Heroes and Villains

Author: Angela Carter
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141968370
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description
Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and the other Professors. Outside, where the land is thickly wooded and wild beasts roam, live the Barbarians, who raid and pillage in order to survive. Marianne is strictly forbidden to leave her civilized world but, fascinated by these savage outsiders, decides to escape. There, beyond the wire fences, she will discover a decaying paradise, encounter the tattooed Barbarian boy Jewel and go beyond the darkest limits of her imagination. Playful, sensuous, violent and gripping, Heroes and Villains is an ambiguous and deliriously rich blend of post-apocalyptic fiction, gothic fantasy, literary allusion and twisted romance.

Heroes and Villains

Author: David Hajdu
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458778835
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 598

Book Description
Heroes and Villains is the first collection of essays by David Hajdu' award - winning author of The Ten - Cent Plague' Positively 4th Street' and Lush Life. Eclectic and controversial' Hajdu's essays take on topics as varied as pop music' jazz' th...

Heroes & Villains

Author: Gerald Scarfe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricature
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
Heroes and Villains is a unique collaboration with the caricaturist Gerald Scarfe, which will also be the subject of a documentary on BBC Four. In the book, portraits of well-known figures, selected from the National Portrait Gallery's collections, are quirkily juxtaposed with caricatures that depict their villainous side. Gerald Scarfe, Britain's best-known caricaturist, provides these artful, glib distortions, many of which have been specially commissioned. They reveal the wit and vision of an exceptional draughtsman at work. who argue their views for and against, on subjects as wide ranging as Henry VIII, Oswald Mosley, Virginia Woolf, Princess Diana and David and Victoria Beckham.

Heroes And Villains

Author: Steven Gaines
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306806479
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418

Book Description
The author "reveals the gothic tale of drugs, sex, music, greed, booze, and genius behind the wholesome image of the Beach Boys."--Jacket.

How to Draw Comic Book Heroes and Villains

Author: Christopher Hart
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417676224
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Heroes, Villains, and Fools

Author: Orrin E. Klapp
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351515829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
This volume presents three major social types in American society-heroes, villains, and fools-as models for American behaviour. Approaching these models primarily through language, Orrin E. Klapp explores what they may suggest about Americans as a people. Rather than study people, the author describes abstract types named and embedded in popular language. These social types are important symbols; and a way to attack a symbol is by identifying its meaning in various contexts. He further argues that the language surrounding heroes, villains, and fools reveals a social structure. We may not escape being ascribed a type, but we do have a choice of type. Known more commonly as "finding oneself," we can manipulate cues-with dress, facial expressions, style of life, or conspicuous public roles-to build an identity. This classic study has serious contemporary implications. For a public figure, an inevitable result of the typing process is the development of at least two selves, the public and the private. When the book originally appeared in 1962, the struggle to balance two images generally only plagued celebrities and politicians. Today, social media offers everyone the opportunity to develop an online persona. This volume will be of interest to sociologists as well as anyone who has a Facebook account.

Heroes and Villains of the Bible

Author:
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 1400316855
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Features the stories of Bible heroes who fought on God's behalf and villains who fought against him.

The Action Bible: Heroes and Villains

Author:
Publisher: David C Cook
ISBN: 083078294X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
This extensive, full-color guide to Bible characters includes fascinating facts and figures about the Bible’s most curious but sometimes relatable people. Including all-new illustrations from graphic artist Sergio Cariello, The Action Bible Heroes and Villains draws in young readers with: Colorful info about the crazy origins, amazing occupations, and strengths and failings of more than 75 Bible characters. Historical background and “Where Is It Now?” guides to ancient and modern-day locations. Diagrams, stories, and fun facts about food, clothing, traditions, individual quirks, and miraculous interventions. From Adam and Eve’s most embarrassing moment to the details of a Roman soldier’s armor to Zechariah’s hometown, the unique insights and dynamic illustrations in this jam-packed guide jump off the pages and into kids’ minds and hearts as they meet people just like them whom God used in His redemptive story.

Roald Dahl's Heroes and Villains

Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 9780857551252
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Enjoy four fabulous full-colour stories featuring some of Roald Dahl's most magnificent heroes and monstrous villains: The Enormous Crocodile, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, The Twits, George's Marvellous Medicine In the good corner find inventive George who stands up to his grizzly, grumpy grandma by mixing a potion unlike any other. And meet Mr Muggle-Wump and his family, whose bravery and quick-thinking lead to extraordinary events. In the bad corner Mr and Mrs Twit are the most terrible twosome you could ever have the misfortune to meet. And beware the crafty, child-guzzling crocodile...

Heroes & Villains

Author: Andrew Boyle
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 1925418456
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
Meet the spectacular cosplayers of New York's annual Comic Con. Heroes & Villains is a photographic journey into the heart of contemporary pop culture that is New York's annual Comic Con. Photographer Andrew Boyle captures more than 200 cosplayers from NYCC in a series of stunning photographs and interviews, celebrating the incredible world of expression, talent, inclusivity, creativity and fandom that is the cosplay community.