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Author: Robert Hendrickson Publisher: Harvest Books ISBN: 9780156527873 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 498
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Presents a collection of unusual and entertaining facts and myths about writers, books, word origins, publishers, critics, grammar, and other aspects of the world of literature
Author: Robert Hendrickson Publisher: Harvest Books ISBN: 9780156527873 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 498
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Presents a collection of unusual and entertaining facts and myths about writers, books, word origins, publishers, critics, grammar, and other aspects of the world of literature
Author: Posy Simmonds Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0224072692 Category : Authors Languages : en Pages : 74
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This book consists of approximately fifty 'Literary Life' cartoons which were serialised weekly every Saturday in the Guardian's Review section from November 2002 until December 2004, and two short stories, 'Murder at Matabele Mansions' and 'Cinderella'. Posy Simmonds examines the pretensions of the literary world with her customary flair for light, witty satire and social observation. Women writers suffer 'Rustic Block' after moving to the countryside, type their sexual fantasies into their laptop, and (in 'Enemies of Promise') juggle the dilemmas of feminism and motherhood. Male authors are shown suffering the ego-perils of coming into contact with the public at book signings, and complain about reviewers and 'media hoops'. Jealousies and rivalries emerge out of reading groups; struggling small booksellers have to deal with recalcitrant customers or sales reps pushing the latest celebrity book. Simmonds' penchant for literary pastiche and parody is given full rein, as in 'Murder at Matebele Mansions'. And she wickedly suggests a family's fixed smiles as a young girl explains the plot of her Harry Potter book ... Funny, insightful and beautifully drawn, Literary Life will delight fans of Gemma Bovery.
Author: Kenneth David Jackson Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300180829 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 360
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Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely regarded as Brazil's greatest writer, although his work is still too little read outside his native country. In this first comprehensive English-language examination of Machado since Helen Caldwell's seminal 1970 study, K. David Jackson reveals Machado de Assis as an important world author, one of the inventors of literary modernism whose writings profoundly influenced some of the most celebrated authors of the twentieth century, including José Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, and Donald Barthelme. Jackson introduces a hitherto unknown Machado de Assis to readers, illuminating the remarkable life, work, and legacy of the genius whom Susan Sontag called “the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America” and whom Allen Ginsberg hailed as “another Kafka.” Philip Roth has said of him that “like Beckett, he is ironic about suffering.” And Harold Bloom has remarked of Machado that “he's funny as hell.”
Author: L. Hopkins Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230626416 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 178
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This book charts the major events of Stoker's life, including friendships with many of the major figures of the age and as manager of Henry Irving's Lyceum, with his literary career. It offers critical evaluation of Dracula and of Stoker's lesser-known works, yielding much interest when reinserted into their original cultural contexts.
Author: Kate Phillips Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520218048 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 414
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Ramona, continuously in print for over a century, has become a cultural icon, but Jackson's prolific career left us with much more, notably her achievements as a prose writer and her work as an early activist on behalf of Native Americans. This long-overdue biography of Jackson's remarkable life and times reintroduces a distinguished figure in American letters and restores Helen Hunt Jackson to her rightful place in history.".
Author: Carolyn See Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0307415961 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 290
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As Carolyn See says, writing guides are like preachers on Sunday—there may be a lot of them, but you can’t have too many, and there’s always an audience of the faithful. And while Making a Literary Life is ostensibly a book that teaches you how to write, it really teaches you how to make your interior life into your exterior life, how to find and join that community of like-minded souls you’re sure is out there somewhere. Carolyn See distills a lifetime of experience as novelist, memoirist, critic, and creative-writing professor into this marvelously engaging how-to book. Partly the nuts and bolts of writing (plot, point of view, character, voice) and partly an inspirational guide to living the life you dream of, Making a Literary Life takes you from the decision to “become” a writer to three months after the publication of your first book. A combination of writing and life strategies (do not tell everyone around you how you yearn to be a writer; send a “charming note” to someone you admire in the industry five days a week, every week, for the rest of your life; find the perfect characters right in front of you), Making a Literary Life is for people not usually considered part of the literary loop: the non–East Coasters, the secret scribblers. With sagacity, a magical sense of humor, and an abiding belief in the possibilities offered to “ordinary” people living “ordinary” lives, Carolyn See has summed up her life’s work in a book so beguiling, irreverent, and giddily inspiring that you won’t even realize it’s changing your life until it already has.
Author: Adam Roberts Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030264211 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 449
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This is the first new complete literary biography of H G Wells for thirty years, and the first to encompass his entire career as a writer, from the science fiction of the 1890s through his fiction and non-fiction writing all the way up to his last publication in 1946. Adam Roberts provides a comprehensive reassessment of Wells’ importance as a novelist, short-story writer, a theorist of social prophecy and utopia, journalist and commentator, offering a nuanced portrait of the man who coined the phrases ‘atom bomb’, ‘League of Nations’ ‘the war to end war’ and ‘time machine’, who wrote the world’s first comprehensive global history and invented the idea of the tank. In these twenty-six chapters, Roberts covers the entirety of Wells’ life and discusses every book and short story he produced, delivering a complete vision of this enduring figure.
Author: Cindy Rollins Publisher: ISBN: 9781944435103 Category : Languages : en Pages : 144
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The Literary Life Commonplace Book (Ivory) features the Literary Life Podcast commonplace book with an ivory fabric look on the cover and a beautiful coordinating interior design. In the book, podcast hosts and authors Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins, and Thomas Banks guide readers in creating a commonplace habit of their own. Also included: the podcast's annual reading challenges, archive episodes reading selections, commonplace quotations shared by the hosts, plus space for readers to track their own reading, make their own commonplace pages, keep track of books they would like to read, and to write book reviews. As an extra bonus, the podcast hosts offer their own suggestions for possible books to read for the annual Reading Challenge. The Literary Life Commonplace Books are available in a variety of designs: The Literary Life Commonplace Book (Mocha) ISBN: 978-1-944435-09-7 The Literary Life Commonplace Book (Fairy) ISBN: 978-1-944435-11-0 The Literary Life Commonplace Book (Succulent) ISBN: 978-1-944435-12-7 The Literary Life Commonplace Book (Ivory) ISBN: 978-1-944435-10-3 The Literary Life KIDS Commonplace Book (Dragon Fire) ISBN: 978-1-944435-13-4 The Literary Life KIDS Commonplace Book (Colored Pencils) ISBN: 978-1-944435-14-1
Author: Robert Hendrickson
Author: Robert Hendrickson
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