Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
How to shine in Society; or, the art of conversation; containing its principles, laws, ... in modern polite society
Author: British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Charles Dickens' Most Influential Works (Illustrated)
Author: Charles DickensPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027225086
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 5312
Book Description
Our Mutual Friend - explores the conflict between doing what society expects of a person and the idea of being true to oneself The Pickwick Papers - To extend his researches into the quaint and curious phenomena of life, Samuel Pickwick suggests that he and three other "Pickwickians" should make journeys to places remote from London and report on their findings to the other members. Oliver Twist is an orphan who starts his life in a workhouse and is then sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. He escapes from there and travels to London, where he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal, Fagin… A Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. David Copperfield is a fatherless boy who is sent to lodge with his housekeeper's family after his mother remarries, but when his mother dies he decides to run away… Hard Times is set in the fictional city of Coketown and it is centered around utilitarian and industrial influences on Victorian society. A Tale of Two Cities depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same period. Great Expectations depicts the personal growth and development of an orphan nicknamed Pip in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century. Bleak House – legal thriller based on true events. Little Dorrit – criticize the institution of debtors' prisons, the shortcomings of both government and society. COLLECTED LETTERS THE LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS by John Forster
Clean and shine
Author: BR RaksunPublisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3739601671
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
The society is full of beautiful people and beautiful moving mannequins around us. We do not peep in to the depths of the life around as, if not we are sure to find some savage thoughts in them and we need not go to any forest for seeing cruel animals and the barbarian beasts; because they are the heart of our beloved society, where we are living. They are not any primitive or savage, but they are highly modern and civilian, and the real savagery, barbarity or malice in them will be the undercover ruthlessness which appears as vanity, conceit, egoism, arrogance, pride, boast and ostentation.
Shine
Author: Krista A. ThompsonPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822375982
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
In Jamaican dancehalls competition for the video camera's light is stiff, so much so that dancers sometimes bleach their skin to enhance their visibility. In the Bahamas, tuxedoed students roll into prom in tricked-out sedans, staging grand red-carpet entrances that are designed to ensure they are seen being photographed. Throughout the United States and Jamaica friends pose in front of hand-painted backgrounds of Tupac, flashy cars, or brand-name products popularized in hip-hop culture in countless makeshift roadside photography studios. And visual artists such as Kehinde Wiley remix the aesthetic of Western artists with hip-hop culture in their portraiture. In Shine, Krista Thompson examines these and other photographic practices in the Caribbean and United States, arguing that performing for the camera is more important than the final image itself. For the members of these African diasporic communities, seeking out the camera's light—whether from a cell phone, Polaroid, or video camera—provides a means with which to represent themselves in the public sphere. The resulting images, Thompson argues, become their own forms of memory, modernity, value, and social status that allow for cultural formation within and between African diasporic communities.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Report of the Special Committee
Author: New York (State). Board of Social Welfare. Special Committee to Investigate International Sunshine SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The American Elite and Sociologist Blue Book, Progressive Americans, Prominent in the Social, Industrial and Financial World
Author: Thomas William HerringshawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Documents of the Senate of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1608
Book Description
Author: British Library