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Publisher :Yearling Books Release Date :1992 ISBN :9780440405825 Pages :130 pages Rating :4.4/5 (58 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The 13 Clocks by James Thurber:
Download or read book The 13 Clocks written by James Thurber and published by Yearling Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: With the help of his magical protector, Golux, Prince Zorn performs impossible tasks to win the hand of Princess Saralinda.
Publisher : Release Date :1954-01-11 ISBN : Pages :116 pages Rating :4./5 ( users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review LIFE by :
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1954-01-11 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Publisher :U of Nebraska Press Release Date :1995-01-01 ISBN :9780803270565 Pages :252 pages Rating :4.2/5 (75 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Remember Laughter by Neil A. Grauer:
Download or read book Remember Laughter written by Neil A. Grauer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: One of the great American humorists of this century, James Thurber is still read and cherished by many readers more than thirty years after his death. He is most famous for the hilarious, often bittersweet stories that he published in the 1930s and 1940s in the New Yorker. He was also a brilliant cartoonist whose unique drawings were an eagerly awaited feature in Harold Ross’s New Yorker and in Thurber’s books. This biography is a book much in the spirit of Thurber himself. Readable, anecdotal, and often delightfully funny, Remember Laughter will be cherished by all fans of Thurber. Yet Neil A. Grauer by no means sentimentalizes Thurber. He addresses serious, and often disturbing, features of Thurber’s life while highlighting Thurber’s courage, inexhaustible humor, and unique literary and artistic talents. The result is a biography that both celebrates Thurber’s genius and shrewdly appraises his qualities as a man.
Publisher :Hackett Publishing Release Date :2004-01-01 ISBN :9780872207059 Pages :754 pages Rating :4.2/5 (7 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Founding of a Nation by Merrill Jensen:
Download or read book The Founding of a Nation written by Merrill Jensen and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: "This wonderfully rich volume challenges those who claim that political history is arid, narrow, or worse, irrelevant to our own concerns. Jensen's study explores popular political mobilization on the eve of American independence. It reconstructs the complex decisions that slowly, often painfully transformed a colonial rebellion into a genuine revolution. Jensen's well-paced narrative never loses sight of the ordinary men and women who confronted the most powerful empire in the world." --T.H. Breen, William Smith Mason Professor of American History, Northwestern University
Publisher : Release Date :1954-01-11 ISBN : Pages :116 pages Rating :4./5 ( users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review LIFE by :
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1954-01-11 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Publisher :Samuel French, Incorporated Release Date :1976 ISBN : Pages :59 pages Rating :4.F/5 ( users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review James Thurber's The 13 Clocks by Frank R. Lowe:
Download or read book James Thurber's The 13 Clocks written by Frank R. Lowe and published by Samuel French, Incorporated. This book was released on 1976 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: A Prince grown weary of rich attire, banquets, tournaments, and the available princesses of his realm disguises himself as a ragged minstrel. He travels about, learning the life of the lowly and slaying a dragon or two, until he hears of the matchless beauty of the Princess Saralinda, who is held captive by an evil Duke.
Publisher :Hachette UK Release Date :2016-05-31 ISBN :1472208005 Pages :320 pages Rating :4.4/5 (722 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman:
Download or read book The View from the Cheap Seats written by Neil Gaiman and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: The View from the Cheap Seats draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech that went viral, to pieces on artists and legends including Terry Pratchett and Lou Reed, the collection offers a glimpse into the head and heart of one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. 'If this book came to you during a despairing night, by dawn, you would believe in ideas and hope and humans again' Caitlin Moran 'Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation' This collection will draw you in to exchanges on making good art and Syrian refugees, the power of a single word and playing the kazoo with Stephen King, writing about books, comics and the imagination of friends, being sad at the Oscars and telling lies for a living. Here Neil Gaiman opens our minds to the people he admires and the things he believes might just mean something - and welcomes us to the conversation too.
Publisher : Release Date :1966 ISBN : Pages :141 pages Rating :4.:/5 (271 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Thirteen Clocks and the Wonderful O. by James Thurber:
Download or read book The Thirteen Clocks and the Wonderful O. written by James Thurber and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Publisher :Cambridge Scholars Publishing Release Date :2011-05-25 ISBN :1443830550 Pages :315 pages Rating :4.4/5 (438 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Anti-Tales by David Calvin:
Download or read book Anti-Tales written by David Calvin and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: The anti-(fairy) tale has long existed in the shadow of the traditional fairy tale as its flipside or evil twin. According to André Jolles in Einfache Formen (1930), such Antimärchen are contemporaneous with some of the earliest known oral variants of familiar tales. While fairy tales are generally characterised by a “spirit of optimism” (Tolkien) the anti-tale offers us no such assurances; for every “happily ever after,” there is a dissenting “they all died horribly.” The anti-tale is, however, rarely an outright opposition to the traditional form itself. Inasmuch as the anti-hero is not a villain, but may possess attributes of the hero, the anti-tale appropriates aspects of the fairy tale form, (and its equivalent genres) and re-imagines, subverts, inverts, deconstructs or satirises elements of these to present an alternate narrative interpretation, outcome or morality. In this collection, Little Red Riding Hood retaliates against the wolf, Cinderella’s stepmother provides her own account of events, and “Snow White” evolves into a postmodern vampire tale. The familiar becomes unfamiliar, revealing the underlying structures, dynamics, fractures and contradictions within the borrowed tales. Over the last half century, this dissident tradition has become increasingly popular, inspiring numerous writers, artists, musicians and filmmakers. Although anti-tales abound in contemporary art and popular culture, the term has been used sporadically in scholarship without being developed or defined. While it is clear that the aesthetics of postmodernism have provided fertile creative grounds for this tradition, the anti-tale is not just a postmodern phenomenon; rather, the “postmodern fairy tale” is only part of the picture. Broadly interdisciplinary in scope, this collection of twenty-two essays and artwork explores various manifestations of the anti-tale, from the ancient to the modern including romanticism, realism and surrealism along the way.
Publisher :Hachette UK Release Date :2012-01-10 ISBN :1844037193 Pages :960 pages Rating :4.8/5 (44 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Peter Boxall:
Download or read book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die written by Peter Boxall and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary fiction. Featuring more than 700 illustrations and photographs, presenting quotes from individual novels and authors, and completely revised for 2012, this is the ideal book for everybody who loves reading.
Publisher :W. W. Norton & Company Release Date :2015-11-09 ISBN :0393248747 Pages :352 pages Rating :4.3/5 (932 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of The New Yorker by Thomas Vinciguerra:
Download or read book Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of The New Yorker written by Thomas Vinciguerra and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: “Exuberant . . . elegantly conjures an evocative group dynamic.” —Sam Roberts, New York Times From its birth in 1925 to the early days of the Cold War, The New Yorker slowly but surely took hold as the country’s most prestigious, entertaining, and informative general-interest periodical. In Cast of Characters, Thomas Vinciguerra paints a portrait of the magazine’s cadre of charming, wisecracking, driven, troubled, brilliant writers and editors. He introduces us to Wolcott Gibbs, theater critic, all-around wit, and author of an infamous 1936 parody of Time magazine. We meet the demanding and eccentric founding editor Harold Ross, who would routinely tell his underlings, "I'm firing you because you are not a genius," and who once mailed a pair of his underwear to Walter Winchell, who had accused him of preferring to go bare-bottomed under his slacks. Joining the cast are the mercurial, blind James Thurber, a brilliant cartoonist and wildly inventive fabulist, and the enigmatic E. B. White—an incomparable prose stylist and Ross's favorite son—who married The New Yorker's formidable fiction editor, Katharine Angell. Then there is the dashing St. Clair McKelway, who was married five times and claimed to have no fewer than twelve personalities, but was nonetheless a superb reporter and managing editor alike. Many of these characters became legends in their own right, but Vinciguerra also shows how, as a group, The New Yorker’s inner circle brought forth a profound transformation in how life was perceived, interpreted, written about, and published in America. Cast of Characters may be the most revealing—and entertaining—book yet about the unique personalities who built what Ross called not a magazine but a "movement."
Publisher : Release Date :1976 ISBN : Pages :59 pages Rating :4.:/5 (852 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The 13 Clocks by Frank Gordon Lowe:
Download or read book The 13 Clocks written by Frank Gordon Lowe and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Publisher :McFarland Release Date :1983 ISBN :9780899500928 Pages :148 pages Rating :4.5/5 (9 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Back to Books by Karen K. Marshall:
Download or read book Back to Books written by Karen K. Marshall and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1983 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Suggests exhibits, displays, bulletin board games, reference skill games, and other library activities designed to get children interested in reading
Publisher :Psychology Press Release Date :2013-05-13 ISBN :1134736266 Pages :274 pages Rating :4.1/5 (347 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Constructivism in the Computer Age by George Forman:
Download or read book Constructivism in the Computer Age written by George Forman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Discussing the future value of computers as tools for cognitive development, the volume reviews past literature and presents new data from a Piagetian perspective. Constructivism in the Computer Age includes such topics as: teaching LOGO to children; the computers effects on social development; computer graphics as a new language; and computers as a means of enhancing reflective thinking.
Publisher :Wildside Press LLC Release Date :2010-09 ISBN :0941028755 Pages :800 pages Rating :4.9/5 (41 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Vol 1 by R. Reginald:
Download or read book Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Vol 1 written by R. Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.
Publisher :Hachette UK Release Date :2020-12-01 ISBN :1580057705 Pages :282 pages Rating :4.5/5 (8 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Sometimes You Have to Lie by Leslie Brody:
Download or read book Sometimes You Have to Lie written by Leslie Brody and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: In this inspiring biography, discover the true story of Harriet the Spy author Louise Fitzhugh -- and learn about the woman behind one of literature's most beloved heroines. Harriet the Spy, first published in 1964, has mesmerized generations of readers and launched a million diarists. Its beloved antiheroine, Harriet, is erratic, unsentimental, and endearing -- very much like the woman who created her, Louise Fitzhugh. Born in 1928, Fitzhugh was raised in segregated Memphis, but she soon escaped her cloistered world and headed for New York, where her expanded milieu stretched from the lesbian bars of Greenwich Village to the art world of postwar Europe, and her circle of friends included members of the avant-garde like Maurice Sendak and Lorraine Hansberry. Fitzhugh's novels, written in an era of political defiance, are full of resistance: to authority, to conformity, and even -- radically, for a children's author -- to make-believe. As a children's author and a lesbian, Fitzhugh was often pressured to disguise her true nature. Sometimes You Have to Lie tells the story of her hidden life and of the creation of her masterpiece, which remains long after her death as a testament to the complicated relationship between truth, secrecy, and individualism.
Publisher :Teacher Created Materials Release Date :2016-08-30 ISBN :1493830791 Pages :35 pages Rating :4.4/5 (938 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The American Revolution: Fighting for Freedom by Torrey Maloof:
Download or read book The American Revolution: Fighting for Freedom written by Torrey Maloof and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Ignite your students' passion for history through the use of intriguing primary sources! The Primary Source Reader series features purposefully leveled text to increase comprehension for different learner types. With "American Revolution: Fighting for Freedom," students will learn about this significant period of American history through an in-depth exploration of the subject. This informational text includes captions, a glossary, an index, and other text features that will increase students' reading comprehension. It aligns with state standards including NCSS/C3, McREL, and WIDA/TESOL and prepares students for college and career readiness.
