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Who will be the next to die? They've taken the children. And the son of a general. But that isn't enough. More horrors must come...
Author : Robert Cormier
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0440208351
Who will be the next to die? They've taken the children. And the son of a general. But that isn't enough. More horrors must come...
Author : Natalie L. M. Petesch
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 25,79 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780877450504
Author : Robert Cormier
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0307834247
Sixteen-year-old Miro had instructions to kill the bus driver immediately. They would then take the busload of children to the bridge and begin the standoff. Artkin was Miro’s mentor; the mastermind behind this act of terrorism that would get the world’s attention. But Artkin had told Miro that the bus driver would be an old man. Sixteen-year old Kate sometimes substituted for her uncle and drove his bus when he was ill. She even got a special license to do so, and she’d always liked kids. She wondered what was going on when the van in front of her stopped, but when the man and the boy with guns forced their way onto the bus, she knew her worst nightmare was beginning.
Author : Dylan Thomas
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811227952
The most complete and current edition of Dylan Thomas' collected poetry in a beautiful gift edition celebrating the centenary of his birth The reputation of Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century has not waned in the fifty years since his death. A Welshman with a passion for the English language, Thomas’s singular poetic voice has been admired and imitated, but never matched. This exciting, newly edited annotated edition offers a more complete and representative collection of Dylan Thomas’s poetic works than any previous edition. Edited by leading Dylan Thomas scholar John Goodby from the University of Swansea, The Poems of Dylan Thomas contains all the poems that appeared in Collected Poems 1934-1952, edited by Dylan Thomas himself, as well as poems from the 1930-1934 notebooks and poems from letters, amatory verses, occasional poems, the verse film script for “Our Country,” and poems that appear in his “radio play for voices,” Under Milk Wood. Showing the broad range of Dylan Thomas’s oeuvre as never before, this new edition places Thomas in the twenty-first century, with an up-to-date introduction by Goodby whose notes and annotations take a pluralistic approach.
Author : E. Vanborre
Publisher : Springer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137309474
Fifty years after Camus's untimely death, his work still has a tremendous impact on literature. From a twenty-first century vantage point, he offers us coexisting ideas and principles by which we can read and understand the other and ourselves. Yet Camus seems to guide us without directing us strictly; his fictions do not offer clear-cut solutions or doctrines to follow. This complexity is what demands that the oeuvre be read, and reread. The wide-ranging articles in this volume shed light, concentrate on the original aspects of Camus' writings, and explore how and why they are still relevant for us today.
Author : Eynel Wardi
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 2000-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791492672
Highly original and theoretically wide-ranging, this book offers new insights into the origins of poetry. Working with much of the significant primary and secondary literature in psychoanalysis, particularly the theories of Julia Kristeva, the book skillfully sketches out a psychoanalytically enhanced theory of poetics through close readings of the works of Dylan Thomas. Through an intense dialogue with pivotal poems, it offers a "subjectivist" theory of poetic language, one that focuses on the interrelation between meaning and subjectivity in the dynamics of the poetic text. In this scheme, the "genesis of the speaking subject" is held to be a reenactment of old and new fantasies of origins, the reality of which is inaccessible to us—buried, as it were, "below time." Among these fantasies, the author also recognizes the psychoanalytic fantasy of origins that guides her own project.
Author : Louise Baughan Murdy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111400328
Author : William Greenway
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 2014-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 073919299X
Even lovers of Dylan Thomas’s poems are often puzzled by his habits of language, which sometimes take the form of unusual diction and unique perceptions. This study, on the hundredth anniversary of his birth, is a must-read for both Thomas’s fans and newcomers interested in an introduction to his works and the unique sensibility that created them. Chapters are devoted to his poetic perspectives, ranging from the microscopic to the cosmic; his unusual perceptions of the world, which some critics have described as those of an almost altered reality; his diction, or working vocabulary; his penchant for refurbishing clichés; his hilarious sense of humor and linguistic playfulness; his development as a poet; and his concern for sound, often resulting in a lofty, at times Biblical, though secular, tone. In summary, the study fully explores the heart and mind behind the poems, and shows why his work will always remain in the top rank of English poetry.
Author : Vijay Mishra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 19,81 MB
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134096925
Exploring the work of key writers from across the globe, this significant contribution to diaspora theory constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora.
Author : Joseph Hillis Miller
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804723794
This book investigates the function of topographical names and descriptions in a variety of narratives, poems, and philosophical or theoretical texts, primarily from the 19th and 20th centuries, but including also Plato and the Bible. Topics include the initiating efficacy of speech acts, ethical responsibility, political or legislative power, the translation of theory from one topographical location to another, the way topographical delineations can function as parable or allegory, and the relation of personification to landscape.