The Annotated Nose

The Annotated Nose

Author: Marc Estrin

Publisher: Unbridled Books

Published: 2011-09-02

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1932961607

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A most unlikely life. “Marc Estrin” discovers that another writer’s novel — The Nose — not only has spawned a bizarre cult among the nation’s youth, but is based on the extraordinary life of a real person—an outcast named Alexei Pigov. “Estrin” searches Alexei out and asks him to provide annotations to The Nose. Alexei says that—although the events of the novel might, for the most part, be real—the purported reasons for them are all damnable lies. On the left-hand page of The Annotated Nose we read The Nose itself, and take in its beautifully unsettling illustrations. On the right-hand page we follow Alexei’s complaints – always surprising and often far-reaching. The layers in Estrin’s remarkable comic book are as multiple, eclectic, and outrageous as the sequence of masks Alexei wears to hide his face from the world over the caroming trajectory of his most unlikely life. The Annotated Nose is at once Marc Estrin’s most playful and his most ambitious work to date. A signed and numbered limited edition of 75 copies is also available.


The Annotated Nose

The Annotated Nose

Author: Marc Estrin

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781932961577

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Marc Estrin discovers that another writer's novel 'The Nose' notonly has spawned a bizarre cult among the nation's youth, but is basedon the extraordinary life of a real person. The Annotated Noseis alayered work containing 'The Nose', comments on the nose and a comicnarrative.


The Good Doctor Guillotin

The Good Doctor Guillotin

Author: Marc Estrin

Publisher: Unbridled Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1932961852

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The Good Doctor Guillotin follows five characters to a common destination--the scaffold at the first guillotining of the French Revolution: Dr. Guillotin, of course, a physician and member of the National Assembly, involved in many important events, including the Tennis Court Oath. Nicolas Pelletier, the first victim--or "patient," as they were sometimes called, since the new beheading machine was seen as a humanitarian medical intervention in the state's technique of dealing death. Father Pierre, the curé who accompanies Pelletier in his last days, a man torn between his religious commitment, and an equally strong commitment to the poor and their revolution. Sanson, the famous executioner of Paris who, 9 months later would execute the king and retire from remorse. Tobias Schmidt, builder of the new machine, a German piano maker working in Paris, a freethinker predicting the Terror that will follow, but allowing himself to initiate it. The revolution, after all, had reduced the sale of pianos. Various other interesting figures briefly appear: Damiens, Mozart, Mesmer, Louis XVI, the Marquis de Sade, Marat, Robespierre, Demoulins among them. The eighteenth century narrative is divided into several sections, each introduced by an essay in the author's voice, the first on five-ness and Pentagons; a second on hope and Utopia; a third on revolutionary violence; and a fourth on capital punishment. This is no "historical novel." It is, rather, a fictive meditation on a contemporary conundrum using an eighteenth century drum.


The Annotated Hasheesh Eater

The Annotated Hasheesh Eater

Author: Fitz Hugh Ludlow

Publisher: David M Gross

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1434809862

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"I recommend The Annotated Hasheesh Eater, edited by David Gross. [Fitz Hugh] Ludlow is outrageously erudite, sprinkling his drug tale with references to Hindu mythology, ancient Chinese folk medicine, and tenth-century Welsh royalty. Gross turns what could be maddening into a pleasure by providing helpful notations that explain the arcana."-- Justin Martin, "Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians" (2014)


Espionage in the Ancient World

Espionage in the Ancient World

Author: R.M. Sheldon

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-09-03

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1476610991

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Intelligence activities have always been an integral part of statecraft. Ancient governments, like modern ones, realized that to keep their borders safe, control their populations, and keep abreast of political developments abroad, they needed a means to collect the intelligence which enabled them to make informed decisions. Today we are well aware of the damage spies can do. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive guide to the literature of ancient intelligence. The entries present books and periodical articles in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, and Dutch--with annotations in English. These works address such subjects as intelligence collection and analysis (political and military), counterintelligence, espionage, cryptology (Greek and Latin), tradecraft, covert action, and similar topics (it does not include general battle studies and general discussions of foreign policy). Sections are devoted to general espionage, intelligence related to road building, communication, and tradecraft, intelligence in Greece, during the reign of Alexander the Great and in the Hellenistic Age, in the Roman republic, the Roman empire, the Byzantine empire, the Muslim world, and in Russia, China, India, and Africa. The books can be located in libraries in the United States; in cases where volumes are in one library only, the author indicates where they may be found.


The Annotated Poe

The Annotated Poe

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2015-10-26

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 0674055292

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Presents a selection of Poe's tales and poems with in-depth marginal notes elucidating his sources, obscure words and passages, and literary, biographical, and historical allusions.


The Annotated We

The Annotated We

Author: Vladimir Wozniuk

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-05-12

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1611461790

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The AnnotatedWe represents the first fully annotated translation of Evgeny Zamiatin’s classic novel in English. Generally recognized as the first modern anti-utopian novel, Zamiatin’s We has puzzled scholars and critics alike, for it is both serious and playful, full of games. Long considered to be enigmatic, it stands out as unique among his works, and its importance is beyond doubt, for it not only holds the distinction of being the first work of its kind, but is also widely believed to have provided thematic elements for the two most famous dystopian works of the twentieth century, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. This new English translation employs language and syntax that mirror the precision and economy of Zamiatin’s Russian in his“poem in prose.” The commentary that accompanies the text sheds light on Zamiatin’s use of language as well as on the broad array of allusions that mark it, while at the same time suggesting many previously unacknowledged sources for the novel’s playfulness.


The Annotated Anne of Green Gables

The Annotated Anne of Green Gables

Author: L. M. Montgomery

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1997-08-28

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 9780195104288

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This edition of the classic novel about the Prince Edward Island orphan contains critical material on the work itself and its author, as well as essays, poems, and songs.


The Annotated Wind in the Willows

The Annotated Wind in the Willows

Author: Kenneth Grahame

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780393057744

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Grahame's classic comes alive in a gorgeous, annotated homage to this belovedmasterpiece.