A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters we meet in this collection of humorous poetry.
Twentieth century
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Author:Silverstein, ShelSummary: -
Author:Keylor, William R.Summary:This is a narrative account of 20th century world history. The book's analytical framework follows a country-by-country format through each era of the century. It has extensive coverage of the US, Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America,...
- Author:Larson, ErikSummary:
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz. Named one of the most anticipated books of 2020 by The...
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Author:Summary:The Seventies is must reading for anyone who wants to revisit that glam decade and the contributions it made to our culture. The contributors take you on a fascinating journey that looks at the Black Panthers, Jonestown, glam rock,...
- Author:Anderson, ScottSummary:
A gripping account of four American spies at the dawn of the Cold War and the CIA's covert battles against communism, from the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia. "Enthralling...captivating reading, especially in the hands of a...
- Author:Atwood, Margaret, Baker, Jacqueline, Burnard, Bonnie, Coady, Lynn, Creelman, Libby, Dearing, Ramona, Gallant, Mavis, Gartner, Zsuzsi, Gibb, Camilla, Grant, Jessica, Harvor, Elisabeth, Itani, Francis, Lee, Nancy, Little, Linda, Lyon, Annabel, Munro, Alice, Richler, Enna, Robinson, Eden, Shields, Carol, Thien, Madeleine, Urquhart, Jane, York, AlissaSummary:
Master short story writer and novelist Lisa Moore brings her talents to The Penguin Book of Contemporary Canadian Women's Short Stories, spanning the last two decades of the twentieth century to the present. An enthralling and...
- Author:Ford, BorisSummary:
Criticism and interpretation of English Literature of teh 20th century.
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Author:Bhabha, Homi K.Summary:Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture , he...
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Author:Summary:Presents a selection of more than 30 of the stories that appeared in "Drum" during the 1950s. They depict the danger, the poverty and the glamour of Sophiatown, where the New African, the tsotsi, the jazz musician, the journalist and...
- Author:Walker, AliceSummary:
Recounts the author's experiences caring for a flock of chickens on a farm north of San Francisco, documenting her personal discovery, political commitment, and the joys of relating to animals.
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Author:Moody, RickSummary:In this searing, brilliantly acclaimed memoir, one of the most admired writers of his generation reveals how a decade of alcohol, drugs, and other indulgences led him not to the palace of wisdom but to a psychiatric hospital in one of...
- Author:Johnson, DouglasSummary:
Between the wars, Paris was a magical glittering city, the vibrant capital of the world of art. It was alive with artists, musicians and writers from every continent who contributed to a period of rapid change. Yet there was a curious...
- Author:Solnit, RebeccaSummary:
An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent. In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a...
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Author:Satrapi, MarjaneSummary:A memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution.
Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and...
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Author:Summary:Included in this unparalleled collection are Christian Bok, Anne Carson, and Erin Moure, whose experiments with genre have landed them international acclaim; Lisa Robertson and Ken Babstock, whose explorations of the pastoral and the...
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Author:Naumann, Francis M.Summary:For about ten years, beginning with the Armory Show in 1913, New York City was host to the odd-sounding accents and queerer-looking paintings and constructions of a mixed bag of European and American avant-gardists. Besides the...
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Author:Weight, RichardSummary:Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited ‘faces’. The Italianistas. The scooter-riding, all-night-dancing instigators of what became, from its myriad sources, a very British phenomenon. Mod began life as the quintessential working-class...
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Author:Coetzee, J. M.Summary:From the author of Waiting for the Barbarians, another startling and disturbing portrait of today's South Africa, a land and a people beset by violence and siege. Coetzee here tells the story of a handicapped young man who has worked as...
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Author:Okrent, DanielSummary:A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. From its...
- Author:Nisargadatta, MaharajSummary:
This collection of the timeless teachings of one of the greatest sages of India, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, is a testament to the uniqueness of the seer's life and work and is regarded by many as a "modern spiritual classic". I Am That...
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