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Dickens's London: Perception, Subjectivity and Phenomenal Urban Multiplicity (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture (PDF))
by Julian WolfreysThis phenomenological exploration of the streets of Dickens's London opens up new perspectives on the city and the writer.Taking Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as an inspiration, Dickens's London offers an exciting and original project that opens a dialogue between phenomenology, philosophy and the Dickensian representation of the city in all its forms. Julian Wolfreys suggests that in their representations of London - its streets, buildings, public institutions, domestic residences, rooms and phenomena that constitute such space - Dickens's novels and journalism can be seen as forerunners of urban and material phenomenology. While also addressing those aspects of the urban that are developed from Dickens's interpretations of other literary forms, styles and genres, Dickens's London presents in twenty-six episodes (from Banking and Breakfast via the Insolvent Court, Melancholy and Poverty, to Todgers and Time, Voice and Waking) a radical reorientation to London in the nineteenth century, the development of Dickens as a writer, and the ways in which readers today receive and perceive both.Key Features* Major reassessment of Dickens's writing on the city * Dual focus on methodology and the historicity of Dickensian urban consciousness* Philosophical reflections on urban tropologies through key passages from Dickens's texts recreate the experience of Victorian London * Inventive structure offers the reader an experience of the disordered multiplicity of London* Illustrated with 19 maps and photographs
Did You Miss Me? (Baltimore Series #3)
by Karen RoseBest be nimble, best be quick, I'm right here and you're my pick: DID YOU MISS ME is a page-turning thriller from bestselling author Karen Rose, and part of the Baltimore series. The last thing Ford Elkhart remembers is walking his girlfriend back to her university dormitory. Now he's lying tied and gagged on a cold, dark floor, with only one chance to escape before he ends up like the bones surrounding him... Assistant State's Attorney Daphne Montgomery is devastated by her son's disappearance, and is immediately convinced that his kidnapping is connected to the white supremacist she's just had jailed for murder. FBI Special Agent Joseph Carter isn't so sure - especially when he learns that Ford's girlfriend is also missing. Is Ford's abduction payback for Daphne's courtroom victory? Or is he a pawn in an even more dangerous game?
Dim (Cyfres y Dderwen)
by Dafydd ChiltonNofel yng nghyfres y Dderwen. Stori am ymdrech dyn i oroesi mewn byd o rymoedd sy'n llawer fwy pwerus nag ef ei hun, yn benodol felly rymoedd Dyn a Natur. Sut mae dyn i ddelio â'r grymoedd hyn? Drwy wrthryfela neu drwy gydymffurfio? [A novel for young adults in the Cyfres y Dderwen series. The book tells the story of one person's efforts to overcome the forces of Man and Nature. How does a man overcome these forces? Does he submit or resist?] *Datganiad hawlfraint Gwneir y copi hwn dan dermau Rheoliadau (Anabledd) Hawlfraint a Hawliau mewn Perfformiadau 2014 i'w ddefnyddio gan berson sy'n anabl o ran print yn unig. Oni chaniateir gan gyfraith, ni ellir ei gopïo ymhellach, na'i roi i unrhyw berson arall, heb ganiatâd.
The Dinner
by Herman KochSHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS - INTERNATIONAL AUTHOR OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDSThe million-copy bestseller that has got everyone talking.'A brilliantly addictive novel that wraps its hands around your throat on page one and doesn't let go' -- SJ WatsonA summer's evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food and over the delicate scraping of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of politeness - the banality of work, the triviality of holidays. But the empty words hide a terrible conflict and, with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened...Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. Together, the boys have committed a horrifying act, caught on camera, and their grainy images have been beamed into living rooms across the nation; despite a police manhunt, the boys remain unidentified - by everyone except their parents. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children and, as civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple shows just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love.
The Dinner Table: Over 100 Writers on Food (Head of Zeus Anthologies)
by Ella Risbridger and Kate YoungA deliciously moreish collection of the finest pieces of writing on food.In this big, beautiful anthology, award-winning writers Kate Young and Ella Risbridger present you with their ultimate fantasy dinner party. Here you'll find over 100 authors, cooks and poets, from Laurie Colwin, Salman Rushdie and Jack Underwood, to Rachel Roddy, Audre Lorde and Nigella Lawson.The individual pieces in The Dinner Table each have something to say to their neighbours on either side; just like a real-life dinner party, the collection is designed to flow from one topic to the next. You'll discover old friends as well as new, discussing eggs, bread, fridge-raid suppers, wedding feasts and much, much more.With pieces taken from newspapers and novels, magazines and memoirs, private letters and public statements, you can dip into The Dinner Table for one piece or twenty. Pop in for a drink, or stay until the tables are cleared away. Stay for coffee, and stay for breakfast.Contributors include...Naomi Alderman * Maya Angelou * Yémisí Aríbisálà * Jane Austen * Anthony Bourdain * Angela Carter * Laurie Colwin * Jimi Famurewa * Helen Fielding * Ross Gay * Amitav Ghosh * Diana Henry * Shirley Jackson * Madhur Jaffrey * James Joyce * Kevin Kwan * Nigella Lawson * Min Jin Lee * Audre Lorde * Samin Nosrat * Sylvia Plath * Rachel Roddy * Salman Rushdie * Sathnam Sanghera * Nigel Slater * Toni Tipton-Martin * Bryan Washington * Sarah Waters * Virginia Woolf * Michelle Zauner
Dinner with a Vampire: Dinner With A Vampire (The Dark Heroine #1)
by Abigail GibbsThe addictive, enthralling debut by online sensation Abigail Gibbs. The sexiest romance you’ll read this year.
Dinosaur Train: I am a T. Rex (Dinosaur Train)
by Jim HensonToot toot! All aboard the Dinosaur Train! In this storybook, Buddy decides to find out what sort of dinosaur he is. He knows he's not a Pterandodon like Tiny, Shiny and Don, but what is he? One day, the family take the dinosaur train to a new place and Buddy finds out that he is a T. rex. ROAR! Dinosaur Train is a brand new animated series for children aged 3-6, airing on Nick Jr. The television show follows Buddy, a curious T. rex, and his adopted family, the Pterandons, as they meet new dinosaurs and explore the world around them. The dinosaur train travels through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous worlds, and each episode is packed with amazing prehistoric creatures! Look out for other titles in the Ladybird storybook series: Buddy Finds A Tooth, A Surprise for Mum and The Spooky Scavenger Hunt.
Dinosaur Train: A Surprise for Mum (Dinosaur Train)
by Jim HensonToot toot! All aboard the Dinosaur Train! In this storybook, it's Mrs Pteranodon's birthday and Buddy, Tiny, Shiny and Don want to do something special. At the Big Pond, they find the perfect surprise gifts for their Mum. Dinosaur Train is a brand new animated series for children aged 3-7, airing on Nick Jr. The television show follows Buddy, a curious T. rex, and his adopted family, the Pterandons, as they meet new dinosaurs and explore the world around them. The dinosaur train travels through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous worlds, and each episode is packed with amazing prehistoric creatures! Look out for other titles in the Ladybird storybook series: Buddy Finds A Tooth, The Spooky Scavenger Hunt and I Am a T. rex!
Dinosaur Train: Buddy Loses a Tooth (Dinosaur Train)
by Jim HensonToot toot! All aboard the Dinosaur Train! In this storybook, Buddy loses his first tooth. But his whole family is confused because Pteranodons don't lose teeth. So Buddy heads to Rexville station to find out why T. rexes lose their teeth. ROAR!Dinosaur Train is a brand new animated series for children aged 3-6, airing on Nick Jr. The television show follows Buddy, a curious T. rex, and his adopted family, the Pterandons, as they meet new dinosaurs and explore the world around them. The dinosaur train travels through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous worlds, and each episode is packed with amazing prehistoric creatures! Look out for other titles in the Ladybird storybook series: The Spooky Scavenger Hunt, A Surprise for Mum and I Am a T. rex!
The Diogenes Trilogy: Brimstone, Dance of Death, and The Book of the Dead Omnibus (Agent Pendergast series)
by Douglas Preston Lincoln ChildNow, available for the first time together in a single volume: a digital-only, value-priced omnibus edition of the "Diogenes Trilogy": Brimstone, Dance of Death, and The Book of the Dead--featuring Pendergast's mysterious brother--by #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child. BRIMSTONE:A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate. There is a hoofprint scorched into the floor, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air. When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates the gruesome crime, he discovers that thirty years ago four men conjured something unspeakable. Has the devil come to claim his due?DANCE OF DEATH:Two brothers. One, top FBI Agent, Aloysius Pendergast. The other, Diogenes, a brilliant and twisted criminal. An undying hatred between them. Now, a perfect crime. And the ultimate challenge: Stop me if you can.BOOK OF THE DEAD:A talented FBI agent, rotting away in a high security prison for a murder he did not commit. His psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime. A young woman with an extraordinary past, on the edge of a violent breakdown. An ancient Egyptian tomb about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala, an enigmatic curse released. Memento Mori.
Dip in the Pool (A Roald Dahl Short Story)
by Roald DahlDip in the Pool is a short, sharp story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale.In Dip in the Pool, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells an unsettling story of human folly. Here, a man acts rashly and life-threateningly to ensure he wins a prize . . .Dip in the Pool is taken from the short story collection Someone Like You, which includes seventeen other devious and shocking stories, featuring the wife who serves a dish that baffles the police; a curious machine that reveals the horrifying truth about plants; the man waiting to be bitten by the venomous snake asleep on his stomach; and others.'The absolute master of the twist in the tale.' (Observer ) This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Adrian Scarborough.Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.
Dirt
by David VannTwenty-two-year-old Galen is a New Age believer on a warpath towards transcendence. He lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded house, surviving on old family money that his Aunt Helen and cousin Jennifer are determined to get their hands on. Galen doesn’t know who his father is, his abusive grandfather is dead, and his grandmother is losing her memory. When the family takes a trip to an old cabin in the Sierras, tensions crescendo. Caught in a compromising position, Galen will discover the shocking truth of just how far he will go to attain what it is he craves.
Dirt for Art's Sake: Books on Trial from "Madame Bovary" to "Lolita"
by Elisabeth LadensonIn Dirt for Art's Sake, Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors. What, she asks, do these often-colorful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and about a changing cultural climate that first treated them as filth and later celebrated them as masterpieces? Ladenson's narrative starts with Madame Bovary (Flaubert was tried in France in 1857) and finishes with Fanny Hill (written in the eighteenth century, put on trial in the United States in 1966); she considers, along the way, Les Fleurs du Mal, Ulysses, The Well of Loneliness, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, Lolita, and the works of the Marquis de Sade.Over the course of roughly a century, Ladenson finds, two ideas that had been circulating in the form of avant-garde heresy gradually became accepted as truisms, and eventually as grounds for legal defense. The first is captured in the formula ?art for art's sake??the notion that a work of art exists in a realm independent of conventional morality. The second is realism, vilified by its critics as ?dirt for dirt's sake.? In Ladenson's view, the truth of the matter is closer to ?dirt for art's sake??the idea that the work of art may legitimately include the representation of all aspects of life, including the unpleasant and the sordid. Ladenson also considers cinematic adaptations of these novels, among them Vincente Minnelli's Madame Bovary, Stanley Kubrick's Lolita and the 1997 remake directed by Adrian Lyne, and various attempts to translate de Sade's works and life into film, which faced similar censorship travails. Written with a keen awareness of ongoing debates about free speech, Dirt for Art's Sake traces the legal and social acceptance of controversial works with critical acumen and delightful wit.
Dirt Music (Picador 40th Anniversary Editions Ser.)
by Tim WintonSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE'Compelling' Independent'Beautiful' Sunday Telegraph Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded with a man she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. She spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka and self-recrimination. Until, early one morning, she sees a shadow drifting up the beach below her house. It is Luther Fox, an outcast, a man on the run from his own past. And now here he is stepping into Georgie’s life. He brings hope, maybe even love, but also danger . . .Dirt Music by Tim Winton is a novel about the power of love.
Dirty Deeds (The Mudcrusts)
by Damian HarveyMeet the Mudcrusts! LowbrowMudcrust is the lumbering, lazy head of the family, who is happiestwhen he is squelching his toes in the slime. That doesn't stop his wifeFlora from nagging him and reminding him that he's not the chief of thetribe. Their two children, Bogweed and Fungus, are always fighting.Although Fungus doesn't have Bogweed's brute strength, he is does havemore brains.The first book in the Mudcrusts series, Dirty Deeds follows the quest of Flora to move out of their hut into a nice cave with a view...
Dirty Game
by Jessie KeaneAdultery, murder and dangerous love collide in Jessie Keane’s gritty debut novel.
Dirty Little Secret: Dead Spy Running, Games Traitors Play, Dirty Little Secret (A\daniel Marchant Thriller Ser. #3)
by Jon StockFor fans of Bond and Bourne, the third instalment of the pulse-pounding Daniel Marchant spy series.
The Dirty Streets of Heaven: Bobby Dollar 1 (Bobby Dollar #1)
by Tad WilliamsBOBBY DOLLAR ISN'T YOUR AVERAGE ANGEL.Sure, he takes the occasional trip to Heaven, but his job as an advocate - arguing the fate of the recently deceased - keeps him pretty busy on Earth, and he's more than happy to spend the rest of his time propping up the bar with his fellow immortals.Until the day a soul goes missing, presumed stolen by 'the other side'.A new chapter in the war between heaven and hell is about to open. And Bobby is right in the middle of it, with only a desirable but deadly demon to aid him.
Disability And Modern Fiction: Faulkner, Morrison, Coetzee And The Nobel Prize For Literature (PDF)
by Alice HallFocusing on Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee as authors, critics and Nobel Prize-winning intellectuals, this book explores shifting representations of disability in 20th and 21st century literature and proposes new ways of reading their works in relation to one another, whilst highlighting the ethical, aesthetic and imaginative challenges they pose.
Disability And Modern Fiction: Faulkner, Morrison, Coetzee And The Nobel Prize For Literature
by Alice HallFocusing on Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee as authors, critics and Nobel Prize-winning intellectuals, this book explores shifting representations of disability in 20th and 21st century literature and proposes new ways of reading their works in relation to one another, whilst highlighting the ethical, aesthetic and imaginative challenges they pose.
Disability and Modern Fiction: Faulkner, Morrison, Coetzee and the Nobel Prize for Literature
by A. HallFocusing on Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee as authors, critics and Nobel Prize-winning intellectuals, this book explores shifting representations of disability in 20th and 21st century literature and proposes new ways of reading their works in relation to one another, whilst highlighting the ethical, aesthetic and imaginative challenges they pose.
The Disastrous Little Dragon: Book 2 (Monster Hospital #2)
by Gillian JohnsonBartholomew the dragon is brought to Monster Hospital by his fierce aunty Madge. He's got a terrible case of smoke inhalation because he can't breathe fire -- and he can't fly either! Can four naughty children - Sylvie, Dylan, Carolyn and Tom - help him, without getting cooked to a crisp by terrifying Aunty Madge? Maybe they can, if there's a princess involved...This book follows the first Monster Hospital adventure: THE BIG, FAT, SMELLY OGRE and is written and illustrated by the acclaimed author illustrator of the THORA books.
The Disciple of Las Vegas: 2 (Ava Lee #2)
by Ian HamiltonUncompromising. Tenacious. Fiercely intelligent. Ava Lee will follow the money . . . wherever it takes her.Hired by Tommy Ordonez, the richest man in the Philippines, to recover $50 million in a land swindle, Ava has her work cut out. Tommy's brother has messed up and the Filipino billionaire's reputation is on the line.Tracking the money, Ava uncovers an illegal online gambling ring, and follows the trail to Las Vegas. Once there, she turns her gaze to David Douglas, one of the greatest poker players in the world - and someone who knows more about the missing money than he's letting on. Meanwhile, Jackie Leung, an old target of Ava's, has made it rich. He wants revenge, and he's going after Ava.
Discipline of the Blue Book (3 Colors Sexy #1)
by Portia Da CostaI can't stop looking at it. This book I found tucked at the back of the bookshelf in our holiday cottage. I'm reading the Blue Book, or more accurately, looking at its pictures again and again. It must be based on some real need. Some real kink. Somebody must have wanted it. I think I do…
Disciplining Girls: Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story
by Joe Sutliff SandersAt the heart of some of the most beloved children’s novels is a passionate discussion about discipline, love, and the changing role of girls in the twentieth century. Joe Sutliff Sanders traces this debate as it began in the sentimental tales of the mid-nineteenth century and continued in the classic orphan girl novels of Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. M. Montgomery, and other writers still popular today. Domestic novels published between 1850 and 1880 argued that a discipline that emphasized love was the most effective and moral form. These were the first best sellers in American fiction, and by reimagining discipline as a technique of the heart—rather than of the whip—they ensured their protagonists a secure, if limited, claim on power. This same ideal was adapted by women authors in the early twentieth century, who transformed the sentimental motifs of domestic novels into the orphan girl story made popular in such novels as Anne of Green Gables and Pollyanna. Through close readings of nine of the most influential orphan girl novels, Sanders provides a seamless historical narrative of American children’s literature and gender from 1850 until 1923. He follows his insightful literary analysis with chapters on sympathy and motherhood, two themes central to both American and children’s literature, and concludes with a discussion of contemporary ideas about discipline, abuse, and gender. Disciplining Girls writes an important chapter in the history of American, women’s, and children’s literature, enriching previous work about the history of discipline in America.