Murther and Walking SpiritsAnthony Burgess listed Davies' The Rebel Angels among the 99 best novels of our time and declared that Davies himself is "without doubt Nobel Prize material". In this unusual novel, Davies' protagonist is murdered in the first sentence of the book, but he lingers as a ghost to view the exploits of his ancestors, from the American Revolution to the present. |
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... Wesley, always so called though he is young no longer, gives a deathbed promise that he will continue the ... Wesley's concern for his children, his eldest son, Samuel, and a younger brother, another Thomas. Young Wesley has married ...
... Wesley, always so called though he is young no longer, gives a deathbed promise that he will continue the ... Wesley's concern for his children, his eldest son, Samuel, and a younger brother, another Thomas. Young Wesley has married ...
Page 114
... Wesley is not one of those. Favours for good Church people, and Young Wesley is a field preacher of that nasty group of craw-thumpers who are beginning to call themselves Methodists, as if John Wesley had not been a good C of E man all ...
... Wesley is not one of those. Favours for good Church people, and Young Wesley is a field preacher of that nasty group of craw-thumpers who are beginning to call themselves Methodists, as if John Wesley had not been a good C of E man all ...
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... Wesley, by then Old Wesley, in 1850. (9). E. INELY EDUCATED as he was, it is unlikely that John Wesley paid any attention to that curmudgeonly Greek sage Heraclitus who was the first, so far as we know, to point out the psychological fact ...
... Wesley, by then Old Wesley, in 1850. (9). E. INELY EDUCATED as he was, it is unlikely that John Wesley paid any attention to that curmudgeonly Greek sage Heraclitus who was the first, so far as we know, to point out the psychological fact ...
Contents
Roughly Translated 1 | 17 |
Cain Raised | 35 |
Of Water and the Holy Spirit | 93 |
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