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The Maniac in the Cellar

Author : Winifred Hughes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400855470
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Maniac in the Cellar written by Winifred Hughes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a controversial genre of Victorian fiction that produced the major best sellers of its century, the now-forgotten sensation novel was a publishing phenomenon in its time. In a vivid portrait of this subversive and discomfiting popular literature, Winifred Hughes identifies its ingredients, its practitioners, and its implications, and reveals its significance both for the mid-Victorian consciousness and for the writers and readers of today. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Maniac in the cellar. Sensation novels of the 1860s

Author : Winifred Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Maniac in the cellar. Sensation novels of the 1860s written by Winifred Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Stone Face

Author : William Gardner Smith
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681375176
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book The Stone Face written by William Gardner Smith and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A roman à clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living amidst the tensions and violence of Algerian War-era France, and one of the earliest published accounts of the Paris massacre of 1961. As a teenager, Simeon Brown lost an eye in a racist attack, and this young African American journalist has lived in his native Philadelphia in a state of agonizing tension ever since. After a violent encounter with white sailors, Simeon makes up his mind to move to Paris, known as a safe haven for black artists and intellectuals, and before long he is under the spell of the City of Light, where he can do as he likes and go where he pleases without fear. Through Babe, another black American émigré, he makes new friends, and soon he has fallen in love with a Polish actress who is a concentration camp survivor. At the same time, however, Simeon begins to suspect that Paris is hardly the racial wonderland he imagined: The French government is struggling to suppress the revolution in Algeria, and Algerians are regularly stopped and searched, beaten, and arrested by the French police, while much worse is to come, it will turn out, in response to the protest march of October 1961. Through his friendship with Hossein, an Algerian radical, Simeon realizes that he can no longer remain a passive spectator to French injustice. He must decide where his true loyalties lie.

Playing with Boys

Author : Alisa Valdes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312332343
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Playing with Boys written by Alisa Valdes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Latin-American women in their late twenties, including an actress, a suburban mother, and a music manager, take Los Angeles by storm in their shared quest to find healthy relationships and success in a cutthroat city.

All Made Up

Author : Rae Nudson
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807059684
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book All Made Up written by Rae Nudson and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating journey through history and culture, examining how makeup affects self-empowerment, how people have used it to define (and defy) their roles in society, and why we all need to care There is a history and a cultural significance that comes with wearing cat-eye-inspired liner or a bold red lip, one that many women feel to this day, even if we don’t realize exactly why. Increasingly, people of all genders are wrestling with what it means to be a woman living in a patriarchy, and part of that is how looking like a woman—whatever that means—affects people’s real lives. Through the stories of famous women like Cleopatra, Empress Wu, Madam C. J. Walker, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marsha P. Johnson, Rae Nudson unpacks makeup’s cultural impact—including how it can be used to shape a personal or cultural narrative, how often beauty standards align with whiteness, how and when it can be used for safety, and its function in the workplace, to name a few examples. Every woman has had to make a very personal choice about her relationship with makeup, and consciously or unconsciously, every woman knows that the choice is never entirely hers to make. This book also holds space for complicating factors, especially the ways that beauty standards differ across race, class, and culture. Engaging and informative, All Made Up will expand the discussion around what it means to participate in creating your own self-image.

The Gifts of the Body

Author : Rebecca Brown
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060926538
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The Gifts of the Body written by Rebecca Brown and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1995-08-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An emotionally wrenching work of fiction about a health-care worker who tenders compassion and love to victims of AIDS, by an author who "strips her language of convention to lay bare the ferocious rituals of love and need."--New York Times Book Review

The Maniac in the Cellar

Author : W. Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book The Maniac in the Cellar written by W. Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cellar

Author : Richard Laymon
Publisher : Beast House
ISBN 13 : 9781477806258
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Cellar written by Richard Laymon and published by Beast House. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably Laymon's most celebrated--and most infamous--novel, The Cellar is the first book in his Beast House Chronicles. Only the bravest tourists dare to venture inside the sealed-up Beast House, long rumored to be haunted. But the creature that lives in the cellar is no ghost, and it's hungry

City of Secrets

Author : Victoria Ying
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593205871
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book City of Secrets written by Victoria Ying and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the graphic novel that Caldecott medal-winning illustrator, Dan Santat, calls, "An edge-of-your-seat thriller!" Ever Barnes is a shy orphan guarding a secret in an amazing puzzle box of a building. Most of the young women who work at the building's Switchboard Operating Facility, which connects the whole city of Oskar, look the other way as Ever roams around in the shadows. But one of them, Lisa, keeps an eye on the boy. So does the head of the Switchboard, Madame Alexander . . . a rather sharp eye. Enter Hannah, the spunky daughter of the building's owner. She thinks Ever needs a friend, even if he doesn't know it yet. Good thing she does! Lisa and Madame Alexander are each clearly up to something. Ever is beset by a menacing band of rogues looking to unlock the secret he holds--at any cost. And whatever is hidden deep in the Switchboard building will determine all of their futures. On a journey that twists and turns as much as the mechanical building Ever Barnes calls home, he and his new friend Hannah have to find out what's really going on in this mysterious city of secrets . . . or else!

Waiting for the Rain

Author : Charles Mungoshi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780949932020
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Waiting for the Rain written by Charles Mungoshi and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning writer Charles Mungoshi is recognised in Africa, and internationally, as one of the continent's most powerful writers today. This early novel deals with the pain and dislocation of the clash of the old and new ways - the educated young man determined to go overseas, and the elders of the family believing his duty is to stay and head the family.

Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds

Author : Mathilde Vialard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003845347
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds written by Mathilde Vialard and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the recent academic interest in approaching health and wellbeing from a humanities perspective, Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds investigates how the Victorians dealt with questions of mental health by examining literary works in the genre of sensation fiction. The novels of Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, two prominent writers of the genre, often portray characters suffering from mental illnesses commonly diagnosed at the time, among which are monomania, moral insanity, melancholia and hypochondria. By studying the fictional works of Braddon and Collins alongside medical texts from the nineteenth century, it sets out to investigate how these novels fictionally represented real mental sufferings. This book considers the different mental illnesses the characters of sensation novels develop inside and outside the home as they struggle to define their own identity against Victorian social expectations. It demonstrates how these novels fictionalised the crisis of the leisured upper classes, who spent most of their time at home, and found themselves at odds with a society that increasingly separated the domestic and working environments, while also considering the impact that a lack of a sense of domestic belonging could have on their mental health. Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds further analyses the extent to which domesticity—in its excess or lack—could afflict the mental health of Victorian men and women through the fictional representation of suicidal thoughts and acts in the novels of Braddon and Collins.

Just Help!

Author : Sonia Sotomayor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593206266
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Just Help! written by Sonia Sotomayor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Just Ask! comes a fun and meaningful story about making the world--and your community--better, one action at a time, that asks the question: Who will you help today? Every night when Sonia goes to bed, Mami asks her the same question: How did you help today? And since Sonia wants to help her community, just like her Mami does, she always makes sure she has a good answer to Mami's question. In a story inspired by her own family's desire to help others, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor takes young readers on a journey through a neighborhood where kids and adults, activists and bus drivers, friends and strangers all help one another to build a better world for themselves and their community. With art by award-winning illustrator Angela Dominguez, this book shows how we can all help make the world a better place each and every day. Praise for Just Help!: "Generosity proves contagious in this personal portrait of community service by Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor." --Publishers Weekly "For use in civics units or in lessons on being a good neighbor, this provides wonderful encouragement to show that children can help in big and small ways." --School Library Journal

100 Must-read Historical Novels

Author : Nick Rennison
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408113961
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book 100 Must-read Historical Novels written by Nick Rennison and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-09-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest guide in the highly successful Must-Read series depicts 100 of the finest historical fiction tales published, with a further 500 recommendations. The text covers a wide range of classic works and key authors.

The Victorian Novel

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0791076784
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Novel written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian England produces some the the greatest novelists in Western history, including Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot. Critical analysis focuses on the development of the Victorian novel through the second half of the 19th century.

Witchlight

Author : Jessi Zabarsky
Publisher : Random House Graphic
ISBN 13 : 0593120019
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Witchlight written by Jessi Zabarsky and published by Random House Graphic. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love -- loss -- witches -- this YA fantasy graphic novel has it all! This thoughtful, emotional story will entrance you with its moving story and organic artwork. Lelek is a witch. That's all Sanja knows when she meets Lelek in the marketplace. But Lelek is hiding something -- and as her life begins to intersect with Sanja's, all that she's kept to herself starts to come to light. Secrets, friendship, and magic all come together as Lelek gets closer and closer to uncovering the truth about her past. . . . Witchlight is a wonderful queer adventure filled with friendship, family, falling in love, and dealing with the hardest bits of your past all along the way.

Ocean State

Author : Stewart O'Nan
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802159281
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Ocean State written by Stewart O'Nan and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O’Nan’s latest is a crushing, beautifully written, and profoundly compelling novel about sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the terrible things love makes us do. In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the build-up to and fall-out from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. Angel, the murderer, Carol, her mother, and Birdy, the victim, all come alive on the page as they converge in a climax both tragic and inevitable. Watching over it all is the retrospective testimony of Angel’s younger sister Marie, who reflects on that doomed autumn of 2009 with all the wisdom of hindsight. Angel and Birdy love the same teenage boy, frantically and single mindedly, and are compelled by the intensity of their feelings to extremes neither could have anticipated. O’Nan’s expert hand paints a fully realized portrait of these women, but also weaves a compelling and heartbreaking story of working-class life in Ashaway, Rhode Island. Propulsive, moving, and deeply rendered, Ocean State is a masterful novel by one of our greatest storytellers.

The Victorian Novel

Author : Louis James
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405152281
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Novel written by Louis James and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel. Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts. Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic writing. Features short biographies of over forty Victorian authors, including Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Offers close readings of over 30 key texts, among them Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), as well as key presences, such as John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Pt 1, 1676, Pt 2, 1684). Also covers topics such as colonialism, scientific speculation, the psychic and the supernatural, and working class reading.