Man Size In Marble

Author : E Nesbit
Publisher : Machine Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man Size In Marble written by E Nesbit and published by Machine Books. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life has taken a sudden interior turn but the literature of the lockdown may have already been written. A century ago writers throughout the supposedly civilised world realised their once familiar, domestic world had changed profoundly and began to describe it in singular unsettling ways. The best word for what they found and how they described it is the German one ‘unheimlich’ whereby the familiar or homely is suddenly strange; a unique word for which we have in English the unsatisfactory ‘uncanny’. In his essay of 1919, Freud used the word ‘unheimlich’ to describe the disquieting, unsettling short fiction of his time. As has been noted by the critic Mark Fisher and others however, he structured his inquiry into the unheimlich on the stories themselves, unable to create a theory which superseded them. These stories have endured. We have collected together the best of them — the funny, the horrific and the simply disturbing — to offer insight and commentary on the strange world we have been living in. E Nesbitt’s ghost story is elevated from the thousands that were published in popular magazines such as the Strand in the early 20th century by the way she places a barely-competent middle class couple in a situation frighteningly beyond their depth.

Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781976381591
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man-Size in Marble written by Edith Nesbit and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man-Size in Marble by Edith Nesbit

Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781090751195
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man Size in Marble: ( Annotated ) written by Edith Nesbit and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-17 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English type ghost story. It is not all that frightening and not all that great a ghost story. But it is a short read and worth it little time it takes to read. You don't really meet the ghosts but one of the four characters in the book does with a startling result.

Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726880474
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grim Tales written by Edith Nesbit and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short horror story collection titled "Grim Tales" is exactly what you would expect from an author named Edith Bland, but her pen name E. Nesbit has quite another reputation so don't let that scare you. Hopefully you can leave that to the stories. Well-versed in the realms of fantasy and magical kingdoms as a children's author, E. Nesbit has a knack for the supernatural, which she tackles here in seven fantastical tales. Take "The Ebony Frame" for example – a story about a man enchanted by a beautiful woman in a painting in his attic (no relation to "The Picture of Dorian Gray" aside from the incredibly obvious), or "Man-Size in Marble", in which, akin to the film "The Conjuring" (2013), a young couple ignore the warnings of buying a new house and spookiness ensues. Short story collections are like houseboats – you're only a page turn or anchor pull away from new friends and a new perspective... or possibly the cold depths of the abyss. And by reading this you're surely in pursuit of the latter? Edith Nesbit (1858 – 1924) (married name Edith Bland) was a prolific English author and poet, writing primarily children's books under the pen name E. Nesbit. Her work often characterized by a mix of realistic settings with fantastical elements, Nesbit went on to influence writers such as C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling. Her most notable works include "Five Children and It" (1902) and "The Railway Children" (1906) which have never gone out of print.

Author : Anna Anguissola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108307922
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supports in Roman Marble Sculpture written by Anna Anguissola and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figural and non-figural supports are a ubiquitous feature of Roman marble sculpture; they appear in sculptures ranging in size from miniature to colossal and of all levels of quality. At odds with modern ideas about beauty, completeness, and visual congruence, these elements, especially non-figural struts, have been dismissed by scholars as mere safeguards for production and transport. However, close examination of these features reveals the tastes and expectations of those who commissioned, bought, and displayed marble sculptures throughout the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Drawing on a large body of examples, Greek and Latin literary sources, and modern theories of visual culture, this study constitutes the first comprehensive investigation of non-figural supports in Roman sculpture. The book overturns previous conceptions of Roman visual values and traditions and challenges our understanding of the Roman reception of Greek art.

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Publisher : Fontana Press
ISBN 13 : 9780006136965
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The third Fontana book of great ghost stories written by and published by Fontana Press. This book was released on 1974-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781787379459
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MAN SIZE IN MARBLE. written by Edith Nesbit and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781840225310
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Darkness written by Edith Nesbit and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Nesbit, best known as the author of The Railway Children and other children's classics, was also the mistress of the ghost story and tales of terror. In this collection, we encounter love that transcends the grave, reanimated corpses, vampiric vines, vengeful ghosts and other dark stories to make you feel fearful.

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152025670
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball in April and Other Stories written by Gary Soto and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1990 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mexican American author Gary Soto draws on his own experience of growing up in California's Central Valley in this finely crafted collection of eleven short stories that reveal big themes in the small events of daily life. Crooked teeth, ponytailed girls, embarrassing grandfathers, imposter Barbies, annoying brothers, Little League tryouts, and karate lessons weave the colorful fabric of Soto's world. The smart, tough, vulnerable kids in these stories are Latino, but their dreams and desires belong to all of us. Glossary of Spanish terms included. Awards: ALA Best Book for Young Adults, Booklist Editors' Choice, Horn Book Fanfare Selection, Judy Lopez Memorial Honor Book, Parenting Magazine's Reading Magic Award, John and Patricia Beatty Award

Author : Rex Collings
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781840220667
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories written by Rex Collings and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings. Some of these stories are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of tales of the supernatural. There are stories from distant lands - 'Fisher's Ghost' by John Lang is set in Australia and 'A Ghostly Manifestation' by 'A Clergyman' is set in Calcutta. In this selection, Sir Walter Scott (a Victorian in spirit if not in fact), keeps company with Edgar Allen Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu and other illustrious masters of the genre.