Thomas More's Magician
Title | Thomas More's Magician PDF eBook |
Author | Toby Green |
Publisher | Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780297829881 |
In September 1532, eleven years after the Spanish conquest, Mexico is in meltdown. As the conquistadors discover an earthly paradise, its peoples and their Gods are being destroyed. Despairing at his surroundings, Vasco de Quiroga forges a commune on Mexico City's outskirts. Indigenous peoples flock there, and soon a new society exists, using Thomas More's recently published book, Utopia, as its blueprint. Rich with vivid accounts of 16th-century Spain and Mexico, Thomas More's Magician is not only the fascinating story of Quiroga, but also asks if utopian dreams are possible.
The Magician
Title | The Magician PDF eBook |
Author | Colm Toibin |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 2021-09-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1476785104 |
A New York Times Notable Book, Critic’s Top Pick, and Top Ten Book of Historical Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Businessweek From one of today’s most brilliant and beloved novelists, a dazzling, epic family saga set across a half-century spanning World War I, the rise of Hitler, World War II, and the Cold War that is “a feat of literary sorcery in its own right” (Oprah Daily). The Magician opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable. Young Mann hides his artistic aspirations from his father and his homosexual desires from everyone. He is infatuated with one of the richest, most cultured Jewish families in Munich, and marries the daughter Katia. They have six children. On a holiday in Italy, he longs for a boy he sees on a beach and writes the story Death in Venice. He is the most successful novelist of his time, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, a public man whose private life remains secret. He is expected to lead the condemnation of Hitler, whom he underestimates. His oldest daughter and son, leaders of Bohemianism and of the anti-Nazi movement, share lovers. He flees Germany for Switzerland, France and, ultimately, America, living first in Princeton and then in Los Angeles. In this “exquisitely sensitive” (The Wall Street Journal) novel, Tóibín has crafted “a complex but empathetic portrayal of a writer in a lifelong battle against his innermost desires, his family, and the tumultuous times they endure” (Time), and “you’ll find yourself savoring every page” (Vogue).
The Blackwater Lightship
Title | The Blackwater Lightship PDF eBook |
Author | Colm Toibin |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2014-10-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1501106929 |
From the author of The Master and Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín weaves together the lives of three generations of estranged women as they reunite to witness and mourn the death of a brother, a son, and a grandson. It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora, have come together to tend to Helen's brother, Declan, who is dying of AIDS. With Declan's two friends, the six of them are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histories and to come to terms with each other. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Blackwater Lightship is a deeply resonant story about three generations of an estranged family reuniting to mourn an untimely death. In spare, luminous prose, Colm Tóibín explores the nature of love and the complex emotions inside a family at war with itself. Hailed as "a genuine work of art" (Chicago Tribune), this is a novel about the capacity of stories to heal the deepest wounds.
Mario and the Magician
Title | Mario and the Magician PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Mann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | German Short Stories (English) |
ISBN | 9780140183566 |
Archetypal Psychology
Title | Archetypal Psychology PDF eBook |
Author | James Hillman |
Publisher | Spring Publications |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2021-03-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780882149974 |
Originally written for the Enciclopedia del Novecento, Archetypal Psychology, ?Volume 1 of the Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman, is a concise, instructive introduction to polytheism, Greek mythology, the soul-spirit distinction, anima mundi, psychopathology, soul-making, imagination, therapeutic practice, and the writings of C.??G. Jung, Henry Corbin, and Adolf Portmann in the formulation of the field of Archetypal Psychology.
The Un-Magician
Title | The Un-Magician PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Golden |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2004-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0689866615 |
In a country where everyone has magic powers except him, why would Timothy pose such a danger that the Government is trying to kill him?
Alchemists, Mediums, and Magicians
Title | Alchemists, Mediums, and Magicians PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Shambhala Publications |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2009-01-13 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0834821664 |
Here is an introduction to the magical and mystical realm of Taoism through biographical and historical sketches of Taoist adepts over two thousand years. This panoramic view of the many faces of Taoism and its intimate connection with Chinese culture and society includes intriguing accounts of the Taoist secret societies that carried out mystical exercises and powerful consciousness-altering techniques, including sensory deprivation, incantation, visualization, and concentration. This collection of sketches, compiled by Zhang Tianyu, a Taoist priest in the fourteenth century, and translated by renowned translator Thomas Cleary, portrays more than one hundred remarkable individuals from the eleventh century B.C.E. to the thirteenth century C.E. It introduces us to a broad and fascinating range of personalities including philosophers and scholars, magicians and mediums, alchemists and physicians, seers and soothsayers, and artists and poets, among many others. Cleary’s expert translation and informative footnotes make this collection a lively and accessible read.