The Way We Live Now is the story of foreign-born financier Augustus Melmotte, a man with a mysterious past who sets the rumour mill on fire upon his arrival in London with his family. Using nothing but his charm, Melmotte convinces several associates to invest in his company. But Melmotte’s ascent up the social ladder is blocked by Paul Montague, a young engineer who questions his intentions. A literary classic, The Way We Live Now was inspired by the English financial scandals of the 1870s, and is a stunning, satirical look at an era dominated by greed and dishonesty. The Way We Live Now has twice been adapted for television. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

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Shirley Temple tap dancing at the Kiwanis Club, Stevie Nicks glaring at Lindsey Buckingham during a live version of "Silver Springs," Frank Ocean lyrics staking new territory on the page: this is a taste of the cultural landscape sampled in Your New Feeling is the Artifact of a Bygone Era. Chad Bennett casually combines icons of the way we live now--GIFs, smartphones, YouTube--with a classical lover's lament. The result is certainly a deeply personal account of loss, but more critically, a dismantling of an American history of queerness. "This is our sorrow. Once it seemed theirs, but now it's ours. They still inhabit it, yet we say it's ours." All at once cerebral, physical, personal, and communal, Your New Feeling Is the Artifact of a Bygone Era constructs a future worth celebrating. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781946448484 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Sarabande Books Publication Date: 01-14-2020 Pages: 96 Product Dimensions: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.40d Series: Kathryn A. Morton Prize in PoetryAbout the Author Chad Bennett's poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Gulf Coast, jubilat, The Offing, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Volta, and elsewhere. He is the author of Word of Mouth: Gossip and American Poetry, a study of twentieth century poetry and the queer art of gossip. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.

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❝𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒂 𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒔 𝒒𝒖𝒐?❞ ━━━━━━━━━━ Rachelle Anderson moved to Massachusetts for two reasons: to pursue her dream of being a cellist and to pursue her childhood friend, Leon Taylor. Rachelle and Leon had been friends for forever and they spent most of their lives together, living in the same neighbourhood and going to the same schools. However, college happened and the two were pulled apart as they struggled to get a hang of their lives. Growing up meant growing apart - it was all part and parcel of life. Would moving into a new state move them out of the platonic boundary and move them into something more intimate? Or would it aggravate everything that they shared between them? Rachelle wondered if she should do something about them: What about a kiss? ━━━━━━━━━━ Romantic Dreams 2020: New Adult - Anticipation Love Award Reviewed by Team of Dreams: Aspire Magazine, November 2020 Issue ━━━━━━━━━━ 26.01.20: Completed | ✓ 13.01.21: Editing Offline

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The Practice of the Presence of God consists of conversations, letters, and maxims on how we should live, with the idea of cultivating the sense of the presence of God in the soul and, indeed, in the world around us. We need this great spiritual classic now more than ever, when we are overwhelmed by the vastness of today's problems. We need to return to the simplicity of Brother Lawrence, whose "little way" lightens our burdens and rejoices the heart. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781614279686 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Martino Fine Books Publication Date: 06-08-2016 Pages: 42 Product Dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.10(d)About the Author Nicholas Herman was born in Lorraine province, France in about 1605; he came from a humble background and was an unlearned man. He was converted in 1629, and after being a soldier and a footman for some time, he entered the religious community of the Carmelites in Paris in about 1649. It was there, as a lay brother, that he took the name of Brother Lawrence. He remained in the community until his death in 1691. While in the community he worked most of the time as a helper in the kitchen; it is in this specific surrounding that he became known for his simple, practical faith.Read an Excerpt Read an Excerpt Chapter 1 First Conversation I met Brother Lawrence for the first time today. He told me that God had been especially good to him in his conversion. He was eighteen at the time, and still in the world. He told me that it had all happened one winter day, as he was looking at a barren tree. Although the tree's leaves were indeed gone, he knew that they would soon reappear, followed by blossoms and then fruit. This gave him a profound impression of God's providence and power which never left him. Brother Lawrence still maintains that this impression detached him entirely from the world and gave him such a great love for God that it hasn't changed in all of the forty years he has been walking with Him. Brother Lawrence had formerly been a servant to the treasurer of the monastery and had been very clumsy. He believed that in order to be saved, he'd have to be punished for this clumsiness. Therefore, he sacrificed all of the pleasures in his life to God. But, rather than punishing him, God gave him nothing but wholehearted satisfaction. Often, he would tell the Lord endearingly that he felt deceived, because his Christian walk had thus far been so pleasant and not filled with suffering as he had anticipated. Brother Lawrence insisted that it is necessary to always be aware of God's presence by talking with Him throughout each day. To think that you must abandon conversation with Him in order to deal with the world is erroneous. Instead, as we nourish our souls by seeing God in His exaltation, we will derive a great joy at being His. Another thing he mentioned was that our faith is too weak. Instead of letting faith rule our lives, we are guided by our petty, everyday, mechanical prayers, which are always changing. The Church's only road to the perfection of Christ is faith. The dear brother remarked that we must give ourselves totally to God, in both temporal and spiritual affairs. Our only happiness should come from doing God's will, whether it brings us some pain or great pleasure. After all, if we're truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to US. We also need to be faithful, even in dry periods. It is during those dry spells that God tests our love for Him. We should take advantage of those times to practice our determination and our surrender to Him. This will often bring us to a maturity further on in our walk with God. Brother Lawrence wasn't surprised by the amount of sin and unhappiness in the world. Rather, he wondered why there wasn't more, considering the extremes to which the enemy is capable of going. He said he prayed about it, but because he knew God could rectify the situation in a moment if He willed it, he didn't allow himself to become greatly concerned. To succeed in giving ourselves to God as much as He desires, we must constantly guard our souls. In addition to being involved in spiritual matters, the soul is involved in the things of this world. But when we turn our backs on Him, exposing our souls to the world, He will not so easily answer our call. When we are willing to accept God's help and guard our souls according to His desires, we may commune with Him whenever we like. Show More What People are Saying What People are Saying About This Ken Gire The Practice of the Presence of God was a pivotal book in my spiritual growth. It showed me there was no division between work that is secular and work that is sacred. When done “unto God rather than men,” all work is sacred. And Brother Lawrence, with his sleeves rolled up and his hands elbow deep in the sink, shows us in everyday ways how to turn the kitchens in our lives into cathedrals. Table of Contents Table of Contents Introduction: Dorothy Day 1 Editor's Introduction 14 Conversations The First Conversation--August 3, 1666 23 The Second Conversation--September 28, 1666 27 The Third Conversation--November 22, 1666 36 The Fourth Conversation--November 25, 1666 40 Letters I. To a Nun 49 II. To a Nun 54 III. To the Same 58 IV. To a Woman in the World 62 V. To a Religious 65 VI. To a Nun 73 VII. To a Woman in the World 76 VIII. To a Nun 78 IX. To the Same 81 X. To a Woman in the World 84 XI. To a Nun 86 XII. To a Nun 91 XIII. To a Nun 94 XIV. To the Same 96 XV. To the Same 98 XVI. To the Same 100 Spiritual Maxims On Faith 105 Necessary Practices for Attaining the Spiritual Life 106 How We Must Worship God in Spirit and in Truth 110 Of the Union of the Soul with God 111 Of the Presence of God 114 Means for Attaining the Presence of God 117 The Benefits of the Presence of God 119 Show More

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These are some crazy times we’re living in right now. Most of us are stuck inside, going slowly mad as we wait for the coronavirus to subside. We know the only way to get through this is to stay inside and wait it out. But staying inside the whole time, especially alone, is enough for even the sanest person to go a bit nuts.Fortunately, the nuttier the world goes, the funnier the internet gets.So sit back, relax, turn off the news, and focus on some of the funniest memes to come out of this bonkers situation.

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