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Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1716005442
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Limbo and Other Essays (Esprios Classics) written by Vernon Lee and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 1897 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Limbo, and Other Essays; To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua written by Vernon Lee and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is no excuse for the optimistic extermination of distinguished men. It is indeed most difficult to kill genius, but there are a hundred ways of killing its possessors; and with them as much of their work as they have left undone. What pictures might Giorgione not have painted but for the lady, the rival, or the plague, whichever it was that killed him! Mozart could assuredly have given us a half-dozen more Don Giovannis if he had had fewer lessons, fewer worries, better food; nay, by his miserable death the world has lost, methinks, more even than that—a commanding influence which would have kept music, for a score of years, earnest and masterly but joyful: Rossini would not have run to seed, and Beethoven's ninth symphony might have been a genuine "Hymn to Joy" if only Mozart, the Apollo of musicians, had, for a few years more, flooded men's souls with radiance. A similar thing is said of Rafael; but his followers were mediocre, and he himself lacked personality, so that many a better example might be brought.
Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434403386
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Jaunting on the Scoriac Tempests and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature written by Brian Stableford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new collection of essays, well-known critic Brian Stableford presents twelve pieces on science-fiction and fantasy writers M. P. Shiel, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Humphry Davy, Robert Hunt, Vernon Lee, J. G. Ballard, James Morrow, Dean Koontz, and Terry Pratchett. Complete with detailed index.
Author : Wayne Koestenbaum
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374533776
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)
Download or read book My 1980s and Other Essays written by Wayne Koestenbaum and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new book of essays by the cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum, author of The Queen's Throat and Jackie Under My Skin"--
Author : Roy Reed
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610755022
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Beware of Limbo Dancers written by Roy Reed and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This witty, wide-ranging memoir from Roy Reed--a native Arkansan who became a reporter for the New York Times--begins with tales of the writer's formative years growing up in Arkansas and the start of his career at the legendary Arkansas Gazette. Reed joined the New York Times in 1965 and was quickly thrust into the chaos of the Selma, Alabama, protest movement and the historical interracial march to Montgomery. His story then moves from days of racial violence to the political combat of Washington. Reed covered the Johnson White House and the early days of the Nixon administration as it wrestled with the competing demands of black voters and southern resistance to a new world. The memoir concludes with engaging postings from New Orleans and London and other travels of a reporter always on the lookout for new people, old ways, good company, and fresh outrages.
Author : Nina Sichel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443834084
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Writing Out of Limbo written by Nina Sichel and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing borders and boundaries, countries and cultures, they are the children of the military, diplomatic corps, international business, education and missions communities. They are called Third Culture Kids or Global Nomads, and the many benefits of their lifestyle – expanded worldview, multiplicity of languages, tolerance for difference – are often mitigated by recurring losses – of relationships, of stability, of permanent roots. They are part of an accelerating demographic that is only recently coming into visibility. In this groundbreaking collection, writers from around the world address issues of language acquisition and identity formation, childhood mobility and adaptation, memory and grief, and the artist’s struggle to articulate the experience of growing up global. And, woven like a thread through the entire collection, runs the individual’s search for belonging and a place called “home.” This book provides a major leap in understanding what it’s like to grow up among worlds. It is invaluable reading for the new global age.
Author : Consuelo Roland
Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 1431405086
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Lady Limbo written by Consuelo Roland and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2012 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Friday evening Daniel de Luc, an elusive crime writer with a deep love of poetry, disappears from a Camps Bay apartment while cooking pasta. His wife Paola, desperately worried after days of hearing nothing, is contacted by an eccentric stranger who claims to have known her missing husband under a different name and warns her not to look for him. Paola soon learns that her husband was involved in the shadowy world of the international sex industry, where well-heeled women pay men to become the anonymous fathers of their children. As her neat, controlled existence is turned inside out, Paola struggles to keep a level head and find her own humanity while trying to outwit her enemies and stay alive. The result is a fast-paced thriller that shifts between Cape Town and Paris, blending realism with the fantastic and pitting love against the attraction of sexual adventure.
Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays written by Ilan Stavans and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing collection of more than 70 Latin American essays, some never before translated into English, gives us the whole spectrum of concerns that have animated some of the greatest writers of our time--from Andres Bello, Pablo Neruda, and Alfonso Reyes to Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Rosario Ferre--an assembly confident, ingenious, aware.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The United States Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Lubrano
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118039726
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Limbo written by Alfred Lubrano and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Limbo, award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano identifies and describes an overlooked cultural phenomenon: the internal conflict within individuals raised in blue-collar homes, now living white-collar lives. These people often find that the values of the working class are not sufficient guidance to navigate the white-collar world, where unspoken rules reflect primarily upper-class values. Torn between the world they were raised in and the life they aspire too, they hover between worlds, not quite accepted in either. Himself the son of a Brooklyn bricklayer, Lubrano informs his account with personal experience and interviews with other professionals living in limbo. For millions of Americans, these stories will serve as familiar reminders of the struggles of achieving the American Dream.
Author : Dan Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910695807
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Limbo written by Dan Fox and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An irreverent and erudite essay on being stuck and its opposites, from the author of Pretentiousness: Why it Matters.
Author : Sophie Geoffroy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003830021
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, 1856–1935 written by Sophie Geoffroy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-21 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget – a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction, her support of the Aesthetic Movement and her radical polemics. She was an active correspondent who included many well-known figures among her circle. This scholarly edition of her letters makes a selection from more than 30 archives worldwide.
Author : Wayne Koestenbaum
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374709769
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book My 1980s & Other Essays written by Wayne Koestenbaum and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wayne Koestenbaum returns with a zesty and hyper-literate collection of personal and critical essays on the 1980s, including essays on major cultural figures such as Andy Warhol and Brigitte Bardot. Wayne Koestenbaum has been described as "an impossible lovechild from a late-night, drunken three-way between Joan Didion, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag" (Bidoun). In My 1980s and Other Essays, a collection of extravagant range and style, he rises to the challenge of that improbable description. My 1980s and Other Essays opens with a series of manifestos—or, perhaps more appropriately, a series of impassioned disclosures, intellectual and personal. It then proceeds to wrestle with a series of major cultural figures, the author's own lodestars and lodestones: literary (John Ashbery, Roberto Bolaño, James Schuyler), artistic (Diane Arbus, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol), and simply iconic (Brigitte Bardot, Cary Grant, Lana Turner). And then there is the personal—the voice, the style, the flair—that is unquestionably Koestenbaum. It amounts to a kind of intellectual autobiography that culminates in a string of passionate calls to creativity; arguments in favor of detail and nuance, and attention; a defense of pleasure, hunger, and desire in culture and experience. Koestenbaum is perched on the cusp of being a true public intellectual—his venues are more mainstream than academic, his style is eye-catching, his prose unfailingly witty and passionate, his interests profoundly wide-ranging and popular. My 1980s should be the book that pushes Koestenbaum off that cusp and truly into the public eye.
Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551115788
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales written by Vernon Lee and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernon Lee writes in the Preface to Hauntings, “My ghosts are what you call spurious ghosts... of whom I can affirm only one thing, that they haunted certain brains, and have haunted, among others, my own.” First published in 1890, Lee’s most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. This collection, which includes the four stories originally published in Hauntings and three others, enables readers to consider Lee’s work anew for its subtle redefinitions of gender and sexuality during the Victorian fin-de-siècle. The appendices, which include extensive excerpts from writings by Lee’s predecessors and peers, including Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, and Lee’s brother Eugene Lee-Hamilton, allow the reader to see how Lee takes on the themes and preoccupations of the late-Victorian period but adapts them to her own purposes.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dominick Dunne
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307815013
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Mansions of Limbo written by Dominick Dunne and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2012-02-22 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Dominick Dunne, who chronicles the escapades, excesses, and eccentricities of high society for Vanity Fair, offers fifteen provocative portraits of some of the most luminous figures of the decade . . . profiles of the movie legend who remains the only divorced wife of a U.S. president; the pretty singing star who fell in love with a notorious mobster; the brilliant photographer who took Dunne's picture weeks before succumbing to AIDS . . . sketches that detail the lavish wedding-that-never-was between an heiress and a counterfeit prince; the incarceration of a high-flying financier; and the brutal slaying of a film mogul and his sife, allegedly by their own two sons. Filled with pathos and wit and the twenty-four-carat insight of a society insider, The Mansions of Limbo offers a peek into a rarified world there nothing is ever enough.
Author : Christa Zorn
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821414976
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Vernon Lee written by Christa Zorn and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startlingly original study, Vernon Lee adds new dimensions to the legacy of this woman of letters whose career spans the transition from the late Victorian to the modernist period. Christa Zorn draws on archival materials to discuss Lee's work in terms of British aestheticism and in the context of the Western European history of ideas.
