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22 produkter
No Great Mischief
A Novel
Häftad, 2011
193 kr
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Alistair MacLeod musters all of the skill and grace that have won him an international following to give us No Great Mischief, the story of a fiercely loyal family and the tradition that drives it.Generations after their forebears went into exile, the MacDonalds still face seemingly unmitigated …
No Great Mischief
Häftad, 2001
139 kr
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In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum MacDonald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey he settles his family in 'the land of trees', and eventually they become a separate Nova Scotian clan: red-haired and black-eyed, with its own identity, …
Remembrance
E-bok, 2013
208 kr
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From the internationally celebrated author of No Great Mischief comes a moving short story of three generations of men from a single family whose lives are forever altered by the long shadow of war. In the early morning hours of November 11, David MacDonald, a veteran of the Second World War, …
Island
Häftad, 2002
152 kr
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These slow, beautiful stories - resolute and resonant - are small masterpieces: apparently simple but actually crafted with enormous skill and precision. Set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, they are all concerned with the complexities and mysteries of the human heart, …
Island
The Complete Stories
Häftad, 2011
214 kr
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The sixteen exquisitely crafted stories in Island prove Alistair MacLeod to be a master. Quietly, precisely, he has created a body of work that is among the greatest to appear in English in the last fifty years.A book-besotted patriarch releases his only son from the obligations of the sea. A …
Brigh an Òrain - a Story in Every Song
Av Lauchie MacLellan, John Shaw m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
901 kr
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Few published collections of Gaelic song place the songs or their singers and communities in context. Brìgh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song corrects this, showing how the inherited art of a fourth-generation Canadian Gael fits within biographical, social, and historical contexts. It is the first …
Brigh an Orain - A Story in Every Song
Av Alistair MacLeod, John Shaw m. fl.
E-bok, 2001
742 kr
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Few published collections of Gaelic song place the songs or their singers and communities in context. Brìgh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song corrects this, showing how the inherited art of a fourth-generation Canadian Gael fits within biographical, social, and historical contexts. It is the first …
Running the Whale's Back
Stories of Faith and Doubt from Atlantic Canada
Av Carol Bruneau, Alistair MacLeod m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
228 kr
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In a collection as fine in scope as it is intimate in detail, Running the Whale's Back presents a host of Eastern Canada's brightest literary talents, all putting pens to paper to explore the multiple facets of what we call "faith" through a unique Atlantic vantage point.In a satisfying mixture of …
Routledge Revivals: Paul Tillich (1973)
An Essay on the Role of Ontology in his Philosophical Theology
Inbunden, 2017
1826 kr
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First published in 1973, this is the first book on Paul Tillich in which a sustained attempt is made to sort out and evaluate the questions to which Tillich addresses himself in the crucial philosophical parts of his theological system. It is argued that despite the apparent simplicity in his …
Routledge Revivals: Paul Tillich (1973)
An Essay on the Role of Ontology in his Philosophical Theology
Häftad, 2019
560 kr
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First published in 1973, this is the first book on Paul Tillich in which a sustained attempt is made to sort out and evaluate the questions to which Tillich addresses himself in the crucial philosophical parts of his theological system. It is argued that despite the apparent simplicity in his …
Routledge Revivals: Paul Tillich (1973)
An Essay on the Role of Ontology in his Philosophical Theology
E-bok, 2017
637 kr
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First published in 1973, this is the first book on Paul Tillich in which a sustained attempt is made to sort out and evaluate the questions to which Tillich addresses himself in the crucial philosophical parts of his theological system. It is argued that despite the apparent simplicity in his …
Routledge Revivals: Paul Tillich (1973)
An Essay on the Role of Ontology in his Philosophical Theology
E-bok, 2017
644 kr
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First published in 1973, this is the first book on Paul Tillich in which a sustained attempt is made to sort out and evaluate the questions to which Tillich addresses himself in the crucial philosophical parts of his theological system. It is argued that despite the apparent simplicity in his …
No Great Mischief
E-bok, 2014
100 kr
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In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum MacDonald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey he settles his family in 'the land of trees', and eventually they become a separate Nova Scotian clan: red-haired and black-eyed, with its own identity, …
Island
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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These slow, beautiful stories - resolute and resonant - are small masterpieces: apparently simple but actually crafted with enormous skill and precision. Set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, they are all concerned with the complexities and mysteries of the human heart, …
Son of a Highlander
E-bok, 2015
71 kr
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Son of a Highlander is the true story of the author, a third-generation Australian of Scottish Highland descent discovering his ancestral history over eight generations, from father to son.This is a search for authenticity of a verbal story handed down over a two-hundred-year period, along with a …
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories
E-bok, 2010
129 kr
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The superbly crafted stories collected in Alistair MacLeod’s As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories depict men and women acting out their “own peculiar mortality” against the haunting landscape of Cape Breton Island. In a voice at once elegiac and life-affirming, MacLeod describes a vital …
Lost Salt Gift of Blood
E-bok, 2010
173 kr
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The stories of The Lost Salt Gift of Blood are remarkably simple – a family is drawn together by shared and separate losses, a child’s reality conflicts with his parents’ memories, a young man struggles to come to terms with the loss of his father. Yet each piece of writing in this critically …
To Every Thing There Is a Season
A Cape Breton Christmas Story
E-bok, 2012
257 kr
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The story is simple, seen through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy. As an adult he remembers the way things were back home on the farm on the west coast of Cape Breton. The time was the 1940s, but the hens and the cows and the pigs and the sheep and the horse made it seem ancient. The family of six …
