Tag: Samuel

Free Download Paula Williams Madison, "Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0062331639 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 2.7 mb
Spanning four generations and moving between New York, Jamaica, and China, a powerful memoir that is a universal story of one woman’s search for her maternal grandfather and the key to her self-identity.

Free Download Art and Life: The Story of Samuel Bak by Ute Ben Yosef
English | October 14th, 2023 | ISBN: 1879985462 | 360 pages | True EPUB | 437.16 MB
Art & Life: The Story of Samuel Bak traces the development of a child prodigy deeply shaped by the catastrophic events of the Shoah, from his early artistic influences to his years in the Vilna Ghetto and Landsberg DP Camp, his formal training in Israel and Paris, and his fruitful art career in Rome, New York, Switzerland, and Boston.

Free Download George F. Botjer, "Samuel F. B. Morse and the Dawn of the Age of Electricity"
English | ISBN: 1498501400 | 2015 | 148 pages | EPUB | 649 KB

Free Download Gabriele Schwab, "Moments for Nothing: Samuel Beckett and the End Times"
English | ISBN: 0231211619 | 2023 | 288 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Samuel Beckett’s work has entranced generations of readers with its portrayal of the end times. Beckett’s characters are preoccupied with death, and the specters of cataclysm and extinction overshadow their barren, bleak worlds. Yet somehow, they endure, experiencing surreal and often comic repetitions that seem at once to confront finitude and the infinite, up to the limits of existence.

Free Download Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester: The Shipwreck that Shocked Restoration Britain by Nigel Pickford
English | February 7, 2023 | ISBN: 1639363203 | 321 pages | PDF | 30 Mb
A true story of royal intrigue-with famed diarist Samuel Pepys as the main protagonist-as a fatal shipwreck on the shores of Restoration Britain sparks a mystery that now may finally be solved.

Free Download Erik Tonning, Matthew Feldman, "Samuel Beckett’s ‘More Pricks Than Kicks’: In A Strait Of Two Wills"
English | 2011 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 1441159479, 1472525728 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
Drawing on private correspondence and little known documents, published and unpublished, Pilling explores every aspect of the More Pricks Than Kicks short story collection. From its publishing history to why they were written, Pilling reveals Beckett’s conflicted feelings about the ‘compromise’ of writing short stories and his struggle to find a voice distinct from James Joyce, his friend and authority of the form.

Free Download V. Philips Long, "1 and 2 Samuel (Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary)"
English | 2016 | pages: 840 | ASIN: B019EIZWLU | EPUB | 47,5 mb
Many today find the Old Testament a closed book. The cultural issues seem insurmountable and we are easily baffled by that which seems obscure. Furthermore, without knowledge of the ancient culture we can easily impose our own culture on the text, potentially distorting it. This series invites you to enter the Old Testament with a company of guides, experts that will give new insights into these cherished writings. Features include * Over 2000 photographs, drawings, maps, diagrams and charts provide a visual feast that breathes fresh life into the text. * Passage-by-passage commentary presents archaeological findings, historical explanations, geographic insights, notes on manners and customs, and more. * Analysis into the literature of the ancient Near East will open your eyes to new depths of understanding both familiar and unfamiliar passages. * Written by an international team of 30 specialists, all top scholars in background studies.