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Half-Sick Of Shadows

Author : David Logan
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448109280
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Half-Sick Of Shadows written by David Logan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of Granny Hazel’s burial in the back garden, a stranger in his time machine – a machine that bears an uncanny resemblance to a Morris Minor – visits five year-old Edward with a strange request. And Edward agrees to be his friend. But Edward is not alone in the world. His twin sister Sophia is about to bring future tragedy upon herself through an all-too-literal misunderstanding of a promise she’s made to their father. So while Sophia stays at home, seemingly condemned to spend the rest of her days in The Manse – a world untouched by modern trappings – Edward is sent to boarding school. There he encounters the kind and the not-so-kind, and meets the strangest child. His name is Alf, and Alf is a boy whose very existence would seem to hint at universes of unlimited possibilities...and who might one day help Edward liberate Sophia. With its Gothic backdrop, Half-Sick of Shadows is a novel of many parts: at once a comical tragedy, a dark and dazzlingly told tale of childhood wonder and dismay, of familial dysfunction, of poetry, the imagination and theoretical physics.

Half Sick of Shadows

Author : Laura Sebastian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780593437025
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Half Sick of Shadows written by Laura Sebastian and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Baby with the Bathwater

Author : Christopher Durang
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822200840
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Baby with the Bathwater written by Christopher Durang and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1984 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As the play begins Helen and John gaze proudly at their new offspring, a bit disappointed that it doesn't speak English and too polite to check its sex. So they decide that the child is a girl and name it Daisy--which leads to all manner

Half-Sick of Shadows

Author : Erika Tracy
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 130076354X
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Half-Sick of Shadows written by Erika Tracy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elena is a dreamer and a witch, neither fitting well into the mining town of Glynarien. John is a collier, born out-of-place. Together they find love or something that passes for it.

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

Author : Alan Bradley
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385668104
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book I Am Half-Sick of Shadows written by Alan Bradley and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What better Christmas surprise for detective-in-training Flavia de Luce than a dreadful murder under Buckshaw's roof - and a snowbound house full of suspects! It's Christmas time, and our beloved Flavia is tucked away in her laboratory whipping up a sticky concoction to trap that infamous sneak, Saint Nick, and thereby prove once and for all - despite the claims of her evil sisters - that he does exist. But she is soon distracted from her task: Colonel de Luce, in desperate need of funds, has rented the family's crumbling manor house to a film company for the holidays. When its crew arrives from London to shoot a movie starring the reclusive and renowned actress, Phyllis Wyvern, there's no end to the disruptions - and dramas - demanding Flavia's attention. When Wyvern is convinced to perform a famous scene to help raise funds for the local church, it is decided that Buckshaw Manor is the only suitable location. Its foyer alone is bigger than the parish hall, and could fit every man, woman, and child in Bishop's Lacey, to a soul. It's almost Christmas Eve, but - to no one's surprise - all of the village inhabitants fight their way through a raging snowstorm to be in the audience that magical night. As the actors take to the stage, however, the blizzard sets in, and it becomes clear that the villagers will have to hunker down at Buckshaw for the night. Sleeping head to toe in the de Luces' foyer seems amenable to most, until word spreads of the evening's shocking conclusion - Phyllis Wyvern is found strangled to death in the Blue Bedroom, with a length of film from one of her movies tied in an elaborate bow around her neck. But who among the assembled guests would stage such a chilling scene? As the storm worsens and the list of suspects grows, Flavia must use every ounce of her chemical cleverness and crime-solving prowess to ferret out a killer hidden in plain sight. But when she does piece the puzzle together and deduce who has committed this twisted crime, will Flavia be able to escape in one piece?

Baby with the Bathwater, And, Laughing Wild

Author : Christopher Durang
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802131300
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Baby with the Bathwater, And, Laughing Wild written by Christopher Durang and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Laughing Wild, ' two comic monologues evolve into a man's and an woman's shared nightmare of modern life and the isolation it creates.

Half Sick of Shadows

Author : Katharine Sherman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Half Sick of Shadows written by Katharine Sherman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I write plays that feel like dreams.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551111261
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Picture of Dorian Gray written by Oscar Wilde and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1998-02-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Oscar Wilde’s famous novel, Dorian Gray is tempted by Henry Wotton to sell his soul in order to hold on to beauty and youth. Dorian succumbs and murders the portrait painter Basil Haliward, who stands between him and his goal. Though in the end vice is punished and virtue rewarded, the novel remains one of the most important expressions of fin de siècle decadence. It is in the preface to the expanded edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray that Wilde coined the most famous expression of his aesthetic: “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well-written or badly-written. That is all.” Like other Broadview Editions, this edition includes a wide range of materials from the period that help to set the text in context. In particular, the editor locates the text both in relation to elements in the mainstream culture of the day (such as the aesthetes); and in relation to the gay subculture.

The Joy of Shadows

Author : William Bragi
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595253431
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book The Joy of Shadows written by William Bragi and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grasping Shadows

Author : William Chapman Sharpe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190682256
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Grasping Shadows written by William Chapman Sharpe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's in a shadow? Menace, seduction, or salvation? Immaterial but profound, shadows lurk everywhere in literature and the visual arts, signifying everything from the treachery of appearances to the unfathomable power of God. From Plato to Picasso, from Rembrandt to Welles and Warhol, from Lord of the Rings to the latest video game, shadows act as central players in the drama of Western culture. Yet because they work silently, artistic shadows often slip unnoticed past audiences and critics. Conceived as an accessible introduction to this elusive phenomenon, Grasping Shadows is the first book that offers a general theory of how all shadows function in texts and visual media. Arguing that shadow images take shape within a common cultural field where visual and verbal meanings overlap, William Sharpe ranges widely among classic and modern works, revealing the key motifs that link apparently disparate works such as those by Fra Angelico and James Joyce, Clementina Hawarden and Kara Walker, Charles Dickens and Kumi Yamashita. Showing how real-world shadows have shaped the meanings of shadow imagery, Grasping Shadows guides the reader through the techniques used by writers and artists to represent shadows from the Renaissance onward. The last chapter traces how shadows impact the art of the modern city, from Renoir and Zola to film noir and projection systems that capture the shadows of passers-by on streets around the globe. Extending his analysis to contemporary street art, popular songs, billboards, and shadow-theatre, Sharpe demonstrates a practical way to grasp the "dark side" that looms all around us.

V for Vendetta as Cultural Pastiche

Author : James R. Keller
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476604975
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book V for Vendetta as Cultural Pastiche written by James R. Keller and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2005 James McTeigue and Wachowski Brothers film V for Vendetta represents a postmodern pastiche, a collection of fragments pasted together from the original Moore and Lloyd graphic novel of the same name, along with numerous allusions to literature, history, cinema, music, art, politics, and medicine. Paralleling the graphic novel, the film simultaneously reflects a range of authorial contributions and influences. This work examines in detail the intersecting texts of V for Vendetta. Subjects include the alternative dimensions of the cinematic narrative, represented in the film’s conspicuous placement of the painting The Lady of Shalott in V’s home; the film’s overt allusions to the AIDS panic of the 1980s; and the ways in which antecedent narratives such as Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, Huxley’s Brave New World, and Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 represent shadow texts frequently crossing through the overall V for Vendetta narrative.

Radio Camelot

Author : Roger Simpson
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843841401
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book Radio Camelot written by Roger Simpson and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2008 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author provides a full account of Arthurian radio drama, which evolved from D.G. Bridson's patriotic pre-war 'King Arthur', via fascinations with the Holy Grail and the Lady of Shalott, to its flowering in the 1990s with Kevin Crossley-Holland's 'Arthur's Knight'.

Shadow in the Glass

Author : M. E. Hilliard
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
ISBN 13 : 1643858955
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Shadow in the Glass written by M. E. Hilliard and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder rocks a wedding celebration at an idyllic lakeside home—and librarian-turned-sleuth Greer Hogan could be next on the killer’s guest list in this second exciting installment, perfect for fans of Louise Penny. Librarian Greer Hogan is on hand to celebrate her old friend Sarah Whitaker’s nuptials at the Whitaker summer home on beautiful Mirror Lake, just outside the upstate New York village of Lake Placid. But Greer has an ulterior motive—to gather information that could reopen the investigation into her husband’s murder, a crime for which she believes an innocent man went to prison. Her plans come to a shuddering halt when a wedding guest goes missing and turns up dead in the lake. The guest, Brittany Miles, was an employee of the Whitaker family whom Sarah had long suspected was up to no good at work. The police have no leads, but Greer—an avid reader of crime fiction who possesses an uncanny knack for deduction—begins her own investigation. She learns that the victim was seen with a mystery man right before she disappeared. Then the autopsy reveals that she didn’t drown in the lake after all, but in the reflecting pool in the Whitaker garden. The suspect list is as long as the guest list itself, with no apparent motive. Now, Greer must rely on the wisdom of her favorite fictional detectives to tease out truth from lies—and keep herself out of the killer’s sights.

The Substance of Shadow

Author : John Hollander
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022635430X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Substance of Shadow written by John Hollander and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Hollander, poet and scholar, was a master whose work joined luminous learning and imaginative risk. This book, based on the unpublished Clark Lectures Hollander delivered in 1999 at Cambridge University, witnesses his power to shift the horizons of our thinking, as he traces the history of shadow in British and American poetry from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century. Shadow shows itself here in myriad literary identities, revealing its force as a way of seeing and a form of knowing, as material for fable and parable. Taking up a vast range of texts—from the Bible, Dante, Shakespeare, and Milton to Poe, Dickinson, Eliot, and Stevens—Hollander describes how metaphors of shadow influence our ideas of dreaming, desire, doubt, and death. These shadows of poetry and prose fiction point to unknown, often fearful domains of human experience, showing us concealed shapes of truth and possibility. Crucially, Hollander explores how shadows in poetic history become things with a strange substance and life of their own: they acquire the power to console, haunt, stalk, wander, threaten, command, and destroy. Shadow speaks, even sings, revealing to us the lost as much as the hidden self. An extraordinary blend of literary analysis and speculative thought, Hollander’s account of the substance of shadow lays bare the substance of poetry itself.

Tennysonian Love

Author : Gerhard Joseph
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816658005
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Tennysonian Love written by Gerhard Joseph and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1969-04-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tennysonian Love was first published in 1969. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In the century or so since Alfred Tennyson's poetry reached the height of its popularity and critical acclaim, the pendulum of criticism has swung wide in opposite directions. From the earlier idolatry to the later ridicule, that pendulum has now settled into a position of qualified and selective praise from which a more thoughtful consideration of the poet is possible. Consequently, as this critical study suggests, new values and dimensions are recognizable in his work. Professor Joseph, concentrating on the theme of love but involving in his argument other facets of Tennyson's achievement, demonstrates the thesis that the poet moved as in a "strange diagonal." This phrase used as the subtitle of the book comes from Tennyson's poem The Princess in which the narrator "moved as in a strange diagonal / And maybe neither pleased myself nor them." As the author shows, Tennyson throughout his work moved between a Platonic conception of love in which the highest kind of spiritual love has disencumbered itself of sense and a Neoplatonic ("Dantesque") one in which sense and soul tend to merge. In coming to terms with the nineteenth-century form of this divided Western heritage, the pietism of the evangelical revival on the one hand and the idealized eroticism of his Romantic predecessors on the other, Tennyson became the exemplary poet of Victorian love. No other Victorian poet, Professor Joseph concludes, exhibits quite his representative and successful blending of these clashing strains. For while moving between the alternate traditions of Western love, Tennyson was able to forge a large body of highly disciplined, beautifully wrought, and far-ranging verse.

Literature and Image in the Long Nineteenth Century

Author : Amina Alyal
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527519732
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Literature and Image in the Long Nineteenth Century written by Amina Alyal and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores some of the ways in which word and image worked together in the nineteenth century, in terms of pictures, poetry and fiction. The authors keep in mind how word and image negotiate and compete for each other’s spaces. They seek to interrogate how image arises from absences in texts, and how image gives rise to narrative or voice. Topics include ekphrasis, illustration, literary representations of artists, the visual in writing, the staging of images and the textualization of theatrical tableaux, and related cultural and ideological tropes. This is covered in three main areas: ideological and philosophical resonances of image and text in fiction; the peculiar fusion of text and image that was the bread and butter of the Pre-Raphaelites; and book illustration, especially the tensions between writer and artist as authors of the text. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars in the field of Victorian literary and art history studies.

Macmillan's Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Macmillan's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: