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The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby
No full textFrom the author of The Club, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick, The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby is Ellery Lloyd's compulsive multiple - timeline mystery – a story of love and madness, of obsession and revenge. This novel was co-written by Paul Vlitos (University of Greenwich) and Collette Lyons (writing together as Ellery Lloyd). In a prestigious starred notice, the influential US journal Kirkus Review noted that: “Lloyd’s novel interweaves the stories of three distinct time periods [1930s Paris, 1990s Cambridge, present-day Dubai] to create an elegant tapestry—and a novel of love, suspense, family secrets, Egyptology, surrealism, and corruption. […] A delightful puzzle box of a novel.” The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby was also one of ’10 noteworthy books for June’ in the Washington Post, a Crime Fiction Pick of the Month in The Sunday Times – and Heat magazine’s book of the week! The novel was published on the 20th June 2024 by Macmillan in the UK and on the 11th June by Harper Collins in the US
Probabilistic causality: a rejoinder to Ellery Eells
No full text© 1990 The Philosophy of Science AssociationIn an earlier paper (Dupré 1984), I criticized a thesis sometimes defended by theorists of probabilistic causality, namely, that a probabilistic cause must raise the probability of its effect in every possible set of causally relevant background conditions (the "contextual unanimity thesis"). I also suggested that a more promising analysis of probabilistic causality might be sought in terms of statis- tical relevance in a fair sample. Ellery Eells (1987) has defended the contextual unanimity thesis against my objections, and also raised objections of his own to my positive claims. In this paper I defend and amplify both my objections to the contextual unanimity thesis and my constructive suggestion
Aesop and Hyssop
No full textThis book has more than a bit of whimsy in it, composed as it is (in verse) by its author in grief over having lost his wife or best friend. Besides some 175 Aesopic fables, there are some twenty-seven originals composed by Leonard. The versifying is part of the fun. Two sections of the Dedication help give perspective on this work. Speaking of Phaedrus, LaFontaine, and Gay, Leonard writes on iv:/But I've done wiselier than they did:/Their aim finesse and delicacy/Mine is the mischievous and racy./and/(The mock address to babes and sucklings/should aid the older reader's chucklings.)//and about Socrates in the preface on v://I too, a lesser man than he, in pain/And, as it were, in prison, try again/His remedy for sorrow (for of late/I lost forevermore my friend and mate,/And need a little smiling)./I find his fables often ingenious and wonderfully pithy. FG moral (20) is still a classic. Among my favorites in this careful '97 reading: #1, 12, 13, 46, 54, 56, 90 (a gem for pithiness!), 136, 140, 145, 147, 149, 152, and 184 (his original on the adoring squirrels). Some of Leonard's gift verges on trivializing or at least matter of facting what he reports. He tends to offer a kind of signature at the end of the narrative, marked by concrete details, a touch of the macabre, and a strong rhyme. #130 (The Snapping Dog) offers a good example of Leonard's work, which will include a strong finish in the narrative bolstered by a good rhyme, with a moral that is often pithier than those in prose editions. I object to his frequent double subjects (e.g. in OF The dame she swelled with furious puff, #139) but to little else here. Different: the heron wipes out the whole race of frogs (#16)!William Ellery Leonar
Cristianismo liberal e espiritismo: as convergências entre William Ellery Channing e Allan Kardec
No full textIn 1869, in a recommendation of books of interest to the spiritualist public, Allan Kardec wrote that the “moral philosophy” of the American pastor William Ellery Channing was “the purest form of Spiritism”. This article starts from this fact to analyze the similarities between Kardec's thought and liberal Christianity (or Unitarianism) in the United States, of which Channing was the most famous representative in the first half of the 19th century. To this end, first, a definition of the term “liberal Christianity” is provided; then, some of its intellectual roots in Anglo-American Christian thought are traced and, finally, some elements of its version of Christianity are compared with Kardec's reading of this religious tradition through, mainly, a representative text of each author in this regard, namely: Unitarian Christianity (1819) and The Gospel according to Spiritism (in the definitive version of 1866). In the end, it is observed that some of the theses and approaches proposed by Kardec had already been circulating for decades in the American Protestant milieu, not being restricted solely to “moral philosophy”.Em 1869, em uma recomendação de livros de interesse para o público espírita, Allan Kardec escreveu que a “filosofia moral” do pastor americano William Ellery Channing era “o mais puro espiritismo”. Este artigo parte desse fato para efetuar uma análise das similaridades entre o pensamento de Kardec e o chamado cristianismo liberal (ou unitarismo) dos Estados Unidos, do qual Channing era o mais famoso representante na primeira metade do século XIX. Para isso, efetua-se, primeiro, uma definição do termo “cristianismo liberal”; em seguida, traçam-se algumas de suas raízes intelectuais no pensamento cristão anglo-americano e, finalmente, comparam-se alguns elementos de sua versão do cristianismo com a leitura kardequiana dessa tradição religiosa por meio, principalmente, de um texto representativo de cada autor quanto a esse assunto, a saber: Unitarian Christianity, de 1819, e O Evangelho segundo o Espiritismo (na versão definitiva de 1866). Ao fim, constata-se que algumas das teses e abordagens propostas por Kardec já circulavam há décadas no meio protestante americano, não se restringindo apenas à “filosofia moral”
Cristianismo liberal e espiritismo: : as convergências entre William Ellery Channing e Allan Kardec
No full textIn 1869, in a recommendation of books of interest to the spiritualist public, Allan Kardec wrote that the “moral philosophy” of the American pastor William Ellery Channing was “the purest form of Spiritism”. This article starts from this fact to analyze the similarities between Kardec\u27s thought and liberal Christianity (or Unitarianism) in the United States, of which Channing was the most famous representative in the first half of the 19th century. To this end, first, a definition of the term “liberal Christianity” is provided; then, some of its intellectual roots in Anglo-American Christian thought are traced and, finally, some elements of its version of Christianity are compared with Kardec\u27s reading of this religious tradition through, mainly, a representative text of each author in this regard, namely: Unitarian Christianity (1819) and The Gospel according to Spiritism (in the definitive version of 1866). In the end, it is observed that some of the theses and approaches proposed by Kardec had already been circulating for decades in the American Protestant milieu, not being restricted solely to “moral philosophy”.Em 1869, em uma recomendação de livros de interesse para o público espírita, Allan Kardec escreveu que a “filosofia moral” do pastor americano William Ellery Channing era “o mais puro espiritismo”. Este artigo parte desse fato para efetuar uma análise das similaridades entre o pensamento de Kardec e o chamado cristianismo liberal (ou unitarismo) dos Estados Unidos, do qual Channing era o mais famoso representante na primeira metade do século XIX. Para isso, efetua-se, primeiro, uma definição do termo “cristianismo liberal”; em seguida, traçam-se algumas de suas raízes intelectuais no pensamento cristão anglo-americano e, finalmente, comparam-se alguns elementos de sua versão do cristianismo com a leitura kardequiana dessa tradição religiosa por meio, principalmente, de um texto representativo de cada autor quanto a esse assunto, a saber: Unitarian Christianity, de 1819, e O Evangelho segundo o Espiritismo (na versão definitiva de 1866). Ao fim, constata-se que algumas das teses e abordagens propostas por Kardec já circulavam há décadas no meio protestante americano, não se restringindo apenas à “filosofia moral”
Distinguishing Features of Forewords in the Detective Stories by Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr, and Ellery Queen
No full textIn a previous paper, the author studied eighty-two “Perry Mason” detective stories by Erle Stanley Gardner. In his day, Gardner was well-known as a detective story writer who once sold 26,000 books a day at the peak of his career. In those days, all of his “Perry Mason” books were as famous and popular as those by Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr, and Ellery Queen. Now those “Perry Mason” books have disappeared from bookstores and have been forgotten, while the books by Christie, Carr, and Queen are still on the shelves. That paper discussed the reasons for the disappearance of books about Perry Mason. In this paper, the distinctive features of forewords by Gardner, Christie, Carr and Queen are compared and contrasted. The forewords by the latter three writers are classified into two types. However, Gardner’s forewords are distinctively different and categorized into a third type. In this paper, which is the first of two parts, the forewords by Christie, Carr and Queen are discussed. In the second paper, the forewords by Gardner will be discussed
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