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Giles Goat-Boy

Author : John Barth
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0804152497
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Giles Goat-Boy written by John Barth and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of National Book Award-nominated Lost in the Funhouse, comes an outrageously farcical adventure that challenges our notions of technology, power, and human nature. "[Barth] ran riot over literary rules and conventions, even as he displayed, with meticulous discipline, mastery of and respect for them." —The New York Times Giles Goat-Boy tells the story of a human boy raised as a goat who comes to believe that he is humanity's prophesied messiah. In an absurdist universe that takes the form of a unversity--divided into an authoritarian East Campus and a more open West Campus--young George Giles rises to assume the title of Grand Tutor, the spiritual leader of the world and heroic defender of his people against the threat of a tyrannical computer system. Hailed as a "fantasy of theology, sociology, and sex" (Time magazine), Giles Goat-Boy has long been one of John Barth's most popular and multi-layered narratives.

John Barth's Giles Goat-boy

Author : Douglas Robinson
Publisher : University of Jyvaskyla
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Barth's Giles Goat-boy written by Douglas Robinson and published by University of Jyvaskyla. This book was released on 1980 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Giles Goat-Boy Or, the Revised New Syllabus

Author : John Barth
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 : 9780385073646
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Giles Goat-Boy Or, the Revised New Syllabus written by John Barth and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Giles Goat-boy

Author : John Barth
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y : Doubleday
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giles Goat-boy written by John Barth and published by Garden City, N.Y : Doubleday. This book was released on 1966 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George, also known as Billy Bockfuss and as Giles, was raised as a goat rather than as a boy by a brilliant atomic physicist whose guilt about the bomb has driven him to the country. George sets out to become the messianic Grand Tutor of a university and to conquer the terrible Wescac computer system that threatens to destroy his community in this brilliant 'fantasy of theology, sociology, and sex.'

Giles Goat-Boy

Author : John Barth
Publisher : Fawcett Books
ISBN 13 : 9780449235249
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Giles Goat-Boy written by John Barth and published by Fawcett Books. This book was released on 1978-04-01 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Giles encounters new people and ideas as he ascends from a goat farm to the position of Grand Tutor of the human university

Letters

Author : John Barth
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Letters written by John Barth and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1979 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark of postmodern American fiction, Letters is (as the subtitle genially informs us) "an old time epistolary novel by seven fictitious drolls and dreamers each of which imagines himself factual". Seven characters (including the Author himself) exchange a novel's worth of letters during a 7-month period in 1969, a time of revolution that recalls the U.S.'s first revolution in the 18th century - the heyday of the epistolary novel. Recapitulating American history as well as the plots of his first six novels, Barth's seventh novel is a witty and profound exploration of the nature of revolution and renewal, rebellion and reenactment, at both the private and public levels. It is also an ingenious meditation on the genre of the novel itself, recycling an older form to explore new directions, new possibilities for the novel.

The Sot-Weed Factor

Author : John Barth
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628972009
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book The Sot-Weed Factor written by John Barth and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting...to roam the world since Candide." "A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this satire of the 18th-century picaresque novel-think Fielding's Tom Jones or Sterne's Tristram Shandy -is also an earnest picture of the pitfalls awaiting innocence as it makes its unsteady way in the world. It's the late 17th century and Ebenezer Cooke is a poet, dutiful son and determined virgin who travels from England to Maryland to take possession of his father's tobacco (or "sot weed") plantation. He is also eventually given to believe that he has been commissioned by the third Lord Baltimore to write an epic poem, The Marylandiad. But things are not always what they seem. Actually, things are almost never what they seem. Not since Candide has a steadfast soul witnessed so many strange scenes or faced so many perils. Pirates, Indians, shrewd prostitutes, armed insurrectionists - Cooke endures them all, plus assaults on his virginity from both women and men. Barth's language is impossibly rich, a wickedly funny take on old English rhetoric and American self-appraisals. For good measure he throws in stories within stories, including the funniest retelling of the Pocahontas tale -revealed to us in the "secret" journals of Capt. John Smith - that anyone has ever dared to tell." —Time Magazine

GILES GOAT-BOY

Author : JOHN BARTH
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book GILES GOAT-BOY written by JOHN BARTH and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

John Barth's Giles Goat-boy

Author : Jeffrey Helterman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671009243
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book John Barth's Giles Goat-boy written by Jeffrey Helterman and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dead Silence

Author : Randy Wayne White
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780399155406
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book Dead Silence written by Randy Wayne White and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his U.S. senator girlfriend is kidnapped during an assassination attempt outside the Explorers Club in New York City, Doc Ford sets out on a rescue mission in the Florida Keys with his friend Tomlinson; an effort that is further complicated by the kidnapper's claims that the senator has been buried alive.

John Barth

Author : David Morrell
Publisher : David Morrell
ISBN 13 : 1937760286
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book John Barth written by David Morrell and published by David Morrell. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, while David Morrell was writing First Blood, the novel in which Rambo was created, he also wrote his doctoral dissertation about acclaimed author, John Barth. In it, Morrell analyses Barth’s early fiction, using interviews with Barth, his agent, and his editors as well as several of Barth’s unpublished essays and letters to tell what Morrell calls “the story behind the stories, a biography of Barth’s fiction.” Over the years, scholars have found John Barth: An Introduction invaluable for its lengthy biographical sections, which Barth himself approved. Fans of Morrell’s fiction will find this book enlightening in terms of what Barth taught him about writing. CRITICAL REACTION “David Morrell’s not just a fine writer; he’s also a great and generous teacher.” —New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Block “Morrell has written an interesting and informative book which reads occasionally like a biography. His prose is eminently clear and straightforward. His book has something for everyone. There is no doubt that it will become a necessity for serious students of Barth, and that, coincidentally, it is a genuinely interesting book.” —Journal of Modern Literature “Morrell’s study tells the story of Barth’s storytelling, how he got his ideas, and then how the publishers and reviewers dealt with them. He includes detailed biographical information [and] writes with great economy and clarity.” —Modern Fiction Studies “Morrell gives the reader the benefit of his familiarity with Barth and his manuscripts to plot the career of each work, from plans and, in some cases, research through revision, publisher-agent reactions, sales, and post-publication revisions. The whole enterprise is carried off with appealing confidence and informality that add up to an eminently readable book.” —World Literature Today

Chimera

Author : John Barth
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618131709
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book Chimera written by John Barth and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In CHIMERAJohn Barth injects his signature wit into the tales of Scheherezade of the Thousand and One Nights, Perseus, the slayer of Medusa, and Bellerophon, who tamed the winged horse Pegasus. In a book that the Washington Post called "stylishly maned, tragically songful, and serpentinely elegant,” Barth retells these tales from varying perspectives, examining the myths’ relationship to reality and their resonance with the contemporary world. A winner of the National Book Award, this feisty, witty, sometimes bawdy book provoked Playboy to comment, "There’s every chance in the world that John Barth is a genius.”

The Sot-weed Factor, Or, A Voyage to Maryland

Author : Ebenezer Cooke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sot-weed Factor, Or, A Voyage to Maryland written by Ebenezer Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1708 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Floating Opera

Author : John Barth
Publisher : American Literature
ISBN 13 : 9781564789181
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book The Floating Opera written by John Barth and published by American Literature. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written when John Barth was 24 years old, The Floating Opera is his first novel, published in 1957. It is a first-person reminiscence of the day Todd Andrews decided to commit suicide. Having picked up some sense of the French Existentialist writers from the postwar Zeitgeist, this novel questions life's value through the eyes of a 37-year-old man.

Every Third Thought

Author : John Barth
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619020122
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Every Third Thought written by John Barth and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Barth stays true to form in Every Third Thought, written from the perspective of a character Barth introduced in his short story collection The Development. George I. Newett and his wife Amanda Todd lived in the gated community of Heron Bay Estates until its destruction by a fluke tornado. This event, Newett notes, occurred on the 77th anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash, a detail that would appear insignificant if it were not for several subsequent events. The stress of the tornado's devastation prompts the Newett–Todds to depart on a European vacation, during which George suffers a fall on none other than his 77th birthday, the first day of autumn (or more cryptically, fall). Following this coincidence, George experiences the first of what is to become five serial visions, each appearing to him on the first day of the ensuing seasons, and each corresponding to a pivotal event in that season of his life. As the novel unfolds, so do these uncanny coincidences, and it is clear that, as ever, Barth possesses an unmatched talent in balancing his characteristic style and wit with vivid, page–turning storytelling.

Coming Soon!!!

Author : John Barth
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618257300
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book Coming Soon!!! written by John Barth and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this novelistic romp that is by turns hilarious and brilliant, John Barth spoofs his own place in the pantheon of contemporary fiction and the generation of writers who have followed his literary trailblazing. Coming Soon!!! is the tale of two writers: an older, retiring novelist setting out to write his last work and a young, aspiring writer of hypertext intent on toppling his master. In the heat of their rivalry, the writers navigate, and sometimes stumble over, the cultural fault lines between print and electronic fiction, mentor and mentee, postmodernism and modernism.

The Book of Ten Nights and a Night

Author : John Barth
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618562084
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Ten Nights and a Night written by John Barth and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Ten Nights and a Night offers both a keen introduction to the genius of John Barth and a deeply human argument for the enduring value of literature. Gathering stories written throughout this postmodern master's long career, the collection spans his entire range of styles, from straightforward narrative to experimental metafiction. In the time immediately following September 11, 2001, the veteran writer Graybard spends eleven nights with a nubile muse named WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). The two lovers debate the meaning and relevance of writing and storytelling in the wake of disaster, telling a new tale each night in the tradition of Scheherazade. The Book of Ten Nights and a Night exhibits the thrilling blend of playfulness and illuminating insight that have marked Barth as one of America's most distinguished writers.