Master of the Crossroads

2007-12-18 Fiction

Author : Madison Smartt Bell
Release : 2007-12-18
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 793/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Master of the Crossroads written by Madison Smartt Bell. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing his epic trilogy of the Haitian slave uprising, Madison Smartt Bell’s Master of the Crossroads delivers a stunning portrayal of Toussaint Louverture, former slave, military genius and liberator of Haiti, and his struggle against the great European powers to free his people in the only successful slave revolution in history. At the outset, Toussaint is a second-tier general in the Spanish army, which is supporting the rebel slaves’ fight against the French. But w hen Toussaint is betrayed by his former allies and the commanders of the Spanish army, he reunites his army with the French, wresting vital territories and manpower from Spanish control. With his army one among several factions, Toussaint eventually rises as the ultimate victor as he wards off his enemies to take control of the French colony and establish a new constitution. Bell’s grand, multifaceted novel shows a nation, splintered by actions and in the throes of chaos, carried to liberation and justice through the undaunted tenacity of one incredible visionary.

All Souls' Rising

2008-09-30 Fiction

Author : Madison Smartt Bell
Release : 2008-09-30
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 507/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book All Souls' Rising written by Madison Smartt Bell. This book was released on 2008-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A serious historical novel that reads like a dream." --The Washington Post Book World "One of the most spohisticated fictional treatments of the enduring themes of class, color, and freedom." --San Francisco Chronicle NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST This first installment of the epic Haitian trilogy brings to life a decisive moment in the history of race, class, and colonialism. The slave uprising in Haiti was a momentous contribution to the tide of revolution that swept over the Western world at the end of the 1700s. A brutal rebellion that strove to overturn a vicious system of slavery, the uprising successfully transformed Haiti from a European colony to the world’s first Black republic. From the center of this horrific maelstrom, the heroic figure of Toussaint Louverture–a loyal, literate slave and both a devout Catholic and Vodouisant–emerges as the man who will take the merciless fires of violence and vengeance and forge a revolutionary war fueled by liberty and equality. Bell assembles a kaleidoscopic portrait of this seminal movement through a tableau of characters that encompass black, white, male, female, rich, poor, free and enslaved. Pulsing with brilliant detail, All Soul’s Rising provides a visceral sense of the pain, terror, confusion, and triumph of revolution.

Master of the Crossroads

2015

Author : Richard Kadrey
Release : 2015
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Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 700/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Master of the Crossroads written by Richard Kadrey. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thomas Aquinas

2022-08 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Robert Barron
Release : 2022-08
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 792/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Thomas Aquinas written by Robert Barron. This book was released on 2022-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Aquinas is widely considered the greatest and most influential of Catholic theologians. Yet too often his insights into the nature of God and the meaning of life are seen as somehow cold, impersonal, and divorced from spirituality. In this award-winning book, Bishop Robert Barron shows how Aquinas' profound understanding of the Christian mystical life animates and helps explain his writings on Jesus Christ, creation, God's "strange" nature, and the human call to ecstasy. "When one interprets Thomas merely as a rationalist philosopher or theologian, one misses the burning heart of everything he wrote. Aquinas was a saint deeply in love with Jesus Christ, and the image of Christ pervades the entire edifice that is his philosophical, theological, and scriptural work. Above all, Thomas Aquinas was a consummate spiritual master, holding up the icon of the Word made flesh and inviting others into its transformative power."

The Stone that the Builder Refused

2007-12-18 Fiction

Author : Madison Smartt Bell
Release : 2007-12-18
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 978/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Stone that the Builder Refused written by Madison Smartt Bell. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stone that the Builder Refused is the final volume of Madison Smartt Bell’s masterful trilogy about the Haitian Revolution–the first successful slave revolution in history–which begins with All Souls' Rising (a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award) and continues with Master of the Crossroads. Each of these three novels can be read independently of the two others; of the trilogy, The Baltimore Sun has said, “[It] will make an indelible mark on literary history–one worthy of occupying the same shelf as Tolstoy’s War and Peace.”

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