Download or read book Penny Plain Twopence Coloured written by Albert Edward Wilson and published by New York : B. Blom. This book was released on 1969 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Penny Plain Two Pence Coloured written by Albert Edward Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of children's puppet theaters in England. Included are interviews of Benjamin Pollock and H.J. Webb, among the last of the creators of this once-popular children's pastime.
Download or read book Memories and Portraits written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1898 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text written by Richard J. Hill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text explores the genesis, production and the critical appreciation of the illustrations to the fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson is one of the most copied and interpreted authors of the late nineteenth century, especially his novels Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. These interpretations began with the illustration of his texts in their early editions, often with Stevenson’s express consent, and this book traces Stevenson’s understanding and critical responses to the artists employed to illustrate his texts. In doing so, it attempts to position Stevenson as an important thinker and writer on the subject of illustrated literature, and on the marriage of literature and visual arts, at a moment preceding the dawn of cinema, and the rejection of such popular tropes by modernist writers of the early twentieth century.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Anglo American Proverbs Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries written by George B. Bryan and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is a unique collection of proverbial language found in literary contexts. It includes proverbial materials from a multitude of plays, (auto)biographies of well-known actors like Britain's Laurence Olivier, songs by William S. Gilbert or Lorenz Hart, and American crime stories by Leslie Charteris. Other authors represented in the dictionary are Horatio Alger, Margery Allingham, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Eggleston, Hamlin Garland, Graham Greene, Thomas C. Haliburton, Bret Harte, Aldous Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, George Orwell, Eden Phillpotts, John B. Priestley, Carl Sandburg, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jesse Stuart, Oscar Wilde, and more. Many lesser-known dramatists, songwriters, and novelists are included as well, making the contextualized texts to a considerable degree representative of the proverbial language of the past two centuries. While the collection contains a proverbial treasure trove for paremiographers and paremiologists alike, it also presents general readers interested in folkloric, linguistic, cultural, and historical phenomena with an accessible and enjoyable selection of proverbs and proverbial phrases.
Download or read book Penny Plain written by O. Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cinderella story of Jean Jardine, a Scottish girl raising her younger brothers on her own... until a mysterious stranger asks for her hospitality. Part romance, part family story, and part small town semi-satire.
Download or read book The Drama Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert Louis Stevenson written by Paul Maixner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves.
Download or read book Occasional addresses written by Thomas Brackett Reed and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Eloquence written by Thomas Brackett Reed and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls written by Jacqueline Overton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls" by Jacqueline Overton Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, and travel writer. He is best known for his adventure, paranormal, and horror books. His tales have often been popular among children who love the thrill of his stories. In this book, his life is laid out in an easy-to-read and captivating fashion that allows young children the ability to learn about this important literary figure.
Download or read book Thus I Lived with Words written by Annette R. Federico and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) loved more than anything to talk about the craft of writing and the pleasure of reading good books. His dedication to the creative impulse manifests itself in the extraordinary amount of work he produced in virtually every literary genre—fiction, poetry, travel writing, and essays—in a short and peripatetic life. His letters, especially, confess his elation at the richness of words and the companionship of books, often projected against ill health and the shadow of his own mortality. Stevenson belonged to a newly commercial literary world, an era of mass readership, marketing, and celebrity. He had plenty of practical advice for writers who wanted to enter the profession: study the best authors, aim for simplicity, strike a keynote, work on your style. He also held that a writer should adhere to the truth and utter only what seems sincere to his or her heart and experience of the world. Writers have messages to deliver, whether the work is a tale of Highland adventure, a collection of children’s verse, or an essay on umbrellas. Stevenson believed that an author could do no better than to find the appetite for joy, the secret place of delight that is the hidden nucleus of most people’s lives. His remarks on how to write, on style and method, and on pleasure and moral purpose contain everything in literature and life that he cared most about—adventuring, persisting, finding out who you are, and learning to embrace “the romance of destiny.”
Download or read book Great Eulogies Throughout History written by James Daley and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from the Greek for "word of praise," the eulogy is a longstanding tradition of recognition and remembrance. The speeches and essays gathered in this collection offer thought-provoking commemorations of the lives and deeds of politicians, authors, poets, and other influential individuals. Starting with Pericles' Funeral Oration, a classic example of the rite, these writings turn their focus to historical figures of the past two centuries, from America's Founding Fathers to Nelson Mandela. Nineteenth-century selections include the stirring address read at Beethoven's funeral; a reminiscence of Charlotte Brontë by her great literary hero, William Thackeray; recollections of Henry David Thoreau by Ralph Waldo Emerson; and eulogies for Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, and Voltaire, on the one-hundredth anniversary of his death. Among the latter-day tributes are salutes to Albert Einstein, T. S. Eliot, and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as President Ronald Reagan's farewell to the Challenger astronauts, Stephen Spender's paean to W. H. Auden, Bob Costas's eulogy for Mickey Mantle, and many other moving words of praise for men and women whose achievements serve as an ongoing source of inspiration.
Download or read book A Book of Marionettes written by Helen Haiman Joseph and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Other Letters to Milena Otras Cartas a Milena written by Reina María Rodríguez and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2014-12-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other Letters to Milena/Otras cartas a Milena offers a parallel translation of a mixed-genre work by acclaimed Cuban writer Reina María Rodríguez in which poetry merges into creative nonfiction, culminating in a series of essays.
