A Bridge Of Shadow

Named a Gift Book for the Discerning New Yorker by The New York Times In the Shadow of Genius is the newest book by photographer and author Barbara Mensch. The author combines her striking photographs with a powerful first-person narrative. She takes the reader on a unique journey by recalling her experiences living alongside the bridge for more than 30 years, and then by tracing her own curious path to understand the brilliant minds and remarkable lives of those who built it: John, Washington, and Emily Roebling. Many of Mensch’s photographs were inspired by her visits to the Roebling archives housed at Rutgers University, where she pieced together through notebooks, diaries, letters, and drawings the seminal locations and events that affected their lives. Following in their footsteps, Mensch traveled to Mühlhausen, Germany, the birthplace of John Roebling; to Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, where Roebling established a utopian community in 1831; to Roebling aqueducts and bridges in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York; and to the Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where Washington Roebling, the son of the famous engineer, valiantly served as a Union soldier. The book begins and ends with Mensch’s unique photographs of the Brooklyn Bridge, including never-before-seen images captured deep within the structure. The book creatively fuses contemporary photography with the historical record, giving the reader a new perspective on contemplating the masterwork. Fernanda Perrone, Curator of Special Collections and the Roebling Family Archive at Rutgers University, has contributed a Foreword.

This collection of short stories takes you on a ride through a broad swath of genres and themes: love stories, mysteries with a taste of history, cautionary tales of late night meetings with attractive men, sentience in unusual places, magic animals and a taste of the paranormal. You might find yourself face to face with a vampire or werewolf, a wendigo, or maybe a Shade hiding in the shadows. Visit the lost colony of Roanoke, a town in the countryside of France, or the dark streets of London as you read your way through this anthology.

This collection of short stories takes you on a ride through a broad swath of genres and themes: love stories, mysteries with a taste of history, cautionary tales of late night meetings with attractive men, sentience in unusual places, magic animals and a taste of the paranormal. You might find yourself face to face with a vampire or werewolf, a wendigo, or maybe a Shade hiding in the shadows. Visit the lost colony of Roanoke, a town in the countryside of France, or the dark streets of London as you read your way through this anthology. This is the large print edition of A Bridge Of Shadow, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.

This collection of short stories takes you on a ride through a broad swath of genres and themes: love stories, mysteries with a taste of history, cautionary tales of late night meetings with attractive men, sentience in unusual places, magic animals and a taste of the paranormal. You might find yourself face to face with a vampire or werewolf, a wendigo, or maybe a Shade hiding in the shadows. Visit the lost colony of Roanoke, a town in the countryside of France, or the dark streets of London as you read your way through this anthology.

This collection of short stories takes you on a ride through a broad swath of genres and themes: love stories, mysteries with a taste of history, cautionary tales of late night meetings with attractive men, sentience in unusual places, magic animals and a taste of the paranormal. You might find yourself face to face with a vampire or werewolf, a wendigo, or maybe a Shade hiding in the shadows. Visit the lost colony of Roanoke, a town in the countryside of France, or the dark streets of London as you read your way through this anthology. This is the large print edition of A Bridge Of Shadow, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.

Amid the turmoil of the Ming-Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China, some intellectuals sought refuge in romantic memories from what they perceived as cataclysmic events. This volume presents two memoirs by famous men of letters, Reminiscences of the Plum Shadows Convent by Mao Xiang (1611–93) and Miscellaneous Records of Plank Bridge by Yu Huai (1616–96), that recall times spent with courtesans. They evoke the courtesan world in the final decades of the Ming dynasty and the aftermath of its collapse. Mao Xiang chronicles his relationship with the courtesan Dong Bai, who became his concubine two years before the Ming dynasty fell. His mournful remembrance of their life together, written shortly after her early death, includes harrowing descriptions of their wartime sufferings as well as idyllic depictions of romantic bliss. Yu Huai offers a group portrait of Nanjing courtesans, mixing personal memories with reported anecdotes. Writing fifty years after the fall of the Ming, he expresses a deep nostalgia for courtesan culture that bears the toll of individual loss and national calamity. Together, they shed light on the sensibilities of late Ming intellectuals: their recollections of refined pleasures and ruminations on the vagaries of memory coexist with political engagement and a belief in bearing witness. With an introduction and extensive annotations, Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge is a valuable source for the literature of remembrance, the representation of women, and the social role of intellectuals during a tumultuous period in Chinese history.

In her study of Chinese shadow theatre Fan-Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. She argues how a traditional folk theatre reflected and subverted Chinese popular culture.

This collection of short stories takes you on a ride through a broad swath of genres and themes: love stories, mysteries with a taste of history, cautionary tales of late night meetings with attractive men, sentience in unusual places, magic animals and a taste of the paranormal. You might find yourself face to face with a vampire or werewolf, a wendigo, or maybe a Shade hiding in the shadows. Visit the lost colony of Roanoke, a town in the countryside of France, or the dark streets of London as you read your way through this anthology. This is the large print edition of A Bridge of Shadow, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.