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Author : Jan Morris
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780679731313
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (313 download)
Download or read book Pleasures of a Tangled Life written by Jan Morris and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990-11-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anglo-Welsh author's memoirs reveal her idiosyncrasies, passions, and obsessions
Author : Jan Morris
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pleasures of a Tangled Life written by Jan Morris and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1989 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepack contains two copies of the Western epic "Son of the Morning Star", along with one free VHS copy of "The Making of Son of the Morning Star". Color, rated PG-13, closed cap., Stereo, 85 minutes.
Author : Jan Morris
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pleasures of a Tangled Life written by Jan Morris and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1989 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting, worldly memoir by the renowned historian and travel writer, written in the form of anecdotes about the tangled life she has led.
Author : Gillian Fenwick
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570037474
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Traveling Genius written by Gillian Fenwick and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Traveling Genius surveys the half century of work by British writer Jan Morris, including more than fifty books and thousands of essays and reviews, from 1950s America via Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Sydney, and Hong Kong to her home in Wales. Internationally known as a travel writer, she has also distinguished herself across many other genres by writing history, autobiographies and biographies, and literary fiction and essays." "Existing accounts of Morris's work are largely confined to reviews and magazine essays, and often concentrate on James Morris's sex change and transformation into Jan Morris. This is of course significant to the writing, and some critics detect a change of tone and style afterward, but a detailed analysis of how her writing works has not yet been undertaken. In Traveling Genius, Gillian Fenwick fills that gap in the scholarship with the first study to explore the depths of Morris's complete body of work, utilizing close readings and archival research."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Sir John Lubbock
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Pleasures of Life written by Sir John Lubbock and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Pleasures of Life', John Lubbock delivers a series of lectures on various topics that are still relevant today. The book is divided into two parts, each containing chapters that focus on topics such as the value of time, the pleasures of travel, love, and religion. Through his insightful and thought-provoking writing, Lubbock explores the beauty and challenges of life. From the joys of home to the blessings of friendship, he provides an inspiring guide to living a fulfilling life.
Author : Raoul Vaneigem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)
Download or read book The Book of Pleasures written by Raoul Vaneigem and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Morris
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571265936
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Fisher's Face written by Jan Morris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Admiral of the Fleet Lord 'Jacky' Fisher (1841-1920) was one of the greatest naval reformers in history. He was also a colossal figure to contemporaries, both loved and loathed, a man of exceptional charm, presence and charisma. Since the late 1940s, Jan Morris has been haunted by his face - with its startling combination of 'the suave, the sneering and the self-amused.' This evocation is both biography and a love letter, a perfect expression of her passionate interest in mavericks and outsiders, in travel, ships and the glorious pageantry of the British Empire in its prime.
Author : Sara Mansfield Taber
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421425084
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Chance Particulars written by Sara Mansfield Taber and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ELEMENTS OF FINE WRITING -- PURPOSE OF THE NOTEBOOK -- Goal, Quest, Story -- CHANCE PARTICULARS -- Use of the Senses -- Specificity, Precision, and Concrete Detail -- PLACE -- Landscape and Nature -- Towns, Streets, and Buildings -- PEOPLE -- Portraits and Interviews -- Encounters, Observations, and Activities -- FACTS, HISTORY, AND CULTURE -- Basic Facts, History, and Cultural Observations -- TECHNICAL AND OTHER PERTINENT INFORMATION -- Informational Notes -- CHRONICLE -- Record of Daily Activities and Travels -- PERSONAL RESPONSES -- Feelings and Contemplations -- COMMONPLACE NOTES: PERSPECTIVES OF OTHERS AND MISCELLANEA -- Quotations and Thoughts from Experts, Scholars, and Literary Forebears-and Other Miscellanea -- ASSOCIATIONS AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE -- Metaphor and Simile -- REFLECTIONS -- Thoughts and Musings -- WRITING NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- APPENDIX
Author : T. J. La Rue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781078212526
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Sinful Pleasures written by T. J. La Rue and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oh what a tangled web we weave when we allow our inhibitions to take control over our lives. Our thinking becomes irrational, our decisions reckless. And before we know what's really happening the blood is being sucked from our deepest vein leaving us with no other choice but to succumb to it's power. Kelly James, devoted wife and mother, was everything everyone expected her to be, especially her husband, Sal. But there was a burning desire lurking about fighting its way to be seen, heard of, and extinguished. A chance meeting with a sexy stranger was the key to unlocking this forbidden door. Kelly wrestled within herself before finally giving in. What started out as a secret thought turned into a secret life--one that may cause her to lose everything. While Kelly was navigating through her own twisted web of deceit, Sal was on the other side of town creating his own. He, too, tried his best to fight against the urges burning deep within his loins, but was he strong enough to win the battle? Little did they both know, their webs would soon combine; not because of their marital connection but because the black widow had set her sights on them both devising the ultimate set-up neither one of them were aware of! They were far from prepared for the danger that was headed their way. With death staring them both in the eyes, Kelly and Sal must move quickly in order to stay alive. Will they join forces and find their way back to each other? Or will the pain drowning their hearts drive them to stand on their own to find their own way out?
Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 1984824236
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Live a Little written by Howard Jacobson and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question and J, and one of “our funniest writers alive” (Allison Pearson): a wickedly observed novel of old age and new love. At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything—including her own children. Her tongue, meanwhile, remains as sharp as ever. She spends her days stitching macabre messages into her needlework and tormenting her two long-suffering carers with tangled stories of her love affairs. Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, walk without the aid of a frame, and speak without spitting. Among the widows of North London, he’s whispered about as the last of the eligible bachelors. Unlike Beryl, he forgets nothing—especially not the shame of a childhood incident that has hung over him ever since. There’s very little life remaining for either of them, but perhaps just enough to heal some of the hurt inflicted along the way and find new meaning in what’s left. Could this be their chance to live a little? Told with Jacobson’s trademark wit and style, Live a Little is equal parts funny, irreverent, and tender—a novel to make you consider all the paths not taken, and whether you could still change course. Advance praise for Live a Little “One of the great comic geniuses of our time.”—Lit Hub “A tender story of unlikely love . . . Jacobson treats with compassion the dilemma of old age. . . . Wise, witty, and deftly crafted.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “For all of its moments of bleakness, and the occasional flicker of genuine terror, it’s rarely less than bitterly funny in its determination to face up to the obliteration that awaits us all.”—The Guardian “What a relief to come on a novel which invites you to smile and even laugh.”—The Scotsman “The novel’s brilliant cover tells it all: hearts and skulls, love and death.”—The Jewish Chronicle “A thoroughly enjoyable read. For a literature snob and a language obsessive . . . there is a lot to feast on . . . for someone looking for an emotionally honest storyline, the book also delivers. Live a Little is about growing old, but it’s also about gender, race, love and politics.”—Independent “Tender and funny.”—Grazia
Author : Maile Meloy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735216541
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Do Not Become Alarmed written by Maile Meloy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moving and suspenseful new novel that Ann Patchett calls "smart and thrilling and impossible to put down... the book that every reader longs for." “This summer’s undoubtable smash hit… an addictive, heart-palpitating story.” —Marie Claire The sun is shining, the sea is blue, the children have disappeared. When Liv and Nora decide to take their husbands and children on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The adults are lulled by the ship’s comfort and ease. The four children—ages six to eleven—love the nonstop buffet and their newfound independence. But when they all go ashore for an adventure in Central America, a series of minor misfortunes and miscalculations leads the families farther from the safety of the ship. One minute the children are there, and the next they’re gone. The disintegration of the world the families knew—told from the perspectives of both the adults and the children—is both riveting and revealing. The parents, accustomed to security and control, turn on each other and blame themselves, while the seemingly helpless children discover resources they never knew they possessed. Do Not Become Alarmed is a story about the protective force of innocence and the limits of parental power, and an insightful look at privileged illusions of safety. Celebrated for her spare and moving fiction, Maile Meloy has written a gripping novel about how quickly what we count on can fall away, and the way a crisis shifts our perceptions of what matters most.
Author : Sir John Lubbock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book “The” Pleasures of Life written by Sir John Lubbock and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linda McFerrin
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
ISBN 13 : 1611725011
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Dead Love written by Linda McFerrin and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zombies, ghouls, vampires, gangsters; pursuit, betrayal, death—it's a globalized manga turned literature. Dead Love is Twilight with teeth.
Author : Paul Bloom
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062910582
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)
Download or read book The Sweet Spot written by Paul Bloom and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. It’s an exhilarating antidote to toxic positivity.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife One of Behavioral Scientist's "Notable Books of 2021" From the author of Against Empathy, a different kind of happiness book, one that shows us how suffering is an essential source of both pleasure and meaning in our lives Why do we so often seek out physical pain and emotional turmoil? We go to movies that make us cry, or scream, or gag. We poke at sores, eat spicy foods, immerse ourselves in hot baths, run marathons. Some of us even seek out pain and humiliation in sexual role-play. Where do these seemingly perverse appetites come from? Drawing on groundbreaking findings from psychology and brain science, The Sweet Spot shows how the right kind of suffering sets the stage for enhanced pleasure. Pain can distract us from our anxieties and help us transcend the self. Choosing to suffer can serve social goals; it can display how tough we are or, conversely, can function as a cry for help. Feelings of fear and sadness are part of the pleasure of immersing ourselves in play and fantasy and can provide certain moral satisfactions. And effort, struggle, and difficulty can, in the right contexts, lead to the joys of mastery and flow. But suffering plays a deeper role as well. We are not natural hedonists—a good life involves more than pleasure. People seek lives of meaning and significance; we aspire to rich relationships and satisfying pursuits, and this requires some amount of struggle, anxiety, and loss. Brilliantly argued, witty, and humane, Paul Bloom shows how a life without chosen suffering would be empty—and worse than that, boring.
Author : Moritz Thomsen
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780712647106
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (471 download)
Download or read book The Saddest Pleasure written by Moritz Thomsen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1991-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account, introduced by Paul Theroux, of the author's journey as a 63-year-old gringo through Brazil. During the course of this journey he reflects on his escape in middle age from his wealthy pacific Northwest family to South America, where he became a Peace Crops worker in Ecuador. He then tells of how he brought a farm which he worked in partnership with a local friend. 12 years later his friend kicked him off the farm and Thomsen, stunned by the rejection embarked on a trip across Brazil. In candid prose, he describes Rio, Bahia, and the Amazon River, lined with one-room shacks and millionaires' rancheros. Gradually through his relationship with this extraordinary continent and with the people he meets along the way, he begins to make sense of his life.
Author : Jenny Diski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632866889
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)
Download or read book In Gratitude written by Jenny Diski and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "Transcendently disobedient, the most existence-affirming and iconoclastic defense a writer could mount against her own extinction." --Heidi Julavits, New York Times Book Review From "one of the great anomalies of contemporary literature" (The New York Times Magazine) comes a breathtaking memoir about terminal cancer and the author's relationship with Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing. In July 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given "two or three years" to live. She didn't know how to react. All responses felt scripted, as if she were acting out her part. To find the response that felt wholly her own, she had to face the clichés and try to write about it. And there was another story to write, one she had not yet told: that of being taken in at age fifteen by the author Doris Lessing, and the subsequent fifty years of their complex relationship. In the pages of the London Review of Books, to which Diski contributed for the last quarter century, she unraveled her history with Lessing: the fairy-tale rescue as a teenager, the difficulties of being absorbed into an unfamiliar family, the modeling of a literary life. Swooping from one memory to the next--alighting on the hysterical battlefield of her parental home, her expulsion from school, the drug-taking twenty-something in and out of psychiatric hospitals--and telling all through the lens of living with terminal cancer, through what she knows will be her final months, Diski paints a portrait of two extraordinary writers--Lessing and herself. From a wholly original thinker comes a book like no other: a cerebral, witty, dazzlingly candid masterpiece about an uneasy relationship; about memory and writing, ingratitude and anger; about living with illness and facing death.
Author : adrienne maree brown
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849353271
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (493 download)
Download or read book Pleasure Activism written by adrienne maree brown and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls "Pleasure Activism," a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, including Audre Lourde's invitation to use the erotic as power and Toni Cade Bambara's exhortation that we make the revolution irresistible, the contributors to this volume take up the challenge to rethink the ground rules of activism. Writers including Cara Page of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice, Sonya Renee Taylor, founder of This Body Is Not an Apology, and author Alexis Pauline Gumbs cover a wide array of subjects—from sex work to climate change, from race and gender to sex and drugs—they create new narratives about how politics can feel good and how what feels good always has a complex politics of its own. Building on the success of her popular Emergent Strategy, brown launches a new series of the same name with this volume, bringing readers books that explore experimental, expansive, and innovative ways to meet the challenges that face our world today. Books that find the opportunity in every crisis!
