Author: Rachel Ingalls
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619027798
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
The fiction of Rachel Ingalls has haunted me for years. The plots are dramatic, even exaggerated, but the books are quiet and short. The language is plain but curious. I’ve gathered here three works of hers. Two of these are frightening and one less so, although I sometimes change my mind about which one that is. —from the Introduction by Daniel Handler Daniel Handler assembled this collection from Rachel Ingalls’ wide selection of novellas as a perfect introduction to her beguiling talent. I See a Long Journey and On Ice, novellas Mr. Handler considers basically perfect, originally appeared with a third, Blessed Art Thou, a story he considers to be in an entirely different tone. He felt that Friends in the Country from Ms. Ingalls’ later collection, The End of Tragedy, was a more natural companion to the two earlier works. The author happily agreed.
Three Masquerades
Author: Rachel Ingalls
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619027798
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
The fiction of Rachel Ingalls has haunted me for years. The plots are dramatic, even exaggerated, but the books are quiet and short. The language is plain but curious. I’ve gathered here three works of hers. Two of these are frightening and one less so, although I sometimes change my mind about which one that is. —from the Introduction by Daniel Handler Daniel Handler assembled this collection from Rachel Ingalls’ wide selection of novellas as a perfect introduction to her beguiling talent. I See a Long Journey and On Ice, novellas Mr. Handler considers basically perfect, originally appeared with a third, Blessed Art Thou, a story he considers to be in an entirely different tone. He felt that Friends in the Country from Ms. Ingalls’ later collection, The End of Tragedy, was a more natural companion to the two earlier works. The author happily agreed.
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619027798
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
The fiction of Rachel Ingalls has haunted me for years. The plots are dramatic, even exaggerated, but the books are quiet and short. The language is plain but curious. I’ve gathered here three works of hers. Two of these are frightening and one less so, although I sometimes change my mind about which one that is. —from the Introduction by Daniel Handler Daniel Handler assembled this collection from Rachel Ingalls’ wide selection of novellas as a perfect introduction to her beguiling talent. I See a Long Journey and On Ice, novellas Mr. Handler considers basically perfect, originally appeared with a third, Blessed Art Thou, a story he considers to be in an entirely different tone. He felt that Friends in the Country from Ms. Ingalls’ later collection, The End of Tragedy, was a more natural companion to the two earlier works. The author happily agreed.
Masquerade Season
Author: 'Pemi Aguda
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250830141
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
From Nigerian author Pemi Aguda comes "Masquerade Season," a Tor.com Original short story Pauly is a good son. When he brings home three beautiful Masquerades, he's expecting that his mother will be proud of him. But when his mother begins asking favors of his Masquerades, he realizes that being a good son sometimes means disobeying. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250830141
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
From Nigerian author Pemi Aguda comes "Masquerade Season," a Tor.com Original short story Pauly is a good son. When he brings home three beautiful Masquerades, he's expecting that his mother will be proud of him. But when his mother begins asking favors of his Masquerades, he realizes that being a good son sometimes means disobeying. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Supernatural Ascensions; Revelations
Author: Olu Agbolade David
Publisher: Paragon Publishing
ISBN: 1782229884
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Aedes Is a place of misery and authority and powers. There are Underground Realms where different Witchcrafts are practised; there are Foundational Demons which terrify Satan herself. RCI The RCI is an international cult of world leaders who control the world governments and powerful corporate businesses; the RCI is established in Nigeria, a country in West Africa, by a very powerful set of traditional rulers, who play an important part in international politics, influencing who will be president and rulers of countries around the world. Realms There are Hidden Realms within our world that have the power and advantage to enter the world and carry out activities like normal human beings, but only the spiritually gifted can perceive them. Different dimensions within our earth are diverse and many, different dimensions outside our world are many and deep: the angels and their divine roles, spiritual dimensions, the diverse ascensions, the wonders of the supernatural world. What is Heaven, where are the heavens? Life after transitions. Nature Codes The elements in nature, the many solutions that abound in nature to mankind’s usual and unusual problems,what are the Nature Codes…? Deities Deities are spiritual mediums of good and evil. All peoples – Africans, Americans, Asians and Europeans – have their deities which they believe in; some they have served regularly because they believe in them, but everyone has the right and privilege to go to the Ultimate God through Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son.
Publisher: Paragon Publishing
ISBN: 1782229884
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Aedes Is a place of misery and authority and powers. There are Underground Realms where different Witchcrafts are practised; there are Foundational Demons which terrify Satan herself. RCI The RCI is an international cult of world leaders who control the world governments and powerful corporate businesses; the RCI is established in Nigeria, a country in West Africa, by a very powerful set of traditional rulers, who play an important part in international politics, influencing who will be president and rulers of countries around the world. Realms There are Hidden Realms within our world that have the power and advantage to enter the world and carry out activities like normal human beings, but only the spiritually gifted can perceive them. Different dimensions within our earth are diverse and many, different dimensions outside our world are many and deep: the angels and their divine roles, spiritual dimensions, the diverse ascensions, the wonders of the supernatural world. What is Heaven, where are the heavens? Life after transitions. Nature Codes The elements in nature, the many solutions that abound in nature to mankind’s usual and unusual problems,what are the Nature Codes…? Deities Deities are spiritual mediums of good and evil. All peoples – Africans, Americans, Asians and Europeans – have their deities which they believe in; some they have served regularly because they believe in them, but everyone has the right and privilege to go to the Ultimate God through Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son.
Masquerade
Author: Kit Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fantasy
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
On his way to deliver a splendid necklace to the Sun from the Moon, Jack Hare is diverted by a series of odd characters and when he finally reaches his destination he realizes that the necklace is missing. The reader is invited to answer several riddles and solve the mystery from clues given in the text.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fantasy
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
On his way to deliver a splendid necklace to the Sun from the Moon, Jack Hare is diverted by a series of odd characters and when he finally reaches his destination he realizes that the necklace is missing. The reader is invited to answer several riddles and solve the mystery from clues given in the text.
Ghostroots: Stories
Author: 'Pemi Aguda
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324065869
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties. In this beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, ’Pemi Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning to be individuals and the ways we are haunted by what came before. In “Manifest,” a woman sees the ghost of her abusive mother in her daughter’s face. Shortly after, the daughter is overtaken by wicked and destructive impulses. In “Breastmilk,” a wife forgives her husband for his infidelity. Months later, when she is unable to produce milk for her newborn, she blames herself for failing to uphold her mother’s feminist values and doubts her fitness for motherhood. In “Things Boys Do,” a trio of fathers finds something unnatural and unnerving about their infant sons. As their lives rapidly fall to pieces, they begin to fear that their sons are the cause of their troubles. And in “24, Alhaji Williams Street,” a teenage boy lives in the shadow of a mysterious disease that’s killing the boys on his street. These and other stories in Ghostroots map emotional and physical worlds that lay bare the forces of family, myth, tradition, gender, and modernity in Nigerian society. Powered by a deep empathy and glinting with humor, they announce a major new literary talent.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324065869
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties. In this beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, ’Pemi Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning to be individuals and the ways we are haunted by what came before. In “Manifest,” a woman sees the ghost of her abusive mother in her daughter’s face. Shortly after, the daughter is overtaken by wicked and destructive impulses. In “Breastmilk,” a wife forgives her husband for his infidelity. Months later, when she is unable to produce milk for her newborn, she blames herself for failing to uphold her mother’s feminist values and doubts her fitness for motherhood. In “Things Boys Do,” a trio of fathers finds something unnatural and unnerving about their infant sons. As their lives rapidly fall to pieces, they begin to fear that their sons are the cause of their troubles. And in “24, Alhaji Williams Street,” a teenage boy lives in the shadow of a mysterious disease that’s killing the boys on his street. These and other stories in Ghostroots map emotional and physical worlds that lay bare the forces of family, myth, tradition, gender, and modernity in Nigerian society. Powered by a deep empathy and glinting with humor, they announce a major new literary talent.
Playful Performers
Author: David Binkley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351499505
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
African children develop aesthetic sensibilities at an early age, roughly from four to fourteen years. By the time they become full-fledged adolescents they may have had up to ten years experience with various art forms--masking, music, costuming, dancing, and performance. Aesthetic learning is vital to their maturation. The contributors to this volume argue that the idea that learning the aesthetics of a culture only occurs after maturity is false, as is the idea that children wearing masks is only play, and is not to be taken seriously.Playful Performers is a study of children's masquerades in Africa. The contributors describe specific cases of young children's masking in the areas of west, central, and southern Africa, which also happen to be the major areas of adult masquerading. The volume reveals the considerable creativity and ingenuity that children exhibit in preparing costumes, masks and musical instruments, and in playing music, dancing, singing, and acting. The book includes over 50 pages of black and white photographs, which illustrate and elaborate upon the authors' main points. The editors describe general categories of children's masquerades. In each of the three masking categories children's relationships to their parents and other adults differ, from a close relationship to some independence to almost complete independence. No other major work has covered this aspect of African children at this age level. The book offers a challenging perspective on young children, seeing them as active agents in their own culture rather than passive recipients of culture as taught by parents and other elders. It will be interesting reading for anthropologists, art historians, educators, and African studies specialists alike.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351499505
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
African children develop aesthetic sensibilities at an early age, roughly from four to fourteen years. By the time they become full-fledged adolescents they may have had up to ten years experience with various art forms--masking, music, costuming, dancing, and performance. Aesthetic learning is vital to their maturation. The contributors to this volume argue that the idea that learning the aesthetics of a culture only occurs after maturity is false, as is the idea that children wearing masks is only play, and is not to be taken seriously.Playful Performers is a study of children's masquerades in Africa. The contributors describe specific cases of young children's masking in the areas of west, central, and southern Africa, which also happen to be the major areas of adult masquerading. The volume reveals the considerable creativity and ingenuity that children exhibit in preparing costumes, masks and musical instruments, and in playing music, dancing, singing, and acting. The book includes over 50 pages of black and white photographs, which illustrate and elaborate upon the authors' main points. The editors describe general categories of children's masquerades. In each of the three masking categories children's relationships to their parents and other adults differ, from a close relationship to some independence to almost complete independence. No other major work has covered this aspect of African children at this age level. The book offers a challenging perspective on young children, seeing them as active agents in their own culture rather than passive recipients of culture as taught by parents and other elders. It will be interesting reading for anthropologists, art historians, educators, and African studies specialists alike.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford
Author: Horace Walpole
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
The letters of Horace Walpole [ed. by J. Wright].
Author: Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Including Numerous Letters Nowfirst Published from the Original Manuscripto
Author: Horace Walpole
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, Germany, and Italy
Author: John Moore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description