The Strange Story Book
Author | : Mrs. Lang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Adventure and adventurers |
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Author | : Mrs. Lang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Adventure and adventurers |
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Author | : Dennis Wheatley |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2014-12-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1448213894 |
When Linda boarded the train that would take her to London and freedom, she was penniless and alone. A polite offer of help from the stranger in the seat opposite was the last thing she expected. Life with Rowley Frobisher was everything she had ever dreamed of: fast, sophisticated – and expensive. In a few months the rough country girl had changed beyond recognition. But then Rowley has a fatal heart attack – and once again Linda must take desperate action to survive.
Author | : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1865 |
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Author | : Art Spiegelman |
Publisher | : HarperColl |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2001-09-18 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : |
A collecton of comic strips and cartoons by various artists.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Curiosities and wonders |
ISBN | : 9780909486297 |
Author | : Elizabeth Hand |
Publisher | : Small Beer Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2012-11-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1618730312 |
Praise for Elizabeth Hand: "Fiercely frightening yet hauntingly beautiful."—Tess Gerritsen, author of The Silent Girl "A sinful pleasure."—Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love No one is innocent, no one unexamined in award-winner Elizabeth Hand's new collection. From the summer isles to the mysterious people next door all the way to the odd guy one cubicle over, Hand teases apart the dark strangenesses of everyday life to show us the impossibilities, broken dreams, and improbable dreams that surely can never come true. Elizabeth Hand's novels include Shirley Jackson Award–winner Generation Loss, Mortal Love, and Available Dark.
Author | : Jérôme Ruillier |
Publisher | : Drawn & Quarterly |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2021-06-10 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1770465847 |
The Strange follows an unnamed, undocumented immigrant who tries to forge a new life in a Western country where he doesn’t speak the language. Jérôme Ruillier’s story is deftly told through myriad viewpoints, as each narrator recounts a situation in which they crossed paths with the newly-arrived foreigner. Many of the people he meets are suspicious of his unfamiliar background, or of the unusual language they do not understand. By employing this third-person narrative structure, Ruillier masterfully portrays the complex plight of immigrants and the vulnerability of being undocumented. The Strange shows one person’s struggle to adapt while dealing with the often brutal and unforgiving attitudes of the employers, neighbors, and strangers who populate this new land. Ruillier employs a bold visual approach of colored pencil drawings complemented by a stark, limited palette of red, orange and green backgrounds. Its beautiful simplicity represents the almost child-like hope and promise that is often associated with new beginnings. But as Ruillier implicitly suggests, it’s a promise that can shatter at a moment’s notice when the threat of being deported is a daily and terrifying reality. The Strange has been translated from the French by Helge Dascher. Dascher has been translating graphic novels from French and German to English for over twenty years. A contributor to Drawn & Quarterly since the early days, her translations include acclaimed titles such as the Aya series by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie, Hostage by Guy Delisle, and Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët. With a background in art history and history, she also translates books and exhibitions for museums in North America and Europe. She lives in Montreal.
Author | : Joseph Barry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Civil war |
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Author | : Mrs. Lang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1925 |
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Author | : Stacy Nicole Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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This book addresses the claim that an American antebellum era anti-African reading of "the curse of Canaan" story originated in rabbinic literature. By tracing the curse of Canaan's history of interpretation from the beginning of the Common Era to 1865, with particular emphasis on the neglected medieval period, this work examines this long-held false claim. Although Jewish readings of the curse of Canaan appear in medieval Christian commentaries, no Jewish references to skin color are repeated in Christian exegesis. Therefore, the book argues that the anti-African antebellum reading develops in response both to abolitionism and the biblical text's establishment of a social hierarchy that divides humankind into slaves and masters. The pro-slavery reading is an extension of Christian allegorical exegesis of the curse of Canaan, in which Shem, Ham, and Japheth represented different groups of people depending upon the interpreter's historical context, usually Jewish Christians, Jews or Christian heretics, and Gentile Christians respectively. Southerners and their allies simply changed the typology, making Shem the ancestor of brown people, Ham the ancestor of black people due to a reading of his genealogy in Genesis 10, and Japheth the ancestor of white people. The new typology justified African slavery as a divinely ordained and sanctioned economic system, just as the old typology justified Christian supersessionism. Book jacket.