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Book Synopsis A Gravity's Rainbow Companion by : Steven C. Weisenburger
Download or read book A Gravity's Rainbow Companion written by Steven C. Weisenburger and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adding some 20 percent to the original content, this is a completely updated edition of Steven Weisenburger's indispensable guide to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Weisenburger takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes, and puns around which Pynchon wove his story. Weisenburger fully annotates Pynchon's use of languages ranging from Russian and Hebrew to such subdialects of English as 1940s street talk, drug lingo, and military slang as well as the more obscure terminology of black magic, Rosicrucianism, and Pavlovian psychology. The Companion also reveals the underlying organization of Gravity's Rainbow--how the book's myriad references form patterns of meaning and structure that have eluded both admirers and critics of the novel. The Companion is keyed to the pages of the principal American editions of Gravity's Rainbow: Viking/Penguin (1973), Bantam (1974), and the special, repaginated Penguin paperback (2000) honoring the novel as one of twenty "Great Books of the Twentieth Century."
Download or read book Wayward Son written by Rainbow Rowell and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED SEQUEL TO THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER CARRY ON Simon Snow is back and he's coming to America! The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after... So why can’t Simon Snow get off the couch? What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light. That’s how Simon and Penny and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing across the American West. They find trouble, of course. (Dragons, vampires, skunk-headed things with shotguns.) And they get lost. They get so lost, they start to wonder whether they ever knew where they were headed in the first place. With Wayward Son, Rainbow Rowell has written a book for everyone who ever wondered what happened to the Chosen One after he saved the day. And a book for everyone who was ever more curious about the second kiss than the first. It’s another helping of sour cherry scones with an absolutely decadent amount of butter. Come on, Simon Snow. Your hero’s journey might be over – but your life has just begun.
Book Synopsis Gravity's Rainbow by : Thomas Pynchon
Download or read book Gravity's Rainbow written by Thomas Pynchon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 885 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1974 National Book Award "The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." - The New Republic “A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000.
Book Synopsis The Rainbow Illustrated by : D H Lawrence
Download or read book The Rainbow Illustrated written by D H Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rainbow is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1915. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family living in Nottinghamshire, [2] particularly focusing on the individual's struggle to growth and fulfilment within the confining strictures of English social life. Lawrence's 1920 novel Women in Love is a sequel to The Rainbow
Book Synopsis Pictures Showing what Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow by : Zak Smith
Download or read book Pictures Showing what Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow written by Zak Smith and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gravity's Rainbow Illustrated: One Picture for Every Page features the work of an Ivy League-educated, punk-rock, porn-star visual artist who has created a drawing for every page of a novel that is widely considered to be the most difficult work of literature ever produced in English.
Book Synopsis The Rainbow (Annotated) by : David Herbert Lawrence
Download or read book The Rainbow (Annotated) written by David Herbert Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-02 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rainbow is a 1915 novel British author D. H. Lawrence. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family, particularly focusing on the sexual dynamics of, and relations between, the characters. Lawrence's...
Book Synopsis The Rainbow (Annotated) by : David Herbert Lawrence
Download or read book The Rainbow (Annotated) written by David Herbert Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rainbow is a 1915 novel British author D. H. Lawrence. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family, particularly focusing on the sexual dynamics of, and relations between, the characters. Lawrence's...
Book Synopsis The Gravity's Rainbow Handbook: A Key to the Thomas Pynchon Novel by : Robert Crayola
Download or read book The Gravity's Rainbow Handbook: A Key to the Thomas Pynchon Novel written by Robert Crayola and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Pynchon has a reputation as a "difficult" author -- but he doesn't have to be! With this new guide, Gravity's Rainbow can be understood by the average reader. Included are: a chapter-by-chapter summary and commentary on the story, a thorough description of all major characters, a biography of Pynchon, suggestions for essay topics, and much more. This guide is guaranteed help you finish and make sense of Gravity's Rainbow -- all in a concise and easy-to-read format. Whether you are totally new to the book or just want to deepen your understanding, this guide will save you hours of struggle and frustration.
Download or read book The Rainbow written by D H Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Brangwen is descended from a long line of small landowners who owned Marsh Farm in Nottinghamshire for many generations. Tom is a man of the earth and lives alone on his farm with only an elderly woman, as a company and as a housekeeper. Then a Polish widow, Lydia Lensky, becomes the governess of the local church vicar. She brings with her her little daughter, Anna. One evening a few months later, Tom finds the courage to present the widow with a bouquet of daffodils in the vicar's kitchen and ask her to be her wife. Judged by the standards of the world, their marriage is satisfactory. They have two sons and Tom is kind to his stepdaughter. Getting to know his stepdaughter, however, is easier for him than getting to know Lydia. The fact that they are of different nationalities, cultures and even languages prevents them from becoming intellectually intimate with each other. There are times when one or both of them feel that their marriage is not what it should be and that they are not fulfilling the obligations imposed by their marriage. On one occasion, Lydia even suggests to her husband that she needs another woman. Little Anna is an arrogant little girl who spends many hours imagining herself a great lady or even a queen. In his eighteenth year, a nephew of Tom comes to work in the lace factory in the nearby village of Ilkeston. He is only twenty and the Brangwen of Marsh Farm take care of him and welcome him into their home. Anna and young Will fall in love, with a naive and moving affection for each other. When they soon announce to Tom and Lydia that they wish to get married, Tom rents them a house in the village and gives them a gift of two thousand five hundred pounds so that they can manage financially, given Will's small salary. The wedding is celebrated with rural pomp and hilarity. After the ceremony, the bride and groom spend two weeks alone in their cottage, ignoring the world and existing only for themselves. Anna is the first to return to the world of reality. Her decision to have a tea party bewilders and angers her husband, who has not yet realized that they cannot continue to live for and alone. It takes him almost a lifetime to get to that realization. Shortly after the wedding, Anna becomes pregnant and the arrival of the baby brings to Will the additional shock that his wife is more of a mother than a married mistress. Each year, a new baby arrives between Will and Anna. The eldest is Ursula, who remains her father's favorite. The love Will wishes to give to his wife is given to Ursula, because she Anna refuses to have anything to do with him when she is expecting another child, and she is not happy unless she is pregnant with her. In the second year of marriage, Will tries to rebel. He meets a young woman at the theater and then takes her out for dinner and for a walk. After this incident, Will and Anna's intimate life becomes passionate, enough to take Will during the day when he isn't needed in the house until the night he can rule his wife. Gradually, he becomes free in his mind from Anna's dominion. Because Ursula is her father's favorite daughter, she is sent to high school, a rare privilege for a girl in her plight in the last decade of the nineteenth century. She drinks knowledge of her in her study of Latin, French and algebra. Before she finishes her studies, however, her academic interests are divided from her interest in a young son of a Polish friend of her grandmother. The young and blond Anton Skrebensky, lieutenant of the British army, is introduced to the Brangwen house and during a month's leave he falls in love with Ursula, who is already in love with him. On his next leave, however, he is afraid of her because her love for her is too possessive. After finishing high school, ...
Book Synopsis The Crying of Lot 49 by : Thomas Pynchon
Download or read book The Crying of Lot 49 written by Thomas Pynchon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years “The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes.”—The New York Times “The work of a virtuoso with prose . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce’s Ulysses.”—Chicago Tribune “A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.”—San Francsisco Examiner The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy. When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.
Download or read book The Rainbow written by D. H. Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D. H. Lawrence's 1915 novel "The Rainbow" is the story of three generations of the Brangwens family. While tame by today's standards, "The Rainbow", for its frank treatment of human sexuality, caused Lawence to be prosecuted on an obscenity charge in England when it was first published. Through richly personal characterizations, "The Rainbow" deals profoundly with the very nature of human relations as it explores the sexuality of Ursula Brangwen and her mother, Anna Brangwen.
Book Synopsis Looking for the Rainbow by : Ruskin Bond
Download or read book Looking for the Rainbow written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘When we are small we need someone to hold our hand in the dark.’ At age eight, Ruskin escapes his jail-like boarding school in the hills and goes to live with his father in Delhi. His time in the capital is filled with books, visits to the cinema, music, and walks and conversations with his father—a dream life for a curious and wildly imaginative boy, which turns tragic all too soon. For years, Ruskin Bond has regaled and mesmerized readers with his tales. In Looking for the Rainbow, Bond travels to his past, recalling his favourite adventures (and misadventures) with extraordinary charm, sprinklings of wit, a pinch of poignance and not a trace of bitterness. What you’re holding, dear reader, is a classic in the making.
Book Synopsis The Rainbow Annotated and Illustrated Book for Children by : David Herbert Lawrence
Download or read book The Rainbow Annotated and Illustrated Book for Children written by David Herbert Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. This one-page guide includes a plot summary and brief analysis of The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence. The Rainbow tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family,between 1840 and 1905. The Brangwens have owned and worked Marsh Farm in Nottinghamshire, England, for generations, and the family includes craftsmen as well as farmers. Tom Brangwen hasn't much left the Midlands counties of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, where the farm is located. Tom works the land in near isolation, with only an old woman housekeeper as company. However, one day, the vicar of the local church hires a Polish widow, Lydia Lensky, to be his housekeeper, and Lydia brings with her her young daughter, Anna. After a few months, Tom musters the courage to bring Lydia a bouquet of flowers, and he asks her to be his wife.From the outside, their marriage is a happy one and Tom is a caring stepfather to Anna. Lydia and Tom, however, find that their differences in culture and language put a strain on their relationship. They find it difficult to connect or be together in the way a married couple should. At one point, Lydia even suggests that Tom should find another woman. They stay together, however.Eventually, Anna comes of age after a childhood of dreaming about being a queen. When she is eighteen, one of Tom's nephews, Will, comes to work in the lace factory in nearby Ilkeston. He lives with Tom's family at Marsh Farm, and Anna and Will fall in love. Theirs is a rather innocent love, as neither has much experience in romance, but it is sincere, and soon they announce their plans to marry. Tom throws them a large wedding, rents a home for them in the village, and gives them 2,500 pounds as a gift. The married couple spends their first two weeks entirely by themselves, wrapped up in the world that exists onlybetween them. Anna returns from this happy haze first, and Will struggles to re-enter the real world of reality and responsibility.
Book Synopsis For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf by : Ntozake Shange
Download or read book For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf written by Ntozake Shange and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “extraordinary and wonderful” award-winning play in a new edition featuring an additional poem, production photos, and an introduction by Jesmyn Ward (The New York Times). From its inception in California in 1974 to its Broadway revival in 2022, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange’s words reveal what it meant to be a woman of color in the 20th century—and they continue to ring true in the 21st. First published in 1975, it was praised by The New Yorker for “encompassing . . . every feeling and experience a woman has ever had”. This new edition celebrates the play’s enduring legacy with introductions by Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown. It also features a poem not previously included in the text, and a selection of photos capturing the play’s evolution and reinvention.
Book Synopsis Gravity's Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom by : Luc Herman
Download or read book Gravity's Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom written by Luc Herman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman and Weisenburger put the novel's abiding questions about freedom in context with sixties struggles against war, restricted speech rights, ethno-racial oppression, environmental degradation, and subtle new means of social and psychological control.
Download or read book Against the Day written by Thomas Pynchon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 1541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Pynchon's] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel.” —The New York Times Book Review “Raunchy, funny, digressive, brilliant.” —USA Today “Rich and sweeping, wild and thrilling.” —The Boston Globe Spanning the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the Day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them.
Book Synopsis Unweaving the Rainbow by : Richard Dawkins
Download or read book Unweaving the Rainbow written by Richard Dawkins and published by HMH. This book was released on 2000-04-05 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times–bestselling author of Science in the Soul. “If any recent writing about science is poetic, it is this” (The Wall Street Journal). Did Sir Isaac Newton “unweave the rainbow” by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as John Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says acclaimed scientist Richard Dawkins; Newton’s unweaving is the key too much of modern astronomy and to the breathtaking poetry of modern cosmology. Mysteries don’t lose their poetry because they are solved: the solution often is more beautiful than the puzzle, uncovering deeper mysteries. With the wit, insight, and spellbinding prose that have made him a bestselling author, Dawkins takes up the most important and compelling topics in modern science, from astronomy and genetics to language and virtual reality, combining them in a landmark statement of the human appetite for wonder. This is the book Dawkins was meant to write: A brilliant assessment of what science is (and isn’t), a tribute to science not because it is useful but because it is uplifting. “A love letter to science, an attempt to counter the perception that science is cold and devoid of aesthetic sensibility . . . Rich with metaphor, passionate arguments, wry humor, colorful examples, and unexpected connections, Dawkins’ prose can be mesmerizing.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Brilliance and wit.” —The New Yorker
