Jenny Lind and Her Listening Cat
Author: Frances Cavanah
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 90
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Author: Frances Cavanah
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 90
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jo Ann Beard
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2021-03-16
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0316497215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA searing and exhilarating new collection from the award-winning author of The Boys of My Youth and In Zanesville,who “honors the beautiful, the sacred, and the comic in life” (Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award winner for The Friend). A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Boston Globe and LitHub Best Book of the Year When “The Fourth State of Matter,” her now famous piece about a workplace massacre at the University of Iowa was published in The New Yorker, Jo Ann Beard immediately became one of the most influential writers in America, forging a path for a new generation of young authors willing to combine the dexterity of fiction with the rigors of memory and reportage, and in the process extending the range of possibility for the essay form. Now, with Festival Days, Beard brings us the culmination of her groundbreaking work. In these nine pieces, she captures both the small, luminous moments of daily existence and those instants when life and death hang in the balance, ranging from the death of a beloved dog to a relentlessly readable account of a New York artist trapped inside a burning building, as well as two triumphant, celebrated pieces of short fiction. Here is an unforgettable collection destined to be embraced and debated by readers and writers, teachers and students. Anchored by the title piece––a searing journey through India that brings into focus questions of mortality and love—Festival Days presents Beard at the height of her powers, using her flawless prose to reveal all that is tender and timeless beneath the way we live now.
Author: Frances Cavanah
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 266
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of the "Swedish Nightingale" whose vocal range and tone quality made her one of the leading opera stars of the mid-nineteenth century.
Author: Timothy J. Lukes
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-06-28
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1137020903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book holds classical liberalism responsible for an American concept of beauty that centers upon women, wilderness, and machines. For each of the three beauty components, a cultural entrepreneur supremely sensitive to liberalism’s survival agenda is introduced. P.T. Barnum’s exhibition of Jenny Lind is a masterful combination of female elegance and female potency in the subsistence realm. John Muir’s Yosemite Valley is surely exquisite, but only after a rigorous liberal education prepares for its experience. And Harley Earl’s 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air is a dreamy expressionist sculpture, but with a practical 265 cubic inch V-8 underneath. Not that American beauty has been uniformly pragmatic. The 1950s are reconsidered for having temporarily facilitated a relaxation of the liberal survival priorities, and the creations of painter Jackson Pollock and jazz virtuoso Ornette Coleman are evaluated for their resistance to the pressures of pragmatism. The author concludes with a provocative speculation regarding a future liberal habitat where Emerson’s admonition to attach stars to wagons is rescinded.
Author: Roberta Wirth-Feeney
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
Published: 2023-05-31
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhysicists tell us that the past and future exist at the same time as the present. They are simply found in different parts of the universe's four-dimensional fabric called space-time. The author, utilizing her journals from the time she was ten, imagines traveling around in space-time. Her baby boomer generation was the first generation where women on a large scale did the near-impossible juggling act of raising children while working outside the home. She travels in space-time to tell the story of her struggle to obtain a college education and a career while raising three children as a single mother. It is a story of liberation, spiritual epiphany, and how her hero, Jack London, shaped her life. Jack London, in his semibiography, Martin Eden, influenced not only her quest for adventure but also the professor she fell in love with. He seemed familiar to her, with his unkempt curls, deep-set eyes, and his poor-boy, blue-collar upbringing. He was Martin Eden in the flesh. "I really want to be a writer," he told the class and, then, with a laugh, added, "I already have the drinking part down."
Author: Chickering & Sons
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 8
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 498
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Washington (State). Superintendent of Public Instruction
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patricia R. Smith
Publisher: Crown
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780517521106
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