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| Author | : Rita Dove |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 1993-10-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0679742409 |
A debut novel by the 1987 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, about an artist on a journey of self-discovery—navigating a family secret, racism, and the conflict between marriage and career. “Skillfully evokes the mood of a decade when social change seemed not only possible but imminent.” —Washington Post Book World When a woman returns to her Midwestern hometown as an artist-in-residence to teach puppetry to schoolchildren, her homecoming also means grappling with artistic ambition, memories of rejected love, and shocking truths about her family.
| Author | : Patrick Devaney |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Trinity student Charles Stanihurst, the son of a Dublin merchant and a Roscommon chambermaid, flees his native city after assaulting an English officer and heads for the West of Ireland, where he encounters a culture virtually unknown within the pale. Beyond the Shannon much of the old Gaelic way of life is still intact, though under growing threat from the political power and land greed of the 'foreigners'. Charles is forced to confront divisions between his Anglo-Irish and Gaelic loyalties, while seeking his spiritual father, Bishop William Bedell, who is translating the Old Testament into Irish. Set in post-Flight of the Earls, pre-Cromwellian Ireland of 1641, this novel tells the gripping story of a struggle between two opposing cultures that set the scene for the rebellion sealing the fate of Gaelic Ireland.
| Author | : Doris Egan |
| Publisher | : D A W Books, Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780886773281 |
Magic is what lures people like anthropology student Theodora to the exotic, dangerous world of Ivory, where everything is for sale and magic really works. But cut off from her companions, Theodora finds what began as a pleasure trip becoming a terrifying odyssey into her own gift for magic.
| Author | : Harry Levin |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 566 |
| Release | : 1986-04-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0198020082 |
"The author explores this tradition in depth and defines it with a breadth of vision, a dynamic vigor and freedom rarely paralleled today....His method, flexible, generous, humane in the best sense of the word, eschews pedantry, dogma, useless theorizing and scholastic argumentation."--The New York Times Book Review. "I wish to make it clear that The Gates of Horn represents an outstanding critical accomplishment."--Saturday Review. In the Odyssey, Homer describes two gates of the imagination: one of ivory through which fictitious dreams pass, and the other of horn, through which nothing but the truth may pass. Realism is the type of literature that passes through the horn, and in this significant study of the genre Levin examines a major form of Realism--the French novel--and focuses on five of its masters--Stendahl, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Proust. Now available in paperback, Levin's study is a veritable reconstruction of the artistic and intellectual life of a nation.
| Author | : Robert Holdstock |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 2014-11-27 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0575119063 |
Several years ago, Christian Huxley's father, George, obsessively documented the strange phenomena emanating from Ryhope Wood at the edge of their property. He watched the ancient heroes emerge, shouting both incomprehensible warnings and unmistakable invitations. Recklessly, George followed them inot the mysterious sylvan shadows that changed him forever. Christian himself was not untouched by these living dreams. A childhood encounter with a phantom from another time draws him to the Wood as an adult. Deep in Ryhope, Christian uncovers the lie that permeates his worst nightmares. And like his father, he will be consumed with the mythagoes of Ryhope, especially a young Celtic warrior called Guiwenneth. She is the key to the mystery of the universe, an ancient heroine caught in a timeless tale of bravery and sacrifice. Now, together with a band of crusaders from a world long gone, Christian and Guiwenneth become part of the unfolding stories both remembered and forgotten. They meet sorcerers in battle and giants who can travel miles in one step. And they discover the meaning of the two gates, Ivory and Horn - one the lie, the other the truth.
| Author | : Rita Dove |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2017-09-28 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1786823268 |
Published to coincide with its British premiere at the Royal National Theatre, The Darker Face of the Earth is Rita Dove's first play. Set on a plantation in pre-Civil War South Carolina, it has been performed to great critical acclaim.
| Author | : Rita Dove |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 1993-09-28 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0679750800 |
Here in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation's Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, brought poetry into the lives of millions of people. Along with a new introduction and poem, Selected Poems comprises Dove's collections The Yellow House on the Corner, which includes a group of poems devoted to the themes of slavery and freedom; Museum, intimate ruminations on home and the world; and finally, Thomas and Beulah, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1987, a verse cycle loosely based on her grandparents' lives. Precisely yet intensely felt, resonant with the voices of ordinary people, Rita Dove's Selected Poems is marked by lyric intensity and compassionate storytelling.
| Author | : Paula Volsky |
| Publisher | : Spectra |
| Total Pages | : 470 |
| Release | : 2011-02-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307784258 |
In a fragile alliance, the natives are stirring uneasily under their foreign rulers. Rebellion is brewing, and at the heart of the conflict lies the bloody and powerful cult of the god Aoun, whose followers will stop at nothing to rid their land of alien domination. So civil servant Renille vo Chaumelle, scion of a proud, conquering line mingled with native blood, is conscripted as a spy and ordered to penetrate the fortress-temple known as the Fastness of the Gods. There he is to discover the secrets of the priests of Aoun and - if the chance presents itself - assassinate the lead priest, named in legend as the god's own son. But in the holiest depths of the temple, Renille finds there is more to the cult than his superiors suspect - far more than they will ever believe. What he learns leads him to the beautiful princess Jathondi, daughter of the native ruler, who is fated to be the crux of a violent confrontation between the fanatic followers of a flesh-hungry god and their arrogant overlords. Together, Jathondi and Renille must brave a whirlwind of revolution and apocalyptic magic that could shatter a nation, and open the long-sealed portal between heaven and earth.
| Author | : Walter Besant |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2024-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9361423630 |
Walter Besant's novel "The Ivory Gate: A New Edition" delves into topics of social refinement, love, and atonement in Victorian London. The novel tells the story of Althea Lorne, a more youthful lady navigating the complexity of society and relationships in the bustling town. Set against the backdrop of Victorian England's bustling and stratified society, "The Ivory Gate" dives into the lives of its protagonists, depicting their difficulties, aspirations, and ethical dilemmas. Althea's journey is marked by means of each struggles and achievements as she deals with cultural expectations, romantic entanglements, and private boom. Walter Besant's novel expertly blends collectively themes of romance, social remark, and ethical contemplation, allowing readers to mirror on the ideals and standards of the time. Besant provides a notable vision of Victorian London and the complexities of human relationships through Althea's stories and encounters with a huge solid of characters. "The Ivory Gate: A New Edition" is an undying portrait of Victorian literature, offering readers with insight into the era's social dynamics and moral quandaries.
| Author | : Doris Egan |
| Publisher | : DAW Hardcover |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Fantasy fiction, American |
| ISBN | : 9780756400415 |
Here in one omnibus edition is the complete Ivory saga-the adventures and loves of a scholarly woman who travels to the only planet in the galaxy where magic actually works ...
