Dream Children

Author : A. N. Wilson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393319938

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Oliver Gold, the brilliant, ascetic writer and philosopher, has lived quietly and happily for eight years on the outskirts of London as a lodger in 12 Wagner Rise. His sudden decision to marry and move to America precipitates a crisis in this household of women, all of whom owe fierce, idiosyncratic allegiance to Oliver and want to save him and their world from an unsuitable, inexplicable match. Yet in the end it is only Bobs, the twelve-year-old who is Oliver's constant companion, who knows his dangerous secret: it is from her that Oliver attempts to flee. In a series of dramatic tableaux, unfolding over the course of many years, A. N. Wilson threads the dark labyrinths of Wagner Rise and illuminates the tragic consequences of these attachments. With this provocative novel about forbidden love, Wilson has produced a stunning, haunting literary work-a Lolita for our times. "A respectable, genuine, intellectual portrait of a pedophile that also makes for a gripper indeed. . . . Sex-tormented Oliver . . . in spite of all (and 'all' includes plenty) remains believably human, thanks to the estimably gifted Wilson." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Wicked English wit . . . has the kind of sly humor where grimness itself becomes the joke." - The New Yorker "Well written and sensitively realized. . . . [Wilson] lets the characters' fates unfold over the years and shows, touchingly, how the pain and self-deception at 12 Wagner Rise taints all their lives." - Philadelphia Inquirer

Author : Charles Lamb
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1297620801

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Author : Rucker C. Johnson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781541672697

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Children of the Dream by Rucker C. Johnson Pdf

An acclaimed economist reveals that school integration efforts in the 1970s and 1980s were overwhelmingly successful -- and argues that we must renew our commitment to integration for the sake of all Americans We are frequently told that school integration was a social experiment doomed from the start. But as Rucker C. Johnson demonstrates in Children of the Dream, it was, in fact, a spectacular achievement. Drawing on longitudinal studies going back to the 1960s, he shows that students who attended integrated and well-funded schools were more successful in life than those who did not -- and this held true for children of all races. Yet as a society we have given up on integration. Since the high point of integration in 1988, we have regressed and segregation again prevails. Contending that integrated, well-funded schools are the primary engine of social mobility, Children of the Dream offers a radical new take on social policy. It is essential reading in our divided times.

Author : Eric G. Wilson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300262490

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Dream-Child by Eric G. Wilson Pdf

An in-depth look into the life of Romantic essayist Charles Lamb and the legacy of his work A pioneer of urban Romanticism, essayist Charles Lamb (1775–1834) found inspiration in London’s markets, theaters, prostitutes, and bookshops. He prized the city’s literary scene, too, where he was a star wit. He counted among his admirers Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His friends valued in his conversation what distinguished his writing style: a highly original blend of irony, whimsy, and melancholy. Eric G. Wilson captures Lamb’s strange charm in this meticulously researched and engagingly written biography. He demonstrates how Lamb’s humor helped him cope with a life‑defining tragedy: in a fit of madness, his sister Mary murdered their mother. Arranging to care for her himself, Lamb saved her from the gallows. Delightful when sane, Mary became Charles’s muse, and she collaborated with him on children’s books. In exploring Mary’s presence in Charles’s darkly comical essays, Wilson also shows how Lamb reverberates in today’s experimental literature.

Author : Gail Godwin
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345389923

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"Compelling, beautiful. . .Miraculous. . . Astonishing. . . So deeply satisfying, as to be breathtaking." --The Philadelphia Inquirer In fifteen extraordinary and lyrical short stories, esteemed novelist Gail Godwin has created worlds in which we discover ourselves as lovers, mothers, wives, and friends. Carefully, delicately, Ms. Godwin peels back the layers of defense and reveals women who search for meaning and connection in a world of abstraction and isolation. In "Dream Children," a reckless young wife finds herself unable to separate from the child she has lost; in "My Love, His Summer Vacation," the mistress of a married man so closely follows his every action that she has no life of her own; and in "Indulgences," a woman makes a list of her lovers, only to wonder if she can love. A keen observer of both heart and mind, Ms. Godwin has conjured up a stunning collection of stories that strike at the center of our lives. "In Dream Children, Gail Godwin shows her capabilities as a clear-seeing uncoverer of thought. . . . What she knows about the workings of the human mind as it deals with grand tragedies, tiny sorrows, she knows with conviction." --The Christian Science Monitor "The work of a writer who is moving confidently to the forefront of contemporary American fiction." --The Miami Herald "The stories are all. . . detailed with expertise and frosted with elegance." --Kirkus Reviews

Author : Celeste Rankine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0648679284

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Little Dream by Celeste Rankine Pdf

Author : Lisa Wheeler
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781984814340

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Someone Builds the Dream by Lisa Wheeler Pdf

Buildings, bridges, and books don't exist without the workers who are often invisible in the final product, as this joyous and profound picture book reveals from acclaimed author of The Christmas Boot Lisa Wheeler and New York Times bestselling illustrator of Love Loren Long All across this great big world, jobs are getting done by many hands in many lands. It takes much more than ONE. Gorgeously written and illustrated, this is an eye-opening exploration of the many types of work that go into building our world--from the making of a bridge to a wind farm, an amusement park, and even the very picture book that you are reading. An architect may dream up the plans for a house, but someone has to actually work the saws and pound the nails. This book is a thank-you to the skilled women and men who work tirelessly to see our dreams brought to life.

Author : Bruno Bettelheim
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780743217958

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The Children of the Dream by Bruno Bettelheim Pdf

Childhood education and psychology.

Author : Amy Billone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317381921

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The Future of the Nineteenth-Century Dream-Child by Amy Billone Pdf

This book investigates the reappearance of the 19th-century dream-child from the Golden Age of Children's Literature, both in the Harry Potter series and in other works that have reached unprecedented levels of popular success today. Discussing Harry Potter as a reincarnation of Lewis Carroll's Alice and J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Billone goes on to examine the recent resurrection of Alice in Tim Burton's Alice, and of Peter Pan in Michael Jackson and in James Bond. Visiting trends that have emerged since the Harry Potter series ended, the book studies revisions of the dream-child in texts and films that have inspired mass fandom in the twenty-first century: Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, E.L. James's 50 Shades of Grey and Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games. The volume argues that the 21st-century desire to achieve dream-states in relationship to eternal youth results from the way that dreams provide a means of realizing the fantastic yet alarming possibility of escaping from time. This current identification with the dream-child stems from the threat of political unrest and economic and environmental collapse as well as from the simultaneous technophilia and technophobia of a culture immersed in the breathless revolution of the digital age. This book not only explores how the dream-child from the past has returned to reflect misgivings about imagined dystopian futures but also reveals how the rebirth of the dream-child opens up possibilities for new narratives where happy endings remain viable against all odds. It will appeal to scholars in a wide variety of fields including Childhood Studies, Children's/YA Literature, Cinema Studies, Cultural Studies, Cyberculture, Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Gothic Studies, New Media, and Popular Culture.

Author : Eric Wilson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300230802

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Introduction: Between Eden and Fleet -- The temple -- Christ's Hospital -- East India -- Salutation and Cat -- Day of horrors -- Unitarian -- Mention nothing of poetry -- Divine chit-chat -- Nether Stowey -- Blank verse -- Pentonville -- Frog and toad -- Quakers -- George Dyer -- Manning -- Godwin -- Anatomy of melancholy -- 27 Southampton Buildings -- Flâneur -- Journalism -- Bartholomew Fair -- Mary's letters -- Long and rueful faces -- Puns -- Sweeps and beggars -- Shipwreck -- Hogsflesh -- Tales from Shakespear -- Specimens of English dramatic poets -- Mrs. Leicester's school -- No. 4 Inner Temple Lane -- The Reflector -- Mania -- The melancholy of tailors -- Which is the gentleman we are going to lose? -- Works -- Fanny -- The London magazine -- Elia -- Magazines increase and multiply -- Emma -- Imperfect sympathies -- Paris -- Colebrook -- Retirement -- Enfield -- Three portraits -- Album verses -- "Am" to "have" -- His great and dear spirit haunts me -- A swallow flying.

Author : Susan V. Bosak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1896232043

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Dream by Susan V. Bosak Pdf

Illustrated text urges the reader to nurture his or her dreams and work to make them a reality.

Author : Nina Laden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481439251

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If I Had a Little Dream by Nina Laden Pdf

A Spring 2017 Indie Next Selection Nina Laden’s warm and lyrical picture book sees and appreciates through a child’s eyes how fortunate we are to live in the world we do. Celebrate the wonder of the world in this reassuring picture book about the joy, love, and beauty that is part of each and every day. Our world is full of possibilities if you look for them.

Author : Regina Abt,Irmgard Bosch,Vivienne MacKrell
Publisher : Daimon
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Jungian psychology
ISBN : 9783856305925

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Dream Child by Regina Abt,Irmgard Bosch,Vivienne MacKrell Pdf

The broad scope of the dream material analyzed in this book allows the authors to touch upon many subjects associated with the nature of the psyche, not only those relevant to pregnant women. The careful interpretation of the amplificatory material drawn from a wide range of cultures also makes this an inspiring aid for the understanding of dreams, valuable to psychologists, doctors, midwives or anyone else interested in this human subject.

Author : Sharon Robinson
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781338282825

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Child of the Dream (A Memoir of 1963) by Sharon Robinson Pdf

An incredible memoir from Sharon Robinson about one of the most important years of the civil rights movement. In January 1963, Sharon Robinson turns thirteen the night before George Wallace declares on national television "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" in his inauguration speech as governor of Alabama. It is the beginning of a year that will change the course of American history. As the daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, Sharon has opportunities that most people would never dream of experiencing. Her family hosts multiple fund-raisers at their home in Connecticut for the work that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is doing. Sharon sees her first concert after going backstage at the Apollo Theater. And her whole family attends the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. But things don't always feel easy for Sharon. She is one of the only Black children in her wealthy Connecticut neighborhood. Her older brother, Jackie Robinson Jr., is having a hard time trying to live up to his father's famous name, causing some rifts in the family. And Sharon feels isolated-struggling to find her role in the civil rights movement that is taking place across the country. This is the story of how one girl finds her voice in the fight for justice and equality.

Author : J.J. DiBenedetto
Publisher : Writing Dreams
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781482745566

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Dream Child by J.J. DiBenedetto Pdf

Dr. Sara Alderson can deal with eighty-hour workweeks as a resident at Children’s Hospital. Dealing with crises in the Emergency Room or the OR is second nature to her. But now she faces a challenge that all of her training and experience hasn’t prepared her for: Lizzie, her four-year-old daughter, has inherited her ability to see other people’s dreams. After Lizzie befriends a young boy on a trip to Washington, DC, and then wakes up in a panic that night because of a “bad funny dream,” Sara knows exactly what it means: her daughter is visiting the boy’s dreams. Complicating matters is the fact that the boy’s father is a Congressman, and he’s dreaming about a “scary man in a big black car” threatening his Daddy. Unraveling a case of political corruption and blackmail would be hard enough for Sara under the best of circumstances. But when she has to view everything through the eyes of a toddler, it may be an impossible task. Dream Child is the second book of the Dream Doctor Mysteries.