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The Pilgrim's Progress
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John Bunyan |
Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual journey of the soul toward God. The hero, Christian, encounters many obstacles in his quest: the Valley … |
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Things that are
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Amy Leach |
The debut collection of a writer whose accolades precede her: a Whiting Award, a Rona Jaffe Award, a Best American Essays selection, and a Pushcart Prize, all received before her first book-length pu… |
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Iconologie par figures
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Hubert François Gravelot |
This book is one of the most eminent examples of iconology in revolutionary France. Published in 1791, two years after Frenc Revolution, takes elements from Ripa´s Iconology in a new context: the bir… |
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The Rabbits
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Shaun Tan |
The Rabbits offers a rich and immensely valuable perspective on the effect of man on his environment. Visually loaded and told with a passion for truth and understanding, The Rabbits aims to promote … |
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Art and magic in the court of the Stuarts
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Vaughan Hart |
Hart examines the influence of magic on Renaissance art, in the context of the first Stuart Court. Court artists sought to represent magic as an expression of the Stuart Kings' Divine Right, and late… |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Zora Neale Hurston |
<p><i>Their Eyes Were Watching God</i> (1937) is a classic Harlem Renaissance novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston. The novel follows Janie Crawford as she recounts the story of her life as sh… |
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James Ensor
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Patricia G. Berman |
"The brash young artist James Ensor painted Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 during a period of extraordinary artistic and political foment in his native Belgium. It is understood today to be one… |
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Journeys
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Louann Carroll |
Taken on a special Journey by the Wind, Leaf discovers that she can determine her own fate and that she learns from her own mistakes. |
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Waiting for the Barbarians
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J. M. Coetzee |
For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts… |
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Book Without a Name
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Kit Williams |
The author hid the title of this allegory in a sealed box to be opened a year and a day from publication, though clues to the title are hidden in the pages of the book. |
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Sir Dalton and the shadow heart
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Chuck Black |
Sir Dalton, a knight in training, seems to have everything going for him. Young, well-liked, and a natural leader, he has earned the respect and admiration of his fellow knights, and especially the b… |
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Illusions
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Richard Bach |
Wonderfully written, a glimpse into faith, self-reliance and friendship, witty and thought provoking. Barnstorming pilot meets a messianic man who has misgivings about his purpose. His scripture is c… |
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