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Author : Charles Mason Barrows
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
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Download or read book Acts and Anecdotes of Authors written by Charles Mason Barrows and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles M. Barrows
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783337983413
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Acts and Anecdotes of Authors: written by Charles M. Barrows and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-29 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199543410
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes written by John Gross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, master anthologist John Gross brings together a delectable smorgasbord of literary tales, offering striking new insight into some of the most important writers in history. Many of the anecdotes here are funny, others are touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, or downright weird. They show writers from Chaucer to Bob Dylan acting both unpredictably and deeply in character. The range is wide--this is a book which finds room for Milton and Shakespeare, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, Kurt Vonnegut and P. G. Wodehouse, Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie, James Baldwin and Tom Wolfe. It is also a book in which you can find out which great historian's face was once mistaken for a baby's bottom, which film star experienced a haunting encounter with Virginia Woolf not long before her death, and what Agatha Christie really thought of her popular character Hercule Poirot. It is in short an unrivalled collection of literary gossip offering intimate glimpses into the lives of authors ranging from Shakespeare to Philip Roth--a book not just for lovers of literature, but for anyone with a taste for the curiosities of human nature.
Author : United States. War Dept. Library
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Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Three Finding Lists Issued by the War Department Library written by United States. War Dept. Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York. Railroad Branch. Library
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Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Books written by Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York. Railroad Branch. Library and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pat Zietlow Miller
Publisher : Be Kind
ISBN 13 : 1626723214
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Be Kind written by Pat Zietlow Miller and published by Be Kind. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Tanisha spills grape juice all over her new dress, her classmate contemplates how to make her feel better and what it means to be kind. From asking the new girl to play to standing up for someone being bullied, this moving and thoughtful story explores what a child can do to be kind, and how each act, big or small, can make a difference--or at least help a friend.With award-winning author Pat Zietlow Miller's gentle text and Jen Hill's irresistible art, Be Kind is an unforgettable story about how two simple words can change the world.
Author : John Gross
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191501034
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes written by John Gross and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors. The dictionary defines an anecdote as 'a short account of an entertaining or interesting incident', and the anecdotes in this collection more than live up to that description. Many of them are funny, often explosively so. Others are touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, or downright weird. They show writers in the English-speaking world from Chaucer to the present acting both unpredictably, and deeply in character. The range is wide - this is a book which finds room for Milton and Margaret Atwood, George Eliot and P. G. Wodehouse, Chinua Achebe and Ian Fleming, Brendan Behan and Wittgenstein. It is also a book in which you can find out which great historian's face was once mistaken for a baby's bottom, which film star left a haunting account of Virginia Woolf not long before her death, and what Agatha Christie really thought of Hercule Poirot - a book not just for lovers of literature, but for anyone with a taste for the curiosities of human nature.
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Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Critic written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Truman Capote
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0812994388
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book In Cold Blood written by Truman Capote and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the “new journalism.” Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. “I thought he was a very nice gentleman,” he says of Herb Clutter. “Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.” Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers’ flight, Capote’s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1913724263
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Why I Write written by George Orwell and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Author : John Timbs
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Anecdotes about Authors, and Artists written by John Timbs and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anecdotes about Authors, and Artists is a book by John Timbs. It presents a collection of narratives, illustrative sketches, and memorabilia related to many artists and writers.
Author : August Friedrich Ferdinand von KOTZEBUE
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Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Beauties of Kotzebue ... With Biographical Anecdotes of the Author; a Summary of His Dramatic Fables and Cursory Remarks, by W. C. Oulton written by August Friedrich Ferdinand von KOTZEBUE and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Catherine Govion Broglio Solari (march.)
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Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Private anecdotes of foreign courts, by the author of 'Memoirs of the princesse de Lamballe'; to which are subjoined, memoirs extr. from the portefeuille of the baron de M---; with anecdotes of the French court by the prefect of the imperial palace [L.F.J., baron de Bausset]. written by Catherine Govion Broglio Solari (march.) and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steve Reece
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567705919
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (677 download)
Download or read book The Formal Education of the Author of Luke-Acts written by Steve Reece and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Reece proposes that the author of Luke-Acts was trained as a youth in the primary and secondary Greek educational curriculum typical of the Eastern Mediterranean during the Roman Imperial period, where he gained familiarity with the Classical and Hellenistic authors whose works were the focus of study. He makes a case for Luke's knowledge of these authors internally by spotlighting the density of allusions to them in the narrative of Luke-Acts, and externally by illustrating from contemporary literary, papyrological, and artistic evidence that the works of these authors were indeed widely known in the Eastern Mediterranean at the time of the composition of Luke-Acts, not only in the schools but also among the general public. Reece begins with a thorough examination of the Greek educational system during the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods, emphasizing that the educational curriculum was very homogeneous, at least at the primary and secondary levels, and that children growing up anywhere in the Eastern Mediterranean could expect to receive quite similar educations. His close examination of the Greek text of Luke-Acts has turned up echoes, allusions, and quotations of several of the very authors that were most prominently featured in the school curriculum: Homer, Aesop, Euripides, Plato, and Aratus. This reinforces the view that Luke, along with other writers of the New Testament, lived in a cultural milieu that was influenced by Classical and Hellenistic Greek literature and that he was not averse to invoking that literature when it served his theological and literary purposes.
Author : Ellen Barlee
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Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Thinking and acting, by the author of 'Helen Lindsay'. written by Ellen Barlee and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Coleman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319499327
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)
Download or read book George Saunders written by Philip Coleman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely volume explores the signal contribution George Saunders has made to the development of the short story form in books ranging from CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) to Tenth of December (2013). The book brings together a team of scholars from around the world to explore topics ranging from Saunders’s treatment of work and religion to biopolitics and the limits of the short story form. It also includes an interview with Saunders specially conducted for the volume, and a preliminary bibliography of his published works and critical responses to an expanding and always exciting creative œuvre. Coinciding with the release of the Saunders’ first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo (2017), George Saunders: Critical Essays is the first book-length consideration of a major contemporary author’s work. It is essential reading for anyone interested in twenty-first century fiction.
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Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Laws of Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
