Author: Katha PollittPublisher: Random House Trade
ISBN: 081297638X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Collection of Pollitt's columns in the Nation aboyt political, social and cultural trends in the United States.
The Virgin Suicides
Author: Jeffrey EugenidesPublisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307401936
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters—beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys—commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family’s fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.
Author: St. Gregory of Nyssa
Author: Anke BernauVersions of Virginity in Late Medieval England
Author: Sarah SalihPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 0859916227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Medieval virginity theory explored through study of martyrs, nuns and Margery Kempe. This study looks at the question of what it meant to be a virgin in the Middle Ages, and the forms which female virginity took. It begins with the assumptions that there is more to virginity than sexual inexperience, and that virginity may be considered as a gendered identity, a role which is performed rather than biologically determined. The author explores versions of virginity as they appear in medieval saints' lives, in the institutional chastity of nuns, and as shown in the book of Margery Kempe, showing how it can be active, contested, vulnerable but also recoverable. SARAH SALIH teaches in the Department of English at King's College London.
On Virginity
Author: Saint Gregory of NyssaPublisher: Aeterna Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
The object of this treatise is to create in its readers a passion for the life according to excellence. There are many distractions , to use the word of the Divine Apostle, incident to the secular life; and so this treatise would suggest, as a necessary door of entrance to the holier life, the calling of Virginity; seeing that, while it is not easy in the entanglements of this secular life to find quiet for that of Divine contemplation, those on the other hand who have bid farewell to its troubles can with promptitude, and without distraction, pursue assiduously their higher studies.
Against Jovinianus
Author: St. JeromePublisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN: 1987022882
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Jovinianus, about whom little more is known than what is to be found in Jerome's treatise, published a Latin treatise outlining several opinions: That a virgin is no better, as such, than a wife in the sight of God. Abstinence from food is no better than a thankful partaking of food. A person baptized with the Spirit as well as with water cannot sin. All sins are equal. There is but one grade of punishment and one of reward in the future state. In addition to this, he held the birth of Jesus Christ to have been by a "true parturition," and was thus refuting the orthodoxy of the time, according to which, the infant Jesus passed through the walls of the womb as his Resurrection body afterwards did, out of the tomb or through closed doors.
Virgin
Author: Hanne BlankPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596910119
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A provocative social history examines the history of virginity and of noted virgins in Western culture, describing the unique fascination civilization has had for virginity from a social, political, economic, philosophical, medical, and legal standpoint. Reprint.
Author: David MitznerAuctioned Virginity
Author: Raven WoodwardPublisher: Raven Romance
ISBN: 9780473574185
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Romero came into my life when I was thirteen and taught me how to fight. To stand up for myself. He helped me survive. But his promise to protect me and my mother washed down the drain the night she died. I was sixteen. He let me leave, and then he didn't call. Didn't even try to make sure I hadn't died in some seedy hotel. That was just how I wanted it. Until two years later, when my meager earnings at a failing shoe store couldn't cover all my expenses and sleeping in a broken down car wouldn't last. It only took one phone call-hearing his voice again-for all my walls to come crumbling down. The first night back under his roof, I stumble into his private den to ask for money, inadvertently interrupting he and his ridiculously gorgeous, wealthy friends playing poker. That's when his friends start to bid on me. On my virginity. They're all dangerous-I can feel it-but not even I know just how dangerous until it's too late. Even though Romero tries to stop me, I can't help but consider giving my body up for money. Except the way he looks at me makes me think he's the one that wants to take what I'm offering.
