Delina Delaney
Author | : Amanda McKittrick Ros |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Irish literature |
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Author | : Amanda McKittrick Ros |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Irish literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Amanda Mckittrick Ros |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781522773689 |
Delina Delaney, the final completed and most "ambitious" novel of the late great Amanda McKittrick Ros, has it all: love, romance, mystery, sudden death, murder, betrayal, alliteration, and an abundance of the wonderfully indecipherable prose for which Ros is most famous. Consider for yourself the first sentence of this masterpiece of rarest craftsmanship... you deserve it: "Have you ever visited that portion of Erin's Plot that offers its sympathetic soil for the minute survey and scrutinous examination of those in political power, whose decision has wisely been the means before now of converting the stern and prejudiced, and reaching the hand of slight aid to share its strength in augmenting its agricultural richness?" Amanda McKittrick Ros, universally acclaimed "Authoress" whose unique version of genius nearly transcends literature itself, displays the complete repertoire of her "talents" in Delina Delaney.
Author | : Aldous Huxley |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2022-06-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
This collection of short stories and essays by renowned writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley. This edition includes these stories:, Centenaries, On Re-reading "Candide", Accidie, Subject-matter of Poetry, Water Music, Pleasures, Modern Folk Poetry, Bibliophily, Democratic Art, Accumulations, On Deviating into Sense, Polite Conversation, Nationality in Love, How the Days Draw In!, Tibet, Beauty in 1920, Great Thoughts, Advertisement, Euphues Redivivus, The Author of "Eminent Victorians", A Wordsworth Anthology, Ferhaeren, Edward Lear, Sir Christopher Wren, Ben Jonson, Chaucer
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Arts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Silk Buckingham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 808 |
Release | : 1920 |
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Author | : Aldous Huxley |
Publisher | : Bibliotech Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 - 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books-both novels and non-fiction works-as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with an undergraduate degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962. Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism and universalism, addressing these subjects with works such as The Perennial Philosophy (1945)-which illustrates commonalities between Western and Eastern mysticism-and The Doors of Perception (1954)-which interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline. In his most famous novel Brave New World (1932) and his final novel Island (1962), he presented his vision of dystopia and utopia, respectively. (wikipedia.org)
Author | : Karl Shaw |
Publisher | : Robinson |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2014-06-05 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1780338317 |
This compendious celebration of ineptitude includes some of history’s most spectacularly ill-conceived expeditions and entirely useless pursuits, and features tales of black comedy, insane foolhardiness, breathtaking stupidity and relentless perseverance in the face of inevitable defeat. It rejoices in men and women made of the Wrong Stuff: writers who believed in the power of words, but could never quite find the rights ones; artists and performers who indulged their creative impulse with a passion, if not a sense of the ridiculous, an eye for perspective or the ability to hold down a tune; scientists and businessmen who never quite managed to quit while they were ahead; and sportsmen who seemed to manage always to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Like Walter Oudney, one of three men chosen to find the source of the River Niger in Africa, who could not ride a horse, nor speak any foreign languages and who had never travelled more than 30 miles beyond his native Edinburgh; or the explorer-priest Michel Alexandre de Baize, who set off to explore the African continent from east to west equipped with 24 umbrellas, some fireworks, two suits of armor, and a portable organ; or the Scottish army which decided to invade England in 1349 – during the Black Death. Entries include: briefest career in dentistry; least successful bonding exercise; most futile attempt to find a lost tribe; most pointless lines of research by someone who should have known better; least successful celebrity endorsement; least convincing excuse for a war; worst poetic tribute to a root vegetable; least successful display of impartiality by a juror; Devon Loch – sporting metaphor for blowing un unblowable lead; least dignified exit from office by a French president; and least successful expedition by camel.
Author | : Robertson Davies |
Publisher | : Rosetta Books |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2019-04-22 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 079535231X |
A collection of essays “filled with pleasantly rambling opinions about everything from self-help books to erotica” from the celebrated Canadian author (The Chronicle Journal). An urbane, robust, and wonderfully opinionated voice from Canada, sometimes called “America’s attic,” speaks here of the delights of reading, and of what mass education has done to readers today, to taste, to books, to culture. With his usual wit and breadth of vision, Robertson Davies ranges through the world of letters—books renowned and obscure, old and recent; English, Irish, Canadian, and American writers both forgotten and fondly remembered. “Sweet reason in the raiment of well-woven prose? Most assuredly. Good humor agraze over broad literary demesnes? No doubt of it. Forgotten popular favorites rescued and rehabilitated? Certainly. A parade of agreeable prejudices? He would not be a true Canadian if he did not have them. Lightheartedness where needed? Yes. Seriousness where it counts? Yes. Wit, satirical touches, firm indignations, sound sense, good taste, judiciousness, cosmopolitan breadth of view, urbanity, sanity, unexpected eccentricities, educated humanism? By all means. It is indeed by all these means and more that this book of essays and observations bestows its multiple benefactions, and anyone picking it up is bound north to pleasure and profit.”—The New York Times
Author | : Edward Verrall Lucas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1910 |
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Author | : Seamus Deane |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 1548 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : 9780814799062 |