The Supplicating Voice
The Supplicating Voice

Author: Samuel Johnson

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2005-04-12

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0375725679

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A unique one-volume selection of Samuel Johnson’s writings on spiritual and moral topics provides an unusually inspiring portrait of the man and his thought. Most readers know Dr. Johnson (1709—1784) as the formidable compiler of his famous Dictionary and as the witty conversationalist portrayed in Boswell’s Life. By contrast, this book–which draws on little-known unsigned sermons he wrote for hire for clergy friends, his private prayers and devotions, essays, poems, diaries, letters, and even key definitions from the Dictionary–offers a rare opportunity to discover Johnson’s rich insight and consoling spirituality gathered in one place. Boswell observed that "He was a sincere and zealous ChristianÉ. He was steady and inflexible in maintaining the obligations of religion and morality; both from a regard for the order of society, and from a veneration for the Great Source of all order." This Vintage Spiritual Classics Original opens a window on the moral universe of the leading English writer of the eighteenth century.

SUPPLICATION
SUPPLICATION

Author: Nour Abi-Nakhoul

Publisher: Influx Press

Published: 2024-06-06

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1910312665

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'Supplication is as visceral and gripping as an actual nightmare, but also teeming with wisdom about selfhood and trauma.' – Ainslie Hogarth, author of Motherthing 'A highly sophisticated philosophical exploration of identity propelled by a surreal sense of the interconnectedness of random events. – Kerry Hadley-Pryce, author of God's Country 'There, within the suddenness of the unending present, I was born.' An unnamed narrator comes to in a basement, tied to a chair, a man looming over her. Someone has a knife. She emerges from her captivity into a mysterious and nightmarish city, searching for meaning in her new reality. As figures emerge from the night, some offering sanctuary, and others judgement, she moves through a fever-dream narrative of alienation, fear, and the quest for respite. Nour Abi-Nakhoul's powerful debut novel, Supplication, is a hallucinatory literary horror set deep in the consciousness of a woman exploring a changed and frightening world.