Author: Elizabeth Gold
Publisher: Tarcher
ISBN: 9781585423774
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
An account of one teacher's experiences in the ill-fated New Visions school system describes her attempts to fulfill unrealistic ideals that included no books in the classroom, a tenure marked by a number of remarkable young people.
Brief Intervals of Horrible Sanity
Author: Elizabeth Gold
Publisher: Tarcher
ISBN: 9781585423774
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
An account of one teacher's experiences in the ill-fated New Visions school system describes her attempts to fulfill unrealistic ideals that included no books in the classroom, a tenure marked by a number of remarkable young people.
Publisher: Tarcher
ISBN: 9781585423774
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
An account of one teacher's experiences in the ill-fated New Visions school system describes her attempts to fulfill unrealistic ideals that included no books in the classroom, a tenure marked by a number of remarkable young people.
I Became Insane with Long Intervals of Horrible Sanity
Author: Mark Davis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781670826725
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Buy Now! Perfect for any Edgar Allan Poe Lover to use to write, sketch and journal. Show your love for Poe with this classic Poe quote and simple and elegant design. This Edgar Allan Poe notebook is the perfect gift for any literary fan you know that has a unique sense of style. This journal measure 6x9 and has over 100 lines pages with dated header. Add it to your cart today.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781670826725
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Buy Now! Perfect for any Edgar Allan Poe Lover to use to write, sketch and journal. Show your love for Poe with this classic Poe quote and simple and elegant design. This Edgar Allan Poe notebook is the perfect gift for any literary fan you know that has a unique sense of style. This journal measure 6x9 and has over 100 lines pages with dated header. Add it to your cart today.
Coming Undone
Author: Terri White
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1786896796
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
'BREATHTAKING' Dolly Alderton, 'REMARKABLE' Marian Keyes, 'LIFE-CHANGING' Emma Jane Unsworth, 'COMPELLING' Amy Liptrot, 'EXTRAORDINARY' Sali Hughes To everyone else, Terri White appeared to be living the dream – living in New York City, with a top job editing a major magazine. In reality, she was struggling with the trauma of an abusive childhood and rapidly skidding towards a mental health crisis that would land her in a psychiatric ward. Coming Undone is Terri's story of her unravelling, and her precarious journey back from a life in pieces.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1786896796
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
'BREATHTAKING' Dolly Alderton, 'REMARKABLE' Marian Keyes, 'LIFE-CHANGING' Emma Jane Unsworth, 'COMPELLING' Amy Liptrot, 'EXTRAORDINARY' Sali Hughes To everyone else, Terri White appeared to be living the dream – living in New York City, with a top job editing a major magazine. In reality, she was struggling with the trauma of an abusive childhood and rapidly skidding towards a mental health crisis that would land her in a psychiatric ward. Coming Undone is Terri's story of her unravelling, and her precarious journey back from a life in pieces.
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night
Author: John Tresch
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374717443
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award Winner of the 2021 Quinn Award An innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe—highlighting his fascination and feuds with science. Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most popular American writers. He is beloved around the world for his pioneering detective fiction, tales of horror, and haunting, atmospheric verse. But what if there was another side to the man who wrote “The Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”? In The Reason for the Darkness of the Night, John Tresch offers a bold new biography of a writer whose short, tortured life continues to fascinate. Shining a spotlight on an era when the lines separating entertainment, speculation, and scientific inquiry were blurred, Tresch reveals Poe’s obsession with science and lifelong ambition to advance and question human knowledge. Even as he composed dazzling works of fiction, he remained an avid and often combative commentator on new discoveries, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted the era’s most prominent scientists, semi-scientists, and pseudo-intellectual rogues. As one newspaper put it, “Mr. Poe is not merely a man of science—not merely a poet—not merely a man of letters. He is all combined; and perhaps he is something more.” Taking us through his early training in mathematics and engineering at West Point and the tumultuous years that followed, Tresch shows that Poe lived, thought, and suffered surrounded by science—and that many of his most renowned and imaginative works can best be understood in its company. He cast doubt on perceived certainties even as he hungered for knowledge, and at the end of his life delivered a mind-bending lecture on the origins of the universe that would win the admiration of twentieth-century physicists. Pursuing extraordinary conjectures and a unique aesthetic vision, he remained a figure of explosive contradiction: he gleefully exposed the hoaxes of the era’s scientific fraudsters even as he perpetrated hoaxes himself. Tracing Poe’s hard and brilliant journey, The Reason for the Darkness of the Night is an essential new portrait of a writer whose life is synonymous with mystery and imagination—and an entertaining, erudite tour of the world of American science just as it was beginning to come into its own.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374717443
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award Winner of the 2021 Quinn Award An innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe—highlighting his fascination and feuds with science. Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most popular American writers. He is beloved around the world for his pioneering detective fiction, tales of horror, and haunting, atmospheric verse. But what if there was another side to the man who wrote “The Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”? In The Reason for the Darkness of the Night, John Tresch offers a bold new biography of a writer whose short, tortured life continues to fascinate. Shining a spotlight on an era when the lines separating entertainment, speculation, and scientific inquiry were blurred, Tresch reveals Poe’s obsession with science and lifelong ambition to advance and question human knowledge. Even as he composed dazzling works of fiction, he remained an avid and often combative commentator on new discoveries, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted the era’s most prominent scientists, semi-scientists, and pseudo-intellectual rogues. As one newspaper put it, “Mr. Poe is not merely a man of science—not merely a poet—not merely a man of letters. He is all combined; and perhaps he is something more.” Taking us through his early training in mathematics and engineering at West Point and the tumultuous years that followed, Tresch shows that Poe lived, thought, and suffered surrounded by science—and that many of his most renowned and imaginative works can best be understood in its company. He cast doubt on perceived certainties even as he hungered for knowledge, and at the end of his life delivered a mind-bending lecture on the origins of the universe that would win the admiration of twentieth-century physicists. Pursuing extraordinary conjectures and a unique aesthetic vision, he remained a figure of explosive contradiction: he gleefully exposed the hoaxes of the era’s scientific fraudsters even as he perpetrated hoaxes himself. Tracing Poe’s hard and brilliant journey, The Reason for the Darkness of the Night is an essential new portrait of a writer whose life is synonymous with mystery and imagination—and an entertaining, erudite tour of the world of American science just as it was beginning to come into its own.
A Coffin of Stars
Author: Matthew Ewald
Publisher: Black Bed Sheet Books
ISBN: 1946874426
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
In rural Virginia, Liam Bishop, a former Army Ranger with a troubled past, unwittingly discovers a mysterious cosmic force that begins haunting not only the woods beyond his property, but the very starlit skies above. What begins as neighborly concern over a series of bizarre occurrences, becomes an investigation into an endless nightmare in which Liam will not only have to confront the darkness within himself, but dig into the inhuman truths that lie beyond anything he could have ever imagined. As the world braces against the growing fears of extraterrestrial phenomenon, Liam Bishop will come to realize that this isn't an abduction he's facing...it's revenge. Based on the motion picture from star/producer/director Matthew Ewald (Author, Human Nature, Whispers in the Cries, The Coffin Clock)
Publisher: Black Bed Sheet Books
ISBN: 1946874426
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
In rural Virginia, Liam Bishop, a former Army Ranger with a troubled past, unwittingly discovers a mysterious cosmic force that begins haunting not only the woods beyond his property, but the very starlit skies above. What begins as neighborly concern over a series of bizarre occurrences, becomes an investigation into an endless nightmare in which Liam will not only have to confront the darkness within himself, but dig into the inhuman truths that lie beyond anything he could have ever imagined. As the world braces against the growing fears of extraterrestrial phenomenon, Liam Bishop will come to realize that this isn't an abduction he's facing...it's revenge. Based on the motion picture from star/producer/director Matthew Ewald (Author, Human Nature, Whispers in the Cries, The Coffin Clock)
It Never Can Happen Again
Author: William Frend De Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
It Never Can Happen Again
Author: William De Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A dual-plot novel, one plot dealing with a wife's jealousy, the other with a blind sailor and his daughter.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A dual-plot novel, one plot dealing with a wife's jealousy, the other with a blind sailor and his daughter.
The Little Green Gate
Author: Stella Callaghan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
John Huston
Author: John Huston
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578063284
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Over thirty years of interviews with the American director of such classic films as The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, The African Queen, and The Night of the Iguana
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578063284
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Over thirty years of interviews with the American director of such classic films as The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, The African Queen, and The Night of the Iguana
Seneca
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801843099
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In these lively renditions David Slavitt calls attention to the extraordinary work of the great Latin poet Seneca, and makes them appealing to modern readers. Seneca's honest artistry confronts the cruelty and irrationality of his world--the Rome of Caligula, Claudius and Nero. The surprise is that Seneca's world is so like our own. This volume includes five of Seneca's tragedies--"Trojan Women, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea" and "Agamemnon". (Drama)
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801843099
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In these lively renditions David Slavitt calls attention to the extraordinary work of the great Latin poet Seneca, and makes them appealing to modern readers. Seneca's honest artistry confronts the cruelty and irrationality of his world--the Rome of Caligula, Claudius and Nero. The surprise is that Seneca's world is so like our own. This volume includes five of Seneca's tragedies--"Trojan Women, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea" and "Agamemnon". (Drama)