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The silver spoon (The Forsyte Chronicles A Modern Comedy #52)
Par John Galsworthy. 2001
This volume carries on with the tale of Soames' daughter Fleur. Married to Michael Mont, in line for a Barony,…
the story focuses on Michael's start in Parliament and Fleur's inherent dissatisfaction with her marriage, not unlike her father's own experience only in this case it is Fleur who loves another. The American Frances Wilmont enters the scene bringing news that Fleur's real love, Jon, forbidden to her as the son of her father's ex-wife, has married Wilmont's sister. Fleur struggles to be happy and fulfilled, just as her father Soames did.Con la lengua fuera: Críticas, chascarrillos y explicaciones sobre el léxico deportivo
Par Álex Grijelmo. 2021
¿Un jugador equivoca un tiro? ¿Existen las finales a cuatro? ¿Puede un equipo ser más líder en una jornada respecto…
a la anterior? ¿En el mundo del deporte se utilizan metáforas como en la poesía? La lengua en el deporte da mucho juego. Entre 2016 y 2019, Álex Grijelmo publicó en As una serie de artículos sobre la lengua española en el deporte de los que ahora pueden disfrutar todos los lectores interesados en el idioma y en su tratamiento en los medios de comunicación. En ellos el autor muestra cómo el léxico utilizado por deportistas, comentaristas y periodistas se mueve entre la tradición, la innovación y los extranjerismos, y los usos incorrectos que empobrecen el lenguaje o le privan de eficacia y belleza. Pero también le reconoce hallazgos léxicos, metáforas brillantes y frases memorables. En este libro hay propuestas de mejora del estilo junto con elogios hacia aportaciones certeras. Se habla de fútbol, de baloncesto, de balonmano, de boxeo, de tenis, de los deportes de motor... Pero sobre todo, se habla de la lengua española. Un tema que da mucho juego. «Píldora tras píldora, constituía un tratamiento que en el tiempo fue haciendo efecto. Comprobé cómo poco a poco redactores descuidados dejaban de serlo, se ahorraban latiguillos, sustituían barbarismos por su adecuado equivalente en castellano. Y cuando alguno no lo hacía, no faltaba quien se lo decía con las tablas de la ley en la mano, como se llegó a conocer en la redacción aquella serie de instrucciones-reconvenciones que Grijelmo desarrollaba [...]. El deporte tiene un alto consumo y todo lo que se haga para que no envicie sino limpie el castellano es justo y necesario. Eso le da un valor único a estas píldoras medicinales que Álex Grijelmo escribió, según él, con la lengua fuera.»Del prólogo de Alfredo Relaño La crítica ha dicho:«Nuestros textos se enriquecerían si prestáramos atención a las reflexiones de Álex Grijelmo.»Soledad Gallego-Díaz, El País «Un libro didáctico que se lee con la pasión de una novela.»Gabriel García Márquez, sobre El estilo del periodista «Grijelmo viaja a los orígenes de nuestra lengua y de sus asuntos de género para evitar confusiones y expresiones tan políticamente correctas como ridículas.»Laura Revuelta, ABC, sobre Propuesta de acuerdo sobre el lenguaje inclusivo «Si alguien aúna con esmero periodismo y preocupación por el lenguaje, es Álex Grijelmo.»El PaísStrange Brew
Par P. N. Elrod. 2009
Nine urban fantasy authors come together in this delicious brew that crackles and boils over with tales of powerful witches…
and dark magic! The authors include Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, Karen Chance, P. N. Elrod, Charlaine Harris, Faith Hunter, Caitlin Kittredge, and Jenna Maclaine.The Jo Fletcher Books Anthology
Par Christopher Golden, Lisa Tuttle, Rachel Pollack, Markus Heitz, Tom Fletcher, Alison Littlewood, John Matthews, Frank P. Ryan, Snorri Kristjansson, Aidan Harte, Stephanie Saulter, Naomi Foyle, Sue Tingey, David Towsey, Caitlín Matthews. 2016
Whatever you fancy - enthralling epic fantasy or spine-tingling ghost-story, mythical thriller or riveting alternate history - Jo Fletcher Books…
has it all.Here at Jo Fletcher Books we pride ourselves on publishing high quality fantasy, science fiction and horror, of all types (we don't like to be bored). To demonstrate this, we've put together an anthology featuring a collection of short stories written by our wonderful authors. The Jo Fletcher Books Anthology includes stories from award-winning and bestselling writers including Lisa Tuttle, Alison Littlewood and Christopher Golden as well as many others: a showcase of the fantastic talent contained within this small but perfectly formed Imprint. Whatever your taste, there is something in here for everyoneHow Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on Love
Par Donal Ryan, Bernardine Evaristo, Carys Bray, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Nikesh Shukla, Grace McCleen, D. W. Wilson. 2016
'Startlingly original stories.'S Magazine'Together they assert that love is more heart-breaking and transforming that the word necessarily conveys.'Observer Love is…
not a singular concept. In this collection, seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love: from Philautia, self-love, to Agape, love for humanity; and from Storge, a natural affection for family, to Mania, a frenzied, obsessive love. Seven authors; seven short stories; seven flashes of love. 'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.' Zelda FitzgeraldThis paperback edition of How Much the Heart Can Hold includes the winning short story from the SceptreLoves short story Prize.Resounding the Sublime: Music in English and German Literature and Aesthetic Theory, 1670-1850 (Sound in History)
Par Miranda Eva Stanyon. 2021
What does the sublime sound like? Harmonious, discordant, noisy, rustling, silent? Miranda Eva Stanyon rereads and resounds this crucial aesthetic…
category in English and German literatures of the long eighteenth century from a musical perspective and shows how sonorous sublimes lay at the heart of a central and transformative discourse. For Enlightenment and Romantic era listeners, the musical sublime represented a sonic encounter of the most extreme kind, one that tested what humans were capable of feeling, imagining, thinking, and therefore becoming.The sublime and music have not always sung from the same hymn sheet, Stanyon observes. She charts an antagonistic intimacy between the two, from the sublime's rise to prominence in the later seventeenth century, through the upheavals associated with Kant in the late eighteenth century, and their reverberations in the nineteenth. Offering readings of canonical texts by Longinus, Dryden, Burke, Klopstock, Herder, Coleridge, De Quincey, and others alongside lesser-known figures, she shows how the literary sublime was inextricable from musical culture, from folksongs and ballads to psalmody, polychoral sacred music, and opera. Deeply interdisciplinary, Resounding the Sublime draws literature into dialogue with sound studies, musicology, and intellectual and cultural history to offer new perspectives on the sublime as a phenomenon which crossed media, disciplines, and cultures.An interdisciplinary study of sound in history, the book recovers varieties of the sublime crucial for understanding both the period it covers and the genealogy of modern and postmodern aesthetic discourses. In resounding the sublime, Stanyon reveals a phenomenon which was always already resonant. The sublime emerges not only as the aesthetic of the violently powerful, a-rational, or unrepresentable, but as a variegated discourse with competing dissonant, harmonious, rustling, noisy, and silent strains, one in which music and sound illustrate deep divisions over issues of power, reason, and representation.Speeches That Changed the World
Par Quercus. 2016
With over a million copies already sold, this is the newly updated edition of the definitive collection of great speeches…
ancient and modern. From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets and politicians, rebels and tyrants, soldiers and statesman, placing them in historical context.This revised edition includes speeches that have shaped the modern world: from Aung San Suu Kyi on freedom to Al Gore on the environment and from Malala Yousafzai on the education of women to Pope Francis on peace. A biography of each speechmaker reveals how they came to stand at the crossroads of history, and each speech is accompanied by an introduction explaining its historical context and how it influenced the momentous events of the day - as well as those that followed.Moving and thought-provoking, this new edition will continue to inspire and enlighten readers, offering them a fascinating perspective on historical milestones through the power of the spoken word. Contents include: Nelson Mandela, Malala Yousafzai, Barack Obama, Pope Francis, Martin Luther King, Elizabeth I, Oliver Cromwell, George Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, Emmeline Pankhurst, Mahatma Gandhi, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, General George S. Patton, Mao Zedong, Malcolm X, Vaclav Havel, Mikhail Gorbachev, Indira Gandhi and Winston Churchill to name a few.Parsnips, Buttered: Laugh-out-loud reading from TV's funniest man
Par Joe Lycett. 2016
**THE BRILLIANT & IRREVERENT GUIDE FROM AWARD-WINNING COMEDIAN AND STAR OF THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE AND JOE LYCETT'S GOT…
YOUR BACK **Also seen on Epic Win, The Time it Takes, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Taskmaster. He's seen everywhere in fact. 'Joe is nothing short of hilarious' SARAH MILLICAN'I Lycett, I Lycett a lot' HARRY HILL'We were snorting with laughter like a happy pig throughout. Lots more of the same please Joe! 5*s' HEAT MAGAZINE* * * * * *Dear Reader,Life is hard. We are a bombarded generation: Facebook, billboards, Twitter, Instagram, taxes, newspapers, watches monitoring our sleep, apps that read our pulse, terrorism. There's such an onslaught to the senses these days it's a marvel any of us manage to get out of bed. I love bed.While we are overwhelmed and confused by the miasmic cloud of information, there are those that seek to take advantage: there are parking fines, hate Tweets, Nigerian email scams and Christmas newsletters from old school friends about their ugly kids. And just as we're getting round to doing something about it, we're distracted again.I, Joe Lycett, comedian, wordsmith, and professional complainer, am here to help. During my short life of doing largely nothing I've discovered solutions to many of life's problems, which I impart to you, dear Reader. Containing a centurion of complaint letters to unsuspecting celebrities, companies and anyone brave enough to clog up my phone, as well as illustrations, one-liners , jokes and life hacks, this little gem offers you a collection of tips and advice* for all manner of modern woe. By the time you have finished reading this book you will have learnt how to:- Reverse a parking fine - Manipulate the tabloid press - Navigate social media - Respond to hate mail - Out-weird internet trolls - Contest a so-called ripe avocado - Send the perfect Christmas newsletter - Defeat ISIS - Take down multi-national companiesAND MUCH, MUCH MORE!Joe Lycett x* If you are looking for guidance with taxes, quitting smoking, moving house, love, divorce, education, healthcare or anything actually important may I recommend speaking to friends or family members and not consulting a book by a comedian who eats halloumi at least twice a day.Harlequin Intrigue June 2019 - Box Set 1 of 2
Par Amanda Stevens, Nicole Helm, Tyler Anne Snell. 2019
Harlequin Intrigue brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful reads packed with edge-of-your-seat…
intrigue and fearless romance.INCRIMINATING EVIDENCETwilight’s Childrenby Amanda StevensForensic anthropologist Catherine March must know once and for all if her biological father is a convicted serial killer. Needing help, she hires private detective Nick LaSalle, but will secrets from his past ensure she never uncovers the truth?WYOMING COWBOY RANGERCarson & Delaneys: Battle Testedby Nicole Helm When an unstable stalker threatens Ty Carson’s first love, Jen Delaney, he’ll do anything to keep her safe—even if that means he has to kidnap her.REINING IN TROUBLEWinding Road Redemptionby Tyler Anne SnellNina Drake left her hometown for an escape. Instead, she finds herself in the sights of a stalker. Can Detective Caleb Nash protect her…or will her worst nightmares come to pass?Look for Harlequin Intrigue’s June 2019 Box set 2 of 2, filled with even more edge-of-your seat romantic suspense!Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Intrigue!Join HarlequinMyRewards.com to earn FREE books and more. Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shop.So Vast the Prison: A Novel
Par Betsy Wing, Assia Djebar. 1995
So Vast the Prison is the double-threaded story of a modern, educated Algerian woman existing in a man's society, and,…
not surprisingly, living a life of contradictions. Djebar, too, tackles cross-cultural issues just by writing in French of an Arab society (the actual act of writing contrasting with the strong oral traditions of the indigenous culture), as a woman who has seen revolution in a now post-colonial country, and as an Algerian living in exile.In this new novel, Djebar brilliantly plays these contradictions against the bloody history of Carthage, a great civilization the Berbers were once compared to, and makes it both a tribute to the loss of Berber culture and a meeting-point of culture and language. As the story of one woman's experience in Algeria, it is a private tale, but one embedded in a vast history.A radically singular voice in the world of literature, Assia Djebar's work ultimately reaches beyond the particulars of Algeria to embrace, in stark yet sensuous language, the universal themes of violence, intimacy, ostracism, victimization, and exile.Letters to Ottla and the Family (The Schocken Kafka Library)
Par Franz Kafka. 1982
Written by Kafka between 1909 and 1924, these letters offer a unique insight into the workings of the Kafka family,…
their relationship with the Prague Jewish community, and Kafka's own feelings about his parents and siblings. A gracious but shy woman, and a silent rebel against the bourgeois society in which she lived, Ottla Kafka was the sibling to whom Kafka felt closest. He had a special affection for her simplicity, her integrity, her ability to listen, and her pride in his work. Ottla was deported to Theresienstadt during World War II, and volunteered to accompany a transport of children to Auschwitz in 1943. She did not survive the war, but her husband and daughters did, and preserved her brother's letters to her. They were published in the original German in 1974, and in English in 1982."Kafka's touching letters to his sister, when she was a child and as a young married woman, are beautifully simple, tender, and fresh. In them one sees the side of his nature that was not estranged. It is lucky they have been preserved."--V. S. Pritchett, The New York Review of BooksMen Seeking Women; Love and Sex On-line: Love and Sex On-line
Par Po Bronson. 2001
Men Seeking Women: Love and Sex On-line is an exciting and original collection of new short fiction by men about…
men seeking women, and women seeking men in the digital age. The Internet revolution has altered the look of the traditional relationship. Through e-mail correspondence, chat room chats, and message board postings, the manner in which we meet and mate has drastically changed. While the search for love is a timeless one, how and where we look has never been more a sign of the digital times. Here, ten talented storytellers offer thoroughly contemporary portraits of relationships in the world of new media and high technology in chat rooms, porn sites and other on-line realms. Men Seeking Women is a fresh and unconventional look at the cyber-landscape of love, sex, and companionship.Once in a Promised Land: A Novel
Par Laila Halaby. 2007
A BookSense Notable Title for February 2007. Once in a Promised Land is the story of a couple, Jassim and…
Salwa, who left the deserts of their native Jordan for those of Arizona, each chasing their own dreams of opportunity and freedom. Although the two live far from Ground Zero, they cannot escape the nationwide fallout from 9/11. Jassim, a hydrologist, believes passionately in his mission to keep the water tables from dropping and make water accessible to all people, but his work is threatened by an FBI witch hunt for domestic terrorists. Salwa, a Palestinian now twice displaced, grappling to put down roots in an inhospitable climate, becomes pregnant against her husband's wishes and then loses the baby. When Jassim kills a teenage boy in a terrible accident and Salwa becomes hopelessly entangled with a shady young American, their tenuous lives in exile and their fragile marriage begin to unravel. This intimate account of two parallel lives is an achingly honest look at what it means to straddle cultures, to be viewed with suspicion, and to struggle to find save haven.Oblomov: A Novel
Par Marian Schwartz, Mikhail Shishkin, Ivan Goncharov. 2008
Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, before the ideal of industrious modern man, when idleness was still looked…
upon by Russia's serf-owning rural gentry as a plausible and worthy goal, there was Oblomov. Indolent, inattentive, incurious, given to daydreaming and procrastination--indeed, given to any excuse to remain horizontal--Oblomov is hardly the stuff of heroes. Yet, he is impossible not to admire. He is forgiven for his weakness and beloved for his shining soul. Ivan Goncharov's masterpiece is not just ingenious social satire, but also a sharp criticism of nineteenth-century Russian society.Translator Marian Schwartz breathes new life into Goncharov's voice in this first translation from the generally recognized definitive edition of the Russian original, and the first as well to attempt to replicate in English Goncharov's wry humor and all-embracing humanity, chosen by Slate as one of the Best Books of 2008.The best Australian stories 2004
Par Frank Moorhouse. 2004
Acclaimed author Frank Moorhouse has collected Australia's finest short fiction from the last twelve months. Inventive, adventurous, seductive and entertaining,…
the stories range in setting from war-torn Sarajevo to the streets of Che Guevara's Havana; from the electronic buzz of Tokyo to the waterways of ancient Rome. The contributors to this collection display the best fiction writers at the top of their form. This anthology of new work demonstrates once again the enduring quality of contemporary Australian fiction and showcases the art of the well-crafted story. Contributors to this year's collection include: J.M. Coetzee, Graeme Kinross-Smith, Delia Falconer, Nathan Besser, Tiffany Barton, Rae Luckie, Creed O'Hanlon, Carla Sari and Jena Woodhouse as well as many more.Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation about Writing
Par Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Lee Stringer. 1999
Like Shaking Hands with God details a collaborative journey on the art of writing undertaken by two distinguished writers separated…
by age, race, upbringing, and education, but sharing common goals and aspirations. Rarely have two writers spoken so candidly about the intersection where the lives they live meet the art they practice. That these two writers happen to be Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer makes this a historic and joyous occasion.The setting was a bookstore in New York City, the date Thursday, October 1, 1998. Before a crowd of several hundred, Vonnegut and Stringer took up the challenge of writing books that would make a difference and the concomitant challenge of living from day to day. As Vonnegut said afterward, ""It was a magical evening.""A book for anyone interested in why the simple act of writing things down can be more important than the amount of memory in our computers.LoveStar: A Novel
Par Andri Snaer Magnason, Victoria Cribb. 2002
LoveStar, the enigmatic and obsessively driven founder of the LoveStar corporation, has unlocked the key to transmitting data via birdwaves,…
thus freeing mankind from wires and devices, and allowing consumerism, technology, and science to run rampant over all aspects of daily life. Cordless modern men and women are paid to howl advertisements at unsuspecting passers-by, REGRET machines eliminate doubt over roads not taken, soul mates are identified and brought together (while existing, unscientifically validated relationships are driven remorselessly asunder), and rocketing the dead into the sky becomes both a status symbol and a beautiful, cathartic show for those left behind. Indridi and Sigrid, two blissfully happy young lovers, have their perfect worlds threatened (along with Indridi's sanity) when they are "calculated apart" and are forced to go to extreme lengths to prove their love. Their journey ultimately puts them on a collision course with LoveStar, who is on his own mission to find what might become the last idea in the world. Steeped in influences ranging from Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, and Kurt Vonnegut to George Orwell, Douglas Adams, and Monty Python, Andri Snær Magnason has created a surreal yet uncomfortably familiar world, where the honey embrace of love does its utmost to survive amid relentless and overpowering controls.Notes of a Native Son
Par James Baldwin, Edward P. Jones. 1955
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writer…
Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. "A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity." --Langston Hughes, The New York Times Book Review "Written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace." --TimeFrom the Trade Paperback edition.Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors (The Schocken Kafka Library)
Par Franz Kafka. 1977
"These magnificent letters, meticulously set up and annotated, show us aspects of Kafka that were only hinted at in earlier…
collections and help us trace his development from unhappy young law student and insurance administrator to novelist and short-story writer of originality and genius."--Publishers Weekly"When we turn from Kafka's books to his letters we have a series of self-portraits desperate and courageous, always eager and warm in feeling; the self is lit by fantasy and, of course, by drollery. His candor is of the kind that flies alongside him in the air. He was a marvelous letter writer."--V.S. Pritchett, The New York Review of Books"These letters are like messages from the underground, from the dark side of the moon, presenting aspects of Kafka that would have died with his friends. We meet alternately Kafka the artist, friend, son, father figure, marriage counselor, literary critic, insurance official. . . . A full portrait, and a significant contribution to Kafka scholarship."--Smithsonian Magazine"An inside view of a writer who, perhaps more than any other novelist or poet in our century, stands at the center of our culture."--Robert Alter, The New York Times Book ReviewNight, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam
Par Linh Dinh. 1996
A couple's scheme to get rich by killing their father backfires, leaving them in charge of a cripple. In heaven,…
a baby, dead through neglect, tells his playmates: "Life down there is just one long sleep." A young soldier, saved by a stranger, can never again find her to thank her. A man carries a massive clock. Using a variety of techniques and styles, in this collection of twelve short stories contemporary Vietnamese writers--edited by poet, short story writer, and novelist Linh Dinh--show us Vietnam through their own eyes. Night, Again breaks with the traditional views of the Vietnamese that have focused on the Vietnam War and turns our attention to postwar life in Vietnam. These writers present impressions--at once strange and familiar--of postwar realities.