Author: Frederick GriffinPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The World Under Glass
The New World Discovered, in the Prospect-Glass of the Holy Scripture: Being a Brief Essay to the Opening Scripture-prophecies, Concerning the Latter Days, Etc. [With an Epistle to the Reader Signed, B. K., I.e. B. Keach.]
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Author: Robert PRUDOMMonsters under Glass
Author: Jane DesmaraisPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789140455
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Monsters under Glass explores our enduring fascination with hothouses and exotic blooms, from their rise in ancient times, through the Victorian vogue for plant collecting, to the vegetable monsters of twentieth-century science fiction and the movies, comics, and video games of the present day. Our interest in hothouses can be traced back to the Roman emperor Tiberius, but it was only in the early nineteenth century that a boom in exotic plant collecting and new glasshouse technologies stimulated the imagination of novelists, poets, and artists, and the hothouse entered the creative language in a highly charged way. Decadent writers in England and Europe—including Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde—transformed the hothouse from a functional object to a powerful metaphor of metropolitan life, sexuality, and being replete with a dark underside of decay and death; and of consciousness itself, nurtured and dissected under glass. In a study as wide-ranging, vivid, and beautiful as our beloved exotic blooms themselves, Jane Desmarais charts the history and influence of these humid, tropical worlds and their creations, providing a steamy window onto our recent past.
Under Glass
Author: Jen HirtPublisher: The University of Akron Press
ISBN: 193196873X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
According to Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, when she went back to Ohio, her city was gone. For Jen Hirt, her Strongsville, Ohio, greenhouses were gone. Her ancestry, bloodlines, memories, and her complete identity were replaced by a large-chain pharmacy store. Four generations taken away by the wrecking ball; fourteen greenhouses dismantled and shattered. Under Glass traces the rise and fall of the family business and the family itself. Hirt is the girl with a thousand Christmas trees growing up surrounded by life and vitality. She is the greenhouse filled with hope and growth. Then the rubble sets in. Financial pressures, a brutal divorce, and the demolition of her past, literally. The story is Hirt's memoir told with poignancy and honesty"as honest as the greenhouse tattoo she has on her arm. For Hirt, the greenhouse metaphor, in its richness, is the soul of America and her life.
The Tablet
Author: Fragments Under Glass
Author: Rebecca SiegelPublisher: Rogue Phoenix Press
ISBN: 162420256X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Living among corpses…a death train destined for the Elbe River…bodies covered with lice…the murder of almost all close relatives…life in the Netherlands before, during, and after the Holocaust is perceptively written by Rebecca Siegel. She not only describes her experiences, but also delves into the effects of that period in time on children, grandchildren and mainly herself. The book touches on her years in the Montessori School in the same class with Anne Frank and her survival in the same concentration camp where Anne died. Interspersed with the prose and at the end of the book are Rebecca’s poems which she wrote not long after the war and which are relative to her narrative. This book is highly recommended reading for adults as well as teens, giving a deeper understanding of that horrendous time period and its after-effects.
Under Glass
Author: Claire RobertsonPublisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1415209634
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
In 1857 a young Englishwoman arrives in Port Natal from India to make a new life for her family among settlers, homesteaders, and sugar-cane farmers. She is with her daughter and the child’s ayah, and has been travelling for eleven months to join her husband, already deep in the hinterland. Her father-in-law has staked them their passage, a sum for settlement and an arrangement for the purchase of land, but there are conditions to his generosity that will have a lasting effect on the pair, and particularly on their fifth child, Cosmo, born years later. It is on the family’s sugar-cane farm that the reader begins to understand that there is something peculiar about young Cosmo, something that must be kept secret. At once an intriguing mystery and a meditation on the region’s colonial history, Under Glass is a high-stakes narrative of deception and disguise by one of South Africa’s finest novelists.
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Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
A supplement to Allibone's Critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors
Author: John Foster KirkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Peripheral Light
Author: John KinsellaPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393058215
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
"One of Australia's most vivid, energetic and stormy poets, a writer who turns to the natural world with a fierce light."—Edward Hirsch, Washington Post Highly Recommended Poetry Books of 2003