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Release Date : 1985
ISBN 10 : OCLC:816225409
Pages : 124 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
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Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Harper Collins
Release Date : 1983-03-23
ISBN 10 : 9780060909994
Pages : 146 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (994 downloads)
Download Fables for Our Time in PDF Full Online Free by James Thurber and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1983-03-23 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Thurber has been called "one of our great American institutions' (Stanley Walker), "a magnificent satirist (Boston Transcript), and "a Joyce in false-face" (New York Times). The New York Herald Tribune submits that he is "as blithe as Benchley...as savage as Swift...surprisingly wise and witty," while the Times of London, out of enthusiasm and a profound regard for truth, proclaims that "Thurber is Thurber." In Fables for Our Time, Thurber the Moralist is in the ascendancy. Here are a score or more lessons-in-prose dedicated to conventional sinners and proving--what you will. The fables are imperishably illustrated, and are supplemented by Mr. Thurber's own pictorial interpretations of famous poems in a wonderful and joyous assemblage.
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Release Date : 1954
ISBN 10 : OCLC:290329
Pages : 124 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems in PDF Full Online Free by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : La Vergne Rosow
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Release Date : 1996
ISBN 10 : 1563083655
Pages : 392 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (83 downloads)
Download Light 'n Lively Reads for ESL, Adult, and Teen Readers in PDF Full Online Free by La Vergne Rosow and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1996 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written to assist both the learner and teacher in locating high-powered reading materials.
Author : James D. Hart
Publisher :
Release Date : 1986
ISBN 10 : 9780195047714
Pages : 507 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (71 downloads)
Download The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature in PDF Full Online Free by James D. Hart and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise version contains brief biographies of important authors, plot summaries of individual works, descriptions of important literary movements, and a wealth of information on other aspects of American literary life and history from the Colonial period to the modern era.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Release Date : 1971
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105006357284
Pages : 1640 pages
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Download Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series in PDF Full Online Free by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1971 with total page 1640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jay Parini
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 10 : 9780195156539
Pages : 2273 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (536 downloads)
Download The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature in PDF Full Online Free by Jay Parini and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004 with total page 2273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabetically arranged entries include discussions of individual authors, literary movements, institutions, notable texts, literary developments, themes, ethnic literatures, and "topic" essays.
Author : Harrison Kinney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2007-11-01
ISBN 10 : 9780743226219
Pages : 800 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (216 downloads)
Download The Thurber Letters in PDF Full Online Free by Harrison Kinney and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though he died more than forty years ago, James Thurber remains one of America's greatest and most enduring humorists, and his books -- for both adults and children -- remain as popular as ever. In this comprehensive collection of his letters -- the majority of which have never before been published -- we find unsuspected insights into his life and career. His prodigious body of work -- fables, drawings, comic essays, reportage, short stories, including his famous "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" -- all define Thurber's special and prolific genius. Like most good humorists, he was prone to exaggeration, embellishment, and good-natured self-deprecation. In his letters we find startling revelations about who he really was, and why the prism through which he viewed the world could often be both painfully and delightfully distorting. For the first time, Thurber's daughter Rosemary has allowed the publication of many of the extremely personal letters he wrote early in his life to the women he was -- usually hopelessly -- in love with, as well as the affectionate and hilarious letters that he wrote to her. In addition, Harrison Kinney, noted Thurber biographer, has located a number of Thurber letters never before published. The Thurber Letters traces Thurber's progress from lovesick college boy to code clerk with the State Department in Paris and reporter for the Columbus Dispatch, through his marriages and love affairs, his special relationship with his daughter, his illustrious and tumultuous years with The New Yorker, his longstanding relationship with E. B. White, his close friendship with Peter De Vries, and his tragic last days. Included in the book are Thurber drawings never before published. His candid comments in these personal letters, whether lighthearted or melancholy, comprise an entertaining, captivating, informal biography -- pure, wonderful Thurber.
Author : Brenda Jo Brueggemann
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Release Date : 2012-08-02
ISBN 10 : 9781412994187
Pages : 305 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (187 downloads)
Download Arts and Humanities in PDF Full Online Free by Brenda Jo Brueggemann and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in The SAGE Reference Series on Disability explores the arts and humanities within the lives of people with disabilities. It is one of eight volumes in the cross-disciplinary and issues-based series, which incorporates links from varied fields making up Disability Studies as volumes examine topics central to the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families. With a balance of history, theory, research, and application, specialists set out the findings and implications of research and practice for others whose current or future work involves the care and/or study of those with disabilities, as well as for the disabled themselves. The presentational style (concise and engaging) emphasizes accessibility. Taken individually, each volume sets out the fundamentals of the topic it addresses, accompanied by compiled data and statistics, recommended further readings, a guide to organizations and associations, and other annotated resources, thus providing the ideal introductory platform and gateway for further study. Taken together, the series represents both a survey of major disability issues and a guide to new directions and trends and contemporary resources in the field as a whole.
Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2009-08-13
ISBN 10 : 0810863456
Pages : 568 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (863 downloads)
Download The A to Z of Fantasy Literature in PDF Full Online Free by Brian Stableford and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late 20th century, when it enjoyed a spectacular resurgence in every stratum of the literary marketplace. Stableford provides an invaluable guide to this sequence of events and to the current state of the field. The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes. The dictionary includes cross-referenced entries on more than 700 authors, ranging across the entire historical spectrum, while more than 200 other entries describe the fantasy subgenres, key images in fantasy literature, technical terms used in fantasy criticism, and the intimately convoluted relationship between literary fantasies, scholarly fantasies, and lifestyle fantasies. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography that ranges from general textbooks and specialized accounts of the history and scholarship of fantasy literature, through bibliographies and accounts of the fantasy literature of different nations, to individual author studies and useful websites.
Author : Mark Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1998-12-17
ISBN 10 : 9780195126679
Pages : 199 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (67 downloads)
Download The Literary Mind in PDF Full Online Free by Mark Turner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-12-17 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turner argues that story, projection, and parable precede grammar, that language follows from these mental capacities as a consequence. Language, he concludes, is the child of the literary mind.
Author : Richard Mathews
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-01-29
ISBN 10 : 9781136785542
Pages : 248 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (54 downloads)
Download Fantasy in PDF Full Online Free by Richard Mathews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a broad definition of fantasy to include myth, folklore, legend and fairy tale, this survey of the genre will entice as well as inform any student interested in the mysterious, mystical or magical. Beloved authors like J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Morris and Robert E. Howard are examined closely.
Author : David Calvin
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2011-05-25
ISBN 10 : 9781443830553
Pages : 315 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (55 downloads)
Download Anti-Tales in PDF Full Online Free by David Calvin and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anti-(fairy) tale has long existed in the shadow of the traditional fairy tale as its flipside or evil twin. According to André Jolles in Einfache Formen (1930), such Antimärchen are contemporaneous with some of the earliest known oral variants of familiar tales. While fairy tales are generally characterised by a “spirit of optimism” (Tolkien) the anti-tale offers us no such assurances; for every “happily ever after,” there is a dissenting “they all died horribly.” The anti-tale is, however, rarely an outright opposition to the traditional form itself. Inasmuch as the anti-hero is not a villain, but may possess attributes of the hero, the anti-tale appropriates aspects of the fairy tale form, (and its equivalent genres) and re-imagines, subverts, inverts, deconstructs or satirises elements of these to present an alternate narrative interpretation, outcome or morality. In this collection, Little Red Riding Hood retaliates against the wolf, Cinderella’s stepmother provides her own account of events, and “Snow White” evolves into a postmodern vampire tale. The familiar becomes unfamiliar, revealing the underlying structures, dynamics, fractures and contradictions within the borrowed tales. Over the last half century, this dissident tradition has become increasingly popular, inspiring numerous writers, artists, musicians and filmmakers. Although anti-tales abound in contemporary art and popular culture, the term has been used sporadically in scholarship without being developed or defined. While it is clear that the aesthetics of postmodernism have provided fertile creative grounds for this tradition, the anti-tale is not just a postmodern phenomenon; rather, the “postmodern fairy tale” is only part of the picture. Broadly interdisciplinary in scope, this collection of twenty-two essays and artwork explores various manifestations of the anti-tale, from the ancient to the modern including romanticism, realism and surrealism along the way.
Author : Laurie Rozakis
Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Release Date : 1999-08-01
ISBN 10 : 9780241885789
Pages : 632 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (787 downloads)
Download The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature in PDF Full Online Free by Laurie Rozakis and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're no idiot, of course. You know that Samuel Clemens had a better-known pen name, Moby Dick is a famous whale, and the Raven only said,"Nevermore." But when it comes to understanding the great works of Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, you'd rather rent the videos than head to your local library. Don't tear up your library card yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature teaches you all about the rich tradition of American prose and poetry, so you can fully appreciate its magnificent diversity.
Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Peschel Press
Release Date : 2021-05-21
ISBN 10 :
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Download The Cases of Blue Ploermell in PDF Full Online Free by James Thurber and published by Peschel Press. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1923, the young reporter James Thurber was given a half a page in the Sunday Evening Dispatch of Columbus, Ohio, every week to fill with anything he wanted. For most of that year, he turned out book reviews, humorous commentary, jokes, stories, and even literary criticism. He also wrote a series of 13 short Sherlockian parodies — 10,000 words in all — starring Blue Ploermell, a “psychosocial” detective with a fondness for animal crackers. Aided (and occasionally impeded) by his Chinese manservant, Gong Low, Ploermell investigates cases marked by his cock-eyed deductions, loopy logic, and a knack for leaping to the wrong conclusion. These juvenilia represents Thurber’s first attempts at learning the craft of humor writing. Looking back at this work years later, he even considered publishing the Ploermell stores. The Cases of Blue Ploermell, for the first time in a century, collects the 13 stories. Edited and annotated by Bill Peschel, they show Thurber trying his hand at characterization, story structure, ethnic humor, and serial writing in a style rarely seen at any newspaper. In addition to the annotations, Peschel wrote essays on Thurber’s years in Columbus, Ohio; journalism in the 1920s; the state of Sherlockian parodies; and depictions of Chinese men and women in American popular culture. Note: The 13 stories are very short, and take up 40 pages of this 200-page book. The rest of the book consists of these essays: “Becoming James Thurber” (39 pages); “Journalism in Thurber’s Time” (4 pages); “Sherlockian Parodies in the 1920s” (8 pages); “The Ancestors of Gong Low” (13 pages); “The Chinese in Popular Culture” (35 pages); movie reviews (19 pages); chronology (9 pages); lists (7 pages). SHORT DESCRIPTION: In 1923, a young James Thurber wrote 13 short Sherlockian parodies (10,000 words) for his newspaper in Columbus, Ohio. They starred Blue Ploermell, a “psychosocial” detective with a fondness for animal crackers. Aided by his Chinese manservant, he solves cases with his cock-eyed deductions and a knack for leaping to the wrong conclusion. This book contains the stories plus essays about Thurber.
Author : Dan Dietz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2014-04-10
ISBN 10 : 9781442230729
Pages : 622 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (72 downloads)
Download The Complete Book of 1960s Broadway Musicals in PDF Full Online Free by Dan Dietz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines in specific detail every Broadway musical which opened during the seminal decade of the 1960s, a decade which encompassed traditional musicals (such as Hello, Dolly!) as well as iconoclastic ones (Hair). Besides technical information, the book includes extensive commentary for all 268 musicals which opened during the decade. It includes all New York City Center and Music Theatre of Lincoln Center revivals; New York City Opera revivals of Broadway musicals; productions of all pre-Broadway closings (musicals which closed either during New York previews or during pre-Broadway tryouts); all eight musicals which were produced at the 1964 New York World’s Fair; concert productions (usually of one-man or one-woman shows); and all imports which opened during the decade. The technical information includes details regarding cast and credits, plot, critical reviews, London productions, recordings, published scripts, and film versions.
Author : Anna T. Litovkina
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-01-11
ISBN 10 : 9783030890629
Pages : 252 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (627 downloads)
Download Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages in PDF Full Online Free by Anna T. Litovkina and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on well-known proverbs. Proverbs are by no means fossilized texts but are adaptable to different times and changed values. While anti-proverbs can be considered as variants of older proverbs, they can also become new proverbs reflecting a more modern worldview. Anti-proverbs are therefore a lingo-cultural phenomenon that deserves the attention of cultural and literary historians, folklorists, linguists, and general readers interested in language and wordplay.
