The Wild Palms Reader
Title | The Wild Palms Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Trilling |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781878923110 |
The ambitious companion book to the Oliver Stone- produced TV mini-series, the 'Reader' has now obtained legendary status in its own right as a landmark work of subversive, speculative fiction. Contributors include Bruce Wagner, Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Howard Hunt, Lemmy, Malcolm McLaren and Genesis P Orridge.
The Wild Palms
Title | The Wild Palms PDF eBook |
Author | William Faulkner |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2022-08-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Wild Palms" by William Faulkner. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Invisible Work
Title | Invisible Work PDF eBook |
Author | Efraín Kristal |
Publisher | Vanderbilt University Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780826514080 |
It is well known that Jorge Luis Borges was a translator, but this has been considered a curious minor aspect of his literary achievement. Few have been aware of the number of texts he translated, the importance he attached to this activity, or the extent to which the translated works inform his own stories and poems. Between the age of ten, when he translated Oscar Wilde, and the end of his life, when he prepared a Spanish version of the Prose Edda , Borges transformed the work of Poe, Kafka, Hesse, Kipling, Melville, Gide, Faulkner, Whitman, Woolf, Chesterton, and many others. In a multitude of essays, lectures, and interviews Borges analyzed the versions of others and developed an engaging view about translation. He held that a translation can improve an original, that contradictory renderings of the same work can be equally valid, and that an original can be unfaithful to a translation. Borges's bold habits as translator and his views on translation had a decisive impact on his creative process. Translation is also a recurrent motif in Borges's stories. In "The Immortal," for example, a character who has lived for many centuries regains knowledge of poems he had authored, and almost forgotten, by way of modern translations. Many of Borges's fictions include actual or imagined translations, and some of his most important characters are translators. In "Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote," Borges's character is a respected Symbolist poet, but also a translator, and the narrator insists that Menard's masterpiece-his "invisible work"-adds unsuspected layers of meaning to Cervantes's Don Quixote. George Steiner cites this short story as "the most acute, most concentrated commentary anyone has offered on the business of translation." In an age where many discussions of translation revolve around the dichotomy faithful/unfaithful, this book will surprise and delight even Borges's closest readers and critics.
Soldiers' Pay
Title | Soldiers' Pay PDF eBook |
Author | William Faulkner |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780871401663 |
Faulkner's first novel, published in 1926, is one of the most memorable works to emerge from the First World War.
Palm Reading for Beginners
Title | Palm Reading for Beginners PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Webster |
Publisher | Llewellyn Worldwide |
Pages | 163 |
Release | 2012-07-08 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 0738718041 |
Palm reading is a lot easier than you may think. No cards, no coins, no charts of the planets—just a hand and the knowledge in this book. Whether your interest is serious or casual, Palm Reading for Beginners will open a world of insight into yourself, your friends, your family, and your future! Announce in any gathering that you read palms and you will be flocked by people thrilled to show you their hands. When you are have finished Palm Reading for Beginners , you will be able to look at anyone's palm (including your own) and confidently and effectively tell them about their personality, love life, hidden talents, career options, prosperity, and health.
Palm Beach
Title | Palm Beach PDF eBook |
Author | Aerin Lauder |
Publisher | Assouline Publishing |
Pages | 5 |
Release | 2019-09-01 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1614288623 |
Early in the 1900s, one-time oil baron Henry Morrison Flagler took interest in the Southern coast of Florida and began developing an exclusive resort community. Establishing a railroad that would allow easier access to the area, he went on to build two hotels—his hope was that America’s first families would come to populate the area. This modest community would later evolve into an iconic American destination, hosting British royalty, American movie stars, and becoming the home-away-from-home to some of the country’s leading families. As the century continued, Palm Beach established itself as a luxury hideaway synonymous with old-world glamour and new-world sophistication. In this splendid volume, longtime resident and Palm Beach social fixture Aerin Lauder takes us through her Palm Beach. From favorite restaurants like Nandos and Renatos, to favorite houses like La Follia and Villa Artemis, she takes us to the elite shopping of Worth Avenue and the scenic walkways of the Lake Worth trail, all the while relating to us the histories, faces, and places that have become so identified with Palm Beach.
Pylon
Title | Pylon PDF eBook |
Author | William Faulkner |
Publisher | McClelland & Stewart |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2019-04-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0735253773 |
One of the few of William Faulkner’s works to be set outside his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Pylon, first published in 1935, takes place at an air show in a thinly disguised New Orleans named New Valois. An unnamed reporter for a local newspaper tries to understand a very modern ménage a trois of flyers on the brainstorming circuit. These characters, Faulkner said, “were a fantastic and bizarre phenomenon on the face of the contemporary scene. . . . That is, there was really no place for them in the culture, in the economy, yet they were there, at that time, and everyone knew that they wouldn’t last very long, which they didn’t. . . . That they were outside the range of God, not only of respectability, of love, but of God too.” In Pylon Faulkner set out to test their rootless modernity to see if there is any place in it for the old values of the human heart that are the central concerns of his best fiction. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.