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Author | : Paul Bowles |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2016-01-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786256800 |
In the nineteenth century there flourished a peculiar breed of Englishmen—often the second sons of the aristocracy, or ambitious men from a lower class—who as soldiers, consuls and tea planters, were largely responsible for making England a great colonial power. Save for the fact that he is a staunch anticolonialist, Paul Bowles resembles these men in many respects. Like them, he appears to be happiest away from civilization as we know it; like them, he thrives when the traveling is hardest, the food ghastly or infrequent, water scarce, heat intolerable, or mosquitoes abundant. This engaging collection of eight travel essays by the author of such noted fiction as The Sheltering Sky and The Delicate Prey deals largely with places in the world that few Westerners have ever heard of, much less seen—places as yet unencumbered by the trappings, luxuries, and corruptions of modern civilization. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with remote spots in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Mohammedan worlds. The author is a sympathetic and discerning interpreter of these alien cultures, and his eyes and ears are especially alert both to what is bizarre and what is wise in the civilizations in which he settles. He is also acutely aware of the transitions occurring on the fringes of many of these regions, and he is disturbed and indignant about the corrosive effect of Western culture on the non-Christian way of life. Above all, however, Paul Bowles is a superb and observant traveler—born wanderer who finds pleasure in the inaccessible and who cheerfully endures the concomitant hardships matter-of-factly and with humor. These essays provide us with Paul Bowles’s characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.
Author | : Edward Lear |
Publisher | : Top That! Publishing |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781782440642 |
Author | : Michael Rosen |
Publisher | : Walker Illustrated Classics |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Children's poetry, American |
ISBN | : 9781406317435 |
A collection of favorite poems by such writers as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Edward Lear, Walt Whitman, and Langston Hughes, with portraits of the poets, brief biographical background, and illustrations.
Author | : Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Albatrosses |
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Author | : Edward Lear |
Publisher | : Kids Can Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2007-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1553378288 |
Edward Lear's beloved poem has charmed readers since it was first published in 1871. 4+ yrs.
Author | : Paul Bowles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Africa, North |
ISBN | : |
Scenes from the non-Christian world, by novelist-explorer.
Author | : Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2020-09-08 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1528791274 |
Originally published in 1898, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” is a poem written by Oscar Wilde. Composed after his release from the titular prison whilst he was in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, the poem deals with the hanging at Reading Goal of Charles Thomas Wooldridge, a 30-year-old man who was imprisoned for cutting his wife's throat. Within the poem, Wilde narrates the execution in full and explores the brutal nature of the punishment that all inmates must endure. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who became one of the most popular in London during the 1880s and 1890s. Well-known for his sharp wit and extravagant attire, Wilde was a proponent of aestheticism and wrote in a variety of forms including poetry, fiction, and drama. He was famously imprisoned for homosexual acts from 1895 to 1897 and died at the age of 46, just three years after his release. Other notable works by this author include: “Picture of Dorian Gray” (1890), “Salome” (1891), and “The Importance of Being Earnest” (1895). Ragged Hand is proudly republishing this classic poem now complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 2001-10-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0684868733 |
The nation's most celebrated literary critic introduces children to the exciting world of literature through this collection of great stories by Hans Christian Andersen, William Blake, O. Henry, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and others. 100,000 first printing.
Author | : Paul Bowles |
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Author | : Timothy Weiss |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780802089588 |
Weiss examines texts that reference Asian, North African, or Middle Eastern societies and their imaginaries, and, equally important, engage questions of individual and communal identity that issue from transformative encounters.