Arms and the Man
Title | Arms and the Man PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 81 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0486264769 |
A dramatic comedy combines high comedy with social commentary in deflating misconceptions about love and warfare.
Arms and the Man
Title | Arms and the Man PDF eBook |
Author | William Lowther |
Publisher | Novato, Calif. : Presidio Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Chronicles the life and death of Dr. Gerald Bull, inventor of the supergun and one of the greatest weapons experts in the world, who was murdered when he became involved in weapons dealing in the Middle East.
The Man with Two Arms
Title | The Man with Two Arms PDF eBook |
Author | Billy Lombardo |
Publisher | ABRAMS |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2010-02-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1590206029 |
“Undoubtedly modern America’s finest literary tribute to the baseball since Bernard Malamud’s novel The Natural” (Chicago Tribune). Henry Granville, a baseball fanatic and high school teacher, spends hours in the basement with his young son Danny, introducing him to balls of all shapes and sizes. He even turns the basement into an indoor stadium. Danny quickly distinguishes himself from his peers, most conspicuously by his ability to throw perfectly with either arm—a feat virtually unheard of in baseball. But he also possesses a visionary gift that not even he understands. Danny becomes a superior athlete, skyrocketing through the minor leagues and into the majors where he experiences immediate success, breaking records held for decades. When a journalist, a former student of Henry’s and hungry for a national breakout story, exaggerates the teacher’s obsession and exposes him to the world as a monster, all hell breaks loose and the pressures of media and celebrity threaten to disrupt the world that Henry and Danny have created. A baseball novel—and much more—The Man with Two Arms is a story of the ways in which we protect, betray, forgive, love, and shape each other as we attempt to find our way through life. “Magical realism meets baseball in [this] debut novel . . . [A] Roy Hobbs-like narrative.” —Chicago Magazine “Sings with joy and tragedy . . . An amazing debut, as a lyrical paean to the national pastime and as a touching exploration of the life of a boy becoming a man both blessed and burdened with a unique and extraordinary talent.” —Flagpole
A Man at Arms: A Novel
Title | A Man at Arms: A Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Pressfield |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2021-03-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0393540987 |
From the acclaimed master of historical fiction comes an epic saga about a reluctant hero, the Roman Empire, and the rise of a new faith. Jerusalem and the Sinai desert, first century AD. In the turbulent aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, officers of the Roman Empire acquire intelligence of a pilgrim bearing an incendiary letter from a religious fanatic to insurrectionists in Corinth. The content of this letter could bring down the empire. The Romans hire a former legionary, the solitary man-at-arms, Telamon of Arcadia, to intercept the letter and capture its courier. Telamon operates by a dark code all his own, with no room for noble causes or lofty beliefs. But once he overtakes the courier, something happens that neither he nor the empire could have predicted. In his first novel of the ancient world in thirteen years, the best-selling author of Gates of Fire and Tides of War returns with a gripping saga of conquest and rebellion, bloodshed and faith.
Arms and the Man
Title | Arms and the Man PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2011-05-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004206949 |
These essays honor Dennis Showalter, a pioneer in the field of military history. Written by some of the most highly-respected scholars in the field, they cover a wide range of topics from the ancient world to the present day.
Arms and Men
Title | Arms and Men PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Millis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
"Arms, and the Man I sing . . ."
Title | "Arms, and the Man I sing . . ." PDF eBook |
Author | Arvid Løsnes |
Publisher | University of Delaware |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 2011-05-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1611490030 |
This study referred to as a "preface" is given this designation because its basic aim is not to offer an up-to-date overall assessment of Dryden's translation of Virgil's Æneid but, rather, to provide a relevant basis for such an assessment ?thus allowing for a wide range of readership. The relevance of this approach rests on two basic premises: that of R. A. Brower, who maintains "that no translation can be understood or properly evaluated apart from the conditions of expression under which it was made," supported by Dryden's expressed intention "to make Virgil speak such English, as he wou'd himself have spoken, if he had been born in England, and in this present age," together providing a genuinely relevant basis for an understanding of Dryden's translation, "the conditions of expression" here allowing the inclusion of all the possible implications this phrase includes.