Author : Richard Bach
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 147679331X
"Includes the rediscovered part four"--Cover.
Author : Mark Seth Lender
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 25,37 MB
Release : 2019-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781732192904
Smeagull the Seagull comes to the house near the shore every day and knocks on the sliding glass door. He knocks when he¿s hungry, and the people who live there feed him. Smeagull rules the roost! Keeping him fed is an exhausting job, but when Smeagull disappears, it makes clear what an important family member Smeagull has become. There are few places on earth without seagulls, both on shore and inland, and every child will find Smeagull captivating and yet familiar. Smeagull the Seagull teaches young children that animals are precious and have needs and feelings and family, just like us.This is a true story. Smeagull is a wild herring gull who does indeed knock at Valerie and Mark¿s house every day where he is fed scraps from sustainable seafood.The book is illustrated in full color by the graphic designer, Valerie Elaine Pettis. The text is written in rhyme by Mark Seth Lender, a published author and producer for wildlife content at Living on Earth, which is nationally broadcast on Public Radio.
Author : Joseph Kelly
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,56 MB
Release : 2008
Category : American essays
ISBN : 9780393930924
In 1859, Samuel Butler, a young Cantabrigian out of joint with his family, with the church, and with the times, left England to hew out his own path in New Zealand. At the end of just five years he returned, with a modest fortune in money and an immense fortune in ideas. For out of this self-imposed exile came Erewhon, one of the world's masterpieces of satire, which contained the germ of Butler's intellectual output for the next twenty years. The Cradle of Erewhon is an examination and interpretation of the special ways in which these few crucial years affected Butler's life and work, particularly Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited. It shows us Butler the sheep farmer, explorer, and mountain climber, as well as Butler the newcomer to "The Colonies," accepting--and accepted by--his intellectual peers in the unpioneerlike little city of Christchurch, sharpening and disciplining his mind through his controversial contributions to the Christchurch Press. But more importantly, the book suggests the depth to which New Zealand penetrated the man and reveals new facets of influence hitherto unnoticed in Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited. The Southern Alps ("Oh, Wonderful! Wonderful! so lonely and so solemn"), the perilous rivers and passes, the character and customs of the Maoris--all these blend to afford new insights into a complex book. Butler was not the first to create an imaginary world as asylum from the harsh realities of this one (Vergil did the same in the Eclogues), nor was he the first, even in his own time, to protest against the machine as the enslaver of man, but his became the clearest and the freshest voice. On the biographical side, The Cradle of Erewhon offers new evidence for reappraising the man who for so long has been a psychological and literary puzzle. Why, for instance, did he repudiate his first-born book, A First Year in Canterbury Settlement? And why, once safely away from the entanglements of London, did he voluntarily return to them? Answers to these and other Butlerian riddles are suggested in the engrossing account of the satirist's sojourn in the Antipodes.
Author : Denise Robins
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 144478160X
Tansy Trehearn was born and bred in the beautiful and little Cornish port of the village St. Ruthyn, where Martin Wyde was opening a small hotel, The Seagull's Cry. Tansy was falling in love with her employer Martin. She had never been so bewildered, she had met the one man she could ever love, and found that she had to fight her own sister in order to get him. And that was when she learned that the cry of the seagull was no more sad and tortured than the cry of her own heart. Because while Martin and Tansy's love softly flowered, several people were plotting to ruin their newfound happiness.
Author : Patricia Richel
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1682898660
Book Patsy and his friend, Harriet, were good seagull friends who loved living at the Jersey Shore. Patsy only had one leg but he could do anything that other birds could do. They also loved Happiness Lake in Pennsylvania. They were blown out there when they got caught up in hurricane winds a few years ago. It was strange for them but they met animals and birds they had never seen before, and began to see how beautiful a lake is with all of its differences. One day they decided to return to Happiness Lake to visit their friends. Mr. and Mrs. Duck remembered them and introduced them to their visiting relatives from Ohio, Lori and Steven. Immediately they began to make fun of Patsy with his missing leg. Read and see how Patsy and Harriet handled those mean ducks.
Author : Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 29,31 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781884964107
"First Published in 1998, Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company."
Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,75 MB
Release : 1999-11-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521655972
One of a series discussing topics of interest in theatre studies from theoretical, methodological, philosophical and historical perspectives. The books are aimed at drama and theatre teachers, advanced students in schools and colleges, arts authorities, actors, playwrights, critics and directors.
Author : Geoffrey Borny
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1920942688
The author's contention is that Chekhov's plays have often been misinterpreted by scholars and directors, particularly through their failure to adequately balance the comic and tragic elements inherent in these works. Through a close examination of the form and content of Chekhov's dramas, the author shows how deeply pessimistic or overly optimistic interpretations fail to sufficiently account for the rich complexity and ambiguity of these plays. The author suggests that, by accepting that Chekhov's plays are synthetic tragi-comedies which juxtapose potentially tragic sub-texts with essentially comic texts, critics and directors are more likely to produce richer and more deeply satisfying interpretations of these works. Besides being of general interest to any reader interested in understanding Chekhov's work, the book is intended to be of particular interest to students of Drama and Theatre Studies and to potential directors of these subtle plays.
Author : J. Douglas Clayton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0415509696
This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov's work, presenting a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in drama. The volume examines the elusive quality of Chekhov's dramatic universe as an intricate mechanism, an engine in which his enigmatic characters exist as the dramatic and psychological ciphers we have been de-coding for a century, and continue to do so. Examining the practice and the theory of dramatic adaptation both as intermedial transformation (from page to stage) and as intramedial mutation, from page to page, the book presents adaptation as the emerging genre of drama, theatre, and film. This trend marks the performative and social practices of the new millennium, highlighting our epoch's need to engage with the history of dramatic forms and their evolution. The collection demonstrates that adaptation as the practice of transformation and as a re-thinking of habitual dramatic norms and genre definitions leads to the rejuvenation of existing dramatic and performative standards, pioneering the creation of new traditions and expectations. As the major mode of the storytelling imagination, adaptation can build upon and drive the audience's horizons of expectations in theatre aesthetics. Hence, this volume investigates the original and transformative knowledge that the story of Chekhov's drama in mutations offers to scholars of drama and performance, to students of modern literatures and cultures, and to theatre practitioners worldwide.
Author : Roger Braunstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 2007-10-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0470135603
This book is your go-to guide to unlock the power of this amazing language. [Features]: learn the basics : expressions, variables, functions and more ; apply object-orientated programming and principles to structure reusable, dependable code ; master common data structures such as Strings, Arrays and Objects ; work with XML using the new E4X extensions ; take control of the powerful new event model to write interactive software ; discover new display types such as Shape and Sprite ; add sound, video, animation and effects ; debug, handle erros, and make you applications fault-tolerant ; read, write, and store data in binary format." - back cover.
