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The house of sun-goes-down

The house of sun-goes-down

Bernard Augustine De Voto

Original carbon typescript of the novel, with a set of the letterpress galley proofs for the book and an accompanying letter from the editor.
Saturday Review

Saturday Review

Bernard Augustine De Voto

Their appearance gives our reviewer, Gerard Previn Meyer, an occasion to consider whether there is to be a renascence in the form. By Gerard Previn Meyer 66TS THERE 8°in8 to be a revival I of 'nature' poetry and if so how will it differ from ...
Saturday Review

Saturday Review

Bernard Augustine De Voto

Briton Hadden, Henry Luce, and printer — "the groining iron" scared prospects. Through History with J. Wesley Smith. Personal History. The most effective way of telling the story of an institution is often in terms of an individual who played a ...
Saturday Review

Saturday Review

Bernard Augustine De Voto

Judah Stampfer is associate professor of English at State University of New York at Stony Brook. By JUDAH STAMPFER Sholom Aleichem's best stories have long been available in English translation. Curt Leviant's collection, Some Laughter, ...
The Italian-American novel: a document of the interaction of ...

The Italian-American novel: a document of the interaction of ...

Rose Basile Green

BERNARD AUGUSTINE DEVOTO (1897-1955) Bernard Augustine DeVoto was the first writer of Italian ancestry to become a major figure in American literature. As Orlan Sawey has written in his volume, Bernard DeVoto, in the Twaynes ...
Augustine: Later Works

Augustine: Later Works

Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.)

'Three main subjects are discussed in this volume. The first is Augustine's classic work on the Trinity. In this work we see Augustine at his best. 'On the Spirit and the Letter' is the subject of the second section.
Beyond the Binary: Thinking about Sex and Gender

Beyond the Binary: Thinking about Sex and Gender

Shannon Dea

... for Augustine man reflects the image of God. 5 St. Augustine, On the Trinity, Book XII, Chapter VII, in Basic Writings of St. Augustine, Vol. 2,816. 6 St. Augustine, 814. 1 Martha Gulati and Henry R. Black, “Heart Rate Response 44 Chapter 3.
The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto

The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto

Wallace Earle Stegner

9 No one in search of a mind that liked conflict need look beyond Bernard Augustine DeVoto. During the fall, Stevens wrote a report on DeVoto for Noble Cathcart, the Review's publisher, who with Thomas Lamont, the financial angel, had ...
American History Awards, 1917-1991: From Colonial ...

American History Awards, 1917-1991: From Colonial ...

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1948 Award ABOUT THE CROSSING OF THE MISSOURI RIVER BY Bernard A. DeVoto Bernard Augustine DeVoto (born on January 11, 1897, in Ogden, Ut.) served - at the young age of twenty - as lieutenant in the United States Army during ...
The Confessions of St. Augustine

The Confessions of St. Augustine

Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.)

Reveals the spiritual and ascetical life of Saint Augustine.
W. Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham

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TH EA TRE New York, London, March 1937 106. Bernard DeVoto, 'Master of Two Dimensions', Saturday Review of Literature (New York) XV, 6 March 1937, 3 Bernard Augustine DeVoto (1897—1955) was professor of English at Northwestern ...
Augustine in His Own Words

Augustine in His Own Words

Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.)

This volume offers a comprehensive portrait--or rather, self-portrait, since its words are mostly Augustine's own--drawn from the breadth of his writings and from the long course of his career
Orthodoxy in Arabic Terms: A Study of Theodore Abu Qurrah’s ...

Orthodoxy in Arabic Terms: A Study of Theodore Abu Qurrah’s ...

Najib George Awad

In his valuable essay on Augustine's influence on Byzantine theology, Josef Lössl offers the best detailed exposition in English of Augustine theology's presence and status that I could find. Lössl shows that Augustine's personal interest in ...
The Trinity

The Trinity

Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.)

New translation of one of Augustine's classics
On Augustine

On Augustine

Rowan Williams

In this new book he turns his attention to St Augustine.
After Augustine: The Meditative Reader and the Text

After Augustine: The Meditative Reader and the Text

Brian Stock

A richly rewarding reflection on the history and nature of reading, After Augustine promises to be a centerpiece of discussions about the discovery of the self through literature.
Augustine's Early Theology of the Church: Emergence and ...

Augustine's Early Theology of the Church: Emergence and ...

David C. Alexander

This book helps fill these gaps and provides a case study supporting arguments for continuity between the 'young' and the clerical Augustine.
Augustine as Mentor: A Model for Preparing Spiritual Leaders

Augustine as Mentor: A Model for Preparing Spiritual Leaders

Edward L. Smither

The life and teachings of Augustine of Hippo are examined in the light of their value today as mentoring resources for the modern church.
In the Self's Place: The Approach of Saint Augustine

In the Self's Place: The Approach of Saint Augustine

Jean-Luc Marion

In the Self's Place is an original phenomenological reading of Augustine that considers his engagement with notions of identity in Confessions.
Descartes and Augustine

Descartes and Augustine

Stephen Menn

This book is a systematic study of Descartes' relation to Augustine.
Augustine of Hippo: A Biography

Augustine of Hippo: A Biography

Peter Brown

This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching.
Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History

Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History

Gary Topping

As HE SAT down to work one day in early 1928, Bernard Augustine DeVoto was in an expansive mood. His mood was not always buoyant, for he occasionally suffered from migraine headaches and bipolar mood shifts that had been known to ...
Italian-American authors and their contributions to American ...

Italian-American authors and their contributions to American ...

Olga Peragallo

BIOGRAPHY: Bernard Augustine DeVoto's grandfather, a Pied- montese cavalry officer, came to America to escape the hostility of an aristocratic Roman family whose daughter he had married, and settled in Ogden, Utah. A son, Florian ...
Augustine and Roman Virtue

Augustine and Roman Virtue

Brian Harding

The book seeks to revise a common reading of Augustine's critique of ancient virtue by focusing on that dialogue, while showing that his attitude towards those authors is more sympathetic, and more critical, than one might expect.
On Free Choice of the Will

On Free Choice of the Will

Augustine

"Translated with an uncanny sense for the overall point of Augustine's doctrine. In short, a very good translation. The Introduction is admirably clear." --Paul Vincent Spade, Indiana University
REFLECTIONS ON THE WATER: Traveling the Waterways with God

REFLECTIONS ON THE WATER: Traveling the Waterways with God

Jan Boys

Augustine of Hippo, quoted in Bernard Brady and Mark Neuzil, A Spiritual Field Guide: Meditations for the Outdoors (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos Press, 2005), 38-39. 2. Adapted from Fr. Kenneth E. Grabner, C.S.C., “Light In and Light Out ...

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