Author: Philip Ball
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: universe, chartres, cathedral, stone, biography, aka, gothic, invention
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-08-01
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 006115430X
ISBN-13: 9780061154300
Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries—and why was it built at such immense height and with such glorious play of light, in the soaring manner we now call Gothic? In this eminently fascinating work, author Philip Ball makes sense of the visual and emotional power of Chartres and brilliantly explores how its construction—and the creation of other Gothic cathedrals—represented a profound and dramatic shift in the wa
Author: T. S. Eliot
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: cathedral, murder
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1964-03-18
List price: $9.00
ISBN-10: 0156632772
ISBN-13: 9780156632775
A dramatization in verse of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury. “The theatre as well as the church is enriched by this poetic play of grave beauty and momentous decision” (New York Times). “Within its limits the play is a masterpiece.... Mr. Eliot has written no better poem than this and none which seems simpler” (Mark Van Doren, The Nation).
Author: Raymond Carver
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: cathedral
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1989-06-18
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0679723692
ISBN-13: 9780679723691
"A dozen stories that overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life...Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty...his eye set only on describing and revealing the world as he sees it. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart."--Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World"Cathedral contains astonishing achievements, which bespeaks a writer expanding his range of intentions."--The Boston Globe"A few of Mr. Carver’s stories can already be counted among the masterpieces of American fiction...Cathedral shows a gifted writer struggling for a larg
Author: Nelson DeMille
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Keywords: cathedral
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1990-12-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0446358576
ISBN-13: 9780446358576
St. Patrick’s Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act -- the seizure of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman Brian Flynn once loved, a former terrorist turned peace activist. Among his enemies: an Irish-American police lieutenant fighting against a traitor inside his own ranks and a shadowy British intelligence officer pursuing his own cynical, bloody plan. The cops face a booby-trapped,
Author: Mario Bencastro
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Keywords: cathedral, shot
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 1996-09
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 155885164X
ISBN-13: 9781558851641
Neither propagandistic nor partisan view of the civil war in El Salvador, this novel is remarkable for its sensitivity and poetic vision of the tragic and inhuman events that polarized both that nation and the international community.
Authors:L. H. Maynard, M. P. N. Sims,
Publisher: Leisure Books
Keywords: cathedral, black
Number of Pages: 287
Published: 2008-12-30
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0843961996
ISBN-13: 9780843961997
When a group of people vanish without a trace from an old manse on an island off the Scottish coast, the British government sends in a team from Department 18, a unit designed to investigate paranormal activity. What they find is far worse than any mere haunted house!
Author: Alejo Carpentier
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: cathedral, explosion
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2001-03
List price: $18.50
ISBN-10: 081663808X
ISBN-13: 9780816638086
Fiction Introduction by Timothy Brennan A swashbuckling tale set in the the Caribbean world at the time of the French revolution, Explosion in a Cathedral focuses on Victor Hugues, a historical figure who led the naval assault to take back the island of Guadeloupe from the English at the beginning of the nineteenth century. In Carpentier’s telling, this piratical figure walks into the lives of the wealthy orphans Esteban and Sofia and casts them abruptly into the midst of the immense changes sweeping the world outside their Havana mansion. "Built around the exciting and timely
