Author: Margaret Bloy Graham
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140502190
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Benjy's Dog House
Author: Margaret Bloy Graham
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140502190
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140502190
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Fifteen Dogs
Author: André Alexis
Publisher: Coach House Books
ISBN: 1770564039
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Winner of the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist for the 2015 Toronto Book Awards Winner of the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize "[Alexis] devises an inventive romp through the nature of humanity in this beautiful, entertaining read … A clever exploration of our essence, communication, and how our societies are organized." – Kirkus Reviews "This might be the best set-up of the spring." – The Globe & Mail "André Alexis has established himself as one of our preeminent voices." – Toronto Star — I wonder, said Hermes, what it would be like if animals had human intelligence. — I'll wager a year's servitude, answered Apollo, that animals – any animal you like – would be even more unhappy than humans are, if they were given human intelligence. And so it begins: a bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old 'dog' ways, and those who embrace the change. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their newly unfamiliar world, as they become divided among themselves, as each struggles with new thoughts and feelings. Wily Benjy moves from home to home, Prince becomes a poet, and Majnoun forges a relationship with a kind couple that stops even the Fates in their tracks. André Alexis's contemporary take on the apologue offers an utterly compelling and affecting look at the beauty and perils of human consciousness. By turns meditative and devastating, charming and strange, Fifteen Dogs shows you can teach an old genre new tricks. André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His other previous books include Asylum, Beauty and Sadness, Ingrid & the Wolf and, most recently, Pastoral, which was also nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and was named a Globe and Mail Top 100 book of 2014.
Publisher: Coach House Books
ISBN: 1770564039
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Winner of the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist for the 2015 Toronto Book Awards Winner of the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize "[Alexis] devises an inventive romp through the nature of humanity in this beautiful, entertaining read … A clever exploration of our essence, communication, and how our societies are organized." – Kirkus Reviews "This might be the best set-up of the spring." – The Globe & Mail "André Alexis has established himself as one of our preeminent voices." – Toronto Star — I wonder, said Hermes, what it would be like if animals had human intelligence. — I'll wager a year's servitude, answered Apollo, that animals – any animal you like – would be even more unhappy than humans are, if they were given human intelligence. And so it begins: a bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old 'dog' ways, and those who embrace the change. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their newly unfamiliar world, as they become divided among themselves, as each struggles with new thoughts and feelings. Wily Benjy moves from home to home, Prince becomes a poet, and Majnoun forges a relationship with a kind couple that stops even the Fates in their tracks. André Alexis's contemporary take on the apologue offers an utterly compelling and affecting look at the beauty and perils of human consciousness. By turns meditative and devastating, charming and strange, Fifteen Dogs shows you can teach an old genre new tricks. André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His other previous books include Asylum, Beauty and Sadness, Ingrid & the Wolf and, most recently, Pastoral, which was also nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and was named a Globe and Mail Top 100 book of 2014.
Benjy's Dog House
Author: Margaret Bloy Graham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780370020372
Category : Animal housing
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780370020372
Category : Animal housing
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
The Children of Willow Farm
Author: Enid Blyton
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479454907
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
In The Children of Willow Farm, just like the previous book, we go through the seasons from spring to winter, learning along with the children. The book teaches the reader all about British farming as it was in the 1940s (or at least as it might have been without the war!) Blyton paints an idyllic picture of farm life, where the animals are part of the family.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479454907
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
In The Children of Willow Farm, just like the previous book, we go through the seasons from spring to winter, learning along with the children. The book teaches the reader all about British farming as it was in the 1940s (or at least as it might have been without the war!) Blyton paints an idyllic picture of farm life, where the animals are part of the family.
Benji, the Bad Day, and Me
Author: Sally J. Pla
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
ISBN: 9781643796536
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sammy is having the absolute rottenest, worst day ever. His little brother, Benji, knows exactly what that's like.
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
ISBN: 9781643796536
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sammy is having the absolute rottenest, worst day ever. His little brother, Benji, knows exactly what that's like.
A Faulkner Glossary
Author: Harry Runyan
Publisher: New York, Citadel P
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book is a reference book, and as such it has been arranged to facilitate finding specfic information.
Publisher: New York, Citadel P
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book is a reference book, and as such it has been arranged to facilitate finding specfic information.
Classic Cafes
Author: Adrian Maddox
Publisher: Perseus Books
ISBN: 9781901033830
Category : Coffee shops
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Through the celebrated images of Phil Nicholls and the enthusiasm and attention to detail of Adrian Maddox, the classic cafe is here explored in all its glorious detail.
Publisher: Perseus Books
ISBN: 9781901033830
Category : Coffee shops
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Through the celebrated images of Phil Nicholls and the enthusiasm and attention to detail of Adrian Maddox, the classic cafe is here explored in all its glorious detail.
Radio Fifth Grade
Author: Gordon Korman
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0590419277
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Mayhem breaks out in the fifth grade when the Venice Menace bullies his classmates into letting him become a regular guest on "Kidsview," the school's radio program.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0590419277
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Mayhem breaks out in the fifth grade when the Venice Menace bullies his classmates into letting him become a regular guest on "Kidsview," the school's radio program.
Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants
Author: Lee Goldberg
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440633606
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Obsessive. Compulsive. Detective. The husband of Monk's former assistant, Sharona, has been arrested for murder. Now back in San Francisco, she's ready to reclaim her place in Monk's life-much to the chagrin of his current assistant, Natalie. While Monk tries to maintain a delicate balance between the two women, he discovers a few unsettling snags in the case against Sharona's husband, and may be up against a killer who not only understands him, but is one step ahead.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440633606
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Obsessive. Compulsive. Detective. The husband of Monk's former assistant, Sharona, has been arrested for murder. Now back in San Francisco, she's ready to reclaim her place in Monk's life-much to the chagrin of his current assistant, Natalie. While Monk tries to maintain a delicate balance between the two women, he discovers a few unsettling snags in the case against Sharona's husband, and may be up against a killer who not only understands him, but is one step ahead.
Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative
Author: Esther Rashkin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400863031
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative is the first book to explore the implications of the psychoanalytic theory of the phantom for the study of narrative literature. A phantom is formed when a shameful, unspeakable secret is unwittingly transmitted, through cryptic language and behavior, transgenerationally from one family member to another. The "haunted" individual to whom the "encrypted" secret is communicated becomes the unwitting medium for someone else's voice--and the result is speech and conduct that appear incongruous or obsessive in a variety of ways. Through close readings of texts by Conrad, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Balzac, James, and Poe, Esther Rashkin reveals how shameful secrets, concealed within the unspoken family histories of fictive characters, can be reconstructed from their linguistic traces and can be shown not only to drive the characters' speech and behavior but also to generate their narratives. First articulated by the French psychoanalysts Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, the theory of the phantom here represents a radical departure from Freudian, Lacanian, and other psychoanalytic approaches to literary interpretation. In Rashkin's hands, it also provides a response to structuralist and poststructuralist critiques of character analysis, an alternative to deconstructive strategies of reading, and a new vantage point from which to consider problems of intertextuality, "authorship," and the formation and origins of narrative. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400863031
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative is the first book to explore the implications of the psychoanalytic theory of the phantom for the study of narrative literature. A phantom is formed when a shameful, unspeakable secret is unwittingly transmitted, through cryptic language and behavior, transgenerationally from one family member to another. The "haunted" individual to whom the "encrypted" secret is communicated becomes the unwitting medium for someone else's voice--and the result is speech and conduct that appear incongruous or obsessive in a variety of ways. Through close readings of texts by Conrad, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Balzac, James, and Poe, Esther Rashkin reveals how shameful secrets, concealed within the unspoken family histories of fictive characters, can be reconstructed from their linguistic traces and can be shown not only to drive the characters' speech and behavior but also to generate their narratives. First articulated by the French psychoanalysts Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, the theory of the phantom here represents a radical departure from Freudian, Lacanian, and other psychoanalytic approaches to literary interpretation. In Rashkin's hands, it also provides a response to structuralist and poststructuralist critiques of character analysis, an alternative to deconstructive strategies of reading, and a new vantage point from which to consider problems of intertextuality, "authorship," and the formation and origins of narrative. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.