Download or read book The Grand Panjandrum written by Julius Nicholas Hook and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest Fields of Literature written by Charles Carroll Bombaugh and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Facts and Fancies for the Curious from the Harvest fields of Literature written by Charles Carroll Bombaugh and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Character Sketches of Romance Fiction and the Drama written by E. Cobham Brewer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer
Download or read book The Blackbird written by Beth Fuller and published by eXtasy Books. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ira is sent home early from his work on All Hallows’ Eve, he finds a mysterious woman lingering on a bridge. She is desperate and wild, and as she falls into the river below, Ira follows, determined to save her against all odds. But when she awakens, he finds nearly drowning is the least of her worries. A far darker entity is haunting her. Can he save her before the time runs out?
Download or read book The Spooky Art written by Norman Mailer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2003-01-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Writing is spooky,” according to Norman Mailer. “There is no routine of an office to keep you going, only the blank page each morning, and you never know where your words are coming from, those divine words.” In The Spooky Art, Mailer discusses with signature candor the rewards and trials of the writing life, and recommends the tools to navigate it. Addressing the reader in a conversational tone, he draws on the best of more than fifty years of his own criticism, advice, and detailed observations about the writer’s craft. Praise for The Spooky Art “The Spooky Art shows Mailer’s brave willingness to take on demanding forms and daunting issues. . . . He has been a thoughtful and stylish witness to the best and worst of the American century.”—The Boston Globe “At his best—as artists should be judged—Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure. There is enough of his best in this book for it to be welcomed with gratitude.”—The Washington Post “[The Spooky Art] should nourish and inform—as well as entertain—almost any serious reader of the novel.”—Baltimore Sun “The richest book ever written about the writer’s subconscious.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Striking . . . entrancingly frank.”—Entertainment Weekly Praise for Norman Mailer “[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.”—The New York Times “A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.”—The New Yorker “A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.”—Life “Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.”—The New York Review of Books “The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.”—Chicago Tribune “Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.”—The Cincinnati Post
Download or read book The Last Night of the Earth Poems written by Charles Bukowski and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter In The Last Night of the Earth Poems, Charles Bukowski's gritty poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.
Download or read book Dart written by Alice Oswald and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and canoeists - and are interlinked with historic and mythic voices: drowned voices, dreaming voices and marginal notes which act as markers along the way.
Download or read book B squeda Del Presente written by Octavio Paz and published by Ecco. This book was released on 1990 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The speech delivered by Paz in acceptance of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature, in which he discusses gratitude, separateness, and modernity. Published in a handsome bilingual edition. Translated by Anthony Stanton.
Download or read book The Thought and Character of William James as Revealed in Unpublished Correspondence and Notes written by Ralph Barton Perry and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Most Beautiful Woman in Town Other Stories written by Charles Bukowski and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of short stories propels the reader into the lowlife of america's underworld, full of drunks, bums and gamblers, where sex and violence are everywhere and the most beautiful woman in town drinks and fights.
Download or read book Global Brain written by Howard Bloom and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As someone who has spent forty years in psychology with a long-standing interest in evolution, I'll just assimilate Howard Bloom's accomplishment and my amazement."-DAVID SMILLIE, Visiting Professor of Zoology, Duke University In this extraordinary follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Lucifer Principle, Howard Bloom-one of today's preeminent thinkers-offers us a bold rewrite of the evolutionary saga. He shows how plants and animals (including humans) have evolved together as components of a worldwide learning machine. He describes the network of life on Earth as one that is, in fact, a "complex adaptive system," a global brain in which each of us plays a sometimes conscious, sometimes unknowing role. and he reveals that the World Wide Web is just the latest step in the development of this brain. These are theories as important as they are radical. Informed by twenty years of interdisciplinary research, Bloom takes us on a spellbinding journey back to the big bang to let us see how its fires forged primordial sociality. As he brings us back via surprising routes, we see how our earliest bacterial ancestors built multitrillion-member research and development teams a full 3.5 billion years ago. We watch him unravel the previously unrecognized strands of interconnectedness woven by crowds of trilobites, hunting packs of dinosaurs, feathered flying lizards gathered in flocks, troops of baboons making communal decisions, and adventurous tribes of protohumans spreading across continents but still linked by primitive forms of information networking. We soon find ourselves reconsidering our place in the world. Along the way, Bloom offers us exhilarating insights into the strange tricks of body and mind that have organized a variety of life forms: spiny lobsters, which, during the Paleozoic age, participated in communal marching rituals; and bees, which, during the age of dinosaurs, conducted collective brainwork. This fascinating tour continues on to the sometimes brutal subculture wars that have spurred the growth of human civilization since the Stone Age. Bloom shows us how culture shapes our infant brains, immersing us in a matrix of truth and mass delusion that we think of as reality. Global Brain is more than just a brilliantly original contribution to the ongoing debate on the inner workings of evolution. It is a "grand vision," says the eminent evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson, a work that transforms our very view of who we are and why.
Download or read book Brahms a Critical Study written by Burnett James and published by London : Dent. This book was released on 1972 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes his study as 'an attempt to see and understand Johannes Brahms from the central viewpoint of the second half of the twentieth century'. No comparable work exists. During the composer's lifetime his reputation fluctuated: some saw him as a giant of formidable intellect and originality, perhaps the last major figure in a musical tradition reaching back into the formative years of Western music. Others regarded him as a lyricist, a superb song writer, less satisfactory in large-scale works; or again as a prophet of the music of the future. Critics and scholars may disagree in such matters, yet his influence on music is certainly greater than is generally recognized. This book, the first serious Brahms study to appear in English for twenty years, provides a fresh evaluation of the established facts and a reassessment of his achievement in contemporary terms. Particularly fascinating is the author's detailed analysis of Brahms's position in the period of the 'New Music'.
Download or read book Poems for the Time Capsule written by David Watts and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. A charming and compelling collection of poems, lovingly assembled by its editor after years of being knocked off his feet by poems he encountered in the process of teaching poetry at The Fromm Institute of San Francisco and making a growing stack of them on his desk. After years of careful selection the stack has been converted into a beautiful anthology, fit for future generations who seek the inspiration that the art of poetry has given us over the years. Contributors include: Rumi, Robert Hass, Sylvia Plath, Tomas Transtromer, Jane Hirshfield, Miklos Radnoti, Derek Walcott, A. A. Milne, Len Roberts, Brenda Hillman, Dean Young, Robert Hayden, Billy Collins, William Butler Yeats, Yannis Ritsos, Alicia Ostriker, William Stafford, Francis Ponge, Denise Levertov, Kabir, William Carlos Williams, Anna Akhmatova, David Watts, Sharon Olds, James Wright, Emily Dickinson, and Galway Kinnell.
Download or read book Scars and Memories written by Odie Hawkins and published by Open Road Distribution. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deeply personal story of Odie Hawkins's journey, from "the poorest of the poor" childhood in Chicago to Hollywood screenwriter--and the people who deeply mattered. A tough, touching autobiography.
Download or read book The Politics of Glory written by Bill James and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes a close look at the Baseball Hall of Fame, explaining how it operates, who controls it, how they make decisions, and how players are elected, using the continuing battle over former Yankee Phil Rizzuto to illuminate the controversy. 25,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.
