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Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Eminent British Statesmen: John Pym, by J. Forster. John Hampden, by J. Forster
Author: John Pym
Author: John ForsterLives of Eminent British Statesmen ...: John Pym; John Hampden. By John Forster
Author: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Author: Edgar Allan PoePublisher: SAMPI Books
ISBN: 6561332016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", a story by Edgar Allan Poe, recounts the adventure of Pym, who embarks clandestinely on a whaler. After a mutiny and various adversities, including cannibalism and natural disasters, the story culminates in a mysterious and inconclusive encounter at the South Pole.
Pym: A Novel
Author: Mat JohnsonPublisher: One World
ISBN: 0812981766
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
“THE SHARPEST AND MOST UNUSUAL STORY I READ LAST YEAR . . . [Mat] Johnson’s satirical vision roves as freely as Kurt Vonnegut’s and is colored with the same sort of passionate humanitarianism.”—Maud Newton, New York Times Magazine NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Vanity Fair • Houston Chronicle • The Seattle Times • Salon • National Post • The A.V. Club Recently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes has just made a startling discovery: the manuscript of a crude slave narrative that confirms the reality of Edgar Allan Poe’s strange and only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Determined to seek out Tsalal, the remote island of pure and utter blackness that Poe describes, Jaynes convenes an all-black crew of six to follow Pym’s trail to the South Pole, armed with little but the firsthand account from which Poe derived his seafaring tale, a bag of bones, and a stash of Little Debbie snack cakes. Thus begins an epic journey by an unlikely band of adventurers under the permafrost of Antarctica, beneath the surface of American history, and behind one of literature’s great mysteries. “Outrageously entertaining, [Pym] brilliantly re-imagines and extends Edgar Allan Poe’s enigmatic and unsettling Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. . . . Part social satire, part meditation on race in America, part metafiction and, just as important, a rollicking fantasy adventure . . . reminiscent of Philip Roth in its seemingly effortless blend of the serious, comic and fantastic.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post “Blisteringly funny.”—Laura Miller, Salon “Relentlessly entertaining.”—The New York Times Book Review “Imagine Kurt Vonnegut having a beer with Ralph Ellison and Jules Verne.”—Vanity Fair “Screamingly funny . . . Reading Pym is like opening a big can of whoop-ass and then marveling—gleefully—at all the mayhem that ensues.”—Houston Chronicle
On Translator Ethics
Author: Anthony PymPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027224544
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Based on seminars originally given at the College International de Philosophie in Paris, this translation from French has been fully revised by the author and extended to include highly critical commentaries on activist translation theory, non-professional translation, interventionist practices, and the impact of new translation technologies.
The Wandering Company
Author: John PymPublisher:
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Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
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Notes and Queries
Author: Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art
Author: Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and ArtPublisher:
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Category : Devon (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art
Author: Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and ArtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
List of members in each volume.