Prospero's Island

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Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426929277
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Book Synopsis Prospero's Island by : Grainger Roger Grainger

Download or read book Prospero's Island written by Grainger Roger Grainger and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prospero's Island is a compelling study of islands and how they can contribute to the quality of concern and caring that human beings have for one another, specifically in Christian ministry work. Roger Grainger spent eighteen years as chaplain of a large psychiatric hospital and now works as a parish minister in Wakefield, England. He brings to life the characters from William Shakespeare's final play The Tempest as he utilizes the story of Prospero and Miranda, Ariel and Caliban, and the shipwrecked courtiers and clowns who were forced ashore by a tempest in order to emphasize that pastoral care can be an island for refuge and resources for those who need to come in from the storm. Using the image of an island as a metaphor for the human condition at its most vulnerable state, Grainger illustrates how Prospero demonstrates a particular purpose for his island that results in renewal rather than revenge. Prospero's Island innovatively compares Shakespeare's inspirational characters with real life as it takes an in-depth look at pastoral care as a nurturing process that lives in, and depends upon, the quality of personal relationships just like Prospero did on a deserted island so many years ago.

Prospero's Isle

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Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 9780812564082
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Prospero's Isle written by Tom Wham and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reader's decisions will determine whether Harold Shea, a psychologist, Belphebe, his wife, and Vaclau Polacek, a colleague, can escape from the evil witch, Sycorax.

Prospero's Island

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Publisher : Coventure Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Prospero's Island written by Noel Cobb and published by Coventure Limited. This book was released on 1984 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prospero's Daughter

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Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617755427
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Prospero's Daughter written by Elizabeth Nunez and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set on a Caribbean island in the grip of colonialism, this novel is “masterful . . . simply wonderful . . . [an] exquisite retelling of The Tempest” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). When Peter Gardner’s ruthless medical genius leads him to experiment on his unwitting patients—often at the expense of their lives—he flees England, seeking an environ where his experiments might continue without scrutiny. He arrives with his three-year-old-daughter, Virginia, in Chacachacare, an isolated island off the coast of Trinidad, in the early 1960s. Gardner considers the locals to be nothing more than savages. He assumes ownership of the home of a servant boy named Carlos, seeing in him a suitable subject for his amoral medical work. Nonetheless, he educates the boy alongside Virginia. As Virginia and Carlos come of age together, they form a covert relationship that violates the outdated mores of colonial rule. When Gardner unveils the pair’s relationship and accuses Carlos of a monstrous act, the investigation into the truth is left up to a curt, stonehearted British inspector, whose inquiries bring to light a horrendous secret. At turns epic and intimate, Prospero's Daughter, from American Book Award winner Elizabeth Nunez, uses Shakespeare’s play as a template to address questions of race, class, and power, in the story of an unlikely bond between a boy and a girl of disparate backgrounds on a verdant Caribbean island during the height of tensions between the native population and British colonists. “Gripping and richly imagined . . . a master at pacing and plotting . . . an entirely new story that is inspired by Shakespeare, but not beholden to him.” —The New York Times Book Review “Absorbing . . . [Nunez] writes novels that resound with thunder and fury.” —Essence “A story about the transformative power of love . . . Readers are sure to enjoy the journey.” —Black Issues Book Review (Novel of the Year)

Lost: Fifty Suns

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Lost: Fifty Suns by : A.E. Van Vogt

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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

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Publisher : New Canadian Library
ISBN 13 : 0771093977
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by : Stephen Leacock

Download or read book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town written by Stephen Leacock and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 2010 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock’s most beloved book. Set in fictional Mariposa, an Ontario town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti, these sketches present a remarkable range of characters: some irritating, some exasperating, some foolhardy, but all endearing. Painted with the skilful brushstrokes of a great comic artist, the delightful inhabitants of Mariposa represent the people of small towns everywhere. As fresh, funny, and insightful today as when it was first published in 1912, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock at his best – colourful, imaginative, and thoroughly entertaining.

Prospero's Cell

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453261656
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Book Synopsis Prospero's Cell by : Lawrence Durrell

Download or read book Prospero's Cell written by Lawrence Durrell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a member of the real-life family portrayed in The Durrells in Corfu, this memoir of the idyllic Greek island is “among the best books ever written” (The New York Times). Before Lawrence Durrell became a renowned novelist, poet, and travel writer, he spent four youthful years on Corfu, an island jewel with beauty to match the long and fascinating history within its rocky shores. While his brother, Gerald, was collecting animals as a budding naturalist, Lawrence fished, drank, and lived with the natives in the years leading up to World War II, sheltered from the tumult that was engulfing Europe—until finally he could ignore the world no longer. Durrell left for Alexandria, to serve his country as a wartime diplomat, but never forgot the wonders of Corfu. In this “brilliant” journey through that idyllic time and place, Durrell returns to the land that made him so happy, blending his love of history with memories of his adventures there (The Economist). Like the blue Aegean, Prospero’s Cell is deep and crystal clear, offering a perfect view straight to the heart of a nation.

Hag-Seed

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Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 0804141304
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Hag-Seed by : Margaret Atwood

Download or read book Hag-Seed written by Margaret Atwood and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved author of The Handmaid’s Tale reimagines Shakespeare’s final, great play, The Tempest, in a gripping and emotionally rich novel of passion and revenge. “A marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the service of a story that’s utterly heartbreaking yet pierced by humor, with a plot that retains considerable subtlety even as the original’s back story falls neatly into place.”—The New York Times Book Review Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. Now he’s staging aTempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, but it will also heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And also brewing revenge, which, after twelve years, arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Margaret Atwood’s novel take on Shakespeare’s play of enchantment, retribution, and second chances leads us on an interactive, illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises and wonders of its own. Praise for Hag-Seed “What makes the book thrilling, and hugely pleasurable, is how closely Atwood hews to Shakespeare even as she casts her own potent charms, rap-composition included. . . . Part Shakespeare, part Atwood, Hag-Seed is a most delicate monster—and that’s ‘delicate’ in the 17th-century sense. It’s delightful.”—Boston Globe “Atwood has designed an ingenious doubling of the plot of The Tempest: Felix, the usurped director, finds himself cast by circumstances as a real-life version of Prospero, the usurped Duke. If you know the play well, these echoes grow stronger when Felix decides to exact his revenge by conjuring up a new version of The Tempest designed to overwhelm his enemies.”—Washington Post “A funny and heartwarming tale of revenge and redemption . . . Hag-Seed is a remarkable contribution to the canon.”—Bustle

Prospero's Daughter

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292785429
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Book Synopsis Prospero's Daughter by : Joanna O'Connell

Download or read book Prospero's Daughter written by Joanna O'Connell and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A member of Mexico's privileged upper class, yet still subordinated because of her gender, Rosario Castellanos became one of Latin America's most influential feminist social critics. Joanna O'Connell here offers the first book-length study of all Castellanos' prose writings, focusing specifically on how Castellanos' experiences as a Mexican woman led her to an ethic of solidarity with the oppressed peoples of her home state of Chiapas. O'Connell provides an original and detailed analysis of Castellanos' first venture into feminist cultural analysis in her essay Sobre cultura feminina (1950) and traces her moral and intellectual trajectory as feminist and social critic. An overview of Mexican indigenismo establishes the context for individual chapters on Castellanos' narratives of ethnic conflict (the novels Balún Canán and Oficio de tinieblas and the short stories of Ciudad Real). In further chapters O'Connell reads Los convidados de agosto,Album de familia, and Castellanos' four collections of essays as developments of her feminist social analysis.

The Athenaeum

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1050 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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The Island Home

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis The Island Home by : James F. Bowman

Download or read book The Island Home written by James F. Bowman and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Athenæum

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Athenæum written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pastoral

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415147336
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (151 download)

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Book Synopsis Pastoral by : Terry Gifford

Download or read book Pastoral written by Terry Gifford and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A succinct and up-to-date introductory text to the history, major writers and critical issues of this genre. Gifford clarifies the different uses of the term covering its history from classical origins through to contemporary writing.

The Heathen

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Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Book Synopsis The Heathen by : Jack London

Download or read book The Heathen written by Jack London and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Heathen" is a short story by the American writer Jack London. It follows two people from different cultural and racial backgrounds who are the only ones left after their ship has encountered a storm in the Pacific. What kind of friendship emerges between them uncovers later in the story.

The Island of the Colorblind

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345805895
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)

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Book Synopsis The Island of the Colorblind by : Oliver Sacks

Download or read book The Island of the Colorblind written by Oliver Sacks and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part travelogue, part autobiography, part medical mystery, this moving book by the "poet laureate of medicine" (The New York Times) and bestselling author of Awakenings takes us to a tiny Pacific atoll and the island of Guam to explore the genesis of disease, the wonders of botany, and the complexities of being human. "Sacks's total immersion in island life makes this luminous, beautifully written report a wonderous voyage of discovery. As a travel writer, Sacks ranks with Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin. As an investigator of the mind's mysteries, he is in a class by himself." —Publishers Weekly For Oliver Sacks, islands conjure up equally the romance of Melville and Stevenson, the adventure of Magellan and Cook, and the scientific wonder of Darwin and Wallace. Drawn to the tiny Pacific atoll of Pingelap by intriguing reports of an isolated community of islanders born totally color-blind, Sacks finds himself setting up a clinic in a one-room island dispensary, where he listens to these achromatopic islanders describe their colorless world in rich terms of pattern and tone, luminance and shadow. And on Guam, where he goes to investigate the puzzling neurodegenerative paralysis endemic there for a century, he becomes, for a brief time, an island neurologist, making house calls with his colleague John Steele, amid crowing cockerels, cycad jungles, and the remains of a colonial culture. Out of this unexpected journey, Sacks has woven an unforgettable narrative which immerses us in the romance of island life, and shares his own compelling vision of the mysteries of being human.

The Politics of Parody

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300223757
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis The Politics of Parody by : David Francis Taylor

Download or read book The Politics of Parody written by David Francis Taylor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original take on literary history that uses visual satire to explore literature's importance to eighteenth-century political culture

The Island Home

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Island Home written by James Bourman and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: