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Author: Zahid Ameer Publisher: Zahid Ameer ISBN: Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 28
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Enid Blyton, a name synonymous with the enchanting world of children's literature, has left an indelible mark on the hearts and minds of readers worldwide. Her stories have transcended generations, weaving tales of adventure, mystery, and friendship that continue to resonate with young and old alike. In the following pages, we embark on a journey to uncover 100 fascinating facts and oddities about this prolific author, whose prolificacy in writing was matched only by her ability to ignite the imaginations of millions. Enid Blyton's life was a tapestry of creativity, driven by an insatiable passion for storytelling that took root in her early years. From her humble beginnings in East Dulwich, London, to her enduring legacy as one of the most translated and widely read authors in history, we delve into the intriguing details that shaped her life and work. Throughout this exploration, we will unravel the mysteries behind beloved characters like the Famous Five, Secret Seven, and Noddy. We will traverse the enchanted realms of The Magic Faraway Tree and The Wishing Chair. We will gain insights into her writing process, her influences, and the controversies that occasionally surround her. Enid Blyton's ability to transport readers into a world of picnics, ginger beer, and thrilling escapades, set against the backdrop of the English countryside, was truly remarkable. Her commitment to instilling values of honesty, kindness, and teamwork, while fostering a lifelong love of reading, has left an enduring legacy. Join us as we embark on this literary journey, celebrating the life and works of Enid Blyton—a storyteller whose words continue to cast a spell, inviting us all to experience the magic of childhood through the pages of her books.
Author: Zahid Ameer Publisher: Zahid Ameer ISBN: Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 28
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Enid Blyton, a name synonymous with the enchanting world of children's literature, has left an indelible mark on the hearts and minds of readers worldwide. Her stories have transcended generations, weaving tales of adventure, mystery, and friendship that continue to resonate with young and old alike. In the following pages, we embark on a journey to uncover 100 fascinating facts and oddities about this prolific author, whose prolificacy in writing was matched only by her ability to ignite the imaginations of millions. Enid Blyton's life was a tapestry of creativity, driven by an insatiable passion for storytelling that took root in her early years. From her humble beginnings in East Dulwich, London, to her enduring legacy as one of the most translated and widely read authors in history, we delve into the intriguing details that shaped her life and work. Throughout this exploration, we will unravel the mysteries behind beloved characters like the Famous Five, Secret Seven, and Noddy. We will traverse the enchanted realms of The Magic Faraway Tree and The Wishing Chair. We will gain insights into her writing process, her influences, and the controversies that occasionally surround her. Enid Blyton's ability to transport readers into a world of picnics, ginger beer, and thrilling escapades, set against the backdrop of the English countryside, was truly remarkable. Her commitment to instilling values of honesty, kindness, and teamwork, while fostering a lifelong love of reading, has left an enduring legacy. Join us as we embark on this literary journey, celebrating the life and works of Enid Blyton—a storyteller whose words continue to cast a spell, inviting us all to experience the magic of childhood through the pages of her books.
Author: Kevin Jackson Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 0374710333 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 419
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Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year that began with the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses and ended with the publication of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, two works that were arguably "the sun and moon" of modernist literature, some would say of modernity itself. In Constellation of Genius, Kevin Jackson puts the titanic achievements of Joyce and Eliot in the context of the world in which their works first appeared. As Jackson writes in his introduction, "On all sides, and in every field, there was a frenzy of innovation." It is in 1922 that Hitchcock directs his first feature; Kandinsky and Klee join the Bauhaus; the first AM radio station is launched; Walt Disney releases his first animated shorts; and Louis Armstrong takes a train from New Orleans to Chicago, heralding the age of modern jazz. On other fronts, Einstein wins the Nobel Prize in Physics, insulin is introduced to treat diabetes, and the tomb of Tutankhamun is discovered. As Jackson writes, the sky was "blazing with a ‘constellation of genius' of a kind that had never been known before, and has never since been rivaled." Constellation of Genius traces an unforgettable journey through the diaries of the actors, anthropologists, artists, dancers, designers, filmmakers, philosophers, playwrights, politicians, and scientists whose lives and works—over the course of twelve months—brought a seismic shift in the way we think, splitting the cultural world in two. Was this a matter of inevitability or of coincidence? That is for the reader of this romp, this hugely entertaining chronicle, to decide.
Author: Keith McCafferty Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101614528 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 295
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The third novel starring Montana's fly fisherman-cum-detective Sean Stranahan, for fans of C. J. Box and Craig Johnson Wolves howl as a riderless horse returns at sunset to the Culpepper Dude Ranch in the Madison Valley. The missing woman, Nanika Martinelli, is better known as the Fly Fishing Venus, a red-haired river guide who lures clients the way dry flies draw trout. As Sheriff Martha Ettinger follows hoof tracks in the snow, she finds one of the men who has fallen under the temptress’s spell impaled on the antler tine of a giant bull elk, a kill that’s been claimed by a wolf pack. An accident? If not, is the killer human or animal? With painter, fly fisherman, and sometimes private detective Sean Stranahan’s help, Ettinger will follow clues that point to an animal rights group called the Clan of the Three-Clawed Wolf and to their svengali master, whose eyes blaze with pagan fire. In their most dangerous adventure yet, Stranahan and Ettinger find themselves in the crossfire of wolf lovers, wolf haters, and a sister bent on revenge, and on the trail of an alpha male gone terribly wrong.
Author: Tushar Raheja Publisher: Pirates ISBN: 8192681017 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 207
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… As a professor in IIT Delhi is busy with his love, Biobull, a revolutionary bus that will run on human discharge and provide a somewhat funny, yet, inexhaustible alternate fuel… one of his students is busy with his-a girl thankfully. Tejas Narulas college misadventures and comic entanglements are a result of the twisted hand of Fate. Follow his journey across the nation to his love, aided only by his ingenuity and a trustworthy band of friends.
Author: Hanif Kureishi Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416588191 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 210
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Described in a recent New York Times Magazine profile as a "postcolonial Philip Roth," Hanif Kureishi first captured the attention of audiences and critics in the 1980s with the award-winning novel The Buddha of Suburbia and the films My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. In three decades of acclaimed work, Kureishi has written fiction and films exploring a series of interconnected themes about identity and desire—from Islamic radicalism to kinky sex, and from psychoanalysis to the relationships of fathers and sons. After discovering an abandoned manuscript of his father’s, hidden for years, Kureishi was compelled to turn his "unflinching perspective" (Time Out) onto his own history. Like Roth, Martin Amis and Geoffrey Wolfe, who also have written books about their fathers, Kureishi wanted to understand and perhaps to reconcile. My Ear at His Heart offers remarkable insight into the birth of a writer, chronicling how Kureishi’s own literary calling emerged from the ashes of his father’s aspirations. And so begins a journey that takes Kureishi through his father’s privileged childhood by the sea in Bombay, through the turbulent birth of Pakistan and to his modest adult life in England—his days spent as a civil servant, his nights writing prose, hopeful of one day receiving literary recognition. "A beguiling and complex tale of fact, fiction and family tensions" (The Guardian), My Ear at His Heart was published to great acclaim in the United Kingdom in 2004 and went on to win the prestigious Prix France Culture Etranger. Now, this profound work from one of the most compelling artists of our time is at last available in a Scribner edition.
Author: Brian W. Aldiss Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1504010353 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 228
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A Hugo Award–winning classic about a far-future Earth dominated by gargantuan plants and the few humans who remain Millions of years beyond our time, our Earth has long since stopped spinning—and giant flora have taken over the sunlit half of the motionless world. Here humans are among the very few animal species that still exist, struggling to survive against enormous odds, but they have become small and weak, and their numbers have dwindled to almost nothing. When the aging leader of Gren’s tribe decrees it is time for the old ones to go “Up,” the younger are left to make their own way below. Although the journey will not be an easy one for young Gren, he sets off on an odyssey across a perilous world populated by carnivorous plants and other evolved vegetation. But any knowledge to be gained at the terminator—the forbidding boundary between the day world and the night—might well prove worthless for the boy and the companions he amasses along the way when the expanding sun goes nova and their Earth is no more. A thrilling parable of courage, discovery, and survival, Hothouse is among Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss’s most beloved and enduring works. Ingeniously inventive, richly detailed, and breathtakingly lush and vibrant, the doomed world and people that Aldiss creates will live forever in the minds of all those who enter this remarkable realm.
Author: Lynn Michelsohn Publisher: Cleanan Press Inc ISBN: 9780977161454 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 128
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History, Mystery, and Romance in the Carolina Lowcountry! A haunted necklace, a trickster rabbit, an ingenious slave, a shrieking droll, and a fianc returned from the dead all come to life in Lynn Michelsohn's new collection of Carolina Lowcountry ghost stories and folklore from the four historic rice plantations making up Brookgreen GardensSouth Carolina's popular tourist attraction near Myrtle Beach. These enchanting folktales, tied to specific plantation locations and historical events, enrich the enjoyment of any visit to the Lowcountry for tourists, armchair travelers, or devotees of ghost stories and folklore. Lynn Michelsohn, a tenth generation Carolinian, is clearly drawn to history, mystery, and romance wherever she finds it, as her previous book, "Roswell, Your Travel Guide to the UFO Capital of the World!" explores intrigues of a different kind. Now, in "Tales from Brookgreen" her charming retelling of these sometimes-eerie, sometimes-sad, sometimes-humorous tales engages readers in characters and folkways unique to the Carolina Lowcountry.
Author: Jonathan Wilkins Publisher: Titan Comics ISBN: 1785868144 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 98
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In Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Miles Morales must confront a plot that could mean the end for New York City as he comes to terms with his destiny as the new Spider-Man. But he’s not alone, as a tear in the fabric of the universe unleashes a slew of alternative Spider-Heroes… Features stunning art and in-depth interviews with the team behind the film as they discuss the processes of creating this unique and groundbreaking animated movie.
Author: Ann Morgan Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 1631490680 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 387
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A beguiling exploration of the joys of reading across boundaries, inspired by the author’s year-long journey through a book from every country. Ann Morgan writes in the opening of this delightful book, "I glanced up at my bookshelves, the proud record of more than twenty years of reading, and found a host of English and North American greats starting down at me…I had barely touched a work by a foreign language author in years…The awful truth dawned. I was a literary xenophobe." Prompted to read a book translated into English from each of the world's 195 UN-recognized countries (plus Taiwan and one extra), Ann sought out classics, folktales, current favorites and commercial triumphs, novels, short stories, memoirs, and countless mixtures of all these things. The world between two covers, the world to which Ann introduces us with affection and no small measure of wit, is a world rich in the kind of narratives that engage us passionately: we meet an irreverent junk food–obsessed heroine in Kuwait, an explorer from Togo who spent years among the Inuit in Greenland, and a former child circus performer of Roma background seeking sanctuary in Switzerland. Ann's quest explores issues that affect us all: personal, political, national, and global. What is cultural heritage? How do we define national identity? Is it possible to overcome censorship and propaganda? And, above all, why and how should we read from other cultures, languages, and traditions? Illuminating and inspiring, The World Between Two Covers welcomes us into the global community of stories.
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Publisher: Knopf Canada ISBN: 0307375234 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 11
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These twelve dazzling stories from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — the Orange Broadband Prize–winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun — are her most intimate works to date. In these stories Adichie turns her penetrating eye to the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the United States. In “A Private Experience,” a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman, and the young mother at the centre of “Imitation” finds her comfortable life in Philadelphia threatened when she learns that her husband has moved his mistress into their Lagos home. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Adichie’s prodigious literary powers.
Author: Zahid Ameer
Author: Zahid Ameer
Author: Kevin Jackson
Author: Keith McCafferty
Author: Tushar Raheja
Author: Hanif Kureishi
Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Author: Lynn Michelsohn
Author: Jonathan Wilkins
Author: Ann Morgan
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie