Purgatory Mount

Author : Adam Roberts
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 1473230969
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Purgatory Mount written by Adam Roberts and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interstellar craft is decelerating after its century-long voyage. Its destination is V538 Aurigae ?, a now-empty planet dominated by one gigantic megastructure, a conical mountain of such height that its summit is high above the atmosphere. The ship's crew of five hope to discover how the long-departed builders made such a colossal thing, and why: a space elevator? a temple? a work of art? Its resemblance to the mountain of purgatory lead the crew to call this world Dante. In our near future, the United States is falling apart. A neurotoxin has interfered with the memory function of many of the population, leaving them reliant on their phones as makeshift memory prostheses. But life goes on. For Ottoline Barragão, a regular kid juggling school and her friends and her beehives in the back garden, things are about to get very dangerous, chased across the north-east by competing groups, each willing to do whatever it takes to get inside Ottoline's private network and recover the secret inside. Purgatory Mount, Adam Roberts's first SF novel for three years, combines wry space opera and a fast-paced thriller in equal measure. It is a novel about memory and atonement, about exploration and passion, and like all of Roberts's novels it's not quite like anything else.

Author : Adam Roberts
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 9781473230958
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Purgatory Mount written by Adam Roberts and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interstellar craft is decelerating after its century-long voyage. Its destination is V538 Aurigae ?, a now-empty planet dominated by one gigantic megastructure, a conical mountain of such height that its summit is high above the atmosphere. The ship's crew of five hope to discover how the long-departed builders made such a colossal thing, and why: a space elevator? a temple? a work of art? Its resemblance to the mountain of purgatory lead the crew to call this world Dante. In our near future, the United States is falling apart. A neurotoxin has interfered with the memory function of many of the population, leaving them reliant on their phones as makeshift memory prostheses. But life goes on. For Ottoline Barragão, a regular kid juggling school and her friends and her beehives in the back garden, things are about to get very dangerous, chased across the north-east by competing groups, each willing to do whatever it takes to get inside Ottoline's private network and recover the secret inside. Purgatory Mount, Adam Roberts's first SF novel for three years, combines wry space opera and a fast-paced thriller in equal measure. It is a novel about memory and atonement, about exploration and passion, and like all of Roberts's novels it's not quite like anything else.

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780281073665
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seven Storey Mountain written by Thomas Merton and published by . This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title tells the story of Thomas Merton's search for faith and peace in a world which first fascinated and then appalled him. It is written with the profound insight of a man who has seen himself clearly.

Author : Gary Panter
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1560975725
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jimbo in Purgatory written by Gary Panter and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2004-08-28 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} In this spectacular graphic novel, Panter has transformed his protean punk hero Jimbo into the protagonist of a reinterpretation of Dante's Purgatorio. After years of comparing Dante and Boccaccio to find commonalities between the two, Panter developed a narrative of his own that includes literary and pop references regularly injected throughout the captions of the reinterpreted cantos.

Author : Paul Pearson
Publisher : Tan Books
ISBN 13 : 9781505117530
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Direction from Dante, Volume 2: Ascending Mount Purgatory written by Paul Pearson and published by Tan Books. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Father Paul Pearson of the Oratory as he guides you on a spiritual journey through one of the great classics of Christian literature, Dante's Purgatorio. Purgatory is the least understood of the three possible "destinations" when we die (though unlike heaven or hell it is not an eternal one) and is mysterious to many Christians and even to many Catholics today. As he did in his first volume in the Spiritual Direction from Dante trilogy, Avoiding the Inferno, Father Pearson adroitly draws out the great spiritual insights hidden in The Divine Comedy. Learn how and why: Dante's presentation of Purgatory is something beautifully hopeful. Freedom is the dominant theme here and the rejoicing of captives delivered from their prisons the dominant tone. Purgatory is filled with good people, people well on their way to becoming saints. They are increasingly concerned for one another and generous, the more so the higher on the mountain they climb. They are interested in one another's well-being and rejoice in one another's victories as though they were their own. The sufferings on Mount Purgatory are not something that happens to the souls there; they happen for them. This has all been designed for their benefit, and they are grateful to God for making it possible. Purgatory is God's merciful plan for allowing us to rediscover the joy and freedom of being human, the joy for which we were created but which sin has smothered and distorted. This is what we can be. This is what we can begin to be, even now, if only we will separate ourselves from sin. What are we waiting for? Join Father Pearson in Ascending Mount Purgatory.

Author : R. T.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Purgatory Survey'd. Or a particular accompt of the happy, and yet thrice unhappy state, of the Souls there, etc. [A translation of Estienne Binet's “De l'estat heureux et malheureux des ames souffrantes du Purgatoire.” The preface signed: R. T., i.e. Richard Thimelby.] written by R. T. and published by . This book was released on 1663 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Purgatorio written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacques Le Goff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226470830
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birth of Purgatory written by Jacques Le Goff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1986-12-15 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noting that the doctrine of Purgatory does not appear in the Latin theology of the West before the late twelfth century, the author identifies the profound social and intellectual changes which caused its widespread acceptance.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681376059
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Purgatorio written by Dante Alighieri and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of Dante's Purgatorio that celebrates the human elements of the second part of The Divine Comedy. This is a bilingual edition with an illuminating introduction from the translator. Winner of the American Literary Translators Association 2022 National Translation Award in Poetry. Purgatorio, the middle section of Dante’s great poem about losing, and subsequently finding, one’s way in the middle of one’s life is, unsurprisingly, the beating heart of The Divine Comedy, as this powerful and lucid new translation by the poet D. M. Black makes wonderfully clear. After days spent plumbing the depths of hell, the pilgrim staggers back to the clear light of day in a state of shock, the sense of pervasive dread and deep bewilderment with which he began his pilgrimage as intensified as it is alleviated by his terminal vision of evil. The slow and initially arduous climb up the mount of Purgatory that ensues, guided as always by Virgil, his poetic model and mentor, is simultaneously a reckoning with human limits and a rediscovery of human potential in the light of divine promise. Dante’s Purgatorio, which has been an inspiration to poets as varied as Shelley and T. S. Eliot, is a book full of human stories and philosophical inquiry; it is also a tale of individual reintegration and healing. Black, a distinguished psychoanalyst as well as a poet, provides an introduction and commentary to this masterpiece by Dante from a contemporary point of view in this bilingual edition.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Purgatory written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: