Wide Sargasso Sea
Author: Jean Rhys
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780393308808
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Author: Jean Rhys
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780393308808
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A considerable tour de force by any standard." ?New York Times Book Review"
Author: Elaine Savory
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-04-02
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 1139478478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince her death in 1979, Jean Rhys's reputation as an important modernist author has grown. Her finely crafted prose fiction lends itself to multiple interpretations from radically different critical perspectives; formalism, feminism, and postcolonial studies among them. This Introduction offers a reliable and stimulating account of her life, work, contexts and critical reception. Her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, is analyzed together with her other novels, including Quartet and After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, and her short stories. Through close readings of the works, Elaine Savory reveals their common themes and connects these to different critical approaches. The book maps Rhys's fictional use of the actual geography of Paris, London and the Caribbean, showing how key understanding her relationships with the metropolitan and colonial spheres is to reading her texts. In this invaluable introduction for students, Savory explains the significance of Rhys as a writer both in her lifetime and today.
Author: Thomas A. Janvier
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-05-05
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 338733348X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author: Thomas A. Janvier
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-09-05
Total Pages: 179
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "In the Sargasso Sea" (A Novel) by Thomas A. Janvier. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: THOMAS A. JANVIER
Publisher:
Published: 1898
Total Pages: 308
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Allibone Janvier
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2013-07
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781491054901
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Author: Patrik Svensson
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2020-05-26
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0062968831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize National Bestseller Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book One of TIME’s 100 Must Read Books of the Year One of The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Nonfiction Books of the Year One of Smithsonian Magazine’s 10 Best Science Books of the Year One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year A New York Times Editor’s Choice Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world’s most elusive fish—the eel—and a reflection on the human condition Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scientists and philosophers have, for centuries, been obsessed with what has become known as the “eel question”: Where do eels come from? What are they? Are they fish or some other kind of creature altogether? Even today, in an age of advanced science, no one has ever seen eels mating or giving birth, and we still don’t understand what drives them, after living for decades in freshwater, to swim great distances back to the ocean at the end of their lives. They remain a mystery. Drawing on a breadth of research about eels in literature, history, and modern marine biology, as well as his own experience fishing for eels with his father, Patrik Svensson crafts a mesmerizing portrait of an unusual, utterly misunderstood, and completely captivating animal. In The Book of Eels, we meet renowned historical thinkers, from Aristotle to Sigmund Freud to Rachel Carson, for whom the eel was a singular obsession. And we meet the scientists who spearheaded the search for the eel’s point of origin, including Danish marine biologist Johannes Schmidt, who led research efforts in the early twentieth century, catching thousands upon thousands of eels, in the hopes of proving their birthing grounds in the Sargasso Sea. Blending memoir and nature writing at its best, Svensson’s journey to understand the eel becomes an exploration of the human condition that delves into overarching issues about our roots and destiny, both as humans and as animals, and, ultimately, how to handle the biggest question of all: death. The result is a gripping and slippery narrative that will surprise and enchant.
Author: Thomas Allibone Janvier
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Published: 2004
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ISBN-13: 9781412112253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780395825211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe renowned poet and author of The Handmaid's Tale "brings a swift, powerful energy" to this "intimate and immediate" poetry collection (Publishers Weekly). These beautifully crafted poems -- by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender, and intimate -- make up Margaret Atwood's most accomplished and versatile gathering to date, setting foot on the middle ground / between body and word. Some draw on history, some on myth, both classical and popular. Others, more personal, concern themselves with love, with the fragility of the natural world, and with death, especially in the elegiac series of meditations on the death of a parent. But they also inhabit a contemporary landscape haunted by images of the past. Generous, searing, compassionate, and disturbing, this poetry rises out of human experience to seek a level between luminous memory and the realities of the everyday, between the capacity to inflict and the strength to forgive.
Author: William McPherson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlaywright Andrew MacAllister finds his recent behavior mystifying and shameful. He endures this crisis with the help of patient friends and associates on a trip to Bermuda.