The Swan Thieves

Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-06-24
ISBN : 074811615X
Pages : 400 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (748 users)

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Download or read book The Swan Thieves written by Elizabeth Kostova and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe has a perfectly ordered life - solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient. Desperate to understand the secret that torments this genius, Marlowe embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy; from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth, from young love to last love. The Swan Thieves is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve hope.

The Swan Thieves

by Elizabeth Kostova

Publisher :
Release Date : 2010
ISBN : 9780751541427
Pages : 624 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (541 users)

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Download or read book The Swan Thieves written by Elizabeth Kostova and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe has a perfectly ordered life - solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient. Desperate to understand the secret that torments this genius, Marlowe embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy; from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth, from young love to last love. The Swan Thieves is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve hope.

Neo-Victorian Gothic

by Marie-Luise Kohlke

Publisher : Rodopi
Release Date : 2012
ISBN : 9401208964
Pages : 338 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (41 users)

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Download or read book Neo-Victorian Gothic written by Marie-Luise Kohlke and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2012 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the third in Rodopi’s Neo-Victorian Series, reassesses neo-Victorianism as a quintessentially Gothic movement. Through their revival of bygone spectres, their obsession with forgotten skeletons in the cupboard, and their exploration of nineteenth-century extremities, neo-Victorian works not only reflect our contemporary Gothic culture but also reactivate it and even enrich it with new variations such as postcolonial, eco or steampunk Gothic. Addressed to scholars and students of both Gothic and Neo-Victorian Studies, this volume will also interest contemporary literature specialists, cultural theorists, and those working on popular historical memory, as it explores the paradox of culture’s coincident turn to ethics and sensationalism. As exemplified in its generic variety and hybridity, neo-Victorian Gothic resorts to the spectacularisation of horror while simultaneously demonstrating the hyperreal, textual and self-reflexive nature of these spectacles, just as it resorts to the exploitation of hyperbolic and violent sexuality at the same time as challenging sexual norms and identity politics. In spite of these apparent contradictions, the Gothic forms of neo-Victorianism demonstrate their fundamentally ethical goal of interrogating the uncertain limits between self and other, orthodoxy and heterodoxy, past and present.

Contemporary Women's Gothic Fiction

by Gina Wisker

Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2016-11-04
ISBN : 1137303492
Pages : 269 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (137 users)

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Download or read book Contemporary Women's Gothic Fiction written by Gina Wisker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revives and revitalises the literary Gothic in the hands of contemporary women writers. It makes a scholarly, lively and convincing case that the Gothic makes horror respectable, and establishes contemporary women’s Gothic fictions in and against traditional Gothic. The book provides new, engaging perspectives on established contemporary women Gothic writers, with a particular focus on Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison. It explores how the Gothic is malleable in their hands and is used to demythologise oppressions based on difference in gender and ethnicity. The study presents new Gothic work and new nuances, critiques of dangerous complacency and radical questionings of what is safe and conformist in works as diverse as Twilight (Stephenie Meyer) and A Girl Walks Home Alone (Ana Lily Amirpur), as well as by Anne Rice and Poppy Brite. It also introduces and critically explores postcolonial, vampire and neohistorical Gothic and women’s ghost stories.

Bestseller

by Robert McParland

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-12-15
ISBN : 1538110008
Pages : 336 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (538 users)

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Download or read book Bestseller written by Robert McParland and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the bestselling titles since the early 20th century. The author considers how the popular circulation of these books reflected America’s consciousness and tastes at different junctures in the country's history.

The Shadow Land

by Elizabeth Kostova

Publisher : Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2017-04-11
ISBN : 0345527887
Pages : 496 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (345 users)

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Download or read book The Shadow Land written by Elizabeth Kostova and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes a mesmerizing novel that spans the past and the present—and unearths the troubled history of a gorgeous but haunted country. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi—and realizes too late that she has accidentally kept one of their bags. Inside she finds an ornately carved wooden box engraved with a name: Stoyan Lazarov. Raising the hinged lid, she discovers that she is holding an urn filled with human ashes. As Alexandra sets out to locate the family and return this precious item, she will first have to uncover the secrets of a talented musician who was shattered by political oppression—and she will find out all too quickly that this knowledge is fraught with its own danger. Elizabeth Kostova’s new novel is a tale of immense scope that delves into the horrors of a century and traverses the culture and landscape of this mysterious country. Suspenseful and beautifully written, it explores the power of stories, the pull of the past, and the hope and meaning that can sometimes be found in the aftermath of loss. Praise for The Shadow Land “A compelling and complex mystery, strong storytelling, and lyrical writing combine for an engrossing read.”—Publishers Weekly “In The Shadow Land, Elizabeth Kostova, a master storyteller, brings vividly to life an unfamiliar country—Bulgaria—and a painful history that feels particularly relevant now. You won’t want to put down this remarkable book.”—Claire Messud, author of The Woman Upstairs “In this brilliant work, what appears at first a minor mystery quickly becomes emblematic of a whole country’s hidden history. Lyrical and compelling, The Shadow Land proves a profound meditation on how evil is inflicted, endured, and, through courage and compassion, defeated. Elizabeth Kostova’s third novel clearly establishes her as one of America’s finest writers.”—Ron Rash, author of The Risen

Gothic Literature

by Andrew Smith

Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-10
ISBN : 0748647430
Pages : 224 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (748 users)

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Download or read book Gothic Literature written by Andrew Smith and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition of bestselling introductory text outlining the history and ways of reading Gothic literatureThis revised edition includes:* A new chapter on Contemporary Gothic which explores the Gothic of the early twenty first century and looks at new critical developments* An updated Bibliography of critical sources and a revised Chronology The book opens with a Chronology and an Introduction to the principal texts and key critical terms, followed by five chapters: The Gothic Heyday 1760-1820; Gothic 1820-1865; Gothic Proximities 1865-1900; Twentieth Century; and Contemporary Gothic. The discussion examines how the Gothic has developed in different national contexts and in different forms, including novels, novellas, poems, films, radio and television. Each chapter concludes with a close reading of a specific text - Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Dracula, The Silence of the Lambs and The Historian - to illustrate ways in which contextual discussion informs critical analysis. The book ends with a Conclusion outlining possible future developments within scholarship on the Gothic.

Cart's Top 200 Adult Books for Young Adults

by Michael Cart

Publisher : American Library Association
Release Date : 2013
ISBN : 0838911587
Pages : 126 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (838 users)

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Download or read book Cart's Top 200 Adult Books for Young Adults written by Michael Cart and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2013 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of the bestseller Young Adult Literature: From Romance to Realism, Cart applies his considerable expertise as columnist and critic for Booklist to identifying 200 exceptional adult books that will satisfy a variety of young adults recreational reading tastes. Features only the best of the best no cheesy star bios or chick lit lite here. Makes finding a great book easy, with multiple indexes and thorough annotation .

The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins

by Antonia Hodgson

Publisher : HMH
Release Date : 2016-03-15
ISBN : 0544715942
Pages : 352 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (544 users)

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Download or read book The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins written by Antonia Hodgson and published by HMH. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively tale of “pitch-perfect suspense” set in eighteenth-century England—one of Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten Crime/Mystery Novels of the Year. Winner of the CWA Historical Dagger Award London, 1728. Tom Hawkins is headed to the gallows, accused of murder. Gentlemen don’t hang, and Tom will be damned if he’s the first—he is innocent, after all. It’s hard to say when Tom’s troubles began. He was happily living in sin with his beloved—though their neighbors weren’t happy about that. He probably shouldn’t have told London’s great criminal mastermind that he was in need of adventure. Nor should he have joined the king’s mistress in her fight against her vindictive husband. And he definitely shouldn’t have trusted the calculating Queen Caroline. She’s promised him a royal pardon if he holds his tongue, but there’s nothing more silent than a hanged man. Now Tom’s scrambling to save his life and protect those he loves. But as the noose tightens, his time is running out.

Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction

by Geoff Hamilton

Publisher : Infobase Learning
Release Date : 2015-04-22
ISBN : 1438140657
Pages : 1031 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (438 users)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction written by Geoff Hamilton and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 1031 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on American authors and their works who have been ignored by most literary guides.

Sexuality and Addiction: Making Connections, Enhancing Recovery

by Raven L. Badger

Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2012-07-06
ISBN : 0313396361
Pages : 250 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (313 users)

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Download or read book Sexuality and Addiction: Making Connections, Enhancing Recovery written by Raven L. Badger and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an understanding of how sexuality and addiction are intertwined, helping those who counsel substance abusers and individuals who have experienced negative sexual messages or experiences to improve their sexual health and enjoyment.

Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests, 7th Edition

by Cynthia Orr

Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2013-04-23
ISBN : 1610694619
Pages : 645 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (61 users)

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Download or read book Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests, 7th Edition written by Cynthia Orr and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gold standard for readers' advisory, this book represents an essential resource for LIS students and practicing librarians who want to better understand readers, reading interests, and fiction and nonfiction genres. • Provides an outstanding introduction to readers' advisory service, updated to reflect changing trends in popular reading • Serves as a textbook or supplementary text for classes regarding popular reading, readers' advisory service, or reference • Helps readers' advisors identify read-alikes for patrons' favorite titles

Historical Thinking for History Teachers

by Tim Allender

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2020-07-16
ISBN : 1000257428
Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book Historical Thinking for History Teachers written by Tim Allender and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective Australian history education has never been more important for the development of critically aware and thoughtful young people. History fosters important skills in reasoning, historical consciousness and empathy; and an appreciation of history is crucial to the development of students' understanding of the very nature of our society. This edited collection comprises contributions from leading historians, educators and practising teachers, and surveys Australian history teaching today, from the development of the national curriculum to fostering historical thinking and promoting effective engagement in the history classroom. The book begins with an analysis of the principles underlying the drafting of the national curriculum and features insights from the writers of the curriculum themselves. It focuses on the curriculum from primary- and secondary-school teaching perspectives. Part 2 examines the teaching of historical expertise including historical thinking and value formation, as well as productive assessment and the important role social history can play in the classroom. Part 3 concentrates on specific approaches to history teaching including teacher talk; the use of historical fiction and film; digital technology and the internet; as well as museums as a teaching medium. Part 4 analyses key aspects of Australian history teaching including Indigenous perspectives, teaching citizenship and assisting the pre-service teacher in their transition to becoming a professional. Rich with insights into historical skills, historical concepts and critical thinking, as well as practical guidance on translating principles into engaging classroom approaches, this is an essential reference for both pre-service and in-service history teachers and educators.

Of Time and the River

by Thomas Wolfe

Publisher : Penguin UK
Release Date : 2016-02-04
ISBN : 0241215773
Pages : 1040 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (241 users)

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Download or read book Of Time and the River written by Thomas Wolfe and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second novel by the great American novelist, now the subject of a major new film, Genius, starring Jude Law, Colin Firth, Dominic West and Nicole Kidman. It is 1920 and Eugene Gant leaves the American South for Harvard, New York and Europe, determined to make his way as a writer. On the boat home, he meets Esther Jack, the woman who is to dominate his life. Autobiographical, vital and passionate, Wolfe's second novel blazes with energy and life. Wolfe's first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, is also now available in Penguin Classics. Together, the two novels tell the story of Eugene Gant, Wolfe's fictional alter-ego, as he grows up in a dysfunctional family in the American South and discovers his true vocation as a writer. This new edition includes an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian.

Pop Goes the Decade: The 2000s

by Richard A. Hall

Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2021-04-30
ISBN : 1440868131
Pages : 261 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (44 users)

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Download or read book Pop Goes the Decade: The 2000s written by Richard A. Hall and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pop Goes the Decade: The 2000s comprehensively examines popular culture in the 2000s, placing the culture of the decade in historical context and showing how it not only reflected but also influenced its times. Pop Goes the Decade: The 2000s starts with a timeline of major historical pop culture events of the 2000s, followed by an introduction describing what the U.S. was like at the beginning of the new millennium and how it would change throughout the decade. Next come chapters broken down by medium: television, sports, music, movies, literature, technology, media, and fashion and art. A chapter on controversies in popular culture is followed by a chapter on game-changers, featuring 20 individuals who made a major impact on the U.S. in the 2000s. Finally, a conclusion shows the impact that pop culture in the 2000s has had on the U.S. in the years since. This volume serves as a comprehensive resource for high school and college students studying popular culture in the 2000s. It provides a summary of total impact, plus specific insights into each individual topic. It also includes a wide swath of the scholarship produced on the subject to date. Covers the people, events, and ideas whose impact is still felt in the years since the 2000s, rather than simply telling the history of a decade Offers a detailed understanding of the variety of strands composing the culture of the decade Covers the personalities who helped to shape the decade Suggests areas of further exploration for students of popular culture

Костурков’s World Dèmeublè

by Milena Katsarska

Publisher : Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski
Release Date : 2019-07-05
ISBN : 6192024510
Pages : 352 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (192 users)

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Download or read book Костурков’s World Dèmeublè written by Milena Katsarska and published by Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of words in honor of our colleague, teacher and friend Yordan Kosturkov. It is but a feeble attempt to lock within book covers, not unlike the bare walls of an unfurnished room, the rich and multifaceted world the writer, poet, scholar, translator, intellectual and human being Kosturkov has been building for many decades, brick by brick, stone by stone. The first part in this collection revolves around the idea of the rational and disciplined knowledge in constructing Arguments. The second and somewhat unruly part strives to capture the elusive and the emotional, as well as the (mis)remembered in our Affinities. The third gives our readers the record of the archeologist who has embarked on an excavation in the Archives. It is in the dynamics between these three parts that the editors have tried to approximate the sense of the world created and inhabited by Yordan Kosturkov, if we threw all furniture out the window.

Surviving Ms with Soul Intact

by Charmaine Zankowicz

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2015-07-30
ISBN : 1503585913
Pages : 136 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (53 users)

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Download or read book Surviving Ms with Soul Intact written by Charmaine Zankowicz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ups and downs of living courageously with multiple sclerosis is captured through personal journal entries while searching for the right formulas. Progressing from healthy to increasingly dependent, this MSer struggles along. Charmaines honest and candid memoir chronicles the twenty-two-year path of her disease and the gifts of family, God, and perseverance. Through journal entries knitted together in brilliance, this memoir radiates daily resilience, detailed reason, and definite redemption. The words on these pages are a shining example of success amid suffering, and display a beauty far beyond brokenness. Writing with humor and wit, Ms. Zankowicz has created a masterpiece. Aime Wren BA Eng. Lit. Profound, honest, heart wrenching, brimming with joy and life; full of family values, not preachy, inspirational gratitude. Shirley Buchanan LL.B Charmaine Zankowicz shares her journey from infancy to maturity in both her faith and her struggle with MS. Along the way she proves that being tested in the furnace of affliction (Isa. 48:10) is a sure fire way to prove what you are actually capable of. It is also an example to others of how to follow in that tradition. Charmaine has used stories from the past along with insight from the present to illustrate what real hope looks like. Her story inspired the painting I did for the cover of this book Charmaine; always reaching beyond her grasp, now pulling others along behind her out of the darkness into the light. Adversity can be a wedge that drives us from God and hope or a magnet that draws us towards God and hope. Charmaines book is an encouragement to new Christians and especially to anyone who is struggling with chronic pain whether it is MS or any other physical or emotional difficulty. The "Furnace of Affliction" has helped Charmaine push out the edges of the envelope and embrace life outside her comfort zone she is real and she is inspirational read and reach for the light! Susan Rumford B.A., M.A. Th:S.C.P. (Counsellor / Psychotherapist) The truth of what goes on in the mind, body and soul of a woman battling MS is shared in this book. It's not for the faint of heart. It will multiply your faith, increase your resolve; and if your belief is weak, don't worry - you can piggyback on Charmaine's. - Gunner