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Book The Aesthetic Obsession

Download or read book The Aesthetic Obsession written by Lyall Wilkes and published by Oriel. This book was released on 1985 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Download or read book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man written by James Joyce and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [1916] established James Joyce as a leading figure in literary modernism across Europe. The novel is set in the author’s homeland, Ireland, and narrates, in five episodes, the childhood of Stephen Dedalus. The plot is entirely based on Joyce’s own life and serves as a private manifesto, particularly through its sharp declaration of independence from Catholicism. Joyce pioneered a new way of writing novels, abandoning traditional narration for stream of consciousness and introducing his epiphanies—momentary revelations that, in their everydayness, hint at a larger context of life. Upon the recommendation of the American poet Ezra Pound, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was serialized in the magazine The Egoist in 1914/15 before being published as a book the following year. Today, more than a hundred years after its release, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is considered one of the most significant autobiographical texts in world literature. The Modern Library ranked it as the 3rd best English-language novel of the 20th century (with Joyce’s Ulysses as #1). JAMES JOYCE [1882-1941], Irish author, is a key figure in modernist literature with works such as Dubliners [1914], A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [1916], and Ulysses [1922].

Book The Obsession

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jesse Q. Sutanto
  • Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • Release : 2021-02-02
  • ISBN : 172821517X
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book The Obsession written by Jesse Q. Sutanto and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-paced teen revenge-thriller from the author of Dial A for Aunties, The Obsession will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the very end. Boy Meets Girl. Boy Stalks Girl. Girl Gets Revenge. Logan thinks he and Delilah are meant to be. Delilah doesn't know who Logan is. Logan believes no one knows Delilah like him. He makes sure of it by learning everything he can by watching her through a hidden camera. Some might call him a stalker. Logan prefers to be called "romantic". Delilah is keeping secrets though, deadly ones. There's so much more to her than meets the eye. Logan is determined to make Delilah the heroine in his twisted fantasy and he'll do anything to get what he wants. Delilah is done with the men in her life controlling her. If Logan won't let her go...she'll make him. "Sutanto has crafted a page-turning work of suspense that questions the line between romantic 'research' and stalking in the age of the internet, analyzing the roles played by abuse, misogyny, racism, and violence in contemporary relationships."—Booklist "Set against a Northern California private school backdrop, the sensational plot is riddled with twists that come at a furious pace...A suspenseful page-turner."—Kirkus Reviews "This tense, quick-moving thriller is also a thought-provoking story about the different shapes of abuse. Fans of high-drama fiction with a dark edge, like Karen McManus's One of Us Is Lying or Gretchen McNeil's #murdertrending, will be hooked."—School Library Journal

Book Polar Obsession

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  • Author : Paul Nicklen
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 1426205112
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Polar Obsession written by Paul Nicklen and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striking photography of the polar regions and fauna found there.

Book The Vanishing Man

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  • Author : Laura Cumming
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9780701188443
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Vanishing Man written by Laura Cumming and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction. Suspecting that it might be a long-lost Velazquez, he bought the picture and set out to discover its strange history. When Laura Cumming stumbled on a startling trial involving John Snare, it sent her on a search of her own. At first she was pursuing the picture, and the life and work of the elusive painter, but then she found herself following the bookseller's fortunes too - from London to Edinburgh to nineteenth-century New York, from fame to ruin and exile. An innovative fusion of detection and biography, this book shows how and why great works of art can affect us, even to the point of mania. And on the trail of John Snare, Cumming makes a surprising discovery of her own. But most movingly, The Vanishing Man is an eloquent and passionate homage to the Spanish master Velazquez, bringing us closer to the creation and appreciation of his works than ever before

Book The Alabaster Hand and Other Ghost Stories

Download or read book The Alabaster Hand and Other Ghost Stories written by Alan Noel Latimer Munby and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Obsession

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  • Author : Ron Graham
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2018-09-21
  • ISBN : 0773554769
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book Obsession written by Ron Graham and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir William Van Horne (1843–1915), a gifted connoisseur most famously associated with the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, amassed of one of the most extensive collections of Japanese ceramics in North America. Obsession is an illuminating account of the how and why behind his passion for studying and acquiring nearly 1,200 objects. Ron Graham assembles a profile of Van Horne's larger-than-life personality as well as essays about his place at the top of the art collectors in Montreal's Golden Square Mile and the afterlife of his collection following his death. Accompanying the texts are historical photographs and documents, a detailed catalogue of over three hundred individual pieces in the Royal Ontario Museum and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and a selection of beautiful reproductions of Van Horne's personal notebooks and exquisite watercolours from the archives of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Obsession presents a remarkable collection in the context of the life and career of a nineteenth-century Canadian business giant.

Book Portrait of His Obession

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michelle M Pillow
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-08-06
  • ISBN : 9781625012463
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Portrait of His Obession written by Michelle M Pillow and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NYT & USAT Bestselling Author "He knew for certain that she belonged forever in his arms, just as he knew she didn't realize it yet." - Portrait of His Obsession Not all obsessions are bad. Lord Harrison, Earl of Wrotham, once lived from pleasure to pleasure--until the night he set eyes on his best friend's sister. Surely the beautiful temptress who danced under the moonlight couldn't be the same prim and proper lady of rumor. Instantly smitten, he sets out to tame his roguish ways, molding himself into the kind of man he is sure will please her. Only then will he get close enough to discover if she has a wild soul like his own, waiting to be released from the constraints of society. Knowing the earl's reputation as a scoundrel, Elizabeth Blakeney has no choice but to ignore the man's advances...until her artist brother reveals an unflattering picture he has painted of her. It seems only the seductive earl can see beyond the likeness to the woman she longs to be. Should she rebel against society and the damning portrait, throwing caution to the wind? Or should she remain as she appears, as reserved and unfeeling as paint on canvas? Anniversary Edition Reader Note: This book has been re-edited and revised for the anniversary. Light Paranormal, Sexy Victorian Historical Romance

Book Portrait

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  • Author : Daniel Wheeler
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-12-15
  • ISBN : 9780692812464
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Portrait written by Daniel Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Obsession  Natchez Trace Park Rangers Book  2

Download or read book Obsession Natchez Trace Park Rangers Book 2 written by Patricia Bradley and published by Revell. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natchez Trace Ranger and historian Emma Winters hoped never to see Sam Ryker again after she broke off her engagement to him. But when shots are fired at her at a historical landmark just off the Natchez Trace, she's forced to work alongside Sam as the Natchez Trace law enforcement district ranger in the ensuing investigation. To complicate matters, Emma has acquired a delusional secret admirer who is determined to have her as his own. Sam is merely an obstruction, one which must be removed. Sam knows that he has failed Emma in the past and he doesn't intend to let her down again. Especially since her life is on the line. As the threads of the investigation cross and tangle with their own personal history, Sam and Emma have a chance to discover the truth, not only about the victim but about what went wrong in their relationship. Award-winning author Patricia Bradley will have the hairs standing up on the back of your neck with this nail-biting tale of obsession, misunderstanding, and forgiveness.

Book The Private Library

Download or read book The Private Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Portrait of an Unknown Lady

Download or read book Portrait of an Unknown Lady written by Maria Gainza and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice New York Times Notable author María Gainza, who dazzled critics with Optic Nerve, returns with the captivating story of an auction house employee on the trail of an enigmatic master forger In the Buenos Aires art world, a master forger has achieved legendary status. Rumored to be a woman, she specializes in canvases by the painter Mariette Lydis, a portraitist of Argentinean high society. But who is this absurdly gifted creator of counterfeits? What motivates her? And what is her link to the community of artists who congregate, night after night, in a strange establishment called the Hotel Melancólico? On the trail of this mysterious forger is our narrator, an art critic and auction house employee through whose hands counterfeit works have passed. As she begins to take on the role of art-world detective, adopting her own methods of deception and manipulation, she warns us “not to proceed in expectation of names, numbers or dates . . . My techniques are those of the impressionist.” Driven by obsession and full of subtle surprise, Portrait of an Unknown Lady is a highly seductive and enveloping meditation on what we mean by "authenticity" in art, and a captivating exploration of the gap between what is lived and what is told.

Book The British Portrait  1660 1960

Download or read book The British Portrait 1660 1960 written by Brian Allen and published by ACC Distribution. This book was released on 1991 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of a title which looks at the development of the British portrait from 1660 to 1960, from statements of self-importance on the part of early sitters in armour and honours, through bucolic Georgians, sanctimonious Victorians, and modern figurative and abstract interpretations. First published in 1991.

Book Material Obsession

Download or read book Material Obsession written by Kathy Doughty and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how anyone, even those who don't think they are 'creative' can confidently choose colours and patterns to create bold, easy-to-make quilts, perfect for today's busy craftspeople.

Book The Art of the Portrait

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  • Author : Norbert Schneider
  • Publisher : Taschen
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9783822819951
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book The Art of the Portrait written by Norbert Schneider and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2002 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Darneley Place

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  • Author : Richard Bagot
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book Darneley Place written by Richard Bagot and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: