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Author | : Archpriest Avvakum |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2021-07-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0231552491 |
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Moscow in the middle of the seventeenth century had a distinctly apocalyptic feel. An outbreak of the plague killed half the population. A solar eclipse and comet appeared in the sky, causing panic. And a religious reform movement intended to purify spiritual life and provide for the needy had become a violent political project that cleaved Russian society and the Orthodox Church in two. The autobiography of Archpriest Avvakum—a leader of the Old Believers, who opposed liturgical and ecclesiastical reforms—provides a vivid account of these cataclysmic events from a figure at their center. Written in the 1660s and ’70s from a cell in an Arctic village where the archpriest had been imprisoned by the tsar, Avvakum’s autobiography is a record of his life, ecclesiastical career, painful exile, religious persecution, and imprisonment. It is also a salvo in a contest about whether to follow the old Russian Orthodox liturgy or import Greek rites and practices. These concerns touched every stratum of Russian society—and for Avvakum, represented an urgent struggle between good and evil. Avvakum’s autobiography has been a cornerstone of Russian literature since it first circulated among religious dissidents. One of the first Russian-language autobiographies and works of any sort to make use of colloquial Russian, its language and style served as a model for writers such as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Gorky. The Life Written by Himself is not only an important historical document but also an emotionally charged and surprisingly conversational self-portrait of a crucial figure in a tumultuous time.
Author | : Phineas Taylor Barnum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Circus owners |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Avvakum Petrovich (Protopope) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Henry Bibb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : African American abolitionists |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Henry Box Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
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The life of a slave in Virginia and his escape to Philadelphia.
Author | : John Ernest |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2009-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807888850 |
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It is the most celebrated escape in the history of American slavery. Henry Brown had himself sealed in a three-foot-by-two-foot box and shipped from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, a twenty-seven-hour journey to freedom. In Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself, Brown not only tells the story of his famed escape, but also recounts his later life as a black man making his way through white American and British culture. Most important, he paints a revealing portrait of the reality of slavery, of the wife and children sold away from him, the home to which he could not return, and his rejection of the slaveholders' religion--painful episodes that fueled his desire for freedom. This edition comprises the most complete and faithful representation of Brown's life, fully annotated for the first time. John Ernest also provides an insightful introduction that places Brown's life in its historical setting and illuminates the challenges Brown faced in an often threatening world, both before and after his legendary escape.
Author | : John Wesley Hardin |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2018-05-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1387808605 |
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John Wesley Hardin was the only Wild West outlaw to write his autobiography. This new 2018 edition of his prison-penned memoirs includes an introduction and footnotes by author and translator Damian Stevenson ('On the Shortness of Life') which help shed light on this most enigmatic of Old West legends.
Author | : Robert Montgomery Bird |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1836 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Frederick Douglass |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : Abolitionists |
ISBN | : |
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Frederick Douglass recounts early years of abuse, his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves. It is also the only of Douglass's autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, including his encounters with American presidents such as Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield.
Author | : Edward Hyde of Clarendon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1798 |
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