Journey Through the Night
Author : Anne de Vries
Publisher : St. Catharines, Ont., Canada : Paideia Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Netherlands
ISBN : 9780888157522
Author : Anne de Vries
Publisher : St. Catharines, Ont., Canada : Paideia Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Netherlands
ISBN : 9780888157522
Author : Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Publisher : Calder Publications Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 1988
Category : French fiction
ISBN : 9780714541396
When it was published in 1932, this revolutionary first fiction redefined the art of the novel with its black humor, its nihilism, and its irreverent, explosive writing style, and made Louis-Ferdinand Celine one of France's--and literature's--most important 20th-century writers. The picaresque adventures of Bardamu, the sarcastic and brilliant antihero of Journey to the End of the Night move from the battlefields of World War I (complete with buffoonish officers and cowardly soldiers), to French West Africa, the United States, and back to France in a style of prose that's lyrical, hallucinatory, and hilariously scathing toward nearly everybody and everything. Yet, beneath it all one can detect a gentle core of idealism.
Author : Helme Heine
Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Children's stories
ISBN :
Sleep leads his varied parade of human and animal followers on a protected journey to his sister Dream, who then takes them to the special place where anything is possible.
Author : John Sturrock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 1990-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521378543
A detailed study of Céline's novel, Journey to the End of the Night
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0744035708
A beautifully illustrated collection of nonfiction stories featuring the many wonders that exist in the night sky. Beginning with a sunset and ending at dawn, Through the Night Sky shines a light on the magical events taking place in the darkness above. Unlike an astronomy book that focuses on eye-popping facts and figures about the universe, Through the Night Sky features a series of incredible stories that take place in the sky at night. Track a colony of bats as they fly through the twilight to pollinate the flowers of the mysterious baobab tree, follow a family into the wilderness to gaze at the constellations, watch whales swimming through chilly Arctic waters under the gentle glow of the Northern Lights, then chart the journey of a ship navigating by the stars. Through the Night Sky is a beautiful book that spans a wide range of subjects, including everything from nocturnal animals or revelers watching fireworks illuminate the night, to celestial objects such as the moon, planets, stars, and meteor showers--all under the vast night sky.
Author : María Negroni
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2002-02-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780691090986
One of South America's most celebrated contemporary poets takes us on a fantastic voyage to mysterious lands and seas, into the psyche, and to the heart of the poem itself. Night Journey is the English-language debut of the work that won María Negroni an Argentine National Book Award. It is a book of dreams--dreams she renders with surreal beauty that recalls the work of her compatriot Alejandra Pizarnik, with the penetrating subtlety of Borges and Calvino. In sixty-two tightly woven prose poems, Negroni deftly infuses haunting imagery with an ironic, personal spirituality. Effortlessly she navigates the nameless subject to the slopes of the Himalayas, to a bar in Buenos Aires, through war, from icy Scandinavian landscapes to the tropics, across seas, toward a cemetery in the wake of Napoleon's hearse, by train, by taxis headed in unrequested directions, past mirrors and birds, between life and death. Night Journey reflects a mastery of a traditional form while brilliantly expressing a modern condition: the multicultural, multifaceted individual, ever in motion. Displacement abounds: a "medieval tabard" where a pelvis should be, a "lipless grin," a "beach severed from the ocean." In one poem "nomadic cities" whisk past. In another, smiling cockroaches loom in a visiting mother's eyes. Anne Twitty, whose elegant translations are accompanied by the Spanish originals, remarks in her preface that the book's "indomitable literary intelligence" subdues an unspoken terror--helplessness. Yet, as observed by the angel Gabriel, the consoling voice of wisdom, only by accepting the journey for what it is can one discover its "hidden splendor," the "invisible center of the poem." As readers of this magnificent work will discover, this is a journey that, because its every fleeting image conjures a thousand words of fertile silence, can be savored again and again.
Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0300190182
divEugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play Long Day’s Journey into Night is regarded as his masterpiece and a classic of American drama. With this new edition, at last it has the critical edition that it deserves. William Davies King provides students and theater artists with an invaluable guide to the text, including an essay on historical and critical perspectives; glosses of literary allusions and quotations; notes on the performance history; an annotated bibliography; and illustrations. "This is a worthy new edition, one that I'm sure will appeal to many students and teachers. William Davies King provides a thoughtful introduction to Long Day's Journey into Night—equally sensitive to the most particular and most encompassing of the play's materials."—Marc Robinson/DIV
Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 1986-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780812446142
A young girl ignores her parents' wishes and persuades her great-grandmother to relate the story of her escape from czarist Russia.
Author : BernNadette Stanis
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,81 MB
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780997655209
Ms. BernNadette Stanis (Thelma from "Good Times") takes the reader on a journey with her as she shares the story of her life with her real family, as well as her "Good Times" family, including her life as caregiver to her mom who suffered from Alzheimer's.
Author : Liz Murray
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1401396208
In the vein of The Glass Castle, Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard. Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls' home. At age fifteen, Liz found herself on the streets. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep. When Liz's mother died of AIDS, she decided to take control of her own destiny and go back to high school, often completing her assignments in the hallways and subway stations where she slept. Liz squeezed four years of high school into two, while homeless; won a New York Times scholarship; and made it into the Ivy League. Breaking Night is an unforgettable and beautifully written story of one young woman's indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds.