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New York Times Bestseller: Sweeping from the 1850s through the early 1920s, this towering family saga examines the price of ambition and power. Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh is twelve years old when he gets his first glimpse of the promised land of America through a dirty porthole in steerage on an Irish immigrant ship. His long voyage, dogged by tragedy, ends not in the great city of New York but in the bigoted, small town of Winfield, Pennsylvania, where his younger brother, Sean, and his infant sister, Regina, are sent to an orphanage. Joseph toils at whatever work will pay a living wage and plans for the day he can take his siblings away from St. Agnes’s Orphanage and make a home for them all. Joseph’s journey will catapult him to the highest echelons of power and grant him entry into the most elite political circles. Even as misfortune continues to follow the Armagh family like an ancient curse, Joseph takes his revenge against the uncaring world that once took everything from him. He orchestrates his eldest son Rory’s political ascent from the offspring of an Irish immigrant to US senator. And Joseph will settle for nothing less than the pinnacle of glory: seeing his boy crowned the first Catholic president of the United States. Spanning seventy years, Captains and the Kings, which was adapted into an eight-part television miniseries, is Taylor Caldwell’s masterpiece about nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, and the grit, ambition, fortitude, and sheer hubris it takes for an immigrant to survive and thrive in a dynamic new land.
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Genre |
: Fiction |
Author |
: Taylor Caldwell |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media |
Release |
: 2016-11-15 |
File |
: 750 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781504039017 |
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Winner of the Author’s Club First Novel Award: Alone with melancholic memories of his past, a widower finds new life after striking up a friendship with a village boy In County Wicklow, south of Dublin, Mr. Prendergast lives alone in the Big House of his village. A remnant of the long-gone days of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, Prendergast’s mansion has been witness to many of the most important years of his life, including his childhood, marked by his mother’s open preference for his older brother, Alexander. Following Alexander’s death in the First World War, Prendergast traveled the world, returning home decades later to a greatly changed place. Now in the 1970s, his wife and daughter are both gone, leaving the house an empty monument to his isolation and melancholy. But when the young, redheaded Diarmid arrives on Prendergast’s doorstep, the boy’s thrill at the house’s history sparks an unlikely friendship—one that revives in Prendergast a sense of vitality and sets in motion a final, fateful confrontation with the outside world he’d shunned for so many years.
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Genre |
: Fiction |
Author |
: Jennifer Johnston |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media |
Release |
: 2014-06-24 |
File |
: 116 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781497646452 |
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Charles Moorman reexamines several major works of the western heroic tradition: The Iliad, The Odyssey, Beowulf, The Song of Roland, The Nibelungenlied, the Norse sagas, and the Arthurian cycle. Disregarding the usual limited definitions which have controlled the study of heroic literature, he draws together these disparate works by proposing a theme common to them all: the opposition of two major figures whom he names king and captain. The figure of the king arises from the community with its need for responsible government, while the captain, derived from myth, is a highly individualistic, irresponsible heroic figure. The tension which Moorman sees between them is used as a means of reinterpreting the works under study. Though widely separated in time and cultural milieu, The Illiad, and The Song of Roland, for example, can be compared by interpreting both the Agamemnon-Achilles and the Oliver-Roland relationships as conflicts between king and captain. These essays will prove illuminating for layman and scholar alike.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Charles Moorman |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Release |
: 2021-05-11 |
File |
: 231 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813183435 |
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: Bible |
Author |
: Newton Marshall Hall |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1923 |
File |
: 524 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: MINN:31951D025408351 |
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: Bible |
Author |
: Charles John Ellicott |
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: |
Release |
: 1883 |
File |
: 558 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: HARVARD:AH54KQ |
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Genre |
: Theater |
Author |
: Sheldon Cheney |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1962-07 |
File |
: 492 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UCLA:31158007549941 |
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: |
Author |
: John Bunyan |
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: |
Release |
: 1877 |
File |
: 1092 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015008888250 |
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Genre |
: Devotional literature, English |
Author |
: John Bunyan |
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: |
Release |
: 1872 |
File |
: 1074 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: STANFORD:36105005650739 |
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Genre |
: Bible |
Author |
: Roswell Dwight Hitchcock |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1885 |
File |
: 1292 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UVA:X002177823 |
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: |
Author |
: John Bunyan |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1865 |
File |
: 426 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: ONB:+Z162005308 |