Showing results for "The Vision" in World Literature

Butchers, bakers, brewers, businessmen, farmers, fabric workers, entertainers, comedians, gluttons, lechers, spongers and swindlers, prostitutes and parasites, the pope and his priests, the king and his courtiers, compete for attention in this lively and subversive vision of corruption in fourteenth-century England.

Although midwife Sophie Sullivan is usually fun-loving and calm in a crisis, she finds herself increasingly frustrated and hateful towards arrogant, smooth-talking playboys like Sydney’s most eligible bachelor, Levi Pearson. When their helicopter crashes down in Western Australia with Levi, Sophie and Levi's pregnant sister on board, these two very different people must rely on each other to survive...and find out who is trying to kill them all in the process.

売れないフォークシンガー牧則和（まきのりかず） 彼は高円寺にある四畳半一間のアパートで、夢と希望だけを頼りに彼女と暮らしている。一歳年上の彼女 牧野千歳（まきのちとせ）は、彼のことをいつも「ボクちゃん」と呼び、惜しみない愛を捧げる姉さん女房だ。 二人の穏やかでささやかな暮らしとは対象的に、なかなか貧乏生活から抜け出せない暮らしが続く。 そんなある日、一匹の亀との出会いをきっかけに、彼の人生が大きく動くはじめる。だが、やがて二人には大きな試練が待っていた。 貧乏と愛をテーマに、一匹の亀との長きに渡る愛の物語がはじまる。

Self-Reliance is a life-changing experience - its message of nonconformity, self-expression, and personal independence can awaken you to a new, and better, way of living. Now, historian and New Thought scholar Mitch Horowitz has deftly and faithfully retained the most powerful ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson's original classic, and reintroduced this work in this one-of-a-kind condensation. Listenable within the space of an average commute or lunch hour, the experience of Self-Reliance may represent a true turning point in your life.