Mozart's Ghost
Mozart's Ghost

Author: Julia Cameron

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-02-05

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 142995308X

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Meet Anna, a thirtysomething Midwesterner living alone in New York City. A schoolteacher by day, she is a medium by night, covertly helping people reunite with their lost loved ones. Anna leads a double life, guarding her secret as much as she guards her heart—until Edward, a gangly yet quietly handsome concert pianist, moves into her building. Edward’s music fills Anna’s apartment with beautiful sounds that disturb her concentration and her lines of communication with ghosts. She and Edward fall for each other fast, but Anna is conflicted: By exposing her true identity, does she risk losing what may be her true love? And is music really his true love? Then a ghost begins to interfere—Mozart’s ghost—and while making a pest of himself to Anna, he begins to play matchmaker with unpredictable results.... An enchanting and irresistible love story in the tradition of Sue Monk Kidd’s The Mermaid Chair, Mozart’s Ghost will win Julia Cameron a whole new galaxy of fiction readers.

Ghosts: A Social History, vol 1
Ghosts: A Social History, vol 1

Author: Owen Davies

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-08-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1040233570

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Reveals changing perceptions of ghosts at different social levels from the Reformation through to the twentieth century in Britain and America. This five-volume set focuses on the key published debates that emerged in each century, and illustrates the range of literary formats that reported or discussed ghosts.

Oliver's Ghost
Oliver's Ghost

Author: Warren Hussey Bouton

Publisher:

Published: 2003-06

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780970055538

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Sarah and Ben travel to Nantucket for a summer visit with their Grandparents but their plans for a quiet vacation take a spooky turn when their new friend, Oliver, turns out to be a ghost.

Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century England
Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century England

Author: Su Fang Ng

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-01-25

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1139463101

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A common literary language linked royal absolutism to radical religion and republicanism in seventeenth-century England. Authors from both sides of the Civil Wars, including Milton, Hobbes, Margaret Cavendish, and the Quakers, adapted the analogy between family and state to support radically different visions of political community. They used family metaphors to debate the limits of political authority, rethink gender roles, and imagine community in a period of social and political upheaval. While critical attention has focused on how the common analogy linking father and king, family and state, bolstered royal and paternal claims to authority and obedience, its meaning was in fact intensely contested. In this wide-ranging study, Su Fang Ng analyses the language and metaphors used to describe the relationship between politics and the family in both literary and political writings and offers a fresh perspective on how seventeenth-century literature reflected as well as influenced political thought.

The Age of Projects
The Age of Projects

Author: Maximillian E. Novak

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2008-08-23

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1442692995

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"The Projecting Age" was a term the English novelist Daniel Defoe used to describe the end of the seventeenth century. This term could just as easily be used, however, to describe the period known as the "Long Eighteenth Century" (1660-1789). The Age of Projects uses the notion of a project as a key to understanding the massive social, cultural, political, literary, and scientific transitions that occurred in Europe during this time. The contributors to this collection examine fraudulent, grandiose, altruistic, and idealistic projects that reveal the period's radical breaks from the past and its preoccupation with the future. Examining topics as diverse as Jonathan Swift's satire on the possibility of a computer, to Gottfried Leibniz's effort to build one, and Edmund Burke's prediction that the project of democratic governance would be taken over by greedy adventurers, this volume provides significant insight into the period's ambitions for an improved future. A well-balanced collection by leading scholars from diverse disciplines, The Age of Projects is a significant contribution to intellectual history, literary history, and the history of science.

Alibis
Alibis

Author: André Aciman

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2011-09-27

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1429995068

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A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, André Aciman has written a luminous series of linked essays about time, place, identity, and art that show him at his very finest. From beautiful and moving pieces about the memory evoked by the scent of lavender; to meditations on cities like Barcelona, Rome, Paris, and New York; to his sheer ability to unearth life secrets from an ordinary street corner, Alibis reminds the reader that Aciman is a master of the personal essay.

Constructing Cromwell
Constructing Cromwell

Author: Laura Lunger Knoppers

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-06-22

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780521662611

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This study examines the complex and shifting popular print images of Oliver Cromwell.