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Since 1903, the escapades of Mole, his friend Water Rat, shy Badger
and Toad of Toad Hall have delighted children and adults, too.
Follow the winning foursome through the seasons as they sail the
river, get lost in the Wild Wood, take off on a merry adventure in
Toad's colourful carriage and rescue Toad Hall from a band of nasty
marauding weasels. Abridged for easier reading and carefully
rewritten, with "Classic Starts[trademark]", young readers can
experience the wonder of timeless stories from an early age.
Through the eyes of Lemuel Gulliver, Swift's unforgettable satire
takes readers into worlds formerly unimagined. Visit four strange
and remarkable lands: Lilliput, where Gulliver seems a giant among
a race of tiny people; Brobdingnag, the opposite, where the natives
are giants and Gulliver puny; the ruined yet magical country of
Laputa; and the home of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses far superior
to the ugly humanoid Yahoos who share their universe. Abridged for
easier reading, with "Classic Starts[trademark]", young readers can
experience the wonder of timeless stories from an early age.
Following Sterlings spectacularly successful launch of its
childrens classic novels (240,000 books in print to date), comes a
dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the
quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the worlds beloved tales
(and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an
incomparable price. Tom Sawyer liked adventures, which means he was
always getting in trouble. Searching for treasure, witnessing a
murder, getting caught in a bat cave, tricking others into doing
his work, running away with Huckleberry Finn--Tom Sawyers antics
and mischief-making are sheer, child-pleasing delight. Every boy
and girl should experience the joy and fun of this classic tale.
"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", "Aladdin" and "Sinbad the
Sailor": these are just some of the strange and amazing stories
that clever Scheherazade tells to captivate her husband, King
Shahryar...and to save her own life. Each one is more fantastic
than the last, filled with demons and dervishes, caliphs and
genies, men transformed into dogs and monsters with eyes that
glow.With "Classic Starts[trademark]", young readers can experience
the wonder of these timeless stories from an early age. Abridged
for easier reading and carefully rewritten, each classic novel is
filled with all the magic and excitement that made the original
story a beloved favourite.
When Horace Greeley published his famous imperative, ""Go West,
young man, and grow up with the country,"" the frontier was already
synonymous with a distinctive type of idealized American
masculinity. But Greeley's exhortation also captured popular
sentiment surrounding changing ideas of American boyhood; for many
educators, politicians, and parents, raising boys right seemed a
pivotal step in securing the growing nation's future. This book
revisits these narratives of American boyhood and frontier
mythology to show how they worked against and through one another -
and how this interaction shaped ideas about national character,
identity, and progress. The intersection of ideas about boyhood and
the frontier, while complex and multifaceted, was dominated by one
arresting notion: in the space of the West, boys would grow into
men and the fledgling nation would expand to fulfill its promise.
Frontiers of Boyhood explores this myth and its implications and
ramifications through western history, childhood studies, and a
rich cultural archive. Detailing surprising intersections between
American frontier mythology and historical notions of child
development, the book offers a new perspective on William ""Buffalo
Bill"" Cody's influence on children and childhood; on the
phenomenon of ""American Boy Books""; the agency of child
performers, differentiated by race and gender, in Wild West
exhibitions; and the cultural work of boys' play, as witnessed in
scouting organizations and the deployment of mass-produced toys.
These mutually reinforcing and complicating strands, traced through
a wide range of cultural modes, from social and scientific
theorizing to mass entertainment, lead to a new understanding of
how changing American ideas about boyhood and the western frontier
have worked together to produce compelling stories about the
nation's past and its imagined future.
When Horace Greeley published his famous imperative, "Go West,
young man, and grow up with the country," the frontier was already
synonymous with a distinctive type of idealized American
masculinity. But Greeley's exhortation also captured popular
sentiment surrounding changing ideas of American boyhood; for many
educators, politicians, and parents, raising boys right seemed a
pivotal step in securing the growing nation's future. This book
revisits these narratives of American boyhood and frontier
mythology to show how they worked against and through one
another-and how this interaction shaped ideas about national
character, identity, and progress. The intersection of ideas about
boyhood and the frontier, while complex and multifaceted, was
dominated by one arresting notion: in the space of the West, boys
would grow into men and the fledgling nation would expand to
fulfill its promise. Frontiers of Boyhood explores this myth and
its implications and ramifications through western history,
childhood studies, and a rich cultural archive. Detailing
surprising intersections between American frontier mythology and
historical notions of child development, the book offers a new
perspective on William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's influence on children
and childhood; on the phenomenon of "American Boy Books"; the
agency of child performers, differentiated by race and gender, in
Wild West exhibitions; and the cultural work of boys' play, as
witnessed in scouting organizations and the deployment of
mass-produced toys. These mutually reinforcing and complicating
strands, traced through a wide range of cultural modes, from social
and scientific theorizing to mass entertainment, lead to a new
understanding of how changing American ideas about boyhood and the
western frontier have worked together to produce compelling stories
about the nation's past and its imagined future.
The volume situates My Ántonia as a novel that stands the test of
time by including in its pages an extraordinarily wide range of
historical, cultural, literary, psychological, thematic,
perceptual, and stylistic issues. The volume provides an analysis
and assessment of complexities in the novel as well as its
reception and legacy. The essays as a whole situate the novel at
the cusp of the modern period, marking in myriad ways the novel’s
transitional role between nineteenth and twentieth-century
literature and culture. The first section “Translation”
features writers that reflect on Cather’s curious devaluation of
My Ántonia’s reception over time; translation issues in Germany,
Italty, France, and Russia; and linguistic issues in the novel’s
vision of Ántonia’s acculturation. The second section
“Tradition” defines Cather’s relationship to modernism and
regionalism through her career shifts and changes to the
Introduction as well as her narrative technique in marginalizing
violence and darkness to the edges of Jim’s consicousness. The
third section “Transgender” analyzes Cather’s relationship to
Hamlin Garland’s Life on the Prairie, J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan
and the Neverland, and the work of Truman Capote, especially his
gay protagoanist Joel Knox in Other Voices, Other Rooms. The fourth
section “Transhuman” deploys work on hysteria to situate
Cather’s vision of genderless desire and ecocritical lenses to
understand Jim and nature. Finally the last section
“Transition” discusses Lena Lingard’s presence as a New Woman
and gift economies in the novel that underscore the community’s
uneasy transition to twentieth-century capitalism. Gathered in the
volume are an international group of scholars who demonstrate the
novel’s centrality to women’s studies, American studies, queer
studies, childhood studies, psychoanalysis, ecology, translation
and reception, Marxism, narratology, and intertextuality.
This volume situates My Antonia as a novel that stands the test of
time by including in its pages an extraordinarily wide range of
historical, cultural, literary, psychological, thematic,
perceptual, and stylistic issues. The volume provides an analysis
and assessment of complexities in the novel as well as its
reception and legacy. The essays as a whole situate the novel at
the cusp of the modern period, marking in myriad ways the novel's
transitional role between nineteenth and twentieth-century
literature and culture. The first section "Translation" features
writers that reflect on Cather's curious devaluation of My
Antonia's reception over time; translation issues in Germany,
Italty, France, and Russia; and linguistic issues in the novel's
vision of Antonia's acculturation. The second section "Tradition"
defines Cather's relationship to modernism and regionalism through
her career shifts and changes to the Introduction as well as her
narrative technique in marginalizing violence and darkness to the
edges of Jim's consicousness. The third section "Transgender"
analyzes Cather's relationship to Hamlin Garland's Life on the
Prairie, J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan and the Neverland, and the work
of Truman Capote, especially his gay protagoanist Joel Knox in
Other Voices, Other Rooms. The fourth section "Transhuman" deploys
work on hysteria to situate Cather's vision of genderless desire
and ecocritical lenses to understand Jim and nature. Finally the
last section "Transition" discusses Lena Lingard's presence as a
New Woman and gift economies in the novel that underscore the
community's uneasy transition to twentieth-century capitalism.
Gathered in the volume are an international group of scholars who
demonstrate the novel's centrality to women's studies, American
studies, queer studies, childhood studies, psychoanalysis, ecology,
translation and reception, Marxism, narratology, and
intertextuality.
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