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Book Synopsis The wax Statue and Other Stories by : Rafat Farzana
Download or read book The wax Statue and Other Stories written by Rafat Farzana and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WAX STATUE AND OTHER STORIES is a translated version of the short stories written by Jeelani Bano. She is one of the most reputed literary figures in SAWNET, known for her supremacy in exposing the flaws of society before the readers. Jeelani Bano keeps the pedal to the metal.Her stories are a mirror of the society of those days,which are relevant even today. Her stories like 'Moum ki Maryam' won great acclaim by the readers and literary men of that age. In her stories she explores the diaspora feelings and the exploitation of the poor. She is a critic of social evils, her vim and vigour portrays the misery and suffering of women in a male dominated society. Her stories are solely objective. She is never didactic in her tone and allows the readers to judge. Her approach is multidimensional and not a storm in a tea cup. Hence their translation into English will spread her message far and wide and serve the purpose of her writings. My aim in translating her short stories into English is to convey the message to the non Urdu readers and to enliven her literary talent in other languages.
Book Synopsis Welcome to the Wicked Wax Museum by : R.L. Stine
Download or read book Welcome to the Wicked Wax Museum written by R.L. Stine and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choose your fate on a terrifying class trip in this scary GOOSEBUMPS adventure that’s packed with more than twenty super-spooky endings. Your teacher thinks it’ll be good for your class to hang out at the new wax museum in town. Yeah, right! Once you get there your teacher starts blah-blahing about something or other and that’s when you and your friend see the red door. If you decide to check out what’s behind door #1, you’ll discover the museum owner’s secret for making lifelike sculptures. And it doesn’t look like fun! If you decide to ditch the red door and go the other way, you’ll end up meeting scary Sybil Wicked—and wish you hadn’t. Will you escape this creepy place before you’re turned into a human candle? The choice is yours . . . Reader beware—you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!
Download or read book Madame Tussaud written by Geri Walton and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “meticulously researched and deftly written biography” of the woman behind the famed wax museums, and their origins in the era of the French Revolution (Midwest Book Review). Madame Marie Tussaud is known worldwide for the chain of wax museums she started over two hundred years ago. Less known is that her original wax models were often of the famous and infamous people she personally knew during and after the French Revolution. These were people like Voltaire, Robespierre, and Napoleon—people who changed the world. Even more, the wax figures were depicted in scenes drawn from the horrors she experienced during the reign of terror in Paris during her early adult years. This book shows how the traumatic and cataclysmic experiences of Madame Tussaud’s early life became part of her legacy. She created a succession of scenes in wax, telling events as she personally experienced them. Her wax sculptures were visceral. She made them herself, at times from the living person’s head and at other times from the recently guillotined head of a former houseguest. As a result, people were drawn to her wax displays because they were the most intense way of experiencing those events themselves. This is the story not only of a unique artist, but of how one of history’s bloodiest events influenced her life and work.
Book Synopsis Ephemeral Bodies by : Julius Ritter von Schlosser
Download or read book Ephemeral Bodies written by Julius Ritter von Schlosser and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The material history of wax is a history of disappearance--wax melts, liquefies, evaporates, and undergoes innumerable mutations. Wax is tactile, ambiguous, and mesmerizing, confounding viewers and scholars alike. It can approximate flesh with astonishing realism and has been used to create uncanny human simulacra since ancient times--from phallic amulets offered to heal distressing conditions and life-size votive images crammed inside candlelit churches by the faithful, to exquisitely detailed anatomical specimens used for training doctors and Medardo Rosso's "melting" portraits. The critical history of wax, however, is fraught with gaps and controversies. After Giorgio Vasari, the subject of wax sculpture was abandoned by art historians; in the twentieth century it once again sparked intellectual interest, only soon to vanish. The authors of the eight essays in Ephemeral Bodies--including the first English translation of Julius von Schlosser's seminal "History of Portraiture in Wax" (1910-11)--break new ground as they explore wax reproductions of the body or body parts and assess their conceptual ambiguity, material impermanence, and implications for the history of Western art.
Download or read book One Who Saw written by A.M. Burrage and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensitive writer flees the clatter of London for a sleepy French city. After settling in at quiet hotel, he spies a ghostly, solitary young woman weeping in a walled garden, her features hidden from view. Compelled to see the woman's face, he ventures forward.... Originally published on Christmas in 1931, "One Who Saw" is regarded as A.M. Burrage's masterpiece.
Book Synopsis American Chillers #18 Washington Wax Museum by : Johnathan Rand
Download or read book American Chillers #18 Washington Wax Museum written by Johnathan Rand and published by . This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Seattle, Washington, Rachel Baker's class wins a field trip to a wax museum that turns into a nightmare when she and her friend, David Rydell, begin to realize that all is not what it appears to be.
Download or read book Fright Favorites written by David J. Skal and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turner Classic Movies presents a collection of monster greats, modern and classic horror, and family-friendly cinematic treats that capture the spirit of Halloween, complete with reviews, behind-the-scenes stories, and iconic images. Fright Favorites spotlights 31 essential Halloween-time films, their associated sequels and remakes, and recommendations to expand your seasonal repertoire based on your favorites. Featured titles include Nosferatu (1922), Dracula (1931), Cat People (1942), Them (1953), House on Haunted Hill (1959), Black Sunday (1960), Rosemary's Baby (1968), Young Frankenstein (1976), Beetlejuice (1988), Get Out (2017), and many more.
Book Synopsis Modeling in Wax for Jewelry and Sculpture by : Lawrence Kallenberg
Download or read book Modeling in Wax for Jewelry and Sculpture written by Lawrence Kallenberg and published by Krause Publications. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expands on the original work that first introduced artists and artisans to the materials, tools and techniques used to create original wax models for jewelry - both fine pieces and costume jewelry. The ancient method of lost-wax casting and traditional casting techniques of modeling in wax free that artist from many of the restrictions of traditional wax modeling, to provide greater freedom and spontaneity in creation, along with a newly achieved speed in execution. &break;&break;The author combines this understanding of the methods with his own practical experience to present the techniques in a concise, step-by-step format. He details the necessary materials and tools, and introduces the reader to their various characteristics and their roles in the jewelry-making process. He guides the artist through the various processes of wax modeling in several projects.
Book Synopsis The wax Statue and Other Stories by : Rafat Farzana
Download or read book The wax Statue and Other Stories written by Rafat Farzana and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WAX STATUE AND OTHER STORIES is a translated version of the short stories written by Jeelani Bano. She is one of the most reputed literary figures in SAWNET, known for her supremacy in exposing the flaws of society before the readers. Jeelani Bano keeps the pedal to the metal.Her stories are a mirror of the society of those days,which are relevant even today. Her stories like 'Moum ki Maryam' won great acclaim by the readers and literary men of that age. In her stories she explores the diaspora feelings and the exploitation of the poor. She is a critic of social evils, her vim and vigour portrays the misery and suffering of women in a male dominated society. Her stories are solely objective. She is never didactic in her tone and allows the readers to judge. Her approach is multidimensional and not a storm in a tea cup. Hence their translation into English will spread her message far and wide and serve the purpose of her writings. My aim in translating her short stories into English is to convey the message to the non Urdu readers and to enliven her literary talent in other languages.
Book Synopsis Highway: A Literary Translation of Qamar Jamali's Short Stories by : Rafat Farzana
Download or read book Highway: A Literary Translation of Qamar Jamali's Short Stories written by Rafat Farzana and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Highway' is the translation of Qamar Jamali's short stories into English. Qamar Jamali is a well-known Urdu fictionist of Hyderabad, Telangana. she is a live writer and continues to write. I personally met the writer and liked the thought behind her stories. The charecters of her stories aptly display the burning problems of the society which relates to the present scenario. They are not fictitious, they appear very much real and we find them in our day to day life. This appealed to me a lot. I translated her stories with the intention of making her known to the non-Urdu readers. "Highway" comprises ten stories.There is a variety of theme in her stories. Woman's emancipation is one of her themes. According to her a woman occupies not only a place in domestic field but also diverse positions in society.No doubt she speaks about the anguish of a woman, she doesn't do any oration instead she opens many doors for the characters to act and the readers to think. Her stories are her experiences and observations.The technique of dialogue explains the incidents in the stories."Lifeline" id one such very impressive story. The development of the story is by logical dialogue though it also has a psychological element in it.In her stories, "Aankhen", "Khwaab Tabeer" and "Tera Naam kya hai", we find characters, incidents,scenario,and dialogue move simultenously together. In 'Baandh Do' she gives a different perspective to Saadat Hasan Manto's,'Khol Do'. She gives a positive outlook to the story, apart from portraying the treachery of men. She tries to say that there is good along with the evil in the society. In the story, 'Highway', the writer aptly conveys the message of inhumanity in the society, through the words of the road. 'Shelter' is the story of adolescent crime. All through the story the protagonist is seen in search of love. 'Adam's Offspring', speaks of the helplessness of a brother to help out his sister and an ever risky situation of a woman in the hands of lustful men of the society. 'The Velvet Mite' is a pathetic story which depicts the stark reality of the days of Kargil war. The book, 'Highway', is the realistic image of the social mileu of the times. The writer not only picturizes the flaws of society but also suggests the measures to rectify them through the characters.
Book Synopsis A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories by : Robert Walser
Download or read book A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories written by Robert Walser and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Schoolboy’s Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser’s strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English. Opening with a sequence from Walser’s first book, “Fritz Kocher’s Essays,” the complete classroom assignments of a fictional boy who has met a tragically early death, this selection ranges from sketches of uncomprehending editors, overly passionate readers, and dreamy artists to tales of devilish adultery, sexual encounters on a train, and Walser’s service in World War I. Throughout, Walser’s careening, confounding, delicious voice holds the reader transfixed.
Book Synopsis Philip Reid Saves The Statue of Freedom by : Steven Sellers Lapham
Download or read book Philip Reid Saves The Statue of Freedom written by Steven Sellers Lapham and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 2, 1863, a bronze statue was placed atop the dome of the United States Capitol. Standing more than 19 feet tall, the figure called “Freedom” was designed and created during a period of great turmoil in American history. But at one point during its creation, it wasn’t clear the statue would even get to its final destination. One man, in particular, played an important role in seeing the statue through to completion. His name was Philip Reid. Born into slavery, Reid grew up on a South Carolina farm, helping various craftsmen such as the blacksmith and the potter. Eventually, he was sold to a man named Clark Mills, who opened a foundry in Washington, D.C. Mills’s foundry was contracted to cast the Freedom statue, but the project was jeopardized when a seemingly unsolvable puzzle arose. And it was Philip Reid who stepped in to solve it.
Book Synopsis The Manara Library Volume 6: Escape from Piranesi and Other Stories by : Milo Manara
Download or read book The Manara Library Volume 6: Escape from Piranesi and Other Stories written by Milo Manara and published by Dark Horse Books. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milo Minara is a well-known and much-loved Italian graphic novelist, and he has been collaborating with Dark House to bring a comprehensive catalogue of his work to the English-speaking world. Manara's artwork and satirical voice are both in top form in this latest edition, and these stories, spanning two decades, are among his funniest, sexiest and most beautiful. The latest in a series of nine volumes, this reprint allows classic Manara stories to be experienced by a whole new audience.
Book Synopsis The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by : Mark Twain
Download or read book The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg written by Mark Twain and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curl up with a collection of stories from the pen of one of the masters of American fiction and humor writing. This carefully curated volume of Twain's short stories represents a cross-section of some the author's finest work, including the title piece, which follows a stranger's plot to corrupt a purportedly honest community.
Download or read book Leave It to Cleavage written by Wendy Wax and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miranda Smith isn't surprised to discover a cache of racy photographs in her husband's desk--after all, he is the president of Ballantyne Bras. But she's more than shocked to realize it's his buff, burly body encased in the red satin bustier and matching bikini panties...and he's nowhere to be found. Neither is their life savings nor the company coffers. Thus begins Miranda's hilarious, frantic scramble to unravel the mystery behind her husband's disappearance, illegal accounting practices, and penchant for wearing silky teddies and kitten heels.
Download or read book Waxworks written by Michelle E. Bloom and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1921. The world's greatest wax sculptor watches in horror as flames consume his museum and melt his uncannily lifelike creations. Twelve years later, he opens a wax museum in New York. Crippled, disfigured, and driven mad by the fire, he resorts to body snatching and murder to populate his displays, preserving the bodies in wax. "In a thousand years you will be as lovely as you are now, " he assures one victim. In The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), director Michael Curtiz perfectly captures the macabre essence of realistic wax figures that have excited the darker aspects of the public's imagination ever since Madame Tussaud established her famous museum in London in 1802. Artists, too, have been fascinated by wax sculptures, seeing in them--and in the unique properties of wax itself--an eerie metaphoric power with which to address sexual anxiety, fears of mortality, and other morbid subjects. In Waxworks, Michelle E. Bloom explores the motif of the wax figure in European and American literature and art. In particular, she connects the myth of Pygmalion to the obsession with wax statues of women in the nineteenth-century fetishization of prostitutes and female corpses and as depicted in such "wax fictions" as Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop (1841). Filmmakers, too, have sought inspiration from wax museums, and Bloom analyzes works from the silent era to such waxwork-themed Hollywood horror films as Mad Love (1935) and House of Wax (1953). Bringing her discussion to the present, Bloom examines the work of contemporary artists who use the medium of wax in ways never imagined by Madame Tussaud. As extravagant new wax museums open in Las Vegas, Times Square, and Paris, Waxworksoffers a provocative cultural history of this enduring--and disturbing--art form.
Book Synopsis The Country Doctor and Other Stories by : Honoré de Balzac
Download or read book The Country Doctor and Other Stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
