The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town on the early nineteenth century.
Robin Jacques Books
Robin Jacques was a British artist and book illustrator known for his prolific work. Despite having no formal art training, he taught himself to draw and developed a distinctive style that graced over 100 novels and children's books from the 1940s to the 1980s. He notably illustrated fairy-tale compilations, bringing magical worlds to life with his unique visual interpretations. Jacques also contributed significantly to the literary landscape as the art editor for *Strand* magazine and later shared his expertise by teaching at several art colleges.
Gathers a variety of tongue twisters and humorous poems about history, religion, politics, mathematics, psychology, and sex.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- 272 pages
- 10 hours of reading
"James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) is one of the twentieth century's great coming-of-age novels. This Norton Critical Edition is based on Hans Walter Gabler's acclaimed text and is accompanied by his introduction and textual notes. John Paul Riquelme provides explanatory notes to deepen the reader's appreciation for Joyce's masterpiece." ""Backgrounds and Contexts" is topically organized: "Political Nationalism: Irish History, 1798-1916," "The Irish Literary and Cultural Revival," "Religion," and "Aesthetic Backgrounds." Fourteen illustrations accompany the documents." ""Criticism" begins with John Paul Riquelme's overview of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man's structure. Twelve diverse interpretations of his work follow, by Kenneth Burke, Umberto Eco, Hugh Kenner, Helene Cixous, John Paul Riquelme, Karen Lawrence, Maud Ellmann, Bonnie Kime Scott, Joseph Valente, Marian Eide, Pericles Lewis, adn Jonathan Mulrooney. A Selected Bibliography is also included."--BOOK JACKET.
Dubliners
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.' Revealing the truths and realities about Irish society in the early 20th century, Joyce's Dubliners challenged the prevailing image of Dublin at the time. A group portrait made up of 15 short stories about the inhabitants of Joyce's native city, he offers a subtle critique of his own town, imbuing the text with an underlying tone of tragedy. Through his various characters he displays the complicated relationships, hardships and mundane details of everyday life and the desire for escape - a yearning that so closely mirrored his own experiences.