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Book Synopsis The Passages of H. M. by : Jay Parini
Download or read book The Passages of H. M. written by Jay Parini and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the international bestseller The Last Station, a stirring novel about the adventurous life and tragic literary career of Herman Melville. As The Passages of H. M. opens, we see, through the eyes of his long-suffering wife Lizzie, an aging, angry, and drunken Herman Melville wreaking domestic havoc in his unhappy New York home. He is decades past his flourishing career as a writer of bestselling tales of seagoing adventures like Typee and Omoo. His epic but ungainly novel Moby-Dick was meant to make him immortal, but critics scoffed and readers fled. His days are spent trudging the docks of New York as a customs inspector and contemplating his malign literary fate. But within him is stirring, perhaps, one great work yet—the tale of a handsome sailor in the Napoleonic Wars, undone by one moment of uncontrollable rage . . . Lizzie’s chapters alternate with third-person accounts of Melville’s crowded life: his shipping off to sea on a merchant vessel as an impoverished young aristocrat; his fateful voyage on a whaling ship; his desertion in the Marquesas Islands and sojourn with cannibals—a great adventure and polymorphous sexual idyll—and his instant fame as a novelist; his fateful encounter and soul-deep friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne; and the long years of physical decline and literary obscurity. Jay Parini creates a Melville who is at once sympathetic and maddening, in sync with the vast forces of the universe and hopelessly impractical and abstracted. And one who, in thought and deed, is unambiguously attracted to men—a surmise well supported by the known biographical facts but still sure to create controversy. Parini penetrates the mind and soul of a literary titan, using the resources of fiction to humanize a giant while illuminating the sources of his matchless creativity.
Book Synopsis The Passages of H.M. by : Jay Parini
Download or read book The Passages of H.M. written by Jay Parini and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the same masterly touch that made The Last Station so powerful, Jay Parini penetrates the mind and soul of another literary titan. Through the eyes of his long-suffering wife, Lizzie, we are introduced to an aging, angry, and drunken Herman Melville. He is decades past his flourishing career as a writer of bestselling tales of seagoing adventures. His epic but ungainly Moby-Dick was meant to make him immortal, but critics scoffed and readers fled. He spends his days trudging the docks of New York as a customs inspector and contemplating his malign literary fate. But within him is stirring, perhaps, one great work yet. . . . In a narrative that shifts seamlessly between Lizzie’s personal account and evocative snapshots of Melville’s crowded life, Parini manages to humanize a giant of letters, while illuminating the source of his matchless creativity.
Book Synopsis The Queen's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions for the Government of Her Majesty's Naval Service by : Great Britain. Admiralty
Download or read book The Queen's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions for the Government of Her Majesty's Naval Service written by Great Britain. Admiralty and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dear Committee Members by : Julie Schumacher
Download or read book Dear Committee Members written by Julie Schumacher and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Like Richard Russo’s Straight Man this book has a lot to say about the humanities in American colleges and universities…. Very funny and also moving.” —Tom Perrotta, New York Post A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR and Boston Globe Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters, while one floor above them the Economics Department is getting lavishly remodeled offices. His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life, in part as the result of his unwise use of his private affairs for his novels. His star (he thinks) student can't catch a break with his brilliant (he thinks) work Accountant in a Bordello, based on Melville's Bartleby. In short, his life is a tale of woe, and the vehicle this droll and inventive novel uses to tell that tale is a series of hilarious letters of recommendation that Fitger is endlessly called upon by his students and colleagues to produce, each one of which is a small masterpiece of high dudgeon, low spirits, and passive-aggressive strategies. We recommend Dear Committee Members to you in the strongest possible terms. Don’t miss Julie Schumacher's new novel, The English Experience, coming soon.
Download or read book Patient H.M. written by Luke Dittrich and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1953, maverick neurosurgeon William Beecher Scoville performed a groundbreaking operation on an epileptic patient named Henry Molaison. But it was a catastrophic failure, leaving Henry unable to create long-term memories. Scoville's grandson, Luke Dittrich, takes us on an astonishing journey through the history of neuroscience, from the first brain surgeries in ancient Egypt to the New England asylum where his grandfather developed a taste for human experimentation. Dittrich's investigation confronts unsettling family secrets and reveals the dark roots of modern neuroscience, raising troubling questions that echo into the present day.
Book Synopsis Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Download or read book Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Torpedoed written by Deborah Heiligman and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII. Amid the constant rain of German bombs and the escalating violence of World War II, British parents by the thousands chose to send their children out of the country: the wealthy, independently; the poor, through a government relocation program called CORB. In September 1940, passenger liner SS City of Benares set sail for Canada with one hundred children on board. When the war ships escorting the Benares departed, a German submarine torpedoed what became known as the Children's Ship. Out of tragedy, ordinary people became heroes. This is their story. This title has Common Core connections.
Book Synopsis Why Read Moby-Dick? by : Nathaniel Philbrick
Download or read book Why Read Moby-Dick? written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “brilliant and provocative” (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville’s masterpiece—from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye One of the greatest American novels finds its perfect contemporary champion in Why Read Moby-Dick?, Nathaniel Philbrick’s enlightening and entertaining tour through Melville’s classic. As he did in his National Book Award–winning bestseller In the Heart of the Sea, Philbrick brings a sailor’s eye and an adventurer’s passion to unfolding the story behind an epic American journey. He skillfully navigates Melville’s world and illuminates the book’s humor and unforgettable characters—finding the thread that binds Ishmael and Ahab to our own time and, indeed, to all times. An ideal match between author and subject, Why Read Moby-Dick? will start conversations, inspire arguments, and make a powerful case that this classic tale waits to be discovered anew. “Gracefully written [with an] infectious enthusiasm…”—New York Times Book Review
Book Synopsis Governors' despatches to and from England by : Australia. Parliament. Joint library committee
Download or read book Governors' despatches to and from England written by Australia. Parliament. Joint library committee and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Allen's Indian mail and register of intelligence for British and foreign India by :
Download or read book Allen's Indian mail and register of intelligence for British and foreign India written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report by Her Majesty's Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Schools in Scotland: appendix. answers to heads of examination, and corresondence by : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Schools in Scotland
Download or read book Report by Her Majesty's Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Schools in Scotland: appendix. answers to heads of examination, and corresondence written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Schools in Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of Her Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners by : Great Britain. Civil Service Commission
Download or read book Report of Her Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners written by Great Britain. Civil Service Commission and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Prize Droits Being a Report to H.M. Treasury on Droits of the Crown and of Admiralty in Time of War by : Henry Cadogan Rothery
Download or read book Prize Droits Being a Report to H.M. Treasury on Droits of the Crown and of Admiralty in Time of War written by Henry Cadogan Rothery and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report to Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain by : Großbritannien Poor Law Commissioners
Download or read book Report to Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain written by Großbritannien Poor Law Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Parliamentary Papers by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda Queen of Denmark and Norway and Sister of H. M. George III of England from Family Documents and Private State Archives ..., 2 by : Frederick Charles Lascelles Wraxall
Download or read book Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda Queen of Denmark and Norway and Sister of H. M. George III of England from Family Documents and Private State Archives ..., 2 written by Frederick Charles Lascelles Wraxall and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London by :
Download or read book Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
