The Oxford Book of Death

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199556520
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Death written by D. J. Enright and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inescapable reality of death has given rise to much of literature's most profound and moving work. D. J. Enright's wonderfully eclectic selection presents the words of poet and novelist, scientist and philosopher, mystic and sceptic. And alongside these 'professional' writers, he allows the voices of ordinary people to be heard; for this is a subject on which there are no real experts and wisdom lies in many unexpected places.

Memoirs of a Mendicant Professor

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Memoirs of a Mendicant Professor by : Dennis Joseph Enright

Download or read book Memoirs of a Mendicant Professor written by Dennis Joseph Enright and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dennis Joseph Enrights (1920- ) erindringer fra årene 1956-1967, om hans ophold i Berlin, Bangkok og Singapore

D. J. Enright

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052120383X
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)

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Book Synopsis D. J. Enright by : William Walsh

Download or read book D. J. Enright written by William Walsh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974-04-25 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of the poetry and prose of D. J. Enright.

Injury Time

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446448649
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Injury Time written by D J Enright and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinguished poet, essayist and critic D. J. Enright died on the last day of December 2002. He had just put the finishing touches to Injury Time, a memoir and his third commonplace book in which the dying writer muses upon his own condition and that of the world he knows he is leaving. Comparing himself to the Chinese scholar Sima Qian, who chose an 'ignoble punishment' (in Dennis Enright's case, treatment for his cancer; in Qian's, castration) over respectable death in order to finish a book, he contemplates literature, manners, morals, people and, especially, the English language in all its glories and eccentricities - while recording his battle against cancer and his hospital experiences. Moving, and at times deeply poignant, imbued with its author's legendary humanity and wit, Injury Time is, nevertheless, funny, bracing and, above all, positive.

Fair of Speech

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Fair of Speech by : Dennis Joseph Enright

Download or read book Fair of Speech written by Dennis Joseph Enright and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 16 essays that reveal the behaviour, beliefs and fears that prompt us to circumlocate some of the more basic facts of life.

Earthly Powers

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ISBN 13 : 9781609450847
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Earthly Powers by : Anthony Burgess

Download or read book Earthly Powers written by Anthony Burgess and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the book's center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power: Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety, and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood.

Interplay

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192880307
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Interplay written by D. J. Enright and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A commonplace book, by its very nature, should be unique; D. J. Enright's proves to be a mixture of personal, critical, playful, and profound. It is a commerce between the author and other writers, touching, for instance, on childhood, young murderers, and the use and abuse of stereotypes, modern biography, ars erotica old and new, animals and man's assumed dominion over them, obsolete notions of integrity in business and government, and the machinery of dreaming. A common reader himself, and as light of heart as the subject will allow, the author explores such prose poets as Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Freud, some curious points of theology, the penalties of imagination, and linguistic bizarrerie in sundry quarters. He looks into the world of books, contemporary Grub Street, the eccentricities of criticism, the reductive tendency of current fiction, literary theory and practice, and the necessity and impracticability of censorship. D. J. Enright casts a cool eye on contemporary manners, an amused one on mishaps and misunderstandings, not least those affecting old age, and a sad one on our perversities and crimes and other marks of original sin. In so doing he gives us a 'kind of' autobiography of a man whose life is inseparable from literature.

Collected Poems, 1948-1998

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems, 1948-1998 written by Dennis Joseph Enright and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected Poems 1948-1998, publishing in D.J. Enright's 78th year, adds the poetry from his books published since 1987, and extends the selection of poems, particularly from his earlier works, bringing back into circulation some poems readers may have missed. This major collection culls work from fifteen of Enright's previous publications including The Laughing Hyena (1953), Addictions (1962), and Sad Ires (1975). His three most famous sequences are also reprinted here in their entirety: Terrible Shears (1973), Paradise Illustrated (1978), and A Faust Book (1979). These collected poems enable readers to see the fascinating development of this poet, from his sensuous early work set in Alexandria and Japan, to a more terse and ironic later verse.

The Typewriter Revolution & Other Poems

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Publisher : Open Court Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Typewriter Revolution & Other Poems written by Dennis Joseph Enright and published by Open Court Publishing Company. This book was released on 1971 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Selected Poems, 1990

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
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Download or read book Selected Poems, 1990 written by Dennis Joseph Enright and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professor of English who has taught in such countries as Germany, Egypt and Japan, D.J. Enright has published books of poetry, books for children, novels, and numerous volumes of critical essays and memoirs. Known for his wise, wry and perceptive work, this highly skilled and cunning craftsman tackles social, political, and literary topics with high intelligence and humor. Enright's poetry possesses the power for engaged commentary and is a welcome reminder that poetry finds its vitality, not in theories, but in the experiences of personal life and history. This selection of poems, made with advice from the author, will serve as the ideal introduction to the work of this distinguished and prolific poet, novelist, anthologist, and critic.

The Oxford Book of the Supernatural

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of the Supernatural written by Dennis Joseph Enright and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The supernatural has this in common with nature: you may drive it out with a pitchfork, but it will constantly come running back. At a time when science and technology are proving ambivalent in their effects and institutionalized religion is weakened by self-inflicted wounds, interest in its manifestations is insatiable. This sweeping anthology presents material in which, touchingly, eerily or bizarrely, the supernatural and the natural meet and ignite, illuminating our deepest anxieties, frailties, and hopes. While chiefly concerned with specific instances, it gives due weight to the views of philosophers and fanatics, of men of letters and the man in the street, and of lovers and lost souls. Mixing what is advanced as fact with what is offered as fiction, it takes in hauntings both malignant and benign, magic, vampires and other popular monsters, witches and fairies, the devil seeking whom he may devour, sex and the supernatural, dreams and coincidences, daemonic influences in art, comedies of the occult, near-death, experiences and after-death expectations. The closing section sums up the war between believers and disbelievers and touches on the processes of reading and of writing about the subject. Testimonies cited are ancient and modern, drawn from East and West, from Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist sources, and range from Homer to Hardy, Pliny to Primo Levi, Apuleius to A. S. Byatt, through Rabelais, Shakespeare, Johnson, Goethe, Dickens, George Eliot, Flaubert, Kipling, Yeats, Rebecca West, and many others, including some who, like Browning's medium, Mr Sludge, find a little cheating comparable to the china egg that prompts a hen to lay a real one. For fervent believers andsceptics alike, there can be no more magical compendium than this.

The Joke Shop

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Publisher : David McKay Company
ISBN 13 : 9780679203858
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Joke Shop written by Dennis Joseph Enright and published by David McKay Company. This book was released on 1976 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three children cross an invisible border into a frightening world where they are taken prisoner, only to later wonder whether they really want to be rescued.

The Way of the Cat

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ISBN 13 : 9780060169688
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Way of the Cat written by D. J. Enright and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the perfect cat book for Christmas: a great story by a gifted writer, with 96 four-color paintings. Possessed of myriad pearls of cat wisdom, the sage cat Kuching takes the young and inexperienced Sunshine under his paws and teaches him the ways of the cat.

Self-Portrait of the Other

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374526559
Total Pages : 258 pages
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Download or read book Self-Portrait of the Other written by Heberto Padilla and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1990 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of Cuba's finest poet, whose condemnation by the Castro regime became a cause celebre. "Intellectuals alienated from the Castro government who have told their stories tend to sound spiteful and illiberal, like Cabrera Infante; Padilla takes pains to do better. His style is clear, sometimes witty, often bitter, persevering but not burdensome, and evincing an occasional affinity with both Orwell and Hemingway." - Publishers Weekly

The World of Dew

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Publisher : London : Secker & Warburg
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
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Download or read book The World of Dew written by Dennis Joseph Enright and published by London : Secker & Warburg. This book was released on 1955 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged 6-Book Bundle

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Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0679645683
Total Pages : 4832 pages
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Download or read book The Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged 6-Book Bundle written by Marcel Proust and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 4832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in a convenient eBook bundle, this Modern Library edition provides the most authoritative, critically acclaimed translation of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece in six volumes, In Search of Lost Time, which includes Swann’s Way, Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Captive, The Fugitive, and Time Regained. Graham Greene considered Marcel Proust “the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.” Edmund Wilson proposed that he was “perhaps the last great historian of the loves.” And Virginia Woolf celebrated Proust for “his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity.” The prolific French master dazzled many of the most cherished authors of our time, and now his signature work comes alive in this practical and completely accessible eBook bundle. For these Modern Library volumes, D. J. Enright revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworkings of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s and Andreas Mayor’s translations to match the definitive French editions published in recent decades. Expertly and lovingly crafted to rival Marcel Proust’s original in elegance, precision, and emotional resonance, here is In Search of Lost Time as it was meant to be read.

On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674417968
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored written by Adam Phillips and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a style that is writerly and audacious, Adam Phillips takes up a variety of seemingly ordinary subjects underinvestigated by psychoanalysis--kissing, worrying, risk, solitude, composure, even farting as it relates to worrying. He argues that psychoanalysis began as a virtuoso improvisation within the science of medicine, but that virtuosity has given way to the dream of science that only the examined life is worth living. Phillips goes on to show how the drive to omniscience has been unfortunate both for psychoanalysis and for life. He reveals how much one's psychic health depends on establishing a realm of life that successfully resists examination.