Download or read book On the Other Side written by Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg and published by Persephone Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features letters written (but never posted) by a 60 year-old woman, to her children living abroad, about the experience of living in Hamburg during the war. Discovered in a drawer in the 1970s, they were translated by her daughter, the late Ruth Evans, and first published in England and Germany in 1979.

Download or read book Mathilda written by Mary Shelley and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Shelley’s Mathilda, the story of one woman’s existential struggle after learning of her father’s desire for her, has been identified as Shelley’s most important work after Frankenstein. The two texts share many characteristics, besides authorship and contemporaneity: both concern parental abandonment; both contribute to the Gothic form through themes of incest, insanity, suicidality, monstrosity, and isolation; and both are epistolary. However, Mathilda was not published until 1959, 140 years after Shelley wrote it—in part because Shelley’s father, William Godwin, suppressed it. This new edition encourages a critical reconsideration of a novella that has been critically stereotyped as biographical and explores its importance to the Romantic debate about suicide. Historical appendices trace the connections between Mathilda and other works by Shelley and by her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, while also providing biographical documents, contemporary works on the theme of incest, and documents on suicide in the Romantic era.

Download or read book Letters Journals of Anne Chalmers written by Anne Chalmers Hanna and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Love from Boy written by Donald Sturrock and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The BFG, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and many more beloved classics—a whimsical, witty, and revealing collection of the legendary children’s author and writer Roald Dahl's letters written to his mother, from early childhood through Dahl’s travels to Africa, his career in the Royal Air Force, his work in post-war Washington, D.C., and Hollywood, and the books that made him a literary star. Roald Dahl penned his first letter to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, when he was just nine years old. The origins of a brilliantly funny, subversive, creative mind were evident in boarding school, and as he entered adulthood, his penchant for storytelling emerged in his missives home from Africa, where he was stationed by Shell Oil, and then the desert camps of the Royal Air Force. His skills were sharpened after a plane crash in Egypt landed him in Washington, D.C., where his cheery letters home were cover for his work in the British Secret Service, along with gossipy updates on his spontaneous rise in Hollywood and his budding New York literary career. His mother was, in many ways, Dahl’s first reader, and without her correspondence he might never have become a writer. Sofie Magdalene kept every letter her son wrote to her (sadly, her own side of the correspondence did not survive). It was she who encouraged him to tell stories and nourished his desire to fabricate, exaggerate, and entertain. In these letters, Dahl began practicing his craft, developing the dark sense of humor and fantastical imagination that would later produce his timeless tales. The author of James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, and The BFG, Dahl is known by millions the world over today. But, writing candidly to the person who knew him best, Dahl was as singular a character as any he created on paper. Assembled by Dahl’s authorized biographer Donald Sturrock, Love from Boy is a remarkable collection of never-before-published writing that spans four decades and chronicles the remarkable, unpredictable life of its author. While Dahl’s books remain bestselling favorites for all ages, Love from Boy provides an unprecedented glimpse of the author through his own eyes—a life punctuated by tragedy, creative stagnation, unexpected fame, and fantastic adventure.

Download or read book Chamber s Journal of Popular Literature Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journal and Letters 1767 1774 written by Philip Vickers Fithian and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Life of Lord Byron with His Letters and Journals By Thomas Moore A New Edition Complete in One Volume With Portraits Etc written by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Letters and Journals of Lord Byron written by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stories from the Tritone written by Stephen Nepa and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorothy Gillis along with her son Ray move to a new town. Dorothy wants a change in her life. Ray is just along for the ride. What the town of Lodi has to offer them is definitely life changing. In Footsteps of Nevermore a mother is haunted by the ghost of her son. Is she going insane or is there really a ghost calling her name? In Tonight's Main event an eccentric comedian gets more than he bargains for when he challenges Academy Award winning actor Sean Penn to a fight. In Your Honor is about a fallen soldier who leaves a story behind for his son to read. A lonely girl in the back roads of America meets a zombie in Page Seventeen. The stories in this book are a tribute to The Twilight Zone and Tales from the Crypt. A new generation in horror has begun.

Download or read book Life Letters and Journals of Lord Byron written by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Female Romantics written by Caroline Franklin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awarded the Elma Dangerfield Prize by the International Byron Society in 2013 The nineteenth century is sometimes seen as a lacuna between two literary periods. In terms of women’s writing, however, the era between the death of Mary Wollstonecraft and the 1860s feminist movement produced a coherent body of major works, impelled by an ongoing dialogue between Enlightenment ‘feminism’ and late Romanticism. This study focuses on the dynamic interaction between Lord Byron and Madame de Staël, Lady Morgan, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen, challenging previous critics’ segregation of the male Romantic writers from their female peers. The Romantic movement in general unleashed the creative ambitions of nineteenth-century female novelists, and the public voice of Byron in particular engaged them in transnational issues of political, national and sexual freedom. Byronism had itself been shaped by the poet’s incursion onto a literary scene where women readers were dominant and formidable intellectuals such as Madame de Staël were lionized. Byron engaged in rivalrous dialogue with the novels of his female friends and contemporaries, such as Caroline Lamb, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen, whose critiques of Romantic egotism helped prompt his own self-parody in Don Juan. Later Victorian novelists, such as George Sand, the Brontë sisters and Harriet Beecher Stowe, wove their rejection of their childhood attraction to Byronism, and their dawning awareness of the significance for women of Lady Byron’s actions, into the feminist fabric of their art.

Download or read book Life Letters and Journals of Lord Byron Edited by Thomas Moore Complete in one volume With notes written by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Genders 21 written by Carol Siegel and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-07 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forming and Reforming Identity exposes the historical sites of identity formation and seeks to define the mechanisms of modern-day gender ideologies. Illuminating the power of the family and state in shaping gender identities, the book also examines the constitution of these identities. Each chapter reveals the complexities and contradictions that inevitably accompany the formation of any new category of identity, whether they are deliberately restrictive or intended as a reformation of the old. The volume moves, as gender construction does, across a field of different media: novels, plays, teleplays, films, official documents, political theory, and advertisements. Four sections—REMOLDING WOMAN; REBELLING MAN; HOMEMADE IDENTITIES; and FEMINISMS THAT MAKE (A) DIFFERENCE—address such subjects as the representation of American women in the 1950s; nationalism and respectable sexuality in India; women, Hollywood cinema, and World War II; compulsory heterophobia; and the televising of AIDS.

Download or read book In Search of Mary Shelley written by Fiona Sampson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We know the facts of Mary Shelley’s life in some detail—the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, within days of her birth; the upbringing in the house of her father, William Godwin, in a house full of radical thinkers, poets, philosophers, and writers; her elopement, at the age of seventeen, with Percy Shelley; the years of peripatetic travel across Europe that followed. But there has been no literary biography written this century, and previous books have ignored the real person—what she actually thought and felt and why she did what she did—despite the fact that Mary and her group of second-generation Romantics were extremely interested in the psychological aspect of life.In this probing narrative, Fiona Sampson pursues Mary Shelley through her turbulent life, much as Victor Frankenstein tracked his monster across the arctic wastes. Sampson has written a book that finally answers the question of how it was that a nineteen-year-old came to write a novel so dark, mysterious, anguished, and psychologically astute that it continues to resonate two centuries later. No previous biographer has ever truly considered this question, let alone answered it.