Author: Charles Carroll BombaughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature
Author: Charles Carroll BombaughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Gentleman's Magazine Library: Literary curiosities and notes
Author: George Laurence GommePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Curiosities of Literature
Author: Isaac DisraeliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Gentleman's Magazine Library: Literary curiosities and notes, edited by A. B. Gomme
Author: Sir George Laurence GommePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Curiosities of Literature
Author: Isaac DisraeliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes
Author: John GrossPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199543410
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, master anthologist John Gross brings together a delectable smorgasbord of literary tales, offering striking new insight into some of the most important writers in history. Many of the anecdotes here are funny, others are touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, or downright weird. They show writers from Chaucer to Bob Dylan acting both unpredictably and deeply in character. The range is wide--this is a book which finds room for Milton and Shakespeare, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, Kurt Vonnegut and P. G. Wodehouse, Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie, James Baldwin and Tom Wolfe. It is also a book in which you can find out which great historian's face was once mistaken for a baby's bottom, which film star experienced a haunting encounter with Virginia Woolf not long before her death, and what Agatha Christie really thought of her popular character Hercule Poirot. It is in short an unrivalled collection of literary gossip offering intimate glimpses into the lives of authors ranging from Shakespeare to Philip Roth--a book not just for lovers of literature, but for anyone with a taste for the curiosities of human nature.
The Curiosities
Author: Brenna YovanoffPublisher: Carolrhoda Lab ?
ISBN: 1467716235
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
From acclaimed and New York Times bestselling YA authors Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff comes The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories. ? A vampire locked in a cage in the basement, for good luck. ? Bad guys, clever girls, and the various reasons why the guys have to stop breathing. ? A world where fires never go out (with references to vanilla ice cream). These are but a few of the curiosities collected in this volume of short stories by three acclaimed practitioners of paranormal fiction. But The Curiosities is more than the stories. Since 2008, Maggie, Tessa, and Brenna have posted more than 250 works of short fiction to their website www.merryfates.com. Their goal was simple: create a space for experimentation and improvisation in their writing?all in public and without a backspace key. In that spirit, The Curiosities includes the stories and each author's comments, critiques, and kudos in the margins. Think of it as a guided tour of the creative processes of three acclaimed authors.
Curiosities of Literature ... Tenth Edition
Author: Isaac DisraeliPart the Second of a Catalogue of Literary Curiosities
Author: Thomas KerslakeShow Your Work!
Author: Austin KleonPublisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN: 0761181369
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by “stealing” from the community of other movers and shakers. Now, in an even more forward-thinking and necessary book, he shows how to take that critical next step on a creative journey—getting known. Show Your Work! is about why generosity trumps genius. It’s about getting findable, about using the network instead of wasting time “networking.” It’s not self-promotion, it’s self-discovery—let others into your process, then let them steal from you. Filled with illustrations, quotes, stories, and examples, Show Your Work! offers ten transformative rules for being open, generous, brave, productive. In chapters such as You Don’t Have to Be a Genius; Share Something Small Every Day; and Stick Around, Kleon creates a user’s manual for embracing the communal nature of creativity— what he calls the “ecology of talent.” From broader life lessons about work (you can’t find your voice if you don’t use it) to the etiquette of sharing—and the dangers of oversharing—to the practicalities of Internet life (build a good domain name; give credit when credit is due), it’s an inspiring manifesto for succeeding as any kind of artist or entrepreneur in the digital age.