Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Echo Club, and Other Literary Diversions
Author: Bayard TaylorGoodnight and God Bless
Author: Anita NairPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9385890271
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
As each chapter echoes a bedtime rumination, Goodnight and God Bless is about books, writers, mice, mothers, airport hotels, and other such unexpectedly thought-provoking subjects. Snugly interwoven with a warmly personal and anecdotal history of the author, this wise and witty book offers an ironic take on nearly everything. Drawing from her experiences as a woman, mother, daughter, wife and writer, Anita Nair marks over a decade of her literary career with deliciously amusing quotes, mostly unnecessary and unabashed trivia, footnotes and other erudite diversions. This is the perfect book to keep by your bedside, to dip and delve into anytime.
The Paris Diversion
Author: Chris PavonePublisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN: 1524761508
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
After a leisurely start to a normal day, American expat Kate Moore finds herself partnered with a French agent to investigate a bombing threat in Paris.
The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature and Culture, 1690–1760
Author: Darryl P. DomingoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107146275
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A study of how literature of the early eighteenth century represented a newly fashionable life of amusement and diversion. Chapters explore a range of diversionary preoccupations and argue that the devices of digressive wit adopt similar forms and fulfil similar functions in literature as do diversions in eighteenth-century culture.
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
Author: Edmund GossePublisher: London : Heinemann
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A Dead Djinn in Cairo
Author: P. Djèlí ClarkPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765389444
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Alex Award-winning author P. Djèlí Clark, A Dead Djinn in Cairo is a Tor.com original historcal fantasy set in an alternate early twentieth century infused with the otherworldly. Egypt, 1912. In Cairo, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities investigate disturbances between the mortal and the (possibly) divine. What starts off as an odd suicide case for Special Investigator Fatma el-Sha’arawi leads her through the city’s underbelly as she encounters rampaging ghouls, saucy assassins, clockwork angels, and a plot that could unravel time itself. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Fiction Writer's Companion
Author: L. M. ShubaileyPublisher: Anaphase II Publishing
ISBN: 9780945962120
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
"Fiction Writer's Companion" is the most concise helpmate ever conceived. The elements of plot design are where the action is, this book shows how to create believable, intense, and interesting characters.
Literature
Author: Literary Seductions
Author: Frances WilsonPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466875747
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
We have all surrendered ourselves to the world that writing creates. Eudora Welty once observed that her mother read the works of Charles Dickens in the same spirit with which she would have eloped with him. Some of us remember our first novel with more pleasurable vividness than our first kiss. Many of us go to on-line chat rooms, looking for love with our keyboard. And most of us have tried to seduce with words--reciting that Shakespeare sonnet or composing that Valentine's Day poem with tremulous hope. All writing seeks to ensnare the reader in its embrace. As Frances Wilson also proves in this engaging, enlightening, and provocative new book, writing can also ensnare the writers themselves. Highlighting the lives and loves of celebrated literary couples, Literary Seductions reveals the depth of their passion for language--their own as well as their partner's. Taking as a point of departure the legendary courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, a courtship conceived on the printed page, Wilson explores how easily, how seductively, literary desire becomes sexual desire and vice versa. "Literary seductions," she writes, are "violent, extreme, and irreversible." Not all reading seduces, not all writing inflames. But when they do, what is written ceases to be merely an arrangement of symbols on a page. The word has been made flesh. Lady Caroline Lamb and Lord Byron, Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, Laura Riding and Robert Graves, Osip and Nadzheda Mandelstam, W. B. and Georgie Yeats were all in the grip of a compulsion for writing and reading, enmeshed in words. Miller called his relationship with Nin, a "literary fuck-fest"; for Riding and Graves, it took on the self-destructive (and self-conscious) melodrama of a Russian novel; for the Mandelstams, it was a life-giving (if self-sacrificing) bond in a precarious world; for George and W. B. Yeats, it offered sexual stimulus. The couplings of verbs and nouns do more than precede coupling; they comprise it. Literary Seductions is itself a seductive book. The elegant power of Wilson's arguments, the rigor of her research, and the delights of her prose enthrall the reader. Here is intellectual engagement and readerly pleasure rolled into one.
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