A Strange Old Mother
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A Strange Old Mother
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Author : Lesley Abdela
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
A Strange Old Mother written by Lesley Abdela and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Women categories.
This Strange Old World And Other Book Reviews By Katherine Anne Porter
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Author : Katherine Anne Porter
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2008-12-01
This Strange Old World And Other Book Reviews By Katherine Anne Porter written by Katherine Anne Porter and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Between 1920 and 1958 Katherine Anne Porter published more than sixty-five book review, many of which are now largely inaccessible. Although several such pieces have appeared in earlier collections of Porter's nonfiction writings, never have so many of Porter's reviews--nearly fifty--been made available in a single volume. Collectively the review reveal Porter's opinions on topics ranging from the nature of art and the place of the artist in politics and society to feminism and the role of female artists. Particularly evident in the reviews are the critical principles that guided her own work as well as her judgments of the works of other writers. In her introductory essay Darlene Harbour Unrue provides important biographical information on Porter, traces her career as a reviewer, and links critical assumptions in the reviews to the themes and techniques of Porter's fiction. Other scholars as well have regarded Porter's critical reviews as valuable tools both for analyzing the fiction and for constructing a portrait of Porter the artist, primarily because Porter produced so little fiction (three collections of short stories and novellas, Flowering Judas, The Leaning Tower, and Pale Horse, Pale Rider, and a novel, Ship of Fools). In the preface to the first collection of her nonfiction writings, The Days Before, Porter herself urged readers to look closely at her nonfiction, for there they would discover "the shape, direction, and connective tissue of a continuous, central interest and preoccupation of a lifetime." Most of the reviews--which appeared in such publications as the New York Herald Tribune, the New York Times, the Nation, and New Masses--she apparently undertook for financial reasons, but occasionally she would agree to review a friend's latest offering. She published no reviews after the success of her best-selling novel, Ship of Fools. Porter's scope as a reviewer was impressively broad. Because she lived in Mexico City during the revolution, had known Diego Rivera, and had studied "primitive" Mexican art, she was often called on to review books on Mexican art and on the revolution. Porter also reviewed many books by or about women. Her reviews of the Short Novels of Colette and Katharine Anthony's translation of Catherine the Great's memoirs are particularly noteworthy for her comments about women artists and her expression of admiration for women who flout traditional roles. These collected reviews illustrate the evolution of one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century and will interest not only Porter scholars but also anyone who appreciates her fiction.
Liaozhai Strange Tales From A Chinese Lonely Studio Complete Translation
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Author : Pu Songlin
language : en
Publisher: DeepLogic
Release Date :
Liaozhai Strange Tales From A Chinese Lonely Studio Complete Translation written by Pu Songlin and has been published by DeepLogic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Liaozhai Zhiyi (Liaozhai; Chinese: 聊齋, or 聊齋誌異), called in English Strange Tales from a Chinese Lonely Studio is a collection of Classical Chinese stories by Pu Songling comprising close to five hundred "marvel tales" in the zhiguai and chuanqi styles which serve to implicitly criticise societal issues then. Dating back to the Qing dynasty, its earliest publication date is given as 1740. Since then, many of the critically lauded stories have been adapted for other media such as film and television. The main characters of this book apparently are ghosts, foxes, immortals and demons, but the author focused on the everyday life of commoners. He used the supernatural and the unexplainable to illustrate his ideas of society and government. He criticized the corruption and injustice in society and sympathized with the poor. The book is complete translation of all volumes (Vol. 1 to 12) of Liaozhai.
A Strange Discovery
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Author : Charles Romyn Dake
language : en
Publisher: 1st World Publishing
Release Date : 2006-07
A Strange Discovery written by Charles Romyn Dake and has been published by 1st World Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07 with Fiction categories.
It was once my good fortune to assist in a discovery of some importance to lovers of literature, and to searchers after the new and wonderful. As nearly a quarter of a century has since elapsed, and as two others shared in the discovery, it may seem to the reader strange that the general public has been kept in ignorance of an event apparently so full of interest. Yet this silence is quite explicable; for of the three participants none has heretofore written for publication; and of my two associates, one is a quiet, retiring man, the other is erratic and forgetful. It is also possible that the discovery did not at the time impress either my companions or myself as having that importance and widespread interest which I have at last come to believe it really possesses. In any view of the case, there are reasons, personal to myself, why it was less my duty than that of either of the others to place on record the facts of the discovery. Had either of them, in all these years, in ever so brief a manner, done so, I should have remained forever silent.
Bradshaw S Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1843
Bradshaw S Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1843 with categories.
Mother Truths Poems On Early Motherhood
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Author : Karen McMillan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03-05
Mother Truths Poems On Early Motherhood written by Karen McMillan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-05 with Family & Relationships categories.
Mother Truths is a beautiful, funny, and raw collection of poetry about early motherhood. The perfect gift for expectant mothers and new mums.
The Mirador
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Author : Elisabeth Gille
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2011-09-06
The Mirador written by Elisabeth Gille and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-06 with Fiction categories.
A New York Review Books Original Separated from her mother—the famed author of Suite Française—during World War II, Irène Némirovsky’s daughter offers a “nuanced, eloquent portrait of a complicated woman” in a series of memoirs that reimagine her mother’s life (The Washington Post) Élisabeth Gille was only five when the Gestapo arrested her mother, and she grew up remembering next to nothing of her. Her mother was a figure, a name, Irène Némirovsky, a once popular novelist, a Russian émigré from an immensely rich family, a Jew who didn’t consider herself one and who even contributed to collaborationist periodicals, and a woman who died in Auschwitz because she was a Jew. To her daughter she was a tragic enigma and a stranger. It was to come to terms with that stranger that Gille wrote, in The Mirador, her mother’s memoirs. The first part of the book, dated 1929, the year David Golder made Némirovsky famous, takes us back to her difficult childhood in Kiev and St. Petersburg. Her father is doting, her mother a beautiful monster, while Irene herself is bookish and self-absorbed. There are pogroms and riots, parties and excursions, then revolution, from which the family flees to France, a country of “moderation, freedom, and generosity,” where at last she is happy. Some thirteen years later Irène picks up her pen again. Everything has changed. Abandoned by friends and colleagues, she lives in the countryside and waits for the knock on the door. Written a decade before the publication of Suite Française made Irène Némirovsky famous once more (something Gille did not live to see), The Mirador is a haunted and a haunting book, an unflinching reckoning with the tragic past, and a triumph not only of the imagination but of love.
Giulio Malatesta
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Author : Thomas Adolphus Trollope
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1874
Giulio Malatesta written by Thomas Adolphus Trollope and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1874 with categories.
Posthumous Memoirs Of Karoline Bauer
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Author : Karoline Bauer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
Posthumous Memoirs Of Karoline Bauer written by Karoline Bauer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with Actors categories.
A Strange Mother
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Author : M. L. Reid
language : en
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2015-02-28
A Strange Mother written by M. L. Reid and has been published by Troubador Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“My mother made a decision that would change my life. I was never to see my dad or know him. She decided to emigrate to the Caribbean with me at the age of two years, unannounced, with no finances or place to live. Her intention was to escape the law and take revenge on my father.” Set partly in England and partly in Jamaica, A Strange Mother is the evocative and dramatic real-life tale of M. L. Reid, whose mother kidnapped her from her father after she had lost custody of her. In revenge, the young child was taken away to Jamaica and lived there with her mother for over fifteen years, in severe hardship, and was subjected to mental, psychological and physical abuse at the hands of her mother. Years later, M. L. Reid was fortunate to return to the UK and, when reunited with her mother, made an extraordinary discovery about the dark world her mother was involved in. She learned, with pure disbelief, that powerful and often evil spells had systematically been cast upon her by a supernatural power, with the intention of destroying her. “I am a mother and it doesn’t matter what my children do or say – they are my flesh and blood. I could never be so cold to inflict a curse on them and watch them fall in life. To do so, one would have to be a strange mother.” A Strange Mother is M. L. Reid’s harrowing true tale, which will appeal mainly to fans of autobiographies. It bears many similarities to Ugly by Constance Briscoe.