Bøger af J Greco

Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi, widowed in 1498, gave birth to a son five months later. She was twenty-one years old.Soon after, she secretly married her household steward, bore him three children, and-for twelve years-as regent of the Duchy of Amalfi, concealed both marriage and family from her powerful, corrupt brothers, who would eventually banish her and order her imprisonment.In 1510, in an effort to elude her brothers, the duchess, along with her maid and youngest children, went on a pilgrimage to Loreto in the hope of joining her husband and older son in nearby Ancona.The effort, however, failed.The duchess, her maid, her son, and infant daughter, presumably held captive in the fortress Torre dello Ziro, mysteriously disappeared.These events inspired John Webster's play The Duchess of Malfi.

This is the story of a singular man: Ludwig van Beethoven, child prodigy from Bonn, inheritor of genius and misfortune, son of the Enlightenment, whose music brought the Romantic era into the modern age, captivated and confounded the critics equally as the masses, whose eccentricities appalled many, but whose keyboard mastery astounded everyone, the first composer to explore the full potential of the piano, whose beautiful, intricate, mystifying scores flowed from staggering virtuosity, even as he struggled with chronic illness, volatile moods and passions, and was-for nearly half of his life-profoundly deaf.

The village of Perm on the Kama River was the final outpost between Europe and Asia, Russia and Siberia, a provincial town peacefully sleeping in the anteroom of culture. Garrisons were quartered in a fortress outside Perm. The army officers stationed there were clean-shaven and better educated than most of Perm's citizens. Between the garrisons and the town lay a small colony of wooden houses. In the whole town only two decent houses were built of wood and brick with iron roofs. In one of them lived the Prozorov sisters: Olga, Masha, and Irina, and their brother Andrei Sergeyevich.

Screenplay adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"

Beginning Christmas morning 1930 and ending two days later, the story of Julian English, a thirty-year-old, upper-class businessman, unravels a succession of impulsive actions, fueled by alcohol and wounded dignity, aimed at his wife, a local gangster, and the social elite of Gibbsville-actions that drive him headlong toward an unavoidable fate: an appointment in Samarra.

This volume includes seventeen articles on the central topics of epistemology, including scepticism, realism, rationality, moral epistemology and social epistemology. Each essay incorporates background material to clarify the history and logic of the topic. In the BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO PHILOSOPHY series.