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This Companion provides an introduction to the craft of prose. It
considers the technical aspects of style that contribute to the art
of prose, examining the constituent parts of prose through a
widening lens, from the smallest details of punctuation and wording
to style more broadly conceived. The book is concerned not only
with prose fiction but with creative non-fiction, a growing area of
interest for readers and aspiring writers. Written by
internationally-renowned critics, novelists and biographers, the
essays provide readers and writers with ways of understanding the
workings of prose. They are exemplary of good critical practice,
pleasurable reading for their own sake, and both informative and
inspirational for practising writers. The Cambridge Companion to
Prose will serve as a key resource for students of English
literature and of creative writing.
'And O, Angelica, what has become of you, this present Sunday
morning when I can't attend to the sermon; and, more difficult
question than that, what has become of Me as I was when I sat by
your side?' At the height of his career, around the time he was
working on Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend, Charles
Dickens wrote a series of sketches, mostly set in London, which he
collected as The Uncommercial Traveller. In the persona of 'the
Uncommercial', Dickens wanders the city streets and brings London,
its inhabitants, commerce and entertainment vividly to life.
Sometimes autobiographical, as childhood experiences are interwoven
with adult memories, the sketches include visits to the Paris
Morgue, the Liverpool docks, a workhouse, a school for poor
children, and the theatre. They also describe the perils of travel,
including seasickness, shipwreck, the coming of the railways, and
the wretchedness of dining in English hotels and restaurants. The
work is quintessential Dickens, with each piece showcasing his
imaginative writing style, his keen observational powers, and his
characteristic wit. In this edition Daniel Tyler explores Dickens's
fascination with the city and the book's connections with concerns
evident in his fiction: social injustice, human mortality, a
fascination with death and the passing of time. Often funny,
sometimes indignant, always exuberant, The Uncommercial Traveller
is a revelatory encounter with Dickens, and the Victorian city he
knew so well.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1881 Edition.
Anton is a little boy who loves to dance. His parents and
grandparents came from many places-England, Scotland, Spain,
Mexico, and Vietnam-and the music and dance of those cultures flow
through him. What's more, when he dances, he brings joy to everyone
around him, because people who see him realize they are happiest
when they dance. Throughout the world, Anton's reputation grows,
and the leaders of many nations invite him to come dance for them
to end conflict and bring about peace. And so he travels around the
world, dancing and spreading hope to people everywhere. But one
day, Anton finds himself in pain and unable to dance. None of his
doctors can figure out what is wrong, and so he goes home, sad and
weary. Will Anton's family be able to help him become the Little
Dancin' Boy once more? In this bilingual children's story, one
little boy, with the help of his family, shows the world that dance
is the international language of peace and harmony.
The Slow Glow of Winter is a number of texts ranging from comedy
and travesty to some more serious. In its brevity it can be read as
a whole or in parts; getting a slice of the cake in the latter
case.
"Always a better way" was WD Farr's motto. As a Colorado rancher,
banker, cattle feeder, and expert in irrigation, Farr (1910-2007)
had a unique talent for building consensus and instigating change
in an industry known for its conservatism. With his persistent
optimism and gregarious personality, Farr's influence extended from
next-door neighbors and business colleagues to U.S. presidents and
foreign dignitaries. In this biography, Daniel Tyler chronicles
Farr's singular life and career. At the same time, he tells a
broader story of sweeping changes in agricultural production and
irrigated agriculture in Colorado and across the West during the
twentieth century.
WD was a third-generation descendant of western farming
pioneers, who specialized in sheep feeding. While learning all he
could from his father and grandfather, WD developed a new vision:
to make cattle profitable. He sought out experienced livestock
experts to help him devise ways to produce beef year-round. When
World War II ended, and the troops came home tired of wartime
mutton, the beef industry took off. With his new innovations in
place, WD was ready.
Tyler also reveals WD's influence in securing water supplies for
farmers and ranchers and in establishing water conservation
policies. Early in his career, WD helped sell the Colorado-Big
Thompson Project to skeptical, debt-ridden farmers. In 1955, he
became a board member for the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy
District, a post he held for forty years.
Tyler bases his portrait of WD Farr on extensive archival
research and dozens of interviews with people who knew him
personally or by reputation. In the end, Tyler shows that although
not everybody agreed, or will agree, with Farr's stands on
particular issues, this "cowboy in the boardroom" led by his own
example. By embracing change and seeking consensus rather than
forcing his will on others, his greatest legacy--as revealed in
this book--may be the model of leadership he provided.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
When Leroy Carpenter left his home in Iowa in April 1871 to pursue
farming in Greeley, Colorado, he left behind Martha Bennett, a
young lady from De Witt, Iowa. The two had been introduced the
previous fall and began writing letters to each other in December
of 1870. Over the next sixteen months their correspondence would
blend romantic elements with the practical challenges of frontier
life, eventually leading to their marriage, which would last
fifty-five years. This compilation of fifty-four letters exchanged
between Carpenter and Bennett reveals the societal changes facing
men and women in the late-nineteenth-century West and provides an
alternative to studies of class and gender that tend to focus on
the more urban and industrialized Eastern seaboard of the time.
Their correspondence reflects their roots in agrarian culture,
offering a glimpse into the private world of middle-class, rural
America and the social, political, religious, and economic
landscape that affected their lives.
The job should've been simple, but in Boruin's experience, nothing
ever is. Somehow, the young mute boy he's been hired to bring in
can read the mysterious runes on his arms. Somehow, this boy can
create magic with them. And somehow, Bourin's blank past is
suddenly full of questions he's desperate to answer. As a simple
job transforms from betrayal into the beginnings of an epic
journey, Bourin seeks out answers to his past with his trusted
companions: Wraithe, a protector whose methods sometimes turn
violent; Pile, a young relic-hunter; and Toaaho, sworn to Bourin's
servitude with marks of his own. As they cross mysterious jungles
full of monsters, floating forests full of flying sharks, and cave
systems teeming with golems, Bourin begins to understand his fate
is inexorably entwined with the boy's. But does that spell his
salvation, or his doom? Life on the Pilean continent grows more
interesting by the hour...
Delphus E. Carpenter (1877-1951) was Colorado's commissioner of
interstate streams during a time when water rights were a legal
battleground for western states. A complex, unassuming man as rare
and cunning in politics and law as the elusive silver fox of the
Rocky Mountain West, Carpenter boldly relied on negotiation instead
of endless litigation to forge agreements among states first,
before federal intervention. In Silver Fox of the Rockies, Daniel
Tyler tells Carpenter's story and that of the great interstate
water compacts he helped create. Those compacts, produced in the
early twentieth century, have guided not only agricultural use but
urban growth and development throughout much of the American West
to this day.In Carpenter's time, most western states relied on the
doctrine of prior appropriation--first in time, first in
right--which granted exclusive use of resources to those who
claimed them first, regardless of common needs. Carpenter feared
that population growth and rapid agricultural development in states
sharing the same river basins would rob Colorado of its right to a
fair share of water. To avoid that eventuality, Carpenter invoked
the compact clause of the U.S. Constitution, a clause previously
used to settle boundary disputes, and applied it to interstate
water rights. The result was a mechanism by which complex issues
involving interstate water rights could be settled through
negotiation without litigating them before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Carpenter believed in the preservation of states rights in order to
preserve the constitutionally mandated balance between state and
federal authority. Today, water remains critically important to the
American West, and the great interstate water compacts Carpenter
helped engineer constitute his most enduring legacy. Of particular
significance is the Colorado River Compact of 1922, without which
Hoover Dam could never have been built.
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