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Author : Mary McCarthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Hounds of Summer and Other Stories written by Mary McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary McCarthy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156027861
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (278 download)
Download or read book The Company She Keeps written by Mary McCarthy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the author's first novel, which relates the experiences of a young bohemian intellectual. The six episodes create a fascinating portrait of a New York social circle of the 1930s. McCarthy's bold insight and virtuoso style won her immediate recognition as one of the most accomplished, versatile, and penetrating writers in americanca.
Author : John Rodden
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0292734743
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The Unexamined Orwell written by John Rodden and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reflection on Orwell-as-idea that “outlines some of the misconceptions and misuses of the Orwell name” (Modern Fiction Studies). The year 1984 is just a memory, but the catchwords of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four still routinely pepper public discussions of topics ranging from government surveillance and privacy invasion to language corruption and bureaucratese. Orwell’s work pervades the cultural imagination, while others of his literary generation are long forgotten. Exploring this astonishing afterlife has become the scholarly vocation of John Rodden, who is now the leading authority on the reception, impact, and reinvention of George Orwell—the man and writer—as well as of “Orwell” the cultural icon and historical talisman. In The Unexamined Orwell, Rodden delves into dimensions of Orwell’s life and legacy that have escaped the critical glare. He discusses how several leading American intellectuals have earned the title of Orwell’s “successor,” including Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald, Irving Howe, Christopher Hitchens, and John Lukacs. He then turns to Germany and focuses on the role and relevance of Nineteen Eighty-Four in the now-defunct communist nation of East Germany. Rodden also addresses myths that have grown up around Orwell’s life, including his “more than half-legendary” encounter with Ernest Hemingway in liberated Paris in March 1945, and analyzes literary issues such as his utopian sensibility and his prose style. Finally, Rodden poses the endlessly debated question, “What would George Orwell do?” and speculates about how the prophet of Nineteen Eighty-Four would have reacted to world events. In so doing, Rodden shows how our responses to this question reveal much about our culture’s ongoing need to reappropriate “Orwell.”
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Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Reader's Adviser written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary McCarthy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156935210
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Venice Observed written by Mary McCarthy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1963 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating work of reportage on Venice. "Searching observations and astonishing comprehension of the Venetian taste and character" (New York Herald Tribune).
Author : Ethan Goffman
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557534810
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)
Download or read book The New York Public Intellectuals and Beyond written by Ethan Goffman and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, a variety of distinguished scholars revisit and rethink the legacy of the New York intellectuals, showing how this small, predominantly Jewish group moved from communist and socialist roots to become a primary voice of liberal humanism and, in the case of a few, to launch a new conservative movement.
Author : Mary McCarthy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156586504
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (865 download)
Download or read book Memories of a Catholic Girlhood written by Mary McCarthy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1957 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author and her three brothers, left orphans at an early age, were raised together by guardians.
Author : Thomas Grissom
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 1611396042
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (113 download)
Download or read book The Fawn and Other Stories written by Thomas Grissom and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These eclectic short works of fiction should be read as lyric essays of the human condition—comparable in intensity and emotion to lyric poetry—created out of the human spirit and brought to life by the experiences and imagination of the writer. Each story is a vignette of the human heart in conflict with itself as it struggles to resolve those human dilemmas that confront, confound and confuse us in making the choices that determine how we live our lives. The more troubling and controversial the questions, the more relevant and compelling—and important—the story. These are emotionally charged stories about things that matter—love and honor and pity and pride and compassion—that speak truth to life’s mysteries and perplexities, the only kind of stories worth writing or reading. Includes Readers Guide.
Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521831792
Total Pages : 1241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English written by Dominic Head and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 1241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated and fully updated Third Edition of The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English is the most authoritative and international survey of world literature in English available. The Guide covers everything from Old English to contemporary writing from all over the English-speaking world. There are entries on writers from Britain and Ireland, the USA, Canada, India, Africa, South Africa, New Zealand, the South Pacific and Australia, as well as on many important poems, novels, literary journals and plays. This new edition has been brought completely up to date with more than 280 new author entries, most of them for living authors. The general reader will find it fascinating to browse and to discover many new writers and works, while students will find it an invaluable resource for daily use. This is a unique work of reference for the twenty-first century that no reader or library should be without.
Author : Jenny Stringer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192122711
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (921 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English written by Jenny Stringer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey of twentieth century English-language writers and writing from around the world, celebrating all major genres, with entries on literary movements, periodicals, more than 400 individual works, and articles on approximately 2,400 authors.
Author : Daniel J. Casey
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815602347
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Modern Irish-American Fiction written by Daniel J. Casey and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1989-07-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflected in these writings from twenty-one Irish Americans are the themes common to all immigrant literature, but from the authors’ own ethnic point of view. The struggle for success forms the underlying structure in the stories by O’Hara, Curran, and McCarthy; and the changing values the New World imposes on the individual are seen in Edwin O’Connor’s Grand Day for Mr. Garvey. Irish wit and black humor pepper all the stories, as represented by Dunn’s bartender-philosopher, Dooley, and Donleavy’s Fairy Tale of New York. Catholicism is omnipresent and is often characterized by the priest, as in Fitzgerald’s Benediction, Power’s Bill, and Flaherty’s Fogarty. Themes that have an immense effect on the characters’ relationships are their difficulties in communicating with one another, which Gill captures succinctly in The Cemetery, and the repositioning of gender roles, so evident in Cullinan’s Life After Death and in Costello’s Murphy’s Xmas. Finally, there are the intense, often contradictory, feelings the characters have toward their “homeland:” Hamill’s Gift illustrates the desire to rid Ireland of British rule; Gordon’s “neighborhood” shows the immigrants’ embarrassment over their origins. Editors Casey and Rhodes have organized these pieces chronologically, beginning at the turn of the century. Thus, the selections illustrate the progression of Irish-American literature and also fulfill the word of William Kennedy, who said of his own writing: “those who came before helped to show me how to turn experience into literature.”
Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 166762380X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (676 download)
Download or read book WORK SUSPENDED AND OTHER STORIES written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Waugh’s short stories: MR LOVEDAY’S LITTLE OUTING CRUISE; PERIOD PIECE ON GUARD AN ENGLISHMAN’S HOME EXCURSION IN REALITY BELLA FLEACE GAVE A PARTY WINNER TAKES ALL WORK SUSPENDED.
Author : Blanche H. Gelfant
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231504950
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story written by Blanche H. Gelfant and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-21 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces on individual writers and their work, including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, Andre Debus, Zora Neal Hurston, Anne Beattie, Bharati Mukherjee, J. D. Salinger, and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as engaging pieces on the promising new writers to come on the scene.
Author : Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book In Bad Company, and other stories written by Rolf Boldrewood and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "In Bad Company, and other stories" by Rolf Boldrewood. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Wendy Martin
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 9780679728818
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (288 download)
Download or read book We Are the Stories We Tell written by Wendy Martin and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1990-04-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty-six of the finest stories by the finest women writers to come out of the U.S. and Canada in the past fifty years. Organized by publication date, authors include Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie, Margaret Atwood, Anne Tyler, Tama Janowitz, Sandra Cisneros, Mary Gordon, and Alice Walker.
Author : Jay Parini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195156536
Total Pages : 2273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature written by Jay Parini and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 2273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set treats the whole of American literature, from the European discovery of America to the present, with entries in alphabetical order. Each of the 350 substantive essays is a major interpretive contribution. Well-known critics and scholars provide clear and vividly written essays thatreflect the latest scholarship on a given topic, as well as original thinking on the part of the critic. The Encyclopedia is available in print and as an e-reference text from Oxford's Digital Reference Shelf.At the core of the encyclopedia lie 250 essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists. The most prominent figures (such as Whitman, Melville, Faulkner, Frost, Morrison, and so forth) are treated at considerable length (10,000 words) by top-flight critics. Less well known figures arediscussed in essays ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 words. Each essay examines the life of the author in the context of his or her times, looking in detail at key works and describing the arc of the writer's career. These essays include an assessment of the writer's current reputation with abibliography of major works by the writer as well as a list of major critical and biographical works about the writer under discussion.A second key element of the project is the critical assessments of major American masterworks, such as Moby-Dick, Song of Myself, Walden, The Great Gatsby, The Waste Land, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Death of a Salesmanr, or Beloved. Each of these essays offers a close reading of the given work,placing that work in its historical context and offering a range of possibilities with regard to critical approach. These fifty essays (ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 words) are simply and clearly enough written that an intelligent high school student should easily understand them, but sophisticatedenough that a college student or general reader in a public library will find the essays both informative and stimulating.The final major element of this encyclopedia consists of fifty-odd essays on literary movements, periods, or themes, pulling together a broad range of information and making interesting connections. These essays treat many of the same authors already discussed, but in a different context; they alsogather into the fold authors who do not have an entire essay on their work (so that Zane Grey, for example, is discussed in an essay on Western literature but does not have an essay to himself). In this way, the project is truly "encyclopedic," in the conventional sense. These essays aim forcomprehensiveness without losing anything of the narrative force that makes them good reading in their own right.In a very real fashion, the literature of the American people reflects their deepest desires, aspirations, fears, and fantasies. The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature gathers a wide range of information that illumines the field itself and clarifies many of its particulars.
