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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Asociatia LiterNet
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789737893246
Author : Lidia Vianu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : English literature
ISBN : 973943147X
Author : Ion Piso,Ligia Tomoiagă
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443838528
This study looks back at the picaresque, with its Spanish roots, and especially with its tradition in English literature; then, it comes to contemporary times, and identifies elements of the picaresque in contemporary novels. The main thesis of the author is that the picaresque has never left the literary scene in Britain, being an aesthetic invariant, which expresses a natural inclination of the British authors towards the picaresque story. Postcolonial authors also favour this genre as a consequence of their own literary tradition, which includes particular variants of the picaresque, and as a result of their own situation as immigrant/displaced authors, which gives them material for stories of displaced characters – rogues. The study rigorously identifies the sources of the contemporary protocols of the picaresque, as well as a few variants of picaresque stories in a selection of novels the author accounts for theoretically.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Asociatia LiterNet
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789737893451
Author : Marin Sorescu
Publisher : Bloodaxe Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015061325232
This collection is Marin Sorescu's farewell to life - a book of wryly quizzical poems composed from his sickbed over five weeks as he waited for death to take him, his testament not just to human mortality and pain but to resistance and creative transformation.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015081660030
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literature, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112731935
Author : Leah Fritz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015073676960
'Leah Fritz's poetry constantly reminds its readers of the important problems of life - poverty, hatred, war - yes, these of course - but also love, respect, how ordinary, everyday things can be invested with a life-enhancing sensibility if viewed aright. Her diction is plain, her style taut, yet there is space within her poems for the reader to move around and explore deeper aspects than perhaps a first reading reveals, for hints of wit and irony enliven with a quiet rhetoric which leaves a feeling in the heart rather than an image in the reason. Leah Fritz's poetry always seems to celebrate life.'- Patricia Oxley, Acumen.
Author : Terry M. Boardman
Publisher : Temple Lodge Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781906999483
In a quest to discover the truth behind the twentieth century's disastrous record of conflict and war, the author considers two contradictory approaches to history: the so-called cock-up theory and conspiracy theories. Could there be truth to the often-dismissed concept of conspiracy in history: the manipulation of external events by groups and individuals mostly hidden from the public eye? In the work of philosopher and scientist Rudolf Steiner, Boardman finds convincing evidence of the existence of secretive circles in the West, which have plans for humanitys long-term future. Steiner indicated that such "brotherhoods" had prepared for world war in the twentieth century, and had instructed their members, using redrawn maps as a guide, on how Europe was to be changed. If these brotherhoods existed in Steiner's time, could they still be active today? Based on detailed research, Boardman concludes that such groups are directing world politics in our time. As backing for his theory, he studies a series of important articles and maps--ranging from an 1890 edition of the satirical journal Truth to more recent pieces from influential publications that speak for themselves. He concludes that vast plans are in progress for a New World Order to control and direct individuals and nations, and he calls us to be vigilant, awake and informed.
Author : Graham Swift
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0330518216
'Perfectly controlled, superbly written. Waterland is original, compelling and narration of the highest order' Guardian In the years since its first publication, in 1983, Waterland has established itself as one of the classics of twentieth-century British literature: a visionary tale of England's Fen country; a sinuous meditation on the workings of history; and a family story startling in its detail and universal in its reach. This edition includes an introduction, by the author, written to celebrate the book's 25th anniversary. 'Graham Swift has mapped his Waterland like a new Wessex. He appropriates the Fens as Moby Dick did whaling or Wuthering Heights the moors. This is a beautiful, serious and intelligent novel, admirably ambitious and original' Observer 'A 300-page tour de force . . . A burst of exuberant fictive energy' Evening Standard 'Waterland is a formidably intelligent book, animated by an impressive, angry pity at what human creatures are capable of doing to one another in the name of love and need. The most powerful novel I have read for some time' New York Review of Books
Author : Ed West
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781510719910
A riveting account of the most consequential year in English history, marked by bloody conflict with invaders on all sides. 1066 is the most famous date in history, and with good reason, since no battle in medieval history had such a devastating effect on its losers as the Battle of Hastings, which altered the entire course of English history. The French-speaking Normans were the pre-eminent warriors of the 11th century and based their entire society around conflict. They were led by William 'the Bastard' a formidable, ruthless warrior, who was convinced that his half-Norman cousin, Edward the Confessor, had promised him the throne of England. However, when Edward died in January 1066, Harold Godwinson, the richest earl in the land and the son of a pirate, took the throne . . . . this left William no choice but to forcibly claim what he believed to be his right. What ensued was one of the bloodiest periods of English history, with a body count that might make even George RR Martin balk. Pitched at newcomers to the subject, this book will explain how the disastrous battle changed England—and the English—forever, introducing the medieval world of chivalry, castles and horse-bound knights. It is the first part in the new A Very, Very Short History of England series, which aims to capture the major moments of English history with humor and bite.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1478 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : IOWA:31858045487885
Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Random House
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446401644
John Self is a consumer extraordinaire. Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk food. But John’s excesses haven’t gone unnoted. Menaced by a phone stalker, his high-wire, hoggish lifestyle is about to bring him face-to-face with the secret of his success. 'Terribly, terminally funny: laughter in the dark, if ever I heard it' Guardian
Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307576187
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.
Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473345522
First published in 1933, "The Shape of Things to Come" is science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells. Within it, world events between 1933 and 2106 are speculated with a single superstate representing the solution to all humanity's problems. A classic example of Wellsian prophesy, this volume is highly recommended for fans of his work and of the science fiction genre. Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was a prolific English writer who wrote in a variety of genres, including the novel, politics, history, and social commentary. Today, he is perhaps best remembered for his contributions to the science fiction genre thanks to such novels as "The Time Machine" (1895), "The Invisible Man" (1897), and "The War of the Worlds" (1898). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.