Zanzibar And His Zany Crew Of Sentence Constructors

Author : Linda Smith Masi
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1496996747
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zanzibar and his Zany Crew of Sentence Constructors written by Linda Smith Masi and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Intergalactic Space Station, Ali peered through the orbit meter set on Alexandria, Egypt around 2,000 years ago and began to sweat. Seeing the orange flames soaring higher and higher, he imagined the sound of crackling as the precious old parchments vanished. At hand was the very destruction of recorded knowledge! ?King Alexander the Great did not have this Library built to lose it now!?, he explained to the city fathers. He went on to suggest, ?What we know, once in the now burned books, must be written again creating books both new and old. We must find Zanzibar and his Zany Crew. My glimpse through the orbit meter/time machine reveals a future wherein the diffusion of the English language is as widespread as a fresh carpet of winter snow.' ?Hurray!?, they shouted, ?if many know English and we write so, the sentences, both new and old, may comprehensively grow!? This is a story recounted in a fanciful way using the true incident of the burning of the famous Library of Alexandria, Egypt, including its contents, more than two thousand years ago as a context. Joyfully in 2008, on the Egyptian coast of the Mediterranean Sea, the inauguration of the new Library of Alexandria was celebrated. The requirement of the Library to make available many texts, both new and old, is used in this book as a context for sharing the mechanics of English sentence construction. Join us as Zanzibar, appointed by the city leaders, finds the crew needed to construct and reconstruct the books, both new and old, of the ancient Library of Alexandria.

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil’s Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-03-16T22:46:04Z with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dictionary, n: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.” Bierce’s groundbreaking Devil’s Dictionary had a complex publication history. Started in the mid-1800s as an irregular column in Californian newspapers under various titles, he gradually refined the new-at-the-time idea of an irreverent set of glossary-like definitions. The final name, as we see it titled in this work, did not appear until an 1881 column published in the periodical The San Francisco Illustrated Wasp. There were no publications of the complete glossary in the 1800s. Not until 1906 did a portion of Bierce’s collection get published by Doubleday, under the name The Cynic’s Word Book—the publisher not wanting to use the word “Devil” in the title, to the great disappointment of the author. The 1906 word book only went from A to L, however, and the remainder was never released under the compromised title. In 1911 the Devil’s Dictionary as we know it was published in complete form as part of Bierce’s collected works (volume 7 of 12), including the remainder of the definitions from M to Z. It has been republished a number of times, including more recent efforts where older definitions from his columns that never made it into the original book were included. Due to the complex nature of copyright, some of those found definitions have unclear public domain status and were not included. This edition of the book includes, however, a set of definitions attributed to his one-and-only “Demon’s Dictionary” column, including Bierce’s classic definition of A: “the first letter in every properly constructed alphabet.” Bierce enjoyed “quoting” his pseudonyms in his work. Most of the poetry, dramatic scenes and stories in this book attributed to others were self-authored and do not exist outside of this work. This includes the prolific Father Gassalasca Jape, whom he thanks in the preface—“jape” of course having the definition: “a practical joke.” This book is a product of its time and must be approached as such. Many of the definitions hold up well today, but some might be considered less palatable by modern readers. Regardless, the book’s humorous style is a valuable snapshot of American culture from past centuries. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author : Edward Steere
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A handbook of the Swahili language, as spoken at Zanzibar written by Edward Steere and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820326348
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to listen," and happiness is "an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another." This is the most comprehensive, authoritative edition ever of Ambrose Bierce’s satiric masterpiece. It renders obsolete all other versions that have appeared in the book’s ninety-year history. A virtual onslaught of acerbic, confrontational wordplay, The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary offers some 1,600 wickedly clever definitions to the vocabulary of everyday life. Little is sacred and few are safe, for Bierce targets just about any pursuit, from matrimony to immortality, that allows our willful failings and excesses to shine forth. This new edition is based on David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi’s exhaustive investigation into the book’s writing and publishing history. All of Bierce’s known satiric definitions are here, including previously uncollected, unpublished, and alternative entries. Definitions dropped from previous editions have been restored while nearly two hundred wrongly attributed to Bierce have been excised. For dedicated Bierce readers, an introduction and notes are also included. Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary is a classic that stands alongside the best work of satirists such as Twain, Mencken, and Thurber. This unabridged edition will be celebrated by humor fans and word lovers everywhere.

Author : Edward Steere
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of the Swahili Language, as Spoken at Zanzibar written by Edward Steere and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bernard F. Dick
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813159512
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hal Wallis written by Bernard F. Dick and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hal Wallis might not be as well known as David O. Selznick or Samuel Goldwyn, but the films he produced -- Casablanca, Jezebel, Now Voyager, The Life of Emile Zola, Becket, True Grit, and many other classics (as well as scores of Elvis movies) -- have certainly endured. As producer of numerous films, Wallis made an indelible mark on the course of America's film industry, but his contributions are often overlooked and no full-length study has yet assessed his incredible career. A former office boy and salesman, Wallis first engaged with the business of film as the manager of a Los Angeles movie theater in 1922. He attracted the notice of the Warner brothers, who hired him as a publicity assistant. Within three months he was director of the department, and appointments to studio manager and production executive quickly followed. Wallis went on to oversee dozens of productions and formed his own production company in 1944. Bernard F. Dick draws on numerous sources such as Wallis's personal production files and exclusive interviews with many of his contemporaries to finally tell the full story of his illustrious career. Dick combines his knowledge of behind-the-scenes Hollywood with fascinating anecdotes to create a portrait of one of Hollywood's early power players.

Author : Lee Server
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438109121
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers written by Lee Server and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introduction to American pulp fiction during the twentieth century with brief author biographies and lists of their works.

Author : William Clauson- Thue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The ABC universal commercial electric telegraphic code written by William Clauson- Thue and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Steere
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3846049174
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swahili Tales written by Edward Steere and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.

Author : James Richardson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Malagasy-English Dictionary written by James Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: