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Author : Fiona Pitt-Kethley
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Literary Companion to Low Life written by Fiona Pitt-Kethley and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian May
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547892489
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (478 download)
Download or read book A Pliocene Companion written by Julian May and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1984-11-27 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the acclaimed Pliocene Quartet offers an in-depth guide to a saga that “has most closely matched J. R. R Tolkien's achievement” (San Francisco Chronicle). With its richly imagined universe and large cast of finely-drawn characters, Julian May’s Saga of Pliocene Exile has won devoted fans across the globe who find new layers, details, and ideas with each reading. In the words of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: “Julian May has made a new and fresh masterwork in the genre and has irrevocably placed herself among the great of fantasy and science fiction.” Covering all four novels—The Many-Colored Land, The Golden Torc, The Nonborn King, and The Adversary—this reading guideoffers a plot chronology, the author's original maps, a descriptive listing of all the characters, and three delightful interviews with May herself. Beyond that, it gives the reader a chance to explore further the surroundings of a world six million years in the past. The glossary gives information on metapsychology, on the futuristic science of the Galactic Milieu, and on the exotic world of the Tanu and Firvulag. In all, A Pliocene Companion is a must for followers of the Saga.
Author : Stephen Curtis
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781840223057
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Crossword Companion written by Stephen Curtis and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wordsworth Crossword Companion incorporates many special features: Clear guidance on how to recognize and work out anagrams and how to decipher cryptic clues. Thousands of synonym entries arranged in order of the number of letters in every word, e.g. fault n (3) bug; (4) flaw, lack, spot; (5) blame, error, taint, (6) defect; (7) absence, blemish, failing, frailty, mistake; (8) weakness; (10) deficiency, inadequacy; (11) shortcoming; (14) responsibility; over 30,000 synonyms.
Author : Greg W. Zacharias
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118836529
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Henry James written by Greg W. Zacharias and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by some of the world's most distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative collection of essays provides the most up-to-date scholarship on James’s writings available today. Provides an essential, up-to-date reference to the work and scholarship of Henry James Features the writing of a wide range of James scholars Places James’s writings within national contexts—American, English, French, and Italian Offers both an overview of contemporary James scholarship and a cutting edge resource for studying important individual topics
Author : Nicholas Dobson
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1802074376
Total Pages : 719 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Regal Throne — Power, Politics and Ribaldry written by Nicholas Dobson and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If, advised essayist and critic William Hazlitt, we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. For if anyone profoundly understood the human condition in all its forms, it was he. Lovably drunken rogues, dysfunctional kings, cowardly preening braggarts, to nobly inspiring heroes. The remarkable series of plays engaged in under The Regal Throne moves from high political intrigue to lowlife bar-room badinage. From self-indulgent regal decline to elevated and inspirational kingly valour. From adolescent delinquency and father-son tensions to exaltedly noble redemption. The playwright launches us on our journey with the narcissistic Richard, rapidly sowing seeds of his own decline with his callously imperious behaviour. And the ruthlessly astute Bolingbroke returning from his banishment to take the sovereign's Crown and then his life. But Bolingbroke as Henry IV has little chance to enjoy his prize. For his tyranny breeds rebellion. Meanwhile in Cheapside, (and to his father's chagrin), the future Henry V, as adolescent Prince Hal, disports himself in seedy taverns amongst a gallery of Hogarthian lowlifes (including the comedic heavyweight Falstaff), while quietly planning a shrewdly redemptive personal remake as the exemplary war hero, Henry V. A rich tapestry indeed. But whilst Shakespeare's early modern English is reasonably understandable, many words and references aren't. For slang is constantly shape-shifting. And, particularly with Shakespeare's bar-room banter, it's helpful to know just what the characters are saying to and about each other. The author explains each scene of all four plays in detail with copious quotations from Shakespeare's text throughout and substantial hypertext explanatory notes. The Regal Throne is an invaluable companion for all who set sail on this vibrant Shakespearean voyage into power, politics, and ribaldry.
Author : Glenn Barr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972938716
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (387 download)
Download or read book The Lowlife Companion written by Glenn Barr and published by . This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 64 pg. book in glorious black and white measuring 7 inches x 9 inches.Here for the first time is a collection of 100's of drawings from Barr's personal sketchbook. Glenn's quick and sensitive line work gives insight into the artist's active cerebral cortex.Too much to take in one sitting. Published exclusively by Tin Man Alley Press.This serves as a companion book to Glenn Barr's definitive art book, Lowlife Paradise published by La Luz de Jesus.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ladies' Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5041579202
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (415 download)
Download or read book The Garret and the Garden; Or, Low Life High Up written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by Litres. This book was released on 2019-03-02 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. M. Ballantyne
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Garret and the Garden; Or, Low Life High Up written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Garret and the Garden; Or, Low Life High Up" by R. M. Ballantyne is a 19th-century detective fiction novel set in London, England. The story revolves around false imprisonment and a detective's efforts to prove innocence. It's filled with unexpected turns and keeps the readers curious till the end. Moreover, the novel sheds light on the harsh realities of life in Victorian-era London, including poverty and social injustice.
Author : Plautus
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520938229
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Rome and the Mysterious Orient written by Plautus and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-12-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still funny after two thousand years, the Roman playwright Plautus wrote around 200 B.C.E., a period when Rome was fighting neighbors on all fronts, including North Africa and the Near East. These three plays—originally written for a wartime audience of refugees, POWs, soldiers and veterans, exiles, immigrants, people newly enslaved in the wars, and citizens—tap into the mix of fear, loathing, and curiosity with which cultures, particularly Western and Eastern cultures, often view each other, always a productive source of comedy. These current, accessible, and accurate translations have replaced terms meaningful only to their original audience, such as references to Roman gods, with a hilarious, inspired sampling of American popular culture—from songs to movie stars to slang. Matching the original Latin line for line, this volume captures the full exuberance of Plautus's street language, bursting with puns, learned allusions, ethnic slurs, dirty jokes, and profanities, as it brings three rarely translated works—Weevil (Curculio), Iran Man (Persa), and Towelheads (Poenulus)—to a wide contemporary audience. Richlin's erudite introduction sets these plays within the context of the long history of East-West conflict and illuminates the role played by comedy and performance in imperialism and colonialism. She has also provided detailed and wide-ranging contextual introductions to the individual plays, as well as extensive notes, which, together with these superb and provocative translations, will bring Plautus alive for a new generation of readers and actors.
Author : Dan Anderson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455612826
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Ten Deadly Texans written by Dan Anderson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lighthearted history of ten of Texas’s most notorious outlaws, including Clyde Barrow and a bank robber dressed as Santa Claus. The Wild Westerners were a tough breed. They started young and tended to die young, grow wilder, or fizzle into oblivion. Those outlaws that had the most feuds, gunfights, and robberies within the state lines are profiled here along with their associates, enemies, and accomplices. A rough chronological order of events spanning from pre-Civil War to 1935 tracks significant people and events. With so few lawmen available to police the state, troublesome youths quickly developed into heinous individuals. John Wesley Hardin killed a fellow classmate in a one-room schoolhouse, and eight-year-old James Miller was arrested for murdering his own grandparents. Beginnings and endings for each individual varied. While Sam Bass and Bonnie Parker were cut down in their twenties, Dock Newton didn’t rob his last train until age seventy-seven. Other members of the Barrow Gang lived into their fifties and sixties after transforming themselves from dangerous criminals to ordinary citizens. Texans are often described as being larger than life. Their lives were legendary, their demeanor solid, their illegal activities dramatic and varied from beginning to end. The same lighthearted take on Western history that permeated Dan Anderson and Laurence J. Yadon’s previous works resonates in their latest popular history. True stories, tall tales, and numerous anecdotes comprise this book of ten of the deadliest outlaws to cross the Texas line. Praise for Ten Deadly Texans “Picking the top ten of virtually anything is difficult if not impossible, but [Yadon and Anderson] have presented a strong argument that this grouping belongs at the top of any list of deadly fighters. In their own way, each one chose a deadly path filled with violence, bloodshed, high drama, and excitement.” —Chuck Parsons, author of John B. Armstrong: Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman “A well-researched and highly readable account of the Lone Star State's meanest men and women.” —Mike Cox, author of The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821–1900 “Yadon and Anderson have done their homework to separate the truth from the legend, because not only are they good historians, they know that the real story is quite often better than the legend. Ten Deadly Texans takes you from the Civil War to the Great Depression, from cow ponies and six-guns to Ford V-8s and automatic weapons, through the real lives of some of Texas’s most notorious sons.” —James R. Knight, author of Bonnie and Clyde: A Twenty-First-Century Update
Author : James Greenwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Low-life Deeps written by James Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Brauner
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748646167
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction written by David Brauner and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-07 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction; highlighting the rich diversity of the field, identifying key themes, analysing the main trends in Anglophone Jewish fiction and situating them in a historical context.
Author : Grant Alden
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292709897
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The Best of No Depression written by Grant Alden and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To celebrate the tenth anniversary of alternative country music magazine "No Depression," this anthology contains 25 of the magazine's best and most representative feature articles on venerated artists and songwriters of genuine American roots music.
Author : Alisa Kwitney
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488034257
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Corpse & Crown written by Alisa Kwitney and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agatha DeLacey’s family isn’t rich or titled, so studying nursing at Ingold’s East End hospital in London is a rare opportunity for her. Despite the school’s focus on the innovative Bio-Mechanical program, Aggie cares more about the desperately poor human patients who flood the hospital, even if that means providing unauthorized treatment after-hours…and trusting a charming, endlessly resourceful thief. But the Artful Dodger is barely a step ahead of his underworld rivals, the menacing Bill Sykes and mercurial Oliver Twist, and Aggie’s association with him soon leads her into danger. When a brutal attack leaves her blind, she and the Dodger find themselves at the mercy of an experimental Bio-Mech surgery. Though the procedure restores Aggie’s sight, her new eyes come at an unnerving cost, and the changes in Dodger are even more alarming—instead of seeing Aggie as the girl he fancies, he now views her as a potential threat. As war between England and Germany brews on the horizon and a sinister medical conspiracy threatens to shatter the uneasy peace in Europe, Aggie and the Dodger must find a way to work together so they can protect their friends and expose the truth…even if it means risking their own survival.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Ladies' Companion and Literary Expositor written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ryan D. Giles
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442664371
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Inscribed Power written by Ryan D. Giles and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Inscribed Power, Ryan D. Giles explores the function of amuletic prayers, divine names, and incantation formulas that were inscribed and printed on parchment, paper and other media, and at the same time inserted into classic literary works in Spain. Giles’ insightful analysis of the intersection between amulets and literary texts offers fresh and original interpretations of well-known texts such as the Poema de mío Cid, the Libro de Alexandre, the Libro de buen amor, Celestina, Lazarillo de Tormes, and the Buscón. Inscribed Power is a fascinating work that highlights specific amuletic texts that were used to heal, protect, or otherwise provide a blessing or curse to discover how their powers could influence fictional lives at different moments in the development of Spanish literature.
