Read and Download eBook Full
Author: Dudley Clendinen
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780670018840
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA journalist chronicles the lives of the elderly residents of Canterbury Towers, an assisted living community, and their philosophies on old age, including the journalist's mother.
Author: Jerry Ellis
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0307417662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than six hundred years ago, the Archbishop of Canterbury was murdered by King Henry II’s knights. Before the Archbishop’s blood dried on the Cathedral floor, the miracles began. The number of pilgrims visiting his shrine in the Middle Ages was so massive that the stone floor wore thin where they knelt to pray. They came seeking healing, penance, or a sign from God. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, one of the greatest, most enduring works of English literature, is a bigger-than-life drama based on the experience of the medieval pilgrim. Power, politics, friendship, betrayal, martyrdom, miracles, and stories all had a place on the sixty mile path from London to Canterbury, known as the Pilgrim’s Way. Walking to Canterbury is Jerry Ellis’s moving and fascinating account of his own modern pilgrimage along that famous path. Filled with incredible details about medieval life, Ellis’s tale strikingly juxtaposes the contemporary world he passes through on his long hike with the history that peeks out from behind an ancient stone wall or a church. Carrying everything he needs on his back, Ellis stops at pubs and taverns for food and shelter and trades tales with the truly captivating people he meets along the way, just as the pilgrims from the twelfth century would have done. Embarking on a journey that is spiritual and historical, Ellis reveals the wonders of an ancient trek through modern England toward the ultimate goal: enlightenment.
Author: Ken Haigh
Publisher: University of Alberta
Published: 2021-09-16
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1772125458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSetting off on foot from Winchester, Ken Haigh hikes across southern England, retracing one of the traditional routes that medieval pilgrims followed to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. Walking in honour of his father, a staunch Anglican who passed away before they could begin their trip together, Haigh wonders: Is there a place in the modern secular world for pilgrimage? On his journey, he sorts through his own spiritual aimlessness while crossing paths with writers like Anthony Trollope, John Keats, Jane Austen, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, and, of course, Geoffrey Chaucer. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part literary history, On Foot to Canterbury is engaging and delightful. "My father didn't need this walk, not the way I do. For him it would have been a fun way to spend some time with his son. He had, I begin to realize, a talent for living in the moment Perhaps a pilgrimage would help me find happiness. Perhaps I could walk my way into a better frame of mind, and somehow along the road to Canterbury I would find a new purpose for my life. It was worth a shot." Audio edition from PRH available from Audible, Kobo, Google, and Apple Books.
Author: Kim Wright
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-05-19
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1501100807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the vein of Jojo Moyes and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, a warm and touching novel about a woman who embarks on a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral after losing her mother, sharing life lessons—in the best Chaucer tradition—with eight other women along the way, from the author of the upcoming novel Last Ride to Graceland. Che Milan’s life is falling apart. Not only has her longtime lover abruptly dumped her, but her eccentric, demanding mother has recently died. When an urn of ashes arrives, along with a note reminding Che of a half-forgotten promise to take her mother to Canterbury, Che finds herself reluctantly undertaking a pilgrimage. Within days she joins a group of women who are walking the sixty miles from London to the shrine of Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, reputed to be the site of miracles. In the best Chaucer tradition, the women swap stories as they walk, each vying to see who can best describe true love. Che, who is a perfectionist and workaholic, loses her cell phone at the first stop and is forced to slow down and really notice the world around her, perhaps for the first time in years. Through her adventures along the trail, Che finds herself opening up to new possibilities in life and discovers that the miracles of Canterbury can take surprising forms.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2005-09-29
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0141966793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most complete of all remaining surviving fragments sections of The Canterbury Tales, the First Fragment contains some of Chaucer's most widely enjoyed work. In The General Prologue, Chaucer introduces his pilgrims through a set of speaking portraits, drawn with a clarity that makes no attempt to conceal their peculiarities. The four tales that follow - those of the Knight, Miller, Reeve and Cook - reveal a wide variety of human preoccupations: whether chivalrous, romantic or simply sexual. Brilliantly bawdy and subtly complex, each of these tales is alive with Chaucer's skills as a poet, storyteller and creator of comedy.
Author: Paul Strohm
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2015-10-27
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0143127837
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A lively microbiography of Geoffrey Chaucer, the "father of English literature", focusing on the surprising and fascinating story of the tumultuous year that led to the creation of the Canterbury Tales"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Andrew D. Blechman
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780871139818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlechman delves into life in a gated retirement community and offers a hilarious, first-hand report on all its peculiarities. He also takes a serious look at the consequences of such instant cities and examines the implications of millions of Americans dropping out of society.
Author: Timothy Egan
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2019-10-15
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0735225249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom "the world's greatest tour guide," a deeply-researched, captivating journey through the rich history of Christianity and the winding paths of the French and Italian countryside that will feed mind, body, and soul (New York Times). "What a wondrous work! This beautifully written and totally clear-eyed account of his pilgrimage will have you wondering whether we should all embark on such a journey, either of the body, the soul or, as in Egan's case, both." --Cokie Roberts "Egan draws us in, making us feel frozen in the snow-covered Alps, joyful in valleys of trees with low-hanging fruit, skeptical of the relics of embalmed saints and hopeful for the healing of his encrusted toes, so worn and weathered from their walk."--The Washington Post Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Timothy Egan decided to follow in the footsteps of centuries of seekers to force a reckoning with his own beliefs. He embarked on a thousand-mile pilgrimage through the theological cradle of Christianity to explore the religion in the world that it created. Egan sets out along the Via Francigena, once the major medieval trail leading the devout to Rome, and travels overland via the alpine peaks and small mountain towns of France, Switzerland and Italy, accompanied by a quirky cast of fellow pilgrims and by some of the towering figures of the faith--Joan of Arc, Henry VIII, Martin Luther. The goal: walking to St. Peter's Square, in hopes of meeting the galvanizing pope who is struggling to hold together the church through the worst crisis in half a millennium. A thrilling journey, a family story, and a revealing history, A Pilgrimage to Eternity looks for our future in its search for God.
Author: Dirk Flinthart
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2009-05-01
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0809573288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSix hundred years ago, a group of pilgrims made their way to Canterbury, and Geoffrey Chaucer created one of the great works of English literature. A hundred years from now, a nuclear-powered steam train is stopped by a massive storm on its journey to Canterbury, the new capital of an England struggling to rise from the ashes of the twenty-first century. As the waters rise with the storm's fury, the weird and wonderful passengers tell the stories of a new age ...
Author: L. B. Gschwandtner
Publisher: Zamora Chronicles
Published: 2019-05
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780939613632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe love story of Niko and El unfolds against the backdrop of a brutal dystopian regime in a city ruled by Premier Villinkash, his Overseers, Protectors and Watchers.Following the "Collapse," trust and hope have ceased to exist, memory has been "Cleansed" and electronic InCom screens monitor the people with daily lists to follow while they urge people to inform on neighbors. Children born during the Collapse are housed in penitentiary-like "Centers."When Niko escapes one of these centers, he melts into the city and begins life on the street. One day he meets lovely, innocent, El, who's been raised by two elderly nuns in the last convent to survive the Collapse.Niko and El's developing love is threatened when Niko is forced to compete in the regime's cynical rooftop motorcycle race where only one rider can possibly survive.Although Niko survives, when he chooses as his prize not one of the pimped up girls the regime has pre-selected, but the girl he loves - natural, innocent, El - he instantly becomes an enemy of the state. Relentlessly hunted after a bold escape from the Compound where he and El have been sequestered, even El has turned on him after being humiliated at the hands of the regime. But they are thrown together again in a desperate attempt to survive the Regime's wrath. While Niko and El hide and run, an urban guerrilla force of children trained by renegade priest, Father Ignatius, using the name "Niko" as their resistance cry, wreak havoc on the regime while Niko and El reluctantly rely on each other for a dangerous overland expedition to Zamora, a possibly mythical place where, if they can find it, they hope to be safe.Zamora probes whether love can survive a brutal political regime that pits people against each other to secure its hold on power. Surprise twists and turns in this intricate plot will keep readers guessing about who is really on the side of good and who can be trusted when all is not what it appears.
