Author: Sue KaufmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A Happy Summer Day
Author: Susan Markowitz MeredithPublisher: Benchmark Education Company
ISBN: 1616725672
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
This story is about an Inupiaq Eskimo and the things she does on a summer day.
The Happy Summer Days
Author: Sue KaufmanThe Happy Summer Days
Author: FulcoPublisher: Orion Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780753810576
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Fulco Santostefano della Cerda, Duke of Verdura, was born in the 1890s at the Vill Niscemi on the outskirts of Palermo. This book describes his childhood in that beautiful place at the beginning of this century and paints vignettes of a bygone era of luxurious palaces, gardens and parks.
A Happy Summer
Author: Summer Days and Summer Nights
Author: Stephanie PerkinsPublisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1466891750
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Maybe it's the long, lazy days, or maybe it's the heat making everyone a little bit crazy. Whatever the reason, summer is the perfect time for love to bloom. Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories, written by twelve bestselling young adult writers and edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins, will have you dreaming of sunset strolls by the lake. So set out your beach chair and grab your sunglasses. You have twelve reasons this summer to soak up the sun and fall in love.
Arthur's Home Magazine
Author: THE COMPLETE ALICE IN WONDERLAND ADVENTURES (With Original Illustrations)
Author: Lewis CarrollPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Lewis Carroll's 'The Complete Alice in Wonderland Adventures' is a whimsical and fantastical collection of classic children's stories that have captivated readers for generations. Filled with colorful characters, imaginative settings, and nonsensical events, the book takes readers on a wild journey through the magical world of Wonderland. Carroll's playful and ingenious writing style, coupled with the original illustrations, adds depth and charm to the narrative, making it a delightful read for both children and adults alike. The book's satirical elements and clever wordplay also make it a significant work of Victorian literature. Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was a mathematician and logician with a keen sense of imagination. His fascination with puzzles and language likely influenced the creation of the bizarre and puzzling world of Wonderland. Carroll's unique blend of logic and nonsense has made 'Alice in Wonderland' a timeless classic that continues to enchant readers of all ages. I highly recommend 'The Complete Alice in Wonderland Adventures' to anyone who enjoys immersive storytelling, clever wordplay, and timeless classics. Carroll's brilliant imagination and whimsical storytelling are sure to entertain and enthrall readers for years to come.
Temple Bar
Author: Temple Bar
Author: George Augustus SalaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Imagining Ithaca
Author: Kathleen RileyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192594427
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
'Though home is a name, a word, it is a strong one', said Charles Dickens, 'stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration.' The ancient Greek word nostos, meaning homecoming or return, has a commensurate power and mystique. Irish philosopher-poet John Moriarty described it as 'a teeming word... a haunted word... a word to conjure with'. The most celebrated and culturally enduring nostos is that of Homer's Odysseus who spent ten years returning home after the fall of Troy. His journey back involved many obstacles, temptations, and fantastical adventures and even a katabasis, a rare descent by the living into the realm of the dead. All the while he was sustained and propelled by his memories of Ithaca ('His native home deep imag'd in his soul', as Pope's translation has it). From Virgil's Aeneid to James Joyce's Ulysses, from MGM's The Wizard of Oz to the Coen Brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and from Derek Walcott's Omeros to Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad, the Odyssean paradigm of nostos and nostalgia has been continually summoned and reimagined by writers and filmmakers. At the same time, 'Ithaca' has proved to be an evocative and versatile abstraction. It is as much about possibility as it is about the past; it is a vision of Arcadia or a haunting, an object of longing, a repository of memory, 'a sleep and a forgetting'. In essence it is about seeking what is absent. Imagining Ithaca explores the idea of nostos, and its attendant pain (algos), in an excitingly eclectic range of sources: from Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier and Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, through the exilic memoirs of Nabokov and the time-travelling fantasies of Woody Allen, to Seamus Heaney's Virgilian descent into the London Underground and Michael Portillo's Telemachan railway journey to Salamanca. This kaleidoscopic exploration spans the end of the Great War, when the world at large was experiencing the complexities of homecoming, to the era of Brexit and COVID-19 which has put the notion of nostalgia firmly under the microscope.