The Chestertonian Library: An Anthology of Chesterton's Works from: 1891-1922, Volume 1, Fiction: The Hill of Humour

The Chestertonian Library: An Anthology of Chesterton's Works from: 1891-1922, Volume 1, Fiction: The Hill of Humour
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Total Pages : 658
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ISBN-10 : 9781365998911
ISBN-13 : 1365998916
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Synopsis The Chestertonian Library: An Anthology of Chesterton's Works from: 1891-1922, Volume 1, Fiction: The Hill of Humour by : Matthew Hatchen

This is volume one of a multi-volume collected works series featuring G.K. Chesterton's writings between 1891-1922. Enjoy his wit and humor mingled with deep insights within this volume through four of his fictional works: The Ball and the Cross, MANALIVE, Napoleon of Notting Hill, and The Flying Inn.

Conservative

Conservative
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Publisher : Fidelis Books
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9781642932249
ISBN-13 : 1642932248
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Conservative by : Jim DeMint

Americans hunger for something real to believe in—leaders and ideas that actually work to make their lives better. The current political system is not satisfying this hunger and people are rebelling. Polished, experienced candidates in both the Democrat and Republican parties are facing stiff competition from radical, but more authentic, candidates. Jim DeMint and Rachel Bovard make a rock-solid case for why the principles that made America the freest, most prosperous nation in world history must be reclaimed to prevent our demise. Conservative is the simple truth on which this book is built; we all tend to keep what works. This exploration delivers the goods on what has and will work for America.

Nihilism, Modernism, and Value

Nihilism, Modernism, and Value
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Total Pages : 125
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ISBN-10 : 9781456612917
ISBN-13 : 1456612913
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Synopsis Nihilism, Modernism, and Value by : John Fraser

Nihilism, Modernism, and Value consists of three jargon-free lectures addressed to the general reader. It explores a variety of ways in which writers responded to the phenomenon of nihilism in the 19th and early 20th centuries, By "nihilism" here is meant a sense, at times paralyzing, of the instability and perhaps groundlessness of all values. The book goes into some of the factors— psychological, sociological, philosophical—involved in that destabilizing. But its principal focus is on reintegration, and it draws freely on real-world experiences to illuminate concepts and strategies. Among the writers whose names figure in it are Conrad, Nietzsche, Beckett, Woolf, Heidegger, Rhys, Pushkin, Baudelaire, Hemingway, Lessing, Stevens, Valéry, and James (William), with particular attention at one point to Kafka and Borges. But no prior knowledge of them is required for following the argument, with its numerous lively quotations. The author himself is advancing heuristically, not just performing an academic exercise. The problems confronted are as relevant still as they were generations ago. A reviewer of John Fraser's first book spoke of "an extremely agile and incessantly active mind which illuminates almost every subject it touches." A reviewer of the second one, both of them published by Cambridge University Press, called it "a brilliant and utterly absorbing work," and said that "There are not many learned books which have the unputdownable quality of a thriller; this is one of them."

The Absurd in Literature

The Absurd in Literature
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 071907410X
ISBN-13 : 9780719074103
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Synopsis The Absurd in Literature by : Neil Cornwell

Neil Cornwell's study, while endeavouring to present an historical survey of absurdist literature and its forbears, does not aspire to being an exhaustive history of absurdism. Rather, it pauses on certain historical moments, artistic movements, literary figures and selected works, before moving on to discuss four key writers: Daniil Kharms, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien. The absurd in literature will be of compelling interest to a considerable range of students of comparative, European (including Russian and Central European) and English literatures (British Isles and American) - as well as those more concerned with theatre studies, the avant-garde and the history of ideas (including humour theory). It should also have a wide appeal to the enthusiastic general reader.

Victorian Fantasists

Victorian Fantasists
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9781349212774
ISBN-13 : 1349212776
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Victorian Fantasists by : David Jasper

The Art of Detective Fiction

The Art of Detective Fiction
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 0333746015
ISBN-13 : 9780333746011
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis The Art of Detective Fiction by : W. Chernaik

The contributors to this volume all pay tribute to, and seek to account for, the astonishing durability of the detective story as a narrative genre. The essays range generously, taking a variety of theoretical approaches and including detective fiction in languages other than English, but particular attention is paid to the `Golden Age' of English detective story writing and to the `hard-boiled' American version on the genre. This is a collection that will appeal to the scholar and to the devotee alike, to all those, in fact, who can never resist the lure of finding out whodunnit.

The Masterful Monk

The Masterful Monk
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Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages : 460
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ISBN-10 : 9781789123647
ISBN-13 : 178912364X
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis The Masterful Monk by : Owen Francis Dudley

There passes before us a drama of modern life and pleasure, of glorious youth and love, of tragedy and triumph, of human nature at its worst and best in the challenging personalities of Julian Verrers and the Masterful Monk. Originally published in 1929, The Masterful Monk by English author Owen Francis Dudley was the third of a series of six volumes dealing with problems of human happiness. The first book, Will Men be like Gods?, was an answer to the slanderers of Religion; the second, The Shadow on the Earth, to the slanderers of God. In The Masterful Monk, Dudley endeavours “to meet the modern attack upon Man and his moral nature launched by those who would degrade him to the level of an animal.”

Four Faultless Felons

Four Faultless Felons
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 0486258521
ISBN-13 : 9780486258522
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Four Faultless Felons by : G. K. Chesterton

Four members of a London club relate their former careers in crime

In Front of Your Nose

In Front of Your Nose
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Total Pages : 555
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:145019468
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Synopsis In Front of Your Nose by : George Orwell

Contemporary Australian Literature

Contemporary Australian Literature
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Publisher : Sydney University Press
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 9781743324363
ISBN-13 : 1743324367
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Contemporary Australian Literature by : Nicholas Birns

Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers left Australia to see the world; now Australia’s distance no longer provides sanctuary. But today the global perspective has arrived with a vengeance. In Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead, Nicholas Birns tells the story of how novelists, poets and critics, from Patrick White to Hannah Kent, from Alexis Wright to Christos Tsiolkas, responded to this condition. With rancour, concern and idealism, modern Australian literature conveys a tragic sense of the past yet an abiding vision of the way forward. Birns paints a vivid picture of a rich Australian literary voice – one not lost to the churning of global markets, but in fact given new life by it. Contrary to the despairing of the critics, Australian literary identity continues to flourish. And as Birns finds, it is not one thing, but many. "In this remarkable, bold and fearless book, Nicholas Birns contests how literary cultures are read, how they are constituted and what they stand for … In examining the nature of the barriers between public and private utterance, and looking outside the absurdity of the rules of genre, Birns has produced a redemptive analysis that leaves hope for revivifying a world not yet dead." - John Kinsella