Download or read book Bright Particular Stars written by David Mckie and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bright Particular Stars, David McKie examines the impact of 26 remarkable British eccentrics on 26 unremarkable British locations. From Broadway in the Cotswolds, where the Victorian bibliomaniac Sir Thomas Phillipps nurtured dreams of possessing every book in the world, to Kilwinning in Scotland, where in 1839 the Earl of Eglinton mounted a tournament that was Renaissance in its extravagance and disastrous in its execution, McKie leads us to places transformed, inspired, and sometimes scandalized by the obsessional endeavors of visionary mavericks. Some of McKie's eccentrics, such as Mary Macarthur, who helped the women chainmakers of Cradley Heath win the right to a fair wage in 1910, were good to the point of saintliness; others, including the composer Peter Heseltine, who in the 1920s set net curtains twitching by his hard drinking and naked motorbike riding, rather less so. But together their fascinating stories illuminate some of the most secret and most extraordinary byways of British history. Here, quiet, unassuming streetscapes become sites of eccentric and uproarious sites of action. The triumphs and failures of the visionaries who thus transformed them—recaptured here in vivid and beguiling fashion—have each, in their own way, helped shape the island's rich and checkered history.
Download or read book Glorious Eccentrics written by Mary Ann Caws and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-12-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the life and art of seven extraordinary women of the late nineteenth and twentieth century, who had a tremendous if not yet fully acknowledged impact on the modernist movement and its reception. Judith Gautier, Suzanne Valadon, Dorothy Bussy, Dora Carrington, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Emily Carr and Claude Cahun were powerful forces in their various fields. Each lived an unusual life, the eccentricity of which was in large part responsible for its creative intensity. Drawing on much unpublished material, the stories recounted here, often involving very famous men-- including Utrillo, Degas, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Wagner, Hugo, Rilke, and Gide-- show a singular courage and determination. Whether as writers, translators, painters, or photographers, these innovators stood out among their contemporaries as remarkable contributors to modernism.
Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pierre Reverdy written by Pierre Reverdy and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great Pierre Reverdy, comrade to Picasso and Braque, peer and contemporary of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, is among the most mysteriously satisfying of twentieth-century poets, his poems an uncanny mixture of the simple and the sublime. Reverdy’s poetry has exerted a special attraction on American poets, from Kenneth Rexroth to John Ashbery, and this new selection, featuring the work of fourteen distinguished translators, most of it appearing here for the first time, documents that ongoing relationship while offering readers the essential work of an extraordinary writer. Translated from the French by: John Ashbery Dan Bellm Mary Ann Caws Lydia Davis Marilyn Hacker Richard Howard Geoffrey O’Brien Frank O’Hara Ron Padgett Mark Polizzotti Kenneth Rexroth Richard Sieburth Patricia Terry Rosanna Warren
Download or read book The Eccentric written by George Weguelin and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Off the Road written by Jack Hitt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jack Hitt set out to walk the 500 miles from France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, he submitted to the rigorous traditions of Europe's oldest form of packaged tour, a pilgrimage that has been walked by millions in the history of Christendom. Off the Road is an unforgettable exploration of the sites that people believe God once touched: the strange fortress said to contain the real secret Adam learned when he bit into the apple; the sites associated with the murderous monks known as the Knights Templar; and the places housing relics ranging from a vial of the Virgin Mary's milk to a sheet of Saint Bartholomew's skin. Along the way, Jack Hitt finds himself persevering by day and bunking down by night with an unlikely and colorful cast of fellow pilgrims -- a Flemish film crew, a drunken gypsy, a draconian Belgian air force officer, a man who speaks no languages, a one-legged pilgrim, and a Welsh family with a mule. In the day-to-day grind of walking under a hot Spanish sun, Jack Hitt and his cohorts not only find occasional good meals and dry shelter but they also stumble upon some fresh ideas about old-time zealotry and modern belief. Off the Road is an engaging and witty travel memoir of an offbeat journey through history that turns into a provocative rethinking of the past.
Download or read book Collected Works Illustrated written by Aldous Huxley and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Aldous Huxley is best known for his 1932 novel Brave New World, a nightmarish vision of the future. Crome Yellow is the first novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1921. Though a social satire of its time, it is still appreciated and has been adapted to different media. Much of what time he had left he devoted to his interest in Eastern mysticism. This interest in mysticism also led Huxley to experiment with the hallucinogen mescaline, which he wrote about in his 1954 collection of essays The Doors of Perception. Brave New World Crome Yellow The Doors of Perception
Download or read book Desire Unlimited written by Paul Julian Smith and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade, Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar has grown from critical darling of the film circuit scene to mainstream success. Frequently comic, often deadly serious, always visually glorious, his recent films range from the Academy Award–winning drama Talk to Her to the 2011 horror film The Skin I Live In. Though they are ambitious and varied in style, each is a distinctive innovation on the themes that have defined his work. Desire Unlimited is the classic film-by-film assessment of Almodóvar’s oeuvre, now updated to include his most recent work. Still the only study of its kind in English, it vigorously confirms its original argument that beneath Almodóvar's genius for comedy and visual pleasure lies a filmmaker whose work deserves to be taken with the utmost seriousness.
Download or read book English Eccentrics written by John Timbs and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: English Eccentrics by John Timbs
Download or read book Women of Bloomsbury written by Mary Ann Caws and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990, Women of Bloomsbury takes a fresh look at the lives of Virginia Woolf, her sister Vanessa Bell, and Dora Carrington. Connected by more than bonds of friendship and artistic endeavour, the three women faced similar struggles. Juxtaposing their personal lives and their work, Mary Ann Caws shows us with feeling and clarity the pain women suffer in being artists and in finding – or creating – their sense of self. Relying on unpublished letters and diaries, as well as familiar texts, Caws give us a portrait of the female self in the act of creation.
Download or read book Crome Yellow written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crome Yellow written by Aldous Huxley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crome Yellow by renowned author Aldous Huxley is about the house party at Crome viewed largely through the eyes of Denis Stone. Described by his hostess as "one of our younger poets", he has been invited by Priscilla and Henry Wimbush to join their summer guests. The hard-of-hearing Jenny Mullion confines most of her thoughts on what goes on in her journal, in which Denis eventually discovers a devastating deconstruction of himself and fellow guests. Excerpt: "Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains—the few that there were—stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water. Camlet was where he always got out, leaving the train to creep indolently onward, goodness only knew whither, into the green heart of England."
Download or read book The Eccentric Preacher written by Lorenzo Dow and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With our American Philosophy and Religion series, Applewood reissues many primary sources published throughout American history. Through these books, scholars, interpreters, students, and non-academics alike can see the thoughts and beliefs of Americans who came before us.
Download or read book Eccentric Nation written by Stephen Albert Rohs and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book takes as its point of departure the notion that a nation's music and performance culture was, in the nineteenth century, conceived of as the voice of its people. From ballads to parades to plays to orations, these cultural forms carried the burden of staging an identity for the national community and for the onlooking eyes of outsiders.
Download or read book Huxley s Masterpieces Eternal Fictions written by Aldous Huxley and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-06-21 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1: Explore a dystopian future with “Brave New World by Aldous Huxley: A Visionary Dystopian Novel of a Controlled Society.” Huxley's thought-provoking narrative depicts a world of technological advancement, societal control, and the consequences of a utopian vision gone awry. Book 2: Delve into “Crome Yellow: Aldous Huxley's Satirical Glimpse into Intellectual Life,” where Huxley takes a satirical look at the intellectual elite. This novel offers a humorous and insightful exploration of the eccentricities of intellectual circles, blending wit and social commentary in Huxley's signa
Download or read book English Eccentrics and Eccentricities written by John Timbs and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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