Download or read book My Blue Notebooks written by Liane de Pougy and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Blue Notebooks written by Liane de Pougy and published by Tarcher. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liane de Pougy, known as Paris's most beautiful and notorious courtesan, was a Folies-Bergère dancer who became a princess and died a nun. Between 1919 and 1941 she wrote her intimate memoir, My Blue Notebooks. Making modern tell-alls seem downright tepid by comparison, this long-out-of-print classic is a fascinating look into the mind of an audacious woman of great intelligence and humor. In My Blue Notebooks, de Pougy describes hosting the likes of Jean Cocteau and the poet Max Jacob, her best friend ("Never again. Never more than one writer at a time"). She shares her literary critiques of her "friend" Colette ("I look down on her with a grimace of disgust"), recalls the funeral of Nicholas I (she happened to be in St. Petersburg at the time), and reports the sad early death of her acquaintance Marcel Proust. She writes graphically of her many sexual liaisons with both men and women, including her complex marriage to the "too handsome" Prince Georges Ghika of Romania and her difficult relationship with Nathalie Clifford Barney, perhaps the real love of her life. Here is a voyeuristic feast of high society living during the first decades of the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Blue Notebook written by James A. Levine and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BONUS: This edition contains a The Blue Notebook discussion guide and an excerpt from James A. Levine's Bingo's Run. An unforgettable, deeply affecting debut novel, The Blue Notebook tells the story of Batuk, a precocious fifteen-year-old girl from rural India who is sold into sexual slavery by her father. As she navigates the grim realities of Mumbai’s Common Street, Batuk manages to put pen to paper, recording her private thoughts and writing fantastic tales that help her transcend her daily existence. Beautifully crafted, surprisingly hopeful, and filled with both tragedy and humor, The Blue Notebook shows how even in the most difficult situations, people use storytelling to make sense of and give meaning to their lives.
Download or read book The Blue Octavo Notebooks written by Franz Kafka and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in Dearest father: stories and other writings. Schocken Books, 1954.
Download or read book The Blue Notebooks written by Dudley Marchi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-04-07 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using language like an artist's palette, the Blue Notebooks captures the special moments of everyday being.
Download or read book The Blue Notebook written by André Juillard and published by Comics Lit. This book was released on 1997 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two men on the train, at different times, become obsessed with a beautiful woman who they only caught a glimpse of while passing her apartment. One, a lounge lizard, meets her in a very forward manner. At first amused by him, she then falls for the other more darkly romantic one. Then his journal appears mysteriously in her mailbox. She is shocked to find out how he had obsessed about her. It turns out the two men were friends. Now rivals, they are about to make a serious mess of each other's lives, leading to an ill-fated death. A deftly executed milestone, in full-colour .
Download or read book A Woman s Affair written by Liane de Pougy and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English translation of Liane de Pougy’s 1901 novel A Woman’s Affair (Idylle Saphique) which shocked French readers with its lesbian lover story, and is based on Liane de Pougy’s affair with Natalie Barney. Despite her beauty and her riches, Annhine de Lys, one of the most notorious courtesans of 1890s Paris, is bored and restless. Into her life bursts Flossie, a young American woman, and everything changes. The love she offers Annhine is dangerous, perverse and hard to resist. Ignoring the warnings of her best friend, Annhine encourages the affair. Yet she cannot commit: she advances, retreats, becomes bewildered, ill. After a tragic incident at a masked ball, Annhine leaves Paris to make a long tour through Europe. But the attempt to put time and distance between them comes to nothing and the fateful relationship must run its course. 'A Woman’s Affair is melodrama at full pelt... Beneath the melodrama is something more interesting: a straightforward acceptance of same-sex love that in 1901 could perhaps only have been expressed in Paris... It is worth noting that (A Woman's Affair) was nearly thirty years before Radclyffe Hall’s much milder allusion (to lesbian love) prompted a British court to brand The Well of Loneliness (1928) obscene...The more thoughtful feminism glimpsed beneath (the frou-frou and silliness in A Woman’s Affair) is illuminating on the choices facing women in the early 1900s, and on the dangers of sex work. Anderson does justice to both registers – silly and serious – in a lively translation that captures Pougy’s effervescence as well as her uneven style.’ Miranda France in The Times Literary Supplement
Download or read book My Blue Notebook written by Kylie Green and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-10 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This blank lined notebook features the words "My Blue Notebook" on the cover and plenty of room to write down your important plans, notes, appointments and ideas, or just for using as a personal diary. This cool journal is excellent for women and girls trying to organize her lives. This Journal book comes with lined pages and makes a perfect gift for many occasions including birthdays, Mother's Day, Boss Day, holidays or Christmas. Treat yourself or purchase for a boss, teacher, busy mommy or anyone else in your life that could use this fun gag gift journal. JOURNAL FEATURES: *6 x 9" Inches Softcover Journal Book *120 Inside Pages (60 Sheets) *Lined on Both Sides *Small and cute so it can easily fit in your purse or backpack *Makes the perfect gift idea for daughter, son, busy mom, father, sister or friend to write down whatever they want. *Features the words "My Blue Notebook" on the cover.
Download or read book The Trouble with Ants written by Claudia Mills and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Science-obsessed fourth grader Nora wants to be like her scientist family and publish a professional research paper on her favorite subject: her ant farm!"--
Download or read book The Busy Blue Jay written by Olive Thorne Miller and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Busy Blue Jay: True Bird Stories from My Notebooks by Olive Thorne Miller. A story about a blue jay named Jakie. This chapters focuses on his mischevious behavior. Harriet Mann Miller was a naturalist, ornithologist and children's writer. She was the wife of Watts Todd Miller and sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Olive Thorne Miller.
Download or read book Large Size Notebook written by My Journal and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LARGE SIZE NOTEBOOK/JOURNAL 300 LINED PAGES This paperback notebook is 7'' X 10'' featuring 300 pages (150 sheets) that are wide ruled. Use it as a notebook, journal or even a diary. There are 300 lined pages waiting to be filled with your words!
Download or read book Planet Earth Is Blue written by Nicole Panteleakos and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tender and illuminating. A beautiful debut." --Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal-winning author of When You Reach Me A heartrending and hopeful debut novel about a nonverbal girl and her passion for space exploration, for fans of See You in the Cosmos, Mockingbird, and The Thing About Jellyfish. Twelve-year-old Nova is eagerly awaiting the launch of the space shuttle Challenger--it's the first time a teacher is going into space, and kids across America will watch the event on live TV in their classrooms. Nova and her big sister, Bridget, share a love of astronomy and the space program. They planned to watch the launch together. But Bridget has disappeared, and Nova is in a new foster home. While foster families and teachers dismiss Nova as severely autistic and nonverbal, Bridget understands how intelligent and special Nova is, and all that she can't express. As the liftoff draws closer, Nova's new foster family and teachers begin to see her potential, and for the first time, she is making friends without Bridget. But every day, she's counting down to the launch, and to the moment when she'll see Bridget again. Because Bridget said, "No matter what, I'll be there. I promise."
Download or read book The Power Notebooks written by Katie Roiphe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katie Roiphe, culture writer and author of The Morning After, shares a “beautifully written” (The New York Times Book Review) “astute memoir [that] reverberates with rich prose, crisp pacing, and self-compassion” (Publishers Weekly) and an essential discussion of how strong women experience their power. Told in a series of notebook entries, Roiphe weaves her often fraught personal experiences with divorce, single motherhood, and relationships with insights into the lives and loves of famous writers such as Sylvia Plath and Simone de Beauvoir. She dissects the way she and other ordinary, powerful women have subjugated their own power time and time again, and she probes brilliantly at the tricky, uncomfortable question of why. “Although Ms. Roiphe seems to be exposing her vulnerabilities here, she is actually, once again, demonstrating her unique brand of fearlessness” (The Wall Street Journal). The Power Notebooks is Roiphe’s most vital, thought-provoking, and emotionally intimate work yet.
Download or read book Kafka written by Reiner Stach and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eagerly anticipated final volume of the award-winning, definitive biography of Franz Kafka How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography of the writer answers that question with more facts and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka (1883–1924). It tells the story of the years from his birth in Prague to the beginning of his professional and literary career in 1910, taking the reader up to just before the breakthrough that resulted in his first masterpieces, including "The Metamorphosis." Brimming with vivid and often startling details, Stach’s narrative invites readers deep inside this neglected period of Kafka’s life. The book’s richly atmospheric portrait of his German Jewish merchant family and his education, psychological development, and sexual maturation draws on numerous sources, some still unpublished, including family letters, schoolmates’ memoirs, and early diaries of his close friend Max Brod. The biography also provides a colorful panorama of Kafka’s wider world, especially the convoluted politics and culture of Prague. Before World War I, Kafka lived in a society at the threshold of modernity but torn by conflict, and Stach provides poignant details of how the adolescent Kafka witnessed violent outbreaks of anti-Semitism and nationalism. The reader also learns how he developed a passionate interest in new technologies, particularly movies and airplanes, and why another interest—his predilection for the back-to-nature movement—stemmed from his “nervous” surroundings rather than personal eccentricity. The crowning volume to a masterly biography, this is an unmatched account of how a boy who grew up in an old Central European monarchy became a writer who helped create modern literature.
Download or read book My Little Blue Notebook written by LifeTwist Designs and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-06 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Little Blue Notebook contains 120 pages of ruled white paper for all your journalling and notebook needs. Size - 6" x 9" (15.24cm x 22.86cm) Pages - 120 (Wide Ruled) Paperback Notebook / Journal Perfect For - Back To School, Creative Writing, Recipes, Study Notes, And Much More
Download or read book Kafka written by Reiner Stach and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals, letters, and literary fragments, many never before available, to re-create the atmosphere in which Kafka lived and worked from 1910 to 1915, the most important and best-documented years of his life. This period, which would prove crucial to Kafka's writing and set the course for the rest of his life, saw him working with astonishing intensity on his most seminal writings--The Trial, The Metamorphosis, The Man Who Disappeared (Amerika), and The Judgment. These are also the years of Kafka's fascination with Zionism; of his tumultuous engagement to Felice Bauer; and of the outbreak of World War I. Kafka: The Decisive Years is at once an extraordinary portrait of the writer and a startlingly original contribution to the art of literary biography.
Download or read book My Little Blue Notebook written by Maxi Lynn Creations and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great little notebook to carry with you all the time. It's a compact 5 by 8 inches with 80 pages. It won't weigh you down or take up much room in your bag or backpack. But, it will give you lots of writing room. If your favorite color is blue, this is the notebook for you!
