Sketches New and Old
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1613100337 |
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Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1613100337 |
Author | : Twain M. |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 5517002129 |
Mark Twain was an American writer, journalist, and publisher. Among his most famous novels are “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and its sequel, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers. Most of his finest work includes many genres such as humor, satire, and philosophical fiction. “Sketches New and Old” is a wonderful collection of short stories like “My Watch,” “The Jumping Frog,” “The Story of the Bad Little Boy,” and “Niagara.”
Author | : Nell Painter |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2019-08-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1640092005 |
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, this memoir of one woman's later in life career change is “a smart, funny and compelling case for going after your heart's desires, no matter your age” (Essence). Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school––in her sixties––to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful demands of a life fully lived. How are women and artists seen and judged by their age, looks, and race? What does it mean when someone says, “You will never be an artist”? Who defines what an artist is and all that goes with such an identity, and how are these ideas tied to our shared conceptions of beauty, value, and difference? Bringing to bear incisive insights from two careers, Painter weaves a frank, funny, and often surprising tale of her move from academia to art in this "glorious achievement––bighearted and critical, insightful and entertaining. This book is a cup of courage for everyone who wants to change their lives" (Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage).
Author | : Twain M. |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 5517002137 |
Mark Twain was an American writer, journalist, and publisher. Among his most famous novels are “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and its sequel, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers. “Sketches New and Old” is a wonderful collection of short stories like “A New Crime,” “The Petrified Man,” “A Mysterious Visit,” and “The Widow’s Protest.”
Author | : Rozsika Parker |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2020-10-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1350149187 |
Why is everything that compromises greatness in art coded as 'feminine'? Has the feminist critique of Art History yet effected real change? With a new preface by Griselda Pollock, this edition of a truly groundbreaking book offers a radical challenge to a women-free Art History. Parker and Pollock's critique of Art History's sexism leads to expanded, inclusive readings of the art of the past. They demonstrate how the changing historical social realities of gender relations and women artists' translation of gendered conditions into their works provide keys to novel understandings of why we might study the art of the past. They go further to show how such knowledge enables us to understand art by contemporary artists who are women and can contribute to the changing self-perception and creative work of artists today. In March 2020 Griselda Pollock was awarded the Holberg Prize in recognition of her outstanding contribution to research and her influence on thinking on gender, ideology, art and visual culture worldwide for over 40 years. Old Mistresses was her first major scholarly publication which has become a classic work of feminist art history.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : 1st World Publishing |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2004-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781595403162 |
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining, and without breaking any part of its machinery or stopping. I had come to believe it infallible in its judgments about the time of day, and to consider its constitution and its anatomy imperishable. But at last, one night, I let it run down. I grieved about it as if it were a recognized messenger and forerunner of calamity. But by and by I cheered up, set the watch by guess, and commanded my bodings and superstitions to depart. Next day I stepped into the chief jeweler's to set it by the exact time, and the head of the establishment took it out of my hand and proceeded to set it for me. Then he said, "She is four minutes slow-regulator wants pushing up." I tried to stop him - tried to make him understand that the watch kept perfect time. But no; all this human cabbage could see was that the watch was four minutes slow, and the regulator must be pushed up a little; and so, while I danced around him in anguish, and implored him to let the watch alone, he calmly and cruelly did the shameful deed. My watch began to gain. It gained faster and faster day by day. Within the week it sickened to a raging fever, and its pulse went up to a hundred and fifty in the shade. At the end of two months it had left all the timepieces of the town far in the rear, and was a fraction over thirteen days ahead of the almanac.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1879 |
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Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1903 |
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Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 11372 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1613100329 |
Author | : Nancy A. Smith |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780486263397 |
Analyzes the construction detail of antique furniture and demonstrates how to look for vital clues as to its authenticity and true age