Words from a Wanderer

Author: Alexandra Elle
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781484886984
Category : Self-acceptance
Languages : en
Pages : 58

Book Description
The author offers sixty-two short reflections on self-acceptance and staying positive with oneself.

Words of the Wanderer

Author: Xander Folmer
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781720861355
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56

Book Description
Through careful translation and meticulous scholarship, "Words of the Wanderer" delivers the wisdom of the Ancient Norse deity, Óðinn. The ancient verses of the Hávamál convey a unique perspective on life, love, and even loss. Explore through modern scholarship how the Hávamál might have looked if it had ever been written down in the native runes of the time period in which it was first composed. "Words of the Wanderer" offers this alongside a down-to-earth, intuitive English translation meant for modern readers.

The Wanderer

Author: Peter Van den Ende
Publisher: Levine Querido
ISBN: 1646140699
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
Society of Illustrators, Dilys Evans Founder's Award Winner A New York Times Best Book of 2020 A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2020 PRAISE "Electrifying. Extraordinary. Enigmatic and gorgeous." —The Wall Street Journal "An epic dream captured in superbly meticulous detail." —Shaun Tan "Danger, magic, surprise and awe abound in this masterly, wordless debut." —The New York Times "I love Van den Ende's passion." —Brian Selznick, New York Times Book Review STARRED REVIEWS ★ "Marvelously engrossing—a triumph." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review ★ "Remarkable. Absolutely sui generis." —Booklist, starred review Without a word, The Wanderer presents one little paper boat's journey across the ocean, past reefs and between icebergs, through schools of fish, swaying water plants, and terrifying sea monsters. The little boat is all alone, and while its aloneness gives it the chance to wonder at the fairy-tale world above and below the waves, that also means it must save itself when it storms. And so it does. Readers young and old will find the strength and inspiration in this quietly powerful story about growing, learning, and life's ups and downs.

The Wanderer

Author: Timothy J. Jarvis
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1782790683
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
After obscure author of strange stories, Simon Peterkin, vanishes in bizarre circumstances, a typescript, of a text entitled, 'The Wanderer', is found in his flat. 'The Wanderer' is a weird document. On a dying Earth, in the far-flung future, a man, an immortal, types the tale of his aeon-long life as prey, as a hunted man; he tells of his quitting the Himalayas, his sanctuary for thousands of years, to return to his birthplace, London, to write the memoirs; and writes, also, of the night he learned he was cursed with life without cease, an evening in a pub in that city, early in the twenty-first century, a gathering to tell of eldritch experiences undergone. Is 'The Wanderer' a fiction, perhaps Peterkin's last novel, or something far stranger? Perhaps more 'account' than 'story'?

The Lost Words

Author:
Publisher: Edition Peters
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
The Lost Words by composer James Burton takes its inspiration and text from the award-winning 'cultural phenomenon' and book of the same name by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris: a book that was, in turn, a creative response to the removal of everyday nature words like acorn, newt and otter from a new edition of a widely used children's dictionary. Both the book and Burton's 32-minute work, which is written in 12 short movements for upper-voice choir in up to 3 voice parts (with either orchestral or piano accompaniment), celebrates each lost word with a beautiful poem or 'spell', magically brought to life in Burton's music. At its heart, the work delivers a powerful message about the need to close the gap between childhood and the natural world. Burton's piece was co-commissioned by the Hallé Concerts Society for the Hallé Children's Choir and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The piano accompaniment version was premiered at the Tanglewood Festival in 2019 by the Boston Symphony Children's Choir, of which Burton is founder and director. The Hallé Children's Choir will premiere the orchestral version of the full work in Manchester, UK, post-pandemic. Vocal Score Co-commission by Boston Symphony and Hallé Concerts Society for their respective Children's Choirs. Two versions - with orchestral or with piano accompaniment. The vocal score is the same for both versions. James Burton is a composer but also a conductor. He is conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and choral director of the Boston Symphony. The book The Lost Words, exquisitely designed, has won multiple awards and is an international best-seller. The vocal score includes Jackie Morris's beautiful imagery in its cover design.

The Seafarer

Author: Ida L. Gordon
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719007781
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description

The Night Wanderer

Author: Drew Hayden Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781554511006
Category : Bildungsromans
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The new lodger in her father's bed and breakfast has sixteen-year-old Tiffany Hunter wondering what kind of sinister happenings are going on in the woods around Otter Lake.

Song of the Wanderer

Author: Bruce Coville
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780545068253
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
Having jumped into Luster, the land of unicorns, Cara makes a perilous journey to bring back her grandmother, The Wanderer, in order to release the Queen of the unicorns and allow her to die.

The William H. Gass Reader

Author: William H. Gass
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101874759
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 929

Book Description
Throughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the aesthetics of the written word. Now, the best and most important of his work is collected in one volume. There are essays on Plato, Hobbes, James, Joyce, Beckett, Stein, Gaddis, Sterne, Ford Madox Ford, Thomas Mann. There are pieces that examine the inner workings of writing. There is his masterful short fiction, from the perfectly crafted novella “In Camera” to the mythical “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country.” And there are excerpts from his novels, including his magnum opus, The Tunnel. Taken together, this collection is a peerless, essential celebration of literature—and an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to understand how great writing works.

"Wandering" In Literature, a Mere Word?

Author: Julian Scutts
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329811402
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
This book does not find its starting point in a theory but in the recognition that the word "Wanderer," and other forms based on the common root of the verbs to "wander" and "wandern," recur with conspicuous frequency in the writings of Goethe and English Romantic poets such as William Wordsworth and Lord Byron. A notable scholar, Professor L. A. Willoughby sought an explanation for this phenomnon in Carl G. Jung's theory of the unconscious but Willoughby's sole ambit of reference was what he termed "Goethe's poetry." This restriction could not allow the scope necessary for the study of the collective aspect of the mind's power and influence. This study poses the attempt to widen the survey of "wandering" to a comparison of texts found in a wide variety of authors including Milton, Shakespeare and William Blake.