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The Sea

John Banville
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Author : John Banville
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307429308

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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary meditation on mortality, grief, death, childhood and memory" (USA Today) about a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside to grieve the loss of his wife. In this luminous novel, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. What Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, gorgeously written novel—among the finest we have had from this masterful writer.

Fictions of the Sea

Bernhard Klein
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Author : Bernhard Klein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351936552

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This timely collection brings together twelve original essays on the cultural meaning of the sea in British literature and history, from early modern times to the present. Interdisciplinary in conception, it charts metaphorical and material links between the idea of the sea in the cultural imagination and its significance for the social and political history of Britain, offering a fresh analysis of the impact of the ocean on the formation of British cultural identities. Among the cultural and literary artifacts considered are early modern legal treatises on marine boundaries, Renaissance and Romantic poetry, 19th- and 20th-century novels, popular sea songs, recent Hollywood films, as well as a diverse range of historical and critical writings. Writers discussed include Shakespeare, Milton, Coleridge, Scott, Conrad, du Maurier, Unsworth, O'Brian, and others. All these cultural and literary 'fictions of the sea' are set in relation to wider issues relevant to maritime history and the historical experience of seafaring: problems of navigation and orientation, piracy, empire, colonialism, slavery, multi-ethnic shipboard communities, masculinity, gender relations. By combining the interests of three related but distinct areas of study-the analysis of sea fiction, critical maritime history, and cultural studies-in a focus upon the historical meaning of the sea in relation to its textual and cultural representation, Fictions of the Sea offers an original contribution to the practice of existing disciplines.

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Rushdie Salman
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Author : Rushdie Salman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141342399

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Haroun's father is the greatest of all storyletters. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun is determined to return the storyteller's gift to his father. So he flies off on the back of the Hoopie bird to the Sea of Stories - and a fantastic adventure begins.

Stories of the Sea

Diana Secker Tesdell
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Author : Diana Secker Tesdell
Publisher : Everyman Paperback Classics
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Sea stories, American
ISBN : 1841596051

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Classic adventure stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London mix with marvellously imaginative tales by Isak Dinesen, Patricia Highsmith and J. G. Ballard. Robert Olen Butler explores the memories of a Titanic victim who has become part of the sea that swallowed him; Ray Bradbury's 'The Fog Horn' summons something primeval and lonely from the ocean depths; John Updike's lovers retrace the route of Homer's Odyssey on a cruise ship. From Edgar Allan Poe's dramatic 'A Descent into the Maelstrom' to Ernest Hemingway's chilling 'After the Storm', the stories here are as wide-ranging and entrancing as the sea itself.

Josephine Against the Sea

Shakirah Bourne
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Author : Shakirah Bourne
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338642117

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Josephine Against the Sea by Shakirah Bourne Pdf

Meet Josephine, the most loveable mischief-maker in Barbados, in a magical, heartfelt adventure inspired by Caribbean mythology. * “A heart-wrenching adventure with big laughs and well-earned surprises.” –Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review Eleven-year-old Josephine knows that no one is good enough for her daddy. That's why she makes a habit of scaring his new girlfriends away. She's desperate to make it onto her school's cricket team because she'll get to play her favorite sport AND use the cricket matches to distract Daddy from dating. But when Coach Broomes announces that girls can't try out for the team, the frustrated Josephine cuts into a powerful silk cotton tree and accidentally summons a bigger problem into her life . . . The next day, Daddy brings home a new catch, a beautiful woman named Mariss. And unlike the other girlfriends, this one doesn't scare easily. Josephine knows there's something fishy about Mariss but she never expected her to be a vengeful sea creature eager to take her place as her father's first love! Can Josephine convince her friends to help her and use her cricket skills to save Daddy from Mariss's clutches before it's too late?

Critical Perspectives on the Oceans

Krista West
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Author : Krista West
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1404206922

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Examines contemporary issues on the preservation of the oceans and sea life, covering such topics as global warming, water pollution, and declines in fish population and diversity.

Master and Commander

Patrick O'Brian
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Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007255832

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Set sail for the read of your life! Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets.

Sea Changes

Bernhard Klein,Gesa Mackenthun
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Author : Bernhard Klein,Gesa Mackenthun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135940461

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The sea has been the site of radical changes in human lives and national histories. It has been an agent of colonial oppression but also of indigenous resistance, a site of loss, dispersal and enforced migration but also of new forms of solidarity and affective kinship. Sea Changes re-evaluates the view that history happens mainly on dry land and makes the case for a creative reinterpretation of the role of the sea: not merely as a passage from one country to the next, but a historical site deserving close study.

Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600–Present

Charlotte Mathieson
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Author : Charlotte Mathieson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137581167

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Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600–Present by Charlotte Mathieson Pdf

Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600-Present explores the relationship between the sea and culture from the early modern period to the present. The collection uses the concept of the ‘sea narrative’ as a lens through which to consider the multiple ways in which the sea has shaped, challenged, and expanded modes of cultural representation to produce varied, contested and provocative chronicles of the sea across a variety of cultural forms within diverse socio-cultural moments. Sea Narratives provides a unique perspective on the relationship between the sea and cultural production: it reveals the sea to be more than simply a source of creative inspiration, instead showing how the sea has had a demonstrable effect on new modes and forms of narration across the cultural sphere, and in turn, how these forms have been essential in shaping socio-cultural understandings of the sea. The result is an incisive exploration of the sea’s force as a cultural presence.

Leaving the Sea

Ben Marcus
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Author : Ben Marcus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385350433

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By turns hilarious and heartfelt, dark and illuminative, Ben Marcus’s Leaving the Sea is a ground breaking collection of stories from one of the single most vital, extraordinary, and unique writers of his generation. In the heartfelt “I Can Say Many Nice Things,” a washed-up writer toying with infidelity leads a creative writing workshop on board a cruise ship. In the dystopian “Rollingwood,” a divorced father struggles to take care of his ill infant, as his ex-wife and colleagues try to render him irrelevant. In “Watching Mysteries with My Mother,” a son meditates on his mother’s mortality, hoping to stave off her death for as long as he sits by her side. And in the title story, told in a single breathtaking sentence, we watch as the narrator’s marriage and his sanity unravel, drawing him to the brink of suicide. Surreal and tender, terrifying and life-affirming, Leaving the Sea is the work of an utterly unique writer at the height of his powers.

The Path to the Sea

Liz Fenwick
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Author : Liz Fenwick
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008290511

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Sometimes going home is just the beginning... ‘Vivid and beautifully written, Liz Fenwick is a gifted storyteller’ Sarah Morgan, Sunday Times bestselling author 'Atmospheric, emotional and full of mystery – an absolute pleasure from page one' Veronica Henry, Sunday Times bestselling author

The Inland Sea

Madeleine Watts
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Author : Madeleine Watts
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781646220182

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In this "eloquent debut," a young Australian woman unable to find her footing in the world begins to break down when the emergencies she hears working as a 911 operator and the troubles within her own life gradually blur together, forcing her to grapple with how the past has shaped her present (Publishers Weekly). Drifting after her final year in college, a young writer begins working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator in Sydney. Over the course of an eight-hour shift, she is dropped into hundreds of crises, hearing only pieces of each. Callers report car accidents and violent spouses and homes caught up in flame. The work becomes monotonous: answer, transfer, repeat. And yet the stress of listening to far-off disasters seeps into her personal life, and she begins walking home with keys in hand, ready to fight off men disappointed by what they find in neighboring bars. During her free time, she gets black-out drunk, hooks up with strangers, and navigates an affair with an ex-lover whose girlfriend is in their circle of friends. Two centuries earlier, her great-great-great-great-grandfather--the British explorer John Oxley--traversed the wilderness of Australia in search of water. Oxley never found the inland sea, but the myth was taken up by other men, and over the years, search parties walked out into the desert, dying as they tried to find it. Interweaving a woman's self-destructive unraveling with the gradual worsening of the climate crisis, The Inland Sea is charged with unflinching insight into our age of anxiety. At a time when wildfires have swept an entire continent, this novel asks what refuge and comfort looks like in a constant state of emergency.

Forbidden Sea

Sheila A. Nielson
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Author : Sheila A. Nielson
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545097345

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When a mermaid attempts to lure her into the sea, fourteen-year-old Adrianne, who lives in a superstitious island community, must choose between the promise of an underwater paradise and those she loves.

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

Denis Johnson
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Author : Denis Johnson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812988642

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Twenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Dwight Garner, The New York Times • Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air • Chicago Tribune • Newsday • New York • AV Club • Publishers Weekly “Ranks with the best fiction published by any American writer during this short century.”—New York “A posthumous masterpiece.”—Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • NPR • The Boston Globe • New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • Bloomberg The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most beloved and important writers of his generation, this collection finds Johnson in new territory, contemplating the ghosts of the past and the elusive and unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe assert themselves. Finished shortly before Johnson’s death, this collection is the last word from a writer whose work will live on for many years to come. Praise for The Largesse of the Sea Maiden “An instant classic.”—Newsday “Exceptional luminosity . . . hits a powerful vein.”—The New York Times Book Review “Grace and oblivion are inextricably yoked in these transcendent stories. . . . [Johnson’s] gift is to extract the beauty in all that brokenness.”—The Wall Street Journal “Nobody ever wrote like Denis Johnson. Nobody ever came close. . . . We’re just left with this miraculous book, these perfect stories, the last words from one of the world’s greatest writers.”—NPR

Short Stories of the Sea

George C. Solley,Eric Steinbaugh
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Author : George C. Solley,Eric Steinbaugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015017671416

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Short Stories of the Sea by George C. Solley,Eric Steinbaugh Pdf

A collection of short stories that involve the sea.