Beautiful

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Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847848922
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Book Synopsis Beautiful by : Mark D. Sikes

Download or read book Beautiful written by Mark D. Sikes and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestselling book from interior designer Mark D. Sikes is a celebration of American style today, showcasing chic and accessible ideas for every home. Modern and unfussy, Mark D. Sikes’s interiors are classic takes on California indoor/outdoor living, with natural fibers and crisp coloration, informed and influenced by the fashion world where he began his career. In eight chapters, he explores approachable, stylish looks, from "Blue and White Forever," which features indigos, stripes, batiks, and wicker in casual rooms such as porches and pool houses; to "Timeless Neutrals," presenting semiformal rooms filled with chinoiserie, gilt, glass, mirrors, banquettes, and French chairs; to "Garden Greens," featuring happy, casual family rooms and kitchens inspired by the garden with treillage woodwork, rattan, and cotton. There are also "Beautiful Brights," colorful rooms that are eclectic, layered, and fun, with chintz, florals, and Middle Eastern influences; and "Sun Faded Hues," rustic coastal rooms with weathered fabrics and furniture. Each chapter presents light-filled images of the designer’s looks and offers the reader inspiration and advice. As famed film director Nancy Meyers writes in the book’s foreword, this is a book that shows design lovers "how classic can look fresh, how style and comfort go hand-in-hand."

Sikes and Nancy

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Sikes and Nancy by : Charles Dickens

Download or read book Sikes and Nancy written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 14, 1868 Charles Dickens organized a special reading to a select audience to get their opinion on whether or not Sikes and Nancy, the telling of the horrific murder of Nancy by Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist, should be added to his repertoire of public readings of his works. William Charles Kent (1823-1902), editor, journalist, and Dickens' friend, was among those chosen to witness this test reading. Here he gives an account of the event. Most in the audience, Kent among them, felt the reading was sensational and should be added. A few worried about possible hysteria in the audience and the reading's effect on Dickens' already frail health. Dickens read the account with such passion that his pulse soared during its performance. Dickens added Sikes and Nancy to his farewell reading tour of Britain.

Sikes and Nancy

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Sikes and Nancy written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Open Skies

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Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1641603372
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (416 download)

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Book Synopsis Open Skies by : Niloofar Rahmani

Download or read book Open Skies written by Niloofar Rahmani and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As a young Afghan woman who dreamed of becoming an air force pilot, Niloofar Rahmani confronted far more than technical challenges; she faced the opprobrium of an entire society." —Pamela Constable, author of Playing with Fire and former Kabul and Islamabad bureau chief for the Washington Post The true story of Niloofar Rahmani and her determination to become Afghanistan's first female air force pilot—as seen on Anderson Cooper and ABC News In 2010, for the first time since the Soviets, Afghanistan allowed women to join the armed forces, and Rahmani entered Afghanistan's military academy. Rahmani had to break through social barriers to demonstrate confidence, leadership, and decisiveness—essential qualities for a pilot. She performed the first solo flight of her class—ahead of all her male classmates—and in 2013 became Afghanistan's first female fixed-wing air force pilot. The US State Department honored Rahmani with the International Women of Courage Award and brought her to the United States to meet Michelle Obama and fly with the US Navy's Blue Angels. But when she returned to Kabul, the danger to her and her family had increased significantly. Rahmani and her family are portraits of the resiliency of refugees and the accomplishments they can reach when afforded with opportunities

Teacher, Teacher!

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409082369
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Teacher, Teacher! by : Jack Sheffield

Download or read book Teacher, Teacher! written by Jack Sheffield and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1977 and Jack Sheffield is appointed headmaster of a small village primary school in North Yorkshire. So begins Jack's eventful journey through the school year and his attempts to overcome the many problems that face him as a young and inexperienced headmaster. The many colourful chapters include Ruby the 20 stone caretaker with an acute spelling problem, a secretary who worships Margaret Thatcher, a villager who grows giant carrots, a barmaid/parent who requests sex lessons, and a five-year-old boy whose language is colourful in the extreme. And then there's also beautiful, bright Beth Henderson, who is irresistibly attractive to the young headmaster... Warm, funny and nostalgic, Teacher, Teacher is a delightful read that is guaranteed to make you feel better, whatever kind of day you've had.

The Practice and Representation of Reading in England

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521023238
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (232 download)

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Book Synopsis The Practice and Representation of Reading in England by : James Raven

Download or read book The Practice and Representation of Reading in England written by James Raven and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fourteen essays highlights both the singularity of personal reading experiences and the cultural conventions involved in reading and its perception.

Oliver Twist

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141920262
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis Oliver Twist by : Charles Dickens

Download or read book Oliver Twist written by Charles Dickens and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The power of Dickens is so amazing, that the reader at once becomes his captive' WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers with its depiction of a dark criminal underworld peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic romance, the Newgate novel and popular melodrama, Oliver Twist created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery. Edited with an Introduction and notes by PHILIP HORNE

The Public Readings

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Public Readings by : Charles Dickens

Download or read book The Public Readings written by Charles Dickens and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1975 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly edition of public readings by Charles Dickens. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Nancy

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)

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Book Synopsis Nancy by : Christopher Sykes

Download or read book Nancy written by Christopher Sykes and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mystery of Charles Dickens

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062954962
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mystery of Charles Dickens by : A.N. Wilson

Download or read book The Mystery of Charles Dickens written by A.N. Wilson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography A lively and insightful biographical celebration of the imaginative genius of Charles Dickens, published in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of his death. Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of build, with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died—an occasion marked by a crowded funeral at Westminster Abbey, despite his waking wishes for a small affair. Experiencing the worst and best of life during the Victorian Age, Dickens was not merely the conduit through whom some of the most beloved characters in literature came into the world. He was one of them. Filled with the twists, pathos, and unusual characters that sprang from this novelist’s extraordinary imagination, The Mystery of Charles Dickens looks back from the legendary writer’s death to recall the key events in his life. In doing so, he seeks to understand Dickens’ creative genius and enduring popularity. Following his life from cradle to grave, it becomes clear that Dickens’s fiction drew from his life—a fact he acknowledged. Like Oliver Twist, Dickens suffered a wretched childhood, then grew up to become not only a respectable gentleman but an artist of prodigious popularity. Dickens knew firsthand the poverty and pain his characters endured, including the scandal of a failed marriage. Going beyond standard narrative biography, A. N. Wilson brilliantly revisits the wellspring of Dickens’s vast and wild imagination, to reveal at long last why his novels captured the hearts of nineteenth century readers—and why they continue to resonate today. The Mystery of Charles Dickens is illustrated with 30 black-and-white images.

The Dickensian

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis The Dickensian by : Bertram Waldrom Matz

Download or read book The Dickensian written by Bertram Waldrom Matz and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oliver Twist Illustrated

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (976 download)

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Book Synopsis Oliver Twist Illustrated by : Charles Dickens

Download or read book Oliver Twist Illustrated written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

Dickens and the Despised Mother

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786493313
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis Dickens and the Despised Mother by : Shale Preston

Download or read book Dickens and the Despised Mother written by Shale Preston and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers an original interpretation of the mothers of the protagonists in Dickens’s autobiographical novels. Taking Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic concept of abjection and Mary Douglas’s anthropological analysis of pollution as its conceptual framework, the book argues that Dickens’s primary emotional response towards the mother who abandoned him to work in a blacking warehouse was disgust, and suggests that we can trace similar signs of disgust in the narrators of his fictional autobiographies, David Copperfield, Bleak House, and Great Expectations. The author provides a close reading of Dickens’s autobiographical fragment and opens up the possibility that Dickens’s feelings towards his mother actually bore a significant influence on his fiction. The book closes with a provocative discussion of Dickens’s compulsive Sikes and Nancy public readings.

Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317564863
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Book Synopsis Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture by : Monica Flegel

Download or read book Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture written by Monica Flegel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the significance of the pet in the Victorian period, this book examines the role played by the domestic pet in delineating relations for each member of the "natural" family home. Flegel explores the pet in relation to the couple at the head of the house, to the children who make up the family’s dependents, and to the common familial "outcasts" who populate Victorian literature and culture: the orphan, the spinster, the bachelor, and the same-sex couple. Drawing upon both animal studies and queer theory, this study stresses the importance of the domestic pet in elucidating normative sexuality and (re)productivity within the familial home, and reveals how the family pet operates as a means of identifying aberrant, failed, or perverse familial and gender performances. The family pet, that is, was an important signifier in Victorian familial ideology of the individual family unit’s ability to support or threaten the health and morality of the nation in the Victorian period. Texts by authors such as Clara Balfour, Juliana Horatia Ewing, E. Burrows, Bessie Rayner Parkes, Anne Brontë, George Eliot, Frederick Marryat, and Charles Dickens speak to the centrality of the domestic pet to negotiations of gender, power, and sexuality within the home that both reify and challenge the imaginary structure known as the natural family in the Victorian period. This book highlights the possibilities for a familial elsewhere outside of normative and restrictive models of heterosexuality, reproduction, and the natural family, and will be of interest to those studying Victorian literature and culture, animal studies, queer studies, and beyond.

Among Our Books

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
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Book Synopsis Among Our Books by : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Download or read book Among Our Books written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

50+ Masterpieces of Detective Fiction You Have to Read Before You Die. Illustrated

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Book Synopsis 50+ Masterpieces of Detective Fiction You Have to Read Before You Die. Illustrated by : Edgar Allan Poe

Download or read book 50+ Masterpieces of Detective Fiction You Have to Read Before You Die. Illustrated written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50+ Masterpieces of Detective Fiction You Have to Read Before You Die: Hunted Down by Charles Dickens, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe, The Blue Cross by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (illustrated) 1. The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe; 2. Hunted Down by Charles Dickens; 3. The Blue Cross by Gilbert Keith Chesterton; 4. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.

The Connoisseur

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
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Download or read book The Connoisseur written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: