Axel's Castle - A Study in Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930

Axel's Castle - A Study in Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: Wilson Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2008-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 144372811X

Originally published in 1897, this early works is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Contents include; The function of Latin, Chansons De Geste, The Matter of Britain, Antiquity in Romance, The making of English and the settlement of European Prosody, Middle High German Poetry, The 'Fox, ' The 'Rose, ' and the minor Contributions of France, Icelandic and Provencal, The Literature of the Peninsulas, and Conclusion..... Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwor

Axël

Axël
Author: Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
Publisher:
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1900
Genre:
ISBN:

To the Finland Station

To the Finland Station
Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781590170335

Presents a critical and historical study of European writers and theorists of Socialism in the one hundred fifty years leading to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and discusses European socialism, anarchism, and theories of revolution.

Devil's Gate

Devil's Gate
Author: David Roberts
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 1416539883

Traces the tragedy-marked 1856 journey of three thousand Mormons from Iowa to Utah, explaining how leader Brigham Young disregarded warnings and then convinced his followers that hardships and deaths were part of a higher plan.

Reading Chekhov

Reading Chekhov
Author: Janet Malcolm
Publisher: Granta Books
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2011-12-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1847085652

In Reading Chekhov Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of Chekhov's stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from his life and framed by an account of a recent journey she made to St Petersburg. Malcolm demonstrates how the shadow of death that hovered over most of Chekhov's literary career - he became consumptive in his twenties and died in his forties - is almost everywhere reflected in the work. She writes of his childhood, his relationship with his family, his marriage, his travels, his early success, his exile to Yalta - always with an eye to connecting them to his themes and characters.

The Modern Movement

The Modern Movement
Author: Cyril Connolly
Publisher: New York, Atheneum
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1966
Genre: Literature, Modern
ISBN:

Connolly has chosen and described the 100 books that best define the Modern Movement which began as a revolt against the bourgeois in France, the Victorians in england, the puritanism and materialism of America.

Johnny and the Bomb

Johnny and the Bomb
Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009-10-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0061975206

From the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, beloved and bestselling author of the Discworld fantasy series, comes time-travel adventure that mixes outrageous humor and nail-biting suspense! Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell has a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This has never been more true than when he finds himself in his hometown on May 21, 1941, over forty years before his birth! An accidental time traveler, Johnny knows his history. He knows England is at war, and he knows that on this day German bombs will fall on the town. It happened. It's history. And as Johnny and his friends quickly discover, tampering with history can have unpredictable—and drastic—effects on the future. But letting history take its course means letting people die. What if Johnny warns someone and changes history? What will happen to the future? If Johnny uses his knowledge to save innocent lives by being in the right place at the right time, is he doing the right thing? Read more of Johnny Maxwell's adventures in Only You Can Save Mankind and Johnny and the Dead!

Leave Society

Leave Society
Author: Tao Lin
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-08-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101974486

From the acclaimed author of Taipei, a bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives—artist, son, loner—as he spins the ordinary into something monumental. An engrossing, hopeful novel about life, fiction, and where the two blur together. In 2014, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. He doesn't know it yet, but his life will begin to deepen and complexify on this trip. As he flies between these two worlds--year by year, over four years--he will flit in and out of optimism, despair, loneliness, sanity, bouts of chronic pain, and drafts of a new book. He will incite and temper arguments, uncover secrets about nature and history, and try to understand how to live a meaningful life as an artist and a son. But how to fit these pieces of his life together? Where to begin? Or should he leave society altogether? Exploring everyday events and scenes--waiting rooms, dog walks, family meals--while investigatively venturing to the edges of society, where culture dissolves into mystery, Lin shows what it is to write a novel in real time. Illuminating and deeply felt, as it builds toward a stunning, if unexpected, romance, Leave Society is a masterly story about life and art at the end of history. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL

Garden of Time

Garden of Time
Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781457991264

Emerson's Contemporaries and Kerouac's Crowd

Emerson's Contemporaries and Kerouac's Crowd
Author: Bradley J. Stiles
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780838639603

Stiles hopes to correct some popular misreadings of the nineteenth-century writers and provide a new approach to reading the twentieth-century authors by juxtaposing them alongside their predecessors."--BOOK JACKET.