A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceAgainst the backdrop of nineteenth century Dublin, a boy becomes a man: his mind testing its powers, obsessions taking hold and loosening again, the bonds of family, tradition, nation and religion transforming from supports into shackles; until the young man devotes himself to the celebration of beauty, and reaches for independence and the life of an artist.

kingdoms and palaces

This is spiritual knowledge

The result is a story that is “provocative

the Empire's greatest military academy

The Vaidalyaprakarana belongs to the Madhyamika school of Buddhist Philosophy and is attributed to Nagarjuna

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Written with the flair and seemingly effortless erudition that have made Gurcharan Das a bestselling author around the world - and enlivened by Das's forthright discussion of his own personal search for a more meaningful life - The Difficulty of Being Good shines the light of an ancient poem on the most challenging moral ambiguities of modern life

The authors have added the novelty in the form of an attempt to relate music

Gelong Thubten shares a practical and sustainable approach to happiness

Zlatan transports you into the world of top-flight football like no one else

as Madame de Bargeton's reputation becomes compromised and the fickle

a wily corpse-monster tricks his young captor into setting him free