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Book The Secret

Download or read book The Secret written by Byron Preiss and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale begins over three-hundred years ago, when the Fair People—the goblins, fairies, dragons, and other fabled and fantastic creatures of a dozen lands—fled the Old World for the New, seeking haven from the ways of Man. With them came their precious jewels: diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls... But then the Fair People vanished, taking with them their twelve fabulous treasures. And they remained hidden until now... Across North America, these twelve treasures, over ten-thousand dollars in precious jewels, are buried. The key to finding each can be found within the twelve full color paintings and verses of The Secret. Yet The Secret is much more than that. At long last, you can learn not only the whereabouts of the Fair People's treasure, but also the modern forms and hiding places of their descendants: the Toll Trolls, Maitre D'eamons, Elf Alphas, Tupperwerewolves, Freudian Sylphs, Culture Vultures, West Ghosts and other delightful creatures in the world around us. The Secret is a field guide to them all. Many "armchair treasure hunt" books have been published over the years, most notably Masquerade (1979) by British artist Kit Williams. Masquerade promised a jewel-encrusted golden hare to the first person to unravel the riddle that Williams cleverly hid in his art. In 1982, while everyone in Britain was still madly digging up hedgerows and pastures in search of the golden hare, The Secret: A Treasure Hunt was published in America. The previous year, author and publisher Byron Preiss had traveled to 12 locations in the continental U.S. (and possibly Canada) to secretly bury a dozen ceramic casques. Each casque contained a small key that could be redeemed for one of 12 jewels Preiss kept in a safe deposit box in New York. The key to finding the casques was to match one of 12 paintings to one of 12 poetic verses, solve the resulting riddle, and start digging. Since 1982, only two of the 12 casques have been recovered. The first was located in Grant Park, Chicago, in 1984 by a group of students. The second was unearthed in 2004 in Cleveland by two members of the Quest4Treasure forum. Preiss was killed in an auto accident in the summer of 2005, but the hunt for his casques continues.

Book W  H  Auden s Book of Light Verse

Download or read book W H Auden s Book of Light Verse written by W. H. Auden and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Auden's celebrated anthology of light verse is packed with surprising finds while also offering a striking rethinking of the poetic canon. Commissioned by Oxford University Press in the 1930s, when Auden's own work was at its boldest, the book caught its original publisher off guard. For it is less a collection of humorous verses than a celebration of the popular voice in English, in which the work of great satirists like Swift and Byron keeps company with ballads, chanteys, ditties, nursery rhymes, street calls, bathroom graffiti, epitaphs, folk songs, vaudeville turns, limericks, and blues. Turning away from the post-Romantic cult of the sentimental lyric, Auden features poetry that is clear, enjoyable, and, no matter its age, absolutely modern. This new edition includes previously censored poems, together with Auden's remarkable introduction and a new preface by his literary executor, Edward Mendelson.

Book Beastly Verse

Download or read book Beastly Verse written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an anthology of 16 animal poems for children, illustrated by the graphic artist JooHee Yoon. The authors range from Lewis Carroll to D.H. Lawrence to Anonymous."--Publisher information.

Book Modern Yiddish Verse

Download or read book Modern Yiddish Verse written by Irving Howe and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1987 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gift dedicated to Leonard Bernstein on his 70th birthday (1988). It was signed by the artist, Yossi Stern, and by Teddy Kollek. In addition to the numerous line drawings illustrating the poetry, Stern crafted an original book cover with a colorful drawing of a wedding scene.

Book Chapter and Verse

Download or read book Chapter and Verse written by Bernard Sumner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Sumner pioneered the post-punk movement when he broke onto the scene as a founding member of Joy Division, and later as the front man of New Order. Heavily influencing U2 and The Cure while paving the way for post-punk revivalists like Interpol, Sumner's has left an indelible mark on punk and rock music that endures to this day. Famously reluctant to speak out, for the first time Sumner tell his story, a vivid and illuminating account of his childhood in Manchester, the early days of Joy Division, and the bands subsequent critical and popular successes. Sumner recounts Ian Curtis' tragic death on the eve of the band's first American tour, the formation of breakout band New Order, and his own first-hand account of the ecstasy and the agony of the 1970s Manchester music scene. Witty, fascinating and surprisingly moving, Chapter and Verse is an account of insights and spectacular personal revelations, including an appendix containing a complete transcript of a recording made of Ian Curtis experiencing hypnotic regression under the Sumner's amateur guidance and tensions between himself and former band member Peter Hook.

Book Poem Central

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  • Author : Shirley McPhillips
  • Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 1571109633
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Poem Central written by Shirley McPhillips and published by Stenhouse Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Hoagland, Harper's, April 2013 In Poem Central: Word Journeys with Readers and Writers, Shirley McPhillips helps us better understand the central role poetry can play in our personal lives and in the life of our classrooms.

Book The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse

Download or read book The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse written by T. Carmi and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning anthology gathers together the riches of poetry in Hebrew from 'The Song of Deborah' to contemporary Israeli writings. Verse written up to the tenth century show the development of piyut, or liturgical poetry, and retell episodes from the Bible and exalt the glory of God. Medieval works introduce secular ideas in love poems, wine songs and rhymed narratives, as well as devotional verse for specific religious rituals. Themes such as the longing for the homeland run through the ages, especially in verse written after the rise of the Zionist movement, while poems of the last century marry Biblical references with the horrors of the Holocaust. Together these works create a moving portrait of a rich and varied culture through the last 3,000 years.

Book More Books

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  • Author : Boston Public Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book More Books written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tradition and the Individual Poem

Download or read book Tradition and the Individual Poem written by Anne Ferry and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theoretical, historical, and critical inquiry, this book looks at the assumptions anthologies are predicated on, how they are put together, the treatment of the poems in them, and the effects their presentations have on their readers.

Book Verse and Worse

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  • Author : Harry Graham
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2019-12-10
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 118 pages

Download or read book Verse and Worse written by Harry Graham and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Verse and Worse" by Harry Graham. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Book The Book lover

Download or read book The Book lover written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford Book of American Verse

Download or read book The Oxford Book of American Verse written by Bliss Carman and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spiritual and Material Boundaries in Old French Verse

Download or read book Spiritual and Material Boundaries in Old French Verse written by Jacob Abell and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earthly Paradise was a vibrant symbol at the heart of medieval Christian geographies of the cosmos. As humanity’s primal home now lost through the sins of Adam of Eve, the Earthly Paradise figured prominently in Old French tales of lands beyond the mundane world. This study proposes a fresh look at the complex roles played by the Earthly Paradise in three medieval French poems: Marie de France’s The Purgatory of St. Patrick, Benedeit’s Voyage of Saint Brendan the Abbot, and Guillaume de Lorris’s The Romance of the Rose. By examining the literary, cultural, and artistic components that informed each poem, this book advances the thesis that the exterior walls of the Earthly Paradise served evolving purposes as contemplative objects that implicitly engaged complex notions of economic solidarity and idealized community. These visions of the Earthly Paradise stand to provide a striking contribution to a historically informed response to the contemporary legacies of colonialism and the international refugee crisis.

Book The Dial

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1917
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 912 pages

Download or read book The Dial written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nation

Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bookman

Download or read book The Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Eighteenth Century British Verse Epistle

Download or read book The Eighteenth Century British Verse Epistle written by B. Overton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to cover the whole range of epistolary verse in the period, including the discursive type favoured by Pope and the familiar and dramatic epistles. It advances a new model for defining the form, demonstrates the form's importance in the period, and pays attention to non-canonical epistles by women and labouring-class writers.