Prospero's Son
Title | Prospero's Son PDF eBook |
Author | Seth Lerer |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 165 |
Release | 2013-04-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 022601441X |
The author uses his love of books as the backdrop for the story of his complicated relationship with his father.
Prospero's Son
Title | Prospero's Son PDF eBook |
Author | Seth Lerer |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 165 |
Release | 2013-04-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 022601455X |
In this “absorbing and moving” memoir, a scholar of children’s literature considers the relationship between fathers and sons, and between literature and life (Kenneth Gross, author of Puppet). Through elliptical memories and reflections, Seth Lerer delves into his own evolution from boyhood to fatherhood, as well as his intellectual evolution through his lifelong love of reading. While presenting an intimate portrait of Lerer’s life, Prospero’s Son is about the power of books and theater, the excitement of stories in a young man’s life, and the transformative magic of words and performance. Lerer’s father, a teacher and lifelong actor, comes to terms with his life as a gay man. Meanwhile, Lerer himself grows from bookish boy to professor of literature and an acclaimed expert on the very children’s books that set him on his path. Only then does he learn how hard it is to be a father—and how much books can, and cannot, instruct him. Throughout these intertwined accounts of changing selves, Lerer returns again and again to stories—the ways they teach us about discovery, deliverance, forgetting, and remembering.
Prospero's Children
Title | Prospero's Children PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Siegel |
Publisher | Del Rey |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2007-12-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307416437 |
It began ages past in fabled Atlantis, when a mad, power-hungry queen forged a key to a door never meant to be opened by mortal man--its inception would hasten her own death and the extinction of her vainglorious race. For millennia the key lay forgotten beneath the waves, lost amid the ruins of what had been the most beautiful city on Earth. But however jealously the sea hoards its secrets, sooner or later it yields them up. Now, in present-day Yorkshire, that time has come. And for young Fernanda Capel, life will never be the same again . . .
The Tempest
Title | The Tempest PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Pages | 124 |
Release | 1955 |
Genre | Castaways |
ISBN |
Prospero, wise Duke of Milan, has been deposed by Antonio, his wicked brother and exiled with his daughter Miranda to a mysterious island. But Prospero possesses supernatural powers.
The Ashes of Prospero
Title | The Ashes of Prospero PDF eBook |
Author | Gav Thorpe |
Publisher | Games Workshop |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-03-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781784966454 |
Space Wolf Runepriest Njal Stormcaller ventures into the Great Rift and the ruins of Prospero to save his long lost battle-brothers. Goaded by the shade of the long dead sorcerer Izaak, High Runepriest Njal Stormcaller gathers together a disparate warband of Space Wolves to brave the Great Rift and return to the ruins of Prospero. If Izaak is to be believed, a force of the lost Thirteenth Company remains trapped within the old, labyrinthine city of Tizca, and if Njal can free them then he will not only be rid of the sorcerer but he will also rescue his ancient brothers. But the Thousand Sons still linger in the ashes of their former world as well as other, darker adversaries, and they will not allow the Wolves to pass through without a fight.
The Price of Blood and Honor
Title | The Price of Blood and Honor PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Willey |
Publisher | Gateway |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2019-01-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1473224683 |
A powerful fantasy novel in its own right, set in an expansive and complex fantasy universe, The Price of Blood and Honor brings to a grand climax the tale, begun in The Well-Favored Man and A Sorcerer and a Gentleman, of the kingdoms of Landuc, Noroison, and Phesaotois. The bitter, centuries-old feud between Emperor Avril and his wizardly brother, Prospero, has broken into open warfare, and events and armies are unstoppably on the move. In the midst of all this, Prospero's two grown children - staunch, unworldly Freia, and her urbanely sorcerous half-brother, Dewar - find themselves thrust into the very heart of the action. The Price of Blood and Honor is a rich, complex, and splendidly high-handed work, full of epic tragedies and comedies of manners, wars and romances, primal acts of creation, gritty military details, intricate espionage capers, talking animals, mythic beasts, ducks, and a great deal more besides, in the story that is the climax and completion of this series.
University of Wisconsin Studies in Language and Literature
Title | University of Wisconsin Studies in Language and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 692 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | Language and languages |
ISBN |