Alphabets
Title | Alphabets PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Black Dog Pub Limited |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9781907317095 |
"A playful take on the alphabets relationship with art, design, typography, children's books, learning aides, commercial signage, contemporary culture and everything and anything in between"--Page 4 of cover.
A Miscellany
Title | A Miscellany PDF eBook |
Author | E. E. Cummings |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | American prose literature |
ISBN | 9780871406538 |
Includes works in French language with parallel English text.
Christmas Miscellany
Title | Christmas Miscellany PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Green |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017-10-03 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 1510725709 |
Discover the meaning of the season’s traditions! Have you ever wondered why we celebrate Christmas the way we do? In this whimsical book, Jonathan Green tells you all about the fascinating stories behind our most beloved holiday traditions. Make yourself cozy by the fireplace, open up this fully illustrated treasure trove, and learn: Why we sing carols Why we burn Yule logs Why we hang stockings Why we kiss under the mistletoe Why we send greeting cards Why there are twelve days of Christmas And what is figgy pudding? Each chapter explores a different custom and its history: when and where it started, how it has changed over the centuries, and why we still love to recreate it today. You’ll learn why holly and ivy are important symbols, who Good King Wenceslas was, and why we eat turkey for Christmas dinner. Additional fun facts and trivia are sprinkled throughout, accompanied by classic illustrations. This is the perfect gift or stocking stuffer for curious-minded friends and family this holiday season!
American Poetry, 1922: A Miscellany
Title | American Poetry, 1922: A Miscellany PDF eBook |
Author | Various |
Publisher | Library of Alexandria |
Pages | 97 |
Release | |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1465562214 |
A Miscellany (Revised)
Title | A Miscellany (Revised) PDF eBook |
Author | E. E. Cummings |
Publisher | Liveright Publishing |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2018-07-24 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0871403943 |
A Miscellany, confined to a private edition for decades, sheds further light on the prodigious vision and imagination of the most inventive poet of the twentieth century: E.E. Cummings. Formally fractured and yet gleefully alive and whole, E. E. Cummings’s groundbreaking modernist poetry expanded the boundaries of language. In A Miscellany, originally released in a limited run in 1958, Cummings lent his delightfully original voice to “a cluster of epigrams,” a poem, three speeches from an unfinished play, and forty-nine essays—most of them previously written for or published in magazines, anthologies, or art gallery catalogues. Seven years later, George J. Firmage—editor of much of Cummings’s work, including Complete Poems—broadened the scope of this delightfully eclectic collection, adding seven more poems and essays, and many of Cummings’s unpublished line drawings. Together, these pieces paint a distinctive portrait of Cummings’s eccentric, yet precise, genius. Like his poetry, Cummings’s prose is lively; often witty, biting, and offbeat, he is an intelligent observer and critic of the modern. His essays explore everything from Cubism to the circus, equally quick to analyze his poetic contemporaries and satirize New York society. As Cummings wrote in his original foreword, A Miscellany contains “a great deal of liveliness and nothing dead.” This remains true today, more than fifty years after its original publication.
Miscellany 50
Title | Miscellany 50 PDF eBook |
Author | Clíodhna Ní Anluain |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | English essays |
ISBN | 9781848407473 |
Miscellany50 celebrates fifty years of Sunday Miscellany, RTÉ Radio 1's iconic weekly arts programme.
Littlewood's Miscellany
Title | Littlewood's Miscellany PDF eBook |
Author | John Edensor Littlewood |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1986-10-30 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 9780521337021 |
Littlewood's Miscellany, which includes most of the earlier work as well as much of the material Professor Littlewood collected after the publication of A Mathematician's Miscellany, allows us to see academic life in Cambridge, especially in Trinity College, through the eyes of one of its greatest figures. The joy that Professor Littlewood found in life and mathematics is reflected in the many amusing anecdotes about his contemporaries, written in his pungent, aphoristic style. The general reader should, in most instances, have no trouble following the mathematical passages. For this publication, the new material has been prepared by Béla Bollobás; his foreword is based on a talk he gave to the British Society for the History of Mathematics on the occasion of Littlewood's centenary.