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Author : Stephanie Kuehn
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250063841
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Delicate Monsters written by Stephanie Kuehn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three psychologically damaged teenagers uncover dark secrets and even darker truths about themselves.
Author : Stephanie Kuehn
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466868856
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Delicate Monsters written by Stephanie Kuehn and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When nearly killing a classmate gets seventeen-year-old Sadie Su kicked out of her third boarding school in four years, she returns to her family's California vineyard estate. Here, she's meant to stay out of trouble. Here, she's meant to do a lot of things. But it's hard. She's bored. And when Sadie's bored, the only thing she likes is trouble. Emerson Tate's a poor boy living in a rich town, with his widowed mother and strange, haunted little brother. All he wants his senior year is to play basketball and make something happen with the girl of his dreams. That's why Emerson's not happy Sadie's back. An old childhood friend, she knows his worst secrets. The things he longs to forget. The things she won't ever let him. Haunted is a good word for fifteen-year-old Miles Tate. Miles can see the future, after all. And he knows his vision of tragic violence at his school will come true, because his visions always do. That's what he tells the new girl in town. The one who listens to him. The one who recognizes the darkness in his past. But can Miles stop the violence? Or has the future already been written? Maybe tragedy is his destiny. Maybe it's all of theirs. Delicate Monsters is Stephanie Kuehn at her finest.
Author : Wes Williams
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019161789X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Monsters and their Meanings in Early Modern Culture written by Wes Williams and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To call something 'monstrueux' in the mid-sixteenth century is, more often than not, to wonder at its enormous size: it is to call to mind something like a whale. By the late seventeenth 'monstrueux' is more likely to denote hidden intentions, unspoken desires. Several shifts are at work in this word history, and in what Othello calls the 'mighty magic' of monsters; these shifts can be described in a number of ways. The clearest, and most compelling, is the translation or migration of the monstrous from natural history to moral philosophy, from descriptions of creatures found in the external world to the drama of human motivation, of sexual and political identity. This interdisciplinary study of monsters and their meanings advances by way of a series of close readings supported by the exploration of a wide range of texts and images, from many diverse fields, which all concern themselves with illicit coupling, unarranged marriages, generic hybridity, and the politics of monstrosity. Engaging with recent, influential accounts of monstrosity - from literary critical work (Huet, Greenblatt, Thomson Burnett, Hampton), to histories of science and 'bio-politics' (Wilson, Céard, Foucault, Daston and Park, Agamben) - it focusses on the ways in which monsters give particular force, colour, and shape to the imagination; the image at its centre is the triangulated picture of Andromeda, Perseus and the monster, approaching. The centre of the book's gravity is French culture, but it also explores Shakespeare, and Italian, German, and Latin culture, as well as the ways in which the monstrous tales and images of Antiquity were revived across the period, and survive into our own times.
Author : Michelle Knudsen
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536219355
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Marilyn's Monster written by Michelle Knudsen and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling author of Library Lion pairs with award-winning illustrator Matt Phelan to create a picture book gem with an unexpected twist. The best-selling author of Library Lion pairs with award-winning illustrator Matt Phelan to create a picture book gem with an unexpected twist. A lot of Marilyn’s friends have monsters. It’s the latest thing. Each one is just right for its boy or girl. Marilyn really wants a monster, too, but despite her efforts to be the kind of girl no monster could resist, hers just doesn’t come. What could be taking it so long? Everyone knows you just have to wait for your monster – but the spunky and determined Marilyn thinks there may just be other ways that things can work. Matt Phelan’s expressive artwork brings Michelle Knudsen’s appealing cast of children and monsters to life, creating a sweet, warm tale of friendship perfect for sharing.
Author : Lauren Groff
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1401396372
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Delicate Edible Birds written by Lauren Groff and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Lauren Groff, author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling novel Fates and Furies, comes Delicate Edible Birds, one of the most striking short fiction debuts in years. Here are nine stories of astonishing insight and variety, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a twentieth-century American woman. In "Sir Fleeting," a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy. In "Blythe," an attorney who has become a stay-at-home mother takes a night class in poetry and meets another full-time mother, one whose charismatic brilliance changes everything. In "The Wife of the Dictator," that eponymous wife ("brought back . . . from [the dictator's] last visit to America") grows more desperately, menacingly isolated every day. In "Delicate Edible Birds," a group of war correspondents-a lone, high-spirited woman among them-falls sudden prey to a brutal farmer while fleeing Nazis in the French countryside. In "Lucky Chow Fun," Groff returns us to Templeton, the setting of her first book, for revelations about the darkness within even that idyllic small town. In some of these stories, enormous changes happen in an instant. In others, transformations occur across a lifetime--or several lifetimes. Throughout the collection, Groff displays particular and vivid preoccupations. Crime is a motif--sex crimes, a possible murder, crimes of the heart. Love troubles recur; they're in every story--love in alcoholism, in adultery, in a flood, even in the great flu epidemic of 1918. Some of the love has depths, which are understood too late; some of the love is shallow, and also understood too late. And mastery is a theme--Groff's women swim and baton twirl, become poets, or try and try again to achieve the inner strength to exercise personal freedom. Overall, these stories announce a notable new literary master. Dazzlingly original and confident, Delicate Edible Birds further solidifies Groff's reputation as one of the foremost talents of her generation.
Author : Laura Forsberg
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300233817
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Worlds Beyond written by Laura Forsberg and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative study of how the Victorians used books, portraits, fairies, microscopes, and dollhouses to imagine miniature worlds beyond perception In 1856, Elizabeth Gaskell discovered a trove of handmade miniature books that were created by Charlotte and Branwell Brontë in their youth and that, as Gaskell later recalled, "contained an immense amount of manuscript, in an inconceivably small space." Far from being singular wonders, these two-inch volumes were part of a wide array of miniature marvels that filled the drawers and pockets of middle- and upper-class Victorians. Victorian miniatures pushed the boundaries of scientific knowledge, mechanical production, and human perception. To touch a miniature was to imagine what lay beyond these boundaries. In Worlds Beyond, Laura Forsberg reads major works of fiction by George Eliot, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Lewis Carroll alongside minor genres like the doll narrative, fairy science tract, and thumb Bible. Forsberg guides readers through microscopic science, art history, children's culture, and book production to show how Victorian miniatures offered scripts for expansive fantasies of worlds beyond perception.
Author : Carlo Pagetti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788832360738
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Delicate Monsters. Literary Creatures of Wonder written by Carlo Pagetti and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kerby Rosanes
Publisher : LOM Art
ISBN 13 : 9781912785254
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)
Download or read book Fragile World written by Kerby Rosanes and published by LOM Art. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 50 endangered and vulnerable creatures and landscapes to colour, this book will raise awareness of our fragile world and inspire conservation.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Cabinet of Instruction,literature,and Amusement written by and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lauren Groff
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1401395597
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Monsters of Templeton written by Lauren Groff and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story. In the wake of a disastrous love affair with her older, married archaeology professor at Stanford, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep of her hippie mother-turned-born-again-Christian's house in Templeton, NY, a storybook town her ancestors founded that sits on the shores of Lake Glimmerglass. Upon her arrival, a prehistoric monster surfaces in the lake bringing a feeding frenzy to the quiet town, and Willie learns she has a mystery father her mother kept secret Willie's entire life. The beautiful, broody Willie is told that the key to her biological father's identity lies somewhere in her family's history, so she buries herself in the research of her twisted family tree and finds more than she bargained for as a chorus of voices from the town's past -- some sinister, all fascinating -- rise up around her to tell their side of the story. In the end, dark secrets come to light, past and present day are blurred, and old mysteries are finally put to rest. The Monsters of Templeton is a fresh, virtuoso performance that has placed Lauren Groff among the best writers of today.
Author : Daniel Tiffany
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226803112
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Infidel Poetics written by Daniel Tiffany and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry has long been regarded as the least accessible of literary genres. But how much does the obscurity that confounds readers of a poem differ from, say, the slang that seduces listeners of hip-hop? Infidel Poetics examines not only the shared incomprensibilities of poetry and slang, but poetry's genetic relation to the spectacle of underground culture. Charting connections between vernacular poetry, lyric obscurity, and types of social relations—networks of darkened streets in preindustrial cities, the historical underworld of taverns and clubs, the subcultures of the avant-garde—Daniel Tiffany shows that obscurity in poetry has functioned for hundreds of years as a medium of alternative societies. For example, he discovers in the submerged tradition of canting poetry and its eccentric genres—thieves’ carols, drinking songs, beggars’ chants—a genealogy of modern nightlife, but also a visible underworld of social and verbal substance, a demimonde for sale. Ranging from Anglo-Saxon riddles to Emily Dickinson, from the icy logos of Parmenides to the monadology of Leibniz, from Mother Goose to Mallarmé, Infidel Poetics offers an exhilarating account of the subversive power of obscurity in word, substance, and deed.
Author : Mary Margaret Keymer Heaton
Publisher : London : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci and His Works, Consisting of a Life of Leonardo Da Vinci written by Mary Margaret Keymer Heaton and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1874 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mrs. Charles Heaton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci and His Works written by Mrs. Charles Heaton and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Complete Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Renata Summo-O'Connell
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783034300087
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Imagined Australia written by Renata Summo-O'Connell and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Terra Nullius to Land of Opportunities and Last Frontier, the European dream has constructed and deconstructed Australia to feed its imagination of new societies. At the same time Australia has over the last two centuries forged and re-invented its own liaisons with Europe arguably to carve out its identity. From the arts to social sciences, to society itself, a complex dynamic has grown between the two continents in ways that invite study and discussion. A transnational research group has begun its collective investigation project of which this first volume is the outcome. The book is a substantial multidisciplinary collection of current research and offers critical perspectives on culture, literature and history around themes at the heart of the Imagined Australia project. The essays instigate reflection, discovery and discussion of how reciprocal imagining between Australia and Europe has articulated itself and ways and dimensions in which a relationship between communities, imagined and not, has unfolded.
Author : Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The Poetical Works written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
