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يقدم واسيني الأعرج لروايته "سيرة المنته" بثلاث عتبات، أولها هو "حديث الإسراء" وثانيها لابن عربي من كتابه "الإسراء إلى المقام الأسرى أو كتاب المعراج" وثالثها من "تقرير إلى غريكو" للروائي اليوناني كازنتزاكيس. أما المقبوسان الأول والثاني فيشرعان الباب للمخيال الديني، وهو الحركة الكبرى الأولى في الرواية (الصوفية)، بينما يشرع المقبوس الثالث الباب للحركة الأولى – أيضاً – في الرواية: ما سيقص واسيني على جده من حياته، كما فعل كازنتزاكيس.

Roy Bean was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Texas, who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos". He and his three brothers set out from Kentucky in the mid 1840s, heading into the American frontier to find their fortunes. Their lifetimes of triumphs, tragedies, laurels, and scandals will play out on the battlefields of Mexico, in shady dealings in California city halls, inside eccentric saloon courtrooms of Texas, and along the blood-soaked Santa Fe Trail from Missouri to New Mexico. They will kill men, and murder will likewise stalk them.

History has not forgotten their names but you probably have little idea of the friendship that penned a brilliant collection of America's finest legends & delivered them to the public as succinct true stories as relevant today as then. Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) & Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) met when the two young men first arrived in Washington D.C. at the advent of their public service careers.

Un viaggio appassionato e travolgente nella vita di ventuno personaggi straordinari, uomini e donne fuori dal comune per talento, fragilità, spregiudicatezza. Storie intense e incandescenti, raccontate con la maestria di chi sa andare oltre la superficie: storie che, se non facessero capo a eventi storici ben delineati, farebbero pensare al dominio del romanzo e della finzione, più che alla realtà. La tragica poesia di Marina Cvetaeva, la vita tormentata di Edgar Allan Poe, l'arte dirompente e oscura di Picasso, vampiro di anime.

Seven Virginians, the culmination of a lifetime of erudition by one of America's leading historians, reveals the integral role played by seven major Virginians before, during, and after the American Revolution: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, George Mason, Patrick Henry, and John Marshall.