Résultats pour "Paradise Lost" dans Histoire

Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist struck by the nation's shifting mood and manners after World War I. In Paradise Lost, David Brown contends that Fitzgerald's deepest allegiances were to a fading antebellum world he associated with his father's Chesapeake Bay roots. Yet as a midwesterner, an Irish Catholic, and a perpetually in-debt author, he felt like an outsider in the haute bourgeoisie haunts.

WHEN LOUIS OTIENO WALKED INTO THE SILVER SCREENS A LIFE OF STARDOME OPENED UP. HE WOULD END UP DEFINING A TIME IN KENYAN LIVES BY COMMANDING NIGHTLY NEWS IN WAYS IT HAD NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE. A CELEBRITY LIFESTYLEBECKONED AS HE RODE THE GOLDEN AGE OF KENYAN MEDIA BUSINESS. HOWEVER, THIS CUT THROATINDUSTRY IS UNFORGIVING AND HE FINDS HIMSELF AT ODDS WITH POWERS THAT BE. HELOSES HIS JOB AND BAD LUCK JUST ACTIVELY SEARCHES AND FINDS HIM.LOUIS OTIENO, WHO COULD ONCESUMMON THE MOST POWERFUL IS REDUCED TO A SHADOW OF HIS FORMER SELF. HE HAS LOST HIS HEARING, HEONLY WALKS WITH SUPPORT, AND IS ...

A deeply personal nine-year account of the lives of the “anchor-outs”—an unhoused community living off the California coast on abandoned boats—that explores the struggles and resilience of those surviving on the fringes of society. In the wake of the financial crisis, the number of...

Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Homer, Virgil, and Dante, and sought to create a work of art which fully represented the most basic tenets of the Protestant faith. His work, which was dictated from memory and transcribed by his daughter, remains as one of the most powerful English poems.View our entire collection of podcasts at www.solgood.orgAll Librivox recordings are in the public domain