Book Description
This series will introduce new readers and reacquaint a past generation of readers to the imaginative literature of the modern Jewish experience.
Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 10,31 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780815603542
This series will introduce new readers and reacquaint a past generation of readers to the imaginative literature of the modern Jewish experience.
Author : J. M. Coetzee
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,96 MB
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1524705489
From author of Waiting for the Barbarians and Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. In a South Africa turned by war, Michael K. sets out to take his ailing mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. This life affirming novel goes to the center of human experience—the need for an interior, spiritual life; for some connections to the world in which we live; and for purity of vision.
Author : Marianne Hering
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 14,8 MB
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1604826630
Over 1 million sold in series! It’s 1852 and cousins Patrick and Beth sail to Fiji on the HMS Calliope under the command of Captain James E. Home. They arrive at the islands to find that the Christian Fijians are at war with the non-Christian Fijians. Missionary James Calvert is trying to make peace and suggests that the captain allow peace negotiations on board the British vessel. Patrick and Beth learn about sacrificial living when they observe Calvert’s determination to live on Fiji despite the dangers and impoverished conditions and that he is willing to risk his life to live as Jesus would.
Author : Francesca Simon
Publisher : Orion Children's Books
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 22,58 MB
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1444012428
The final collection of four brand new utterly horrid stories; Horrid Henry's Bake-Off sees Henry and Margaret go head-to-head in a hotly contested baking competition, Henry triumphantly reveals his top tips in Horrid Henry's Extra Horrid Guide to Perfect Parents, he reads an interesting book about Evil Evie, a really naughty girl not too dissimilar to himself in Horrid Henry's Bad Book, and conjures up an ancient cannibal's curse to deal with his enemies and small, annoying brother in Horrid Henry's Cannibal Curse. Horrid Henry is illustrated by Tony Ross, who also illustrates David Walliams' children's books, as well as his own picture books.
Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 1998-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0679777393
With dashing originality and in prose that sings like an entire choir of sirens, Cynthia Ozick relates the life and times of her most compelling fictional creation. Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental. Her love life is minimal (she prefers pouring through Plato to romping with married Morris Rappoport). And her fantasies have a disconcerting tendency to come true - with disastrous consequences for what we laughably call "reality." Puttermesser yearns for a daughter and promptly creates one, unassisted, in the form of the first recorded female golem. Laboring in the dusty crevices of the civil service, she dreams of reforming the city - and manages to get herself elected mayor. Puttermesser contemplates the afterlife and is hurtled into it headlong, only to discover that a paradise found is also paradise lost. Overflowing with ideas, lambent with wit, The Puttermesser Papers is a tour de force by one of our most visionary novelists. "The finest achievement of Ozick's career... It has all the buoyant integrity of a Chagall painting." -San Francisco Chronicle "Fanciful, poignant... so intelligent, so finely expressed that, like its main character, it remains endearing, edifying, a spark of light in the gloom." -The New York Times "A crazy delight." -The New York Time Book Review
Author : Lawrence S. Friedman
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780872497726
Discussing Jewish themes in Ozick's writings, examines the literary evocation of the Holocaust in the novels "Trust" (1966), "The Messiah of Stockholm" (1987), and in the story "The Shawl" (1989).
Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,94 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780815603528
Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781474624039
'Sparky, mischievous, witty, dazzlingly clever' Ali Smith 'A cause for celebration. Here we have a heroine to love, a story we can't let go of' Ann Patchett It had always been my habit-- privately I felt it to be an ecstasy-- to enter, as into a mysterious vault, any public library. 1930s New York is filling with Europe's ousted dreamers, turned overnight into refugees. Rose Meadows, book-loving and orphaned at eighteen, takes a job as assistant to the eccentric Professor Mitwisser. Cast out from Berlin's elite, the Mitwisser family's household is chaotic and Rosie's fate there hangs on the arrival of the Mitwissers' mysterious benefactor, James A'Bair. Inspired by the real Christopher Robin, James is the Bear Boy, the son of a famous children's author. Running from his own fame, James was boy adored by the world but has grown into a bitter man. It falls to Rosie to help them all resist James's reckless orbit.
Author : Michael G. Levine
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,77 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804755559
The Belated Witness examines major works by Art Spiegelman, Cynthia Ozick, Christa Wolf, and Paul Celan, focusing specifically on the unsettling configuration of birth-as-death trauma around which these texts are organized.
Author : J. Brown
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 27,76 MB
Release : 2012-11-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137292121
A comprehensive study of cannibalism in literature and film, spanning colonial fiction, Gothic texts and contemporary American horror. Amidst the sharp teeth and horrific appetite of the cannibal, this book examines real fears of over-consumerism and consumption that trouble an ever-growing modern world.