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Book Further Adventures on the Journey to the West

Download or read book Further Adventures on the Journey to the West written by Master of Silent Whistle Studio and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the audacious Monkey King battles his way through a landscape of inexplicable places and unfamiliar passions, Further Adventures on the Journey to the West offers a wry, revisionist critique of the late-Ming fascination with desire. Building on the great sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West, which recounts the escapades of a monk and three companions traveling to India in search of Buddhist scriptures to carry back to China, this sequel is a parable of self-delusion that explores the tension between desire and emptiness from a Buddhist perspective. The consummate literati novel, written by an accomplished artist for a well-educated readership, it is filled with allusions and parodies and features a dream-sequence narrative that is innovative and sophisticated even by modern standards. This new, fully annotated translation by two acclaimed scholars and translators brings to life this remarkably inventive, playful early modern text. The volume includes the original commentaries and illustrations, a critical introduction and afterword, and notes that highlight the sources of the novel’s intertextual references, revealing the author’s erudition and versatility.

Book Further Adventures

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jon Stephen Fink
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2009-09-25
  • ISBN : 0061942901
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Further Adventures written by Jon Stephen Fink and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic rediscovered: Further Adventures is Jon Stephen Fink’s wildly original, uproarious novel of superheroes and survival, now available for the first time in a briefer, tighter, “director’s cut.” A novel that presaged works like Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Further Adventures is the unforgettable story of one man’s half-blind but wholehearted attempt to right the wrongs of a society gone astray.

Book The Further Adventures of an Idiot Abroad

Download or read book The Further Adventures of an Idiot Abroad written by Karl Pilkington and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The follow-up to the number 1 bestseller, now in paperback.

Book The Adventures of Miss Petitfour

Download or read book The Adventures of Miss Petitfour written by Anne Michaels and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magical adventures of an eccentric Mary Poppins-esque heroine and her flying feline charges, sure to charm readers big and small. The first book for children by an internationally acclaimed novelist and poet. Miss Petitfour enjoys having adventures that are "just the right size - fitting into a single, magical day." She is an expert at baking and eating fancy iced cakes, and her favorite mode of travel is par avion. On windy days, she takes her sixteen cats out for an airing: Minky, Misty, Taffy, Purrsia, Pirate, Mustard, Moutarde, Hemdela, Earring, Grigorovitch, Clasby, Captain Captain, Captain Catkin, Captain Cothespin, Your Shyness and Sizzles. With the aid of her favorite tea party tablecloth as a makeshift balloon, Miss Petitfour and her charges fly over her village, having many little adventures along the way. Join Miss Petitfour and her equally eccentric felines on five magical outings -- a search for marmalade, to a spring jumble sale, on a quest for "birthday cheddar", the retrieval of a lost rare stamp and as they compete in the village's annual Festooning Festival. A whimsical, beautifully illustrated collection of tales that celebrates language, storytelling and small pleasures, especially the edible kind!

Book Indiana Jones Omnibus

Download or read book Indiana Jones Omnibus written by Walter Simonson and published by Titan Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects comic books featuring archaeologist Indiana Jones and his adventures around the world.

Book The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler

Download or read book The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler written by Jeff Whitty and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Beginning immediately after Henrik Ibsen's classic ends, THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF HEDDA GABLER finds Hedda mired in an alternative hell: a place where death is only possible when a fictional character is forgotten by the real-life publi

Book The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe By Daniel Defoe

Download or read book The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe By Daniel Defoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (now more commonly rendered as The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. Like its significantly more popular predecessor, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719), the first edition credits the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author. It was published under the considerably longer original title: The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second and Last Part of His Life, And of the Strange Surprising Accounts of his Travels Round three Parts of the Globe. Although intended to be the last Crusoe tale, the novel is followed by a non-fiction book involving Crusoe by Defoe entitled Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With his Vision of the Angelick World (1720). The story is speculated to be partially based on Moscow embassy secretary Adam Brand's journal detailing the embassy's journey from Moscow to Peking from 1693 to 1695. The book starts with the statement about Crusoe's marriage in England. He bought a little farm in Bedford and had three children: two sons and one daughter. Our hero suffered a distemper and a desire to see "his island." He could talk of nothing else, and one can imagine that no one took his stories seriously, except his wife. She told him, in tears, "I will go with you, but I won't leave you." But in the middle of this felicity, Providence unhinged him at once, with the loss of his wife.

Book Further Adventures in Search of Perfection

Download or read book Further Adventures in Search of Perfection written by Heston Blumenthal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heston returns with more classic recipes.

Book The Further Adventures of Puss In Boots  Jr

Download or read book The Further Adventures of Puss In Boots Jr written by David Corey and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To know Puss Junior is to love him forever. That's the way all the young people feel about this young, adventurous cat, son of a famous father.

Book The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes   Sherlock Holmes and the Crusader s Curse

Download or read book The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes and the Crusader s Curse written by Stuart Douglas and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new novel from the author of acclaimed Sherlock Holmes patisches The Albino's Treasure, The Counterfeit Detective and The Improbable Prisoner The last Lord Thorpe, reclusive owner of Thorpe Manor, has died. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are invited to the auction at which the estate will be sold off, in hopes Holmes can uncover the whereabouts of the missing De Trop Diamond, a jewel-encrusted gemstone brought back from the Crusades by an earlier member of the Thorpe dynasty - and the source of a legendary curse. from TI 9781789091588 TR.

Book The Further Adventures of Superman

Download or read book The Further Adventures of Superman written by Martin Harry Greenberg and published by Spectra. This book was released on 1993 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten stories by Joey Cavalieri, Mike Resnick, and eight other top writers follow Kal-El of Krypton, the native son of a dying planet, as he makes a double life for himself on Earth as reporter Clark Kent and superhero Superman. Original.

Book The Further Adventures of Nick Wilson Volume 1

Download or read book The Further Adventures of Nick Wilson Volume 1 written by Eddie Gorodetsky and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Created by Eddie Gorodetsky & Marc Andreyko"

Book Robinson Crusoe and the Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Download or read book Robinson Crusoe and the Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running away to sea to escape a legal career, Robinson Crusoe ends up having rather more excitement than he'd bargained for in this infamous adventure yarn by Daniel Defoe. Only just surviving his first storm at sea, Crusoe goes on to become a successful merchant, until he's seized by pirates on his second voyage. He manages to escape and reinvents himself once more in his second career as a plantation owner. Lured to sea again as part of a slave-gathering expedition, Crusoe finds himself shipwrecked off the coast of Trinidad and in his third and most famous role - the original castaway. Crusoe salvages what he can from his wreck and establishes an existence on the island, as well as fitting in a religious conversion, adopting a pet parrot and goat, saving Friday from cannibals, seizing a ship from its mutineers and sails her back to England, to find that things have changed in the 3 decades that he's been away... Published in 1719, although many early readers initially assumed that Robinson Crusoe was a factual autobiography of a real man named Crusoe, the book was actually the first example of realistic fiction. It was a popular innovation, being reprinted four times in its first year, and going on to have a huge influence on writers as diverse as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Beatrix Potter, and has been adapted many times for stage and screen. Unusually, this edition also includes The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, where the action returns to the island and other exotic locations including Madagascar, Cambodia and Siberia. The original map of the island from the 1719 edition is included, plus a new map showing Crusoe's route, as well as a Foreword by Ray Mears.

Book The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes  The Web Weaver

Download or read book The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Web Weaver written by Sam Siciliano and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a mysterious gypsy places a cruel curse on the guests at a ball and a series of terrible misfortunes begin to affect those who attended that night, Mr. Donald Wheelwight engages Sherlock Holmes to find out what really happened that fateful evening. With the help of his cousin Dr. Henry Vernier and his wife Michelle, Holmes endeavors to save Wheelwright and his beautiful wife Violet from the devastating curse. As the threats to the captivating Violet mount, Holmes is drawn in deeper and deeper, finding himself entangled in a vast dark web involving prostitution, perversion, theft, and blackmail. A brand new, never before published addition to the Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series.

Book Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex

Download or read book Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex written by M. Merck and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these eleven essays scholars from diverse disciplines address the argument, reception, and implications of The Dialectic of Sex and make a compelling, critical case for its contemporary salience.

Book Further Adventures of the Celestial Sleuth

Download or read book Further Adventures of the Celestial Sleuth written by Donald W. Olson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "Celestial Sleuth" (2014), yet more mysteries in art, history, and literature are solved by calculating phases of the Moon, determining the positions of the planets and stars, and identifying celestial objects in paintings. In addition to helping to crack difficult cases, these studies spark our imagination and provide a better understanding of the skies. Weather archives, vintage maps, tides, historical letters and diaries, military records and the assistance of experts in related fields help with this work. For each historical event influenced by astronomy, there is a different kind of mystery to be solved. How did the changing tides affect an army's battle plans? How did the phases of the moon affect how an artist painted a landscape? Follow these exciting investigations with a master “celestial sleuth” as he tracks down the truth and helps unravel mysteries as far back as the Middle Ages and as recent as the iconic 1945 photograph of a kiss in Times Square on VJ Day. Topics or "cases" pursued were chosen for their wide public recognition and intrigue and involve artists such as Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet; historical events such as the campaigns of Braveheart in Scotland and battles in World War II and the Korean War; and literary authors such as Chaucer, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Byron, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Book The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason s Corner Folks

Download or read book The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason s Corner Folks written by Charles Felton Pidgin and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: