Middle Passage
Title | Middle Passage PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Johnson |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2012-02-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1439125031 |
A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s National Book Award-winning masterpiece—"a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick…heroic in proportion…fiction that hooks the mind" (The New York Times Book Review)—now with a new introduction from Stanley Crouch. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave and irrepressible rogue, is lost in the underworld of 1830s New Orleans. Desperate to escape the city’s unscrupulous bill collectors and the pawing hands of a schoolteacher hellbent on marrying him, he jumps aboard the Republic, a slave ship en route to collect members of a legendary African tribe, the Allmuseri. Thus begins a voyage of metaphysical horror and human atrocity, a journey which challenges our notions of freedom, fate and how we live together. Peopled with vivid and unforgettable characters, nimble in its interplay of comedy and serious ideas, this dazzling modern classic is a perfect blend of the picaresque tale, historical romance, sea yarn, slave narrative and philosophical allegory. Now with a new introduction from renowned writer and critic Stanley Crouch, this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Middle Passage celebrates a cornerstone of the American canon and the masterwork of one of its most important writers. "Long after we’d stopped believe in the great American novel, along comes a spellbinding adventure story that may be just that" (Chicago Tribune).
The Art & Craft of Novel Writing
Title | The Art & Craft of Novel Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Oakley M. Hall |
Publisher | Story Press Books |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
"Timeless advice with examples from literary masters -- Flaubert to Hemingway to Oates."--
On the Art and Craft of Writing
Title | On the Art and Craft of Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Maxim Gorky |
Publisher | The Minerva Group, Inc. |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0898750407 |
The Art & Craft of Writing Christian Fiction
Title | The Art & Craft of Writing Christian Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Gerke |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2012-06-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1599636484 |
Let's face it: Christian fiction is fun. Even if you're writing a serious-minded study of man's inhumanity to man, there is something exhilarating about story; about creating people and worlds and events; about telling a tale that keeps readers enraptured and maybe - just maybe - leaves them fortified in their walk with Jesus. But for all of the fun, it's also hard work. There is skill involved in writing excellent Christian fiction. There is craftsmanship to be learned. And there are the long hours pounding away on a manuscript that, by the time you're done with it, has you convinced it's the worst piece of garbage ever penned by man. That's not even talking about trying to get your book published. It's a wonder anyone would choose such a way to spend otherwise useful time. So maybe you put your novel away for awhile. You've tried to do more sensible things with your spare moments. You've attempted to be engaged with workaday matters, laundry, and bills. But one day, a new story idea will pop into your head or you won't be able to stop hearing the voice of a character demanding to be written about. On that day, you'll be right back where you were, counting the cost of writing Christian fiction â€" and loving it like nothing else.
David Jones and the Craft of Theology
Title | David Jones and the Craft of Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth R Powell |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2020-10-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567691659 |
This is an imaginative exploration of the art of David Jones which addresses Christian teaching through engagement with selected artistic works: a poem, a painted inscription and a wood engraving. Elizabeth R. Powell's study does not just enable readers to understand Jones but also to use his kind of loving attention in their own lives – which, Jones would argue, is theology's most important task. Through close readings of material objects, Powell draws the reader into the participatory, performative and dialogical possibilities of the craft of theology. She frames an older style of theology in a distinctive and modern way, as a graced human practice and a place of transforming relation with the divine. Powell argues that Jones's art works offer places of beauty in which to 'become beauty' along the way. Located at the cross-section of theology, literature and the arts, this volume shows that being interdisciplinary is nothing less than finding ways for theology and humanity to be more richly itself.
The Art & Craft of Novel Writing
Title | The Art & Craft of Novel Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Oakley M. Hall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
"Timeless advice with examples from literary masters -- Flaubert to Hemingway to Oates."--
A Year of Writing Dangerously
Title | A Year of Writing Dangerously PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Abercrombie |
Publisher | New World Library |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 2012-05-08 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1608680525 |
In this collection of anecdotes, lessons, quotes, and prompts, author and writing teacher Barbara Abercrombie provides a delightfully varied cornucopia of inspiration —nuts-and-bolts solutions, hand-holding commiseration, and epiphany-fueling insights from fellow writers, including Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners and Abercrombie’s students who have gone from paralyzed to published.