Biography: writers Books
Rydon Publishing Shakespeare
Book SynopsisAmazing & Extraordinary Facts: Shakespeare is a fascinating collection of surprising revelations, quirky characters and other fascinating pieces of trivia from the world of the great English bard. From the stories behind his well-known plays and poems, through the actors and theatres that have entertained his works, to his legacy in popular culture and beyond, an intriguing and unusual history of his life and times is revealed. Drawing back the curtains on this iconic English character, there is something here for every enthusiast to relish. This authoritative and absorbing book is published to coincide with the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s death on 23rd April 2016.Table of Contents1 Introduction 8 2 'Lost years' 12 3 'Upstart crow' 14 4 Becoming the bard 15 5 One last blow 18 6 'Our revels now are ended' 20 7 An unerring eye 22 8 'Farewell to Folly' 24 9 Star of poets 25 10 All the Globe's a stage 26 11 A full house 30 12 American visionary 31 13 Different spectacles 34 14 Makeup concoctions 35 15 Set in stone 37 16 Hand wringing 39 17 Portrait of the bard 40 18 Sought-after item 43 19 Stellar legacy 46 20 Written when? 48 21 Origins of Falstaff 50 22 Bard of bird fanciers 52 23 'Pound of flesh' 54 24 Charge of sexism 57 25 'Lost' plays 59 26 Picture of hysteria 62 27 Shrine to the bard 64 28 Stage dynasty 68 29 First-hand account 70 30 Hell-raiser 72 31 Public scandal 73 32 Disastrous spectacles 76 33 Masonic cabal 78 34 Opposing factions 80 35 The Baconians 81 36 Rivers of blood 84 37 In and out of favour 86 38 Sustained observation 88 39 Advance warning 89 40 The Oxfordians 91 41 Poetic styles 94 42 The Marlovians 95 43 'Noted weed' 99 44 Beloved by Russia 102 45 'Vulgar and barbarous' 105 46 Toe-curling homage 106 47 The silver screen 109 48 At each other's throats 112 49 Subtle shifts 113 50 Five beats to a bar 115 51 Heralding a Golden Age 119 52 'Loathsome as a toad' 122 53 Something borrowed 125 54 Shakespeare Trek 126 55 Inspiring songwriters 127 56 Inspiring wordsmiths 130 57 Playwright for all ages 132 58 Index 136
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Rydon Publishing Jane Austen
Book SynopsisJane Austen is one of the most extensively read writers in English literature, renowned around the world for her much-loved romantic novels. Little is often known about this brilliant author, yet in this absorbing collection of stories and trivia readers will find answers to the amazing and extraordinary aspects of Austen’s life, work and legacy. From her development as a world-class author from unassuming origins and the secrets of her own life and loves, through insights into her novels and their characters along with the changing reception to them over the years, to intriguing stories behind the screen and stage adaptations of her works and her continued legacy, there is something for every enthusiast to relish. This authoritative and absorbing book is published to coincide with the 200th Anniversary of Austen’s death in 2017.Table of Contents1 Class act 10 2 'Bad reckoners' 12 3 112-year association 13 4 Happy home 15 5 Three grand houses 17 6 Second Farmer George 18 7 The Loiterer 20 8 Chosen as heir 22 9 Juvenile parody 25 10 Jane and Cassandra 27 11 Good friends 29 12 Leading lady 31 13 Death in the Caribbean 34 14 The Tom Lefroy affair 36 15 Novel beginnings 37 16 Wishful thinking? 39 17 Gold chains and topaz crosses 41 18 Strange scandal 43 19 'It's all settled!' 44 20 Affairs of the heart 47 21 Lure of Lyme 48 22 Sudden death 50 23 To the rescue 51 23 Opulent magnificence 53 24 Seaside interlude 55 25 Centre of creativity 57 26 Solitary sketch 59 27 First publication 59 28 'My own darling child' 63 29 Authorship revealed 65 30 Comic spirit 66 31 Universal truths 68 32 Mixed reactions 70 33 Delightful pilgrimage 72 34 'A rogue... but a civil one' 73 35 Scott's adulatory review 75 36 By royal permission 77 37 The duties of aunts 79 38 Cinderella revisited 82 39 In her sister's arms 84 40 Gothic parody 86 41 Literary genius ignored 88 42 Novel fragment 90 43 Early critics 91 44 'Highest esteem' 93 45 Facts of life 95 46 'Swell show' 96 47 Editor's hand 98 48 Cult status 100 49 White gowns and bonnets 101 50 Desert Island books 103 51 Darcymania 106 52 Zombie mash-up 107 53 Gripping continuation 108 54 Sparking a Twitterstorm 110 55 Social implications 112 56 Manly men 114 57 Spotlight on Cincinnati 116 58 Literary legacy 118 59 Screen legacy 120
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Watkins Media Limited The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in
Book SynopsisThe story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and most-influential post-war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness, Kent in the 1970s. In 1974, a strange man called "Charles" arrived in the small town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting at the bar in the Napier Tavern, drinking beer and smoking Gaulloises while flicking through the Kent Evening Post. But who was this unlikely newcomer? This "Charles" was in actual fact Uwe Johnson, one of the greatest and most-influential East-German writers of the post-war period. But what quirk of Cold War history had caused him to end up in Sheerness, when his contemporaries had instead fled the DDR to Rome, New York or West Berlin? Drawn from Johnson's letters to his friends Max Frisch, Hannah Arendt, Christa Wolf, and others, as well as contemporary accounts and archival materials, this intriguing mix of literary and cultural history and memoir uncovers the last ten years of Johnson's life as it was in Sheerness, set against the backdrop of the social and cultural upheaval of the late 1970s.Trade Review"A monumental sifting and arranging of local particulars, stitched against the savage farce of a great European novelist’s elective exile... Patrick Wright has picked over the landfill of a very specific Estuary culture to devastating effect.""A double 'biography' of the great but always tempestuous German writer Uwe Johnson and his ultimate home, the gritty and disreputable Isle of Sheppey. 'Biography' is in quotes because Wright is a saboteur of genres and his books encompass multiple worlds. I stand in awe of what he has accomplished here.""A masterful modernist history, and Patrick Wright’s most important book, bringing Europe to England by showing it has always been here, at a moment when too many want to believe something else.""An extraordinary, haunting book... a phenomenal achievement.""An astonishing chronicle of the great German author Uwe Johnson, who moved to Sheerness, Kent, in the 70s.”“To repeat: this tidal book, reaching into everything and then withdrawing to show what is left behind, is a triumph.""A model portrait of person and place, a kind of cultural and literary geography that never fails to fascinate."“A huge achievement: a comprehensive portrait of a place and a person, and the best book about Brexit that’s yet been written."“Wright is not a biographer or a journalist but a sort of spirit-ethnographer, patient and attentive to change and complexity.”"A glorious rabbit hole of a book ... a longue durée portrait, from the 17th century to Thatcher, of a single location on the edges of British national life."“Wright plays both the anatomist and the elegist for the blighted modernity of seemingly forsaken spots such as Sheppey … a fragmentary panorama of traumatic, half-remembered history, personal and national.”“Thorough, discerning, compassionate.”"The most involving and originally-conceived social history of modern England to have appeared in decades." "A hymn to estuarial peculiarity and a lament for an awkward man determined never to find his place." "I was entirely captivated by this microscopic, discursive study of Uwe Johnson... a great book about the relationship between Britain and the rest of Europe, and not a page too long."
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MerwinAsia Wang Meng: A Life
Book Synopsis“Wang Meng is the only Chinese writer who really understands China,” according to noted sinologist Merle Goldman, as well as being the writer that many at home and abroad have considered as deserving of a Nobel Prize if any Chinese writer ever did. His memoir is a colorful record of life in an eventful era when one could get up in the morning a CCP official and go to bed an “enemy” of the people.Wang Meng knew the hardships of life from an early age. A brilliant student since childhood, Wang gave up the chance of college to join the Communist underground. Ultimately installed as a regular Communist Party cadre in charge of a district Party Youth League and bored with petty bureaucracy, Wang published a short story which rhapsodized the soul-searching of an earnest young “newcomer” on the scene—an instant bestseller. In spite of Chairman Mao's favorable comments on the story, Wang Meng became a “rightist”—i.e., categorized as the enemy.Banished to distant Xinjiang, Wang Meng mastered the Uighur language, learned farming skills, and was embraced by the Uighurs as one of their own. The attack on his short story “Hard Porridge,” a masterpiece of irony (first English translation published in the Paris Review), only served to highlight his genius and started off a serio-comic string of writings on “porridge” from every conceivable angle by a host Chinese writers, becoming the memorable event of the year.Wang Meng did not change his spots when he became Minister of Culture and a member of the Chinese People’s Consutative Conference. While making contributions to cultural exchanges on the international scene, Wang Meng kept his identity as first and foremost a writer.
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Cornell University Press Reading Wang Wenxing: Critical Essays
Book SynopsisThe first book-length study of Wang Wenxing in English offering biographic, cultural, textual, literary, and linguistic readings of his work. The essays cover topics such as Wang's writing principles, typology of characters, analysis of lexicon, employment of stream-of-consciousness, musicality, relationship to Modernist writers of the West, relationship to Lu Xun, and issues of translating Wang's works into Western languages. Original contributions by Wang Wenxing illuminates his own writing through a discussion of his way of reading, and a biographical essay by Ch'en Chu-yun, his wife, who shares with the reader moments in their private life and the writing habits of her husband. In addition, this manuscript appends outlines of Wang's novels and bibliographies that are valuable to both students and scholars in their studies of Wang Wenxing's writing in particular as well as to the understanding of Taiwanese and Chinese literatures in general.
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Cornell University Press Reading Wang Wenxing: Critical Essays
Book SynopsisThe first book-length study of Wang Wenxing in English offering biographic, cultural, textual, literary, and linguistic readings of his work. The essays cover topics such as Wang's writing principles, typology of characters, analysis of lexicon, employment of stream-of-consciousness, musicality, relationship to Modernist writers of the West, relationship to Lu Xun, and issues of translating Wang's works into Western languages. Original contributions by Wang Wenxing illuminates his own writing through a discussion of his way of reading, and a biographical essay by Ch'en Chu-yun, his wife, who shares with the reader moments in their private life and the writing habits of her husband. In addition, this manuscript appends outlines of Wang's novels and bibliographies that are valuable to both students and scholars in their studies of Wang Wenxing's writing in particular as well as to the understanding of Taiwanese and Chinese literatures in general.
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South Dakota Historical Society Press Pioneer Girl: The Path Into Fiction
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Clemson University Digital Press Rupert Brooke in the First World War
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Clemson University Digital Press The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual: Volume 2
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Clemson University Digital Press Bram Stoker and the Late Victorian World
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Rutgers University Press My Language Is a Jealous Lover
Book SynopsisMany great writers have been fluent in multiple languages but have never been able to escape their mother tongue. Yet if a native language feels like home, an adopted language sometimes offers a hospitality one cannot find elsewhere. My Language Is a Jealous Lover explores the plights and successes of authors who lived and wrote in languages other than their mother tongue, from Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov to Ágota Kristóf and Joseph Brodsky. Author Adrián N. Bravi weaves their stories in with his own experiences as an Argentinian-Italian, thinking and writing in the language of his new life while recalling that of his childhood. Bravi bears witness to the frustrations, the soul-searching, the pain, and the joys of embracing another language. Trade Review“A wonderful semi-autobiographical book about thinking and writing in a second language, about embracing many languages without betraying one’s mother tongue. A thoughtful book about the languages in which global citizens think and write.” -- Graziella Parati * author of Migration Italy: The Art of Talking Back in a Destination Culture *"A masterful assemblage of intimate memories from the author and utterly persuasive arguments from fellow travelers, this book offers readers a multifaceted and nuanced portrait of what it means to live in and between languages. That it has now been admirably and creatively translated into a third language, beyond the author’s own Spanish and Italian, triangulates Bravi’s defense of linguistic relativity into an irrefutable work of realism." -- Jim Hicks * Executive Editor of Massachusetts Review *Table of ContentsTranslators’ Note Preface Introduction Childhood Displacements My Aunt’s Languages The Maternity of Language I The Language of Love The Hospitality of Language The Enemy Language The Possessiveness of Languages The Fluidity of Language Without Style The Scent of the Panther Prisoners of Our Own Language Two Short Stories: Landolfi and Kosztolányi Two Old Children Poetics of Chaos Exile Writing in Another Language False Friends Interference Every Foreigner Is in Their Own Way a Translator Some Cases of Self-Translation Identity and National Language The Language of Death Language as Property The Abandonment of Language The Difficulty of Abandoning One’s Own Language Language as a Line of Defense The Maternity of Language II Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors
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Rutgers University Press Pandemonium Logs
Book Synopsis In 2015, Ben Miller andthe poet Anne Pierson Wiese moved from New York City to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to explore their midwestern roots and to focus on their writing careers. Working a day job in a hospital, Miller had a front-row seat to the COVID-19 pandemic as it moved from the coasts to the urban Midwest. Pandemonium Logs casts an unflinching eye on the state of the worker in the US health-care system during a global pandemic, giving voice to the doctors, nurses, support staff, patients, and families caught in the complex swirl of daily dilemmas and crucial choices. In unsparing yet sympathetic prose, Ben Miller creates an intimate portrait of the impact of COVID on the diverse people of South Dakota. Through a wide range of characters—from understandably confused patients to quietly competent nurses—he explores the human complexities of the crisis: adoctor based in Mumbai who treats critically ill patients in the Dakotas via a tenuous hodgep
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Memorial University Press Extraordinary Passages
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Diaphanes AG Literature Is a Voyage of Discovery - Tom Bishop
Book SynopsisTom Bishop has, for over sixty years, helped shape the literary, philosophical, cultural, artistic, and political conversation between Paris and New York. As professor and director of the Center for French Civilization and Culture at New York University, he made the Washington Square institution one of the great bridges between French innovation and a New York scene in full transformation. Bishop was close to Beckett, championed Robbe-Grillet in the United States, befriended Marguerite Duras and Hélène Cixous, and organized historic public encounters—such as the one between James Baldwin and Toni Morrison. He was also a scholar, a recognized specialist in the avant-garde, notably the Nouveau Roman and the Nouveau Théâtre. In 2012, Bishop invited Donatien Grau to give a talk at NYU. This invitation led to conversations—many of which are presented in this book—and a friendship. Literature Is a Voyage of Discovery gathers their dialogues, retracing Bishop’s career, his own history, his departure from Vienna, his studies, his meetings, his choices, his conception of literature and life, his relationship to the political and economic world, and the way he helped define the profession of “curator” as it is practiced today, offering a thought-provoking look into one of the leading minds of our time.
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Hardpress Publishing Boswells Life of Samuel Johnson LLD 1
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