Maese Perez, The Organist - Maese Pérez el Organista - Parallel Text Spanish and English
Maese Perez, The Organist - Maese Pérez el Organista - Parallel Text Spanish and English

Author: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Publisher: LingoLibros

Published: 2015-10-08

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13:

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This book is for those who want to read the original classic legend of Maese Pérez el Organista but need a bit of help. It is presented with a choice of reading options. For those with a good understanding of the Spanish language, the full and original legend is included and could be read first with occasional reference to the English translation as necessary. If you find Bécquer's original language a little too challenging, we suggest that you read the English translation first to refresh your memory of this fabulous legend and then give it another go. Alternatively, if more help is required, the parallel text section allows easy comparison of the original Spanish text to an accurate translation - Spanish followed by English. Excepting the editor's comments, the translation by Rollo Ogden is true to the legend by accurately translating the Spanish with a good choice of words that maintain the flow of the tale and evoke like feelings. We hope you enjoy reading Maese Pérez el Organista and by doing so improve your knowledge of the Spanish language.

Deceit, Desire, and the Novel
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel

Author: René Girard

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1976-04

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780801818301

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Examines the novel based on an altruistic hero who dies, through a description of five novelists.

A Journey Into the Philosophy of Alain Locke
A Journey Into the Philosophy of Alain Locke

Author: Johnny Washington

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1994-01-26

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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Washington provides a detailed guide to the philosophy of Alain Locke, one of the most influential African American thinkers of our time. The work gives special attention to what Washington calls Destiny Studies, an approach which allows a people to concentrate on their past, present, and future possibilities, and to view the experience of a race as a coherent unity, rather than a set of fragmented historical happenings. In providing a broad vision of Locke's ideas, Washington considers the views of Booker T. Washington and his contemporaries, the theories of anthropologists concerning race and ethnicity, and many of the social issues current in our own age. By doing so, Washington affirms the importance of Locke as a philosopher and demonstrates the impact of Locke on the destiny of African Americans.

Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry

Author: Sinclair Lewis

Publisher: Standard Ebooks

Published: 2023-01-01T20:36:53Z

Total Pages: 567

ISBN-13:

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Elmer Gantry isn’t suited to be a lawyer, so he becomes a preacher instead. Although he experiences a variety of failures, and even more successes, Gantry ultimately finds this new career path suits him very well indeed—despite his drinking and womanizing. Throughout his time as a preacher Gantry progresses through the hierarchies of the Baptist and Methodist churches, dabbles in revivalism and “New Thought,” and even experiments with politics, all the while emerging from scandals relatively unscathed and ready to move onward and upward once again. Sinclair Lewis published the satirical Elmer Gantry in 1927 much to the dismay of the religious community. It was denounced from the pulpit, banned by many, and even engendered threats of violence. Despite this—or perhaps because of it—it went on to become a massive success and the best selling novel of that year. One of the most savage satirical assaults against institutionalized religion and its hypocrisy in American literature, Elmer Gantry continues to be a window into a particularly important aspect of American history. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Diary of a Pilgrimage
Diary of a Pilgrimage

Author: Jerome K. Jerome

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2015-04-24

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1473373417

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This early work by Jerome K. Jerome was originally published in 1891 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Diary of a Pilgrimage' is a novel set during a journey to Oberammergau, in Bavaria, to see the Passion play that is performed there every ten years. Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in Walsall, England in 1859. Both his parents died while he was in his early teens, and he was forced to quit school to support himself. In 1889, Jerome published his most successful and best-remembered work, 'Three Men in a Boat'. Featuring himself and two of his friends encountering humorous situations while floating down the Thames in a small boat, the book was an instant success, and has never been out of print. In fact, its popularity was such that the number of registered Thames boats went up fifty percent in the year following its publication.