James Wood
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Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works-books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation-The Fun Stuff confirms Wood's preeminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of the contemporary novel. In twenty-three passionate, sparkling dispatches- that range over such crucial writers as Thomas Hardy, Leon Tolstoy, Edmund Wilson, and Mikhail Lermontov-Wood offers a panoramic...
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Following the collection The Broken Estate-which established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation-The Irresponsible Self confirms Wood's preeminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of contemporary novels.
In twenty-three passionate, sparkling dispatches, he effortlessly connects his encyclopedic, passionate understanding of the literary canon with an equally earnest and appreciative view of the most discussed...
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Thomas Bunting, the charming, chaotic, and deeply untruthful narrator of James Wood's wonderful first novel, is in despair. His marriage is disintegrating and his academic career is in ruins: instead of completing his philosophy Ph.D. (still unfinished after seven years), he is secretly writing what he hopes will be his masterwork, a vast atheistic project he has privately entitled "The Book Against God."
But, when his father suddenly falls ill,...
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"The hour of the wolf is the hour between night and day when death stalks the Earth and the wolf lurks outside the door." From Swedish folklore
From the opening of the novel:
It's a sunny day over Marina del Rey. Sailboats are in their slips and on the ocean. People are sunning themselves on the beach. Linda Collins is sunning herself on the beach. She is long, lean and tan and is wearing a white bikini swimsuit. Her blonde hair is long over her shoulders....
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Learn the HTML5 and CSS3 you need to help you design responsive and future-proof websites that meet the demands of modern web users Every one of the over 4 billion webpages online today use HTML markup language to display its content. HTML is everywhere.Experienced developers know that a mastery of HTML and CSS fundamentals is not only an essential web design skill, but also the solid foundation of a robust coding skillset. James unique and engaging...
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New Yorker book critic and award-winning author James Wood delivers an audiobook about a family struggling to connect with one another and find meaning in their own lives. In the years since his daughter Vanessa moved to America to become a professor of philosophy, Alan Querry has never been to visit. He has been too busy at home in northern England, holding together his business as a successful property developer. His younger daughter, Helen-a music...
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In this provocative history, James B. Wood challenges the received wisdom that Japan's defeat in the Pacific was historically inevitable. He argues instead that it was only when the Japanese military prematurely abandoned its original sound strategic plan-to secure the resources Japan needed and establish a viable defensible perimeter for the Empire-that the Allies were able to regain the initiative and lock Japanese forces into a war of attrition...
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How a gay newspaper columnist dominated a city's nightlife from the 1930s to the 1960sWinsor French was a journalist with a singular voice. A self-described "effeminate young man," French occupied desks in city rooms drenched with masculinity, enduring his colleagues' homophobia and risking the loss of his job by defending unconventional behavior. He ignored newspaper taboos by publishing the price of bootlegged liquor during Prohibition and by writing...
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Brandeis University Press
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[2015]
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English
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In this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood, noted contributor to the New Yorker, has written a master class on the connections between fiction and life. He argues that, of all the arts, fiction has a unique ability to describe the shape of our lives and to rescue the texture of those lives from death and historical oblivion. The act of reading is understood here as the most sacred and personal of activities, and there are brilliant...
10) Across the rail
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Brave Man Media
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[2022]
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English
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In the early 170s Chris, Liam, and Manny decide to open a bar without any previous ability or concept of what it takes. Through the trials and tribulations of their journey, they come to discover who they are as individuals and what they want in life.
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Cold feet the new years volume season 2
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ITV Studios Global Entertainment
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[2019]
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English
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Older, but not necessarily wiser, the gang is reunited when Adam returns to Manchester from working abroad to make an announcement, but not everyone is as thrilled as he is. Follow the highs and lows of these much loved characters as they fail and thrive in equal parts in their search for a sure path in life.
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Acorn
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[2017]
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Follow the exploits of Paul Pennyfeather, whose unfair expulsion from Oxford kick-starts a disastrous series of events, wherein he is by turn a naive teacher, a celebrity bridegroom, a wanted fugitive, and an international white slave-trader.
13) Gilead
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In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.
14) Caught
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New York Review Books
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2016
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During the Blitz, Henry Green served on the London Auxiliary Fire Service, and this experience lies behind Caught, published when the bombing had only recently ended. Like Green, Richard Roe, the hero of this resolutely unheroic book, comes from the upper class. His wife remains at their country estate, far from the threatened city, while Roe serves under Pye, a professional fireman whose deranged sister once kidnapped Roe’s young son,...
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A rare blending of the Bible account with information from sciences, archeology, ancient traditions and other sources. Reads as easily as a story, yet teaches actual history. Narrates from creation to Abram, encompassing the whole period usually called "prehistoric". Charts, maps and illustrations help to give a clear picture of times and places. Gives insights into the world before the great flood and into the rebuilding of civilization afterward....
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Stories Worth Re-reading is another treasure house of inspiration originally compiled by Review and Herald in 1913 to provide children and youth with worth while reading, excellent family reading and a treasure house for pastors and teachers who tell children's stories. The purpose of this book is to provide children and youth with stories worth reading, stories relating incidents of history, missionary effort, and home and school experiences. These...
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These short stories by Missy Wood were all written when she was between the ages of twelve and eighteen. When a lesson in Missy's daily learning at home requested she writes a research paper, or essay, or a persuasive paper, etc. She would rather be inclined to bring that lesson into a story format and consequently here are the results in this little booklet.
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This concise history of Tom White is a refreshing story of a young man and his advancements in life as he grows spiritually. Because of an ever-improving character after the Lord providentially led him to repentance, Tom White became a well-respected farmer and a Christian example to all who knew him. This book also contains a true poem about an honest miller who did not take advantage of unnatural circumstances in his favour to oppress the poor....
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Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne's masterpiece. Published in French as L'Île Mystérieuse in 1874, this novel is a sequel to Verne's earlier Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas. After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escape the American...
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A Young Girl Tries to Buy a Bible!
This is a true story of a girl called Mary Jones. As soon as she can read the large Bible at the Evans' old farmhouse, Mary makes up her mind to buy a copy for herself. After six years she has saved enough money, but there is the long journey over the Welsh mountains to Bala. And then she hears that there are no Bibles for sale!
As the story unfolds you will see how a girl, a preacher, a schoolmaster who couldn't...