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In the early 1800s, books were largely unillustrated. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, innovations in wood- and steel-engraving techniques changed how Victorian readers consumed and conceptualized fiction. A new type of novel was born, often published in serial form, one that melded text and image as partners in meaning-making. These illustrated serial novels offered Victorians a reading experience that was both verbal and visual, based on complex effects of flash-forward and flashback as the...
| Автор | Lisa Surridge |
'Morning-Glories, And Other Stories' is another collection of short stories, all of them written by the author of 'Little Women', Louisa May Alcott. The stories are mainly intended for young readers, but are also very charming for adults. Among the included tales are works like 'A Song for a Christmas Tree', 'Morning-Glories', 'The Rose Family', 'Poppy's Pranks' and many more.
| Автор | Louisa May Alcott |
Verführung und weibliche Lust in der Stadt der Liebe!Sie geht durch die Straßen von Paris. Sie sucht nach etwas, will das Herz der Stadt finden. Und plötzlich, vor einem Lebensmittelladen, trifft sie Joanne. Joanne ist rätselhaft und hübsch, mit pechschwarzen Haaren. Bald verschwindet die Stadt immer mehr und alles, was sie sieht, woran sie denkt und was sie will, ist sie – Joanne…-
| Автор | Alexandra Södergran |
The memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller list. Writing programs challenge authors to disclose themselves in personal narrative. Memoir and personal narrative urge writers to face the intimacies of the self and ask what is true. In The Memoir and the Memoirist , critic and memoirist Thomas Larson explores the craft and purpose of writing...
| Автор | Thomas Larson |
In The Victorian Novel of Adulthood, Rebecca Rainof confronts the conventional deference accorded the bildungsroman as the ultimate plot model and quintessential expression of Victorian nation building. The novel of maturity, she contends, is no less important to our understanding of narrative, Victorian culture, and the possibilities of fiction. Reading works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, John Henry Newman, and Virginia Woolf, Rainof exposes the little-discussed theological...
| Автор | Rebecca Rainof |
In Solving for X , his award-winning collection of new poems, Robert B. Shaw probes the familiar and encounters the unexpected; in the apparently random he discerns a hidden order. Throughout, Shaw ponders the human frailties and strengths that continue to characterize us, with glances at the stresses of these millennial times that now test our mettle and jar our complacency. Often touched with humor, his perceptions are grounded in devoted observation of the changing world. As in his previous...
| Автор | Robert B. Shaw |
Anaïs Nin, the diarist, novelist, and provocateur, occupied a singular space in twentieth-century culture, not only as a literary figure and voice of female sexual liberation but as a celebrity and symbol of shifting social mores in postwar America. Before Madonna and her many imitators, there was Nin; yet, until now, there has been no major study of Nin as a celebrity figure. In Writing an Icon, Anita Jarczok reveals how Nin carefully crafted her literary and public personae, which she...
| Автор | Anita Jarczok |
Der Idealist und Menschenfeind Alceste erhebt für sich den Anspruch, ohne Heuchelei zu leben. Obwohl er adeliger Abstammung ist, zelebriert er seine Unabhängigkeit gegenüber dem königlichen Hof und weigert sich, in seinem Reden und Verhalten Kompromisse mit der Wahrhaftigkeit zu machen.
| Автор | Molière |
Eine Satire über das Schreiben von Liebesbriefen: Viggi hat die wohlhabende Gritli geheiratet und verdient sein Geld als Kaufmann, sieht sich jedoch immer mehr als talentierten Schriftsteller. Von einer Geschäftsreise schreibt er ihre glühende Liebesbriefe und erwartet ebenso wortgewaltige Antwortbriefe, was die pragmatische Frau jedoch überfordert. In ihrer Not hat sie eine Idee, wie der schüchterne Nachbar Wilhelm ihr unwissentlich helfen kann…-
| Автор | Gottfried Keller |
H. L. Mencken’s reputation as a journalist and cultural critic of the twentieth century has endured well into the twenty-first. His early contributions as a writer, however, are not very well known. He began his journalistic career as early as 1899 and in 1910 cofounded the Baltimore Evening Sun. The next year he initiated a column—The Free Lance—that ran six days a week for four and a half years, until the Sun discontinued it, partially in response to Mencken’s controversial defense of...
| Автор | H. L. Mencken |
A minister's wife finds herself in hell. The story of Lazarus and the rich man in Luke 16:19-31 gives a chilling insight into the afterlife. It is a story that is not often addressed because it makes clear the separation of people upon death. Frank Winscott, a retired minister, works at comparing translations of the Bible. Eugena has ignored her husband's work and his sermons all her life. Instead, she finds meaning in her potter's shed, where she makes different forms of...
| Автор | Diane Glancy |
In the tradition of classic essayists from Virginia Woolf to Annie Dillard, Meghan Florian combines personal narrative with careful analysis, taking the ordinary material of undramatic daily life and distilling it into moments of clarity and revelation. Centering each essay in this collection on a different aspect of coming of age as a feminist woman within the ethos of the theological academy and the church, Florian interrogates the problems that arise when trying to inhabit these seemingly...
| Автор | Meghan Florian |
Edward Thomas: The Origins of his Poetry builds a new theoretical framework for critical work on imaginative composition through an investigation of Edward Thomas’s composing processes, on material from his letters, his poems and his prose books. It looks at his relation to the land and landscape and includes detailed and illuminating new readings of his poems. It traces connections between Thomas’s approach to composition and the writing and thought of Freud, Woolf and William James, and the...
| Автор | Judy Kendall |
Blythe and Charlie fell in love but war set them apart. Charlie is going on a mission facing almost certain death. Blyth's faith will give her strength to proceed with her life while waiting for her beloved to come home.
| Автор | Grace Livingston Hill |
Spannung mit viel Witz und Humor! Die Genoveser Polizei weiß sich nicht zu helfen: Wer ist diese hübsche Verbrecherin, Prinzessin Fantouche, die mit Witz und Esprit die Polizei immer wieder an der Nase herumführt? Während die Polizei versucht, die junge Dame zu schnappen, nimmt Fantouche diese Versuche auf und verarbeitet sie zu lustigen Filmen, die in die Kinos kommen, und die Verbrecherin weltberühmt machen. -
| Автор | Arnold Höllriegel |
El gualicho estaba en una caja de madera: adentro había una copa rota llena de sangre, pétalos de rosas y un huevo tipo de codorniz envuelto en gasas. Estuvo todo el día en el pasillo hasta que Daniel se despertó a la tarde, abrió la puerta, lo miró con curiosidad y lo entró. Ardores, fiebre, temblores y un insaciable deseo llevarán a Daniel a la búsqueda de un pequeño alivio (aunque tal vez no tan pequeño) recorriendo una Buenos Aires vacacional, desierta y muy caliente.
| Автор | Gael Policano Rossi |
This book defines the American Gothic and places it both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history in the last 300 years, and also within the context of the critical issues of American culture. From Poe to Faulkner to Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy, many of the best and most critically acclaimed works of American literature have been Gothic. The book will demonstrate how the Gothic provides a forum for discussing key issues of American culture, for exploring...
| Автор | Marilyn Michaud |
• Opiate overdoses are the leading cause of accidental deaths among those under 50. • Memoirs about substance abuse are overwhelmingly about recovery. It is the rare memoir that ends in death. • There are many books about recovery but there are no literary books that the author knows of that addresses what it is like to lose a family member or other to drugs. • No memoirs or scientific books discuss the possibility of later drug abuse related to the prescribing of Ritalin or Adderall for...
| Автор | Sheryl St. Germain |
Dieser Kater erobert Ihr Herz im Sturm Der herrenlose Kater Ambrose sieht sich schon in den ewigen Jagdgründen, als ihm in letzter Sekunde der Feuerwehrmann Zach das Leben rettet. Prompt folgt er Zach nach Hause. Der ist davon gar nicht begeistert und versucht, den anhänglichen Streuner wieder loszuwerden – vergeblich. Um sich bei seinem Lebensretter zu revanchieren, beschließt der Kater, dem Beziehungsmuffel Zach in Sachen Liebe auf die Sprünge zu helfen. Denn für Ambrose steht fest: Die...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Your Voice Is Your Power—Now Make It HeardMore than ever before, the business, entertainment, and political landscapes are ripe for women to accomplish their goals. Women are entering law, medical, and graduate schools in equal numbers to men. But it’s still a challenge to make it to the top.Developing excellent communication and public speaking skills gives women the ability to rise to their full potential, seize every opportunity, and realize their aspirations. Whether...
| Автор | Deborah Shames |
In “Comedy Writing Self-Taught,” Perret (a legendary comedy writing teacher as well as a famous TV comedy writer and producer) teaches aspiring comedy writers how they can teach themselves the essential principles of comedy writing through comedy analysis and writing exercises. Covering the essential principles of writing stand-up comedy, sketch comedy, and TV situation comedy, “Comedy Writing Self-Taught” is professional level training from a master who has spent decades at the very top of the...
| Автор | Gene Perret |
In der Hoffnung Munition gegen Carlton zu finden, machen Gabriel, Matt, Sky und Connor sich mit den Kids auf nach Yorkshire, um Newfield unter die Lupe zu nehmen. Was verbirgt sich hinter der einsam gelegenen Farm im Norden Englands und welches schreckliche Geheimnis hütet ihr Leiter? Der 12. Roman aus der Reihe, «Die Totenbändiger», von Nadine Erdmann (Cyberworld, Die Lichtstein-Saga).
| Автор | Nadine Erdmann |