A Collection of Miscellaneousness. Life is a Story - story.one

A Collection of Miscellaneousness. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Eris
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2023-09-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3710886767

As the title suggests, this book is a collection of diverse short stories. Some may be related, others open a door to a whole other world. Some are dark, some are humorous. Dive into the words of sadness, joy, love and acceptance. "Endless" or as it is introduced in this book: "There was once an immortal who learned about love alone" is a series of times loosely, times closely related short stories which depict the journey of an immortal trying to understand what it means to love. This journey has many ups and downs, many twists, but in the end, do you think she'll find the answer? That is not all you'll find in this book. There might even be surprises for later, but there are also moments of inspiration and reminders that you are a special part of our beautiful world.

The Art of Fiction

The Art of Fiction
Author: David Lodge
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1448137799

In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.

The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms

The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms
Author: Peter Childs
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2006-07-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134234759

Covering both established terminology as well as the specialist vocabulary of modern theoretical schools, this is an indispensable guide to the principal terms and concepts encountered in debates over literary studies in the twenty-first century.

The First Woman

The First Woman
Author: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2020-08-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1786077892

'In Jennifer Makumbi, we have a giant of literature living among us.' Peter Kalu, Jhalak Prize Judge Longlisted for the Diverse Book Awards, 2021 'Jennifer Makumbi is a genius storyteller.' Reni Eddo-Lodge A SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY MAIL, BBC CULTURE & IRISH INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR At once epic and deeply personal, the second novel from prize-winning author Jennifer Makumbi is an intoxicating mix of Ugandan folklore and modern feminism that will linger in the memory long after the final page. As Kirabo enters her teens, questions begin to gnaw at her – questions which the adults in her life will do anything to ignore. Where is the mother she has never known? And why would she choose to leave her daughter behind? Inquisitive, headstrong, and unwilling to take no for an answer, Kirabo sets out to find the truth for herself. Her search will take her away from the safety of her prosperous Ugandan family, plunging her into a very different world of magic, tradition, and the haunting legend of 'The First Woman'.

A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms

A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms
Author: Roger Fowler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2016-09-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134840098

This book, first published in 1987, differs from many other ‘dictionaries of criticism’ in concentrating less on time-honoured rhetorical terms and more on conceptually flexible, powerful terms. Each entry consists of not simply a dictionary definition but an essay exploring the history and full significance of the term, and its possibilities in critical discourse. This title is an ideal basic reference text for literature students of all levels.

The Postmodern History Reader

The Postmodern History Reader
Author: Keith Jenkins
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1997
Genre: Historiography
ISBN: 9780415139045

The Postmodern History Reader introduces students to the new points of controversy in the study of history and provides a framework by which to understand postmodernism and a guide to explore it further.

Before She Met Me

Before She Met Me
Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2011-06-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307797783

The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending delivers “a remarkably original and subtle book” (The New York Review of Books) about the nature of love and jealousy. At the start of this fiendishly comic and suspenseful novel, a mild-mannered English academic chuckles as he watches his wife commit adultery. The action takes place before she met him. But lines between film and reality, past and present become terrifyingly blurred in this sad and funny tour de force from the author of Flaubert's Parrot.