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Author: David Housewright
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2008-05-13
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780312370817
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The secret behind a kidnapping and a murder lies hidden in McKenzie's own difficult past, in the latest work from the Edgar Award-winning author.
Author: Lynd Ward
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2017-09-05
Total Pages: 864
ISBN-13: 1598533967
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this, the first of two volumes collecting all his woodcut novels, The Library of America brings together Lynd Ward’s earliest books, published when the artist was still in his twenties. Gods’ Man (1929), the audaciously ambitious work that made Ward’s reputation, is a modern morality play, an allegory of the deadly bargain a striving young artist often makes with life. Madman’s Drum (1930), a multigenerational saga worthy of Faulkner, traces the legacy of violence haunting a family whose stock in trade is human souls. Wild Pilgrimage (1932), perhaps the most accomplished of these early books, is a study in the brutalization of an American factory worker whose heart can still respond to beauty but whose mind is twisted in rage against the system and its shackles. The images reproduced in this volume are taken from prints pulled from the original woodblocks or first-generation electrotypes. Ward’s novels are presented, for the first time since the 1930s, in the format that the artist intended, one image per right-hand page, and are followed by five essays in which he discusses the technical challenges of his craft. Art Spiegelman contributes an introductory essay, “Reading Pictures,” that defines Ward’s towering achievement in that most demanding of graphic-story forms, the wordless novel in woodcuts.
Author: Lynd Ward
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780486465838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wordlessly tells the story of a man trapped in an industrial world, struggling between the grim reality around him and the fantasies his imagination creates.--From publisher description.
Author: Lynd Ward
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2005-07-01
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 0486445003
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The powerful imagery and psychological intensity of Ward's wordless novels have elicited comparisons to the writings of Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, and they continue to influence modern graphic novelists such as Frank Miller. This 1930 work tells a gripping tale through imagery alone, consisting solely of hauntingly rendered woodcuts. 128 illustrations.
Author: Lynd Ward
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0486468895
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this moving graphic novel without words, one of the finest artists of the 20th century uses 230 intricately detailed woodcuts to tell a dramatic tale of the Great Depression. A young girl who longs to be an accomplished violinist and a boy who hopes to become a builder find their dreams shattered by desperate economic times.
Author: John Barnes
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2009-06-25
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 1101081937
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wednesday, September 5, 1973: The first day of Karl Shoemaker's senior year in stifling Lightsburg, Ohio. For years, Karl's been part of what he calls "the Madman Underground" - a group of kids forced (for no apparent reason) to attend group therapy during school hours. Karl has decided that senior year is going to be different. He is going to get out of the Madman Underground for good. He is going to act - and be - Normal. But Normal, of course, is relative. Karl has five after-school jobs, one dead father, one seriously unhinged drunk mother . . . and a huge attitude. Welcome to a gritty, uncensored rollercoaster ride, narrated by the singular Karl Shoemaker.
Author: Lynd Ward
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2004-03-01
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0486435008
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The major American artist invented the concept of a wordless novel with this evocative, text-free "woodcut" narrative. Autobiographical in nature, the novel recounts Ward's struggles with his craft and with life in the 1920s. The intricate woodcuts transcend all barriers of language, and fresh details reward the eye with every review. 139 black-and-white illustrations.
Author: Lynd Ward
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9780395148068
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Johnny sets out to kill a big bear but befriends him instead.
Author: Lynda Mugglestone
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780300106992
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the hidden history through which the Oxford English Dictionary came into being in a study that traces the personal battles involved in chronicling an ever-changing language.
Author: David Housewright
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 2009-05-12
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 142995034X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rushmore McKenzie, a retired St. Paul policeman and unexpected millionaire, often works as an unlicensed P.I., doing favors as it suits him. When graduate students Ivy Flynn and Josh Berglund show up with a story about $8 million in missing stolen gold from the ‘30s, McKenzie is intrigued. In the early 20th century, St. Paul, Minnesota was an open city —a place where gangsters could come and stay unmolested by the local authorities. Frank "Jelly" Nash was suspected of masterminding a daring robbery of gold bars in 1933, but, before he could unload it, he was killed in the Kansas City Massacre. His gold, they believe, is still somewhere in St. Paul. But they aren't the only ones looking. So are a couple of two-bit thugs, a woman named Heavenly, a local big-wig, and others. When Berglund is shot dead outside of Ivy's apartment, the treasure hunt turns unexpectedly deadly. In this hard-boiled mystery from David Housewright, Mac McKenzie is looking for more than a legendary stash from seventy-five years ago---he's looking for a killer and the long hidden truth behind Jelly's gold.
