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Dissertationitis: The Art of Moravian Conversion
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Blogging my way to dissertation sanity. Wednesday, March 3, 2010. The Art of Moravian Conversion. What does it mean to convert to Christianity? How is it possible to identify a "true" convert? Aside from his non-dramatic conception of conversion, Zinzendorf also believed that the Holy Spirit had prepared a selected community of heathen all over the world for Christian conversion. These "first fruit" were to found and cultivated by Moravian missionaries. 29Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and jo...
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Existential Ennui: Graham Greene's The End of the Affair and England Made Me: 1959–60 Heinemann Library Editions, Peter Edwards Dust Jackets
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Tuesday, 28 July 2015. Graham Greene's The End of the Affair and England Made Me: 1959–60 Heinemann Library Editions, Peter Edwards Dust Jackets. Would you believe it, scant days after posting an update. To my gallery of Peter Edwards's beautiful dust jackets for the 1959–60 Heinemann Library Edition of the Works of Graham Greene. I've another update, this time courtesy of Peter Edwards's daughter, Martina Weatherley. The End of the Affair. And A Gun for Sale. A huge thank you to Martina, and once again,...
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Existential Ennui: The Ripliad: Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley Series of Books Revisited and Rated
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Monday, 22 April 2013. The Ripliad: Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley Series of Books Revisited and Rated. Having finally completed the Great Tom Ripley Reread. Roughly seven months later than I figured I would, but hey, who's counting? Er, apart from me, evidently), I thought I'd take the opportunity to reflect on Patricia Highsmith's Ripley series as a whole, and revisit the Tom Ripley Quality Graph. First though, for any latecomers, in order of publication the five Tom Ripley novels are:. On 7, and anot...
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Dissertationitis: a new decade's resolution
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Blogging my way to dissertation sanity. Saturday, January 2, 2010. A new decade's resolution. After a full week of sitting in Cambridge cafes, banished from the libraries (closed for the holidays) and with no friends around, I got to thinking. this dissertation stuff can be kind of isolating! I've started this week with Jane Kamensky's The Exchange Artist. My work of fiction this week is Ian McEwan's A Child in Time. McEwan is a long-time favorite of mine. Atonement. As the theme of this post indicates, ...
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Existential Ennui: Patricia Highsmith First Edition Book Cover Gallery
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Patricia Highsmith First Edition Book Cover Gallery. The Cry of the Owl. The Tremor of Forgery. The list goes on. Having collected Patricia Highsmith in first edition. For well over five years – and having read her for a lot longer; she's one of my favourite writers – in August 2013 I finally completed my collection of Heinemann firsts of her novels, with the 1958 Heinemann edition of Deep Water. And The Talented Mr. Ripley. For more on the background to the gallery, click here. Galleries, please link ba...
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Existential Ennui: The Great Tom Ripley Reread, 2: Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith (Heinemann Uncorrected Proof, 1971)
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Tuesday, 18 September 2012. The Great Tom Ripley Reread, 2: Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith (Heinemann Uncorrected Proof, 1971). NB: Featured as one of this week's Friday's Forgotten Books. For this second post in the Great Tom Ripley Reread. I've another intriguing edition from which to springboard some random thoughts. Like the 1959 Dell edition of The Talented Mr. Ripley. The first edition – the British one, anyway:. It's an uncorrected proof of Ripley Under Ground. A policeman finds a burie...
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Existential Ennui: The Great Tom Ripley Reread, 5: Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith (London Limited Editions, Signed / Bloomsbury, 1991)
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Thursday, 18 April 2013. The Great Tom Ripley Reread, 5: Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith (London Limited Editions, Signed / Bloomsbury, 1991). NB: Linked in Friday's Forgotten Books. And so the Great Tom Ripley Reread. 8211; which seemed like such. A good idea when I embarked on it, ooh, over seven months. 8211; reaches the final novel in Patricia Highsmith. And once again I have a very special edition of the book from which to springboard some musings:. Instead – so when this one popped u...
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Existential Ennui: The Great Tom Ripley Reread, 1: The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (Dell Paperback, 1959)
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Monday, 10 September 2012. The Great Tom Ripley Reread, 1: The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (Dell Paperback, 1959). I'll have further signed editions (and some original artwork) soon enough, but I've been promising for a while now (perhaps 'threatening' is more accurate) that I'd be returning to Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley novels. At some point. And having posted that signed, inscribed edition of Highsmith's Little Tales of Misogyny. I'll be looking at each of the five Tom Ripley novels.
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Existential Ennui: The Real Tom Ripley? Origins of Patricia Highsmith's Talented Mr. Ripley
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Thursday, 9 July 2015. The Real Tom Ripley? Origins of Patricia Highsmith's Talented Mr. Ripley. A couple of years ago, in this post on The Boy Who Followed Ripley. 8211; the third novel in the five-book Ripliad. 8211; I noted that Patricia Highsmith. Identified with Tom Ripley more than any other character she created. In her guidebook Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. 1966) she wrote of Tom's debut, The Talented Mr. Ripley. The Boy Who Followed Ripley. And Henry James's 1903 novel The Ambassadors.