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Author : M.E. Meegs,Eugenia Biddle
Publisher : Lycophos Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781938710230
Author : Robert Bruce Stewart
Publisher : Street Car Mysteries
Page : 845 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781938710261
Author : Robert Bruce Stewart
Publisher : Street Car Mysteries
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781938710247
In 1905, the great Henry James arrives in Northampton, Massachusetts, to deliver a lecture to the local literati. He is feted in a grand style—and so is the Englishman impersonating him. In the meantime, a vacationing Harry Reese has stumbled upon a body marinating in an abandoned canal bed. But rather than report the corpse, Harry decides to use it to distract his wife Emmie from her own literary ambitions. Then the body vanishes. Twice. These two plots, each sufficiently ludicrous in its own right, coalesce to produce a truly remarkable story, one that dares to answer the age-old question: is it possible for a man to drown in his blancmange? For more information on the series, please visit: HarryReeseMysteries.com keywords: Humorous comedic parody funny comedy Humor satire farcical saga cozy mystery historical historic 1900 turn-of-the-century love marriage family life relationship Northampton Massachusetts Henry James bawdy Brooklyn insane asylum state hospital murder George Washington Cable Shakespeare
Author : M.E. Meegs
Publisher : Lycophos Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781938710186
Novella #1, May of 1903. In the dank attic room of a squalid inn on the north coast of France, a young and penniless American woman, only recently recovered from a difficult birth, yearns for home. May God help those who stand in her way…. Though her circumstances are such that they might elicit pity, Mrs. Biddle neither needs nor wants our sympathy. Nor, after even the briefest acquaintance, are you likely to afford her any. Her yearning for home derives not from a love of friends or family, but rather a compulsion to settle a score. Haughty, arrogant, deceitful, cunning, faithless—these are the words best able to describe her. One moment she’s posing as the ruler of an underwater duchy in aid of a con game, the next she’s betraying a confederate. With never the slightest feeling of remorse. For more information on the novaplex, please visit: ByblosForetold.com Keywords: Humorous,comedic, romantic comedy, humor,parody,farcical,satire,New York,ocean liner,love,baby,parenting,divorce,Mrs. Biddle,novaplex,women's fiction,marriage,new adult,romance, confidence, con men, family life,saga,historical fiction,1900,20th century
Author : M.E. Meegs
Publisher : Lycophos Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781938710162
What sort of woman is Mrs. Biddle? In May of 1903, we find the young mother hungry and destitute, stranded in a squalid inn on the north coast of France. Six days later, she’s booked into New York’s Plaza Hotel with two thousand dollars in her purse…. A charitable person might use the word resourceful to describe her. But those encountering her are rarely left feeling particularly charitable. As ruthless as the day is long, this faux duchess of a drowned duchy brooks neither fools nor opposition. Those who stand in her way are crushed utterly, and those who cross her—well, who better to judge than her own husband? We may well ask ourselves, as Biddle did then, was she really so vindictive she’d travel 3,000 miles to the sort of jay town she despised with no purpose other than to inflict pain and misery on one she felt had wronged her? Oh, yes, was his answer—10,000 miles… on hands and knees… and still arrive glad about making the trip. (This novel incorporates Books 1, 2, & 3 of the Byblos Foretold Novaplex: Babes at Sea, Peddlers All, and Dames Engaged.) For more information on the novaplex, please visit: ByblosForetold.com Keywords: Humorous comedic comedy humor parody satire 1900 Upstate New York Brooklyn farcical Babes at Sea parenting divorce Byblos Foretold Dames Engaged Mrs. Biddle novaplex saga psychic Peddlers All women's fiction marriage new adult family life Love Triangle baby second chance menage royalty historical love 20th century international
Author : M.E. Meegs
Publisher : Lycophos Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781938710193
This novella opens with my astonishing account of the origins of the Byblos Foretold phenomenon, and then resumes where the first novella left off, in June of 1903. As Lord Timothy Dexter’s entourage of faux aristocrats makes its way to Byblos, the small upstate New York city he calls home, we are introduced to a new set of characters. There’s Greta, the erstwhile Greenpoint jute-winder and casual prostitute; Jack, a knockabout street urchin with a keen grasp of market economics; Pat and Danny Lyons, identical twin swindlers who together make for a useful literary device; Corporal Trim, a veteran of the gruesome Long Island campaign who’s willing to tell the tale—and then some; Jane Jebril, a parlor house madam possessing all the requisite traits; Tillie, Lord Dexter’s affection-deprived wife, who for now manages to keep a lid on her libido; their accommodating daughter Felicia, who isn’t similarly inclined; and last, Felicia’s fiancé, the inconveniently married Arthur Biddle, whose arrogance and outsized self-regard rival those of his wife. Now that they’re assembled, take a hogshead of deceit and add a jigger each of rum, love philtre, and whichever bodily fluid suits your mood. Mix thoroughly and serve. For more information on the novaplex, please visit: ByblosForetold.com keywords: Humorous,comedic,comedy,humor,parody,farcical,satire,New York,Brooklyn,love,parenting,divorce,Mrs. Biddle,novaplex,women's fiction,marriage,new adult,family life,saga,historical,1900,20th century
Author : M.E. Meegs,W.B. Tigue
Publisher : Lycophos Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781938710315
Author : Robert Germany
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191091117
When we are confronted with a work of art, what is its effect on us? In contrast to post-Enlightenment conceptions, which tend to restrict themselves to aesthetic or discursive responses, the ancient Greeks and Romans often conceived works of art as having a more dynamic effect on their viewers, inspiring them to direct imitation of what they saw represented. This notion of 'mimetic contagion' was a persistent and widespread mode of framing response to art across the ancient world, discernible in both popular and elevated cultural forms, yet deployed differently in various historical contexts; it is only under the specificity of a particular cultural moment's concerns that it becomes most useful as a lens for understanding how that culture is attempting to negotiate the problems of representation. After framing the phenomenon in terms general enough to be applicable across many periods, literary genres, and artistic media, this volume takes a particular literary work, Terence's Eunuch, as a starting point, both as a vivid example of this extensive pattern, and as a case study situating use of the motif within the peculiarities of a particular historical moment, in this case mid-second-century BC Rome and its anxieties about the power of art. One of the features of mimetic contagion frequently noted in this study is its capacity to render the operation of a particular work of art an emblem for the effect of representation more generally, and this is certainly the case in the Eunuch, whereby the painting at the centre of the play functions as a metatheatrical figure for the dynamics of mimesis throughout, illustrating how the concept may function as the key to a particular literary work. Although mimetic contagion is only one available Greco-Roman strategy for understanding the power of art, by offering an extended reading of a single work of literature through this lens, this volume demonstrates what ramifications closer attention to it might have for modern readers and literary criticism.
Author : Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924057564852
Author : Titus Livius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555001512
Author : Livy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6596
Author : H. Lee-Warner
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385238220
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : James Smith Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600058959
Author : David Roy Shackleton Bailey
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Classical philology
ISBN : 0674379322
