A Small Boy and Others
Title | A Small Boy and Others PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Moon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
An exploration of the queer childhoods and odd careers of artists and writers of the 1890s and 1960s.
Notes of a Son and Brother and The Middle Years
Title | Notes of a Son and Brother and The Middle Years PDF eBook |
Author | Henry James |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 594 |
Release | 2011-05-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0813930901 |
After a childhood divided between America and Europe, Henry James settled with his family in New England, first in what he regarded as an outpost of Europe, Newport, and later in Cambridge. The family letters (the initial inspiration for this autobiographical enterprise), many of which recount the early career of William James at Harvard and in Germany, also reveal Henry James Sr.’s views on the intellectual, philosophical, and social issues of the time. Henry Jr., aspiring to be "just literary," acknowledges his indebtedness to the widely cultured artist John La Farge, whose friendship he enjoyed during adolescence. The Civil War is recorded through the letters of his younger brother, Wilky, while Henry recalls a Whitmanesque longing for the Union soldiers he met and talked to. The death of a beloved cousin, Mary Temple, who would become the inspiration for some of his greatest fictional heroines, is documented through the passionate, questioning letters she wrote in her final year of life. In The Middle Years James, newly resident in London, gives his impressions of some of the literary "lions" of the time, most notably George Eliot and Tennyson. This first fully annotated critical edition of Notes of a Son and Brother and The Middle Years both offers the reader extensive support in appreciating the demands of James’s late prose and illuminates the context in which one of literature’s most influential figures developed a characteristic voice.
The Book of Boy
Title | The Book of Boy PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Gilbert Murdock |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2018-02-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0062686224 |
A Newbery Honor Book * Booklist Editors’ Choice * BookPage Best Books * Chicago Public Library Best Fiction * Horn Book Fanfare * Kirkus Reviews Best Books * Publishers Weekly Best Books * Wall Street Journal Best of the Year * An ALA Notable Book A young outcast is swept up into a thrilling and perilous medieval treasure hunt in this award-winning literary page-turner by acclaimed bestselling author Catherine Gilbert Murdock. The Book of Boy was awarded a Newbery Honor. “A treat from start to finish.”—Wall Street Journal Boy has always been relegated to the outskirts of his small village. With a hump on his back, a mysterious past, and a tendency to talk to animals, he is often mocked by others in his town—until the arrival of a shadowy pilgrim named Secondus. Impressed with Boy’s climbing and jumping abilities, Secondus engages Boy as his servant, pulling him into an action-packed and suspenseful expedition across Europe to gather seven precious relics of Saint Peter. Boy quickly realizes this journey is not an innocent one. They are stealing the relics and accumulating dangerous enemies in the process. But Boy is determined to see this pilgrimage through until the end—for what if St. Peter has the power to make him the same as the other boys? This epic and engrossing quest story by Newbery Honor author Catherine Gilbert Murdock is for fans of Adam Gidwitz’s The Inquisitor’s Tale and Grace Lin’s Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, and for readers of all ages. Features a map and black-and-white art by Ian Schoenherr throughout.
Little Boy
Title | Little Boy PDF eBook |
Author | Alison McGhee |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2012-08-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1442477091 |
In this tender eBook with audio, the simple playthings, the everyday moments, picking up that hundredth rock—all of these are brimming with possibility, if you slow down and let the future begin with the small moments of today. Because everything depends on letting a little boy . . . be a little boy.
A Small Boy and Others
Title | A Small Boy and Others PDF eBook |
Author | Henry James |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2011-05-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0813930898 |
Henry James was the final survivor of a remarkable family, and his memoir, written at the end of a long and tireless career, was prompted initially by the death of his "ideal Elder Brother," the psychologist and philosopher William James. A Small Boy and Others recounts the novelist’s earliest years in Albany and, more importantly, New York City, where he was allowed to wander at will. He evokes the theatrical entertainments he enjoyed, the varied social scene in which the family mixed, and the piecemeal nature of his education. With the first of several extended trips, the "romance" of Europe begins as the small boy becomes acquainted with a British culture already familiar from his precocious reading of the great Victorian novelists. And it is in France, in the Louvre’s Galerie d’Apollon, that he undergoes an initiation into the aesthetic power of great art and an intimation of all the "fun" it might bring him. Yet the child also registered, within this privileged and extended family group, signs of dysfunction and failure. James’s autobiography has significantly determined the nature and even the terms of the extensive biographical and critical interest he continues to enjoy. This first fully annotated critical edition of A Small Boy and Others, which guides the reader through the allusive complexities of James’s prose, also offers fresh insights into the formative years of one of literature’s most influential figures.
A Small Boy and Others
Title | A Small Boy and Others PDF eBook |
Author | Henry James |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 2018-05-25 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781720302988 |
A Small Boy and others By Henry Jame This collection of literature attempts to compile many classics that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience. a small boy and others, a small boy and others pdf, a small boy and others henry james
Little Boy Brown
Title | Little Boy Brown PDF eBook |
Author | Isobel Harris |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781592701353 |
First published in 1949, Little Boy Brown is a little gem, ripe for rediscovery.