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Celestial Blue Skies

Author : Maggie Collins
Publisher : Vagabondage Press LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celestial Blue Skies written by Maggie Collins and published by Vagabondage Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Belle Place, Louisiana, where the sugarcane grows a mile high to the bright blue sky, Celeste struggles with her mentally ill mother, Tut, and works with her grandmother Maymay to hold the Creole Bastille family together. Celeste has bigger dreams for her life, and is falling for the handsome and wealthy Vashan. But, when Tut runs away to live with the man she met working in the sugarcane to escape her reputation as the town whore, Maymay fears that Celeste will end up like her mother. And just as things are finally looking up for Tut, her past returns with violent, tragic results. Will Celeste end up like her mother, or will she redeem her family from the hoodoo curse that haunts them? And will she find love with someone from a culture just as exotic as her own?

Stories from the Italian Poets

Author : Leigh Hunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Stories from the Italian Poets written by Leigh Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Artist

Author : Ernest William Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book American Artist written by Ernest William Watson and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Evolution of Charles Darwin

Author : Diana Preston
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802160190
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Charles Darwin written by Diana Preston and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning historian, the colorful, dramatic story of Charles Darwin’s journey on HMS Beagle that inspired the evolutionary theories in his path-breaking books On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles—invited by ship’s captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least as much as a ship’s naturalist—he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become perhaps the most important and epoch-changing voyage in scientific history. Nonetheless, over the course of the five-year journey around the globe in often hard and hazardous conditions, Darwin would make observations and gather samples that would form the basis of his revolutionary theories about the origin of species and natural selection. Drawing on a rich range of revealing letters, diary entries, recollections of those who encountered him, and Darwin’s and FitzRoy’s own accounts of what transpired, Diana Preston chronicles the epic voyage as it unfolded, tracing Darwin’s growth from untested young man to accomplished adventurer and natural scientist in his own right. Darwin often left the ship to climb mountains, navigate rivers, or ride hundreds of miles, accompanied by local guides whose languages he barely understood, across pampas and through rainforests in search of further unique specimens. From the wilds of Patagonia to the Galápagos and other Atlantic and Pacific islands, as Preston vibrantly relates, Darwin collected and contrasted volcanic rocks and fossils large and small, witnessed an earthquake, and encountered the Argentinian rhea, Falklands fox, and Galápagos finch, through which he began to discern connections between deep past and present. Darwin never left Britain again after his return in 1836, though his mind journeyed far and wide to develop the theories that were first revealed, after great delay and with trepidation about their reception, in 1859 with the publication of his epochal book On the Origin of Species. Offering a unique portrait of one of history’s most consequential figures, The Evolution of Charles Darwin is a vital contribution to our understanding of life on Earth.

The Divine Comedy

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Divine Comedy written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Margaret Fuller, Critic

Author : Judith Mattson Bean
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023152871X
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Margaret Fuller, Critic written by Judith Mattson Bean and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-26 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ardent feminist, leader of the transcendentalist movement, participant in the European revolutions of 1848-49, and an inspiration for Zenobia in Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance and the caricature Miranda in James Russell Lowell's Fable for Critics, Margaret Fuller was one of the most influential personalities of her day. Though a plethora of critical writings, biographies, and bibliographies on Fuller have been available—as well as her three published books, European dispatches, and editions of her letters and journals—until now there has been no complete, reliable edition of her writings from the New-York Tribune, where she was the first literary editor. Fuller wrote 250 articles for the Tribune, only 38 of which have been reprinted in modern editions; this book makes this significant portion of her writings available to the public for the first time. Judith Mattson Bean and Joel Myerson have assembled a selection of Fuller's essays and reviews on American and British literature, music, culture and politics, and art. The accompanying fully annotated, searchable CD-ROM contains all of Fuller's New-York Tribune writings.

The Foreign Quarterly Review

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Foreign Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The divine comedy, tr. by H.W. Longfellow

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The divine comedy, tr. by H.W. Longfellow written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Play the Way You Feel

Author : Kevin Whitehead
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190847581
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Play the Way You Feel written by Kevin Whitehead and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and low-budget quickies, comedies, musicals, and dramas, and stories of improvisers and composers at work. And the jazz film has seen a resurgence in recent years--from biopics like Miles Ahead and HBO's Bessie, to dramas Whiplash and La La Land. In Play the Way You Feel, author and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead offers a comprehensive guide to these films and other media from the perspective of the music itself. Spanning 93 years of film history, the book looks closely at movies, cartoons, and a few TV shows that tell jazz stories, from early talkies to modern times, with an eye to narrative conventions and common story points. Examining the ways historical films have painted a clear picture of the past or overtly distorted history, Play the Way You Feel serves up capsule discussions of sundry topics including Duke Ellington's social life at the Cotton Club, avant-garde musical practices in 1930s vaudeville, and Martin Scorsese's improvisatory method on the set of New York, New York. Throughout the book, Whitehead brings the same analytical bent and concise, witty language listeners know from his jazz segments on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He investigates well-known songs, traces the development of the stock jazz film ending, and offers fresh, often revisionist takes on works by such directors as Howard Hawks, John Cassavetes, Shirley Clarke, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Spike Lee, Robert Altman, Woody Allen and Damien Chazelle. In all, Play the Way You Feel is a feast for film-genre fanatics and movie-watching jazz enthusiasts.

Lily Whites of Steel

Author : Lindsay Evelyn Hamilton
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1491828099
Total Pages : 893 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Lily Whites of Steel written by Lindsay Evelyn Hamilton and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 893 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into the flaming trenches of a true spiritual hell, Lacey Hart spends her impoverished childhood lost in the strange shadow world between heaven and the demonic underworld in her senses. She uses religion to mold herself into The Perfect Daughter so that she might evade her disturbed mother's malevolence. Lacey is a demure child whose primrose sweetness and white-laced stoicism hearken back to the puritanical era- times when bewitchment infiltrated even the purest breath of beauty. In school she is an idiot savant, and she believes herself to be haunted by the devil. But outside the physical, emotional, and sexual torture chamber of her home, Lacey rarely ruffles feathers. Then she turns eighteen. Her sexuality, which she has always felt had its roots in evil, blooms like an overripe fruit from the center of her soul. Around the same time, Lacey and her best friend Sabrina uncover the gift that has both defined and isolated them all their lives: intuition. Emerging from the coccoon of their silence into awareness, the two friends find themselves also immersed in the dark side of magic. It is on this spiritual cusp between heaven and hell that they experience the heights of ecstasy- but drift inevitably toward the dredges of humanity on the outskirts of life. Like twinned flames, Lacey and Sabrina embark upon the bohemian "magical mystery tour" of their twenties with the quixotic candor and unexpected bravery of the truly eccentric. Then grave illness strikes, unplanned pregnancy arises, and they learn the power of true love to bloom one's spirit into the oneness with all things that is true freedom. The story of two women who dare to submerge themselves completely into any given moment, Lily Whites of Steel is a fearless exploration of the thin line between freedom and destruction, dogma and authentic mysticism, and- perhaps most hauntingly of all- truth and madness.

Pigments

Author : Barbara H. Berrie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691223718
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Pigments written by Barbara H. Berrie and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise illustrated history of one of art's most important and elusive elements Over the millennia, humans have used pigments to decorate, narrate, and instruct. Charred bone, ground earth, stones, bugs, and blood were the first pigments. New pigments were manufactured by simple processes such as corrosion and calcination until the Industrial Revolution introduced colors outside the spectrum of the natural world. Pigments brings together leading art historians and conservators to trace the history of the materials used to create color and their invention across diverse cultures and time periods. This richly illustrated book features incisive historical essays and case studies that shed light on the many forms of pigments--the organic and inorganic; the edible and the toxic; and those that are more precious than gold. It shows how pigments were as central to the earliest art forms and global trade networks as they are to commerce, ornamentation, and artistic expression today. The book reveals the innate instability and mutability of most pigments and discusses how few artworks or objects look as they did when they were first created. From cave paintings to contemporary art, Pigments demonstrates how a material understanding of color opens new perspectives on visual culture and the history of art.

Redeeming Features

Author : Nicholas Haslam
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307273067
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Redeeming Features written by Nicholas Haslam and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From British interior designer Nicholas Haslam, a dazzling and witty account of a frenetic and full life—from the 1940s to the present—in Europe and America, in a crowd of friends and acquaintances that includes virtually all of the cultural icons of our time. Haslam has found himself at the center of some of the most interesting circles wherever he is—at parties, opening nights, royal weddings. In London in the late 1950s he crossed paths—and more—with Cecil Beaton, Francis Bacon, Diana Cooper, Greta Garbo, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, David Bailey, and Noël Coward. A time living in the still unspoiled south of France was an education in everything from the work of Buñuel to the style of toreros like Dominguín and Ordóñez. In Paris he met Jean Cocteau and Janet Flanner, and, in Saint-Tropez, danced with Brigitte Bardot. In the 1960s, in New York, he encountered Dorothy Parker, Cole Porter, Andy Warhol, Jack Kennedy, Joan Didion, and Marilyn Monroe while working in the art department at Vogue and later as art director, following Henry Wolf, at Huntington Hartford’s Show magazine. After Show, Haslam moved to a ranch in Arizona to raise Arabian horses—Truman Capote and John Richardson, among others, came to stay—and he began designing and commuting to Los Angeles to decorate for the stars. Back in England in the 1980s, he worked on David Bailey’s Ritz magazine, attended the wedding of his cousin Diana Spencer, and designed for everyone from the financier James Goldsmith to rock star Bryan Ferry. Redeeming Features is about much more than documenting a life among the celebrated and the eccentric: it is a vivid, at times humorous and moving portrait of a way of life that has all but disappeared. Haslam has an exacting eye for the telling detail and his story is a compelling and wholly fascinating document of our times.

The Complete Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Purgatorio

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Purgatorio written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: