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Author : Jane Austen,Vera Nazarian
Publisher : Curiosities
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : Bennet, Elizabeth (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 1607620782
A hilarious and witty mash-up, an impossible romance, and a truly different, Kafkaesque parody of Jane Austen's beloved classic.
Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319958941
This collection of twelve new essays examines some of what Jane Austen has become in the two hundred years since her death. Some of the chapters explore adaptations or repurposings of her work while others trace her influence on a surprising variety of different kinds of writing, sometimes even when there is no announced or obvious debt to her. In so doing they also inevitably shed light on Austen herself. Austen is often considered romantic and not often considered political, but both those perceptions are challenged her, as is the idea that she is primarily a writer for and about women. Her books are comic and ironic, but they have been reworked and drawn upon in very different genres and styles. Collectively these essays testify to the extraordinary versatility and resonance of Austen’s books.
Author : Kes Gray
Publisher : Hodder Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : 1444937332
Oi! Where are duck-billed platypuses meant to sit? And kookaburras and hippopotamuses and all the other animals with impossible to rhyme with names? Over to you, Frog!
Author : Vera Nazarian
Publisher : Vera Nazarian
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781607621515
I got off the plane at Venettia with two swords... In a world of the global “Iron Honeycomb” all countries are isolated from others behind impenetrable geopolitical walls.... All international travel is strictly controlled or forbidden. All firearms and long-distance weapons have been replaced with intimate hand-to-hand combat and cold steel, reminiscent of Shakespeare’s Verona. In this story set in the cruel world of Pantheon, an aging, disillusioned master swordswoman coming home from a special foreign assignment returns to the old Venice of her birth and the dissipated noble House she is sworn to protect.... Discover an elegant, bloody, swashbuckling vision of the future by two-time Nebula Award Nominated author and award-winning artist Vera Nazarian. Streets Running Like a River A Pantheon Story
Author : Curtis Sittenfeld
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812980349
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Wonderfully tender and hilariously funny, Eligible tackles gender, class, courtship, and family as Curtis Sittenfeld reaffirms herself as one of the most dazzling authors writing today. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE TIMES (UK) This version of the Bennet family—and Mr. Darcy—is one that you have and haven’t met before: Liz is a magazine writer in her late thirties who, like her yoga instructor older sister, Jane, lives in New York City. When their father has a health scare, they return to their childhood home in Cincinnati to help—and discover that the sprawling Tudor they grew up in is crumbling and the family is in disarray. Youngest sisters Kitty and Lydia are too busy with their CrossFit workouts and Paleo diets to get jobs. Mary, the middle sister, is earning her third online master’s degree and barely leaves her room, except for those mysterious Tuesday-night outings she won’t discuss. And Mrs. Bennet has one thing on her mind: how to marry off her daughters, especially as Jane’s fortieth birthday fast approaches. Enter Chip Bingley, a handsome new-in-town doctor who recently appeared on the juggernaut reality TV dating show Eligible. At a Fourth of July barbecue, Chip takes an immediate interest in Jane, but Chip’s friend neurosurgeon Fitzwilliam Darcy reveals himself to Liz to be much less charming. . . . And yet, first impressions can be deceiving. Praise for Eligible “Even the most ardent Austenite will soon find herself seduced.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Blissful . . . Sittenfeld modernizes the classic in such a stylish, witty way you’d guess even Jane Austen would be pleased.”—People (book of the week) “[A] sparkling, fresh contemporary retelling.”—Entertainment Weekly “[Sittenfeld] is the ideal modern-day reinterpreter. Her special skill lies not just in her clear, clean writing, but in her general amusement about the world, her arch, pithy, dropped-mike observations about behavior, character and motivation. She can spot hypocrisy, cant, self-contradiction and absurdity ten miles away. She’s the one you want to leave the party with, so she can explain what really happened. . . . Not since Clueless, which transported Emma to Beverly Hills, has Austen been so delightedly interpreted. . . . Sittenfeld writes so well—her sentences are so good and her story so satisfying. . . . As a reader, let me just say: Three cheers for Curtis Sittenfeld and her astute, sharp and ebullient anthropological interest in the human condition.”—Sarah Lyall, The New York Times Book Review “A clever, uproarious evolution of Austen’s story.”—The Denver Post “If there exists a more perfect pairing than Curtis Sittenfeld and Jane Austen, we dare you to find it. . . . Sittenfeld makes an already irresistible story even more beguiling and charming.”—Elle “A playful, wickedly smart retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.”—BuzzFeed “Sittenfeld is an obvious choice to re-create Jane Austen’s comedy of manners. [She] is a master at dissecting social norms to reveal the truths of human nature underneath.”—The Millions “A hugely entertaining and surprisingly unpredictable book, bursting with wit and charm.”—The Irish Times “An unputdownable retelling of the beloved classic.”—PopSugar
Author : Mike Goode
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192606914
Romantic Capabilities discusses the relationship between popular new media uses of literary texts. Devising and modelling an original critical methodology that bridges historicist literary criticism and reception studies with media studies and formalism, this volume contends that how a literary text behaves when it encounters new media reveals medial capabilities of the text that can transform how we understand its significance for the original historical context for which it was created. Following an introductory theoretical chapter that explains the book's unconventional approach to the archive, Romantic Capabilities analyzes significant popular "media behaviors" exhibited by three major Romantic British literary corpuses: the viral circulation of William Blake's pictures and proverbs across contemporary media, the gravitation of Victorian panorama painters and 3D photographers to Walter Scott's historical fictions, and the ongoing popular practice of writing fanfiction set in the worlds of Jane Austen's novels and their imaginary country estates. The result is a book that reveals Blake to be an important early theorist of viral media and the law, Scott's novels to be studies in vision that helped give rise to modern immersive media, and Austenian realism to be a mode of ecological design whose project fanfiction grasps and extends. It offers insight into the politics of virality, the dependence of immersion on a sense of frame, and the extent to which eighteenth-century landscape gardening anticipated Deleuzian ideas of the "virtual" by granting existence to reality's as-yet-unrealized capabilities.
Author : Princeton Review (Firm)
Publisher : Princeton Review
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Educational tests and measurements
ISBN : 9780375428371
A guide for students preparing for the SAT and PSAT furnishes eleven full-length sample exams, along with detailed explanations of the answers.
Author : Princeton Review
Publisher : Princeton Review
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780307946164
THE PRINCETON REVIEW GETS RESULTS. Get all the prep you need to ace the SAT and PSAT with 11 full-length practice tests, comprehensive explanations for every question, and helpful scoring grids and admissions advice. "Inside the Book: All the Practice You Need" - 11 full-length practice tests (10 for the SAT, 1 for the PSAT) - Tips and advice for the SAT, including the Writing section - Answers and detailed explanations to help you learn from your mistakes - Practice that replicates the real test and covers all sections: Math, Reading, and Writing - Expert admissions advice in a new section, the "SAT Insider"
Author : Princeton Review (Firm)
Publisher : Princeton Review
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-07
Category : College entrance achievement tests
ISBN : 9780375429347
The best way to prepare for standardized tests is to practice, and this resource offers students 11 prime opportunities to do just that.
Author : Princeton Review
Publisher : Princeton Review
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780375429866
A guide for students preparing for the SAT and PSAT furnishes eleven full-length sample exams, along with detailed explanations of the answers.
Author : Make Believe Ideas Ltd
Publisher : God's Funniest Animals
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1400215366
Would you pet a platypus? Nuzzle a narwhal? Cuddle a chameleon? Kids will laugh and enjoy God's creativity through the wackiest animals He ever made! Perfect for young children! Children will love reading the funny rhyme that questions how silly it would be to arm wrestle an armadillo or pinch a porcupine! Amazing silicone touches are featured throughout, each with a different texture for children to explore. This tactile book offers plenty for young children to enjoy, helping to promote an early love of reading.
Author : John Patrick Starling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578476487
A young overachieving platypus learns to fly, despite a chorus of naysayers taunting "Platypi don't fly", and along the way discovers something even more important than achievement... self acceptance. Flight of the Platypus is a book about accepting yourself. It's for young readers and old souls.
Author : Jane Austen,Vera Nazarian
Publisher : Curiosities
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-05
Category : Books and reading
ISBN : 1607620588
Gothic horrors collide with high satire in this elegant, hilarious, witty, insane, and unexpectedly romantic supernatural parody of Jane Austen's classic novel.
Author : Vera Nazarian
Publisher : Norilana Books
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781607621706
Aeson's secrets revealed at last! Before Gwen won Aeson's heart… Before they joined forces to protect two planets and humanity itself… Aeson faced death on his own. And lost. Young Imperial Crown Prince Aeson Kassiopei. Intelligent, well-educated, perfectly isolated in his lofty rank, responsibilities, and privilege of the divine Imperial Dynasty. He's the most powerful boy on Atlantis and he's going into the real world for the very first time. . . . Now just another student in Fleet Cadet School, Aeson must learn everything other people take for granted—including the basics of how to look after himself, how to interact with others his age, how to laugh, and how to make friends. As if that wasn't enough to boggle the mind of a confident but shy boy who's never had a real conversation with anyone but his mother, Aeson has one more lesson ahead . . . what it's like to fall in love. Get inside Aeson's mind and learn his story from the inside out as he forms the bonds that will change him forever—with Elikara, Xelio, Oalla, Keruvat, Erita, and other favorite Atlantean characters, long before they took to the stars as astra daimon! AESON: BLUE is the first in The Atlantis Grail Novella Series.
Author : Akaela S. Michels-Gualtieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Children's writings
ISBN : 1930775032
Having a new baby at home is at first an all-fun adventure, then torture by a pesky toddler and-finally-a friendship with a devoted playmate. A favorite for sisters everywhere!