Miscellaneous Prose The Memoirs The Story of a Novel (1935) A Western Journal (1939) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

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