Why Read the Classics? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Read the Classics? write by Italo Calvino. This book was released on 2014-12-16. Why Read the Classics? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino's invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.
The Complete Cosmicomics
The Complete Cosmicomics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Complete Cosmicomics write by Italo Calvino. This book was released on 2014-09-16. The Complete Cosmicomics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The complete collection of “nimble and often hilarious” short stories exploring the cosmos by the acclaimed author of Invisible Cities (Colin Dwyer, NPR). Italo Calvino’s beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of a “cosmic know-it-all” with the unpronounceable name of Qfwfq, Calvino explores natural phenomena and tells the story of the origins of the universe. Relating complex scientific and mathematical concepts to our everyday world, they are an indelible and delightful literary achievement. Originally published in Italian in three separate volumes—including the Asti d’Appello Prize-winning first volume, Cosmicomics—these thirty-four dazzling stories are collected here in one definitive English-language anthology. “Trying to describe such a diverse and entertaining mix, I have to admit, just as Calvino does so often, that my words fail here, too. There’s no way I—or anyone, really—can muster enough of them to quite capture the magic of these stories . . . Read this book, please.” —Colin Dwyer, NPR
Fantastic Tales
Fantastic Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fantastic Tales write by Italo Calvino. This book was released on 2015-08-04. Fantastic Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Twenty-six fantasy tales from the 19th century, tracing the genre from its roots in German romanticism to the ghost stories of Henry James. The editor, who prefaces each story, analyzes the resurgence of the fantastic in our day.
Firian Rising
Firian Rising - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Firian Rising write by Carly Stevens. This book was released on 2019-07-15. Firian Rising available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Strong-willed Firian Kess can create reality from his imagination, which earns him a spot in the elite Tanyuin Academy. His path collides with Kiria Arioc, spirited heir to a throne of the Western Kingdom, who, despite having abilities of her own, doubts her ability to lead. To succeed, they must navigate enemies, intrigue, and their own demons.
Why I Read
Why I Read - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why I Read write by Wendy Lesser. This book was released on 2014-01-07. Why I Read available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America's most significant cultural critics," writes Stephen Greenblatt. In Why I Read, Lesser draws on a lifetime of pleasure reading and decades of editing one of the most distinguished literary magazines in the country, The Threepenny Review, to describe her love of literature. As Lesser writes in her prologue, "Reading can result in boredom or transcendence, rage or enthusiasm, depression or hilarity, empathy or contempt, depending on who you are and what the book is and how your life is shaping up at the moment you encounter it." Here the reader will discover a definition of literature that is as broad as it is broad-minded. In addition to novels and stories, Lesser explores plays, poems, and essays along with mysteries, science fiction, and memoirs. As she examines these works from such perspectives as "Character and Plot," "Novelty," "Grandeur and Intimacy," and "Authority," Why I Read sparks an overwhelming desire to put aside quotidian tasks in favor of reading. Lesser's passion for this pursuit resonates on every page, whether she is discussing the book as a physical object or a particular work's influence. "Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different," she writes. "It can give you the feeling that you belong to the past as well as the present, and it can help you realize that your present will someday be someone else's past. This may be disheartening, but it can also be strangely consoling at times." A book in the spirit of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Elizabeth Hardwick's A View of My Own, Why I Read is iconoclastic, conversational, and full of insight. It will delight those who are already avid readers as well as neophytes in search of sheer literary fun.
