Not Quite The Classics

Author : Colin Mochrie
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143186786

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Not Quite the Classics by Colin Mochrie Pdf

Colin Mochrie, a man known worldwide for working without a script, has penned a collection of stories destined to make its own mark in the literary community. Borrowing from a well-known improv game, Mochrie takes the first and last lines from familiar classics and reimagines everything in between. With the same engaging humour he exhibits on stage, television, and film, he takes the reader in bizarre and hilarious new directions. Imagine A Tale of Two Cities in which a coyote gets his revenge on a road runner or Herman Melville's Moby Dick featuring a killer toupee. Imagine Sherlock Holmes performing stand-up at a Victorian club and The Night Before Christmas with a time-travelling twist. This inspired collection is comical, quirky, and clever—classic Mochrie.

Author : Jo Walton
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781466844094

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What Makes This Book So Great by Jo Walton Pdf

As any reader of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her re-reading—about all kinds of older fantasy and SF, ranging from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. These posts have consistently been among the most popular features of Tor.com. Now this volumes presents a selection of the best of them, ranging from short essays to long reassessments of some of the field's most ambitious series. Among Walton's many subjects here are the Zones of Thought novels of Vernor Vinge; the question of what genre readers mean by "mainstream"; the underappreciated SF adventures of C. J. Cherryh; the field's many approaches to time travel; the masterful science fiction of Samuel R. Delany; Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children; the early Hainish novels of Ursula K. Le Guin; and a Robert A. Heinlein novel you have most certainly never read. Over 130 essays in all, What Makes This Book So Great is an immensely readable, engaging collection of provocative, opinionated thoughts about past and present-day fantasy and science fiction, from one of our best writers. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847658883

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Confronting the Classics by Mary Beard Pdf

Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her TV presenting and her books. In a series of sparkling essays, she explores our rich classical heritage - from Greek drama to Roman jokes, introducing some larger-than-life characters of classical history, such as Alexander the Great, Nero and Boudicca. She invites you into the places where Greeks and Romans lived and died, from the palace at Knossos to Cleopatra's Alexandria - and reveals the often hidden world of slaves. She takes a fresh look at both scholarly controversies and popular interpretations of the ancient world, from The Golden Bough to Asterix. The fruit of over thirty years in the world of classical scholarship, Confronting the Classics captures the world of antiquity and its modern significance with wit, verve and scholarly expertise.

Author : Donna Zuckerberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674989825

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Not All Dead White Men by Donna Zuckerberg Pdf

Some of the most controversial and consequential debates about the legacy of the ancients are raging not in universities but online, where alt-right men’s groups deploy ancient sources to justify misogyny and a return of antifeminist masculinity. Donna Zuckerberg dives deep to take a look at this unexpected reanimation of the Classical tradition.

Author : Jack Wang,Holman Wang
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781452157344

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Cozy Classics: Pride & Prejudice by Jack Wang,Holman Wang Pdf

Cuddle up with a classic! In twelve needle-felted scenes and twelve child-friendly words, each book in this ingenious series captures the essence of a literary masterpiece. Simple words, sturdy pages, and a beloved story make these books the perfect vehicle for early learning with an erudite twist. Budding bookworms will delight in this clever retelling of the classics made just for them! In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, meet two devoted sisters, gossip about two rich and handsome friends, and ponder whether Elizabeth Bennet will say yes. It's a first words primer for your literary little one! The Cozy Classics series is the brainchild of two brothers, both dads, who were thinking of ways to teach words to their very young children. They hit upon the classics as the basis for their infant primers, and the rest, as they say, is history. From Moby Dick to Pride and Prejudice, here are The Great Books of Western Literature for toddlers and their parents in board book form—a little bit serious, a little bit ironic, entirely funny and clever, and always welcome.

Author : Ashley Franklin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780063068230

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Not Quite Snow White by Ashley Franklin Pdf

A picture book for magical yet imperfect children everywhere, written by debut author Ashley Franklin and perfect for fans of such titles as Matthew A. Cherry's Hair Love, Grace Byers's I Am Enough, and Lupita Nyong'o's Sulwe. Tameika is a girl who belongs on the stage. She loves to act, sing, and dance—and she’s pretty good at it, too. So when her school announces their Snow White musical, Tameika auditions for the lead princess role. But the other kids think she’s “not quite” right to play the role. They whisper, they snicker, and they glare. Will Tameika let their harsh words be her final curtain call? Not Quite Snow White is a delightful and inspiring picture book that highlights the importance of self-confidence while taking an earnest look at what happens when that confidence is shaken or lost. Tameika encourages us all to let our magic shine.

Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : John Atkinson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780062747860

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Abridged Classics by John Atkinson Pdf

John Atkinson has illustrated and summarized the books you don’t want to read but nevertheless feel you should. — the Paris Review Turns out you can summarize Proust’s In Search of Lost Time with two pictures. — Lithub This book will appeal to people that read the New Yorker for the cartoons, or enjoy Tom Gauld’s reading-themed cartoons. — ComicsDC “Very funny stuff…There is a lot going on in Atkinson’s deceptively simple cartoons…and the magic is in how he achieves the maximum impact with as little as possible. So, it makes total sense for Atkinson to tackle some of the most celebrated books–with hilarious results.” — Comics Grinder He compiles super-succinct summaries of literary classics in the light-hearted, humorous style that his blog readers have grown to love. — Wordpress John Atkinson, is giving all book lovers a chuckle with his condensed literary classic cartoons, which include abbreviations of famous works of literature. — Buzzfeed

Author : Kevin Smokler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781616146566

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Practical Classics by Kevin Smokler Pdf

What do the great books of youth have to say about life now? Smokler's essays on the classics--witty, down-to-earth, appreciative, and insightful--are divided into 10 sections, each covering an archetypical stage of life, from youth and first love to family, loss, and the future.

Author : Jessie Sima
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481469098

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Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima Pdf

Born deep in the ocean, Kelp is not like the other narwhals and one day, when he spies a creature on land that looks like him, he learns why.

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101659816

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The Pearl by John Steinbeck Pdf

“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.” Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, as "perfect as the moon." With the pearl comes hope, the promise of comfort and of security.... A story of classic simplicity, based on a Mexican folk tale, The Pearl explores the secrets of man's nature, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities of love. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Richard Armour
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Parodies
ISBN : OCLC:222785862

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The Classics Reclassified, in which Certain Famous Books are Not So Much Digested as Indigested, Together with Mercifully Brief Biographies of Their Authors, a Few Unnecessary Foot-notes, and Questions which it Might be Helpful Not to Answer by Richard Armour Pdf

Author : Jean-Patrick Manchette
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681374192

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No Room at the Morgue by Jean-Patrick Manchette Pdf

Inspired by the works of Dashiell Hammett, No Room at the Morgue is Jean-Patrick Manchette's unparalleled take on the private eye novel — fierce, politically inflected, and finely rendered by the haunting, pitch-black prose for which the author is famed. No Room at the Morgue came out after Jean-Patrick Manchette had transformed French crime fiction with such brilliantly plotted, politically charged, unrelentingly violent tales as Nada and The Mad and the Bad. Here, inspired by his love of Dashiell Hammett, Manchette introduces Eugene Tarpon, private eye, a sometime cop who has set up shop after being kicked off the force for accidentally killing a political demonstrator. Months have passed, and Tarpon desultorily tries to keep in shape while drinking all the time. No one has shown up at the door of his office in the midst of the market district of Les Halles. Then the bell rings and a beautiful woman bursts in, her hands dripping blood. It’s Memphis Charles, her roommate’s throat has been cut, and Memphis can’t go to the police because they’ll only suspect her. Can Tarpon help? Well, somehow he can’t help trying. Soon bodies mount, and the craziness only grows.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1916868193

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Code the Classics Volume I by Anonim Pdf

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781387401512

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be Friedrich Nietzsche's masterpiece. It includes the German philosopher's famous discussion of the phrase 'God is dead' as well as his concept of the Superman. Nietzsche delineates his Will to Power theory and devotes pages to critiquing Christian thinking, in particular Christianity's definition of good and evil. Revised translation, 2017.