Author: Willard Price Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0099183617 Category : Adventure and adventurers Languages : en Pages : 210
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It seemed a wild thing to do - lie out in lion country waiting to be attacked by a man-eater. That is what Hal and Roger have been asked to do in order to save the population of Mtito Andei. But someone else is trying to kill the boys. Who could it be?
Author: Amy Jones Publisher: Igloo Books ISBN: 9781783434794 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 26
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Little Lion wants to do all the things that Big Lion does. The problem is, Big Lion is just too sleepy to show him how! So, Little Lion decides to do things all by himself. Can Big Lion enjoy his snooze, or will Little Lion wake him up with all his climbing and pouncing? Come and find out in this wonderful jungle adventure that's all about playtime fun.
Author: Frederick Marryat Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 287
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Mission" by Frederick Marryat. 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.
Author: Kenneth Womack Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0313071578 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 1333
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There's a strong interest in reading for pleasure or self-improvement in America, as shown by the popularity of Harry Potter, and book clubs, including Oprah Winfrey's. Although recent government reports show a decline in recreational reading, the same reports show a strong correlation between interest in reading and academic acheivement. This set provides a snapshot of the current state of popular American literature, including various types and genres. The volume presents alphabetically arranged entries on more than 70 diverse literary categories, such as cyberpunk, fantasy literature, flash fiction, GLBTQ literature, graphic novels, manga and anime, and zines. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a definition of the genre, an overview of its history, a look at trends and themes, a discussion of how the literary form engages contemporary issues, a review of the genre's reception, a discussion of authors and works, and suggestions for further reading. Sidebars provide fascinating details, and the set closes with a selected, general bibliography. Reading in America for pleasure and knowledge continues to be popular, even while other media compete for attention. While students continue to read many of the standard classics, new genres have emerged. These have captured the attention of general readers and are also playing a critical role in the language arts classroom. This book maps the state of popular literature and reading in America today, including the growth of new genres, such as cyberpunk, zines, flash fiction, GLBTQ literature, and other topics. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a definition of the genre, an overview of its history, a look at trends and themes, a discussion of how the literary form engages contemporary issues, a review of the genre's critical reception, a discussion of authors and works, and suggestions for further reading. Sidebars provide fascinating details, and the set closes with a selected, general bibliography. Students will find this book a valuable guide to what they're reading today and will appreciate its illumination of popular culture and contemporary social issues.
Author: Michael A. Susko Publisher: AllrOneofUs Publishing ISBN: 1393992935 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 69
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This set of stories features a lion who becomes friends with a tricky chameleon.The colorful cast of African animals grows to include a hyrax, a hoopoe bird, and more chameleons who must find ways to survive the many "snakes" of their world. The perennial theme of friendship and the meaning of being a true friend is addressed. These stories seem to move toward a typical ending, then go in an unexpected direction, which makes for a wisdom for the day.
Author: James A. Rushing, Jr. Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 1512809454 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 320
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Modern audiences are most likely to encounter Yvain and other Arthurian characters in literature. We read Chrétien de Troyes's Yvain or Hartmann von Aue's Iwein, and easily slip into the assumption that during the Middle Ages the title character existed primarily, or even exclusively, in these canonical texts. James A. Rushing, Jr. contends, however, that many times the number of people who heard or read Chrétien or Hartmann must have known the Ywain story through the varieties of second-hand narration, hearsay, and conversation that we may call secondary orality. And man other people would have known the story through its visual representations. Exploring the complex relationships between literature and the visual arts in the Middle Ages, Images of Adventure: Ywain in the Visual Arts examines pictorial representations of the story of Ywain, knight of the Round Table, from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries. Of the images Rushing studies, only those found in the manuscripts of Chrétien's Yvain are placed in any obvious relation with a written text, and not even they can be construed as straightforward illustrations. Images of Ywain are presented without any textual anchor in the thirteenth-century wall paintings from Schmalkalden in eastern German and Rodenegg Castle in the South Tyrol; on the rich embroidery sewn in the fourteenth century for the patrician Malterer family of Freiburg; and in a group of English misericords that show Ywain caught in a moment of high adventure and perhaps comic embarrassment. "Pictures," according to Pope Gregory the Great, "are the literature of the laity." Navigating between the traditional disciplines of literary study and art history, Images of Adventure offers at once a detailed catalog of Ywain images, a series of close "readings" of works of art, and a concrete sense of what Gregory's oft-quoted statement may actually have meant in practice.
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