After The Classics

Author : Vicent Andrés Estellés
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789027271846

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After the Classics by Vicent Andrés Estellés Pdf

This selection of the verse of Valencian poet Vicent Andres Estelles (1924-1993) is accompanied by a translation into English from the original Catalan. The format of an innovative dialogue with classical authors — a cornerstone of Estellesian expression — constitutes an ingenious invocation and parodic commentary on the output and ethos of the Latin poets Horace, Ovid, Virgil and Catullus, the medieval patriarch of Valencian letters Ausiàs March and the Renaissance Castilian poet, Garcilaso de la Vega. For Estellés, Octavian Rome provides a parallel to the Franco dictatorship and the historical framework surrounding these writers affords the neophyte an opportunity for ideological denunciation, creative wit and lyrical grace as well as righteous anger at the oppressive pettiness of life under autocracy. The translators have attempted to bring to an Anglophone readership the wealth of achievement of this writer who, despite the severity of fascist repression, sang and celebrated the experience of his own community through its own oppressed language.

Author : Iris Owens
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590174104

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After Claude by Iris Owens Pdf

Harriet is leaving her boyfriend Claude, “the French rat.” That at least is how Harriet sees things, even if it’s Claude who has just asked Harriet to leave his Greenwich Village apartment. Well, one way or another she has no intention of leaving. To the contrary, she will stay and exact revenge—or would have if Claude had not had her unceremoniously evicted. Still, though moved out, Harriet is not about to move on. Not in any way. Girlfriends circle around to patronize and advise, but Harriet only takes offense, and it’s easy to understand why. Because mad and maddening as she may be, Harriet sees past the polite platitudes that everyone else is content to spout and live by. She is an unblinkered, unbuttoned, unrelenting, and above all bitingly funny prophetess of all that is wrong with women’s lives and hearts—until, in a surprise twist, she finds a savior in a dark room at the Chelsea Hotel.

Author : Leigh Dragoon
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316431804

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Ever After High: The Class of Classics by Leigh Dragoon Pdf

It's reunion weekend for the Class of Classics, and thanks to a magical spell gone awry in the Legacy Orchard, today's Ever After High students have a hexclusive sneak peek into their parents' stories. Raven Queen, Apple White, Cerise Hood, Madeline Hatter, and more go on a thrilling adventure through the past that reveals what their parents were really like in high school. These six spelltacular stories, together exclusively in this full-color graphic novel, will change everything you thought you knew about the Class of Classics! ©2017 Mattel. All Rights Reserved.

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : France
ISBN : HARVARD:HWAEUU

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Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788770859

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After Dark by Wilkie Collins - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) by Wilkie Collins Pdf

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘After Dark by Wilkie Collins - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Wilkie Collins’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Collins includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘After Dark by Wilkie Collins - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Collins’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786568939

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Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Twenty Years After’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Collected Works of Alexandre Dumas’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Dumas includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘Twenty Years After’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Dumas’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780544146372

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Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino Pdf

A posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino's invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.

Author : Irmgard Keun
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131705183

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Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun Pdf

Kully knows some things you don't learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows that you can't enter a country without a passport or visa. And she knows that she and her parents can't go back to Germany again - her father's books are banned there. But there are also things she doesn't understand, like why there might be a war in Europe - just that there are men named Hitler, Mussolini and Chamberlain involved. Little Kully is far more interested in where their next meal will come from and the ladies who seem to buzz around her father. In this utterly enchanting novel, some of the great themes of 1930's Europe are refracted through the eyes of a child who is both naove and wise beyond her years. Irrepresible Kully, her charming, feckless father and her nervy, fragile mother are brought to life through Irmgard Keun's fast-paced prose.

Author : Elizabeth Peters
Publisher : C & R Crime
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780334462

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Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters Pdf

Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude! In this first adventure, our headstrong heroine decides to use her substantial inheritance to see the world. On her travels, she rescues a gentlewoman in distress - Evelyn Barton-Forbes - and the two become friends. The two companions continue to Egypt where they face mysteries, mummies and the redoubtable Radcliffe Emerson, an outspoken archaeologist, who doesn't need women to help him solve mysteries -- at least that's what he thinks!

Author : Laurie Lee
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241243688

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Village Christmas by Laurie Lee Pdf

From the author of Cider With Rosie, Village Christmas is a moving, lyrical portrait of England through the changing years and seasons. Laurie Lee left his childhood home in the Cotswolds when he was nineteen, but it remained with him throughout his life until, many years later, he returned for good. This collection brings to life the sights, sounds, landscapes and traditions of his home - from centuries-old May Day rituals to his own patch of garden, from carol singing in crunching snow to pub conversations and songs. Here too he writes about the mysteries of love, living in wartime Chelsea, Winston Churchill's wintry funeral and his battle, in old age, to save his beloved Slad Valley from developers. Told with a warm sense of humour and a powerful sense of history, Village Christmas brings us a picture of a vanished world.

Author : Decimus Junius JUVENALIS,Edward Burnaby GREENE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1763
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019925332

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The Satires of Juvenal Paraphrastically Imitated, and Adapted to the Times. With a Preface. [By Edward Burnaby Greene.] by Decimus Junius JUVENALIS,Edward Burnaby GREENE Pdf

Author : Marie Coolidge-Rask,N. W. Erickson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780557613847

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London After Midnight - Couch Pumpkin Classic Edition by Marie Coolidge-Rask,N. W. Erickson Pdf

When the widowed Roger Balfour commits suicide, his two young children, Harry and Lucy, are adopted by his friend and neighbour, Sir James Hamlin, and Balfour House is left empty to rot. The children’s future seems assured, but five years later, Harry is found dead in the neglected grounds of Balfour House, with small wounds in his throat. Strange tenants have moved into the decrepit Balfour House, and Lucy, the last of the Balfour’s, can hear her name being called from beyond the trees.

Author : Charles C. Lemert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317251750

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Sociology After the Crisis by Charles C. Lemert Pdf

Widely assigned and taught in senior capstone and social theory courses, Sociology After the Crisis offers the first systematic theory of social differences built on the sociological traditions by embracing to Durkheim, Weber and other familiar figures. The first edition was acclaimed for its nuanced and original rereading of Durkheim in relation to the theoretical reasons he and his contemporaries neglected race and gender. This new edition features two chapters of new material written in the summer of 2003, as the new social structures of the 21st century became increasingly clear. The new Chapter Ten draws upon 9-11, the "new world order" of two Bush presidencies, and globalization to show how individuals' lives and sociologies must be thought about in new ways. These events also highlight how American society and sociology have responded and sometimes failed in the struggle over the crisis of modernism. Reviews for the First Edition: "[This] expansive reimagining of the historical roots of sociological imagination - especially as it embraces voices and visions long lost to our most important national debates - is balm to the fractured soul of American society. Lemert's elegant and passionate volume will aid immeasurably in our nation's search for sane solutions to the crises of purpose and perspective he so skillfully explores." Michael Eric Dyson, author of Making Malcolm and Between God and Gangsta' Rap "Elegantly crafted." Steven Seidman, State University of New York at Albany

Author : Nancy Boyles
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781496608659

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Happily Ever After: Stories from Classic Children?s Literature by Nancy Boyles Pdf

This collection of passages for Grade 5 provides students with close reading practice. There are many wonderful stories for children that were written long ago, but continue to be treasured today, because of their great characters, interesting problems, and beautiful writing. You will meet three of these characters in the excerpts in this book, two young girls and a very special stuffed rabbit. Do their problems seem worlds away, or could they happen to you in our modern world? Why have generations of young readers cherished these stories? Read these excerpts to find out. Also included are places to pause and reflect on the text and opportunities to respond to the reading.

Author : Harold William Kuhn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400829156

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Classics in Game Theory by Harold William Kuhn Pdf

Classics in Game Theory assembles in one sourcebook the basic contributions to the field that followed on the publication of Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern (Princeton, 1944). The theory of games, first given a rigorous formulation by von Neumann in a in 1928, is a subfield of mathematics and economics that models situations in which individuals compete and cooperate with each other. In the "heroic era" of research that began in the late 1940s, the foundations of the current theory were laid; it is these fundamental contributions that are collected in this volume. In the last fifteen years, game theory has become the dominant model in economic theory and has made significant contributions to political science, biology, and international security studies. The central role of game theory in economic theory was recognized by the award of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in 1994 to the pioneering game theorists John C. Harsanyi, John Nash, and Reinhard Selten. The fundamental works for which they were honored are all included in this volume. Harold Kuhn, himself a major contributor to game theory for his reformulation of extensive games, has chosen eighteen essays that constitute the core of game theory as it exists today. Drawn from a variety of sources, they will be an invaluable tool for researchers in game theory and for a broad group of students of economics, political science, and biology.