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Download or read book The Art of Fiction written by David Lodge and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.
Book Synopsis Headed for the Blues by : Josef Skvorecky
Download or read book Headed for the Blues written by Josef Skvorecky and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed memoir, one of our most revered writers reveals the true story behind his highly autobiographical fiction - accompanied by ten dark and hilarious interconnected tales set in Czechoslovakia's jazz-filled underground.
Book Synopsis The Engineer of Human Souls by : Josef Škvorecký
Download or read book The Engineer of Human Souls written by Josef Škvorecký and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "So entertaining that it would be dangerous to read it without laughing aloud." Los Angeles Times Book Review
Download or read book The Cowards written by Josef Skvorecky and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girls, jazz, politics, the golden dreams and black comedy of youth--these are the compelling ingredients of The Cowards. May 1945, a small town in Czechoslovakia. The Germans are withdrawing. The Red Army is advancing. And Danny Smiricky is being forced to grow up fast. Observing with contempt the antics of the town's citizens playing it safe, he adopts the role first of reluctant conscript, then of dashing partisan. The Cowards is the story of an uncomplicated, talented youth caught up in momentous historic events who refuses to be bored to death by politics--or to lie down and die without a fight. --
Book Synopsis Sins for Father Knox by : Josef Škvorecký
Download or read book Sins for Father Knox written by Josef Škvorecký and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clergyman named Ronald A. Knox once set forth a set of rules for writing detective fiction. In ten new stories (two featuring Lieutenant Boruvka), a crime occurs that violates one of Father Knox's rules, thus serving up a double challenge: Who dunnit? and Which rule was broken?
Book Synopsis Miss Silver's Past by : Josef Skvorecky
Download or read book Miss Silver's Past written by Josef Skvorecky and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karel Leden works in the State publishing house in Prague, where you publish what the Party likes, or risk life and liberty. Then the beautiful, mysterious Lenka Silver arrives. Passions rise--and suddenly there is a murder. There are plenty of suspects, but all that is certain is that the affair is in some way connected to Miss Silver's past...
Book Synopsis Republic Of Whores by : Josef Skvorecky
Download or read book Republic Of Whores written by Josef Skvorecky and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a not-so-long-ago time, on an army base in rural Czechoslovakia, the draftees of the Seventh Tank Battalion gird themselves for the inevitable war with America by practicing tank manoeuvres (or faking them), studying Russian texts (with horror novels tucked inside), and singing patriotic songs (with refreshing new lyrics). Among them is Tank Commander Danny Smiricky, looking forward to discharge and trying to stay out of trouble in the meantime--not an easy task when he's torn between two irresistible women, and surrounded by a boisterous and hilariously independent-minded tank crew. But the greatest danger to Danny is his politically correct major, a tiny termagant known as the Pygmy Devil. And on the eve of Danny's discharge, disaster looms... Behind the comedy of his exuberantly lustful tale lies a savage parody of life under foreign occupation.
Book Synopsis The Miracle Game by : Josef Škvorecký
Download or read book The Miracle Game written by Josef Škvorecký and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This energetic and hilarious novel is made even more important by the current final thawing of the long, Communist winter in Czechoslovakia. Moving between 1948, when our hero Danny Smiricky falls asleep in church while a miraculous event occurs, and 1968, when he observes the miracle of Prague Spring, The Miracle Game is a sharp look at the strange, sad, and silly things people do to survive.
Download or read book Ordinary Lives written by Josef Škvorecký and published by Key Porter Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the backdrop of two class reunions — one in 1963, and the next in 1993, 30 years later —Ordinary Livesresurrects Skvorecky’s former narrator and alter ego, Danny Smiricky. As the reunions force Danny to reconcile himself to his past, he is plagued by a “torrent of ungovernable thoughts.” And as his former classmates begin to understand how he’s spent the intervening years, the reader is guided through a history of the major ideologies of the 20th century: from Nazism, to Communism, to capitalism. Skvorecky juxtaposes the defining moments of the modern era with the ordinary lives of his recurring characters. Beautifully written, slim but powerful, this novel is an apt culmination of a literary master’s extraordinary career.
Book Synopsis The Bride Of Texas by : Josef Skvorecky
Download or read book The Bride Of Texas written by Josef Skvorecky and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the widely acclaimed author of Dvorak in Love and The Engineer of Human Souls comes an unusual Civil War novel based on the documented memories of Czech soldiers who fought for the Union in the 26th Wisconsin battalion under General William Tecumseh Sherman.
Book Synopsis Talkin' Moscow Blues by : Josef Škvorecký
Download or read book Talkin' Moscow Blues written by Josef Škvorecký and published by New York : Ecco Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dvorak in Love written by Josef Škvorecký and published by New York : W.W. Norton. This book was released on 1988 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles Anton Dvorak's sojourn in America at the turn of the century, when he was persuaded by Jeannette Thurber to leave his native Bohemia and become director of her National Conservatory of Music
Book Synopsis All the Bright Young Men and Women by : Josef Škvorecký
Download or read book All the Bright Young Men and Women written by Josef Škvorecký and published by Toronto: P. Martin Associates. This book was released on 1971 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Peter Neil Issacs collection.
Book Synopsis The Fiction of Josef Škvorecký by : Paul I Trensky
Download or read book The Fiction of Josef Škvorecký written by Paul I Trensky and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-09-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka by : Josef Skvorecky
Download or read book The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka written by Josef Skvorecky and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1991-08-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Czechoslovak police force Lieutenant Boruvka, a pensive, conscience-striken man driven to melancholy by the fiendish truths of murder, is wide awake to the strange methods of murder he encounters, in this collection of twelve tales
Book Synopsis The Fiction of Josef Škvorecký by : Paul I. Trensky
Download or read book The Fiction of Josef Škvorecký written by Paul I. Trensky and published by New York : St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis When Eve Was Naked by : Josef Skvorecký
Download or read book When Eve Was Naked written by Josef Skvorecký and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This autobiography in stories, When Eve Was Naked, takes us through a most remarkable life, from the innocence of prewar Prague through the horrors of the Nazi occupation and World War II. In the title story, narrated by Skvorecky's alter-ego Danny Smiricky, seven-year-old Danny falls in love for the first time; at sixteen he hides in a railway station and watches as his Jewish teacher is herded onto a train and taken away; and in 1968, as Russian tanks rolled into Prague, Skvorecky flees Czechoslovakia, taking Danny with him. In the collection's final stories, Danny begins his tenure as Professor Smiricky at a Canadian university and attempts to come to terms with the politically innocent and self-centered youth that flock to his courses.
