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Malcontents

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Author : Joe Queenan
Publisher : Running Press Book Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1062 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Malcontents written by Joe Queenan and published by Running Press Book Publishers. This book was released on 2004-03-03 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's no surprise that, as he claims in his thoughtful and witty introduction, humorist Queenan (Balsamic Dreams) relished the opportunity to pore over and select the hilarious and sometimes disturbing works in this anthology. As he points out, "One of the great pleasures in reading books that are hundreds and even thousands of years old is in discovering how little the targets of the satirist have changed over the centuries." The buffoonery and sometimes depravity of such targets are on full display in this volume, which features 30 works by 19 authors and includes such classics as "A Modest Proposal," Candide, and shorter pieces by Mark Twain and Flann O'Brien. Gargantua and Pantagruel and Don Quixote rollick through brief selections as well. Queenan makes a good case for the less obvious choices rounding out the collection, notably Machiavelli's The Prince and de Sade's Justine, but he fails to link the ancient with the contemporary: the last half-century of bitter and cynical writing goes disappointingly ignored. And yet, though heavily weighted toward "classic satire," this anthology is likely the best of its kind to date. Recommended for all libraries.

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Author : Reginald Keith
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1602475377
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Malcontents written by Reginald Keith and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Reginald Keith, in his novel "The Malcontents," paints a portrait of war-torn Germany, the lives of those ravaged by violence and betrayal within the Third Reich. Enter into the society and culture of post-war Germany still populated by those who believed and supported the philosophy of The Malcontents, a group of former officials in the Nazi regime, whose plan was to convert prestigious works of art into cash as recompense, ultimately financing a resurrection of Aryan Supremacy through political power. Andre Von Kunst, owner of Von Kunst Gallery, Berlin, finds himself fascinated by Katya Preznoski, first violinist with the Polish State Orchestra. Determined to meet her in person, he follows the orchestra across Germany, as his partner, Hannelore Hassenfeld, a friend since childhood, manages the gallery. Unbeknownst to Andre, she continues to perpetuate an illicit plan set up by her father with a group of former Nazi government officials, known as the Kreis, to funnel stolen artworks to the gallery for eventual sale in the U.S. An unlikely turn of events sheds light on personal betrayals, blatant prejudices, unrequited love, and conflicting loyalties, as this intense journey into the German society of the sixties proffers that things are not often what they appear to be.

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Author : C.P. Snow
Publisher : House of Stratus
ISBN 13 : 0755118464
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book The Malcontents written by C.P. Snow and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Freer is a prosperous solicitor who is also the Registrar responsible for his cathedral’s legal business. His son Stephen is one of a secret group known as the core. When Stephen’s group activities land them in terrible trouble, no one guesses that the consequences will lead to a death and more.

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Author : C.P. Snow
Publisher : House of Stratus
ISBN 13 : 0755120159
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book The Malcontents written by C.P. Snow and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Freer is a prosperous solicitor who is also the Registrar responsible for his cathedral’s legal business. His son Stephen is one of a secret group known as the core. When Stephen’s group activities land them in terrible trouble, no one guesses that the consequences will lead to a death and more.

Modernity and Its Malcontents

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Author : Jean Comaroff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226114392
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Modernity and Its Malcontents written by Jean Comaroff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role does ritual play in the everyday lives of modern Africans? How are so-called "traditional" cultural forms deployed by people seeking empowerment in a world where "modernity" has failed to deliver on its promises? Some of the essays in Modernity and Its Malcontents address familiar anthropological issues—like witchcraft, myth, and the politics of reproduction—but treat them in fresh ways, situating them amidst the polyphonies of contemporary Africa. Others explore distinctly nontraditional subjects—among them the Nigerian popular press and soul-eating in Niger—in such a way as to confront the conceptual limits of Western social science. Together they demonstrate how ritual may be powerfuly mobilized in the making of history, present, and future. Addressing challenges posed by contemporary African realities, the authors subject such concepts as modernity, ritual, power, and history to renewed critical scrutiny. Writing about a variety of phenomena, they are united by a wish to preserve the diversity and historical specificity of local signs and practices, voices and perspectives. Their work makes a substantial and original contribution toward the historical anthropology of Africa. The contributors, all from the Africanist circle at the University of Chicago, are Adeline Masquelier, Deborah Kaspin, J. Lorand Matory, Ralph A. Austen, Andrew Apter, Misty L. Bastian, Mark Auslander, and Pamela G. Schmoll.

The Malcontent

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Author : John Marston
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408144492
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Malcontent written by John Marston and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Malevole is one of the most prodigious affections that ever conversed with nature: a man, or rather a monster, more discontent than Lucifer." The Malcontent is a striking example of the new satiric tone and moral seriousness in English comedy of the early 1600s. The play's vision of a fallen humanity driven by lust and ambition is created partly by its depiction of Machiavellian intrigue in the court of Genoa, and partly by the disaffected Malevole, the malcontent of the title, who is actually the deposed Duke Altofronto in disguise. Marston's tragi-comedy is full of reversals, surprises and moral transformations and offers a thin disguise for the Jacobean court and its vices. This new student edition contains a lengthy new Introduction with background on the author, date and sources, theme, critical interpretation and stage history.

Malcontents, Rebels, and Pronunciados

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Author : Will Fowler
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803225428
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Malcontents, Rebels, and Pronunciados written by Will Fowler and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind every pronunciamiento, a formal list of grievances designed to spark political change in nineteenth-century Mexico, was a disgruntled individual, rebel, or pronunciado. Initially a role undertaken by soldiers, a pronunciado rallied military communities to petition for local, regional, and even national interests. As the popularity of these petitions grew, however, they evolved from a military-led practice to one endorsed and engaged by civilians, priests, indigenous communities, and politicians. The second in a series of books exploring the phenomenon of the pronunciamiento, this volume examines case studies of individual and collective pronunciados in regions across Mexico. Top scholars examine the motivations of individual pronunciados and the reasons they succeeded or failed; why garrisons, town councils, and communities adopted the pronunciamiento as a political tool and form of representation and used it to address local and national grievances; and whether institutions upheld corporate aims in endorsing, supporting, or launching pronunciamientos. The essays provide a better understanding of the rebel leaders behind these public acts of defiance and reveal how an insurrectionary repertoire became part of a national political culture.

Cool for America

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Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374718237
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Cool for America written by Andrew Martin and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding the world of his classic-in-the-making debut novel Early Work, Andrew Martin’s Cool for America is a hilarious collection of overlapping stories that explores the dark zone between artistic ambition and its achievement The collection is bookended by the misadventures of Leslie, a young woman (first introduced in Early Work) who moves from New York to Missoula, Montana to try to draw herself out of a lingering depression, and, over the course of the book, gains painful insight into herself through a series of intense friendships and relationships. Other stories follow young men and women, alone and in couples, pushing hard against, and often crashing into, the limits of their abilities as writers and partners. In one story, two New Jersey siblings with substance-abuse problems relapse together on Christmas Eve; in another, a young couple tries to make sense of an increasingly unhinged veterinarian who seems to be tapping, deliberately or otherwise, into the unspoken troubles between them. In tales about characters as they age from punk shows and benders to book clubs and art museums, the promise of community acts—at least temporarily—as a stay against despair. Running throughout Cool for America is the characters’ yearning for transcendence through art: the hope that, maybe, the perfect, or even just the good-enough sentence, can finally make things right.

The Story of Georgia and the Georgia People, 1732 to 1860

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Author : George Gilman Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Georgia and the Georgia People, 1732 to 1860 written by George Gilman Smith and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of Georgia and the Georgia People, 1732 To 1860 by George Gilman Smith, first published in 1900, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

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Author : Kevin A. Quarmby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317035550
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries written by Kevin A. Quarmby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early seventeenth century, the London stage often portrayed a ruler covertly spying on his subjects. Traditionally deemed 'Jacobean disguised ruler plays', these works include Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Marston's The Malcontent and The Fawn, Middleton's The Phoenix, and Sharpham's The Fleer. Commonly dated to the arrival of James I, these plays are typically viewed as synchronic commentaries on the Jacobean regime. Kevin A. Quarmby demonstrates that the disguised ruler motif actually evolved in the 1580s. It emerged from medieval folklore and balladry, Tudor Chronicle history and European tragicomedy. Familiar on the Elizabethan stage, these incognito rulers initially offered light-hearted, romantic entertainment, only to suffer a sinister transformation as England awaited its ageing queen's demise. The disguised royal had become a dangerously voyeuristic political entity by the time James assumed the throne. Traditional critical perspectives also disregard contemporary theatrical competition. Market demands shaped the repertories. Rivalry among playing companies guaranteed the motif's ongoing vitality. The disguised ruler's presence in a play reassured audiences; it also facilitated a subversive exploration of contemporary social and political issues. Gradually, the disguised ruler's dramatic currency faded, but the figure remained vibrant as an object of parody until the playhouses closed in the 1640s.

Life and Writings of Alexander James Dallas

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Author : Alexander James Dallas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth

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Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth, 1558-[1589]

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Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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CALENDER OF STATE PAPERS, FOREIGHN SERIES OF THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH JANUARY-JUNE, 1583 and ADDENDA

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Author : ARTHUR JOHN BUTLER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1006 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book CALENDER OF STATE PAPERS, FOREIGHN SERIES OF THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH JANUARY-JUNE, 1583 and ADDENDA written by ARTHUR JOHN BUTLER and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth, 1558-[ ]

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Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 880 pages
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Calendar of State Papers

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Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth: 1578-1579

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Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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