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Talking Animals

Author : Joni Murphy
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374721312

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Talking Animals by Joni Murphy Pdf

"Joni Murphy’s inventive and beautiful allegory depicts a city enmeshed in climate collapse, blinded to the signs of its imminent destruction by petty hatreds and monstrous greed: that is, the world we are living in now. Talking Animals is an Orwellian tale of totalitarianism in action, but the animals on this farm are much cuter, and they make better puns." —Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick and After Kathy Acker A fable for our times, Joni Murphy’s Talking Animals takes place in an all-animal world where creatures rather like us are forced to deal with an all-too-familiar landscape of soul-crushing jobs, polluted oceans, and a creeping sense of doom. It’s New York City, nowish. Lemurs brew espresso. Birds tend bar. There are bears on Wall Street, and a billionaire racehorse is mayor. Sea creatures are viewed with fear and disgust and there’s chatter about building a wall to keep them out. Alfonzo is a moody alpaca. His friend Mitchell is a sociable llama. They both work at City Hall, but their true passions are noise music and underground politics. Partly to meet girls, partly because the world might be ending, these lowly bureaucrats embark on an unlikely mission to expose the corrupt system that’s destroying the city from within. Their project takes them from the city’s bowels to its extremities, where they encounter the Sea Equality Revolutionary Front, who are either a group of dangerous radicals or an inspiring liberation movement. In this novel, at last, nature kvetches and grieves, while talking animals offer us a kind of solace in the guise of dumb jokes. This is mass extinction as told by BoJack Horseman. This is The Fantastic Mr. Fox journeying through Kafka's Amerika. This is dogs and cats, living together. Talking Animals is an urgent allegory about friendship, art, and the elemental struggle to change one’s life under the low ceiling of capitalism.

Charlotte's Web

Author : E. B. White
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062406781

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Charlotte's Web by E. B. White Pdf

Don’t miss one of America’s top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS’s The Great American Read. This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect." Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices. Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's life when he was born the runt of his litter. E. B. White's Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to come. It contains illustrations by Garth Williams, the acclaimed illustrator of E. B. White's Stuart Little and Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, among many other books. Whether enjoyed in the classroom or for homeschooling or independent reading, Charlotte's Web is a proven favorite.

Talking Animals and Others

Author : Michael Cart
Publisher : Abrams Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSC:32106019714218

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Talking Animals and Others by Michael Cart Pdf

The first complete biography of the beloved children's book author Walter R. Brooks, creator of Freddy the Pig.

Talking to Animals

Author : Jon Katz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781476795508

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Talking to Animals by Jon Katz Pdf

New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz—“a Thoreau for modern times” (San Antonio Express-News)—offers us a deeper understanding of the inner lives of animals and teaches us how we can more effectively communicate with them, made real by his own remarkable experiences with a wide array of creatures great and small. In Talking to Animals, journalist Jon Katz—who left his Manhattan life behind two decades ago for life on a farm where he is surrounded by dogs, cats, sheep, horses, cows, goats, and chickens—marshals his experience to offer us a deeper insight into animals and the tools needed for effectively communicating with them. Devoting each chapter to a specific animal from his life, Katz tells funny and illuminating stories about his profound experiences with them, showing us how healthy engagement with animals falls into five key areas: Food, Movement, Visualization, Language, and Instincts. Along the way, we meet Simon the donkey who arrives at Katz’s farm near death and now serves as his Tai Chi partner. We meet Red the dog who started out antisocial and untrained and is now a therapy dog working with veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. And we meet Winston, the dignified and brave rooster who was injured defending his hens from a hawk and who has better interpersonal skills than most humans. Thoughtful and intelligent, lively and powerful, this book will completely change the way you think about and interact with animals. Katz’s “honest, straightforward, and sometimes searing prose will speak to those who love animals, and might well convert some who do not” (Booklist).

Talking Animals in British Children's Fiction, 1786–1914

Author : Tess Cosslett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351896290

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Talking Animals in British Children's Fiction, 1786–1914 by Tess Cosslett Pdf

In her reappraisal of canonical works such as Black Beauty, Beautiful Joe, Wind in the Willows, and Peter Rabbit, Tess Cosslett traces how nineteenth-century debates about the human and animal intersected with, or left their mark on, the venerable genre of the animal story written for children. Effortlessly applying a range of critical approaches, from Bakhtinian ideas of the carnivalesque to feminist, postcolonial, and ecocritical theory, she raises important questions about the construction of the child reader, the qualifications of the implied author, and the possibilities of children's literature compared with literature written for adults. Perhaps most crucially, Cosslett examines how the issues of animal speech and animal subjectivity were managed, at a time when the possession of language and consciousness had become a vital sign of the difference between humans and animals. Topics of great contemporary concern, such as the relation of the human and the natural, masculine and feminine, child and adult, are investigated within their nineteenth-century contexts, making this an important book for nineteenth-century scholars, children's literature specialists, and historians of science and childhood.

Animals Talking in All Caps

Author : Justin Valmassoi
Publisher : Crown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780385347655

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Animals Talking in All Caps by Justin Valmassoi Pdf

A goat who wants to sell you some meth. A giraffe who might be violating his restraining order. An alpaca with a very dirty secret. A cat who’s really mad at you for cancelling Netflix instant. These are just a few of the hilariously human animals you’ll meet in Animals Talking in All Caps. Inspired by the wildly popular blog of the same name and including some of the site’s best-loved entries as well as gobs of never-before-seen material, these pages provide a brilliantly unhinged glimpse into the animal mind.

Talking Animals

Author : Jan M. Ziolkowski
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512809350

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Talking Animals by Jan M. Ziolkowski Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

How Animals Talk

Author : William Joseph Long,William Young
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780486468808

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How Animals Talk by William Joseph Long,William Young Pdf

This pioneering study explores communication and powers of premonition among wild and domesticated animals. Based on a lifetime of field observations by a famous naturalist, it examines phenomena that will interest every animal lover — how pets can detect their owners' imminent return, how some creatures can foretell natural disasters, and more.

Speaking for Animals

Author : Margo DeMello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780415808996

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Speaking for Animals by Margo DeMello Pdf

This text contributes to the growing field of human-animal studies by examining the human impulse evidenced inblogs, social networking sites, video games, comic books, and animal welfare literature to ventriloquize the animal voice.

Dog Boy

Author : Eva Hornung
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408816943

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Dog Boy by Eva Hornung Pdf

'In exploring what it might be like to be a dog from a human perspective, Dog Boy sheds much light on what it is like to be human. Utterly compelling and believable' Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi 'A involving, careful book, marked out by a rare sympathy for the natural world ... It offers, also, a frightening and edifying insight into the barbaric systems of contemporary Russia' Telegraph Four-year-old Romochka is left alone in a dark, empty Moscow apartment. After a few days, hunger drives him outside, where he sees a large, yellow dog loping past and follows her to her lair on the outskirts of the city. During the seasons that follow, Romochka changes from a boy into something far wilder. He learns to see in the dark, attack enemies with tooth and claw, and understand the strict pack code. But when he begins to hunt in the city, the world of human beings, it is only a matter of time before the authorities take an interest...

Animal Speak

Author : Ted Andrews
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738717630

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Animal Speak by Ted Andrews Pdf

Open your heart and mind to the wisdom of the animal world. Animal Speak provides techniques for recognizing and interpreting the signs and omens of nature. Meet and work with animals as totems and spirit guides by learning the language of their behaviors within the physical world. Animal Speak shows you how to: Identify, meet, and attune to your spirit animals Discover the power and spiritual significance of more than 100 different animals, birds, insects, and reptiles Call upon the protective powers of your animal totem Create and use five magical animal rites, including shapeshifting and sacred dance This beloved, bestselling guide has become a classic reference for anyone wishing to forge a spiritual connection with the majesty and mystery of the animal world.

The Animals Speak

Author : Marion Dane Bauer
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781506466439

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The Animals Speak by Marion Dane Bauer Pdf

Relates how, since the first Christmas, animals around the world have been able to speak at midnight on Christmas Eve to rejoice and proclaim, "The Child is here!"

Talking Animals in Childrenäó»s Fiction

Author : Catherine Elick
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476620046

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Talking Animals in Childrenäó»s Fiction by Catherine Elick Pdf

Talking-animal tales have conveyed anticruelty messages since the 18th-century beginnings of children’s literature. Yet only in the modern period have animal characters become true subjects rather than objects of human neglect or benevolence. Modern fantasies reflect the shift from animal welfare to animal rights in 20th-century public discourse. This revolution in literary animal-human relations began with Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and continued with the work of Kenneth Grahame, Hugh Lofting, P.L. Travers and E. B. White. Beginning with the ideas of literary theorist Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, this book examines ways in which animal characters gain an aura of authority through using language and then participate in reversals of power. The author provides a close reading of 10 acclaimed British and American children’s fantasies or series published before 1975. Authors whose work has received little scholarly attention are also covered, including Robert Lawson, George Selden and Robert C. O’Brien.

Routledge Revivals: Shakespeare's Talking Animals (1973)

Author : Terence Hawkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315300573

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Routledge Revivals: Shakespeare's Talking Animals (1973) by Terence Hawkes Pdf

First published in 1973, this book is about Shakespeare, language and drama. The first part introduces some common ideas of anthropology and linguistics into an area where they serve as a base for the discussion of usually literary matters. It attempts to link language to our experience of speech — examining its range, texture, and social functions. In part two, the author argues that in Elizabethan culture there was a greater investment in the complexities and demands of speech due to the widespread illiteracy of the time. It examines eight of Shakespeare’s plays, together with one of Ben Jonson’s, in light of their concern with various aspects of the role of spoken language in society.

The Boy and The Talking Animals

Author : Rahul Kartha
Publisher : BFC Publications
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9789355097491

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The Boy and The Talking Animals by Rahul Kartha Pdf

The story revolves around a kid named Govardhan who happens to meet some animals who can apparently talk like humans. The events unfold in an apartment community. The story is designed for small children to imbibe values like compassion, care, selflessness and love for nature and animals. Soon the bonding between Govardhan and the animals grew stronger. Later the kid learns about the witches who had petted these animals and the magic potion that gave them the ability to acquire human languages. Eventually the effect of the potion would fade away. Can the boy retrievie the rest of the potion saved in a secret chamber underground? Can the animals talk like humans again? The story would envelope the readers into a heartwarming world of fairies and magic. Boy and the talking animals started off as bedtime stories for the author's 3-yearold son Govardhan featuring the kid himself as the central character. It was later developed into a short novel.