Resultados para "Grace" en Clásicos

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This is a story from the Dubliners, Volume 2 collection.

Wealthy heiress Catherine Sloper has always been plain and rather simple, though very sweet. She is drawn by the attentions of handsome gentleman Morris Townsend, the only man who ever even noticed her. But is he more interested in her fortune than Catherine herself? When they get engaged, despite protestations from her brilliant physician father, Catherine has to choose between her inheritance or love.

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet and literary critic. GRACE: Two gentlemen who were in the lavatory at the time tried to lift him up: but he was quite helpless. He lay curled up at the foot of the stairs down which he had fallen. They succeeded in turning him over. His hat had rolled a few yards away and his clothes were smeared with the filth and ooze of the floor on which he had lain, face downwards. His eyes were closed and he breathed with a grunting noise.

"O maior esforço humano realizado na grande guerra foi o excesso de espiritualidade que transbordou dos instintos animais, deu idealidade à luta dos povos. Esse idealismo repercutir-se-á na arte e na produção literária? A renascença esperada, o fato novo resultará do cataclismo da guerra?" Eis as questões que Graça Aranha busca responder nesse ensaio de cunho filosófico, que tem a singularidade de ter no autor um observador próximo dos acontecimentos.

Nesse rico conjunto de ensaios escritos por Graça Aranha, o autor comenta o pensamento de uma série de filósofos e escritores de renome, com a singularidade de, no tempo, estar menos distante deles. Além do ensaio que empresta seu título a este livro, estão aqui reunidos: "Shakespeare e o temperamento inglês", "O drama científico de Curel", "A morte de Renan", "Ibsen", "A estética de uma tragédia" (discorrendo sobre "Hedda Gabler") e "Rabelais".

Graça Aranha, neste precioso conjunto de ensaios, analisa o perfil do brasileiro, sob diferentes ângulos, mas sempre fazendo uso de sua característica erudição. Além do ensaio que empresta seu título a este livro, estão aqui reunidos: "Pragmatismo brasileiro", "O quadro nacional", "O nosso estilo" e "O tipo brasileiro".

"Nesse feixe de forças democráticas, que é a nação brasileira, não há mais lugar para uma elite aristocrática que, pelas suas aspirações, tradições e crença, mantenha o patriciado político, cuja finalidade seria a monarca constitucional." Em um tom algo sombrio, Graça Aranha faz nesse ensaio um balanço da então recém-fundada república brasileira. Uma interessante leitura para se fazer um contraponto com a realidade dessa década de 2020.

Nesse rico conjunto de ensaios escritos por Graça Aranha, o autor discorre sobre a língua portuguesa e sobre os autores brasileiros – e também estrangeiros – que guardam relação com a sociedade de seu tempo. Além do ensaio que empresta seu título a este livro, estão aqui reunidos: "Visagens da literatura brasileira", "José de Alencar" e "Os prodígios de Rousseau".

Graça Aranha, neste precioso conjunto de ensaios curtos, analisa os grandes artistas de seu tempo e também seus antecessores; pintores, escultores e sobretudo músicos e escritores têm seus papéis comentados sob o prisma filosófico que caracteriza o autor. Além do ensaio que empresta seu título a este livro, estão aqui reunidos, dentre outros: "O romantismo de Beethoven", "Inexplicável tristeza" e "Cleópatra e Salomé".

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, or a Brief Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ to his Poor Servant John Bunyan, is a Puritan spiritual autobiography written by John Bunyan. It was composed while Bunyan was serving a 12-year prison sentence in Bedford prison for preaching without a license, and was first published in 1666.

"Collision!" is the only explanation Gail Desmond hears as the ocean liner lists toward the sea. In the chaos that follows, she finds herself alone on deck with a stranger who lashes her to a makeshift raft. Moments later, she finds him floating unconscious and hauls him aboard.

A great building boom spread across America in the 1920s and the Fawcett Construction Company of New York has many projects in the pipeline. Carol Berkley, private secretary to the company's president, keeps track of them all and is particularly concerned about the lack of progress in a building out west. When two men who appear to have something to do with the project arrive to talk to her boss, she overhears them discussing plans to swindle the company. Their scheme is to share the spoils with the project's engineer, Philip Duskin.

A prolific writer of Christian romances, Grace Livingston Hill also excelled in creating novels of suspense. These tales highlight three women who, through pluck and cleverness, strive to escape the menace that envelops them. (Of course, being GLH stories, there are always romantic possibilities!)

Marion Warren leads a lonely life in the city. Her one joy is attending symphony concerts, where she finds crimson roses mysteriously placed in her seat. She never dreams that the donor is a rich, handsome man who is in love with her.

‘Aunt Crete’s Emancipation’ follows Miss Lucretia Ward or ‘Crete’ to her family, as she navigates life with her rude sister Carrie and her spoilt niece Luella. They treat the older Crete like a maid more than a family member but everything will change when cousin Donald Grant visits from out west. Carrie and Luella shun the ‘backwoods’ cousin but Crete welcomes him with loving and open arms, changing everyone’s lives forever.

Grace, as her friends call her, has a Ford Motor Company tattoo running down her leg and grease worked deep into her hands. She works at Sanchez Motorworks customizing hot rods. Finding the line in a classic car is her calling. Now Grace has to find the line in her own life. Grace loves John, and John loves her, and that would be wonderful, except that John, like Grace, has unfinished business: He's haunted by the childhood death of his younger brother. He's never stopped feeling responsible.

During the 1990s in the Pacific Northwest, a hobo vampire gang on drugs causes horrific chaos everywhere they go—from trashing supermarket breakrooms to crashing senior center pancake breakfasts. Amidst the danger one girl, who benefits (and suffers) from drug-induced ESP, searches desperately for her foster sister.

Jean Grayson is traveling alone to visit her sister out west when a terrible accident occurs and she is saved from certain death by a stranger. Together they make their perilous way through the wilderness. His name is Jasper Holt, and their care for each other blossoms on their journey. But Holt warns Jean that when they reach the safety of their destination, she'll find that her relatives and the townsfolk have nothing good to say about him.

Cornelia Copley's plans to finish college and get her degree in interior decoration are thwarted when she is unexpectedly called home due to her mother's illness. Heartbroken at the interruption and not understanding why her father can't see how important her education is, Cornelia soon finds there is plenty of trouble at home: Her mother has had a breakdown and is in a sanitarium; her father has lost his job and taken a lower position; and her brother Carey is going with a wild crowd.