Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

Author : Lydia Davis
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466801011

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Samuel Johnson Is Indignant by Lydia Davis Pdf

From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations into the multifaceted ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. A couple suspects their friends think them boring; a woman resolves to see herself as nothing but then concludes she's set too high a goal; and a funeral home receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors. Lydia Davis once again proves in the words of the Los Angeles Times "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction."

Author : Lydia Davis
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466806276

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Varieties of Disturbance by Lydia Davis Pdf

Lydia Davis has been called "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times), "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon), an innovator who attempts "to remake the model of the modern short story" (The New York Times Book Review). Her admirers include Grace Paley, Jonathan Franzen, and Zadie Smith; as Time magazine observed, her stories are "moving . . . and somehow inevitable, as if she has written what we were all on the verge of thinking." In Varieties of Disturbance, her fourth collection, Davis extends her reach as never before in stories that take every form from sociological studies to concise poems. Her subjects include the five senses, fourth-graders, good taste, and tropical storms. She offers a reinterpretation of insomnia and re-creates the ordeals of Kafka in the kitchen. She questions the lengths to which one should go to save the life of a caterpillar, proposes a clear account of the sexual act, rides the bus, probes the limits of marital fidelity, and unlocks the secret to a long and happy life. No two of these fictions are alike. And yet in each, Davis rearranges our view of the world by looking beyond our preconceptions to a bizarre truth, a source of delight and surprise. Varieties of Disturbance is a 2007 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

Author : Samuel Johnson,Arthur Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89005557491

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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by Samuel Johnson,Arthur Murphy Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1801
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:686738626

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The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3035335

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The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : English literature
ISBN : WISC:89001901271

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The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732697533

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The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1811
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433076086275

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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D. by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Walter Jackson Bate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 1584235241

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Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher : Oldcastle Books Ltd
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781904915508

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Samuel Johnson by Jeffrey Meyers Pdf

Jeffrey Meyers tells the extraordinary story of Samuel Johnson one of the most illustrious figures of English literary tradition. Johnson was famous as a poet, novelist, biographer, essayist, critic, editor, lexicographer, conversationalist and larger than life personality. After nine years of work Johnson's, 'A dictionary of the English Language, was published in 1755. He overcame great adversity to achieve success. 'The Struggle' is a masterful portrait of a brilliant and tormented figure.

Author : Samuel Johnson,Arthur Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1792
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082225206

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The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson,Arthur Murphy Pdf

Author : Lydia Davis
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374711436

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Can't and Won't by Lydia Davis Pdf

A new collection of short stories from the woman Rick Moody has called "the best prose stylist in America" Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of "Bloomington" reads, "Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before." Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," a professor receives a gift of thirty-two small chocolates and is paralyzed by the multitude of options she imagines for their consumption. The stories may appear in the form of letters of complaint; they may be extracted from Flaubert's correspondence; or they may be inspired by the author's own dreams, or the dreams of friends. What does not vary throughout Can't and Won't, Lydia Davis's fifth collection of stories, is the power of her finely honed prose. Davis is sharply observant; she is wry or witty or poignant. Above all, she is refreshing. Davis writes with bracing candor and sly humor about the quotidian, revealing the mysterious, the foreign, the alienating, and the pleasurable within the predictable patterns of daily life.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015009162283

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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson,Arthur Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1796
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NKP:1002297646

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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by Samuel Johnson,Arthur Murphy Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCBK:C038626305

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The Works of Samuel Johnson ...: Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent persons by Samuel Johnson Pdf