The Cask of Amontillado
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: The Creative Company
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781583415801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter enduring many injuries of the noble Fortunato, Montressor executes the perfect revenge.
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The Cedric Files
Author: Stephen L. Purdy
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Published: 2023-03-31
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 1398475092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt was only a teeny tiny mistake, after all, that first propelled our immigrant hero, then seven years old, and his family to America in 1888. But was it that same ‘slip-up’ that would soon kill his father, and was its shadow destined to follow Boris and undermine any success – in life and love – for the rest of his life?
Amphitrvo
Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-07-20
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780521459976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlautus' Amphitruo is the sole specimen of mythological burlesque in ancient comedy to come down to us in nearly complete form. This sex farce delighted Roman audiences and readers for centuries and continues to inspire adaptations to this day. Dr Christenson utilizes recent work in performance criticism in conjunction with traditional philological analysis to provide new insights into the play in performance. The edition aims to recover the essence of Plautine spectacle from the most concrete details of staging to the complex performative dynamics played out among the actors themselves and the actors and the audience. Included in the Introduction is an account of the mythic and dramatic background to Plautus' play as well as of its influence in post-classical drama. Plautus' metres are explained in a manner students will find helpful and instructive. Dr Christenson presents a new text that includes stage directions in English.
Sparrow in the Snow
Author: Ashley Alquine
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2000-06
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 0595005225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEighty poems were selected for this inroductory glimpse into the mind of Ashley Alquine. They were carefully selected from a great body of work to allow the reader to experience the full depth of emotion she pens into each line. For lovers of passionate verse, there is a vast and exuberant selection for them to enjoy in both form and free verse. Having such a large collection of poetry at hand will allow the reader to savor an in depth knowledge of this poet, and she will become a close friend that they will come to visit time and time again. AUTHOR BIO: Ashley Alquine was born February 6th, 1965 in San Diego, California. She now resides in Phoenix, Arizona and is married with four children. She has been writing poetry all of her life.
Latin American Popular Culture Since Independence
Author: William H. Beezley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1442212543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique reader offers an engaging collection of essays that highlight the diversity of Latin America's cultural expressions from independence to the present. Exploring such themes and events as funerals, dance and music, letters and literature, spectacles and monuments, and world's fairs and food, a group of leading historians examines the ways that a wide range of individuals with copious, at times contradictory, motives attempted to forge identity, turn the world upside down, mock their betters, forget their troubles through dance, express love in letters, and altogether enjoy life. The authors analyze case studies from Argentina, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Trinidad-Tobago, tracing as well how their examples resonate in the rest of the region. They show how people could and did find opportunities to escape, if only occasionally, their daily drudgery, making lives for themselves of greater variety than the constant quest for dominance, drive for profits, orknee-jerk resistance to the social or economic order so often described in cultural studies. Instead, this rich text introduces the complexity of motives behind and the diversity of expressions of popular culture in Latin America.
Festival and Fiction in Heinrich Wittenwiler's 'Ring'
Author: Rolf R. Mueller
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1977-01-01
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9027281475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume investigates Heinrich Wittenwiler’s famous poem Ring. Main focus is the relation of the narrative to the traditional topoi of marriage, folly, and play.
Burn the Page
Author: Danica Roem
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2022-04-26
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0593296567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn inspirational memoir-meets-manifesto by Danica Roem, the nation's first openly trans person elected to US state legislature Danica Roem made national headlines when--as a transgender former frontwoman for a metal band and a political newcomer--she unseated Virginia's most notoriously anti-LGBTQ 26-year incumbent Bob Marshall as state delegate. But before Danica made history, she had to change her vision of what was possible in her own life. Doing so was a matter of storytelling: during her campaign, Danica hired an opposition researcher to dredge up every story from her past that her opponent might seize on to paint her negatively. In wildly entertaining prose, Danica dismantles all the stories her opponents tried to hedge against her, showing how through brutal honesty and loving authenticity, it's possible to embrace the low points, and even transform them into her greatest strengths. Burn the Page takes readers from Danica's lonely, closeted, and at times operatically tragic childhood to her position as a rising star in a party she's helped forever change. Burn the Page is so much more than a stump speech: it's an extremely inspiring manifesto about how it's possible to set fire to the stories you don't want to be in anymore, whether written by you or about you by someone else--and rewrite your own future, whether that's running for politics, in your work, or your personal life. This book will not just encourage people who think they have to be spotless to run for office, but inspire all of us to own our personal narratives as Danica does.
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1990-09-17
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0393245209
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."—James Gleick, New York Times Book Review High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.
Beauty in the City
Author: Robert A. Slayton
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2017-06-21
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1438466439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGold Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the US Northeast -Best Regional Non-Fiction Category Finalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Regional category Silver Winner, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the History category At the beginning of the twentieth century the Ashcan School of Art blazed onto the art scene, introducing a revolutionary vision of New York City. In contrast to the elite artists who painted the upper class bedecked in finery, in front of magnificent structures, or the progressive reformers who photographed the city as a slum, hopeless and full of despair, the Ashcan School held the unique belief that the industrial working-class city was a fit subject for great art. In Beauty in the City, Robert A. Slayton illustrates how these artists portrayed the working classes with respect and gloried in the drama of the subways and excavation sites, the office towers, and immigrant housing. Their art captured the emerging metropolis in all its facets, with its potent machinery and its class, ethnic, and gender issues. By exposing the realities of this new, modern America through their art—expressed in what they chose to draw, not in how they drew it—they created one of the great American art forms.
Too Much Poison
Author: William J. Donahue
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2014-12-19
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1496957849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPraise for Too Much Poison [William J. Donahue] murders it here, folks, goes deep and scores multiple times poking the underbelly of the human condition. An excellent read. C.G. Bauer, author of Scars on the Face of God: The Devils Bible Accept loss forever, as the acclaimed novelist and poet Jack Kerouac once wrote. In this vein, Too Much Poison offers sixteen stories about the influences that touch a human life and, ultimately, fade into the gray. With the turning of each page, we see lovers, friends and spouseseven our own fragile vitalityeither crumble with age or simply succumb to the worlds great and many pressures. Equal parts horror, erotica and pathos, Too Much Poison explores the precious things we all lose in a lifetime but, if given the choice, would rather have held close till the end. William J. Donahue is an award-winning journalist and magazine editor. He has authored several other published works, including Filthy Beast, which was a finalist for the 2004 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award. He lives near Philadelphia.
