Download or read book Brooks Too Broad for Leaping written by Flannery Lewis and published by New York, The Macmillan Company. This book was released on 1938 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven year old boy regards himself as protector of his beautiful mother while father is soldiering in France.

Download or read book By Brooks Too Broad for Leaping written by Denise McCluggage and published by . This book was released on 1994-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Shropshire Lad written by Alfred Edward Housman and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Excellent Sheep written by William Deresiewicz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation’s top schools should be—but aren’t—providing: “The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless students (those ‘sheep’), pushy parents, and admissions mayhem” (People). As a professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation’s brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically and creatively and how to find a sense of purpose. Now he argues that elite colleges are turning out conformists without a compass. Excellent Sheep takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with parents and counselors who demand perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications Deresiewicz saw firsthand as a member of Yale’s admissions committee. As schools shift focus from the humanities to “practical” subjects like economics, students are losing the ability to think independently. It is essential, says Deresiewicz, that college be a time for self-discovery when students can establish their own values and measures of success in order to forge their own paths. He features quotes from real students and graduates he has corresponded with over the years, candidly exposing where the system is broken and offering clear solutions on how to fix it. “Excellent Sheep is likely to make…a lasting mark….He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America….Mr. Deresiewicz’s book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness” (The New York Times).

Download or read book McClure s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Condemned Playground written by Cyril Connolly and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1945, The Condemned Playground expresses the author’s personal views on art and literature and the social science. Infinitely entertaining and witty, at times devastatingly destructive and never merely kind, Mr. Connelly has, nevertheless, an underlying note of critical integrity and even moral fervour. This book will be of interest to students of history and literature.

Download or read book Best Loved Poems written by John Boyes and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-22 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.' Samuel Taylor Coleridge This glorious celebration of classic poetry features verse from around the English-speaking world. Carefully selected and divided into themed sections, the poems encompass the wealth of human experience - love, death, youth, old age, nature, travel and humour are all included in works that range from the 1500s onwards. A comprehensive range of time-honoured poetry from the British Isles, America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the collection embraces the famous and not so famous, from Blake and Wordsworth to Adeler and Wyatt, and includes over 170 other poets. From Coleridge's fantastical Xanadu or the battlefields of John McCrae, to the ominous croaking of Poe's raven, this is a wonderful collection of poems containing the great and the good, the funny and the tragic, and everything in between.

Download or read book My Portion written by Rebekah Bettelheim Kohut and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Open Book written by Michael Dirda and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Open Book is the exuberant, wonderfully entertaining story of how comics and adventure novels, poetry and Proust can change your life. Hailed by readers and critics alike, An Open Book is, in the words of literary critic Morris Dickstein, "charming, memorable, and irresistible ... a glowing tribute to the world of books and the life of the mind." In its pages, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary journalist Michael Dirda re-creates, with captivating humor and poignancy, his boyhood in working-class Ohio and his later education at Oberlin College. Along the way he recalls his colorful family, friends, and teachers-and the great writers and fictional characters who fueled his imagination. Like Eudora Welty's One Writer's Beginnings before it, "this marvelous memoir" (Kirkus Reviews) conveys all the excitement of a lifelong passion for reading. Book jacket.

Download or read book Spectrum of Decadence Routledge Revivals written by Murray Pittock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1890s, the Naughty Nineties, was an exciting and flamboyant time in British life and literature. First published in 1993, this title traces the genesis of the literary culture of the 1890s through some of the popular novels and literary texts of the period. By examining works by such writers as Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, W. B. Yeats, and Walter Pater, Murray Pittock analyses the nature of the ‘Decadent era’ and the artistic theories of Symbolism and Aestheticism. Significantly, he provides a full assessment of the lasting impact that the thought of the period has had on our own understanding of our cultural past. Spectrum of Decadence explores the confrontations between art and science, sex and mortality, desire and virtue, which, the author argues are as much a part of modern society’s fin-de-siécle as they were of the nineteenth century’s. This reissue bridges the gap between literary texts, historical context, and contemporary critical theory.

Download or read book Metre Rhythm and Verse Form written by Philip Hobsbaum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-12-05 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry criticism is a subject central to the study of literature. However, it is laden with technical terms that, to the beginning student, can be both intimidating and confusing. Philip Hobsbaum provides a welcome remedy, illuminating terms ranging from the iambus to the bob-wheel stanza, and forms from the Spenserian sonnet to modern 'rap', with clarity and comprehensiveness. It is an essential guide through the terminology which will be invaluable reading for undergraduates new to the subject.

Download or read book The Yale Literary Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Offenhauser written by Gordon Eliot White and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1920s to through 1980, the Offenhauser and its descendants filled the grids and won race after race across the U.S. In the 1950s, entire Indy grids were made up exclusively of Offy-powered racers. Original hardcover received much acclaim, winner of the 1996 Thomas McKean Memorial award.

Download or read book A Shropshire Lad written by A. E. Housman and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Download or read book Tom Kelly E Book Bundle 4 written by Tom Kelly and published by Tom Kelly, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 1888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Absent Companions The Best of Tom Kelly Volume I Infirm Opinions

Download or read book Victorian Literature written by Victor Shea and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Literature is a comprehensive and fully annotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers and students to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiry—from the canon to its extensions and its contexts. Represents the period's major writers of prose, poetry, drama, and more, including Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings, Carlyle, Ruskin, the Rossettis, Wilde, Eliot, and the Brontës Promotes an ideologically and culturally varied view of Victorian society with the inclusion of women, working-class, colonial, and gay and lesbian writers Incorporates recent scholarship with 5 contextual sections and innovative sub-sections on topics like environmentalism and animal rights; mass literacy and mass media; sex and sexuality; melodrama and comedy; the Irish question; ruling India and the Indian Mutiny and innovations in print culture Emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the field with a focus on social, cultural, artistic, and historical factors Includes a fully annotated companion website for teachers and students offering expanded context sections, additional readings from key writers, appendices, and an extensive bibliography

Download or read book Tom Kelly E Book Bundle 6 written by Tom Kelly and published by Tom Kelly, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 1623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the Edges 2 No Place to Hide The Best of Tom Kelly Volume II Unfaded Roses