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A Skeptic s Guide to Writers Houses
Author | : Anne Trubek |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2011-07-11 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780812205817 |
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There are many ways to show our devotion to an author besides reading his or her works. Graves make for popular pilgrimage sites, but far more popular are writers' house museums. What is it we hope to accomplish by trekking to the home of a dead author? We may go in search of the point of inspiration, eager to stand on the very spot where our favorite literary characters first came to life—and find ourselves instead in the house where the author himself was conceived, or where she drew her last breath. Perhaps it is a place through which our writer passed only briefly, or maybe it really was a longtime home—now thoroughly remade as a decorator's show-house. In A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses Anne Trubek takes a vexed, often funny, and always thoughtful tour of a goodly number of house museums across the nation. In Key West she visits the shamelessly ersatz shrine to a hard-living Ernest Hemingway, while meditating on his lost Cuban farm and the sterile Idaho house in which he committed suicide. In Hannibal, Missouri, she walks the fuzzy line between fact and fiction, as she visits the home of the young Samuel Clemens—and the purported haunts of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Injun' Joe. She hits literary pay-dirt in Concord, Massachusetts, the nineteenth-century mecca that gave home to Hawthorne, Emerson, and Thoreau—and yet could not accommodate a surprisingly complex Louisa May Alcott. She takes us along the trail of residences that Edgar Allan Poe left behind in the wake of his many failures and to the burned-out shell of a California house with which Jack London staked his claim on posterity. In Dayton, Ohio, a charismatic guide brings Paul Laurence Dunbar to compelling life for those few visitors willing to listen; in Cleveland, Trubek finds a moving remembrance of Charles Chesnutt in a house that no longer stands. Why is it that we visit writers' houses? Although admittedly skeptical about the stories these buildings tell us about their former inhabitants, Anne Trubek carries us along as she falls at least a little bit in love with each stop on her itinerary and finds in each some truth about literature, history, and contemporary America.
Visit to the Attic
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Author | : Harry R. Welty |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1992-05-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0963295306 |
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Harry's Dad has been gone for five years when Harry picks up one of his Dad's old books & suddenly finds himself confronted by three meat eating dinosaurs. How can he convince his mother that it wasn't a dream & does this experience have anything to do with his Father's mysterious disappearance? This marvelously illustrated adventure novel will transport children to the late Cretaceous Age with Harry as he sets out on a search for his Father. Minnesota author, Harry Welty, is an heir to the eccentric tradition of Minnesota's famed populist politician, & science fiction writer, Ignatius Donnelly. VISIT TO THE ATTIC was originally written for the children who admired Welty's Winter snow sculptures but has since become the means by which Welty is financing a campaign for the United States Congress. VISIT TO THE ATTIC may be ordered from Welty Press, P.O. Box 3500, Duluth, MN 55803-3500. Orders outside Minnesota should include $1.55 per book, for shipping & handling. That's $8.50 per book. Orders from within Minnesota must include the state's 6.5 percent sales taxes for a total charge of $8.95 per book.
The Castle in the Attic
Author | : Elizabeth Winthrop |
Publsiher | : Holiday House |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2012-05-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780823426843 |
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The classic children's story about a young boy, his toy castle, and a magical adventure that reveals the true meaning of courage When his beloved caretaker Mrs. Phillips tells him she's leaving, William is devastated. Not even her farewell gift of a model medieval castle helps him feel better—though he has to admit it's fascinating. From the working drawbridge and portcullis to the fully-furnished rooms, it's perfect in every detail. It almost seems magical. And when William looks at the silver knight, the tiny figure comes to life in his hand—and tells him a tale of a wicked sorcerer, a vicious dragon, and a kingdom in need of a hero. Hoping the castle's magic will help him find a way to make his friend stay, William embarks on a daring quest with Sir Simon, the Silver Knight—but he will have to face his own doubts and regrets if he's going to succeed. William's story continues in The Battle for the Castle, available as a redesigned companion edition. An IRA-CBC Children's Choice A California Young Reader Medal Winner A Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Winner Nominated for 23 State Book Awards
World Film Locations Prague
Author | : Marcelline Block |
Publsiher | : Intellect Books |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781783201112 |
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Prague, the 'Hollywood of the East', has played an important role in the history of cinema and World Film Locations: Prague traverses the city’s topography to examine an internationally diverse range of movies made in the Czech capital: landmark early films such as Ecstasy, controversial due to the female nudity that catapulted Hedy Lamarr into stardom in the United States; Steven Soderbergh’s biopic Kafka, starring Jeremy Irons; adaptations of Kafka’s literary works such as The Trial, with a screenplay by Harold Pinter and starring Anthony Hopkins; and action blockbusters like Mission Impossible, The Bourne Identity and Casino Royale. Exploring legendary Prague landmarks as they appear onscreen—including the Charles Bridge, Old Town, Malà Strana, Liechtenstein Palace, Wenceslas Square and Prague Castle – the book also discusses the intersection of the capital city and its cinematic representations; Prague and the Czech New Wave; the iconic Barrandov Studios; and the impact of political events such as the Prague Spring, the Soviet Invasion of 1968 and the Velvet Revolution on the city’s film industry. An invaluable resource for scholars, students and aficionados of film and cinematic psychogeography, this collection will be heralded by students of East European literary, cultural and sociopolitical history.
Sherlockito and the Long Island Expressway Mystery
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Dorrance Publishing |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9781434967756 |
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Sex Rage
Author | : Eve Babitz |
Publsiher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781786892751 |
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It is the 1970s in LA, and Jacaranda Leven - child of sun and surf - is swept into the dazzling cultural milieu of the beautiful people. Floating on a cloud of drink, drugs and men, she finds herself adrift, before her talent for writing, and a determined literary agent, set her on a course for New York and a new life. Sex & Rage is a recently re-discovered classic from author Eve Babitz, herself a muse to many an artist, writer and musician in the 1970s. A semi-autobiographical novel, it charts the highs and lows of a life lived at the limits, and transports the reader to a sunnier, dreamier, more reckless time and place.
The Listing Attic
Author | : Edward Gorey |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : UOM:39015046379429 |
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Out of the Attic
Author | : V.C. Andrews |
Publsiher | : Pocket Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2020-12-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781982160425 |
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The twisted, beloved Dollanganger legend began two generations before Corrine Foxworth locked away her children in Flowers in the Attic. The second book in a new prequel story arc, Out of the Attic explores the Dollanganger family saga by traveling back decades to when the clan’s wicked destiny first took root. Married to the handsome, wealthy Garland Foxworth following a wildfire romance and an unexpected pregnancy, young Corrine Dixon finds her life very different from how she imagined it. Often alone in the mansion of Foxworth Hall, she can practically feel the ancestors’ judgment of her as insufficient—as not a Foxworth. Stern portraits glare at her from the walls, and the servants treat her strangely. Nothing in the vast place is truly hers. Even her son, Malcolm Foxworth, born in the luxe Swan Room and instantly whisked away to a wet nurse, feels alien to her. With a husband alternately absent and possessively close, Corrine doesn’t yet realize that she’s barely scratched the surface of what lies beneath Foxworth Hall’s dark facade and the family that guards its legacies. With the fortieth anniversary celebration of Flowers in the Attic, and ten new Lifetime movies in the past five years, there has never been a better time to experience the forbidden world of V.C. Andrews.