Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Chicago of Fiction PDF full book. Access full book title The Chicago of Fiction by James A. Kaser. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: James A. Kaser Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 0810877244 Category : American fiction Languages : en Pages : 672
Book Description
The importance of Chicago in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians. While databases of bibliographical information on Chicago-centered fiction are available, they are of little use to scholars researching works written before the 1980s. In The Chicago of Fiction: A Resource Guide, James A. Kaser provides detailed synopses for more than 1,200 works of fiction significantly set in Chicago and published between 1852 and 1980. The synopses include plot summaries, names of major characters, and an indication of physical settings. An appendix provides bibliographical information for works dating from 1981 well into the 21st century, while a biographical section provides basic information about the authors, some of whom are obscure and would be difficult to find in other sources. Written to assist researchers in locating works of fiction for analysis, the plot summaries highlight ways in which the works touch on major aspects of social history and cultural studies (i.e., class, ethnicity, gender, immigrant experience, and race). The book is also a useful reader advisory tool for librarians and readers who want to identify materials for leisure reading, particularly since genre, juvenile, and young adult fiction, as well as literary fiction, are included.
Author: James A. Kaser Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 0810877244 Category : American fiction Languages : en Pages : 672
Book Description
The importance of Chicago in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians. While databases of bibliographical information on Chicago-centered fiction are available, they are of little use to scholars researching works written before the 1980s. In The Chicago of Fiction: A Resource Guide, James A. Kaser provides detailed synopses for more than 1,200 works of fiction significantly set in Chicago and published between 1852 and 1980. The synopses include plot summaries, names of major characters, and an indication of physical settings. An appendix provides bibliographical information for works dating from 1981 well into the 21st century, while a biographical section provides basic information about the authors, some of whom are obscure and would be difficult to find in other sources. Written to assist researchers in locating works of fiction for analysis, the plot summaries highlight ways in which the works touch on major aspects of social history and cultural studies (i.e., class, ethnicity, gender, immigrant experience, and race). The book is also a useful reader advisory tool for librarians and readers who want to identify materials for leisure reading, particularly since genre, juvenile, and young adult fiction, as well as literary fiction, are included.
Author: James Morton Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1473503108 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 505
Book Description
This is baking explained in a clear, accessible and engaging manner: foolproof recipes and perfect cakes and bakes every single time from GBBO favourite, James Morton. With stunning photography and a whole host of mouth-watering treats to try, as well as tips on how to salvage baking mishaps and explanations as to why certain techniques and stages are needed, this is the only baking book you'll ever need... 'The best book ever' -- ***** Reader review 'Takes baking books to a higher level' -- ***** Reader review 'Absolutely perfect' -- ***** Reader review 'The only baking book you'll ever need to own' -- ***** Reader review 'The best baking book I've ever bought!' -- ***** Reader review 'Utterly brilliant' -- ***** Reader review ********************************************************************* I want to show you how baking works. I want to prove how easy baking can be. Whether you want light cakes, squidgy brownies, perfect pastry, stress-free macarons or mountainous meringues, this book features a mini-masterclass for each one. Everything's split up into wee, simple steps. There's no faff and you don't need any expensive equipment. You don't even need a sieve. And for baking veterans, this book tells you why you're doing what you've been doing all these years. Here's to baking that just works.
Author: Kate Gavino Publisher: Boom! Studios ISBN: 1641440252 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 292
Book Description
Marcine is fascinated with the Japanese theory of Sanpaku. It states that seeing the white around the iris of one’s eyes is a bad omen. But it’s everywhere Marcine looks—her grandmother has it, some of her classmates at Catholic school have it, JFK had it . . . even Marcine might suffer from this odd condition. It’s believed that eating a strict macrobiotic diet and meditating is supposed to help, but no matter how much Marcine wants it to, these practices can’t save her grandmother, or bring back pop star Selena, or make her life at school any easier . . .! From critically acclaimed cartoonist Kate Gavino (Last Night’s Reading), Sanpaku gives voice to the insecurities that abound in teens of all cultures.
Author: Zac Gorman Publisher: Oni Press ISBN: 1620101912 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 59
Book Description
Hot on the heels of the freshly announced video game Costume Quest 2, Oni Press presents an adorable Halloween-themed graphic novel from Double Fine Productions (Broken Age, Psychonauts) and comics superstar Zac Gorman (Magical Game Time)! Klem and his pals aren't the most popular Grubbins in candy-starved Repugia, but Klem's hoping that will change once he brings a hoard of candy back from the human world. After all, it's Halloween, so there's candy everywhere! Unfortunately, there're also bullies everywhere, ready to steal all of Klem's sweet, sweet loot. Will he and his friends make it out alive, or are they doomed to an eternity of sugar-free torment?
Author: Rin Miasa Publisher: Kodansha America LLC ISBN: 1684915082 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
Eiko is pushing thirty, but has never once had a boyfriend. She’s always been fully contented with living the single life and immersing herself in her passion for video games…that is, until she met Koigakubo-kun, her extroverted younger coworker who’s got a silver tongue. After a night of drunken connection, he ends up becoming her romance guru! But as their lessons progress, they start to fall for each other. Koigakubo-kun professes his feelings for her, and before she knows it, they’re a couple. After deciding to continue their lessons as a couple, the two are faced with brand new challenges: first a house date, then a couples’ vacation?!
Author: Jonathan Petropoulos Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300251920 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 455
Book Description
A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world "[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a network of art dealers, collectors and museum curators connected to Nazi looting. . . . What emerges from Petropoulos's research is a portrait of a charismatic and nefarious figure who tainted everyone he touched."--Nina Siegal, New York Times "Readers of art history and WWII biographies will appreciate this engrossing deep dive into one of the world's most prolific art looters."--Publishers Weekly Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Göring to Hitler's art looting agency in Paris, he went on to help supervise the systematic theft and distribution of more than thirty thousand artworks, taken largely from French Jews, and to assist Göring in amassing an enormous private art collection. By the 1950s Lohse was officially denazified but was back in the art dealing world, offering masterpieces of dubious origin to American museums. After his death, dozens of paintings by Renoir, Monet, and Pissarro, among others, were found in his Zurich bank vault and adorning the walls of his Munich home. Jonathan Petropoulos spent nearly a decade interviewing Lohse and continues to serve as an expert witness for Holocaust restitution cases. Here he tells the story of Lohse's life, offering a critical examination of the postwar art world.
Author: James A. Kaser
Author: James A. Kaser
Author: 
Author: James Morton
Author: William Shakespeare
Author: Kate Gavino
Author: Zac Gorman
Author: Rin Miasa
Author: William A. Belson
Author: Jonathan Petropoulos
Author: