Thomas Hardy Remembered assembles some 150 annotated interviews and recollections of Hardy, most of which are being reprinted for the first time. They range from close personal reflections by old friends such as Sir George Douglas, J.M. Barrie, and Edmund Gosse, to fleeting glimpses by strangers who saw Hardy at a London party or at his club. Martin Ray has selected items having the greatest literary or biographical significance, and annotated them with meticulous accuracy and a keen eye for the telling detail. As a result, the volume will be an invaluable resource to scholars who are interested not only in what concerned Hardy personally and professionally, but also in how he was perceived by others. Having these items collected in one volume reveals Hardy's contemporaneous opinions about his own writings and also makes it possible to trace the marked recurrence, over time, of certain preoccupations: ancient families, Hardy's hostility to reviewers, architecture, Roman relics, Wessex folklore and dialect, animal welfare, Napoleon, and hangings. With regard to his literary career, a portrait emerges of Hardy as the scrupulous professional, properly aware of his commercial rights, while at the same time appearing, to some who met him, unconscious of his own genius.
This is the definitive textual analysis of all of Hardy's collected short stories, tracing the development of each from manuscript, through newspaper serial versions, galley proofs and revises to collected editions in volume form. It is no surprise to discover that Hardy's capacity for inveterate revision is manifested in his tales as it was in his novels. Even those stories for which he professed little regard were meticulously and continuously revised, in some cases more than thirty years after their first publication. The alterations extend to the most minute details of plot, landscape, characterisation and style, as well as the restoration of bowdlerised passages which had been demanded by serial magazines. This study will play a major role in elevating the importance of this genre in Hardy's prolific output and will illuminate his textual practices - an area of considerable and growing interest to a large number of scholars and students.
Thomas Hardy Remembered assembles some 150 annotated interviews and recollections of Hardy, most of which are being reprinted for the first time. They range from close personal reflections by old friends such as Sir George Douglas, J.M. Barrie, and Edmund Gosse, to fleeting glimpses by strangers who saw Hardy at a London party or at his club. Martin Ray has selected items having the greatest literary or biographical significance, and annotated them with meticulous accuracy and a keen eye for the telling detail. As a result, the volume will be an invaluable resource to scholars who are interested not only in what concerned Hardy personally and professionally, but also in how he was perceived by others. Having these items collected in one volume reveals Hardy's contemporaneous opinions about his own writings and also makes it possible to trace the marked recurrence, over time, of certain preoccupations: ancient families, Hardy's hostility to reviewers, architecture, Roman relics, Wessex folklore and dialect, animal welfare, Napoleon, and hangings. With regard to his literary career, a portrait emerges of Hardy as the scrupulous professional, properly aware of his commercial rights, while at the same time appearing, to some who met him, unconscious of his own genius.
When you describe something as 'poetry', it's a very quick way to put people off from reading further, for poetry is often only personal and vaguely understandable to many others. These social-story-poems you will understand. They are about you. They are like parts of a jigsaw; as you read them you will put the pieces together. The stories, like a jigsaw, form a whole picture.We call them social-story-poems because that's what they are, they're not just poems, and yet, they're not just stories. Many are both and they are all connected. They are about social justice and its lack in our Globally Warming World. They are about the causes and effects of inhuman and un-social policies inflicted by the powerful upon the majority of our human race. These days, we're called the 99%.If you want to get a sense and feel for the whole book, read the two pieces on Chess, they're from our last book, 'Seeds of Needs'. They're appropriate. We've put them at the beginning so you can read them first.Both of these social-story-poems hit the subject from two different sides. In our last book we gave equal voice to the 99% and the 1%. This book is a little different, for it has to do with gaining a sense about something that you know is wrong. And that, as an individual, there is little you can do. And yet, only you can do what little you can. You want improvement? - Join a movement.We, like you, are limited in what we can do, but social commentary story-poems combined with drawings and paintings that say a thousand words, we can but try. We all need to be affected and not distracted from the reality of the moment. Where we're at, is one of the few real moments in human history where the clock ticks and time really counts.This is our third book in a Trilogy on Global Warming Awareness. Humanity is at a crossroads and there is only a choice of two possible futures that await us. Our first book is about this choice. In there are only two short stories, one is about the seeds of our sorrow, the policies of the 1%, and the other is about the seeds of our hope - us, the 99.
Dieses Buch handelt von der Kunst der sensorischen und ergonomischen Bildung und wie diese Dich darin unterst tzen kann, intelligente Entscheidungen zu treffen und neue Strategien zu finden, um nicht in die blichen "Computer-Fallen" zu tappen. Du bekommst Hilfsmittel an die Hand, die Du anwenden kannst, um den modernen Problemen der Computer-Ergonomie zu begegnen. Wir befassen uns mit den Schwierigkeiten und Herausforderungen am Computer-Arbeitsplatz; mit praktischen Informationen ber K rpermechanik; und wie man am besten mit den kritischen Momenten umgehen kann. F r Deinen Komfort am Arbeitsplatz bieten wir Dir sensorische, intellektuelle und spielerische L sungen an.Wir machen Vorschl ge, wie Du die Ideen f r Aufmerksamkeitstraining, Situationsbewusstsein und Beweglichkeit in den Alltag integrieren kannst. Im Buch sind auch bungen, um die Muskeln zu entlasten und zu aktivieren. Auch lernst Du Spannungsmuster wahrzunehmen und zu l sen w hrend Du am Computer arbeitest und mit Deiner Umwelt interagierst. Du findest viele Bilder und Zeichnungen, die Dich hoffentlich inspirieren, Dein Interesse wecken, und Dir dabei helfen, das Thema dieses Buches in Kunst zu verwandeln - die Kunst der sensorischen und ergonomischen Bildung, eine Kunst, die f r uns alle gilt.
This is the definitive textual analysis of all of Hardy's collected short stories, tracing the development of each from manuscript, through newspaper serial versions, galley proofs and revises to collected editions in volume form. It is no surprise to discover that Hardy's capacity for inveterate revision is manifested in his tales as it was in his novels. Even those stories for which he professed little regard were meticulously and continuously revised, in some cases more than thirty years after their first publication. The alterations extend to the most minute details of plot, landscape, characterisation and style, as well as the restoration of bowdlerised passages which had been demanded by serial magazines. This study will play a major role in elevating the importance of this genre in Hardy's prolific output and will illuminate his textual practices - an area of considerable and growing interest to a large number of scholars and students.
Stories of Lala and her friends are stories of Magic, Mystery and Hope. Lala has wisdom from an ancient and unknown tribe who are in the world bringing a sense of hope and help everywhere they go. The stories are often about how in her magical and mysterious way she helps others that are hurt, lost or in danger. Through the power of Lala, her friends are able to communicate with each other and with many other creatures of the forest and places where they travel in an unknown time. Some of Lala's unusual friends come from different far off lands. We join Lala and her tribe of friends for a while somewhere on their journey. For Mums and Dads: When we were young, we were all told stories of Myth, Magic and Hope, in one way or another. It's what parents do, for we realize that there is something special about children, they are awake to wonder, until they become immersed in our world of sleep-inducing pastimes, where they become occupied with things that are not always full of wonder. My kids heard different stories from what you will read in these pages, for the stories were always told in the immediacy of the moment, as it often is with kids, settling them down, getting ready for sleep. With many adventures, new characters coming and going as the years passed. The essence of the stories is the same, some fun, a little information, some excitement, a little magic of the forest and mystery of our world, a happy, funny or thoughtful ending. My kids liked the action stories, a lot actually. But funnily enough, as they mentioned to me at some point, "No-one ever dies or gets really hurt in 'Lala stories.'" "Really," says I. "Yea, never," says they, rolling their eyes at me. "Whao, that's strange," says I. I just rolled them back. What else can you do? The important thing for me as a parent was to keep and encourage that 'sense of wonder' all kids have; so that a seed is buried inside, a seed that may grow from them-selves as they become older. Of course, many old fashioned traditional 'fairy-tales' contain elements of horror, for whatever reason that may be. They originate in their own age and change somewhat through time. But even those old stories of magic, myth and horror are now visualized in full glory and gory, blasting impressions into our kid's minds, rather than the natural cognitive imagery that develops as they listen to stories being told to them. In these days it's not far away when our kids become immersed in the technological visual and often negative distractions. Teams of psychologists have studied how to get their emotional hooks into kids and turn them into consumers for life, and unfortunately, that now begins in the early years of wonder. We all want our kids to be emotionally stable, to care about others and not only the 'selfi'. We want them to have a sense and a feeling of hope, born from inside; especially in these days where all sense of inner value is being manipulated and eroded. It's not possible or probably even wise to escape that; our kids have to live and survive in the time they are born into, we all know that. But there is something else that we all know. There is 'something' special that lies deep, buried within all of us, that 'something' that falls asleep to wonder, that, in our quiet and truthful moments, we all feel. Sometimes we awake and realize how lost and disconnected or disembodied we are from our self. If a seed is there that recognizes inherent hope and can maintain a sense of the miraculous of life, even though it's buried and covered over by the necessities and troubles of daily life, then, one day, it may grow, and help support that often fragile structure that we call "our-self". And in the times we live in - every little bit helps.
