Scenes of Life at the Capital

Scenes of Life at the Capital
Author: Philip Whalen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2020
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781940696928

"A reprint of the 1971 Grey Fox edition of Scenes of Life at the Capital by Philip Whalen with an afterword by David Brazil"--

The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen

The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen
Author: Philip Whalen
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 924
Release: 2007-12-28
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780819568595

The collected work of a legendary San Francisco Renaissance and Beat poet

Life and Scenes in the National Capital as a Woman Sees Them

Life and Scenes in the National Capital as a Woman Sees Them
Author: Mary Clemmer Ames
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 626
Release: 2023-08-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3382818027

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Ten Years in Washington: Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital as a Woman Sees Them

Ten Years in Washington: Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital as a Woman Sees Them
Author: Mary Clemmer
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2022-01-17
Genre: Travel
ISBN:

In her introduction the author describes this book as being a full account of the many marvels and interesting sights of Washington; of the daily life at the white house, both past and present; of the wonders and inside workings of all our government departments; and descriptions and revelations of every phase of political, public, and social life at the nation's capital.

Scenes from Early Life

Scenes from Early Life
Author: Philip Hensher
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013-01-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0865477620

From the Man Booker–short-listed author of The Northern Clemency, a family and a nation—Bangladesh—are forged through storytelling, conversation, jokes, feuds, blood, songs, bravery, and sacrifice In late 1970 a boy named Saadi is born into a large, defiantly Bengali family in eastern Pakistan. Months later the country splits in two, in what will become one of the most ferocious twentieth-century civil wars. Saadi tells the story of his childhood and of the ingenious ways his family survived the violence and conflicts: from his aunts stuffing him endlessly with sweets to stop marauding soldiers from hearing him cry, to street games based on American television shows; from the basement compartment his grandfather built to hide his treasured books, pictures, and music until after the war, to the daily gossip about each and every one of the relatives, servants, and neighbors. Scenes from Early Life is a beautifully detailed novel of profound empathy—an attempt to capture the collective memory of a family and a country. At once heartbreaking and surprisingly funny, Scenes from Early Life is based on the life of Philip Hensher's husband, and as such it is at once a memoir, a novel, and a history. As this remarkable writer brings the past to life, we come to feel, vividly and viscerally, that Saadi's family—and its struggles and triumphs—are our own. Scenes form Early Life is the winner of the 2013 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, evoking the spirit of a place.

The Transnational Beat Generation

The Transnational Beat Generation
Author: N. Grace
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137014490

This collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. Ranging from the immediate post-World War II period and continuing into the 1990s, the essays illustrate Beat participation in the global circulation of a poetics of dissent.

Love and Capital

Love and Capital
Author: Mary Gabriel
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2011-09-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 031619137X

Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, Love and Capital reveals the rarely glimpsed and heartbreakingly human side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death. Drawing upon previously unpublished material, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel tells the story of Karl and Jenny Marx's marriage. Through it, we see Karl as never before: a devoted father and husband, a prankster who loved a party, a dreadful procrastinator, freeloader, and man of wild enthusiasms -- one of which would almost destroy his marriage. Through years of desperate struggle, Jenny's love for Karl would be tested again and again as she waited for him to finish his masterpiece, Capital. An epic narrative that stretches over decades to recount Karl and Jenny's story against the backdrop of Europe's Nineteenth Century, Love andCapital is a surprising and magisterial account of romance and revolution -- and of one of the great love stories of all time.

The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
Author: Fernando Pessoa
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2017-08-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0811226948

For the first time—and in the best translation ever—the complete Book of Disquiet, a masterpiece beyond comparison The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa’s greatest literary achievement. An “autobiography” or “diary” containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Now, for the first time the texts are presented chronologically, in a complete English edition by master translator Margaret Jull Costa. Most of the texts in The Book of Disquiet are written under the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper. This existential masterpiece was first published in Portuguese in 1982, forty-seven years after Pessoa’s death. A monumental literary event, this exciting, new, complete edition spans Fernando Pessoa’s entire writing life.

Life's Like That

Life's Like That
Author: Lydia Teh
Publisher: MPH Group Publishing Sdn Bhd
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2016-09-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9674154663

In this collection of amusing meditations on Malaysian life and its complexities and contradictions, Lydia Teh dives into the depths of Malaysian life: family, pregnancies, babies, motherhood, hobbies, festivities, daily ablutions, pets and other calamities. Not only has she imbued her stories of homespun ordinariness and nostalgia with a luminous sheen, she also captures the essence of being Malaysian with wit and bracing honesty.