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The Penguin Book Of New Zealand Letters
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Book Synopsis The Penguin Book of New Zealand Letters by : Louise Lawrence
Download or read book The Penguin Book of New Zealand Letters written by Louise Lawrence and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first historical anthology of New Zealand letters is made up of more than 150 letters that span three centuries. The voices of both famous and ordinary New Zealanders as well as famous visitors capture the richness of human life, both mundane and noteworthy. Chronologically selected from Cook's voyages to the present day, this book contains much previously unpublished material. Each letter is preceded by a short explanatory piece from the editor"--Publisher's description.
Book Synopsis Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War by : Gavin McLean
Download or read book Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War written by Gavin McLean and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Zealand Wars of the 1840s and 1860s, other nineteenth-century military encounters, the South African War, the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Malaya, Vietnam, the Gulf War, modern-day peacekeeping . . . The Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War contains the best, widest range of published and non-published written material on our people in warfare. This is a soldier's book - thus letters, diaries, journalists' reports, memoirs. The focus is on actual experience and on human responses to war. A vast array of personal experiences is covered, including POWs, the home front, medical/nursing efforts, as well as coverage of conscientious objectors.
Book Synopsis Kerouac: Selected Letters by : Jack Kerouac
Download or read book Kerouac: Selected Letters written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Jack Kerouac's selected letters, published in 1995, was hailed as an important and revealing addition to Kerouac scholarship. This second and final volume, comprising letters written between 1957, the year On the Road was published, and the day before his death in 1969 at age forty-seven, tells Kerouac's life story through his candid correspondence with friends, confidants, and editors—among them Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Philip Whalen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joyce Johnson, and Malcolm Cowley. Documenting his continuing development as a writer and his travels, love affairs, and complicated family life, the letters also reveal Kerouac's amazing courage in the force of criticism and his never-ending quest to be the best writer possible. Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1957-1969 offers unparalleled insight into the life and mind of this giant of the American landscape.
Book Synopsis The Penguin History of New Zealand by : Michael King
Download or read book The Penguin History of New Zealand written by Michael King and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapidly in New Zealand than anywhere else on Earth. The Penguin History of New Zealand, a new book for a new century, tells that story in all its colour and drama. The narrative that emerges in an inclusive one about men and women, Maori and Pakeha. It shows that British motives in colonising New Zealand were essentially humane; and that Maori, far from being passive victims of a 'fatal impact', coped heroically with colonisation and survived by selectively accepting and adapting what Western technology and culture had to offer. This book, a triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, was an unprecedented best-seller from the time of its first publication in 2003.
Book Synopsis Spike Milligan: Man of Letters by : Spike Milligan
Download or read book Spike Milligan: Man of Letters written by Spike Milligan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spike Milligan's letters contain some of the best material he ever wrote . . . Collected here for the first time are the funniest, rudest and most revealing of them - most of which have never been seen before - from one of the greatest comics of the twentieth century to some of its most famous politicians, actors, celebrities and rock stars (as well as a host of unlikely individuals on some surprising subjects): - rounded teabags ('what did you do with the corners?') - backless hospital gowns ('beyond my comprehension') - heartfelt apologies ('pardon me for being alive') and the imbalance of male and female ducks in London's parks. Here, then, is the real Spike Miligan: obsessive, rude, generous and relentlessly witty. 'Milligan's zaniness shines through' Telegraph 'The godfather of alternative comedy' Eddie Izzard Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show. Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories.
Book Synopsis A Book in the Hand by : Penelope Griffith
Download or read book A Book in the Hand written by Penelope Griffith and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we find ourselves in a technological revolution and the computer screen takes over the printed page, the history of the book has become a subject of study throughout the world. This collection of 15 essays looks at at a wide variety of topics from the history of the printed word in New Zealand.
Book Synopsis Letters of Frank Sargeson by : Sarah Shieff
Download or read book Letters of Frank Sargeson written by Sarah Shieff and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and riveting record of both literary and social value. Frank Sargeson is one of New Zealand's best-loved and most important writers. Besides the ground-breaking short stories, he wrote memoirs, novels, and plays. He encouraged at least three generations of younger writers and, for most of his adult life, the famous bach behind the hedge at 14 Esmonde Road was at the heart of New Zealand's artistic and literary world. Sargeson was also a prolific letter writer, and this selection of 500 of the most fascinating ranges over half a century, from 1927 to 1981. The letters are immensely readable, vividly capturing his life and times, his milieu and his personality. Frank loved gossip, could be bitchy and peevish, but also kind, affectionate, funny, ribald, astute. This collection, selected, edited and annotated by Sarah Shieff, is a document of extraordinary significance for all those interested in New Zealand's literary and social history.
Book Synopsis Love Is a Four-Letter Word by : Michael Taeckens
Download or read book Love Is a Four-Letter Word written by Michael Taeckens and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Junot Díaz, Lynda Barry, Gary Shteyngart, and Kate Christensen to popular up-and-comers like Dan Kennedy, Wendy McClure, and Brock Clarke, Love Is a Four-Letter Word is a dead-on contemporary collection of true stories of seduction, heartbreak, and regret. Fearlessly revealing their shattered hearts and crushed egos; their indiscretions and indignities; their delusions, desperation, and disappointments, these talented writers capture the dark side of love in prose ranging from comic to poetic, poignant to cringe-inducing. Also featuring three cartoon/ graphic essays as a sixteen-page color insert, this anthology is perfect for anyone who’s ever loved and lost.
Book Synopsis Picking Up the Traces by : Lawrence Jones
Download or read book Picking Up the Traces written by Lawrence Jones and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the generation of New Zealand writers who came of age in the 1930s and who deliberately and decisively changed the course of literature is told in this book, shedding important new light on the key participants, including Allen Curnow, Denis Glover, and Robin Hyde. The movement is traced through small circulation magazines and small press publications from 1932 to 1941. The repudiations and loyalties by which the movement defined itself are explored, including its opposition to the literary establishment and to late Georgian verse, its naming of its precursors and allies from the 1920s, and its choice of overseas models such as the British Moderns and the new American short-story writers for the creation of a new literature. oppose the cultural myths supported by the literary establishment and the writers' responses to the world-wide social upheavals of the period -- the Depression, the international crises of 1935 to 1939, and World War II.
Download or read book Theatre Country written by Geoff Park and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conservation movement opposing the 19th-century torching of forests by British settlers is appraised in this collection of essays from a leading New Zealand environmentalist. The book delves into subjects as diverse as William Wordsworth, Charles Darwin, the rise of nature tourism, the ecology of the inhabited landscape, environmental management in Indonesia, the ecological practices of the early Pakeha settlers, and the Urewera landscape paintings of Colin McCahon.
Book Synopsis A.R.D Fairburn by : Arthur Rex Dugard Fairburn
Download or read book A.R.D Fairburn written by Arthur Rex Dugard Fairburn and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet, wit and controversialist, A.R.D. Fairburn was one of the best-known New Zealanders of his time. This volume represents the full range and vitality of his verse. Accompanying the well known anthology pieces such as 'The Cave' and 'A Farewell' are ballads like 'Walking on My Feet' and 'The Rakehelly Man', as well as a generous selection of his early love lyrics.
Book Synopsis Colonial Literature and the Native Author by : Jane Stafford
Download or read book Colonial Literature and the Native Author written by Jane Stafford and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first study of writers who are both Victorian and indigenous, who have been educated in and write in terms of Victorian literary conventions, but whose indigenous affiliation is part of their literary personae and subject matter. What happens when the colonised, indigenous, or ‘native’ subject learns to write in the literary language of empire? If the romanticised subject of colonial literature becomes the author, is a new kind of writing produced, or does the native author conform to the models of the coloniser? By investigating the ways that nineteenth-century concerns are adopted, accommodated, rewritten, challenged, re-inscribed, confronted, or assimilated in the work of these authors, this study presents a novel examination of the nature of colonial literary production and indigenous authorship, as well as suggesting to the discipline of colonial and postcolonial studies a perhaps unsettling perspective with which to look at the larger patterns of Victorian cultural and literary formation.
Download or read book Posted Love written by Sophie Jerram and published by Penguin Group (New Zealand). This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of love letters by New Zealanders written from 1830 to 1998, following on from the 1999 National Library Gallery exhibition 'Posted Love, Love Letters from the Turnbull Library and beyond'. Presents a less-often mentioned side of history - love - and the literary talents of many unknown New Zealanders. Images of the originals accompany transcriptions of the letters.
Book Synopsis The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English by : Terry Sturm
Download or read book The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English written by Terry Sturm and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most comprehensive history of New Zealand literature to have been published. It offers chapters on the novel, poetry, and on the short story, which have been the staple of earlier histories and surveys, as well as sections on drama, non-ficiton, children's literature, popular literature, and the history of publishing, patronage and literary magazines. In this major new edition, material is provided on the period from 1986-1996, and a new chapter has been included on literary scholarship, criticism, and theory.
Book Synopsis Te Puna - A New Zealand Mission Station by : Angela Middleton
Download or read book Te Puna - A New Zealand Mission Station written by Angela Middleton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evangelical missionary societies have been associated with the processes of colonisation throughout the globe, from India to Africa and into the Pacific. In late 18th-century Britain, the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East (CMS) began its missionary ventures, and in the first decade of the 19th-century, sent three of its members to New South Wales, Australia, and then on to New Zealand, an unknown, little-explored part of the world. Across the globe, a common material culture travelled with its evangelizing (and later colonizing) settlers, with artefacts appearing as cultural markers from Cape Town in South Africa, to Tasmania in Australia and the even more remote Bay of Islands in New Zealand. After missionization, colonization occurred. Additionally, common themes of interaction with indigenous peoples, household economy, the development of commerce, and social and gender relations also played out in these communities. This work is unique in that it provides the first archaeological examination of a New Zealand mission station, and as such, makes an important contribution to New Zealand historical archaeology and history. It also situates the case study in a global context, making a significant contribution to the international field of mission archaeology. It informs a wider audience about the processes of colonization and culture contact in New Zealand, along with the details of the material culture of the country’s first European settlers, providing a point of comparison with other outposts of British colonization.
Book Synopsis The New Zealand A to Z All Ages Amazing Alphabet Alliterations by : Roger Twiname
Download or read book The New Zealand A to Z All Ages Amazing Alphabet Alliterations written by Roger Twiname and published by Raupo. This book was released on 2002 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of alphabet tongue twisters features beautiful illustrations of New Zealand fauna representing letters of the alphabet. Each illustration is packed with detailed representations of creatures beginning with the featured letter, but the trick is to find the one thing beginning with the letter preceding, and the one thing beginning with the letter that follows. You can have fun figuring this out yourself, or you can find the answers at the back of the book. This book will delight both adults and children.
Book Synopsis Letters to a Young Artist by : Julia Cameron
Download or read book Letters to a Young Artist written by Julia Cameron and published by Tarcher. This book was released on 2005 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Cameron responds to letters and e-mails she has received as a result of her numerous written works, in a collection of correspondences designed to be read as an intimate dialogue between a teacher and student.
