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In the Country of the Blind

Author : Edward Hoagland
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628727225
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book In the Country of the Blind written by Edward Hoagland and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE Sixty years after the publication of his first novel, Cat Man, Edward Hogland is publishing his twenty-fifth book at the age of eighty-three. This capstone novel, set in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, introduces Press, a stockbroker going blind. Press has lost his job and his wife and is trying to figure out his next move, holed up in his Vermont cabin surrounded by a hippy commune, drug runners, farmers-gone-bust, blood-thirsty auctioneers, and general ne’er-do-wells. Solace and purpose come from the unlikeliest sources as he learns to navigate his new landscape without sight. Hoagland, himself, is going blind, and through this evocative, unsentimental novel, we experience the world closing in around Press, the rising panic of uncertainty, the isolation of exile, the increasing dependence upon the kindness of strangers, and a whole new appreciation of the world just beyond sight. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

In the Country of the Blind

Author : Michael Flynn
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781429983297
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book In the Country of the Blind written by Michael Flynn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, a small group of American idealists managed to actually build Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine and use it to develop Cliology, mathematical models that could chart the likely course of the future. Soon they were working to alter history's course as they thought best. By our own time, the Society has become the secret master of the world. But no secret can be kept forever, at least not without drastic measures. When her plans for some historic real estate lead developer and ex-reporter Sarah Beaumont to stumble across the Society's existence, it's just the first step into a baffling and deadly maze of conspiracies. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Country of the Blind

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781726270304
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Country of the Blind written by H. G. Wells and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Country of the Blind by H. G. Wells While attempting to summit the unconquered crest of Parascotopetl, a fictitious mountain in Ecuador, a mountaineer named Nunez slips and falls down the far side of the mountain. At the end of his descent, down a snow-slope in the mountain's shadow, he finds a valley, cut off from the rest of the world on all sides by steep precipices. Unbeknown to Nunez, he has discovered the fabled Country of the Blind

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1877527378
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (775 download)

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Download or read book The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories written by H. G. Wells and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Country of the Blind and Other Stories brings together thirty-three of H. G. Wells' science fiction and fantasy short stories which were previously published separately in a variety of periodicals. The title refers to one of Wells' most popular short stories, included in this book.

There Plant Eyes

Author : M. Leona Godin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 198489840X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book There Plant Eyes written by M. Leona Godin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Homer to Helen Keller, from Dune to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation, M. Leona Godin explores the fascinating history of blindness, interweaving it with her own story of gradually losing her sight. “[A] thought-provoking mixture of criticism, memoir, and advocacy." —The New Yorker There Plant Eyes probes the ways in which blindness has shaped our ocularcentric culture, challenging deeply ingrained ideas about what it means to be “blind.” For millennia, blindness has been used to signify such things as thoughtlessness (“blind faith”), irrationality (“blind rage”), and unconsciousness (“blind evolution”). But at the same time, blind people have been othered as the recipients of special powers as compensation for lost sight (from the poetic gifts of John Milton to the heightened senses of the comic book hero Daredevil). Godin—who began losing her vision at age ten—illuminates the often-surprising history of both the condition of blindness and the myths and ideas that have grown up around it over the course of generations. She combines an analysis of blindness in art and culture (from King Lear to Star Wars) with a study of the science of blindness and key developments in accessibility (the white cane, embossed printing, digital technology) to paint a vivid personal and cultural history. A genre-defying work, There Plant Eyes reveals just how essential blindness and vision are to humanity’s understanding of itself and the world.

The Blind Man's Garden

Author : Nadeem Aslam
Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 8184003919
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Blind Man's Garden written by Nadeem Aslam and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Love is not consolation, it is light’ From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers and The Wasted Vigil comes a novel set in the months after 9/11, when Western armies invaded Afghanistan—a story of love, hope and grief, of uncorrupted faith and of what it means to be alive. Jeo and his foster-brother Mikal leave their home in Pakistan to help care for wounded Afghans. Within hours of entering the wide-horizoned Afghan landscape, Mikal and Jeo are separated and, emerging from the carnage, Mikal begins his search for Jeo. But his deepest wish is to return home—to the young woman he loves and who loves him, Jeo’s wife. The Blind Man’s Garden maps a place both phantasmally beautiful and chilling. Taking us on a journey from Al Qaeda’s hideouts in Waziristan and American-built military prisons to a family left behind—Mikal’s and Jeo’s blind, regretful father, Jeo’s resolute wife and her superstitious mother—it unflinchingly examines war and brotherhood, devastation, separation and remorse, while celebrating the redemptive power of nature, art and literature.

In the Country of the Blind

Author : Matthew Arkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989797818
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book In the Country of the Blind written by Matthew Arkin and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A dead body is a lousy way to end a first date."So begins In the Country of the Blind, a modern noir tale that takes readers into the world of former attorney turned building superintendent Zach Brandis. When Zach abandoned his legal career, he confused everyone, including himself. Now, with no apparent purpose in life, he has enough time to get into some very hot water.The night Zach takes Cynthia Hull to dinner, murder and a confrontation with the cops are the last things on his mind. But walking her home, he finds himself face to face with New York's finest, investigating the suspicious death of the actress's roommate and friend, Alex Penworth. Maybe it's because Cynthia is beautiful and vulnerable, or maybe it's just that the cops rub him the wrong way, but Zach steps in to shield her from their persistent questions. Over the next few days, Zach finds himself increasingly tied up in knots over the case, and what starts as simple curiosity may end up putting him in grave danger. Captivated, Zach begins to look into Alex's mysterious activities in the weeks before his death. When Cynthia's apartment is ransacked, it becomes clear that Alex was hiding something, something of value to someone. As Zach plays with the puzzle pieces, more questions begin to emerge: Why was Alex fired from his job at a trendy bar? Why is a beautiful undercover narc hanging around it and trying to keep Zach away? Why don't the cops seem interested in the inconsistencies in Alex's autopsy? As Zach puts the pieces in place, a picture of Alex begins to emerge: another lost soul, plagued by his past and the demons of a cult he managed to escape--a man who, like Zach, abandoned a promising career to struggle in a dead-end job. Driven as he is by a feeling of kinship with the victim, can Zach discover what ultimately led to Alex's death and still get himself out of harm's way before it's too late?

The Blind Assassin

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Emblem Editions
ISBN 13 : 1551994941
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book The Blind Assassin written by Margaret Atwood and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.” These words are spoken by Iris Chase Griffen, married at eighteen to a wealthy industrialist but now poor and eighty-two. Iris recalls her far from exemplary life, and the events leading up to her sister’s death, gradually revealing the carefully guarded Chase family secrets. Among these is “The Blind Assassin,” a novel that earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following. Sexually explicit for its time, it was a pulp fantasy improvised by two unnamed lovers who meet secretly in rented rooms and seedy cafés. As this novel-within-a-novel twists and turns through love and jealousy, self-sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real narrative, as both move closer to war and catastrophe. Margaret Atwood’s Booker Prize-winning sensation combines elements of gothic drama, romantic suspense, and science fiction fantasy in a spellbinding tale.

In the Forest of the Blind

Author : Matthew W. King
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231555148
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book In the Forest of the Blind written by Matthew W. King and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Record of Buddhist Kingdoms is a classic travelogue that records the Chinese monk Faxian’s journey in the early fifth century CE to Buddhist sites in Central and South Asia in search of sacred texts. In the nineteenth century, it traveled west to France, becoming in translation the first scholarly book about “Buddhist Asia,” a recent invention of Europe. This text fascinated European academic Orientalists and was avidly studied by Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. The book went on to make a return journey east: it was reintroduced to Inner Asia in an 1850s translation into Mongolian, after which it was rendered into Tibetan in 1917. Amid decades of upheaval, the text was read and reinterpreted by Siberian, Mongolian, and Tibetan scholars and Buddhist monks. Matthew W. King offers a groundbreaking account of the transnational literary, social, and political history of the circulation, translation, and interpretation of Faxian’s Record. He reads its many journeys at multiple levels, contrasting the textual and interpretative traditions of the European academy and the Inner Asian monastery. King shows how the text provided Inner Asian readers with new historical resources to make sense of their histories as well as their own times, in the process developing an Asian historiography independently of Western influence. Reconstructing this circulatory history and featuring annotated translations, In the Forest of the Blind models decolonizing methods and approaches for Buddhist studies and Asian humanities.

Country Of The Blind

Author : Christopher Brookmyre
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748132023
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Country Of The Blind written by Christopher Brookmyre and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in the Jack Parlabane series, from author Christopher Brookmyre. The murder of a media moghul in his country mansion appears to be the result of him disturbing a gang of would-be thieves. The robbers are swiftly caught, but when they are unexpectedly moved to a different prison they escape. Back in Edinburgh, a young solicitor reveals to the press that one of the subjects had left a letter with her some time before the break-in which proves his innocence. Jack Parlabane, journo-extraordinaire, is intrigued, but when he approaches the lawyer he discovers someone else is trying to get near her - someone with evil intent, political connections of the highest order and a corrupt agenda. Fast-moving, blackly humorous and intriguingly credible.

Paradise of the Blind

Author : Thu Huong Duong
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060505591
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Paradise of the Blind written by Thu Huong Duong and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2002-08-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradise of the Blind is an exquisite portrait of three Vietnamese women struggling to survive in a society where subservience to men is expected and Communist corruption crushes every dream. Through the eyes of Hang, a young woman in her twenties who has grown up amidst the slums and intermittent beauty of Hanoi, we come to know the tragedy of her family as land reform rips apart their village. When her uncle Chinh‘s political loyalties replace family devotion, Hang is torn between her mother‘s appalling self–sacrifice and the bitterness of her aunt who can avenge but not forgive. Only by freeing herself from the past will Hang be able to find dignity –– and a future.

The Country of the Blind

Author : Andrew Leland
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984881434
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Country of the Blind written by Andrew Leland and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE Named one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORKER • THE WASHINGTON POST • THE ATLANTIC • NPR • PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • LITHUB "Fascinating...The great strength of this memoir is its voracious, humble curiosity." - The Atlantic, The 10 Best Books of the Year A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn about blindness as a rich culture all its own. We meet Andrew Leland as he’s suspended in the liminal state of the soon-to-be blind: he’s midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that ushers those who live with it from sightedness to blindness over years, even decades. He grew up with full vision, but starting in his teenage years, his sight began to degrade from the outside in. Soon— but without knowing exactly when—he will likely have no vision left. Full of apprehension but also dogged curiosity, Leland embarks on a sweeping exploration of the state of being that awaits him: not only the physical experience of blindness but also its language, politics, and customs. He negotiates his changing relationships with his wife and son, and with his own sense of self, as he moves from his mainstream, “typical” life to one with a disability. Part memoir, part historical and cultural investigation, The Country of the Blind represents Leland’s determination not to merely survive this transition but to grow from it—to seek out and revel in that which makes blindness enlightening. Brimming with warmth and humor, it is an exhilarating tour of a new way of being.

The Country of the Blind (Annotated)

Author : H G Wells
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (784 download)

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Download or read book The Country of the Blind (Annotated) written by H G Wells and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Country of the Blind" is a short story written H. G. Wells. It was first published in the April 1904 issue of The Strand Magazine and included in a 1911 collection of Wells's short stories, The Country of the Blind and Other Stories.

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473345235
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories written by H. G. Wells and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains 33 short stories written by H. G. Wells. The stories were specially chosen by Wells as those that he most wanted to reflect his legacy in short story form. The collection includes the title story - his most well-known - and other masterpieces including the chilling revenge story "The Cone" and "The New Accelerator", a masterful example of his early comedic style. Contents include: "The Jilting Of Jane", "The Cone", "The Stolen Bacillus", "The Flowering Of The Strange Orchid", "The Avu Observatory", "Aepyornis Island", "The Remarkable Case Of Davidson's Eyes", "The Lord Of The Dynamos", "The Moth", "The Treasure In The Forest", "The Story Of The Late Mr. Elvesham", et cetera. Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was a prolific English writer who wrote in a variety of genres, including the novel, politics, history, and social commentary. Today, he is perhaps best remembered for his contributions to the science fiction genre thanks to such novels as "The Time Machine" (1895), "The Invisible Man" (1897), and "The War of the Worlds" (1898). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

The Country of the Blind

Author : Herbert George Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book The Country of the Blind written by Herbert George Wells and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Country of the Blind" is a short story written by H. G. Wells. It was first published in the April 1904 issue of the Strand Magazine and included in a 1911 collection of Wells's short stories, The Country of the Blind and Other Stories. It is one of Wells's best known short stories and features prominently in literature dealing with blindness.

The Country of the Blind

Author : H Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781517371067
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Country of the Blind written by H Wells and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Country of the Blind" is a short story written by H. G. Wells. It was first published in the April 1904 issue of The Strand Magazine and included in a 1911 collection of Wells's short stories, The Country of the Blind and Other Stories. It is one of Wells's best known short stories, and features prominently in literature dealing with blindness.

The Country of the Blind

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Eris
ISBN 13 : 9781912475810
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book The Country of the Blind written by H. G. Wells and published by Eris. This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over the mountains I come," said Nunez, "out of the country beyond there--where men can see. From near Bogota, where there are a hundred thousands of people, and where the city passes out of sight." One of the acknowledged masters of speculative fiction, H.G. Wells conducts in this short story a disconcerting thought experiment. What would become of a community if its members were somehow deprived of sight? How would society evolve in the absence of the very concept of visibility? And what if, one day, a sighted outsider suddenly found himself in this country of the blind? Eris Gems make available in the form of beautifully produced saddle-stitched booklets a series of outstanding short works of fiction and non-fiction.