King Lear

King Lear PDF Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 152

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King Lear

King Lear PDF Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 152

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The Next Hundred Lears

The Next Hundred Lears PDF Author: John Arthur Nichol
Publisher: John Arthur Nichol
ISBN: 0648905934
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 121

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Edward Lear is remembered, and rightly so, as the Father of the Limerick. Were it not for him, this little five line verse form may never have become such a beloved, ubiquitous part of our literary and popular culture. Yet the very thing that makes the limerick so appealing, held no appeal for Edward Lear. The final line of his verses offered no twist, and it didn’t seek to make his readers giggle. It was a summing up, and nothing more. But Lear had opened Victorian eyes to the possibilities inherent in the limerick: His Book of Nonsense was a runaway bestseller. In 1872 Lear published one hundred new limericks, hoping to repeat his earlier success. But while his earlier verses are still fondly remembered today, still anthologised, still quoted in mainstream and social media, his next hundred limericks are unknown. Why? Because, by 1872, the limerick had taken on a life of its own, and was romping towards the twentieth century with outlandish, irreverent and often obscene delight. And Lear couldn't follow. It just wasn't in his nature to go there. So having set the limerick on its journey, he now stood alone and watched it vanish in the distance. Limericks After Lear breathes new life into Edward Lear's creations. Book One, The Fifth Line, took A Book of Nonsense as its starting point and sent all 112 verses off in new directions. Now, Book Two retrieves the forgotten verses of 1872 and presents them complete: one hundred original Lears, plus a brand new, family-friendly limerick for each. The Next Hundred Lears ... Two hundred limericks you won’t have met before. And they might even make you giggle :)

Lear's Self-Discovery

Lear's Self-Discovery PDF Author: Paul A. Jorgensen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520319362
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.

Something for Nothing

Something for Nothing PDF Author: T. J. Jackson Lears
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Fortune
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Drawing on a vast body of research, Lears ranges through the entire sweep of American history as he uncovers the hidden influence of risk taking, conjuring, soothsaying, and sheer dumb luck on our culture, politics, social lives, and economy."--BOOK JACKET.

World of Echo

World of Echo PDF Author: Adin E. Lears
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501749617
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Between late antiquity and the fifteenth century, theologians, philosophers, and poets struggled to articulate the correct relationship between sound and sense, creating taxonomies of sounds based on their capacity to carry meaning. In World of Echo, Adin E. Lears traces how medieval thinkers adopted the concept of noise as a mode of lay understanding grounded in the body and the senses. With a broadly interdisciplinary approach, Lears examines a range of literary genres to highlight the poetic and social effects of this vibrant discourse, offering close readings of works by Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, as well as the mystics Richard Rolle and Margery Kempe. Each of these writers embraced an embodied experience of language resistant to clear articulation, even as their work reflects inherited anxieties about the appeal of such sensations. A preoccupation with the sound of language emerged in the form of poetic soundplay at the same time that mysticism and other forms of lay piety began to flower in England. As Lears shows, the presence of such emphatic aural texture amplified the cognitive importance of feeling in conjunction with reason and was a means for the laity—including lay women—to cultivate embodied forms of knowledge on their own terms, in precarious relation to existing clerical models of instruction. World of Echo offers a deep history of the cultural and social hierarchies that coalesce around aesthetic experience and gives voice to alternate ways of knowing.

Maxwell Lear's Book

Maxwell Lear's Book PDF Author: Michael Garcia
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781450212199
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Twelve-year-old Maxwell Lear is tired of seeing doctors, taking pills, spending nights in hospitals, and undergoing humiliating procedures. But things escalate from bad to worse when a new doctor, a terrible man with a graveyard face and twisted eye, asks him, "Have you bought your coffin yet?" Maxwell, an avid reader, desperately wants to be like his friends, but at every turn he's reminded he'll never be anything but a sick child, a thing he's beginning to believe himself. He tries to find ways to cope, but when the cruel doctor begins to visit him in the middle of the night, Maxwell realizes the end is near. That is, until a mysterious stranger gives him the chance to leave it all behind-the doctors, the pills, the surgeries, the pain-and enter a world where he discovers a book bearing his name-the very book the reader is holding. In fact-it's a book where he's the main character and the middle and the ending are still to be written. But when the book is stolen, Maxwell knows he may lose more than just his life. Who will write the rest of Maxwell's book? The answer will determine his fate once and for all.

Even This I Get to Experience

Even This I Get to Experience PDF Author: Norman Lear
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0143127969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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The legendary creator of iconic television programs All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Norman Lear remade our television culture, while leading a life of unparalleled political, civic, and social involvement. Sharing the wealth of Lear's ninety years, this is a memoir as touching and remarkable as the life he has led.

The Book of Nonsense

The Book of Nonsense PDF Author: Edward Lear
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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The Book of Nonsense, first published in 1846, stands alone as the ultimate and most loved expression in English of freewheeling, benign, and unconstricted merriment. The poems of the book tell the stories of the owls, hen, larks, and their nests in his beard, and other fey fauna and peculiar persons. They all inhabit the uniquely inspired nonsense rhymes and drawings of Lear, who was a 20th child of a London stockbroker.

Lear's Daughters

Lear's Daughters PDF Author: Marjorie B. Kellogg
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440699704
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 852

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The environmentally-themed science fiction classic that's "grand- scale storytelling (Library Journal)." The year is 2073. Earth's climate is faltering and her ecosystems are breaking down. Her burgeoning populations now rely on food and energy supplies imported from colony worlds. A routine exploratory mission to the planet Fiix finds a world at war with itself, continuously devastated by unpredictable weather patterns. When storms and flooding ruin the Terran base camp and destroy their power and communication links, the explorers must discover what's causing the weather's behavior, not just for the sake of science, but to ensure the expedition's success and survival.

Radical Hope

Radical Hope PDF Author: Jonathan Lear
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674040023
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Presents the story of Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation. This title contains a philosophical and ethical inquiry into a people faced with the end of their way of life.