When their marriage reaches a sudden breaking point, the wife tries to retrace the steps that have led them to this place, invoking everything from Kafka to the Stoics to doomed Russian cosmonauts as she analyzes what is lost and what remains. Then they got married, had a child and navigated the familiar calamities of family life-a colicky baby, a faltering relationship, stalled ambitions. of Speculation” was their code name for all the thrilling uncertainties that lay ahead. They were young and giddy, sure of themselves and of their love for each other. In the beginning, it was easy to imagine their future. ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWĪ Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, Minneapolis Star Tribune,, Electric Literature, Buzzfeed From the acclaimed author of Weather comes a slim, stunning portrait of a marriage-a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all.
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He started connecting and sharing ideas with other local anti-slavery Quaker advocates like Ralph Sandiford. He felt that slavery was a ‘hellish practice’ that should be abolished (Rediker 34). During a brief stay in Barbados, he witnessed the horrors of slavery on sugar plantations. In Philadelphia, Lay turned his attention to slavery. He wasn’t afraid to tell people what he thought, even if it caused his own public ostracism and shame. His actions were sourced directly from his internal compass of right and wrong. A person of devout faith, Lay believed in the ideals of democracy and freedom that underpinned the Quaker faith and publicly rebuked Quaker ministers whose faith he deemed feigned or artificial. Picture of Benjamin Lay discovered within the folds of The Rosenbach’s copy of The Lives of Eminent Philadelphia’s Now Deceased, 1859 Henry Simpsonīenjamin Lay arrived in Philadelphia 1731, fresh from stirring up troubles in the Quaker communities of England. A few of these early anti-slavery advocates are here at The Rosenbach. But since the beginning of slavery in the United States, there were people whose lives were devoted to ceasing and ending it. We often think of the abolition movement beginning in the early 1820s with people like Frederick Douglas, Sojourner Truth and Charlotte Grimke. Logan seems to embody everything that has been forbidden, but he isn't all he appears to be. Immediately drawn to Logan Chandler, Sadie is captivated by the beautiful boy with the ocean-blue eyes. When she is chosen to participate in the government's new social experiment, she is ecstatic at the prospect of spending six months in Thalassic City, the shiny new city under the sea. Despised by her family and betrayed by an unscrupulous government, Sadie dreams of a different life. Trapped in a life she hates, she relies on only one person-herself. How can I give him my heart when his race plans on taking my future? *** Sadie Owens has been slowly dying inside. Massive secrets that threaten the very essence of humanity. THE TRUTH DOESN'T ALWAYS SET YOU FREE I've fallen hard for an alien, but he's harboring secrets. The novel has been described as the fourth Miss Buncle book and a World War Two ‘Little Women’ I don’t think it is either of those things really. Miss Buncle fans be warned this novel although starting where The Two Mrs Abbots left off – does not feature Barbara Abbot (nee Buncle) at all. However, I shouldn’t start a review with a negative, and none of that prevents the novel – which cries out for re-issuing by Persephone – from being a really delightful read. The novel would have benefitted from being a little longer, and a couple of the characters more deftly explored. I thoroughly enjoyed The Four Graces, it’s charming, a deeply comforting read which I happily gobbled up pretty quickly, but I wanted there to be more, and in that I think lies one of this novel’s minor flaws. The Four Graces is the fourth novel in the connected series of books which begins with ‘ Miss Buncle’s Book’, the first three of which are published by Persephone books. D E Stevenson was a very prolific writer, and although I have only read very few of her books, I get the impression from what I have read of her work elsewhere that the quality of her work varies considerably. government after fleeing it on July 16, 1927. The narrator explains how he instigated a secret investigation of the decrepit town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts-a former seaport isolated from other nearby towns by vast salt marshes-by the U.S. There he interacts with strange people and observes disturbing events that ultimately lead to horrifying and personal revelations. He travels through the nearby decrepit seaport of Innsmouth which is suggested as a cheaper and potentially interesting next leg of his journey. The narrator is a student conducting an antiquarian tour of New England. The Shadow over Innsmouth is the only Lovecraft story that was published in book form during his lifetime. Its motif of a malign undersea civilization, and references several shared elements of the Mythos, including place-names, mythical creatures, and invocations. It forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos, using Lovecraft, written in November–December 1931. The Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror novella by American author H. Thomas' philosophy with copious aids to understanding them. It contains the most famous and influential passages of St. This little book is designed for beginners, either for classroom use or individually. The Summa Theologica is timeless, but particularly important today because of his synthesis of faith and reason, revelation and philosophy, and the Biblical and the classical Greco-Roman heritages. He is a master of metaphysics and technical terminology, yet so full of both theoretical and practical wisdom. His writings combine the two fundamental ideals of philosophical writing: clarity and profundity. Thomas Aquinas is universally recognized as one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived. The reason for the double shortening is pretty obvious: the original runs some 4000 pages (The Summa of the Summa was just over 500. In it, there is also much philosophy, which is selected, excerpted, arranged, introduced, and explained in footnotes here by Kreeft, a popular Thomist teacher and writer. A shortened version of Kreefts much larger Summa of the Summa, which in turn was a shortened version of the Summa Theologica. The reason for the double shortening is pretty obvious: the original runs some 4000 pages! (The Summa of the Summa was just over 500.) The Summa is certainly the greatest, most ambitious, most rational book of theology ever written. A shortened version of Kreeft's much larger Summa of the Summa, which in turn was a shortened version of the Summa Theologica. |