The Invention of Love
Title | The Invention of Love PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Stoppard |
Publisher | Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | 116 |
Release | 2014-11-18 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0802191703 |
It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories are dramatically alive. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's youth: High Victorian morality is under siege from the Aesthetic movement, and an Irish student called Wilde is preparing to burst onto the London scene. On his journey the scholar and poet who is now the elder Housman confronts his younger self, and the memories of the man he loved his entire life, Moses Jackson—the handsome athlete who could not return his feelings. As if a dream, The Invention of Love inhabits Housman's imagination, illuminating both the pain of hopeless love and passion displaced into poetry and the study of classical texts. The author of A Shropshire Lad lived almost invisibly in the shadow of the flamboyant Oscar Wilde, and died old and venerated—but whose passion was truly the fatal one?
Labor of Love
Title | Labor of Love PDF eBook |
Author | Moira Weigel |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 321 |
Release | 2017-08-22 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0374536953 |
A brilliant and surprising investigation into why we date the way we do
The Invention of Everything Else
Title | The Invention of Everything Else PDF eBook |
Author | Samantha Hunt |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 054708577X |
Hunt's novel is a wondrous imagining of an unlikely friendship between theeccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young chambermaid in the Hotel New Yorker, where Tesla lived out his last days.
The History of Love: A Novel
Title | The History of Love: A Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole Krauss |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2006-05-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0393342840 |
ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE. A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But it wasn’t always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book…Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of "extraordinary depth and beauty" (Newsday).
Shakespeare: Invention of the Human
Title | Shakespeare: Invention of the Human PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Bloom |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 769 |
Release | 1999-09-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 157322751X |
"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic-and ultimate authority on the western literary tradition, Harold Bloom leads us through a comprehensive reading of every one of the dramatist's plays, brilliantly illuminating each work with unrivaled warmth, wit and insight. At the same time, Bloom presents one of the boldest theses of Shakespearean scholarships: that Shakespeare not only invented the English language, but also created human nature as we know it today.
Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love
Title | Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love PDF eBook |
Author | R. Howard Bloch |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 2009-02-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0226059901 |
Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from—or antidote to—ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are. Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the Christian construction of gender in which the flesh is feminized, the feminine is aestheticized, and aesthetics are condemned in theological terms. Tracing the underlying theme of virginity from the Church Fathers to the courtly poets, Bloch establishes the continuity between early Christian antifeminism and the idealization of woman that emerged in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In conclusion he explains the likely social, economic, and legal causes for the seeming inversion of the terms of misogyny into those of an idealizing tradition of love that exists alongside its earlier avatar until the current era. This startling study will be of great value to students of medieval literature as well as to historians of culture and gender.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Title | The Invention of Hugo Cabret PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Selznick |
Publisher | Scholastic |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2015-09-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1407166573 |
An orphan and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy train station. He desperately believes a broken automaton will make his dreams come true. But when his world collides with an eccentric girl and a bitter old man, Hugo's undercover life are put in jeopardy. Turn the pages, follow the illustrations and enter an unforgettable new world!