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Paradise (other)
A paradise is a religious concept of an idealized place. Paradise may also refer to: Films and television Feature films * ''Paradise'' (1926 film), a film starring Betty Bronson and Milton Sills * ''Paradise'' (1928 film), a film by Denison Clift and starring Betty Balfour * ''Paradise'' (1932 film), a film by Guido Brignone * ''Paradise'' (1955 film), a Swedish film by Arne Ragneborn * ''Paradise'' (1975 film), a film by Bill Hughes * ''Paradise'' (1982 film), a film starring Phoebe Cates and Willie Aames * ''Paradise'' (1984 film), am animated short film by Ishu Patel * ''Paradise'' (1991 film), a film starring Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson * ''Paradise'', a 2004 film by Roger Steinmann * ''Paradise'' (2011 film), a film by Ulrich Seidl * ''Paradise'' (2013 American film), a film by Diablo Cody * ''Paradise'' (2013 Mexican film), a film by Mariana Chenillo * ''Paradise'' (2016 film), a film by Andrei Konchalovsky Television series * ''Paradise'' (American TV se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paradise
In religion, paradise is a place of exceptional happiness and delight. Paradisiacal notions are often laden with pastoral imagery, and may be cosmogonical or eschatological or both, often compared to the miseries of human civilization: in paradise there is only peace, prosperity, and happiness. Paradise is a place of contentment, a land of luxury and fulfillment. Paradise is often described as a "higher place", the holiest place, in contrast to this World (theology), world, or underworlds such as Hell. In eschatological contexts, paradise is imagined as an Entering heaven alive, abode of the virtuous dead. In Christianity and Islam, Heaven is a paradisiacal relief. In old Egyptian beliefs, the underworld is Aaru, the reed-fields of ideal hunting and fishing grounds where the dead lived after judgment. For the Celts, it was the Fortunate Isles, Fortunate Isle of Mag Mell. For the classical Greeks, the Elysium, Elysian fields was a paradisiacal land of plenty where the heroic and ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Paradise (TV Series)
''The Paradise'' is a British television costume drama series co-produced by BBC Studios and ''Masterpiece''. ''The Paradise'' premiered in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 25 September 2012 and premiered in the United States on PBS on 6 October 2013. The series is an adaptation of Émile Zola's 1883 novel ''Au Bonheur des Dames'' that relocates the story to North East England. (Zola's novel itself is a retelling of the story of Aristide Boucicaut, the Bellême-born founder of Le Bon Marché). A second series was commissioned by BBC One in late October 2012 and was broadcast on 20 October 2013 on BBC One. On 12 February 2014, the BBC confirmed that ''The Paradise'' would not return for a third series. It cited that the programme had lower figures than other relatively new dramas such as '' Death in Paradise'', '' Sherlock'' and ''Silk''. Furthermore, its ITV rival ''Mr Selfridge'' was performing better. Plot Series 1 Series 1 begins in 1875, and portrays the lives and loves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koji Suzuki (writer)
is a Japanese writer, who was born in Hamamatsu and lives in Tokyo. Suzuki is the author of the ''Ring'' novels, which have been adapted into other formats, including films, manga, TV series and video games. He has written several books on the subject of fatherhood. His hobbies include traveling and motorcycling. Bibliography Some of the books listed here are published in the US by Vertical Inc., owned by Kodansha and Dai Nippon Printing. ''Ring'' series * ''Ring'' trilogy and extended series ** ''Ring'' (''Ringu'') (1991) ** ''Spiral'' (''Rasen'') (1995) ** ''Loop'' (''Rupu'') (1998) ** ''Birthday'' (1999) (Short story collection) ightly intertwined with the trilogy: almost crucially relevant*** "Coffin in the Sky" etails what happened to Mai Takano in ''Spiral''*** "Lemon Heart" requel to ''Ring''*** "Happy Birthday" direct epilogue to ''Loop''** '' S'' (2012) ** ''Tide'' (2013) * Manga series ** ''Sadako-san and Sadako-chan'' (2019) ** ''Sadako at the End of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosmo Hamilton
Cosmo Hamilton (29 April 1870 – 14 October 1942), born Henry Charles Hamilton Gibbs, was an English playwright and novelist. He was the brother of writers Arthur Hamilton Gibbs, Francis William Hamilton Gibbs, Helen Katherine Hamilton Gibbs and Sir Philip Gibbs. Biography Hamilton was born in Norwood. He took his mother's maiden name when he began to write. Hamilton was married twice: first to Beryl Faber, née Crossley Smith, who died in 1912. (She was the sister of actor C. Aubrey Smith.) Hamilton then married Julia Bolton, the former wife of playwright Guy Bolton. His London musicals include ''The Catch of the Season'' (1904), ''The Belle of Mayfair'' (1906), ''The Beauty of Bath'' (1906). During the First World War Hamilton was a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Air Service. He later wrote a number of Broadway shows and many screenplays, and his novels were the basis for several films. In her April 1922 theater column, Dorothy Parker's review of Hamilton's Broadway play ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Forbes
Esther Louise Forbes (; June 28, 1891 – August 12, 1967) was an American novelist, historian and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal. She was the first woman elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society. Early life and education Esther Forbes was born to William Trowbridge Forbes and Harriette Merrifield Forbes on June 28, 1891, in Westborough, Massachusetts. She moved with her family to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1898. She attended Bancroft School in Worcester, and, from 1909 to 1912, she attended Bradford Academy, a junior college in Bradford, Massachusetts. In 1916, she joined her older sisters Cornelia and Katherine in Madison, Wisconsin, where Cornelia was in graduate school and Katharine was teaching. During this time she attended the classes at the University of Wisconsin. Career While in Wisconsin, she joined the editorial board of the ''Wisconsin Literary Magazine'', along with another future Pulitzer Prize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Castedo
Elena Castedo or Elena Castedo-Ellerman (born 1937) is an American and Spanish author and educator who writes in both Spanish and English. Her novel ''Paradise'' (1990) was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. Her subsequent self-translation of the work into Spanish, as ''El paraíso'' (1990), was named by ''El Mercurio'' as the Chilean Book of the Year, was a best-seller for five months in Spain, and was nominated for the Miguel de Cervantes Prize. Her short stories ''Troopers'' (1986) and ''The White Bedspread'' (1991) each won a Phoebe Prize from George Mason University. ''Bedspread'' also was selected as the winner of the PEN International short story contest. Early life and education Elena Castedo Magaña was born in 1937 in Barcelona to Elvira Magaña Cuadrado and Leopoldo Castedo Hernández de Padilla, during an air raid in the Spanish Civil War. At the time of her birth, her parents were students. Later, her mother became a linguist and her father was an art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Brown (writer)
Alice Brown (December 5, 1857 – June 21, 1948) was an American novelist, poet and playwright, best known as a writer of local color stories. She also contributed a chapter to the collaborative novel, ''The Whole Family'' (1908). Biography She was born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire and graduated from Robinson Female Seminary in Exeter in 1876. She later worked as a school teacher for five years, but moved to Boston to write full-time in 1884. She first worked at the Christian Register and then, starting in 1885, the ''Youth's Companion''. She was a prolific author for many years, but her popularity waned after the turn of the 20th century. She produced a book a year until she stopped writing in 1935. She corresponded with Rev. Michael Earls of the College of the Holy Cross and with Father J. M. Lelen of Falmouth, Kentucky, with whom she also exchanged poems. Yale University and Holy Cross now have the only sizable collections of her letters, since she ordered that most o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paradyzja
''Paradyzja'' (English: ''Paradise, the World in Orbit'') is a 1984 science fiction novel by Polish writer Janusz A. Zajdel. It is a dystopian novel similar to George Orwell's '' Nineteen Eighty-Four''. The space colonies are more or less federated with the Earth. Human rights are observed and respected everywhere, but Paradise has not been verified for sure. The main hero, writer Rinah Devi, is sent from Earth to Paradise to research that and the tragic death of a Terran sent to Paradise ten years before. Officially, though, the purpose of his visit is to write about Paradise. It was recognized as the best science fiction novel of the year in Poland in 1984. In the Polish People's Republic, it was widely understood as a metaphor for the USSR: omnipotent state security services and propaganda, single state ideology and forced labour. Plot ''Paradyzja'' (from " paradise") is the story about the human colony on a space station orbiting a distant and mineral rich star system. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paradise (Morrison Novel)
''Paradise'' is a 1998 novel by Toni Morrison, and her first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. According to the author, ''Paradise'' completes a "trilogy" that begins with ''Beloved'' (1987) and includes ''Jazz'' (1992). ''Paradise'' was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection for January 1998 and ranked in the BlackBoard Bestsellers List the following August. Morrison wanted to call the novel ''War'' but was overridden by her editor.Anna Mulrine"This side of 'Paradise': Toni Morrison defends herself from criticism of the novel ''Paradise''" ''U.S. News & World Report'', January 19, 1998, posted at Swarthmore U website (accessed February 29, 2008). Plot The novel is structured into nine sections. The first is named "Ruby" after the town on which the book centers. The rest are named for women implicated variously in the life of the town and the Convent. The Convent women are Mavis, Grace (known as "Gigi"), Seneca, Divine (whose name is actually "Pallas"), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paradise (Gurnah Novel)
''Paradise'' is a historical novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Zanzibar-born British writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, first published in 1994 by Hamish Hamilton in London. The novel was nominated for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Fiction. Plot The novel follows the story of Yusuf, a boy born in the fictional town of Kawa in Tanzania at the turn of the 20th century. Yusuf's father is a hotelier and is in debt to a rich and powerful Arab merchant named Aziz. Early in the story Yusuf is pawned in exchange for his father's owed debt to Aziz and must work as an unpaid servant for the merchant. Yusuf joins Aziz's caravan as they travel into the interior to the lands west of Lake Tanganyika. Here, Aziz's caravan of traders meets hostility from local tribes, wild animals and difficult terrain. As the caravan returns to East Africa, World War I begins and Yusuf encounters the German Army as they sweep Tanzania, forcibly conscripting African men as soldiers. Literary geneal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paradise (Dante)
''Paradiso'' (; Italian for "Paradise" or "Heaven (Christianity), Heaven") is the third and final part of Dante's ''Divine Comedy'', following the ''Inferno (Dante), Inferno'' and the ''Purgatorio''. It is an allegory telling of Dante's journey through Heaven, guided by Beatrice Portinari, Beatrice, who symbolises theology. In the poem, Paradise is depicted as a series of concentric spheres surrounding the Earth, consisting of the Moon, Mercury (planet), Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Fixed stars, Fixed Stars, the Primum Mobile and finally, the Empyrean. It was written in the early 14th century. Allegorically, the poem represents the soul's ascent to God. Introduction The ''Paradiso'' begins at the top of Purgatorio, Mount Purgatory, called the Purgatorio#The Earthly Paradise, Earthly Paradise (i.e. the Garden of Eden), at noon on Wednesday, March 30 (or April 13), 1300, following Easter Sunday. Dante's journey through Paradise takes approximately twenty-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paradise (Barthelme Novel)
''Paradise'' is a 1986 novel by American writer Donald Barthelme. The novel concerns an architect, Simon, and his creation of an apparent paradise for himself. The novel takes place in New York City. Reception ''The New York Times'' critic Michiko Kakutani compared the novel unfavorably to Barthelme's earlier novels and short stories, writing that it " ..has little of the vitality or inventiveness of Mr. Barthelme's earlier work and none of its provocative intelligence." Elizabeth Jolley Monica Elizabeth Jolley AO (4 June 1923 – 13 February 2007) was an English-born Australian writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s and forged an illustrious literary career there. She was 53 when her first book was publishe ..., also writing in ''The New York Times'', praised the novel's humor and referred to it as a "shock and a revelation". References 1986 American novels Novels set in New York City {{1980s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
