Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Books of 1911-
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Tower of the Mirrors
Author: Miss V. PagetThe Tower of the Mirrors
Author: Vernon LeeBooks of 1912-
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc.
The Tower of the Mirrors and Other Essay on the Spirit of Places
Author: Vernon LeeThe Tower of Myriad Mirrors
Author: Yueh TungPublisher: U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
ISBN: 0892641428
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
China’s most outrageous character—the magical Monkey who battles a hundred monsters—returns to the fray in this seventeenth-century sequel to the Buddhist novel Journey to the West. In The Tower of Myriad Mirrors, he defends his claim to enlightenment against a villain who induces hallucinations that take Monkey into the past, to heaven and hell, and even through a sex change. The villain turns out to be the personification of his own desires, aroused by his penetration of a female adversary’s body in Journey to the West. The Tower of Myriad Mirrors is the only novel of Tung Yüeh (1620–1686), a monk and Confucian scholar. Tung picks up the slapstick of the original tale and overlays it with Buddhist theory and bitter satire of the Ming government’s capitulation to the Manchus. After a nod to Journey’s storyteller format, Tung carries Monkey’s quest into an evocation of shifting psychological states rarely found in premodern fiction. An important though relatively unknown link in the development of the Chinese novel, and a window into late Ming intellectual history, The Tower of Myriad Mirrors further rewards by being a wonderful read.
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Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
A Different Mirror
Author: Ronald TakakiPublisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456611062
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 787
Book Description
Takaki traces the economic and political history of Indians, African Americans, Mexicans, Japanese, Chinese, Irish, and Jewish people in America, with considerable attention given to instances and consequences of racism. The narrative is laced with short quotations, cameos of personal experiences, and excerpts from folk music and literature. Well-known occurrences, such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the Trail of Tears, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Japanese internment are included. Students may be surprised by some of the revelations, but will recognize a constant thread of rampant racism. The author concludes with a summary of today's changing economic climate and offers Rodney King's challenge to all of us to try to get along. Readers will find this overview to be an accessible, cogent jumping-off place for American history and political science plus a guide to the myriad other sources identified in the notes.
The Applications of Radar and Other Electronic Systems in the Royal Navy in World War 2
Author: F.A. KingsleyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349136239
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
This book presents a collection of authoritative accounts of the evolution and application of Royal Naval shipborne radars during World War 2 in the fields of weapon control, weapon direction, action information and fighter direction. Accounts are also presented of the successful pioneering activities at the Admiralty Signal Establishment in the fields of counter-measures against various enemy electronic systems in active operations, and also of high-frequency direction-finding, ashore and afloat, which, in conjunction with radar, contributed substantially to winning the Battle of the Atlantic.