Modern Essays and Stories
| Author | : Frederick Houk Law |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 1922 |
| Genre | : American essays |
| ISBN | : |
Modern Essays And Stories
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Fun Home
| Author | : Alison Bechdel |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780618871711 |
A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.
The Well of Loneliness
| Author | : Radclyffe Hall |
| Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 2015-04-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1473374081 |
This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Well of Loneliness' is a novel that follows an upper-class Englishwoman who falls in love with another woman while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 1880, in Bournemouth, England. Hall's first novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was a lengthy and grim tale that proved hard to sell. It was only published following the success of the much lighter social comedy The Forge (1924), which made the best-seller list of John O'London's Weekly. Hall is a key figure in lesbian literature for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). This is her only work with overt lesbian themes and tells the story of the life of a masculine lesbian named Stephen Gordon.
The Beacon Book of Essays by Contemporary American Women
| Author | : Wendy Martin |
| Publisher | : Beacon Press (MA) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9780807063477 |
"A collection of strong pieces in a melange of voices and styles expressing the multiplicity of female experience. . . . Eloquent and inspiring".THE BLOOMSBURY REVIEW. "An engrossing and lively collection".PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.
Modern Essays
| Author | : Swati aggarwal |
| Publisher | : Arihant Publications India limited |
| Total Pages | : 335 |
| Release | : 2018-04-20 |
| Genre | : Study Aids |
| ISBN | : 9351769275 |
Nowadays number of competitive and recruitment examinations test the writing ability of the aspirants by including a descriptive English section in the exam. The Descriptive English section covers essay and passage writing to evaluate the effective writing skills of the aspirants. The present book contains ample number of modern essays which are or may be asked in a number of competitive & recruitment examinations. The present book on Modern Essays has been divided into ten sections namely Current Affairs, Society & Social Issues, Economy & Infrastructure, Education, Science & Technology, Great Personalities, Constructive Writing: General Topics, Environment, Ecology & Climate, Famous Proverbs & Sayings and Miscellaneous. The Current Affairs section covers Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), Make in India: Mission to Glory, Ebola, Kailash Satyarthi, etc whereas the Society & Social Issues contains Social Evils, Curse of Dowry System, Female Foeticide, Drug Abuse, Generation Gap, Corruption in India, Population Explosion, Poverty in India, etc. The Economy & Infrastructure section covers Agriculture in India, An Indian Farmer, Mineral Wealth of India, Banking in India, Economic Reforms, Indian Economy, Globalisation, etc whereas the Education section covers Right to Education (RTE), Vocational Education, Sex Education in School, etc. The Science & Technology section has been divided into Internet Boon, India: A Software Super Power, Blossoming of Social Media, Health Advancements, A Flat on Moon, Cloning, etc. whereas the Great Personalities section covers Ashoka the Great, Nelson Mandela, Sir CV Raman, Kalpana Chawla, Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, MS Dhoni, Milkha Singh, Mary Kom, etc. The Constructive Writing section has been divided into Independence Day, My Childhood Memories, My Favorite Games, On the Top of the World, The Role of Indian Cinema, My Favourite Author, etc whereas the Environment, Ecology & Climate covers Forests of India, Wildlife of India, The Fury of Floods, Climate Change, Green Revolution, Tiger Conservation, Earthquake: A Natural Calamity, etc. The Famous Proverbs & Sayings section covers A Thing of Beauty if a Joy Forever, All that Glitters is Not Gold, Boys Prefer Sports, Girls Prefer Clothes, Look Before You Leap, Sweet are the Uses of Adversity, Small is Beautiful, etc whereas the Miscellaneous section covers Indian Railways: In Need of Revival, Meditation: The Ultimate Nirvana, Online Shopping, Delhi Metro, Photography, Information Media, Right to Information (RTI), etc. As the book contains ample number of sample essays of varied variety, it for sure will prove to be beneficial for essay writing for school students and for different competitive examinations.
Modern Love, Revised and Updated
| Author | : Daniel Jones |
| Publisher | : Crown |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2019-09-03 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0593137051 |
The most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the past fifteen years of the New York Times “Modern Love” column—including stories from the anthology series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, Dev Patel, and John Slattery A young woman goes through the five stages of ghosting grief. A man’s promising fourth date ends in the emergency room. A female lawyer with bipolar disorder experiences the highs and lows of dating. A widower hesitates about introducing his children to his new girlfriend. A divorcée in her seventies looks back at the beauty and rubble of past relationships. These are just a few of the people who tell their stories in Modern Love, Revised and Updated, featuring dozens of the most memorable essays to run in The New York Times “Modern Love” column since its debut in 2004. Some of the stories are unconventional, while others hit close to home. Some reveal the way technology has changed dating forever; others explore the timeless struggles experienced by anyone who has ever searched for love. But all of the stories are, above everything else, honest. Together, they tell the larger story of how relationships begin, often fail, and—when we’re lucky—endure. Edited by longtime “Modern Love” editor Daniel Jones and featuring a diverse selection of contributors, this is the perfect book for anyone who’s loved, lost, stalked an ex on social media, or pined for true romance: In other words, anyone interested in the endlessly complicated workings of the human heart. Featuring essays by: Veronica Chambers • Terri Cheney • Deborah Copaken • Trey Ellis • Jean Hanff Korelitz • Ann Hood • Mindy Hung • Amy Krouse Rosenthal • Ann Leary • Andrew Rannells • Larry Smith • Ayelet Waldman • and more!
Shapes of Native Nonfiction
| Author | : Elissa Washuta |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2019-06-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0295745770 |
Just as a basket’s purpose determines its materials, weave, and shape, so too is the purpose of the essay related to its material, weave, and shape. Editors Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton ground this anthology of essays by Native writers in the formal art of basket weaving. Using weaving techniques such as coiling and plaiting as organizing themes, the editors have curated an exciting collection of imaginative, world-making lyric essays by twenty-seven contemporary Native writers from tribal nations across Turtle Island into a well-crafted basket. Shapes of Native Nonfiction features a dynamic combination of established and emerging Native writers, including Stephen Graham Jones, Deborah Miranda, Terese Marie Mailhot, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Eden Robinson, and Kim TallBear. Their ambitious, creative, and visionary work with genre and form demonstrate the slippery, shape-changing possibilities of Native stories. Considered together, they offer responses to broader questions of materiality, orality, spatiality, and temporality that continue to animate the study and practice of distinct Native literary traditions in North America.
Through the Window
| Author | : Julian Barnes |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2012-11-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0345805518 |
From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending and one of Britain’s greatest writers: a brilliant collection of essays on the books and authors that have meant the most to him throughout his illustrious career. • "[A] blissfully intelligent gathering of literary essays." —Financial Times In these seventeen essays (plus a short story and a special preface, “A Life with Books”), Julian Barnes examines the British, French and American writers who have shaped his writing, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures. From the deceptiveness of Penelope Fitzgerald to the directness of Hemingway, from Kipling’s view of France to the French view of Kipling, from the many translations of Madame Bovary to the fabulations of Ford Madox Ford, from the National Treasure status of George Orwell to the despair of Michel Houellebecq, Julian Barnes considers what fiction is, and what it can do. As he writes, “Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it.”
Essays One
| Author | : Lydia Davis |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 409 |
| Release | : 2019-11-12 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0374719241 |
A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her “a magician of self-consciousness,” while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for Claire Messud, “Davis's signal gift is to make us feel alive.” Best known for her masterful short stories and translations, Davis’s gifts extend equally to her nonfiction. In Essays One, Davis has, for the first time, gathered a selection of essays, commentaries, and lectures composed over the past five decades. In this first of two volumes, her subjects range from her earliest influences to her favorite short stories, from John Ashbery’s translation of Rimbaud to Alan Cote’s painting, and from the Shepherd’s Psalm to early tourist photographs. On display is the development and range of one of the sharpest, most capacious minds writing today.
True Stories
| Author | : Francis Spufford |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2017-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0300230052 |
An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with particular places, writers, or books to address deeper questions relating to the complicated relationship between story-telling and truth-telling. How must a nonfiction writer imagine facts, vivifying them to bring them to life? How must a novelist create a dependable world of story, within which facts are, in fact, imaginary? And how does a religious faith felt strongly to be true, but not provably so, draw on both kinds of writerly imagination? Ranging freely across topics as diverse as the medieval legends of Cockaigne, the Christian apologetics of C. S. Lewis, and the tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini, Spufford provides both fresh observations and thought-provoking insights. No less does he inspire an irresistible urge to turn the page and read on.
