Author: Sarah Ready
Publisher: W. W. Crown
ISBN: 9781954007161
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Book-loving, librarian Jessie has loved Gavin Williams for practically her whole life. So when a psychic predicts that Gavin is Jessie's one fated soul mate, she's ecstatic. There's just one itty bitty little problem. Gavin's engaged to marry another woman. What's a book lover to do? Easy. Check out dozens of romance books, study the (totally realistic) way characters fall in love, and make a foolproof plan on how to win her soul mate (in one week). Meet cute? Check. Dance under the stars? Check. Kiss in the rain? Check. Romance books don't lie - it'll all go perfectly. Except, there's another problem. Gavin's twin brother: William Williams IV. Jessie has hated William for as long as she's loved his brother. William is grump to Jessie's sunshine, stand-offish to her extrovert, cold to her warm. And when William learns of Jessie's plan to derail his brother's engagement he swears that he'll do anything to stop her. But after William and Jessie (unwillingly) share a dance...a romantic dinner...a kiss...Jessie starts to wonder, is William actually her soul mate? Or is this just another one of his games? She's can't tell, because this romance definitely isn't going by the book. Romance by the Book is Book 3 in Sarah Ready's Soul Mates in Romeo Romance Series.
Typee; A Romance of the South Seas
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368314734
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368314734
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Marie Corelli, A Romance of Two Worlds
Author: Corelli Marie Corelli
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474441939
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A new scholarly edition of a major late-Victorian scientific romance novelMarie Corelli's A Romance of Two Worlds is regarded as one of the most culturally important Victorian bestsellers. This critical edition offers instructive access to this multifaceted but still largely underappreciated novel that is a key text for scholars and students of late-Victorian women's writing. It also raises urgent questions about a wide array of textual and cultural concerns, especially the form and function of the Victorian 'bestseller'.Key FeaturesContains a thorough critical and analytical introduction, annotations and appendicesProvides context and underlines the aesthetic significance of Corelli's supernatural romanceEngages with the full range of secondary scholarship on this neglected late-Victorian author
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474441939
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A new scholarly edition of a major late-Victorian scientific romance novelMarie Corelli's A Romance of Two Worlds is regarded as one of the most culturally important Victorian bestsellers. This critical edition offers instructive access to this multifaceted but still largely underappreciated novel that is a key text for scholars and students of late-Victorian women's writing. It also raises urgent questions about a wide array of textual and cultural concerns, especially the form and function of the Victorian 'bestseller'.Key FeaturesContains a thorough critical and analytical introduction, annotations and appendicesProvides context and underlines the aesthetic significance of Corelli's supernatural romanceEngages with the full range of secondary scholarship on this neglected late-Victorian author
The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics
Author: Adam Ledgeway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108602797
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1169
Book Description
The Romance languages and dialects constitute a treasure trove of linguistic data of profound interest and significance. Data from the Romance languages have contributed extensively to our current empirical and theoretical understanding of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics. Written by a team of world-renowned scholars, this Handbook explores what we can learn about linguistics from the study of Romance languages, and how the body of comparative and historical data taken from them can be applied to linguistic study. It also offers insights into the diatopic and diachronic variation exhibited by the Romance family of languages, of a kind unparalleled for any other Western languages. By asking what Romance languages can do for linguistics, this Handbook is essential reading for all linguists interested in the insights that a knowledge of the Romance evidence can provide for general issues in linguistic theory.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108602797
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1169
Book Description
The Romance languages and dialects constitute a treasure trove of linguistic data of profound interest and significance. Data from the Romance languages have contributed extensively to our current empirical and theoretical understanding of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics. Written by a team of world-renowned scholars, this Handbook explores what we can learn about linguistics from the study of Romance languages, and how the body of comparative and historical data taken from them can be applied to linguistic study. It also offers insights into the diatopic and diachronic variation exhibited by the Romance family of languages, of a kind unparalleled for any other Western languages. By asking what Romance languages can do for linguistics, this Handbook is essential reading for all linguists interested in the insights that a knowledge of the Romance evidence can provide for general issues in linguistic theory.
The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800
Author: Steven Moore
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1623567408
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Winner of the Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the world's earliest novels in his previous book, literary historian Steven Moore explores in this sequel the remarkable flowering of the novel between the years 1600 and 1800-from Don Quixote to America's first big novel, an homage to Cervantes entitled Modern Chivalry. This is the period of such classic novels as Tom Jones, Candide, and Dangerous Liaisons, but beyond the dozen or so recognized classics there are hundreds of other interesting novels that appeared then, known only to specialists: Spanish picaresques, French heroic romances, massive Chinese novels, Japanese graphic novels, eccentric English novels, and the earliest American novels. These minor novels are not only interesting in their own right, but also provide the context needed to appreciate why the major novels were major breakthroughs. The novel experienced an explosive growth spurt during these centuries as novelists experimented with different forms and genres: epistolary novels, romances, Gothic thrillers, novels in verse, parodies, science fiction, episodic road trips, and family sagas, along with quirky, unclassifiable experiments in fiction that resemble contemporary, avant-garde works. As in his previous volume, Moore privileges the innovators and outriders, those who kept the novel novel. In the most comprehensive history of this period ever written, Moore examines over 400 novels from around the world in a lively style that is as entertaining as it is informative. Though written for a general audience, The Novel, An Alternative History also provides the scholarly apparatus required by the serious student of the period. This sequel, like its predecessor, is a “zestfully encyclopedic, avidly opinionated, and dazzlingly fresh history of the most 'elastic' of literary forms” (Booklist).
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1623567408
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Winner of the Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the world's earliest novels in his previous book, literary historian Steven Moore explores in this sequel the remarkable flowering of the novel between the years 1600 and 1800-from Don Quixote to America's first big novel, an homage to Cervantes entitled Modern Chivalry. This is the period of such classic novels as Tom Jones, Candide, and Dangerous Liaisons, but beyond the dozen or so recognized classics there are hundreds of other interesting novels that appeared then, known only to specialists: Spanish picaresques, French heroic romances, massive Chinese novels, Japanese graphic novels, eccentric English novels, and the earliest American novels. These minor novels are not only interesting in their own right, but also provide the context needed to appreciate why the major novels were major breakthroughs. The novel experienced an explosive growth spurt during these centuries as novelists experimented with different forms and genres: epistolary novels, romances, Gothic thrillers, novels in verse, parodies, science fiction, episodic road trips, and family sagas, along with quirky, unclassifiable experiments in fiction that resemble contemporary, avant-garde works. As in his previous volume, Moore privileges the innovators and outriders, those who kept the novel novel. In the most comprehensive history of this period ever written, Moore examines over 400 novels from around the world in a lively style that is as entertaining as it is informative. Though written for a general audience, The Novel, An Alternative History also provides the scholarly apparatus required by the serious student of the period. This sequel, like its predecessor, is a “zestfully encyclopedic, avidly opinionated, and dazzlingly fresh history of the most 'elastic' of literary forms” (Booklist).
Adoring Outlander
Author: Valerie Estelle Frankel
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476664234
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
What is behind Outlander fever--the hit television drama's popularity? Is it author Diana Gabaldon's teasing posts on social media? Is it the real history reimagined? The highly emotional melodrama? Or is it the take-charge heroine and the sweet hero in a kilt? One of the show's biggest draws is its multigenre appeal. Gabaldon--whose Outlander novels form the basis of the series--has called it science fiction, fantasy, romance, historical fiction and military fiction, depending on her audience. This collection of new essays explores the series as a romance, a ghost story, an epic journey, a cozy mystery, a comedy of manners, a gothic thriller and a feminist answer to Game of Thrones, and considers the source of its broad appeal.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476664234
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
What is behind Outlander fever--the hit television drama's popularity? Is it author Diana Gabaldon's teasing posts on social media? Is it the real history reimagined? The highly emotional melodrama? Or is it the take-charge heroine and the sweet hero in a kilt? One of the show's biggest draws is its multigenre appeal. Gabaldon--whose Outlander novels form the basis of the series--has called it science fiction, fantasy, romance, historical fiction and military fiction, depending on her audience. This collection of new essays explores the series as a romance, a ghost story, an epic journey, a cozy mystery, a comedy of manners, a gothic thriller and a feminist answer to Game of Thrones, and considers the source of its broad appeal.
Safe
Author: Isla Chiu
Publisher: Isla Chiu
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
He wants to keep me safe. But that’s not all he wants… A few weeks after leaving my jerk of a brother, I find myself broke and homeless. When I pick up a student ID, I think I’ve found my salvation. Little do I know that it would lead me to Graham Lang, who wants to keep me safe and to make me his… Safe is a standalone book in the Alpha Male U series containing—you guessed it—hot alpha males, the women they’re determined to claim for their own, and HEAs! WORD COUNT: 10,000 Excerpt: I joke, “You should stop treating me this well. Otherwise, I might never leave.” My words cause him to stiffen. Wait, does he think I’m being serious? Oh Lord, the idea of me mooching off him indefinitely must be freaking him out. I say quickly, “I’m joking. Once I find a job, I’ll be out of your hair.” He passes a jug of maple syrup to me. “You can take your time with the job search. There’s no rush.” I bet he’s just saying that to be polite. I drench my pancakes in maple syrup, prompting him to ask, “Do you have dental insurance?” “Um, no…” “You shouldn’t have so much sugar. Cavity fillings are expensive.” I want to roll my eyes. “I’ll floss and brush my teeth thoroughly later.” Under his slightly judgmental gaze, I devour the breakfast like it’s my last. Regret fills me when my plate and glass are empty. This might be the last decent meal I have for a while; I should’ve savored it. “Hey, you got syrup on your lip,” he says. “Oh, thanks.” Before I can reach for a napkin, he rubs his fingers over my mouth. My heart skips a beat. He’s so close to me now. I can feel his warmth and catch his scent. He smells like soap and lemons. I expect him to step back now that he’s wiped the syrup off my lip, but his fingers remain on the edge of my mouth. He stares at me like I’m a half-finished puzzle he’s been studying for hours. “Olivia.” His voice is soft. I wait for him to say something else, but he just continues staring at me, his fingers still on my face. Additional keywords: interracial romance, Asian heroine, alpha male hero, obsessed hero, instalove
Publisher: Isla Chiu
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
He wants to keep me safe. But that’s not all he wants… A few weeks after leaving my jerk of a brother, I find myself broke and homeless. When I pick up a student ID, I think I’ve found my salvation. Little do I know that it would lead me to Graham Lang, who wants to keep me safe and to make me his… Safe is a standalone book in the Alpha Male U series containing—you guessed it—hot alpha males, the women they’re determined to claim for their own, and HEAs! WORD COUNT: 10,000 Excerpt: I joke, “You should stop treating me this well. Otherwise, I might never leave.” My words cause him to stiffen. Wait, does he think I’m being serious? Oh Lord, the idea of me mooching off him indefinitely must be freaking him out. I say quickly, “I’m joking. Once I find a job, I’ll be out of your hair.” He passes a jug of maple syrup to me. “You can take your time with the job search. There’s no rush.” I bet he’s just saying that to be polite. I drench my pancakes in maple syrup, prompting him to ask, “Do you have dental insurance?” “Um, no…” “You shouldn’t have so much sugar. Cavity fillings are expensive.” I want to roll my eyes. “I’ll floss and brush my teeth thoroughly later.” Under his slightly judgmental gaze, I devour the breakfast like it’s my last. Regret fills me when my plate and glass are empty. This might be the last decent meal I have for a while; I should’ve savored it. “Hey, you got syrup on your lip,” he says. “Oh, thanks.” Before I can reach for a napkin, he rubs his fingers over my mouth. My heart skips a beat. He’s so close to me now. I can feel his warmth and catch his scent. He smells like soap and lemons. I expect him to step back now that he’s wiped the syrup off my lip, but his fingers remain on the edge of my mouth. He stares at me like I’m a half-finished puzzle he’s been studying for hours. “Olivia.” His voice is soft. I wait for him to say something else, but he just continues staring at me, his fingers still on my face. Additional keywords: interracial romance, Asian heroine, alpha male hero, obsessed hero, instalove
The mysteries of Paris; from the Fr., by J.D. Smith
Author: Marie Joseph Eugène Sue
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1814
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1814
Book Description
How Novels Work
Author: John Mullan
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191622923
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic readership in the discussion of how novels work. Drawing on his weekly Guardian column, 'Elements of Fiction', John Mullan examines novels mostly of the last ten years, many of which have become firm favourites with reading groups. He reveals the rich resources of novelistic technique, setting recent fiction alongside classics of the past. Nick Hornby's adoption of a female narrator is compared to Daniel Defoe's; Ian McEwan's use of weather is set against Austen's and Hardy's; Carole Shield's chapter divisions are likened to Fanny Burney's. Each section shows how some basic element of fiction is used. Some topics (like plot, dialogue, or location) will appear familiar to most novel readers; others (metanarrative, prolepsis, amplification) will open readers' eyes to new ways of understanding and appreciating the writer's craft. How Novels Work explains how the pleasures of novel reading often come from the formal ingenuity of the novelist. It is an entertaining and stimulating exploration of that ingenuity. Addressed to anyone who is interested in the close reading of fiction, it makes visible techniques and effects we are often only half-aware of as we read. It shows that literary criticism is something that all fiction enthusiasts can do. Contemporary novels discussed include: Monica Ali's Brick Lane; Martin Amis's Money; Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin; A.S. Byatt's Possession; Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club; J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace; Michael Cunningham's The Hours; Don DeLillo's Underworld; Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White; Ian Fleming's From Russia with Love; Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections; Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time; Patricia Highsmith's Ripley under Ground; Alan Hollinghurst's The Spell; Nick Hornby's How to Be Good; Ian McEwan's Atonement; John le Carré's The Constant Gardener; Andrea Levy's Small Island; David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas; Andrew O'Hagan's Personality; Orhan Pamuk's My Name Is Red; Ann Patchett's Bel Canto; Ruth Rendell's Adam and Eve and Pinch Me; Philip Roth's The Human Stain; Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated; Carol Shields's Unless; Zadie Smith's White Teeth; Muriel Spark's Aiding and Abetting; Graham Swift's Last Orders; Donna Tartt's The Secret History; William Trevor's The Hill Bachelors; and Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road .
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191622923
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic readership in the discussion of how novels work. Drawing on his weekly Guardian column, 'Elements of Fiction', John Mullan examines novels mostly of the last ten years, many of which have become firm favourites with reading groups. He reveals the rich resources of novelistic technique, setting recent fiction alongside classics of the past. Nick Hornby's adoption of a female narrator is compared to Daniel Defoe's; Ian McEwan's use of weather is set against Austen's and Hardy's; Carole Shield's chapter divisions are likened to Fanny Burney's. Each section shows how some basic element of fiction is used. Some topics (like plot, dialogue, or location) will appear familiar to most novel readers; others (metanarrative, prolepsis, amplification) will open readers' eyes to new ways of understanding and appreciating the writer's craft. How Novels Work explains how the pleasures of novel reading often come from the formal ingenuity of the novelist. It is an entertaining and stimulating exploration of that ingenuity. Addressed to anyone who is interested in the close reading of fiction, it makes visible techniques and effects we are often only half-aware of as we read. It shows that literary criticism is something that all fiction enthusiasts can do. Contemporary novels discussed include: Monica Ali's Brick Lane; Martin Amis's Money; Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin; A.S. Byatt's Possession; Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club; J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace; Michael Cunningham's The Hours; Don DeLillo's Underworld; Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White; Ian Fleming's From Russia with Love; Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections; Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time; Patricia Highsmith's Ripley under Ground; Alan Hollinghurst's The Spell; Nick Hornby's How to Be Good; Ian McEwan's Atonement; John le Carré's The Constant Gardener; Andrea Levy's Small Island; David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas; Andrew O'Hagan's Personality; Orhan Pamuk's My Name Is Red; Ann Patchett's Bel Canto; Ruth Rendell's Adam and Eve and Pinch Me; Philip Roth's The Human Stain; Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated; Carol Shields's Unless; Zadie Smith's White Teeth; Muriel Spark's Aiding and Abetting; Graham Swift's Last Orders; Donna Tartt's The Secret History; William Trevor's The Hill Bachelors; and Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road .
New Perspectives on the Haskalah
Author: Shmuel Feiner
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1909821314
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Revises our understanding of the relationship between the Haskalah, Orthodoxy, and hasidism, reassesses the role of key individuals in the movement, and offers a new, more nuanced, definition of the Haskalah. Should be of interest to all students of modern Jewish history, literature, and culture in eighteenth-century Germany and eastern Europe in the nineteenth century.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1909821314
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Revises our understanding of the relationship between the Haskalah, Orthodoxy, and hasidism, reassesses the role of key individuals in the movement, and offers a new, more nuanced, definition of the Haskalah. Should be of interest to all students of modern Jewish history, literature, and culture in eighteenth-century Germany and eastern Europe in the nineteenth century.