!1: Now is the time English Poetry From Tennyson to Whitman (Harvard Classics, Part 42) Order Today!
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1910. Sample Contents: Alfred Lord Tennyson; William Thackeray; Charles Kingsley; Robert Browning; Emily Bronte; Arthur Hugh Clough; Matthew Arnold; Charles Dickens; Daniel Gabriel Rossetti; Algernon Charles Swinburne; Robert Louis Stevenson; William Cullen Bryant; Edgar Allan Poe; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Centered in Rummidge, a sprawling industrial town in the English midlands, Nice Work confirms Lodge's rare capacity to be thought-provoking, moving, and very funny. "A singularly brilliant and invigorating performance."--Chicago Tribune.
!1: Best Buy Nice Work is the third in Lodge's trilogy send-up of academia and stands as a significant departure from the previous two novels. The cast of characters from the first two entries is all but gone and the book takes a satirical look at academia from the corporate point of view.
The story revolves around on of those truly bureaucratic inventions that in the end never seem to serve any real purpose. In this case, it Industry Year, a celebration of industry in Britain at the height of the Thatcher ear when English business is in full retreat from the opening of markets and fierce foreign competition.
As part of this nonsense, Robyn Primrose, fierce socialist intellectual and lecturer on 19th century English literature is assigned to "shadow" Vic Wilcox, the managing director of a local foundry and manufacturing concern, to "foster greater understanding between the collegiate and business communities".
Wilcox is doing his best to remake his company into a competitive concern that can make a go of it for the long term. Primrose is a sheltered child of privilege whose left wing theories aren't tinged with any experience of the real world.
Naturally, this situation provides full fodder for Lodge's wonderfully wacky satirical vision, and he does his utmost to make the best of the situation, to wonderful effect.
This book isn't nearly as outright funny as the previous entries ion this trilogy, falling more along the lines of amusing rather than comical. Yet, I liked it best of the three. The books isn't as cluttered by the huge--and often confusing--cast of characters that populated the first two books. The pace is more subdued than the frenetic pace of the earlier books, and the characters much more fully drawn. If this effort produced far fewer "laugh out loud" moments, it was nevertheless the most satisfying of the three books.
Many complain these books are outdated--I don't find them so. They wonderfully chronicle a past time. That's like saying Dickens or Twain shouldn't be read because they are outdated. It doesn't make sense.
Lodge has a witty, effervescent writing style and a wonderfully sardonic world view that make for very enjoyable reading. This trilogy is well worth your time. on Sale!
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!1: Now is the time In Tennyson Land: Being a Brief Account of the Home and Early Surroundings of the Poet Laureate and an Attempt to Identify the Scenes and Trace the Influences of Lincolnshire in His Works [1890] Order Today!
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±1±: Best Buy I've always been fascinated by weather and its changes. However, having spent my whole life on the West Coast (and almost all of it in California), I can't say I'm that much of a "weather expert." I remember living in San Diego in the late 1970s and having a weatherman describe a passing storm front as a series of "squall lines." I always wondered what exactly that meant. While this book may not define "squall lines" specifically, it does go a long way in explaining our weather. And after reading this book I still may not be a weather expert, but I'm definitely much more knowledgeable about it.
I like the Idiot books because they explain a subject in some depth without going overboard, but at the same time don't "dumb down" to the point of telling cutesy jokes to get a point across. This book is no exception. Taking on weather topics from wind and rain, how violent storms (thunderstorms, tornadoes and hurricanes) develop, how air pollution affects us, "global warming," even how a day to day forecast is put together and how to become a TV weatherman are done in a light but still informative style. There's also some excellent reference material (weather glossary, weather maps, etc.) at the back of the book too.
An excellent introductory book about weather and one that I can refer to time and time again. on Sale!
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This is an account of a rural childhood in North Devon at the end of the Second World War. It is recounted with humour, irony and a little pathos. Though the family was poor by today's standards, they were rich in humour and the pleasures of a truly rural, simplistic way of life. An overcrowded thatched cottage (that nearly caught fire one Guy Fawkes night) didn't deter the Plymouth relatives from periodically descending upon them. You will get to know each family member, they were all so different. This is a delightfully perceptive view of the period, the countryside and the country characters who lived in and around the vicinity of Roary and Molland village. You will not be alone in wanting to go and get a feel of the place, even though there is nothing to be seen of the house now, although the well is visible still. This is a book you will want to read and re-read from time to time, everybody can relate to it in some form or other.
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A NEW LIBRARY OF POETRY AND SONG EDITED BY WILLIAM CUL LEN BRYANT-WITH HIS REVIEW OF POETS AND POETRY FROM THE TIME OF CHAUCEfr REVISED AND ENLARGED WITH RECENT AUTHORS, AND CONTAINING A DIC TIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS pictorial anb portrait Illustrations NEW YORK FORDS, HOWARD AND HULBERT Copyright, IN 1870 AND 1877, Hv J B. KURD AND COMPANY IN 1880, 1886, AND 1895, BY KURDS, HOWARD, AND HULBKKT. indexed PUBLISHERS PREFACE. STANWWI by general consent in the front rank of its class, since its first iaue in 1870, Bryants Library of Poetry and Song is one of the perennial standards. The name Library, which was given it, indicates the principle upon which the book has been made, namely that it might serve as a book of reference as a comprehensive exhibit of the history, growth, and condition of poetical literature and, more especially, as a companion, at the will of its possessor, for the varying moods of the mind. Mr. Bryants broad sympathies and pure taste secured in the original edition a selection at once full and choice. Yet, in the desire to better it and keep it fresh, almost the latest literary labor of his life was a thorough revision and enlargement of this Family Library, as he was wont to call it and since that time it has been again revised, and made more useful by the addition of certain valuable features and representative poems from authors of more recent fame. In all this labor, the chief aim of the collec tion - to present an array of good poetry so widely representative and so varied in its tone as to offer an answering chord to every mood and phase of human feeling has been carefully kept in view, both in the selection aud the arrangement of its contents. So that, in all senses, the realization of its significant title has been an objective point. In pursuance of this plan, the highest standard of literary criticism has not been made the only test of worth for selection, since many poenis have been included which, though less perfect than others in form, have, by some power of touching the heart, gained and maintained a sure place in the popular esteem. In its present form, this Library is believed to be the most complete of all the anthologies. Perhaps the most notable of the new features, aside from the new poems, is the addition to each of the Departments as Childhood and Youth, Love Nature, etc. of a number of briefer poetical quotations under the general head of Fragments. These, in their careful classifi cation, include, together with the complete poenis in the work, nearly every well-known passage and phrase in the poetical literature of the language, iii iv PUBLISHERS IUKFACK. being the result of much original reading, as well as consultation i Addington, Mrs. Hale, Watson, Alliboue, Bartlott, and othor collections of such passages, Bartlett being easily the chief. To make them ivudily accessible, either in finding a specific fragment or in Nwm. hing for quotations on particular subjects, there is also an analytical index, or Dictionary of Poetical Quotations, giving some fifteen thousand ivfcivrnvn under alphabetically arranged key-words. The Publishers desire to return their cordial thanks for tho eourttwy freely extended to them, by which many copyrighted American poonro liuvr been allowed to appear in this collection. In regard to a largo number of them, permission has been accorded by the authors thainmdvus other poems, having been gathered as waifs and strays, have bciun lUKWMHurily used without a special authority and, where due credit, is not ivun, or where the authorship may Lave been erroneously ascribed, futim editions will afford opportunity for correction, which will be gladly mada 1 tuiiculitr acknowledgments are offered to Messrs. D. AITLKTON 0. for ox tracts from the works of Fite-Greene Halleck and from the pooms of Witlium Oullen Bryant to Messrs. HAKPEK BKOTHKHS, for plains of Charles Q-. Halpiue and Will Oarleton to Messrs. J...
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At the turn of the century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country. A sandhog, he burrows beneath the East River, digging the tunnel that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. In the bowels of the riverbed, the sandhogs—black, white, Irish, Italian—dig together, the darkness erasing all differences. Above ground, though, the men keep their distance until a spectacular accident welds a bond between Walker and his fellow sandhogs that will both bless and curse three generations.
±1±: Best Buy Truly one of the great writers of our time. This book carried me to the highs and lows of life itself. I cannot recommend it highly enough! on Sale!
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In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann’s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people. Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author’s most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s.
Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life careening sideways. Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth. Elegantly weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann’s powerful allegory comes alive in the unforgettable voices of the city’s people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the “artistic crime of the century.” A sweeping and radical social novel, Let the Great World Spin captures the spirit of America in a time of transition, extraordinary promise, and, in hindsight, heartbreaking innocence. Hailed as a “fiercely original talent” (San Francisco Chronicle), award-winning novelist McCann has delivered a triumphantly American masterpiece that awakens in us a sense of what the novel can achieve, confront, and even heal.
±1±: Best Buy This is a very good book. Don't get me wrong. It was a very enjoyable reading experience and I would recommend this book to anyone. That being said, I started reading this book with sky high expectations and I have to say at the end I was kind of disappointed. The book did not succeed in blowing me away, and I think I know why.
McCann is a superb writer and he really has a way with words. His imagery, diction, and the way he can so seamlessly slip into the heads of characters from different walks of life is pretty amazing. In this novel, he writes several spectacular short narratives and then falls short on cohesiveness when attempting to tie all the threads together at the end.
We've got some great characters: the heart-wrenching Corrigan, the warm, generous Gloria, or the painfully stiff and slightly pathetic Claire, who all arouse sympathy and are flushed out with mastery in their introductions to the story. They really come alive under Mccann's pen, but as the narrative moves forward their stories are swallowed by the confusion of characters McCann has constructed in his ambition. There are too many characters, and McCann did not do all of them justice. I read five pages of superb , profound prose about a graffiti tag photographer, and then he is never mentioned again save under a photograph-- clever, but unsatisfying. Three tech kids working in California appear in one chapter and then disappear forever. What's confusing is McCann picks and chooses the characters he wants to give endings to like he's playing favorites, and never gives a reason as to why some characters get a huge hunk more exposure than others.
Needless to say, this made the reading experience slightly disjointed, and I was disappointed that only some characters' stories were revisited. Note to author: If you're only interested in these characters, stick to them, or give everyone equal facetime at least. Of the stories that were flushed out, however, McCann does a great job at building intrigue, but he sometimes veers off into the realm of cliche and convenience. Many of the coincidences and connections between the characters in the novel seem improbable, and McCann's wish to make everything in the plot do double duty ends up making parts of the narrative seem forced and constrained.
Another thing that bothered me about this book was it's failure to draw up strong emotion. This may be cliche, but I usually know I've read a good novel when I've laughed, cried, and forgotten to eat too. I think i did chuckle while reading "Let The Great World Spin," but for such an ambitious, atmospheric title, the novel fell short on emotional delivery. There could have been so many emotional high points, with the turmoil and insanity of these character's lives, but I never felt tears well up in my eyes in empathy for any of these characters, and I found that extremely odd. This may have had to do with the too-many-characters-too-little-time-for-everybody problem that I mentioned earlier, but usually by the end of a great novel my breath is caught in my throat and goosebumps are running down my spine. I was disappointed that with "Let The Great World Spin," neither were the case.
Additionally, sometimes wording is awkward and plot development uncomfortable, with the last paragraph being extremely awkward in this regard as McCann describes an unlikely encounter between a certain important young woman and an Italian man. The chapter made me feel sleazy and a bit skeptical, especially with McCann's awkward brushing over of the sex scene as if he's not quite sure what to do with himself. Many other instances like that in the novel had an unpleasant jarring effect on the reading experience.
Of course, I'm being nitpicky here. I gave the book four stars and it deserves all four; McCann has written a very good novel that is much better than a lot of the other stuff out there. It deserves all the recognition it has gotten, and I only focus on the negatives in these reviews to put some of the over-praising odes into proportion. In my opinion, this novel was good, but not great. If you want an extraordinary book on 9/11, one that will blow you away and make you fall in love head over heels, read Foer's "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close." This book tries, but in the end only partially succeeds. on Sale!
