Galatea

Author : Madeline Miller
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408848142

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Galatea by Madeline Miller Pdf

From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles and Circe, an enchanting short story that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion. **Featuring a new afterword by Madeline Miller** In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece – the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen – the gift of life. Now his wife, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility personified. But she has desires of her own, and yearns for independence. In a desperate bid by her obsessive husband to keep her under control, she is locked away under the constant supervision of doctors and nurses. But with a daughter to rescue, she is determined to break free, whatever the cost... _________________________ Praise for CIRCE 'A thrilling tour de force of imagination' Mail on Sunday 'A bold and subversive retelling' New York Times 'A novel to be gobbled greedily in one sitting' Observer 'A remarkable achievement' Sunday Times

Author : James M. Cain
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504094672

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Galatea by James M. Cain Pdf

A down-on-his-luck boxing trainer finds a woman worth fighting for in this “assured” novel by an MWA Grand Master Award winner (Kirkus Reviews). It took some doing, but Duke Webster is out of prison. Val Valenty arranged the parole, and now the onetime prizefighter and boxing coach is his puppet, breaking his back on Valenty’s farm in exchange for a pittance. But Valenty is about to find out that boxing men never take orders without a scrap. The trouble begins when Webster meets Valenty’s wife. A barrel-shaped woman whose extreme weight makes her old before her time, Holly stays fat on Valenty’s cooking—meat, potatoes, and endless gravy. Webster puts her on a diet, slimming her down the way he would train an over-the-hill pro in search of a comeback. But as her waistline shrinks and her beauty emerges, Valenty gets jealous—putting them on course for a bloody confrontation where only the hungry will survive. This gritty, surprising tale comes from the acclaimed author of Double Indemnity and Mildred Pierce—a writer with “an empathy for losers and society’s lost souls” (Quad-City Times). Praise for James M. Cain’s fiction “Cain is one novelist who has something to teach just about any writer, and delight just about any reader.” —Anne Rice, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Interview with a Vampire “Entertaining and cleverly plotted.” —The New York Times

Author : Richard Powers
Publisher : Picador
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466803688

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Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers Pdf

After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2—Richard Powers—returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for exisiting.

Author : John Lyly,G. K. Hunter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0719030951

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Galatea by John Lyly,G. K. Hunter Pdf

"Midas (1590) uses mythology in quite a different way, dramatising two stories about King Midas (the golden touch and the ass's ears) in such a way as to fashion a satire of King Philip of Spain (and of any tyrant like him) for colossal greediness and folly. In the wake of the defeat of Philip's Armada fleet and its attempted invasion of England in 1588, this satire was calculated to win the approval of Queen Elizabeth and her court."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435018422519

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Galatea by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

Author : Essaka Joshua
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351748841

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Pygmalion and Galatea by Essaka Joshua Pdf

This title was published in 2001. Pygmalion and Galatea presents an account of the development of the Pygmalion story from its origins in early Greek myth until the twentieth century. It focuses on the use of the story in nineteenth-century British literature, exploring gender issues, the nature of artistic creativity and the morality of Greek art.

Author : Stefanie Eck
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783954895991

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Galatea's Emancipation: The Transformation of the Pygmalion Myth in Anglo-Saxon Literature since the 20th Century by Stefanie Eck Pdf

The Pygmalion myth, most famously told by Ovid in his Metamorphoses, has always fascinated artists. This fascination, due to the erotic potential of the story, resulted in an abundance of patriarchal re-narrations from the Middle Ages to the late 19th century. With the turn of the 20th century, however, the Pygmalion stories gradually changed under the influence of feminist thought and emancipation. The woman created by Pygmalion no longer remained a passive creature but began to resist her master and his male fantasies, sometimes in a subtle way, sometimes in open rebellion. The study at hand focuses on the development of the tale in the Anglo-Saxon literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. The author will analyze some of these modern Pygmalion versions, written by George Bernard Shaw, Carol Ann Duffy and Neil LaBute amongst other significant author

Author : Michael Curtis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734402423

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Galatea by Michael Curtis Pdf

Perhaps you have heard the story of a sculptor who in a statue created the perfect woman, of how he fell into desperate love with this statue, of how he prayed to Goddess Aphrodite, of how She granted flesh to the statue, of how in a warm, passionate kiss the statue awakened to life: this, the story of aesthetic love is here retold in verse, beautifully, lustily, "Galatea: The Statue Comes to Life".

Author : Kelly McClymer
Publisher : Kelly McClymer Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Galatea's Revenge by Kelly McClymer Pdf

Author : Richard Powers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Artificial intelligence
ISBN : 1848871449

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Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers Pdf

This is the story of a scientist who involves himself in a project to train a neural net on a canonical list of books until the machine becomes capable of passing an exam on English literature. But the experiment works a little too well.

Author : Patrick J. Quinn
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1575910209

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New Perspectives on Robert Graves by Patrick J. Quinn Pdf

"The book is organized around five distinct themes that include studies on Graves's own literary criticism, offer new insights into his poetry, produce commentary on his often overlooked fictional output, make some reflections on the origins and importance of his White Goddess, and examine some literary crosscurrents that have pollinated Graves's work."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Aaron Allston
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0671721828

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Galatea in 2-D by Aaron Allston Pdf

Illustrator Roger Simons always thought that art should imitate life--until the fateful day he learns that he can pull living beings from his own paintings; that he can enter his own creations; that someone else has the same power; and that this person won't tolerate rivals . . . period.

Author : Ovid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005719450

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Metamorphoses: Books I-VIII by Ovid Pdf

Author : Jennifer Saint
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250773609

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Elektra by Jennifer Saint Pdf

A spellbinding reimagining of the story of Elektra, one of Greek mythology’s most infamous heroines, from Jennifer Saint, the author of the beloved international bestseller, Ariadne. Three women, tangled in an ancient curse. When Clytemnestra marries Agamemnon, she ignores the insidious whispers about his family line, the House of Atreus. But when, on the eve of the Trojan War, Agamemnon betrays Clytemnestra in the most unimaginable way, she must confront the curse that has long ravaged their family. In Troy, Princess Cassandra has the gift of prophecy, but carries a curse of her own: no one will ever believe what she sees. When she is shown what will happen to her beloved city when Agamemnon and his army arrives, she is powerless to stop the tragedy from unfolding. Elektra, Clytemnestra and Agamemnon’s youngest daughter, wants only for her beloved father to return home from war. But can she escape her family’s bloody history, or is her destiny bound by violence, too?

Author : Ira David Wood III
Publisher : Austin Macauley
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 1528900863

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The Russian Galatea by Ira David Wood III Pdf

On July 16, 1918, Nicholas Romanov, the last Tsar of Russia, and his entire family were supposedly murdered by Russian Bolsheviks in the basement of a house in Yekaterinburg, Siberia. One year later, Alexander Kolchak, the Supreme Commander of the White Army, appointed a legal investigator to prove, beyond any doubt, that all members of the Romanov family had indeed been executed. The investigator's name was Nicholas Sokolov. The Russian Galatea is a story based on Sokolov's investigation. It takes place in Siberia, 1919 - with the Russian Revolution as its background. The major thesis is fiction but woven around true historical facts. It is a detective story about one courageous investigator's obsession with finding out what really happened to Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family. It is also a story about Sokolov's deep relationship with the girl in a faded photograph. Is she alive or dead?