Author: Thomas Bernhard
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307833534
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
For five years, Konrad has imprisoned himself and his crippled wife in an abandoned lime works where he’s conducted odd auditory experiments and prepared to write his masterwork, The Sense of Hearing. As the story begins, he’s just blown the head off his wife with the Mannlicher carbine she kept strapped to her wheelchair. The murder and the bizarre life that led to it are the subject of a mass of hearsay related by an unnamed life-insurance salesman in a narrative as mazy, byzantine, and mysterious as the lime works—Konrad’s sanctuary and tomb.
The Lime Works
Author: Thomas Bernhard
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307833534
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
For five years, Konrad has imprisoned himself and his crippled wife in an abandoned lime works where he’s conducted odd auditory experiments and prepared to write his masterwork, The Sense of Hearing. As the story begins, he’s just blown the head off his wife with the Mannlicher carbine she kept strapped to her wheelchair. The murder and the bizarre life that led to it are the subject of a mass of hearsay related by an unnamed life-insurance salesman in a narrative as mazy, byzantine, and mysterious as the lime works—Konrad’s sanctuary and tomb.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307833534
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
For five years, Konrad has imprisoned himself and his crippled wife in an abandoned lime works where he’s conducted odd auditory experiments and prepared to write his masterwork, The Sense of Hearing. As the story begins, he’s just blown the head off his wife with the Mannlicher carbine she kept strapped to her wheelchair. The murder and the bizarre life that led to it are the subject of a mass of hearsay related by an unnamed life-insurance salesman in a narrative as mazy, byzantine, and mysterious as the lime works—Konrad’s sanctuary and tomb.
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
Records & Briefs\
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Webster's New World: American Idioms Handbook
Author: Gail Brenner
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054418890X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
The most comprehensive reference for understanding and using the contemporary idioms of American English—with more than 1,000 entries. Mastering the use of idiomatic language is an essential step toward achieving fluency in any language. Webster's New World: American Idioms Handbook is the ideal guide to the slang, sayings, expressions, jargon, and colloquialisms of American English—covering more than 1,000 entries. Emphasizing acquisition and application, this book explains their meanings as well as when, where, why, and how to use them. A wealth of examples helps readers understand each idiom’s connotation and identify its appropriate context. An extensive index allows for quick and easy reference.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054418890X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
The most comprehensive reference for understanding and using the contemporary idioms of American English—with more than 1,000 entries. Mastering the use of idiomatic language is an essential step toward achieving fluency in any language. Webster's New World: American Idioms Handbook is the ideal guide to the slang, sayings, expressions, jargon, and colloquialisms of American English—covering more than 1,000 entries. Emphasizing acquisition and application, this book explains their meanings as well as when, where, why, and how to use them. A wealth of examples helps readers understand each idiom’s connotation and identify its appropriate context. An extensive index allows for quick and easy reference.
Bartlett's Roget's Thesaurus
Author:
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 9780316735872
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1468
Book Description
Supplies synonyms and antonyms for words in over 800 categories, arranged thematically, providing information on parts of speech, cross-references, and including quotations that use the featured word.
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 9780316735872
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1468
Book Description
Supplies synonyms and antonyms for words in over 800 categories, arranged thematically, providing information on parts of speech, cross-references, and including quotations that use the featured word.
The Musical Times
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Out of Earshot
Author: Asma Naeem
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520298985
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Out of Earshot offers a reconfiguration of three of the nineteenth century’s most prolific painters: Winslow Homer (1836–1910), Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), and Thomas Dewing (1851–1939). Asma Naeem considers how these painters turned, in ways significant for their individual artistic ventures, to themes of sound and listening throughout their careers. She shows how the aural dimension of these artists’ pictures was an ideological product of period class, gender, cultural, racial, and technological discourses. Equally important, by looking at such materials as the artists’ papers, scientific illustrations, and technological brochures, Naeem argues that the work of these painters has complex and previously unconsidered connections to developments in sound and listening during a period when unprecedented innovation in the United States led to such inventions as the telegraph and phonograph and forged a technological narrative that continues to have force in the twenty-first century. Naeem's unusual approach to the work of these three well-known American artists offers a transformative account of artistic response during their own era and beyond.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520298985
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Out of Earshot offers a reconfiguration of three of the nineteenth century’s most prolific painters: Winslow Homer (1836–1910), Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), and Thomas Dewing (1851–1939). Asma Naeem considers how these painters turned, in ways significant for their individual artistic ventures, to themes of sound and listening throughout their careers. She shows how the aural dimension of these artists’ pictures was an ideological product of period class, gender, cultural, racial, and technological discourses. Equally important, by looking at such materials as the artists’ papers, scientific illustrations, and technological brochures, Naeem argues that the work of these painters has complex and previously unconsidered connections to developments in sound and listening during a period when unprecedented innovation in the United States led to such inventions as the telegraph and phonograph and forged a technological narrative that continues to have force in the twenty-first century. Naeem's unusual approach to the work of these three well-known American artists offers a transformative account of artistic response during their own era and beyond.
Records and Briefs New York State Appellate Division
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
The Beaver
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Ebu's-su'ud
Author: Colin Imber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This volume provides a biographical and intellectual study of a key figure in the history of Islamic Jurisprudence setting the legal problems in their intellectual, social and historical context. The book is based on original Arabic and Turkish texts which are presented in fluent English translation. Technical terms in Arabic and Turkish are also kept to a minimum, and a comprehensive glossary is provided.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This volume provides a biographical and intellectual study of a key figure in the history of Islamic Jurisprudence setting the legal problems in their intellectual, social and historical context. The book is based on original Arabic and Turkish texts which are presented in fluent English translation. Technical terms in Arabic and Turkish are also kept to a minimum, and a comprehensive glossary is provided.