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Book Synopsis Curious Attractions by : Debra Spark
Download or read book Curious Attractions written by Debra Spark and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2005-05-20 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively and engaging essays on aspects of the writer's craft from an acclaimed novelist
Book Synopsis Curious Attractions by : Debra Spark
Download or read book Curious Attractions written by Debra Spark and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curious Attractions: Essays on Fiction Writing is a book about what makes fiction work. In nine entertaining and instructive essays, novelist and master teacher Debra Spark pursues key questions that face both aspiring and accomplished writers, including: How does a writer find inspiration? What makes a story's closing line resonate? How can a writer "get" style? Where should an author "stand" in relation to his or her characters? While the book will have immediate appeal for students of writing, it will also be of interest to general readers for its in-depth reading of contemporary fiction and for its take on important issues of the day: Should writers try to be more uplifting? How is emotion best conveyed in fiction? Why are serious writers in North America wedded to the realist tradition? When she was only twenty-three, Debra Spark's best-selling anthology 20 Under 30 introduced readers to some of today's best writers, including David Leavitt, Susan Minot, Lorrie Moore, Ann Patchett, and Mona Simpson. Almost twenty years later, Spark brings this same keen critical eye to Curious Attractions, discussing a broad range of authors from multiple genres and generations. A collection of essays in the belles-lettres tradition, Curious Attractions offers lively and instructive discussions of craft flavored with autobiographical reflections and commentary on world events. Throughout, Spark's voice is warm, articulate, and engaging as it provides valuable insights to readers and writers alike.
Book Synopsis STRANGE STRANGE THINGS: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics by : Edgar Allan Poe
Download or read book STRANGE STRANGE THINGS: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 15100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest collection of supernatural, macabre, eerie, and gothic tales is here! Grab your copy and get ready for the chills down your spine: Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart The Cask of Amontillado The Black Cat… Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental… H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House… Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal The Evil Eye… John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars The Lair of the White Worm… Algernon Blackwood: The Willows A Haunted Island A Case of Eavesdropping Ancient Sorceries… Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie Bowen: Black Magic Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Théophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot Richard Marsh: The Beetle Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles The Silver Hatchet… Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla Uncle Silas… M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White The Haunted Hotel The Devil's Spectacles E. F. Benson: The Room in the Tower The Terror by Night… Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Birth Mark The House of the Seven Gables… Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be? Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan The Terror… William Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland The Night Land M. P. Shiel: Shapes in the Fire Ralph Adams Cram: Black Spirits and White Grant Allen: The Reverend John Creedy Dr. Greatrex's Engagement… Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto William Thomas Beckford: Vathek Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Rudyard Kipling: The Phantom Rickshaw Guy de Maupassant: The Horla Jerome K. Jerome: Told After Supper…
Book Synopsis Recollections of Curious Characters and Pleasant Places by : Charles Lanman
Download or read book Recollections of Curious Characters and Pleasant Places written by Charles Lanman and published by Edinburgh : D. Douglas. This book was released on 1881 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelogue of Eastern United States in the early 1800s.
Book Synopsis Curious New England by : Joseph E. Citro
Download or read book Curious New England written by Joseph E. Citro and published by Upne. This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Points the way to all the tantalizing treats and terrifying treasures that remain tucked away in overlooked museums, private collections, and forgotten recesses of this very special region
Download or read book Ohio Oddities written by Neil Zurcher and published by Gray & Company, Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Buckeye State has no shortage of strange, silly, goofy, quirky, eccentric, and just plain weird places, people, and things--if you know where to look. Discover the World's Largest Cuckoo Clock, the nation's only vacuum cleaner museum, Balto the Wonder Dog, the "bottomless" Blue Hole of Casalia, and lots more hard-to-believe stuff!
Book Synopsis North American Maps for Curious Minds by : Matthew Bucklan
Download or read book North American Maps for Curious Minds written by Matthew Bucklan and published by The Experiment. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "100 . . . infographic maps that transform the way we understand the cultural and historical wonders of North America"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis The Guide to Odd New York by : Allan Ishac
Download or read book The Guide to Odd New York written by Allan Ishac and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE GUIDE TO ODD NEW YORK proves that weirdness still lives in the world's greatest city. Perfect for locals and adventurous visitors who are tired of conventional tourist attractions, ODD NEW YORK lures readers off the beaten path to a quirkier side of New York. THE GUIDE TO ODD NEW YORK includes the irreverent, the unconventional, and the unexpected with more than 60 eye-popping photos and a surprising entry on every page: * A psychedelic dreamworld in Tribeca * A mummified nun in upper Manhattan * A kitschy mermaid parade in Coney Island * The oldest transvestite training school in the country * Abandoned nuclear missile silos in Queens * An East Village museum celebrating organized crime * America's last circus sideshow school * The city's wickedest witchcraft store * A schlock sex and horror film company in Long Island City * Plus 100 more offbeat entries. THE GUIDE TO ODD NEW YORK also points the way to unusual nightlife destinations and bizarre events happening throughout the five boroughs. THE GUIDE TO ODD NEW YORK: Unusual Places, Weird Attractions and the City's Most Curious Sights reminds us that New York is still the capital of kookiness, as it exposes the fun and fascinating underbelly of New York.
Book Synopsis Great Wonders in Little Things by : Sidney Dyer
Download or read book Great Wonders in Little Things written by Sidney Dyer and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Montana Highway Tales by : Jon Axline
Download or read book Montana Highway Tales written by Jon Axline and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of Montana's exciting history is visible from its storied highways. Visit a segment of the historic Bozeman Trail overlooking Virginia City, where vigilantes hanged public nuisance Joseph Alfred Slade just as his wife attempted a horseback rescue. Discover the saga of adultery, attempted murder and eventual triumph that occurred at a single stone building in the Browns Gulch area of Butte. On Highway 308 east of Red Lodge, learn more about the tragic 1943 Smith Mine disaster, where a methane explosion trapped and killed seventy-three miners. The catastrophe triggered investigations at the state and national level that resulted in improvements in mine safety. With more than two dozen stories, historian Jon Axline provides a front-seat view of the Treasure State's thrilling past, forgotten characters and overlooked oddities found by the wayside.
Book Synopsis Ten Thousand Wonderful Things: Comprising Whatever is Marvellous and Rare, Curious, Eccentrics and Extraordinary, in All Ages and Nations ... by : Edmund Fillingham King
Download or read book Ten Thousand Wonderful Things: Comprising Whatever is Marvellous and Rare, Curious, Eccentrics and Extraordinary, in All Ages and Nations ... written by Edmund Fillingham King and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Weird, Wonderful America by : Laura Bergheim
Download or read book Weird, Wonderful America written by Laura Bergheim and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of America's least-known and most eccentric tourist stops listing more than 200 mom-and-pop museums, halls of fame, and other attractions too strange to make the standard guidebooks. 150 photos and drawings.
Book Synopsis Weird Canadian Places by : Dan de Figueiredo
Download or read book Weird Canadian Places written by Dan de Figueiredo and published by . This book was released on 2006-05-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian landscape is home to some pretty odd sights; for example, the UFO landing pad in St. Paul, Alberta, the ice hotel in Québec City or Casa Loma, Canada's only castle. This book humorously inventories many real estate oddities found across the country. Welcome to the True North strange to see.
Book Synopsis Ten Thousand Wonderful Things by : Edmund Fillingham King
Download or read book Ten Thousand Wonderful Things written by Edmund Fillingham King and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Animal Attractions by : Elizabeth Hanson
Download or read book Animal Attractions written by Elizabeth Hanson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a rainy day in May 1988, a lowland gorilla named Willie B. stepped outdoors for the first time in twenty-seven years, into a new landscape immersion exhibit. Born in Africa, Willie B. had been captured by an animal collector and sold to a zoo. During the decades he spent in a cage, zoos stopped collecting animals from the wild and Americans changed the ways they wished to view animals in the zoo. Zoos developed new displays to simulate landscapes like the Amazon River basin and African forests. Exhibits similar to animals' natural habitats began to replace old-fashioned animal houses. But such displays are only the most recent effort of zoos to present their audiences with an authentic experience of nature. Since the first zoological park opened in the United States in Philadelphia in 1874, zoos have promised their visitors a journey into the natural world. And for more than a century they have been popular places for education and recreation: every year more than 130 million Americans go to zoos to look at the animals and enjoy a day outdoors. The first book-length history of American zoos, Animal Attractions examines the meaning of nature in the city by looking at the ways zoos have assembled and displayed their animal collections. Situated literally and culturally in the American middle landscape, zoos are concrete expressions of longstanding tensions between wildness and civilization, science and popular culture, education and entertainment. In their efforts to promote nature appreciation, they reveal much about how our culture envisions the natural world and the human place in it and how these ideas have changed.
Book Synopsis Atlas of Improbable Places by : Travis Elborough
Download or read book Atlas of Improbable Places written by Travis Elborough and published by Aurum Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlas of Improbable Places shows the modern world from surprising new vantage points that will inspire urban explorers and armchair travellers alike to consider a new way of understanding the world we live in.
Book Synopsis Picturesque Chicago and Guide to the World's Fair by :
Download or read book Picturesque Chicago and Guide to the World's Fair written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
