Confessions Of An Eccentric Dreamer

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Confessions Of An Eccentric Dreamer

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Author : Peter James McLean
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2016-02-20

Confessions Of An Eccentric Dreamer written by Peter James McLean and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

For author Peter James McLean, life was just one adventure after another. In Confessions of an Eccentric Dreamer, he shares a captivating recollection of his life, dreams, adventures, and foibles. This memoir narrates how his adventures began at age sixteen and continued until age ninety-two during which time he worked and retired from the New York Central Railroad; developed a money-saving, water softening device to clean steam engine boilers; and invented and patented toy guns, an electro-magnetic water conditioner, a system for increasing gas mileage in automobiles, a system to extend oil life in a combustion engine, and another for high-production water distilling equipment. Confessions of an Eccentric Dreamer also tells how McLean researched sunken ships in the Great Lakes and invented a waterscope to explore the ships and how he cultivated a lifelong love of prospecting and mining for uranium, gold, silver, and other minerals in Ontario. Sharing stories from his long and colorful life, McLean inspires would-be adventurers to go out and live. The words “cannot be done” and “impossible” were not a part of his vocabulary.

Confessions Of A Prosaic Dreamer

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Author : Gerald Monsman
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1984

Confessions Of A Prosaic Dreamer written by Gerald Monsman and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Literary Collections categories.

More than Charles Lamb himself could ever know, the creation of Elia as his personal artistic voice was his way to endure the memories of September 22, 1796, a day of primal horror when his sister Mary in a fit of insanity killed their mother and destroyed the Lamb family. Throughout the rest of his life Lamb was faced with those memories , with deep-seated personal and career disillusionments. Yet through Elia he confronted his inner self to forge the essays that may be considered among the most brilliant and inimitable works in English letters. Gerald Monsman in this study abandons the customary chronological approach to Lamb's life in favor of a more incisive, open-ended discussion of the Elia essays. By a close textual examination of Lamb's language, he relates the essayist's use of symbol and autobiographical concerns. Monsman contends and demonstrates that "as sharply and as pertinently as any artistic voice, Elia, the most celebrated persona in the nineteenth century, focuses the problems inherent in the modern literary imagination." Elia's "textual identity is a function of the author's actual life, of losses and imperfections artistically utilized and harmonized, employed against themselves to produce the rehabilitating symbol."

Confessions Of A Prosaic Dreamer

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Author : Gerald Monsman
language : en
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Release Date : 1984

Confessions Of A Prosaic Dreamer written by Gerald Monsman and has been published by Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

More than Charles Lamb himself could ever know, the creation of Elia as his personal artistic voice was his way to endure the memories of September 22, 1796, a day of primal horror when his sister Mary in a fit of insanity killed their mother and destroyed the Lamb family. Throughout the rest of his life Lamb was faced with those memories , with deep-seated personal and career disillusionments. Yet through Elia he confronted his inner self to forge the essays that may be considered among the most brilliant and inimitable works in English letters. Gerald Monsman in this study abandons the customary chronological approach to Lamb's life in favor of a more incisive, open-ended discussion of the Elia essays. By a close textual examination of Lamb's language, he relates the essayist's use of symbol and autobiographical concerns. Monsman contends and demonstrates that "as sharply and as pertinently as any artistic voice, Elia, the most celebrated persona in the nineteenth century, focuses the problems inherent in the modern literary imagination." Elia's "textual identity is a function of the author's actual life, of losses and imperfections artistically utilized and harmonized, employed against themselves to produce the rehabilitating symbol."

Confessions Of A Gullible Dreamer

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Author : Molen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-06-09

Confessions Of A Gullible Dreamer written by Molen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-09 with categories.

Dreaming Of Ricky

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Author : Ann Brennan
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2012-11-01

Dreaming Of Ricky written by Ann Brennan and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with Fiction categories.

It is 1960, and 14-year-old well-behaved Mary Margaret Ryan has suddenly and unexpectedly become an orphan. Her mother's death-never discussed by the family or even touched upon in Mary Margaret's own thoughts-brings about a series of rapid changes. The family of her long departed father comes to live with her, and they are a quirky lot to say the least. There is Grandmother, whose moods can be predicted by whether she has completed her daily crossword puzzle and whose concerns reflect the fact that characters on her favorite soap operas are more real to her than her own family. Aunt Sunny is a night nurse, whose life is completely out of synch with the rest of the family simply because she spends her entire daytime sleeping. Uncle Frank has no apparent job but spends his whole day mysteriously "doing research" at local libraries. Cousin BJ seems to come from a completely different world than Mary Margaret's-she is sarcastic and openly belligerent to her parents. She seems to do well at whatever job she is in, but is inclined to change to a different job every few weeks. We follow Mary Margaret and her best friend Mary Ellen through their high school years. They encounter any number of hilarious situations and eccentric characters, including the nuns and friends at school, as well as family. In Dreaming of Ricky, Ann Brennan transports us to a very believable time and place: a Maryland suburb in the early 60's. Every detail in her story, including the way her characters think and speak, is meticulously crafted to reflect that unique time in American history. It is a time when the repressive beliefs of the 50's are just starting to give way to a more free-and potentially scary-world view. Mary Margaret is coming of age while her entire world is itself in tumultuous adolescence. Brennan's Maryland suburb wears a cheery and often foolish facade under which some terrible darkness keeps forcing its way to the surface. This is well reflected in Mary Margaret herself, the "good girl" who is eager to please and ever so sweet, but who cannot seem to contain those recurring nightmares of an unnamed horror just below her in the basement. Dreaming of Ricky shares much with the genre of an Irish novel. The tone here is a deft mixture of sweetness, despair, horror, and hilarity. This is both a dark and a comic novel that captures a genuine Irish sensibility. Anyone who has been or has known a good Irish Catholic girl will recognize Mary Margaret and will be helpless to keep her out of their heart.

The Dreamers

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Author : Karen Thompson Walker
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-01-15

The Dreamers written by Karen Thompson Walker and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Fiction categories.

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of The Age of Miracles. “Stunning.”—Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven • “A startling, beautiful portrait of a community in peril.”—Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Glamour • Real Simple • Good Housekeeping One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep—and doesn’t wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster. Those affected by the illness, doctors discover, are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, higher than has ever been recorded before. They are dreaming heightened dreams—but of what? Written in luminous prose, The Dreamers is a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life—if only we are awakened to them. Praise for The Dreamers “Walker’s roving fictive eye by turns probes characters’ innermost feelings and zooms out to coolly parse topics like reality versus delusion. . . . [It has] the perfect ambiguous frame for a tense and layered plot.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[Walker’s] gripping, provocative novel should come with a warning: may cause insomnia.”—People (Book of the Week) “Powerful and moving . . . written with symphonic sweep.”—The New York Times Book Review “2019’s first must-read novel . . . Alternately terrifying and moving . . . The Dreamers is overflowing with humanity.”—Jezebel “This is an exquisite work of intimacy. Walker’s sentences are smooth, emotionally arresting—of a true, ethereal beauty. . . . This book achieves [a] dazzling, aching humanity.”—Entertainment Weekly

Confessions Of A Recovering Environmentalist And Other Essays

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Author : Paul Kingsnorth
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2017-08-01

Confessions Of A Recovering Environmentalist And Other Essays written by Paul Kingsnorth and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-01 with Literary Collections categories.

A provocative and urgent essay collection that asks how we can live with hope in “an age of ecocide” Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist—an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on “sustainability” rather than the defense of wild places for their own sake and as global conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced. He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First World would ever make the kind of sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of climate change. Full of grief and fury as well as passionate, lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist gathers the wave-making essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth’s thinking. In them he articulates a new vision that he calls “dark ecology,” which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us, and he argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds. This iconoclastic, fearless, and ultimately hopeful book, which includes the much-discussed “Uncivilization” manifesto, asks hard questions about how we’ve lived and how we should live.

Skylight Confessions

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Author : Alice Hoffman
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2008

Skylight Confessions written by Alice Hoffman and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Architects categories.

Arlyn Singer believes in destiny and in love. But fate played a trick on her the night John Moody knocked on her door to ask for directions. Arlyn and John are complete opposites, but are drawn together like magnets even when it becomes clear that theyll bring each other nothing but grief.

Absolutely On Music

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Author : Haruki Murakami
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-11-15

Absolutely On Music written by Haruki Murakami and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-15 with Music categories.

An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling writer Haruki Murakami and world-class conductor, Seiji Ozawa. Haruki Murakami's passion for music runs deep. Before turning his hand to writing, he ran a jazz club in Tokyo, and the aesthetic and emotional power of music permeates every one of his much-loved books. Now, in Absolutely on Music, Murakami fulfills a personal dream, sitting down with his friend, acclaimed conductor Seiji Ozawa, to talk about their shared interest. They discuss everything from Brahms to Beethoven, from Leonard Bernstein to Glenn Gould, from record collecting to pop-up orchestras, and much more. 'Absolutely on Music is an unprecedented treasure... Talking about music is like dancing about architecture, it's often said, but what joy to watch these two friends dance.' Guardian

Eccentric Spaces

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Author : Robert Harbison
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2000-02-28

Eccentric Spaces written by Robert Harbison and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-02-28 with Architecture categories.

The subject is the human imagination—and the mysterious interplay between the imagination and the spaces it has made for itself to live in: gardens, rooms, buildings, streets, museums and maps, fictional topographies, and architectures. The book is a lesson in seeing and sensing the manifold forms created by the mind for its own pleasure. Like all of Robert Harbison's works, Eccentric Spaces is a hybrid, informed by the author's interests in art, architecture, fiction, poetry, landscape, geography, history, and philosophy. The subject is the human imagination—and the mysterious interplay between the imagination and the spaces it has made for itself to live in: gardens, rooms, buildings, streets, museums and maps, fictional topographies, and architectures. The book is a lesson in seeing and sensing the manifold forms created by the mind for its own pleasure. Palaces and haunted houses, Victorian parlors, Renaissance sculpture gardens, factories, hill-towns, ruins, cities, even novels and paintings constructed around such environments—these are the spaces over which the author broods. Brilliantly learned, deliberately remote in form from conventional scholarship, Eccentric Spaces is a magical book, an intellectual adventure, a celebration. Since its original publication in 1977, Eccentric Spaces has had a devoted readership. Now it is available to be discovered by a new generation of readers.