The English Novel, Form and Function
Author: Dorothy Bendon Van Ghent
Publisher:
Published: 1953
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13:
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Love in English
Author: Maria E. Andreu
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2021-02-02
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0062996533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fresh, joyful YA novel that is layered with themes of immigration, cultural identity, and finding your voice in any language. Sixteen-year-old Ana is a poet and a lover of language. Except that since she moved to New Jersey from Argentina, she can barely find the words to express how she feels. At first Ana just wants to return home. Then she meets Harrison, the very cute, very American boy in her math class, and discovers the universal language of racing hearts. But when she begins to spend time with Neo, the Greek Cypriot boy from ESL, Ana wonders how figuring out what her heart wants can be even more confusing than the grammar they’re both trying to master. After all, the rules of English may be confounding, but there are no rules when it comes to love. With playful and poetic breakouts exploring the idiosyncrasies of the English language, Love in English is witty and effervescent, while telling a beautifully observed story about what it means to become “American.”
English Passengers
Author: Matthew Kneale
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Published: 2011-02-11
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 0385673698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNarrated by over twenty distinct voices and full of dangerous humour, English Passengers combines wit, adventure and historical detail in a mesmerizing display of storytelling. When Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of smugglers have their contraband confiscated they are forced to put their ship, Sincerity, up for charter. The only takers are two Englishmen, the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson, who believes that the Garden of Eden was on the island of Tasmania, and Dr. Thomas Potter who is developing his sinister thesis concerning the races of man. Meanwhile an aboriginal in Tasmania, Peevay, recounts his people's struggles against the invading British. As the English passengers haplessly approach his land, their bizarre notions ever more painfully at odds with reality, we know a mighty collision is looming.
Reading the Novel in English 1950 - 2000
Author: Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-02-09
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1405148802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten in clear, jargon-free prose, this introductory text charts the variety of novel writing in English in the second half of the twentieth century. An engaging introduction to the English-language novel from 1950-2000 (exclusive of the US). Provides students both with strategies for interpretation and with fresh readings of selected seminal texts. Maps out the most important contexts and concepts for understanding this fiction. Features readings of ten influential English-language novels including Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
Nation & Novel
Author: Patrick Parrinder
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 0199264856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPatrick Parrinder traces English prose fiction from its late medieval origins through its stories of rogues and criminals, family rebellions and suffering heroines, to the contemporary novels of immigration. He provides both a comprehensive survey and a new interpretation of the importance of the English novel.
The English Teacher
Author: Yiftach Reicher Atir
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2016-08-30
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 014312918X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSoon to be the major motion picture The Operative, starring Martin Freeman and Diane Kruger. For readers of John Le Carré and viewers of Homeland, a slow-burning psychological spy-thriller by a former brigadier general of intelligence in the Israeli army One of The Washington Post's 10 Best mystery books and thrillers of 2016 After attending her father’s funeral, former Mossad agent Rachel Goldschmitt empties her bank account and disappears. But when she makes a cryptic phone call to her former handler, Ehud, the Mossad sends him to track her down. Finding no leads, he must retrace her career as a spy to figure out why she abandoned Mossad before she can do any damage to Israel. But he soon discovers that after living under cover for so long, an agent’s assumed identity and her real one can blur, catching loyalty, love, and truth between them. In the midst of a high-risk, high-stakes investigation, Ehud begins to question whether he ever knew his agent at all. In The English Teacher, Yiftach R. Atir drew on his own experience in intelligence to weave a psychologically nuanced thriller that explores the pressures of living under an assumed identity for months at a time.
The Nineteenth-Century English Novel
Author: J. Kilroy
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-04-02
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 0230604358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough analysis of eight English novels of the Nineteenth century, this work explores the ways in which the novel contributes to the formation of ideology regarding the family, and, conversely, the ways in which changing attitudes toward the family shape and reshape the novel.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Author: Sijie Dai
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 037541309X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn enchanting literary debut—already an international best-seller. At the height of Mao’s infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for “re-education.” The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of Phoenix mountain, they are made to cart buckets of excrement up and down precipitous winding paths. Their meager distractions include a violin—as well as, before long, the beautiful daughter of the local tailor. But it is when the two discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation that their re-education takes its most surprising turn. While ingeniously concealing their forbidden treasure, the boys find transit to worlds they had thought lost forever. And after listening to their dangerously seductive retellings of Balzac, even the Little Seamstress will be forever transformed. From within the hopelessness and terror of one of the darkest passages in human history, Dai Sijie has fashioned a beguiling and unexpected story about the resilience of the human spirit, the wonder of romantic awakening and the magical power of storytelling.
English
Author: Gang Wang
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780670020591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYoung Love Liu, who wonders about life outside of the conformist region of Xinjiang during the Cultural Revolution, is inspired by a teacher to learn English but finds his survival threatened by the atmosphere of suspicion and repression that marks his ho
The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740
Author: Michael McKeon
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2002-05-22
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780801869594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age.
