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Francis of Assisi's Canticle of the Creatures: A Modern Spiritual Path

Religion & Spirituality

Allen, Paul M.

Allen, Joan Deris

Christian Books & Bibles

Continuum Intl Pub Group

A beautifully illustrated and well-written reflection on one of the most creative prayers in Christianity and a popular study of one of its most charismatic and beloved spiritual teachers.

Bloomsbury Academic

Alan Ayckbourn: Grinning at the Edge

Alan Ayckbourn is Britain's most popular playwright and its most private. He has won numerous awards for his plays - including Absurd Person Singular, The Norman Conquests, Just Between Ourselves, A Chorus of Disapproval and Communicating Doors - and has worked with some of theatre's most celebrated names - Jane Asher, Richard Briers, Michael Gambon, Julia McKenzie, Penelope Keith, and Peter Hall. Feted from London to New York to Tokyo, he was knighted in 1997 for his services to the theatre. Yet he spends most of his time away from the limelight in a Yorkshire seaside town not writing at all but running a small repertory theatre.In this biography Paul Allen explores Ayckbourn's family background, looking at his unsettled and sometimes solitary childhood. There follows a hasty first marriage, the often farcical life of a frustrated young actor, and the setbacks and false dawns endured by the novice writer before he became the great comic hitmaker of the 1970s. Audiences since have been literally falling into the aisles or overloading theatre PA systems with the volume of their laughter, even as they register the seriousness of his preoccupation with man's inhumanity to woman. With the first-hand testimony of scores of colleagues who have worked with Ayckbourn at length in Scarborough as well as the more celebrated London collaborators, Allen traces the development of his more savagely comic critique of public life in the 1980s and '90s.This is a portrait of a man who - from Relatively Speaking in 1965 to his double play House and Garden at the National Theatre in 2000 - has chronicled human behavior, our aspirations and insecurities, while shaping the theatrical experience of millions.

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Vladimir Solovyov (1853-1900), one of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, was the founder of a tradition of Russian spirituality that brought together philosophy, mysticism, and theology with a powerful social message. A Platonist and a gnostic visionary, as well as a close friend of Dostoevsky, Solovyov was also a prophet who was granted three visions of Sophia, Divine Wisdom. A poet and a profoundly Christian metaphysicist, his works include The Justification of the Good; War, Progress, and the End of History; and The Meaning of Love. This unique, timely book - the first in-depth, full-length portrait of Soloviev as a mystic to appear in English - is the rich fruit of Dr. Allen's lifelong interest in the cultural and spiritual achievements, the mysticism, and the esoteric work of the Russian people during Tsarist times leading up to the twentieth century.

Vladimir Soloviev : Russian Mystic

Biographies & Memoirs

Multimedia Pub. Corp

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Francis of Assisi's Canticle of the Creatures: A Modern Spiritual Path

Francis of Assisi's Canticle of the Creatures: A Modern Spiritual Path

Alan Ayckbourn: Grinning at the Edge

Vladimir Soloviev : Russian Mystic