Blood of My Blood

Blood of My Blood

Author: Richard Gambino

Publisher: Guernica Editions

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9781550711011

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Richard Gambino, PhD, is the author of Vendetta. He lives in New York.


Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences

Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences

Author: Rosina Neginsky

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2010-08-11

Total Pages: 665

ISBN-13: 1443824526

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The notion of the symbol is at the root of the Symbolist movement, but this symbol is different from the way it was used and understood in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In the Symbolist movement, a symbol is not an allegory. The Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck defined its essence in an article that appeared on April 24, 1887, in L’Art moderne. He wrote that the notion of a symbol in the Symbolist movement is the opposite of the notion of the symbol in classical usage: instead of going from the abstract to the concrete (Venus, incarnated in the statue, represents love), it goes from the concrete to the abstract, from “what is seen, heard, felt, tasted, and sensed to the evocation of the idea.” This volume attempts to give a glimpse into the power of the Symbolist movement and the nature of its fundamental and interdisciplinary role in the evolution of art and literature of the twentieth century. It records the studies of a group of scholars, who met and discussed these topics together for the first time in 2009. While illuminating the specificity of Symbolism in art, architecture and literature in different European countries, these articles also demonstrate the crucial role of French Symbolism in the development of the international Symbolist movement. The authors hope that an expanding group, a society of Art, Literature and Music in Symbolism and Decadence (ALMSD), born out of the first meeting, will continue to further this discussion at future conferences and in the printed conference proceedings.


Bootleg Broadway

Bootleg Broadway

Author: Diana Rubino

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc

Published: 2015-06-17

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1509201297

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It’s 1932. Prohibition rages, the Depression ravages, and Billy McGlory comes of age whether he wants to or not. Musical and adventurous, Billy dreams of having his own ritzy supper club and big band. On the eve of his marriage to the pregnant Prudence, the shifty “businessman” Rosario Ingovito offers him all that and more. Fame, fortune, his own Broadway musical—it’s all his for the taking, despite Pru’s opposition to Rosie’s ventures. Meanwhile, Pru’s artistic career gains momentum and their child is born. Can anything go wrong for Billy? Only when he gets in way over his head does he stop to wonder how his business partner really makes his millions, but by then it’s far too late…


The Italian Crooners Bedside Companion

The Italian Crooners Bedside Companion

Author: Richard Grudens

Publisher: celebrity profiles publilshing

Published: 2004-11

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780976387701

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Provides insight into the lives of Italian musical personalities and features over 100 photos. This compendium explores the musical world of Frank Sinatra, Frankie Laine, Perry Como, Jerry Vale, Al Martino, Dean Martin, Julius La Rosa, Tony Bennett, Vic Damone, Don Cornell, Bobby Darin, Louis Prima, Lou Monte, Russ Columbo, and many others.


The Essential Works of Friedrich Nietzsche

The Essential Works of Friedrich Nietzsche

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2023-11-26

Total Pages: 2244

ISBN-13:

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In 'The Essential Works of Friedrich Nietzsche', the reader is introduced to the profound philosophical ideas of the renowned German thinker. This collection showcases Nietzsche's critique of traditional morality, his exploration of the concept of the will to power, and his thoughts on the eternal recurrence. The literary style is marked by its poetic language and aphoristic writing, making it a challenging yet rewarding read for those interested in existentialist philosophy. Nietzsche's works are situated within the context of 19th-century German philosophy, particularly his rejection of Enlightenment ideas and his influence on later existentialist thinkers. Friedrich Nietzsche, a seminal figure in Western philosophy, was influenced by his own experiences of suffering and challenges to conventional beliefs. His search for meaning in a seemingly chaotic world is evident in his writings, making his works both personal and universal. Nietzsche's provocative ideas continue to spark debates and influence modern thought. 'The Essential Works of Friedrich Nietzsche' is a must-read for anyone interested in delving into the depths of existential philosophy and exploring provocative ideas that challenge conventional wisdom. Nietzsche's writings will leave readers questioning their beliefs and pondering the true nature of existence.


90 Masterpieces You Must Read (Vol.2)

90 Masterpieces You Must Read (Vol.2)

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2020-05-03

Total Pages: 20095

ISBN-13:

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Invest your time in reading the true masterpieces of world literature, the greatest works by the masters of their craft, the revolutionary works, the timeless classics and the eternally moving storylines every person should experience in their lifetime: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) Dubliners (James Joyce) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford) Howards End (E. M. Forster) Le Père Goriot (Honoré de Balzac) Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) Anne of Green Gables Series (L. M. Montgomery) The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) Gitanjali (Rabindranath Tagore) Diary of a Nobody (George and Weedon Grossmith) The Beautiful and Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper) Phantastes (George MacDonald) Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas) Iliad & Odyssey (Homer) Kama Sutra The Divine Comedy (Dante) The Rise of Silas Lapham (William Dean Howells) The Book of Tea (Kakuzo Okakura) Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo) Red and the Black (Stendhal) Rob Roy (Sir Walter Scott) Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope) Germinal (Emile Zola) The Rider on the White Horse (Theodor Storm) Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe) The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Henry Fielding) Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome) Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) My Antonia (Willa Cather) The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton) The Awakening (Kate Chopin) Babbitt (Sinclair Lewis) Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev) Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol) The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy) The Voyage Out (Virginia Woolf) The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes Life is a Dream (Pedro Calderon de la Barca) Faust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Nietzsche) Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) Autobiography (Benjamin Franklin) The Poison Tree (Bankim Chandra Chatterjee) Shakuntala (Kalidasa) Rámáyan of Válmíki (Válmíki) The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe) The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe) The Woman in White (Willkie Collins) The Mysteries of Udolpho (Ann Ward Radcliffe) Dracula (Bram Stoker) The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) The Time Machine (H. G. Wells) Nostromo (Joseph Conrad) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Lewis Wallace) Rip Van Winkle (Washington Irving) The Prince (Machiavelli) The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) The Analects of Confucius (Confucius) Tao Te Ching (Laozi) Paradise Lost (John Milton) Ode to the West Wind (P. B. Shelley) The Second Coming (W. B. Yeats) The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) The Rainbow (D.H. Lawrence) Arms and the Man (George Bernard Shaw) The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim) Hung Lou Meng or, The Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin) The Innocence of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton) The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan) The Four Just Men (Edgar Wallace) Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Nikolai Leskov) 2BR02B (Kurt Vonnegut) The Power Of Concentration (William Walker Atkinson) Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion (Émile Coué)


Dincolo de bine si de rau

Dincolo de bine si de rau

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Publisher: Humanitas SA

Published: 2015-07-16

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 9735049368

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„Faptul că filozofia nu este o abstracţie rece, ci trăire, suferinţă şi sacrificiu pentru omenire îl ştia Nietzsche prea bine, şi a fost pentru el un exemplu. A fost condus în sus spre gheţarii erorii groteşti, dar viitorul era, în realitate, tărâmul iubirii sale, iar generaţiilor următoare, nouă, a căror tinereţe îi datorează infinitul, Nietzsche le va apărea ca o figură de un tragism plăpând şi onorabil, înconjurat cu flăcări de fulgerul acestei schimbări de epocă.“ (Thomas MANN) Cine se luptă cu monștri trebuie să ia seama să nu se transforme la rândul lui într-un monstru. Iar dacă vei privi multă vreme într-o prăpastie, prăpastia va privi și ea în adâncul tău. Vanitatea noastră ar dori ca, din tot ceea ce facem, tocmai lucrul care ne reușește cel mai bine să fie considerat cel mai greu de realizat. Asta explică originea multor sisteme morale. Lucrurile făcute din dragoste au loc întotdeauna dincolo de bine și de rău.


Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2017-10-06

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 8027220769

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In "Beyond Good and Evil" Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. The work moves into the realm "beyond good and evil" in the sense of leaving behind the traditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive critique in favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. Because of Nietzsche's evocative style and provocative ideas, his philosophy generates passionate reactions. His works remain controversial, due to varying interpretations and misinterpretations of his work. In the Western philosophy tradition, Nietzsche's writings have been described as the unique case of free revolutionary thought, that is, revolutionary in its structure and problems, although not tied to any revolutionary project Helen Zimmern (1846–1934) was naturalised British writer and translator born in Germany. She was instrumental in making European culture more accessible in English.