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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Ross Alan Bachelder
The stories in REVENGE are not only decidedly quirky, they're also disturbingly sinister-a fiendish literary potpourri of trenchant humor, laughable absurdities, shameless irreverences, peculiar plot twists, sexual shenanigans, and whimsical wordplay.But a collection like this wouldn't be nearly as darkly amusing without generous portions of violence, betrayal, loathsome characters, and the sweet, healing catharsis of revenge.
Cecelia by Moonlight weaves the captivating story of Cecelia Middling, a child of serendipity, born from a fleeting Fourth of July sexual encounter. Raised by her unsophisticated parents, Clay and Avis "Birdie" Guertner, in the laid-back ambiance of Sausalito, California, they soon find themselves ill-equipped to manage their daughter's tempestuous and intellectually advanced nature. In a twist of fate, the family relocates to Minot, North Dakota, seeking simplicity but instead finding their lives turned upside down.In the conservative enclave of Minot, Cecelia becomes the unwitting center of a cultural storm. Her fourth-grade teacher, Alec Thornwood, recognizes her exceptional intellect and becomes her champion against a backdrop of growing tensions. Battling against her overprotective parents, a town resistant to change, and a cabal of envious teachers, Thornwood's dedication to fostering Cecelia's mind sets the stage for a story of deep emotional resonance.Cecelia by Moonlight delves into the heart of what it means to be different in a world that values conformity. It is a story about the struggle for acceptance, the importance of nurturing talent, and the unbreakable bonds formed in the pursuit of love and intellectual freedom. Join Cecelia as she navigates the complexities of growing up gifted in a world unprepared for her brilliance. This novel promises to touch hearts and stir minds, reminding us all of the transformative power of fair treatment, respect for intellectual gifts, and unconditional love.
Cecelia by Moonlight weaves the captivating story of Cecelia Middling, a child of serendipity, born from a fleeting Fourth of July sexual encounter. Raised by her unsophisticated parents, Clay and Avis "Birdie" Guertner, in the laid-back ambiance of Sausalito, California, they soon find themselves ill-equipped to manage their daughter's tempestuous and intellectually advanced nature. In a twist of fate, the family relocates to Minot, North Dakota, seeking simplicity but instead finding their lives turned upside down.In the conservative enclave of Minot, Cecelia becomes the unwitting center of a cultural storm. Her fourth-grade teacher, Alec Thornwood, recognizes her exceptional intellect and becomes her champion against a backdrop of growing tensions. Battling against her overprotective parents, a town resistant to change, and a cabal of envious teachers, Thornwood's dedication to fostering Cecelia's mind sets the stage for a story of deep emotional resonance.Cecelia by Moonlight delves into the heart of what it means to be different in a world that values conformity. It is a story about the struggle for acceptance, the importance of nurturing talent, and the unbreakable bonds formed in the pursuit of love and intellectual freedom. Join Cecelia as she navigates the complexities of growing up gifted in a world unprepared for her brilliance. This novel promises to touch hearts and stir minds, reminding us all of the transformative power of fair treatment, respect for intellectual gifts, and unconditional love.
The Streamlined Method.
When Mamakitty's newest kitten is born, the owners of the New England farm where they live are away on a short vacation, and the kitten comes into the world in the sock drawer of a bedroom dresser. The farmer and his wife return to find the tiny, perfectly white kitten with her mother, and they name her Angel. From then on, Angel has many kitten lessons. Indoors, she learns to walk, where not to take a nap, and that kittens and hair driers just don't mix. Exploring outdoors, she gets chased by hummingbirds, meets the kittens who live in the barn and learns new games to play. As she grows older and gets bigger, Angel has a series of adventures that teach her about the importance of friendship, self-confidence, and bravery-even in the face of a deadly enemy, a fox. In this novel, a kitten grows from a newborn to adolescence, faces challenges and learns many important lessons while getting to know the amazing world around her.
The potato famines of the nineteenth century were long attributed to Irish indolence. The Stalinist system was blamed on a Russian proclivity for autocracy. Muslim men have been accused of an inclination to terrorism. Is political behavior really the result of cultural upbringing, or does the vast range of human political action stem more from institutional and structural constraints? This important new book carefully examines the role of institutions and civic culture in the establishment of political norms. Jackman and Miller methodically refute the Weberian cultural theory of politics and build in its place a persuasive case for the ways in which institutions shape the political behavior of ordinary citizens. Their rigorous examination of grassroots electoral participation reveals no evidence for even a residual effect of cultural values on political behavior, but instead provides consistent support for the institutional view. Before Norms speaks to urgent debates among political scientists and sociologists over the origins of individual political behavior. Robert W. Jackman is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. Ross A. Miller is Associate Professor of Political Science at Santa Clara University.
In June 1870, the residents of the city of New Orleans were already on edge when two African American women kidnapped seventeen-month-old Mollie Digby from in front of her New Orleans home. It was the height of Radical Reconstruction, and the old racial order had been turned upside down: black men now voted, held office, sat on juries, and served as policemen. Nervous white residents, certain that the end of slavery and resulting "Africanization" of the city would bring chaos, pointed to the Digby abduction as proof that no white child was safe. Louisiana's twenty-eight-year old Reconstruction governor, Henry Clay Warmoth, hoping to use the investigation of the kidnapping to validate his newly integrated police force to the highly suspicious white population of New Orleans, saw to it that the city's best Afro-Creole detective, John Baptiste Jourdain, was put on the case, and offered a huge reward for the return of Mollie Digby and the capture of her kidnappers. When the Associated Press sent the story out on the wire, newspaper readers around the country began to follow the New Orleans mystery. Eventually, police and prosecutors put two strikingly beautiful Afro-Creole women on trial for the crime, and interest in the case exploded as a tense courtroom drama unfolded. In The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case, Michael Ross offers the first full account of this event that electrified the South at one of the most critical moments in the history of American race relations. Tracing the crime from the moment it was committed through the highly publicized investigation and sensationalized trial that followed, all the while chronicling the public outcry and escalating hysteria as news and rumors surrounding the crime spread, Ross paints a vivid picture of the Reconstruction-era South and the complexities and possibilities that faced the newly integrated society. Leading readers into smoke-filled concert saloons, Garden District drawing rooms, sweltering courthouses, and squalid prisons, Ross brings this fascinating era back to life. A stunning work of historical recreation, The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case is sure to captivate anyone interested in true crime, the Civil War and its aftermath, and the history of New Orleans and the American South.
In June 1870, the residents of the city of New Orleans were already on edge when two African American women kidnapped seventeen-month old Mollie Digby from in front of her New Orleans home. It was the height of Radical Reconstruction. The old racial order had been turned upside down and black men now voted, held office, sat on juries, and served as policemen. Nervous white residents fearing impeding chaos pointed to the Digby abduction as proof that no white child was safe now that slavery had ended and the South had been "Africanized." Newspapers opposed to Louisiana's biracial Reconstruction government stoked those fears by reprinting rumors that the stolen Digby baby had been sacrificed in a Voodoo ceremony on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Louisiana's twenty-eight year old Reconstruction Governor Henry Clay Warmoth, in turn, hoped to use the kidnapping to prove that his newly integrated police force, trained in the latest investigative techniques from Boston and New York, could solve the crime. He offered a huge reward for the return of Mollie Digby and the capture of her kidnappers, and his police chief put his best Afro-Creole detective, the dashing Jean Baptiste Jourdain, on the case. The Associated Press sent the story out on the wire and newspaper readers around the country began to follow the New Orleans mystery. Leads poured in from across the Gulf Coast and from as far north as Ohio and New York, and Jourdain became the first black detective in the United States to make national news. Interest in the story only grew when police and prosecutors put two strikingly beautiful Afro-Creole women on trial for the crime and a tense courtroom drama unfolded against the backdrop of a yellow fever epidemic and the momentous events of Reconstruction in the South. A stunning work of historical recreation, Michael Ross's The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case is the first full account ever written about an event that electrified the South at one of the most critical moments in the history of American race relations. Ross brings the era back to life, leading readers into smoke filled concert saloons, Garden District drawing rooms, sweltering courthouses, and squalid prisons, and he uses the Digby kidnapping, investigation, and trial to offer important new insights into the complexities and possibilities of the Reconstruction era.
Blindfold Games was the first volume of Alan Ross's autobiography. He was a most attractive man. William Boyd has eloquently described his appeal, 'There was a sophisticated raffishness and glamour about him . . . nothing seedy or earnest. He owned racehorses. He loved women and travel. . . He was a poet and a brilliant writer on cricket.' He was also one of the great literary editors, running the London Magazine in its heyday.This volume begins in Bengal, where he was born, and ends in Germany in 1946 when the author was twenty-four. It takes in his childhood in India, his schooldays in England, his time at Oxford, and, most hauntingly, his experiences on the Arctic convoys during the Second World War. He survived: very many of his friends were killed. To give it a less humdrum description one can turn to the author's own words. 'War, India, cricket: these were my first subjects as a writer and they remain the preoccupations of this book. In due course, the playing of games was replaced by writing about them, and it was to the belief that the best characteristics of each derive from the same source that I nailed my colours. The searching for 'suitable similes' . . . whether for Hammond's off-drive, Stanley Matthews' mesmeric dribbling, or a racehorse's action, was as good a way as I could imagine of relating techniques to aesthetics. . .Perhaps, as much as anything, writing this book has been an attempt to reconcile differing definitions of style and to trace the manner in which a single-minded devotion to sport developed into a passion for poetry.' 'An exceptional autobiography, beautifully written' John Carey'A beautifully composed book' Raleigh Trevelyan'A Delightful account of the first part of his life, which, I shall lay odds, is likely to become a classic' Allan Massie, Listener'A brilliant performance' Anthony Curtis
'It was rugged travel; the hotels where we stayed were basic and often dirty. We lived on bread, cheese, figs, pastis and wine. The bus journeys were slow and suffocating, with long stops for no particular reason. One day we would be languishing in the humid heat of an estuary, the next exhilarated by sweet mountain air, waking to forests and mountains. We never saw an English person, and hardly any French, except at Calvi and Ile-Rousse towards the end of our trip.'That is Alan Ross describing Corsica in 1947 which he and the artist John Minton visited, in the footsteps of Edward Lear, expressly to write this book. Although admitting, perhaps too modestly, to the influence of Graham Greene's The Lawless Roads and Journey Without Maps and therefore 'too inclined to see Corsica in terms of defeated priests, corrupt politicians and saintly monks' he wrote one of the best travel books since the Second World War. It is, in fact, a collaboration between a gifted writer and the most romantic artist of his generation, and, in its own lesser way, it played a part, alongside the early Elizabeth Davids (also illustrated by John Minton), of reminding drab, grey, post-war Britain of a warmer, sunnier, more colourful alternative: the Mediterranean.'Evocative and splendid . . . alert, fresh and sensuous' Times Literary Supplement'Poetic, personal, the pungent effect of travel on keen senses' V. S. Pritchett, New Statesman'Splashed with bold strokes and burning colours . . . We are made to see and small, hear and feel the place. That is the test of a good travel book' Observer
This, the second volume of Alan Ross's autobiography, deals with his postwar life as cricket correspondent, publisher, man of letters and racehorse owner. The narrative is richly peopled: Johnny Minton, Keith Vaughan, Agatha Christie, Gavin Maxwell, Wilfred Thesiger, Cyril Connolly, T. C. Worsley , William Plomer, Terence Rattigan, William Sansom are just some who are memorably characterized. William Boyd has written of Alan Ross, 'He was the opposite of parochial, his interests were wide and not elitist, his enthusiasms were carefully hedonistic. He was a very fine writer of prose - his two volumes of memoirs are small classics - and his poetry is limpid and evocative.' As a beguiling bonus, each chapter of Coastwise Lights is eked out with a small and apt selection of his poems.The first autobiographical volume, Blindfold Games, is also available in Faber Finds as will be many other of his titles.'A true celebration of friendship and talent as well as the sports - football, cricket, horse-racing - which have engaged him in the last four decades.' Philip Oakes, New Statesman'His obvious affection for the friends who flit through this beautifully written sketchbook is masked by a writer's curiosity and detached amusement.' Euan Cameron, Independent'A fascinating history of metropolitan literary life from the end of the war.' Chris Peachment, The Times
