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Author : Nīkolaĭ Gerasīmovīch Savīn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Pull Devil--pull Baker written by Nīkolaĭ Gerasīmovīch Savīn and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stella Benson
Publisher : Boiler House Press
ISBN 13 : 1913861619
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (138 download)
Download or read book Pull Devil, Pull Baker written by Stella Benson and published by Boiler House Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oddest book you may ever read, both fantastic autobiography and ground-breaking autofiction Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec de Savine was a hero in battle and a legendary lover in bed. A daring adventurer and a shameless swindler. A gambler ready to place the riskiest bets and a coward apt to flee his creditors in the middle of the night. Tsar of Bulgaria and a Chicago streetcar conductor. A racist, a chauvinist, and an Antisemite. Was he all of these--or none of them? This is the question Stella Benson struggled with as she tried to shape the Count's wild recollections into a coherent story. Which mattered more: the factual truth or the fictional truth? Her answer anticipates today's field of creative nonfiction ñ while telling a wild, funny, and unique tale.
Author : Anatoly Liberman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452968624
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Take My Word for It written by Anatoly Liberman and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three centuries of English idioms—their unusual origins and unexpected interpretations To pay through the nose. Raining cats and dogs. By hook or by crook. Curry favor. Drink like a fish. Eat crow. We hear such phrases every day, but this book is the first truly all-encompassing etymological guide to both their meanings and origins. Spanning more than three centuries, Take My Word for It is a fascinating, one-of-a-kind window into the surprisingly short history of idioms in English. Widely known for his studies of word origins, Anatoly Liberman explains more than one thousand idioms, both popular and obscure, occurring in both American and British standard English and including many regional expressions. The origins, and even the precise meaning, of most idioms are often obscure and lost in history. Based on a critical analysis of countless conjectures, with exact, in-depth references (rare in the literature on the subject), Take My Word for It provides not only a large corpus of idiomatic phrases but also a vast bibliography. Detailed indexes and a thesaurus make the content accessible at a glance, and Liberman’s introduction and conclusion add historical dimensions. The result of decades of research by a leading authority, this book is both instructive and absorbing for scholars and general readers, who won’t find another resource as comparable in scope or based on data even remotely as exhaustive.
Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Those Barren Leaves written by Aldous Huxley and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2022-03-04T03:01:11Z with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs. Aldwinkle, an English aristocrat of a certain age, has purchased a mansion in the Italian countryside. She wishes to bring a salon of intellectual luminaries into her orbit, and to that end she invites a strange cast of characters to spend time with her in her palazzo: Irene, her young niece; Ms. Thriplow, a governess-turned-novelist; Mr. Calamy, a handsome young man of great privilege and even greater ennui; Mr. Cardan, a worldly gentleman whose main talent seems to be the enjoyment of life; Hovenden, a young motorcar-obsessed lord with a speech impediment; and Mr. Falx, a socialist leader. To this unlikely cast is soon added Mr. Chelifer, an author with an especially florid, overwrought style that is wasted on his day job as editor of The Rabbit Fancier’s Gazette, and the Elvers, a scheming brother who is the guardian of his mentally-challenged sister. As this unlikely group mingles, they discuss a great many grand topics: love, art, language, life, culture. Yet very early on the reader comes to realize that behind the pompousness of their elaborate discussions lies nothing but vacuity—these characters are a satire of the self-important intellectuals of Huxley’s era. His skewering of their intellectual barrenness continues as the group moves on to a trip around the surrounding country, in a satire of the Grand Tour tradition. The party brings their English snobbery out in full force as they traipse around Rome, sure of nothing else except in their belief that Italy is culturally superior simply because it’s Italy. As the vacation winds down, we’re left with a biting lampoon of the elites who suppose themselves to be at the height of art and culture—the kinds of personalities that arise in every generation, sure of their own greatness but unable to actually contribute anything to the world of art and culture that they feel is so important. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author : Milton Birnbaum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351533088
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Aldous Huxley written by Milton Birnbaum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the moral vacuum and world of shifting values following World War I, Aldous Huxley was both a sensitive refl ector and an articulate catalyst. This work provides a highly illuminating analysis of Huxley's evolution from skeptic to mystic. As Milton Birnbaum shows, in a perceptive interpretation of Huxley's poetry, fi ction, essays and biographies-what evolved in Huxley's moral and intellectual pilgrimage was not so much a change in direction as a shift in emphasis. Even in the sardonic Huxley of the 1920s and 1930s, there is a moral concern. In the later Huxley, there are traces of the satirical skepticism which delighted his readers in the decades preceding World War II. A man of letters, a keen observer, seeker of new ways while profoundly knowledgeable in the truths of ancient wisdom, Huxley tried to achieve a symbiotic synthesis of the best of all worlds. In clarifying and interpreting Huxley's intellectual, moral, and philosophical development, Birnbaum touches upon all the subjects that came under the scrutiny of a singularly encyclopedic mind. This book is of great worth to those interested both in Huxley the brilliant satirist and in Huxley the seeker of salvation. In his search, Huxley typifi ed the modern quest for values. Milton Birnbaum's study is an invaluable guide in that journey. His new introduction takes account of research and analysis of Huxley that has occurred since this book's original publication.
Author : William Gurney Benham
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Cassell's Book of Quotations Proverbs and Household Words written by William Gurney Benham and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Punch written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Lemon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Punch written by Mark Lemon and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Gordon Burn Murdoch
Publisher : Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Modern Whaling & Bear-hunting written by William Gordon Burn Murdoch and published by Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company. This book was released on 1917 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of Shetland whaling industry. The second part of the book is concerned principally with polar bear hunting in the arctic.
Author : Joseph Wright
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years: M-Q written by Joseph Wright and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Mallon
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786440643
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The 1900 Olympic Games written by Bill Mallon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1900 Olympic Games have been termed "The Farcical Games." The events were poorly organized and years later many of the competitors had no idea that they had actually competed in the Olympics. They only knew that they had competed in an international sporting event in Paris in 1900. No official records of the 1900 Olympics exist. Based primarily on 1900 sources, the sites, dates, events, competitors, and nations as well as the event results are compiled herein for all of the 1900 Olympic events, including archery, track and field, cricket, equestrian, fencing, soccer, pelota basque, water polo, and rowing, among other sports.
Author : Wordsworth Donisthorpe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Law in a Free State written by Wordsworth Donisthorpe and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Booth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Epigrams, Ancient and Modern written by John Booth and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernest Weekley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486122867
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, Vol. 2 written by Ernest Weekley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compiler of this dictionary of word and phrase origins and history was not only a linguist and a philologist but also a man of culture and wit. When he turned his attention, therefore, to the creation of an etymological dictionary for both specialists and non-specialists, the result was easily the finest such work ever prepared. Weekley's Dictionary is a work of thorough scholarship. It contains one of the largest lists of words and phrases to be found in any singly etymological dictionary — and considerably more material than in the standard concise edition, with fuller quotes and historical discussions. Included are most of the more common words used in English as well as slang, archaic words, such formulas as "I. O. U.," made-up words (such as Carroll's "Jabberwock"), words coined from proper nouns, and so on. In each case, roots in Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, Greek or Latin, Old and modern French, Anglo-Indian, etc., are identified; in hundreds of cases, especially odd or amusing listings, earliest known usage is mentioned and sense is indicated in quotations from Dickens, Shakespeare, Chaucer, "Piers Plowman," Defoe, O. Henry, Spenser, Byron, Kipling, and so on, and from contemporary newspapers, translations of the Bible, and dozens of foreign-language authors.
Author : Ernest Weekley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English written by Ernest Weekley and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
