Download or read book Pieces of Soap Essays written by Stanley Elkin and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a wickedly witty touch, Elkin’s essays takes readers on a tour of American life in the 20th century. Stanley Elkin was one of our great American writers. “A divine exploiter of the idiocies and intricacies of our language,” as John Irving put it, and nowhere is that more clear than this collection of essays, which find Elkin wresting hilarity and heartbreak from the most unlikely of sources.
Download or read book Collected Essays written by Thomas Henry Huxley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-29 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nine-volume collection of essays and lectures published in 1893-4 by one of Victorian England's most influential biologists.
Download or read book Pieces of Soap written by Stanley Elkin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a wickedly witty touch, Elkin’s essays takes readers on a tour of American life in the 20th century. Stanley Elkin was one of our great American writers. “A divine exploiter of the idiocies and intricacies of our language,” as John Irving put it, and nowhere is that more clear than this collection of essays, which find Elkin wresting hilarity and heartbreak from the most unlikely of sources.
Download or read book Collected Essays written by Thomas Henry Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Huxley s Essays written by Ernest Rhys and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Huxley's Essays by Ernest Rhys
Download or read book Collected Essays Man s place in nature written by Thomas Henry Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collected Essays Man s place in nature and other anthropological essays written by Thomas Henry Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shouting Down the Silence written by David C Dougherty and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shouting Down the Silence presents the first complete biography of Stanley Elkin, a preeminent novelist who consistently won high marks from critics but whose complexities of style seemed destined to elude the popular acclaim he hoped to attain. From the publication of his second novel, A Bad Man, in 1967 to his death in 1995, Elkin was tormented by the desire for both material and artistic success. Elkin's novels were taught in colleges and universities, his fiction received high praise from critics and reviewers (two of his novels won National Book Critics Circle Awards), and his short stories were widely anthologized--and yet he was unable to achieve renown beyond the avant-garde, or to escape the stigma of being an "academic writer." He wanted to be Faulkner, but he had trouble being Elkin. Drawing on personal interviews and an intimate knowledge of Elkins's life and works, David C. Dougherty captures Elkin's early life as the son of a charismatic, intimidating, and remarkably successful Jewish immigrant from Russia, as well as his later career at Washington University in St. Louis. A frequent participant at the annual Bread Loaf Writers' conference, he was the friend--and sometime antagonist--of other important writers, particularly Saul Bellow, William Gass, Howard Nemerov, and Robert Coover. Despite failed attempts to bridge the gap from his academic post to wide popular success, Elkin continued to write essays, stories, and novels that garnered unerring praise. His was a classic dilemma of an intellectual aesthete loath to make use of the common devices of popular appeal. The book details the ambition, the success, the friction, and the foibles of a writer who won fame, but not the fame he wanted.
Download or read book The Collected Works of Susan Coolidge 7 Novels 35 Short Stories Essays Poems Illustrated written by Susan Coolidge and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 2254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of Susan Coolidge's most beloved children's books and novels has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Susan Coolidge (Biography) Katy Carr Chronicles: What Katy Did What Katy Did at School What Katy Did Next Clover In the High Valley "Curly Locks" (A Short Story) Other Novels: A Little Country Girl Eyebright: A Story Short Stories & Collections: Nine Little Goslings Just Sixteen Not Quite Eighteen A Round Dozen Who Ate the Pink Sweetmeat? Little Roger's Night in the Church The Engineer's Story Non-Fiction The Letters of Jane Austen A Short History of the City of Philadelphia, From Its Foundation to the Present Time Poems: Verses (Poetry Collection) A Few More Verses Last Verses Five Giving to All, Thou Gavest As Well to Me Benediction Five Little Buds Grouped Round the Parent Stem Susan Coolidge, pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835–1905), was an American children's author who is best known for her Katy Carr Series. The fictional Carr family of this series was modeled after Woolsey's own family and the protagonist Katy Carr was inspired by Woolsey herself; while the brothers and sisters "Little Carrs" were modeled on her four younger siblings.
Download or read book Lectures and Essays written by Thomas Henry Huxley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
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Download or read book Man s Place in Nature and Other Essays written by Thomas Henry Huxley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of essays written by Thomas Henry Huxley, who is best remembered today for his impassioned defense of Charles Darwin's theories. Huxley himself is also a biologist and anthropologist, and this book shows his expertise in the form of his writings, as featured in the following selection of titles: 'The Present Condition of Organic Nature', 'Time and Life', and 'The Condition of Existence as Affecting the Perpetuation of Living Beings'.
Download or read book An Essay on the Virtues of Lime water in the Cure of the Stone written by Robert Whytt and published by . This book was released on 1752 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Essay on the virtues of Lime Water in the cure of the Stone With an appendix containing the case of the Honourable H Walpole written by himself written by Robert WHYTT (the Elder.) and published by . This book was released on 1752 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Muse Upon My Shoulder written by Sylvia Skaggs McTague and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Muse upon My Shoulder an exceptionally diverse group of writers (including Evan S. Connell, Anthony Piccione, David Trinidad, William Stafford, Jean Thompson, Vance Bourjaily, E. L. Doctorow, Stanley Elkin, Jay McInerney, Beth Henley, David Hwang, Bud Schulberg, and Mary Gordon) discuss the creative process. They entertain self-revealing questions about their status as writers, their inspiration to write, and their relationship to an audience. The conversational form of the interview allows for candid answers that readers rarely hear to questions that seldom are answered. The final chapter lets readers participate in the conflicts that surround the production of a good interview. Sylvia Skaggs McTague is a lecturer at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Download or read book Cassette Books written by Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ink written by Angela Woodward and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We have extensive accounts, typed out neatly: 'They took me into a dark room and started hitting me on the head and stomach and legs. I stayed in this room for 5 days, naked, with no clothes.'" Angela Woodward's novel Ink tells the story of the two women who spend their days doing that neat typing. Sylvia and Marina, both single mothers, work in a suburban office building, transcribing tape recordings of witness statements describing detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib. Their ordinary preoccupations—problems with the soap in the restroom, the motives of Marina's new love, Mr. Right, and Sylvia's worries about paying for her son's show choir costume—are a mundane backdrop to the violence represented by the transcripts. Woodward layers essayistic explorations of the history of ink and writing materials into the women's tale along with the story of the unfinished masterpiece of a French poet, and a writer's notations about her daily commute and the lake behind her house. Then a new crime is revealed. Ink is an illuminating meditation on what it means to bear witness.
