Author: Jason Steele
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781537593357
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Charlie the unicorn finds himself in the magical world of Dreamspace, a mysterious realm that is being corrupted by something called "the grayness." Follow along as Charlie and his blue and pink unicorn "friends" journey to stop the grayness and save the poor, suffering dream creatures from a terrible and peculiar fate.
Charlie the Unicorn: Lost in Dreamspace
Author: Jason Steele
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781537593357
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Charlie the unicorn finds himself in the magical world of Dreamspace, a mysterious realm that is being corrupted by something called "the grayness." Follow along as Charlie and his blue and pink unicorn "friends" journey to stop the grayness and save the poor, suffering dream creatures from a terrible and peculiar fate.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781537593357
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Charlie the unicorn finds himself in the magical world of Dreamspace, a mysterious realm that is being corrupted by something called "the grayness." Follow along as Charlie and his blue and pink unicorn "friends" journey to stop the grayness and save the poor, suffering dream creatures from a terrible and peculiar fate.
Marshmallow People and the Suffocating Despair of Existence
Author: Jason Steele
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781540490377
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Marshmallow People go on an exciting and revelatory adventure where they discover that existence itself is an inescapable pit of despair. Laugh along as you slowly accept this dark truth into your withering heart!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781540490377
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Marshmallow People go on an exciting and revelatory adventure where they discover that existence itself is an inescapable pit of despair. Laugh along as you slowly accept this dark truth into your withering heart!
Well, I Was Murdered in a Lake Again
Author: Jason Steele
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781720582113
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Most people will never experience the agony and terror of being murdered in a lake. For Cyrena Shade, however, it has happened twice. Twice she has had her life ruthlessly ripped away from her, and both times the terrible deed occurred while she was in a lake. Now she's hunting down her killer, and searching for clues as to why she's still around after having been fully, truly murdered two entire times.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781720582113
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Most people will never experience the agony and terror of being murdered in a lake. For Cyrena Shade, however, it has happened twice. Twice she has had her life ruthlessly ripped away from her, and both times the terrible deed occurred while she was in a lake. Now she's hunting down her killer, and searching for clues as to why she's still around after having been fully, truly murdered two entire times.
Actions and Goals
Author: Marshall Dotson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537001401
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
How is A Game of Thrones the same story as The Lego Movie? How is the mind-bending plot of Inception identical to the terse narrative of Gravity? In what way is Clarice Starling's struggle to silence the lambs indistinguishable from Harry Potter's pursuit of the philosopher's stone? Despite the striking difference in these stories, they share a less conspicuous similarity: they're all structured on a universal pattern of actions undertaken by their characters.This sequence of six Actions and Goals is the hidden foundation of modern story structure. By aligning the unique actions your characters takes with these universal story actions, you can create propulsive narratives that grab your audience by the lapels and punch them in the face (figuratively, of course). Whether you're writing for television or plotting a novel, penning your first screenplay or coming off your most recent bestseller, this groundbreaking storytelling technique is guaranteed to change your perception of story.Actions and Goals will teach you: How to use the actions of your character to structure your story.Why your character's goal should change as the story progresses.The five turning points and the decision your character must make at each one.How a conflict of ideals creates the opposition your character faces.How your character's attempt to fulfill a new role propels him through the narrative. Successful storytellers understand the importance of structure. Actions and Goals gives you beat by beat examples of this structural secret at work in over a dozen critically acclaimed novels and films. From The Hunger Games to The Empire Strikes Back, from Titanic to Iron Man, you will learn the simple, effective structure at the heart of them all.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537001401
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
How is A Game of Thrones the same story as The Lego Movie? How is the mind-bending plot of Inception identical to the terse narrative of Gravity? In what way is Clarice Starling's struggle to silence the lambs indistinguishable from Harry Potter's pursuit of the philosopher's stone? Despite the striking difference in these stories, they share a less conspicuous similarity: they're all structured on a universal pattern of actions undertaken by their characters.This sequence of six Actions and Goals is the hidden foundation of modern story structure. By aligning the unique actions your characters takes with these universal story actions, you can create propulsive narratives that grab your audience by the lapels and punch them in the face (figuratively, of course). Whether you're writing for television or plotting a novel, penning your first screenplay or coming off your most recent bestseller, this groundbreaking storytelling technique is guaranteed to change your perception of story.Actions and Goals will teach you: How to use the actions of your character to structure your story.Why your character's goal should change as the story progresses.The five turning points and the decision your character must make at each one.How a conflict of ideals creates the opposition your character faces.How your character's attempt to fulfill a new role propels him through the narrative. Successful storytellers understand the importance of structure. Actions and Goals gives you beat by beat examples of this structural secret at work in over a dozen critically acclaimed novels and films. From The Hunger Games to The Empire Strikes Back, from Titanic to Iron Man, you will learn the simple, effective structure at the heart of them all.
The Ghost House Guide to Ghosts
Author: Jason Steele
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781517647537
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781517647537
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The Cambridge History of Modernism
Author: Vincent Sherry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316720535
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1579
Book Description
This Cambridge History of Modernism is the first comprehensive history of modernism in the distinguished Cambridge Histories series. It identifies a distinctive temperament of 'modernism' within the 'modern' period, establishing the circumstances of modernized life as the ground and warrant for an art that becomes 'modernist' by virtue of its demonstrably self-conscious involvement in this modern condition. Following this sensibility from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, tracking its manifestations across pan-European and transatlantic locations, the forty-three chapters offer a remarkable combination of breadth and focus. Prominent scholars of modernism provide analytical narratives of its literature, music, visual arts, architecture, philosophy, and science, offering circumstantial accounts of its diverse personnel in their many settings. These historically informed readings offer definitive accounts of the major work of twentieth-century cultural history and provide a new cornerstone for the study of modernism in the current century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316720535
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1579
Book Description
This Cambridge History of Modernism is the first comprehensive history of modernism in the distinguished Cambridge Histories series. It identifies a distinctive temperament of 'modernism' within the 'modern' period, establishing the circumstances of modernized life as the ground and warrant for an art that becomes 'modernist' by virtue of its demonstrably self-conscious involvement in this modern condition. Following this sensibility from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, tracking its manifestations across pan-European and transatlantic locations, the forty-three chapters offer a remarkable combination of breadth and focus. Prominent scholars of modernism provide analytical narratives of its literature, music, visual arts, architecture, philosophy, and science, offering circumstantial accounts of its diverse personnel in their many settings. These historically informed readings offer definitive accounts of the major work of twentieth-century cultural history and provide a new cornerstone for the study of modernism in the current century.
Native Americans on Film
Author: M. Elise Marubbio
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813136652
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Looks at the movies of Native American filmmakers and explores how they have used their works to leave behind the stereotypical Native American characters of old.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813136652
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Looks at the movies of Native American filmmakers and explores how they have used their works to leave behind the stereotypical Native American characters of old.
Agaat
Author: Marlene Van Niekerk
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1951142217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
“I was immediately mesmerized . . . as brilliant as it is haunting.” —Toni Morrison In 1940s apartheid South Africa, Milla de Wet discovers a child abandoned in the fields of her family farm. Ignoring the warnings of friends and family, Milla brings the girl, Agaat, into her home. But the kindness is fleeting, as Milla makes Agaat her maidservant and, later, a nanny for her son. At turns cruel and tender, this relationship between a wealthy white woman and her Black maidservant is constantly fraught and shaped by a rigid social order. Decades later, Milla is confined to her bed with ALS, and is quickly losing her ability to communicate. Her family has fallen apart, her country is on the brink of change, and all she has left are her memories—and a reckoning with the only person who remains by her side: Agaat. In complex and devastating ways, the power shifts between the two women, mirroring the historic upheavals happening around them and revealing a shared lifetime of hopes, sacrifices, and control. Hailed as an international masterpiece, Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat is a haunting and deeply layered saga of resilience, loyalty, betrayal, and how the passage of time cannot heal all wounds.
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1951142217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
“I was immediately mesmerized . . . as brilliant as it is haunting.” —Toni Morrison In 1940s apartheid South Africa, Milla de Wet discovers a child abandoned in the fields of her family farm. Ignoring the warnings of friends and family, Milla brings the girl, Agaat, into her home. But the kindness is fleeting, as Milla makes Agaat her maidservant and, later, a nanny for her son. At turns cruel and tender, this relationship between a wealthy white woman and her Black maidservant is constantly fraught and shaped by a rigid social order. Decades later, Milla is confined to her bed with ALS, and is quickly losing her ability to communicate. Her family has fallen apart, her country is on the brink of change, and all she has left are her memories—and a reckoning with the only person who remains by her side: Agaat. In complex and devastating ways, the power shifts between the two women, mirroring the historic upheavals happening around them and revealing a shared lifetime of hopes, sacrifices, and control. Hailed as an international masterpiece, Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat is a haunting and deeply layered saga of resilience, loyalty, betrayal, and how the passage of time cannot heal all wounds.
Triomf
Author: Marlene Van Niekerk
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1468302221
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
“A scatologocial black satire . . . Triomf may be the signal Afrikaans novel of the 1990s . . . A daring, vicious and hilarious flight of imagination” (The Washington Post). This is the story of the four inhabitants of 127 Martha Street in the poor white suburb of Triomf. Living on the ruins of old Sophiatown, the freehold township razed to the ground as a so-called “black spot,” they await with trepidation their country’s first democratic elections. It is a date that coincides fatefully with the fortieth birthday of Lambert, the oversexed misfit son of the house. There is also Treppie, master of misrule and family metaphysician; Pop, the angel of peace teetering on the brink of the grave; and Mol, the materfamilias in her eternal housecoat. Pestered on a daily basis by nosy neighbors, National Party canvassers and Jehovah’s Witnesses, defenseless against the big city towering over them like a vengeful dinosaur, they often resort to quoting to each other the only consolation that they know; we still have each other and a roof over our heads. Triomf relentlessly probes Afrikaner history and politics, revealing the bizarre and tragic effect that apartheid had on exactly the white underclass who were most supposed to benefit. It is also a seriously funny investigation of the human endeavor to make sense of life even under the most abject of circumstances. “South Africa as you’ve never seen it: a tale of incest and white trash. Funny, feisty, ferociously clever.” —Gillian Slovo, author of Ten Days “A world-class tragicomic novel, the kind of book that stabs at your heart while it has you rolling on the floor.” —The New York Times Book Review
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1468302221
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
“A scatologocial black satire . . . Triomf may be the signal Afrikaans novel of the 1990s . . . A daring, vicious and hilarious flight of imagination” (The Washington Post). This is the story of the four inhabitants of 127 Martha Street in the poor white suburb of Triomf. Living on the ruins of old Sophiatown, the freehold township razed to the ground as a so-called “black spot,” they await with trepidation their country’s first democratic elections. It is a date that coincides fatefully with the fortieth birthday of Lambert, the oversexed misfit son of the house. There is also Treppie, master of misrule and family metaphysician; Pop, the angel of peace teetering on the brink of the grave; and Mol, the materfamilias in her eternal housecoat. Pestered on a daily basis by nosy neighbors, National Party canvassers and Jehovah’s Witnesses, defenseless against the big city towering over them like a vengeful dinosaur, they often resort to quoting to each other the only consolation that they know; we still have each other and a roof over our heads. Triomf relentlessly probes Afrikaner history and politics, revealing the bizarre and tragic effect that apartheid had on exactly the white underclass who were most supposed to benefit. It is also a seriously funny investigation of the human endeavor to make sense of life even under the most abject of circumstances. “South Africa as you’ve never seen it: a tale of incest and white trash. Funny, feisty, ferociously clever.” —Gillian Slovo, author of Ten Days “A world-class tragicomic novel, the kind of book that stabs at your heart while it has you rolling on the floor.” —The New York Times Book Review
Professor Toothy: the Final Lesson
Author: Jason Steele
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781548406042
Category : Teeth
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
It's Talia the lion's first day at Grimstone University, an enchanted school for magical beings. While making her way to class she unwittingly stumbles upon the laboratory of Professor Toothy, a huge living tooth who is researching the ancient and mysterious magic of time travel. What dark secrets will Talia uncover about the professor's curious work?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781548406042
Category : Teeth
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
It's Talia the lion's first day at Grimstone University, an enchanted school for magical beings. While making her way to class she unwittingly stumbles upon the laboratory of Professor Toothy, a huge living tooth who is researching the ancient and mysterious magic of time travel. What dark secrets will Talia uncover about the professor's curious work?