John Edward: 246 books

The story of St. Patrick's life is a dynamic tale of high drama and intense spiritual force. A generation ago, the American Catholic novelist John Edward Beahn retold that story as a biographical novel based on The Confession, Patrick s famous autobiographical work. A Man Cleansed by God: A Novel...

Dopo Stoner e Butcher’s crossing, il romanzo d’esordio di John Williams. Scritto quando aveva solo vent’anni, Nulla solo la notte è un romanzo in cui già si manifestava tutto il talento letterario di uno dei maggiori scrittori americani del XX secolo. Nei due anni e mezzo di guerra...

Torna in libreria, in una nuova traduzione firmata dal traduttore di Stoner, Augustus, altro grande capolavoro di John Williams. Uno dei migliori romanzi storici di tutti i tempi e un capolavoro della letteratura americana contemporanea, Augustus è uno scavo psicologico profondo e intimo che...

William Stoner ha una vita che sembra essere assai piatta e desolata. Non si allontana mai per più di centocinquanta chilometri da Booneville, il piccolo paese rurale in cui è nato; mantiene lo stesso lavoro per tutta la vita; per quasi quarant’anni è infelicemente sposato alla stessa donna;...

People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic. Studies in Culture Contact:...

At the conclusion of the Civil War, Wilkes County, North Carolina, was the site of the nation's first nationally publicized crime of passion. In the wake of a tumultuous love affair and a mysterious chain of events, Tom Dooley was tried, convicted and hanged for the murder of Laura Foster. This notorious...

Dopo la grande risonanza di critica e pubblico di Stoner, definito “il romanzo perfetto” dal New York Times, John Williams ci regala un’ulteriore prova di forza narrativa. Butcher’s Crossing, pubblicato nel 1960, è la storia di formazione di una vita ai margini, calata in una natura selvaggia...

Being a copper at the yard was definitely an exciting time for the author, John Woodhouse, but it did take it's toll on social and family life. From east end detective, to the Bomb Squad in London's fight back during the IRA bombings of the 1970s, to the Flying Squad in the fight against organised...

This lively, provocative text presents a new way to understand friendship. Professor John Terrell argues that the ability to make friends is an evolved human trait not unlike our ability to walk upright on two legs or our capacity for speech and complex abstract reasoning. Terrell charts how this...

Have you dreamed and wondered what your dreams mean or are trying to tell you? Do you sometime feel theres a place where you want to stay and never return to life, or another time you want to wake up yet unsure if you are awake? Personal out-of-body dreams to the world of reality. How our outer experiences...

Poems Ruled By the Heart

Originally published in 1966, this volume reappraises the educational philosophy of Comenius. Until recently the attention given to Comenius and his work concentrated on a narrow interpretation of his pedagogy which played down his pansophic theory. In the second half of the nineteenth century Germany...

Have you ever wondered what death is like?  Have you ever wondered if it is painful and scary?  Let me ease your worries about the inevitable.  This ebook is compiled of some of the greatest authors and thier experiences.  As much as some of us choose not to believe in spirituality...

Learn how gay men use Internet technologies to connect with others sharing their erotic desires and to forge affirming communities online! Getting It On Online: Cyberspace, Gay Male Sexuality, and Embodied Identity examines the online embodied experiences of gay men. At once scholarly and sensual,...