[PDF] The Lion And The Jewel eBook

Author : Liz Suburbia
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,30 MB
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1606998412

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The children of U.S. small-town Alexandria are just trying to live like normal teens until their parents’ promised return from a mysterious, four-year religious pilgrimage, and Ben Schiller is no exception. She’s just trying to take care of her sister, keep faith that her parents will come back, and get through her teen years as painlessly as possible. But her relationship with her best friend is changing, her younger sister is hiding a dark secret, and a terrible tragedy is coming for them all.

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 38,51 MB
Release : 1963
Category : African drama
ISBN :

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The play chronicles how Baroka, the lion, fights with the modern Lakunle over the right to marry Sidi, the titular Jewel.

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : London ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780192811646

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`The Lion and the Jewel alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' The Times The ironic development and consequences of `progress' may be traced through both the themes and the tone of the works included in this second volume of Wole Soyinka's plays. The Lion and the Jewel shows an ineffectual assault on past tradition soundly defeated. In Kongi's Harvest, however, the pretensions of Kongi's regime are also fatal. The denouement points the way forward. The two Brother Jero plays pursue that way, the comic `propheteering' of the earlier play giving way to the sardonic reality of Jero's Metamorphosis. Madmen and Specialists, Soyinka's most pessimistic play, concerns the physical, mental, and moral destruction of modern civil war.

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,88 MB
Release : 2000-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190285435

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Nobel Laureate in Literature Wole Soyinka considers all of Africa--indeed, all the world--as he poses this question: once repression stops, is reconciliation between oppressor and victim possible? In the face of centuries-long devastation wrought on the African continent and her Diaspora by slavery, colonialism, Apartheid, and the manifold faces of racism, what form of recompense could possibly suffice? In a voice as eloquent and humane as it is forceful, Soyinka boldly challenges in these pages the notions of simple forgiveness, confession, and absolution as strategies for social healing. Ultimately, he turns to art--poetry, music, painting, etc.--as the one source that can nourish the seed of reconciliation: art is the generous vessel that can hold together the burden of memory and the hope of forgiveness. Based on Soyinka's Stewart-McMillan lectures delivered at the DuBois Institute at Harvard, The Burden of Memory speaks not only to those concerned specifically with African politics, but also to anyone seeking the path to social justice through some of history's most inhospitable terrain.

Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 2013
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780571310128

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Ariel (1965) contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963, including 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic'. The first of four collections to be published by Faber & Faber, Ariel is the volume on which Sylvia Plath's reputation as one of the most original, daring and gifted poets of the twentieth century rests. This beautiful hardback reproduces the classic design of the first edition of a volume now recognised to be one of the most shocking and iconic collections of poetry of the twentieth century. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity . . . the book is a major literary event.' A. Alvarez in the Observer

Author : Justin Richardson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1416986626

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The heartwarming true story of a lion cub named Christian, known through the YouTube video, the men who cared for him, and the power of love. Full color.

Author : Gampopa
Publisher : Shambhala
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1559398728

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A masterwork of Tibetan Buddhism—providing the complete foundation for study and practice—from beginning to Buddhahood. Includes teachings on Buddha-nature, finding the spiritual master, impermanence, karma, cultivation of bodhicitta, development of the six perfections, the ten bodhisattva bhumis, Buddhahood, and the activities of the Buddha.

Author : Jewel Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 2022-05-24
Category :
ISBN :

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Working on a broad dramatic canvas, Jewel Thomas's new novel, ABANDONED IN THE LIONS' DEN, takes the reader on a heady rollercoaster ride through the most influential events of the twentieth century African-American experience--the Great Migration, the Depression, World War II, and the cultural revolution of the 1960s--a crucible that can't help but challenge even the stoutest hearts. For the Davis family, living in the largely integrated community of Herminie, Pennsylvania, south of Pittsburgh, a strong religious faith is their defense against poverty, racism, and the changing morals of the developing century. This is particularly true of the youngest son Daniel who, guided by the example of his mother's prayerful devotion, looks to the biblical story of his namesake to guide him through the "lions' den" of life's trials and tribulations. Often funny, always tender, ABANDONED IN THE LIONS' DEN will remind everyone of the joyful consolations of family and faith. Fiction.