Enlightenment, Perry, Sarah

Автор: Perry, Sarah
Название: Essex serpent
ISBN: 178816962X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788169622
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Описание: A thrilling and unforgettable historical novel of love and intrigue.

Автор: Perry Sarah
Название: Essex Serpent
ISBN: 1781255458 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781255452
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Описание: 2016`s literary sensation, a thrilling and unforgettable historical novel of love and intrigue now out in paperback.

Автор: Perry Sarah
Название: Melmoth
ISBN: 1788160673 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788160674
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Описание: From the author of the bestselling The Essex Serpent comes a darkly inventive and deeply moving novel that speaks urgently to our times.

Автор: Perry, Sarah
Название: Every Cradle Is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
ISBN: 0989697290 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780989697293
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Описание: Millions of years ago, humans just happened. Accidents of environment and genetics contributed to the emergence of sentient beings like us. Today, however, people no longer "just happen"; they are created by the voluntary acts of other people.

This book examines several questions about the ethics of human existence. Is it a good thing, for humans, that humans "happened"? Is it ethical to keep making new humans, now that reproduction is under our control? And given that a person exists (through no fault or choice of his own), is it immoral or irrational for him to refuse to live out his natural lifespan? Sarah Perry answers these questions in the negative--not out of misanthropy, but out of empathy for human suffering and respect for human autonomy.

"Every Cradle Is a Grave undertakes a difficult task-to write on discomforting matters from a perspective that is socially unsanctioned. Strange as it may seem to some of us, there are scads of volumes that praise the abuses we endure in our lives. Such works have always been well thumbed, though they are only prayer-books for the purpose of worshiping misery. Sarah Perry is more honest and less perverse on the subject of suffering, treating pain as both a philosophical and a practical problem to which, it is admitted, there is no ultimate solution. Nonetheless, in her view there still remains intelligence and compassion as a means for confronting the insoluble. That is what makes this book as much a necessity as it is a rarity."

--Thomas Ligotti, author of The Conspiracy against the Human Race

Meaning. Value. Birth. Death. Sanctity. These subjects and others are reexamined through the lens of suicide rights and procreation ethics in Sarah Perry's Every Cradle Is a Grave. If you're at all fond of asking the truly Big Questions, this is the read you've been waiting for. Why are we here, and why do we stay? Prepare to have your assumptions dissected and turned on their heads. It's a bumpy ride, but then, so is this little journey we're on as we spin aimlessly around a sun that's destined to burn out, just as surely as each individual life will one day fall back down into the mud from which all life arises. Asking the hard questions is one thing, but hearing answers that might shake us to the core can be something else again.

--Jim Crawford, author of Confessions of an Antinatalist

"In this eminently rational, clear and serious book, Sarah Perry is courageous and strong enough to confront the forbidden truths of human life. Every Cradle Is a Grave should be mandatory reading for anyone who plans to have children."

-Mikita Brottman, author of Thirteen Girls

Автор: Perry, Sarah
Название: Melmoth
ISBN: 1788160665 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788160667
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Описание: From the author of the bestselling The Essex Serpent comes a darkly inventive and deeply moving novel that speaks urgently to our times.

Автор: Perry, Sarah
Название: Melmoth
ISBN: 1788160657 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788160650
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Описание: From the author of The Essex Serpent comes a dazzlingly inventive and deeply moving novel that speaks urgently to our times.

Автор: Perry, Sarah
Название: Essex girls
ISBN: 1788167457 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788167451
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Описание: This is the first book to analyze the abuse of the internet for terrorism and crime purposes under two new perspectives: the persuasion and involvement of women and children as specific target user groups, and the development of new strategies to use extremist web forums as an open book in order to understand and gain insight into terrorist thinking. Web2.0 can be even more: an open door for dialogue, deradicalisation and ultimately a way out of the cocoon of terroristic isolation. This book presents the results of a unique cooperation between Israeli and German research centers with outstanding contributions to innovative security research. Two international conferences in Berlin in 2008 brought together worldwide leading authors both from academia and government. Most recent research results challenge the actual treatment of terroristic web forums by governmental agencies. This remarkable publication will open your eyes both on the real risks of terroristic web activities and new counter strategies from analysis to dialogue.

Автор: Perry Sarah
Название: After Me Comes the Flood
ISBN: 0062666401 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062666406
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 11830.00 T
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"A beautiful, dream-like, unsettling narrative in which every word, like a small jewel, feels carefully chosen, considered and placed. Rarely do debut novels come as assured and impressive as this one."--Sarah Waters

Elegant, sinister and psychologically complex, After Me Comes the Flood is the haunting debut novel by the bestselling author of The Essex Serpent and Melmoth.

One hot summer's day, John Cole decides to shut his bookshop early, and possibly forever, and drives out of London to see his brother. When his car breaks down on an isolated road, he goes looking for help and finds a dilapidated house. As he approaches, a laughing woman he's never seen before walks out, addresses him by name and explains she's been waiting for him. Entering the home, John discovers an enigmatic clan of residents all of whom seem to know who he is, and also claim they have been awaiting him arrival. They seem to be waiting for something else, too--something final...

Автор: Perry Sarah
Название: After Me Comes the Flood
ISBN: 0062979035 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062979032
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 19350.00 T
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"A beautiful, dream-like, unsettling narrative in which every word, like a small jewel, feels carefully chosen, considered and placed. Rarely do debut novels come as assured and impressive as this one."--Sarah Waters

Elegant, sinister and psychologically complex, After Me Comes the Flood is the haunting debut novel by the bestselling author of The Essex Serpent and Melmoth.

One hot summer's day, John Cole decides to shut his bookshop early, and possibly forever, and drives out of London to see his brother. When his car breaks down on an isolated road, he goes looking for help and finds a dilapidated house. As he approaches, a laughing woman he's never seen before walks out, addresses him by name and explains she's been waiting for him. Entering the home, John discovers an enigmatic clan of residents all of whom seem to know who he is, and also claim they have been awaiting him arrival. They seem to be waiting for something else, too--something final...

Автор: Supersummary
Название: Study Guide: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (SuperSummary)
ISBN: 1697815790 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781697815795
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Цена: 13730.00 T
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Описание: SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This 86-page guide for "The Essex Serpent" by Sarah Perry includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 10 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like Faith and Reason and Urban and Rural.

Автор: Maturin, Charles Robert
Название: Melmoth the wanderer 1820
ISBN: 1788161580 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788161589
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Описание: The original tale of gothic horror, now with an introduction by Sarah Perry.

Автор: Perry Sarah
Название: Melmoth
ISBN: 0062856405 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062856401
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 19610.00 T
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"Masterful...scary and smart, working as a horror story but also a philosophical inquiry into the nature of will and love. Perry did as much in her richly praised novel The Essex Serpent, but this is a deeper, more complex novel and more rewarding." --Washington Post

For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history's darkest waters--and now, in Sarah Perry's breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, it is heading in our direction.

It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts--or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she persuades to join her to a damnation of timeless, itinerant solitude. To Helen it all seems the stuff of unenlightened fantasy.

But, unaware, as she wanders the cobblestone streets Helen is being watched. And then Karel disappears. . . .