Classics: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Mary Beard
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 2000-02-24
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780192853851
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Author: Mary Beard
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 2000-02-24
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780192853851
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the relationship between the contemporary world and the ancient one.
Author: Kenneth Rexroth
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780811209885
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Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2014-12-16
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0544146379
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino's invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.
Author: Henry Eliot
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2021-11-18
Total Pages: 2282
ISBN-13: 0241441617
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers. This reader's companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more than 1,800 books and 600 authors, from Achebe and Adonis to Zamyatin and Zweig. It is the essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book. Bursting with lively descriptions, surprising reading lists, key literary movements and over two thousand cover images, The Penguin Modern Classics Book is an invitation to dive in and explore the greatest literature of the last hundred years.
Author: Thornton Burgess
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-11-13
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Old Mother West Wind is a children's bedtime story book written by Thornton Burgess. Burgess used his outdoor observations of nature as plots for his bedtime stories. The characters in the Old Mother West Wind include Peter Rabbit (known briefly as Peter Cottontail), Jimmy Skunk, Sammy Jay, Bobby Raccoon, Little Joe Otter, Grandfather Frog, Billy Mink, Jerry Muskrat, Spotty the Turtle, Old Mother West Wind, and her Merry Little Breezes.
Author: Donna Hay
Publisher:
Published: 2014-10
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9781742708546
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Featuring over 300 recipes, this is a 'best-of' collection from Donna Hay - a showcase of classic dishes with her signature modern twist. Containing updated family favourites as well as new flavours, 'The New Classics' has everything you've ever wanted to cook.
Author: George Gissing
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2021-05-21
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1770488286
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →George Gissing’s The Odd Women dramatizes key issues relating to class and gender in late-Victorian culture: the changing relationship between the sexes, the social impact of ‘odd’ or ‘redundant’ women, the cultural impact of ‘the new woman,’ and the opportunities for and conditions of employment in the expanding service sector of the economy. At the heart of these issues as many late Victorians saw them was a problem of the imbalance in the ratio of men to women in the population. There were more females than males, which meant that more and more women would be left unmarried; they would be ‘odd’ or ‘redundant,’ and would be forced to be independent and to find work to support themselves. In the Broadview edition, Gissing’s text is carefully annotated and accompanied by a range of documents from the period that help to lay out the context in which the book was written. In Gissing’s story, Virginia Madden and her two sisters are confronted upon the death of their father with sudden impoverishment. Without training for employment, and desperate to maintain middle-class respectability, they face a daunting struggle. In Rhoda Nunn, a strong feminist, Gissing also presents a strong character who draws attention overtly to the issues behind the novel. The Odd Women is one of the most important social novels of the late nineteenth century.
Author: Kingsley Amis
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2012-10-02
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1590175921
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Booker Prize Winner A pub gathering of elderly married couples devolves into booze-inflected reminiscing—and complaining—in this “sharp and funny” English comedy about marriage, aging, and friendship (The Washington Post). Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis’s The Old Devils, which turns its humane and ironic gaze on a group of Welsh married couples who have been spending their golden years—when “all of a sudden the evening starts starting after breakfast”—nattering, complaining, reminiscing, and, above all, drinking. This more or less orderly social world is thrown off-kilter, however, when two old friends unexpectedly return from England: Alun Weaver, now a celebrated man of Welsh letters, and his entrancing wife, Rhiannon. Long-dormant rivalries and romances are rudely awakened, as life at the Bible and Crown, the local pub, is changed irrevocably. Considered by Martin Amis to be Kingsley Amis’s greatest achievement—a book that “stands comparison with any English novel of the [twentieth] century”—The Old Devils confronts the attrition of ageing with rare candor, sympathy, and moral intelligence.
Author: Kristin Nicholas
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780806931708
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Author: Louisiana. Dept. of Education
Publisher:
Published: 1913
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13:
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