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Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 1480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lucia

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  • Author : Alex Pheby
  • Publisher : Biblioasis
  • Release : 2021-06-15
  • ISBN : 1771964243
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Lucia written by Alex Pheby and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GLOBE & MAIL RECOMMENDED SUMMER 2021 READ She is about thirty-three, speaks French fluently. . .[she ] is gay, sweet and ironic, but she has bursts of anger over nothing when she is confined to a straightjacket, writes James Joyce in one of the few surviving documents concerning his daughter. A gifted dancer, Beckett’s lover, an aspiring writer—what little we know about Lucia Joyce effectively ends with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and subsequent hospitalization: after her death, her nephew Stephen, executor of the Joyce estate, burned her letters and medical records, erasing her not only from her father’s legacy, but from her own existence in the world as well. To tell the story of a life redacted, Alex Pheby assumes not Lucia Joyce’s lost voice, but the perspectives of the men around her, layering a series of narratives about those on the edges of her life to create a portrait of the lost woman in silhouette. As much a critique of male violence and the long history of misogyny in women’s health, an in-absentia illustration of the fate of inconvenient women as the story of a single life, Lucia is an ethical and empathetic creative act and a moving in memoriam to a woman whose experiences we can only imagine.

Book Bowker s Guide to Characters in Fiction 2007

Download or read book Bowker s Guide to Characters in Fiction 2007 written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 3004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lucia Upstaged

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  • Author : Matthew Tuck
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2021-01-18
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 141 pages

Download or read book Lucia Upstaged written by Matthew Tuck and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon the series of novels by E.F. Benson this new Mapp & Lucia novel brings a new twist to our beloved characters of the fictional town Tilling based upon the coastal town of Rye in East Sussex. Our beloved find themselves in new happenings including alleged murder and snooping investigations. Who was in the frame? Does it lead to war? a new character joins us and Georgie finds himself exploring a side to himself that we all thought about yet never said. Lucia tired of her current muzes takes our new friend to heart and his talents, she'll show Tilling she's still the Queen of everything she lays her hands on to the rage of Elizabeth Mapp-Flint. Little does Lucia know, that their new friend will will lead to her upstaging in front of all Tilling, but her ability to bounce back leaves us with charming knowledge our beloved are safe and sound.

Book Recollecting Dante s Divine Comedy in the Novels of Mark Helprin

Download or read book Recollecting Dante s Divine Comedy in the Novels of Mark Helprin written by Sara MacDonald and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies several of Mark Helprin’s novels in terms of their relation to Dante’s Divine Comedy. The authors demonstrate that A Soldier of the Great War, In Sunlight and in Shadow, and Winter’s Tale substantially correspond to, respectively, Dante’s Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The author himself has acknowledged his debt to Dante and references to the Comedy appear throughout his works. It is not that Helprin’s novels track their Dantean antecedents slavishly, or even follow the structure of the Canticles explicitly. Rather, the central arguments of Dante’s three works are taken up by Helprin in his novels. In adopting Dante’s essentially Platonic doctrine of mediation, Helprin’s characters are fully instantiated human beings who also mediate and reveal the divine. In his engagement with Dante, Helprin affirms the core philosophical, theological and psychological arguments of the Comedy, and then modifies those arguments in a distinctly modern way. Specifically, Helprin focuses on human freedom as the necessary precondition for justice to exist, both for individuals and for societies. In the final chapter of the book, the authors turn to Helprin’s Freddy and Fredericka. In this novel, Helprin both assumes Dante’s argument, and then radically alters it, by pointing to the possibility of a just regime on earth, rather than one that exists merely in heaven. While accepting much of Dante’s metaphysical argument, Helprin shows the virtues of liberal democracy as that form of political regime that is most able to unite human eros with eternal principles. In the end, Helprin’s novels are remarkable for the way in which they advocate for ancient virtues, while insisting upon the distinctly modern liberal account of human freedom as the necessary foundation for human flourishing.

Book MAPP AND LUCIA

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  • Author : E. F. Benson
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2023-11-28
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1229 pages

Download or read book MAPP AND LUCIA written by E. F. Benson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 1229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make Way For Lucia, also known as Mapp and Lucia, is a collective name for a series of novels by E. F. Benson about Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas and Elizabeth Mapp. The novels feature humorous incidents in the lives of (mainly) upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s, vying for social prestige and one-upmanship in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery. Several of them are set in the small seaside town of Tilling, closely based on Rye, East Sussex, where Benson lived for a number of years and served as mayor. Contents: Queen Lucia Miss Mapp Lucia in London Mapp and Lucia Lucia's Progress or The Worshipful Lucia Trouble for Lucia The Male Impersonator Desirable Residences Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. He started his novel writing career in 1893 with the fashionably controversial Dodo, which was an instant success, and followed it with a variety of satire and romantic and supernatural melodrama. He repeated the success of Dodo, with sequels to this novel, but the greatest success came relatively late in his career with The Mapp and Lucia series consisting of six novels and two short stories. Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, oblique, and at times humorous or satirical ghost stories.

Book Lucia  Lucia

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  • Author : Adriana Trigiani
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • Release : 2004-06-29
  • ISBN : 0812967798
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Lucia Lucia written by Adriana Trigiani and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2004-06-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This heartwarming tale is full of lessons about taking risks in life and love.”—Cosmopolitan “Funny, visual, and moving . . . A vibrant, loving, wistful portrait of a lost time and place.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch It is 1950 in glittering, vibrant New York City, and Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old daughter of a prosperous Italian grocer in Greenwich Village. The postwar boom is rife with opportunities for talented girls with ambition, and Lucia becomes an apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at chic B. Altman department store on Fifth Avenue. Engaged to her childhood sweetheart, the steadfast Dante DeMartino, Lucia is torn when she meets a handsome stranger who promises a life of uptown luxury that career girls like her only read about in the society pages. Forced to choose between duty to her family and her own dreams, Lucia finds herself in the midst of a sizzling scandal in which secrets are revealed, her beloved career is jeopardized, and the Sartoris’ honor is tested.

Book Trouble for Lucia

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  • Author : E. F. Benson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9781849024358
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Trouble for Lucia written by E. F. Benson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trouble for Lucia was written by E.F Benson in 1939. It is part of a series of novels that feature hilarious incidents in the lives of upper-middle class people in the 1920s and '30s. The characters vie for social standing in an extremely snobby world. In the series the two main characters - sophisticated Lucia and frumpy Miss Mapp compete with each other and have to extricate themselves from a series of social disasters in comical style.

Book Queen Lucia

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  • Author : E. F. Benson
  • Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
  • Release : 2020-07-22
  • ISBN : 8726553309
  • Pages : 187 pages

Download or read book Queen Lucia written by E. F. Benson and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Queen Lucia" (1920) is the first volume of E. F. Benson’s "Mapp and Lucia" 6-novel series. It is a comedy of manners, set in provincial Riseholme (Lincolnshire). Emmeline Lucas rules local society with the help of her friend Georgie Pillson, a position she fiercely protects from her rival Daisy Quantock. But this very situation is at risk, as a scandal breaks out and a famous Prima Donna arrives in the sleepy old hamlet. Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was a British archeologist and author, who wrote under the pen name E. F. Benson. Originally from Berkshire, he studied at Cambridge University and published his first novel "Dodo" in 1893. It was an instant success. He was a prolific novelist, and wrote in a blend of satire, science-fiction, supernatural and romantic melodramas, and has been admired by later authors such as H. P. Lovecraft. He was also a reputed memoirist, and wrote amongst others a biography of Charlotte Brontë. Benson was a very discreet character but it is widely assumed that he was homosexual, of which traces can be found in the circles he kept as well as in his fiction. He never married and passed away in 1940 at age 72.

Book Mapp and Luci

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  • Author : E. F. Benson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012-04
  • ISBN : 9781781391532
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Mapp and Luci written by E. F. Benson and published by . This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapp and Lucia was written by E.F Benson in 1931. It is part of a series of novels that feature hilarious incidents in the lives of upper-middle class people in the 1920s and '30s. The characters vie for social standing in an extremely snobby world. In the series the two main characters - sophisticated Lucia and frumpy Miss Mapp compete with each other and have to extricate themselves from a series of social disasters in comical style.

Book The Painted Lady

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  • Author : Lucia Grahame
  • Publisher : Doubleday Books
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780385468305
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book The Painted Lady written by Lucia Grahame and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desperate to pay the man who is blackmailing her, Fleur Deslingnere reluctantly marries Anthony Camwell, the handsome but formal aristocrat whose repressed desire for Fleur has consumed him for years.

Book Lucia in London   Mapp and Lucia

Download or read book Lucia in London Mapp and Lucia written by E. F. Benson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. F. Benson’s beloved Mapp and Lucia novels are sparkling, classic comedies of manners set against the petty snobberies and competitive maneuverings of English village society in the 1920s and 1930s. The third and fourth novels in the series, Lucia in London (1927) and Mapp and Lucia (1931) continue the adventures of Benson’s famously irrepressible characters, and bring them into hilarious conflict. Both Mrs. Lucia Lucas and Miss Elizabeth Mapp are accustomed to complete social supremacy, and when one intrudes on the other’s territory, war ensues. Lucia sees herself as a benevolent—if ruthless—dictator, while Miss Mapp is driven by an insatiable desire for vengeance against the presumptuous interloper. Their skirmishes—played out on a battlefield composed of dinner parties, council meetings, and art exhibits—enliven the plots of Benson’s maliciously witty comedies.

Book Forthcoming Books

Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British National Bibliography

Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lucia Heros

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  • Author : Arianne Belzer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-09-02
  • ISBN : 9781688591646
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Lucia Heros written by Arianne Belzer and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucia's brother thinks she causes trouble. Lucia's mother thinks she causes trouble. Lucia hears a lot of "Lucia, you're a bad girl." But Lucia just wants to be a hero. She has heard stories about heroes. She knows a lot about Jason and Odysseus. As hard as she tries, though, Lucia just isn't Jason, and she isn't Odysseus. But Lucia is determined. With the help of her neighbors, Rufus and Agrippina, Lucia is about to learn a lot about herself - and about heroes.Thanks to Lance Piantaggini for the use of his characters!Lucia Heros is appropriate for students in their second year, containing 143 unique vocabulary words, the majority of which fall within the first 150 on the Williams frequency list. Thematically, it targets heroes, Roman history, and the daily life of girls in ancient Rome. It is a follow up to Lucia, Puella Mala, but it can be read as a standalone as well.

Book The World of Elena Ferrante s Neapolitan Quartet

Download or read book The World of Elena Ferrante s Neapolitan Quartet written by Maurizio Pagano and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: