Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Critical Survey of Long Fiction: Essays, Index
Author: A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory
Author: Raman SeldenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Unsurpassed as a text for upper-division and beginning graduate students, Raman Selden's classic text is the liveliest, most readable and most reliable guide to contemporary literary theory. Includes applications of theory, cross-referenced to Selden's companion volume, Practicing Theory and Reading Literature.
Fate of a Cockroach
Author: Tawfīq ḤakīmPublisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Why I Am Not a Muslim
Author: Ibn WarraqPublisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1615920293
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Those who practice the Muslim faith have resisted examinations of their religion. They are extremely guarded about their religion, and what they consider blasphemous acts by skeptical Muslims and non-Muslims alike has only served to pique the world's curiosity. This critical examination reveals an unflattering picture of the faith and its practitioners. Nevertheless, it is the truth, something that has either been deliberately concealed by modern scholars or buried in obscure journals accessible only to a select few.
The Act of Writing
Author: Daniel ChandlerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780903878449
Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The Evening of the Holiday
Author: Shirley HazzardPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312423261
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Passionate undercurrents sweep in and out of this eloquent novel about a love affair in a summer countryside in Italy and its inevitable end.
Critical Survey of Long Fiction
Author: Frank Northen MagillAn Equal Music
Author: Vikram SethPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 037570924X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
The author of the international bestseller A Suitable Boy returns with a powerful and deeply romantic tale of two gifted musicians. Michael Holme is a violinist, a member of the successful Maggiore Quartet. He has long been haunted, though, by memories of the pianist he loved and left ten years earlier, Julia McNicholl. Now Julia, married and the mother of a small child, unexpectedly reenters his life and the romance flares up once more. Against the magical backdrop of Venice and Vienna, the two lovers confront the truth about themselves and their love, about the music that both unites and divides them, and about a devastating secret that Julia must finally reveal. With poetic, evocative writing and a brilliant portrait of the international music scene, An Equal Music confirms Vikram Seth as one of the world's finest and most enticing writers.
Back When We Were Grownups
Author: Anne TylerPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375413499
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. "You’ll want to turn back to the first chapter the moment you finish the last.” —PEOPLE On the surface, Beck, as she is known to the Davitch clan, is outgoing, joyous, a natural celebrator. Giving parties is, after all, her vocation—something she married into after Joe Davitch spotted her at an engagement party in his family’s crumbling nineteenth-century Baltimore row house, where giving parties was his family business. What caught Joe's fancy was that she seemed to be having such a wonderful time. Soon this large-spirited divorcé with three little girls swept Beck into his orbit, and before she knew it she was embracing his extended family—plus a child of their own—and hosting endless parties in the ornate, high-ceilinged rooms of The Open Arms. Now, some thirty years later, after presiding over a disastrous family party, Rebecca is caught un-awares by the question of who she really is. Is she an impostor in her own life? Is it indeed her own life? How she answers—how she tries to recover her girlhood self, that dignified grownup she had once been—is the story told in this beguiling, funny, and deeply moving novel.
The Art of Telling
Author: Frank KermodePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674048294
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Frank Kermode assesses the revolutionary transformations in literary criticism over the last fifteen years and places them in historical perspective. Examining novels ranging in scope from a 1907 bestseller to the avant-garde works of various periods, he includes such writers as Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Michel Butor, and Thomas Pynchon.