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Author : Max MILLER (Novelist.)
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Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (563 download)
Download or read book The Town with the Funny Name. [Essays.]. written by Max MILLER (Novelist.) and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Lamb
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Total Pages : 556 pages
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Download or read book The Complete Correspondence and Works; with an Essay on His Life and Genius ... Aided by the Recollections of the Author's Adopted Daughter written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 904 pages
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Download or read book Saturday Review of Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Firoozeh Dumas
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307430995
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Funny in Farsi written by Firoozeh Dumas and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Finalist for the PEN/USA Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and the Audie Award in Biography/Memoir This Random House Reader’s Circle edition includes a reading group guide and a conversation between Firoozeh Dumas and Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner! “Remarkable . . . told with wry humor shorn of sentimentality . . . In the end, what sticks with the reader is an exuberant immigrant embrace of America.”—San Francisco Chronicle In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father’s glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since. Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Dumas’s wonderfully engaging family: her engineer father, a sweetly quixotic dreamer who first sought riches on Bowling for Dollars and in Las Vegas, and later lost his job during the Iranian revolution; her elegant mother, who never fully mastered English (nor cared to); her uncle, who combated the effects of American fast food with an army of miraculous American weight-loss gadgets; and Firoozeh herself, who as a girl changed her name to Julie, and who encountered a second wave of culture shock when she met and married a Frenchman, becoming part of a one-couple melting pot. In a series of deftly drawn scenes, we watch the family grapple with American English (hot dogs and hush puppies?—a complete mystery), American traditions (Thanksgiving turkey?—an even greater mystery, since it tastes like nothing), and American culture (Firoozeh’s parents laugh uproariously at Bob Hope on television, although they don’t get the jokes even when she translates them into Farsi). Above all, this is an unforgettable story of identity, discovery, and the power of family love. It is a book that will leave us all laughing—without an accent. Praise for Funny in Farsi “Heartfelt and hilarious—in any language.”—Glamour “A joyful success.”—Newsday “What’s charming beyond the humor of this memoir is that it remains affectionate even in the weakest, most tenuous moments for the culture. It’s the brilliance of true sophistication at work.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Often hilarious, always interesting . . . Like the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, this book describes with humor the intersection and overlapping of two cultures.”—The Providence Journal “A humorous and introspective chronicle of a life filled with love—of family, country, and heritage.”—Jimmy Carter “Delightfully refreshing.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “[Funny in Farsi] brings us closer to discovering what it means to be an American.”—San Jose Mercury News
Author : National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project)
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Total Pages : 1030 pages
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Download or read book Selected Essays and Letters written by National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Robert Malthus
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324000805
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book An Essay on the Principle of Population (Norton Critical Editions) written by Thomas Robert Malthus and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s population is now 7.4 billion people, placing ever greater demands on our natural resources. As we stand witness to a possible reversal of modernity’s positive trends, Malthus’s pessimism is worth full reconsideration. This Norton Critical Edition includes: · An introduction and explanatory annotations by Joyce E. Chaplin. · Malthus’s Essay in its first published version (1798) along with selections from the expanded version (1803), which he considered definitive, as well as his Appendix (1806). · An unusually rich selection of supporting materials thematically arranged to promote classroom discussion. Topics include “Influences on Malthus,” “Economics, Population, and Ethics after Malthus,” “Malthus and Global Challenges,” and “Malthusianism in Fiction.” · A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.
Author : Jia Tolentino
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0525510559
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
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Author : Caryl Pagel
Publisher : Fiction Collective 2
ISBN 13 : 1573661864
Total Pages : 165 pages
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Download or read book Out of Nowhere Into Nothing written by Caryl Pagel and published by Fiction Collective 2. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the apparitional, the incomprehensible, and the paranormal in conversation with art, travel, and storytelling The ghosts—literal and figurative—that drive our deepest impulses, disturb our most precious memories, and haunt the passages of our daily lives are present in this collection of sublime meditations on the unbelievable, the coincidental, and the apparitional. Often containing reflections on the art of storytelling, Caryl Pagel’s essays blend memoir, research, and reflection, and are driven by a desire to observe connections between the visual and the invisible. The narrator of Pagel’s essays explores each enigma or encounter (a football coach’s faked death, the faces of women walking, historical accounts of hallucinations, a city’s public celebration gone wrong) as an intellectual detective ascending a labyrinthine tower of clues in pursuit of a solution to an unreachable problem: always curious, and with a sense of profound wonder. Out of Nowhere Into Nothing is a sprawling, highly associative consideration of the ways in which the observed material world recalls us to larger narrative and aesthetic truths. Interspersed with documentary-style photographs, Pagel’s first collection of prose is a radiant, obsessive investigation into the mysteries at the center of our seemingly mundane lives.
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Author : Lovalerie King
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230601383
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays written by Lovalerie King and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of comparative critical and theoretical essays examines James Baldwin and Toni Morrison's reciprocal literary relationship. By reading these authors side-by-side, this collection forges new avenues of discovery and interpretation related to their representations of African American and American literature and cultural experience.
Author : Dinty W. Moore
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 160774810X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy written by Dinty W. Moore and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy, I have a hot crush on the em dash. What does my need to stuff—while simultaneously fracturing—my sentences—with the meandering, the explanatory, the discursive, the perhaps not-entirely-necessary—say about me? —Cheryl Strayed Have you ever wished there were an advice columnist for writers, but one who didn’t take things so damned seriously? This unique writing guide pairs questions sent in by top contemporary essayists with hilariously witty answers and essays from acclaimed author Dinty W. Moore. Phillip Lopate asks for advice on writing about your ex without sounding like an ass, Julianna Baggott worries that to be a great writer you must drink like a fish, and Roxane Gay asks whether it’s kosher to write about writing. Taking advantage of all the tools available to today’s personal essayist—egregious puns, embarrassing anecdotes, and cocktail napkins—Professor Moore answers these questions, and more, demystifying the world of nonfiction once and for all. With a tip of the hat to history’s most infamous essay—Montaigne’s “Of Cannibals”—this book provides rollicking relief for writers in distress.
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Author : Steven M. Strang
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ISBN 13 : 9781559342636
Total Pages : 164 pages
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Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528798236
Total Pages : 196 pages
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Author : George Meredith
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838753491
Total Pages : 382 pages
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