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Author: James Dane
Publisher: Jason Doucet
Published: 2015-04-29
Total Pages: 175
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Observations, knowledge and humour of one Canadian man, born into the great depression. From baseball to surviving the Second World War and a path (not without a few bumps in the road) of laughter, family and some swinging tunes.
Author: Mary Gaitskill
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2019-11-05
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1524749141
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations with searing, even prophetic honesty. In This Is Pleasure, she considers our present moment through the lens of a particular #MeToo incident. The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has been accused of repeated unforgivable transgressions toward women in his orbit. But are they unforgivable? And who has the right to forgive him? To Quin’s friend Margot, the wrongdoing is less clear. Alternating Quin’s and Margot’s voices and perspectives, Gaitskill creates a nuanced tragicomedy, one that reveals her characters as whole persons—hurtful and hurting, infuriating and touching, and always deeply recognizable. Gaitskill has said that fiction is the only way that she could approach this subject because it is too emotionally faceted to treat in the more rational essay form. Her compliment to her characters—and to her readers—is that they are unvarnished and real. Her belief in our ability to understand them, even when we don’t always admire them, is a gesture of humanity from one of our greatest contemporary writers.
Author: Allen Carey-Webb
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 242
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Telling stories from secondary and college English classrooms, this book explores the new possibilities for teaching and learning generated by bringing together reader-response and cultural-studies approaches. The book connects William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and other canonical figures to multicultural writers, popular culture, film, testimonial, politics, history, and issues relevant to contemporary youth. Each chapter contains brief explications of literary scholarship and theory, and each is followed by extensive annotated bibliographies of multicultural literature, approachable scholarship and theory, and relevant Internet sites. Each chapter also contains descriptions of classroom units and activities focusing on a particular theme, such as genocide, homelessness, race, gender, youth violence, (post)colonialism, class relations, and censorship; and discussion of ways in which students often respond to such "hot-button" topics. Chapters in the book are: (1) A Course in Contemporary World Literature; (2) Teaching about Homelessness; (3) Genderizing the Curriculum: A Personal Journey; (4) Addressing the Youth Violence Crisis; (5) Shakespeare and the New Multicultural British and World Literatures; (6) "Huckleberry Finn" and the Issue of Race in Today's Classroom; (7) Testimonial, Autoethnography, and the Future of English; and (8) Conclusion. Contains approximately 350 references. Appendixes contain an email exchange between the author and a first year, inner-city teacher; a note to teachers on the truth of Rigoberta Menchu's testimonial; a brief account of philology; a 13-item annotated bibliography of readings in literary theory for English teachers; and lists of web sites exploring literary theory and cultural studies, supporting literature teaching, and for new teachers. (NKA)
Author: Daniel Torday
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780983658542
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Raised in Baltimore in the ‘90s, 17-year-old Samuel Gerson is ready to be rid of his high school baseball team, his protective upbringing, and the tight-knit Jewish community in which he's spent his whole life. But when he befriends enigmatic Dmitri Zilber, a recent Russian Jewish immigrant who is obsessed with the works of Dostoevsky, Samuel's world begins to shift. In the wake of his grandfather's suicide, as his life increasingly entangles with that of Dmitri and his beautiful sister Yelizaveta, it sets in motion a series of events that culminates in a disturbing act of violence. A quietly devastating portrait of late adolescence, The Sensualist examines the culture we inherit as it collides with the one we create"--from the cover.
Author: Beryl Bainbridge
Publisher: Abacus Software
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780349108704
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways are played out the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers, their fate sealed in prose of startling, sublime beauty, as Beryl Bainbridge's haunting masterpiece moves inexorably to its known and terrible end.
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Published: 2017-06-01
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ISBN-13: 9781945600043
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Use the free app to experience a new dimension in visual storytelling through our INKMOTION Peek, Pop and Go features. Watch, listen and read along as the pages spring to life."I wish fairy tales were real," sighed little Lucy. And that is all it takes for Hector and his band of merry friends to set off in search of the truth. There was a rumor that a shadowy creature was living in the Forbidden Marsh beyond the forest and it might be a fairy-tale giant. With twists and turns and a capsized boat, the brave friends venture far from home and make a surprising discovery...a giant discovery!THE GIANT QUEST is the first in a series of HECTOR FOX books. These imaginative tales, reminiscent of The Wind in the Willows, follow the delightful adventures of Hector and his charming pack of friends--Mo Marten, Charlie Chipmunk, Jeremiah Rabbit, and Lucy Skunk--as they seek adventure, hunt giants, solve mysteries, and build friendships.
Author: Charles Baxter
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2013-07-16
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1555970958
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Graywolf reissues one of its most successful essay collections with two new essays and a new foreword by Charles Baxter As much a rumination on the state of literature as a technical manual for aspiring writers, Burning Down the House has been enjoyed by readers and taught in classrooms for more than a decade. Readers are rewarded with thoughtful analysis, humorous one-liners, and plenty of brushfires that continue burning long after the book is closed.
Author: Martin Parr
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 2004-03-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780714843902
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Martin Parr is a key figure in the world of photography and contemporary art. Some accuse him of cruelty, but many more appreciate the wit and irony with which he tackles such subjects as bad taste, food, the tourist, shopping and the foibles of the British. Parr has been collecting postcards for 20 years, and here is the cream of his collection - his boring postcards. With no introduction or commentary of any kind, Parr's boring postcards are reproduced straight. They are exactly what they say they are, namely boring picture postcards showing boring photographs of boring places, presumably for boring people to buy to send to their boring friends. All of them are shot in Britain, taking us on a boring tour of its motorways, ring roads, traffic interchanges, bus stations, pedestrian precincts, factories, housing estates, airports, caravan sites, convalescent homes and shopping centres. Some attempt to idealize their subjects, only to fail dismally. Others lack any apparent purpose or interest, but the resultant collection of photographic images is wholly compelling. Boring Postcardsis multi-layered: a commentary on British architecture, social life and identity, a record of a folk photography which is today being appropriated by the most fashionable photographers (including Parr), an exercise in sublime minimalism and, above all, a richly comic photographic entertainment.
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay
Publisher:
Published: 1875
Total Pages: 876
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley
Publisher: London, Chatto
Published: 1880
Total Pages: 308
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