Les om hva som egentlig hendte da Jack klatret oppover bønnestengelen, da Askepott dro på ball, eller da De tre gjensidig avhengige søsknene Bruse møtte trollet.

Adulation abounds for James Finn Garner's best-selling 'Politically Correct Bedtime Stories' and 'Once Upon a More Enlightened Time' - and now a blizzard of praise is blowing in for 'Politically Correct Holiday Stories': 'This tiny volume disperses all incorrect ghosts - past, present and yet to come.' - Diminutive (formerly known as "Tiny") Tim 'Now everyone can read the real story of Rudolph's leadership and our struggle for fair working condition.' - Blitzen, Reindeer Union Local 691 'After all these years of hearing about Father Christmas, Garner throws an unflattering spotlight on the whole holiday patriarchy. Bravo!' - Mother Christmas

Following the international best-seller Politically Correct Bedtime Stories comes Once Upon a More Enlightened Time, a new collection of nurturing and correct stories for pre-adults. These tales by James Finn Garner attempt to purge the cultural biases, sexism, lookism, speciesism, and other insidious -isms from the “classic” bedtime stories that have been handed down from one social power structure to another. A better world starts with better bedtime stories – and these stories made the New York Times best-seller list. From the Little Mer-Persun protecting her unique evolutionary niche, to Hansel and Gretel becoming eco-terrorists to defend their forest home, these recast tales should inspire a new generation of right-thinking people to make the world a better place for persuns, non-persuns, animals, pixies, and talking mirrors of all backgrounds. As a bonus, this new electronic version also contains previously unpublished material: a full-length PC novella version of “Pinocchio” that was excised from the original edition, and the second chapter of James Finn Garner’s latest work, Honk Honk, My Darling: A Rex Koko, Private Clown Mystery.

Les om hva som egentlig hendte da Jack klatret oppover bønnestengelen, da Askepott dro på ball, eller da De tre gjensidig avhengige søsknene Bruse møtte trollet.

Les om hva som egentlig hendte da Jack klatret oppover bønnestengelen, da Askepott dro på ball, eller da De tre gjensidig avhengige søsknene Bruse møtte trollet.

<p>This Norton Critical Edition includes:</p> <ul><li>The 1818 first edition text of the novel, introduced and annotated by J. Paul Hunter.</li><li>Three maps and eight illustrations.</li><li>A wealth of source and contextual materials, thematically arranged to promote classroom discussion. Topics include “Sources, Influences, Analogues”, “Circumstances, Composition, Revision” and “Reception, Impact, Adaptation”.</li><li>Eleven critical essays on Frankenstein’s major themes, six of them new to the Third Edition.</li><li>A chronology and a selected bibliography.<br></li></ul> <p>About the Series</p> <p>Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyse and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.</p>

CHERUB-agenten James får i oppdrag å bli ven med barna til Leon, ein småkjeltring som plutseleg har begynt å strø om seg med pengar. James finn ut noko heilt uventa, og det ser ut som om den einaste som veit sanninga er død.

London vil aldri bli helt det samme etter at du har lest denne boka. Glem Big Ben og Buckingham Palace og møt menneskene i gatene som gjennom historien har formet den britiske hovedstaden. Bli med til Notting Hill, Camden, Clapham, Peckham, Mayfair, Stamford Hill, Tooting, Southall, Shoredrich, Brixton og Ealing. Her møter du idealistiske ortodokse jøder, lidenskapelige Arsenal-fans, familien som har drevet kafé i Bethnal Green siden 1900, DJ-en som introduserte The Clash for reggae, irske løsarbeidere, hellige krigere, djerve filmregissører, polske bohemer og kompromissløse indiske restauranteiere. Boka er både et storslått byportrett, et aktuelt tidsbilde, og en innsiktsfull historiebok - en annerledes guide til en by som rommer hele verden.

Denne boken er ment som et grønt alternativ til tradisjonell medisin. Et oppslagsverk for å finne planter og urter som kan ha lindrende effekt på mange daglidagse plager. Finn tilbake til "ur medisinen" der denne kan benyttes like gjerne som kunstig fremstilte medikamenter. Aldus Forlag er et imprint for Centurio Forlag. Aldus har egen nettside: www.aldusforlag.no

Forfattaren tar for seg tekstar i ulike sjangrar for å utforske den aktiviteten som vandring er. Han ser m.a. på romantikkens idealistiske syn på det å vandre, tar for seg byvandring, representert ved Virginia Woolf og James Joyce, og vandring i dei norske romanane Sult av Knut Hamsun, Alberte-trilogien av Cora Sandel og 16.07.41 av Dag Solstad. Han ser også på vandring og tenking m.a. hos Thomas Bernhard og Peter Handke, vandring og poesi hos m.a. Arthur Rimbaud, og vandringsperspektivet i Slottet av Franz Kafka og Gå av Tomas Espedal. Med litteraturliste.

Vi tror vi kjenner Peter Pan, han er en lystig eventyrer - man han er mye mer enn det. Når vi leser hele J. M. Barries fortelling, uten Disneys idyll, ser vi at den handler om angsten for å bli voksen. Peter Pan i voksenutgave med forord av Finn Skårderud og illustrasjoner med Fredrik Skavlans skrå blikk. Fra forordet: "... lekende, vakkert, ambivalent og hjerteskjærende sårt ... De dilemmaene som Barrie problematiserer, omkring modning, og vegring mot modning, er nok enda mer aktuelle i dag enn da de ble skrevet." "Beretningene om Peter Pan, Wendy og de bortkomne guttene er humoristiske og aggressive, rasende og rasende morsomme - og plagsomt aktuelle."

James Lucas, a teacher tormented with guilt over the death of his best friend Connor, chances on an IRA memoir in a rare bookshop. He discovers that his great-grandfather, Joseph Conlon, was assassinated only minutes before the truce that ended the Anglo-Irish War...

Finn ut hvor ditt favorittdyr trives best! Bli med inn i den varme og fuktige regnskogen, ut på den bunnfrosne tundraen og ned i de dypeste havene. Her møter du hissige snøleoparder, glupske haier, gjennomsiktige frosker og hundrevis av andre spennnende skapninger. Inni boka finner du også illustrerte kart over alle kontinetene og de viktigste naturtypene der.

From Captain Ahab to Yuri Zhivago, discover the most remarkable characters in fiction. Huckleberry Finn, Anna Karenina, Harry Potter, Hester Prynne . . . these are just a handful of remarkable characters found in literature, but of course the list is virtually endless! But why ponder which of these creations are the greatest? More than just a topic to debate with friends, the greatest characters from fiction help readers comprehend history, culture, politics, and even their own place in today's world. Despite our reliance on television, film, and technology, it is literature's great characters that create and reinforce popular culture, informing us again and again about society and ourselves. In The 100 Greatest Literary Characters, James Plath, Gail Sinclair, and Kirk Curnutt identify the most significant figures in fiction published over the past several centuries. The characters profiled here represent a wide array of storytelling, and the authors explore the significance of the figures at the time they were created as well as their relevance today. Included in this volume are characters from literature produced around the world, such as Aladdin, James Bond, Holden Caulfield, Jay Gatsby, Hercule Poirot, Don Quixote, Lisbeth Salander, Ebenezer Scrooge, Jean Valjean, and John Yossarian.Readers will find their beloved literary figures, learn about forgotten gems, or discover deserving choices pulled from history's dustbin. Providing insights into how literature shapes and molds culture via these fabricated figures, The 100 Greatest Literary Characters will appeal to literature lovers around the globe.

This book draws connections between Vermont author Howard Frank Mosher and works of classic American literature. Chapter I explores the horrors of the Civil War as conveyed in Mosher's Walking to Gatlinburg and Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage. Major characters escape the battlefield and then feel a need to redeem themselves for what could be a cowardly act. Chapter II analyses how Mosher and three classic authors explore the physical and moral dangers of industrialisation, especially women's safety. Chapter III compares Mosher's Walking to Gatlinburg to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress in terms of the quest for Heaven. In Chapter IV, Melville's novels are used to address evil as it appears in Mosher's Disappearances.Chapter V explores black men with white women in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Mosher's A Stranger in the Kingdom. Humour is at the core of Chapter VI, comparing Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn to Mosher's The True Account. In Chapter VII, the disappearing wilderness is the issue in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses and several of Mosher's works. Chapter VIII offers romantic love as a shield against other human beings. A conclusion draws on Steinbeck, Twain and Mosher to elaborate on how one should explore as much of the world as possible.

Behind every great television show is a group of professionals working at the top of their games-but no one is more important than the writers. And while writing comedy, especially good comedy, is serious business-fraught with actor egos, demanding producers, and sleepless nights-it also can result in classic lines of dialogue.Sitcom Writers Talk Shop: Behind the Scenes with Carl Reiner, Norman Lear, and Other Geniuses of TV Comedy is a collection of conversations with the writers responsible for some of the most memorable shows in television comedy. The men and women interviewed here include series creators, show runners, and staff writers whose talent and hard work have generated literally millions of laughs. In addition to Reiner (The Dick Van Dyke Show) and Lear (All in the Family), this book features in-depth interviews with:*James L. Brooks (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Simpsons)*Al Jean (The Simpsons, The Critic)*Leonard Stern (The Honeymooners, Get Smart)*Treva Silverman (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)*Ken Estin (Cheers)*Matt Williams (Roseanne, Home Improvement)*Dava Savel (Ellen)*Larry Charles (Seinfeld)*David Lee (Frasier)*Phil Rosenthal (Everybody Loves Raymond)*Mike Reiss (The Simpsons)From these conversations, readers will learn that the business of writing funny has never been all laughs. Writers discuss the creative process, how they get unstuck, the backstories of iconic episodes, and how they cope with ridiculous censors, outrageous actors, and their own demons and fears. Sitcom Writers Talk Shop will appeal to fans of all of these shows and may serve as inspiration to anyone considering a life in comedy.

The first book to follow a fly-fishing trip from coast to coast, West with the Rise is James Barilla's account of a solitary journey that begins in New England and ends in Northern California, with little more to keep him company than a secondhand pickup bought just for the trip, a pair of Nikes he cannot seem to keep dry (they're literally decomposing before his eyes), and the graphite stick and reel that the fly fisher reaches for before he has even fully awoken.The progression from the spring creeks of the East to the big sky country and its nearly mythic trout streams represents more than a search for better fishing. It marks for Barilla the transition from the Massachusetts of his childhood to the West that has become his home as an adult.Woven into his days on the streams are his thoughts of the family he and his wife are planning. More than a preoccupation, it is to some extent the very inspiration for the trip itself. The couple's years-long attempt to have a child has brought them to fertility specialists, and the options they offer, such as in vitro fertilization, Barilla explains with the same attention to detail with which he describes the water's clarity and the coolness of a newfound fishing ground. The question is not only one of successful treatment but of exactly why Barilla should desire a child and what he as a father would have to offer.It is the streams that have run through his entire life-""We are mostly water,"" he reminds us-to which Barilla now turns for answers. At times no one would mistake this world for that of Huck Finn. Barilla drives past strip malls, falls asleep to Dirty Harry playing on his motel room television, and reads in a trout magazine of a particular stream that is no longer what it once was, thanks to urban sprawl-to which one fly shop proprietor adds, ""No place is what it was.""It is almost with a sense of relief, then, that we reach so many settings of uncommon beauty-from Yellow Breeches Creek in Pennsylvania to the grand Deschutes River in Oregon-each with a singular fishing experience to offer.For Barilla this journey is a chance to reflect on his life as an angler but also on his, at turns frustrating and deeply rewarding, relationship with the outdoors and its unending capacity to surprise and instruct.