Author: Melinda Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936270088
Category : Christian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Lydia -- who is about to leave for college and whose family has converted to Orthodox Christianity -- works through her own spiritual crisis by writing letters to an icon of St. Lydia.
Letters to Saint Lydia
Author: Melinda Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936270088
Category : Christian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Lydia -- who is about to leave for college and whose family has converted to Orthodox Christianity -- works through her own spiritual crisis by writing letters to an icon of St. Lydia.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936270088
Category : Christian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Lydia -- who is about to leave for college and whose family has converted to Orthodox Christianity -- works through her own spiritual crisis by writing letters to an icon of St. Lydia.
Lydia Maria Child, Selected Letters, 1817-1880
Author: Lydia Maria Child
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Letters to the Lady Upstairs
Author: Marcel Proust
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008262888
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008262888
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour
Can't and Won't
Author: Lydia Davis
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374711437
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A new collection of short stories from the woman Rick Moody has called "the best prose stylist in America" Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of "Bloomington" reads, "Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before." Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," a professor receives a gift of thirty-two small chocolates and is paralyzed by the multitude of options she imagines for their consumption. The stories may appear in the form of letters of complaint; they may be extracted from Flaubert's correspondence; or they may be inspired by the author's own dreams, or the dreams of friends. What does not vary throughout Can't and Won't, Lydia Davis's fifth collection of stories, is the power of her finely honed prose. Davis is sharply observant; she is wry or witty or poignant. Above all, she is refreshing. Davis writes with bracing candor and sly humor about the quotidian, revealing the mysterious, the foreign, the alienating, and the pleasurable within the predictable patterns of daily life.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374711437
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A new collection of short stories from the woman Rick Moody has called "the best prose stylist in America" Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of "Bloomington" reads, "Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before." Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," a professor receives a gift of thirty-two small chocolates and is paralyzed by the multitude of options she imagines for their consumption. The stories may appear in the form of letters of complaint; they may be extracted from Flaubert's correspondence; or they may be inspired by the author's own dreams, or the dreams of friends. What does not vary throughout Can't and Won't, Lydia Davis's fifth collection of stories, is the power of her finely honed prose. Davis is sharply observant; she is wry or witty or poignant. Above all, she is refreshing. Davis writes with bracing candor and sly humor about the quotidian, revealing the mysterious, the foreign, the alienating, and the pleasurable within the predictable patterns of daily life.
Letters to Lydia
Author: Barbara Eaton
Publisher: Hypatia Publications
ISBN: 9781872229546
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Fact and Fiction: the 19th Century love affair between Henry Hartyn, a chaplain of the East India Company, and his 'beloved Persis' in Cornwall, Lydia Grenfell, based on their letters and diaries.
Publisher: Hypatia Publications
ISBN: 9781872229546
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Fact and Fiction: the 19th Century love affair between Henry Hartyn, a chaplain of the East India Company, and his 'beloved Persis' in Cornwall, Lydia Grenfell, based on their letters and diaries.
Letters to Young Ladies
Author: L. H. Sigourney
Publisher: Gibbs Press
ISBN: 1409768503
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Publisher: Gibbs Press
ISBN: 1409768503
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
A Lydia Maria Child Reader
Author: Lydia Maria Child
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822319498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This rich collection is the first to represent the full range of Child's contributions as a literary innovator, social reformer, and progressive thinker over a career spanning six decades.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822319498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This rich collection is the first to represent the full range of Child's contributions as a literary innovator, social reformer, and progressive thinker over a career spanning six decades.
Letters to a Young Artist
Author: Anna Deavere Smith
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 030748744X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
An inspiring and no-nonsense guide for aspiring artists of all stripes—from “the most exciting individual in American theater” (Newsweek). In vividly anecdotal letters to the young BZ, Anna Deavere Smith addresses the full spectrum of issues that all artists starting out will face: from questions of confidence, discipline, and self-esteem, to fame, failure, and fear, to staying healthy, presenting yourself effectively, building a diverse social and professional network, and using your art to promote social change. At once inspiring and no-nonsense, Letters to a Young Artist will challenge you, motivate you, and set you on a course to pursue your art without compromise.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 030748744X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
An inspiring and no-nonsense guide for aspiring artists of all stripes—from “the most exciting individual in American theater” (Newsweek). In vividly anecdotal letters to the young BZ, Anna Deavere Smith addresses the full spectrum of issues that all artists starting out will face: from questions of confidence, discipline, and self-esteem, to fame, failure, and fear, to staying healthy, presenting yourself effectively, building a diverse social and professional network, and using your art to promote social change. At once inspiring and no-nonsense, Letters to a Young Artist will challenge you, motivate you, and set you on a course to pursue your art without compromise.
Lydia and Maynard
Author: Lydia Lopokova
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780684192024
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Correspondence between the Russian ballet dancer and English economist traces the development of their relationship
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780684192024
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Correspondence between the Russian ballet dancer and English economist traces the development of their relationship
Varieties of Disturbance
Author: Lydia Davis
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466806273
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Lydia Davis has been called "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times), "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon), an innovator who attempts "to remake the model of the modern short story" (The New York Times Book Review). Her admirers include Grace Paley, Jonathan Franzen, and Zadie Smith; as Time magazine observed, her stories are "moving . . . and somehow inevitable, as if she has written what we were all on the verge of thinking." In Varieties of Disturbance, her fourth collection, Davis extends her reach as never before in stories that take every form from sociological studies to concise poems. Her subjects include the five senses, fourth-graders, good taste, and tropical storms. She offers a reinterpretation of insomnia and re-creates the ordeals of Kafka in the kitchen. She questions the lengths to which one should go to save the life of a caterpillar, proposes a clear account of the sexual act, rides the bus, probes the limits of marital fidelity, and unlocks the secret to a long and happy life. No two of these fictions are alike. And yet in each, Davis rearranges our view of the world by looking beyond our preconceptions to a bizarre truth, a source of delight and surprise. Varieties of Disturbance is a 2007 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466806273
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Lydia Davis has been called "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times), "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon), an innovator who attempts "to remake the model of the modern short story" (The New York Times Book Review). Her admirers include Grace Paley, Jonathan Franzen, and Zadie Smith; as Time magazine observed, her stories are "moving . . . and somehow inevitable, as if she has written what we were all on the verge of thinking." In Varieties of Disturbance, her fourth collection, Davis extends her reach as never before in stories that take every form from sociological studies to concise poems. Her subjects include the five senses, fourth-graders, good taste, and tropical storms. She offers a reinterpretation of insomnia and re-creates the ordeals of Kafka in the kitchen. She questions the lengths to which one should go to save the life of a caterpillar, proposes a clear account of the sexual act, rides the bus, probes the limits of marital fidelity, and unlocks the secret to a long and happy life. No two of these fictions are alike. And yet in each, Davis rearranges our view of the world by looking beyond our preconceptions to a bizarre truth, a source of delight and surprise. Varieties of Disturbance is a 2007 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.