The Aimer Gate

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780529055064
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aimer Gate written by Alan Garner and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1979 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert learns that his secret place has another secret the day his soldier uncle comes home to help with the corn harvest.

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher : Fontana Press
ISBN 13 : 9780006716037
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aimer Gate written by Alan Garner and published by Fontana Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Holland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester written by Robert Holland and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher : Collins & World
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stone Book written by Alan Garner and published by Collins & World. This book was released on 1978 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His daughter's request for a book prompts a stonemason to reveal the secret of the stone to her.

Author : Vanessa Guignery
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622736168
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction written by Vanessa Guignery and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decades have seen a revival of fragmentation in British and American works of fiction that deny linearity, coherence and continuity in favour of disruption, gaps and fissures. Authors such as Ali Smith, David Mitchell and David Shields have sought new ways of representing our global, media-saturated contemporary experience which differ from modernist and postmodernist experimentations from which the writers nevertheless draw inspiration. This volume aims to investigate some of the most important contributions to fragmentary literature from British and American writers since the 1990s, with a particular emphasis on texts released in the twenty-first century. The chapters within examine whether contemporary forms of literary fragmentation constitute a return to the modernist episteme or the fragmented literature of exhaustion of the 1960s, mark a continuity with postmodernist aesthetics or signal a deviation from past models and an attempt to reflect today’s accelerated culture of social media and over-communication. Contributors theorise and classify literary fragments, examine the relationship between fragmentation and the Zeitgeist (influenced by globalisation, media saturation and social networks), analyse the mechanics of multimodal and multimedial fictions, and consider the capacity of literary fragmentation to represent personal or collective trauma and to address ethical concerns. They also investigate the ways in which the architecture of the printed book is destabilised and how aesthetic processes involving fragmentation, bricolage and/or collage raise ontological, ethical and epistemological questions about the globalised contemporary world we live in and its relation to the self and the other. Besides the aforementioned authors, the volume makes reference to the works of J. G. Ballard, Julian Barnes, Mark Z. Danielewski, David Markson, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Foster Wallace, Jeanette Winterson and several others.

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007380127
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stone Book Quartet written by Alan Garner and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work of rural magic realism from one of Britain’s greatest children’s novelists.

Author : Daniel Hahn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191057266
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature written by Daniel Hahn and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books: the flowering of imaginative illustration and writing, the Harry Potter phenomenon, the rise of young adult and crossover fiction, and books that tackle extraordinarily difficult subjects. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature provides an indispensable and fascinating reference guide to the world of children's literature. Its 3,500 entries cover every genre from fairy tales to chapbooks; school stories to science fiction; comics to children's hymns. Originally published in 1983, the Companion has been comprehensively revised and updated by Daniel Hahn. Over 900 new entries bring the book right up to date. A whole generation of new authors and illustrators are showcased, with books like Dogger, The Hunger Games, and Twilight making their first appearance. There are articles on developments such as manga, fan fiction, and non-print publishing, and there is additional information on prizes and prizewinners. This accessible A to Z is the first place to look for information about the authors, illustrators, printers, publishers, educationalists, and others who have influenced the development of children's literature, as well as the stories and characters at their centre. Written both to entertain and to instruct, the highly acclaimed Oxford Companion to Children's Literature is a reference work that no one interested in the world of children's books should be without.

Author : Dennis Butts
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 071884193X
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Did Long John Silver Lose his Leg written by Dennis Butts and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'How did Long John Silver Lose His Leg?' is a diverting tour through some of the bestloved classics of children's literature, addressing many of the unanswered questions that inspire intense speculation when the books are laid down. Could Bobbie's train really have stopped in time ('The Railway Children')? Did Beatrix Potter have the 'flu in 1909, and did this lead to a certain darkness in her work ('The Tale of Mr Tod')? Would the 'rugby football' played by Tom Brown be recognised by sportsmen today ('Tom Brown's Schooldays')? The authors speculate entertainingly and informatively on the anomalies and unexplained phenomena found in children's literature and, having established the cultural importance of children's books in the modern age, also consider the more serious issues raised by the genre. Why are we so defensive of the idyllic worlds presented in children's books? Why have some of our best-loved authors been outed as neglectful parents to their own children? Should we everseparate the book from its creator and appreciate the works of writers convicted of crimes against children? A treat for any enthusiast of children's literature, two of the most distinguished writers on the subject provide rich detail, witty explication, and serious food for thought.

Author : University of Chicago. Center for Children's Books
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226780603
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best in Children's Books written by University of Chicago. Center for Children's Books and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1986-08 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to aid adults—parents, teachers, librarians—in selecting from the best of recent children's literature, this guide provides 1,400 reviews of books published between 1979 and 1984. This volume carries on the tradition established by Zena Sutherland's two earlier collections covering the periods from 1966 to 1972 and 1973 to 1978. Her 1973 edition of The Best in Children's Books was cited by the American School Board Journal as one of the outstanding books of the year in education.

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher : Fourth Estate
ISBN 13 : 9780008306007
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where Shall We Run To? written by Alan Garner and published by Fourth Estate. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England. 'The war went. We sang in the playground, "Bikini lagoon, an atom bomb's boom, and two big explosions." David's father came back from Burma and didn't eat rice. Twiggy taught by reciting "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and the thirteen times table. Twiggy was fat and short and he shouted, and his neck was as wide as his head. He was a bully, though he didn't take any notice of me.' In Where Shall We Run To?, Alan Garner remembers his early childhood in the Cheshire village of Alderley Edge: life at the village school as 'a sissy and a mardy-arse'; pushing his friend Harold into a clump of nettles to test the truth of dock leaves; his father joining the army to guard the family against Hitler; the coming of the Yanks, with their comics and sweets and chewing gum. From one of our greatest living writers, it is a remarkable and evocative memoir of a vanished England.