Meyer: 1965 books

Have you ever wondered what a writer’s early years were like and how it affected their future writing and the stories they would tell later in their lives? Have you ever wondered what their childhood Christmases, their early holidays, were like? Well, wonder no longer. This story is about one of...

In this study intended for general readers, eminent critic Patricia Meyer Spacks provides a fresh, engaging account of the early history of the English novel. Novel Beginnings departs from the traditional, narrow focus on the development of the realistic novel to emphasize the many kinds of experimentation...

In the story Maurice Gets a Fuzzy Tail, Maurice and his mouse playmate Maureen discover what appears to be a large mouse with a fuzzy tail digging up the vegetable garden. As they watch the critter run and leap between trees, they conclude the only difference between them and the critter, besides...

Numerous plays have professionals as major characters, but academia has ignored them to a large extent. The Professions in Contemporary British Drama fills this extraordinary gap with a series of nine papers discussing the educational professions (Bennett, Mangan), the medical profession (Shields,...

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As the people of Israel returned from exile in Babylon, they found their nation, including their temple, in ruins. Out of this rubble came the prophet Zechariah with a message of hope, proclaiming that their God had not forsaken them. He was still at work and planned to live again with His people...

I, Janet Godwin Meyer, grew up on a dirt road in Georgia in the 1950s. My grandparents lived just across the state line in Alabama. Until I was eight years old, I had no idea that our black neighbors (the Collins family) were constantly reminded that they were second-class citizens. My parents accepted...

Oggi ricostruire fatti di sangue è diventato un intrattenimento di massa – più o meno l'unico, si direbbe. Ma c'è stata un'epoca non lontana, e peraltro abbastanza sanguinaria, in cui l'assassinio gratuito di un ragazzo da parte di due suoi coetanei veniva presentato, sulle prime pagine di...

Acclaimed as “the most significant American Jewish writer of his time” by the Los Angeles Times, Meyer Levin amassed an astonishing and diverse body of work before his death in 1981. The first of two autobiographies, In Search was originally published in 1950. Raised in the notorious Bloody...

Sample: When Maurice stuck his head outside his mousehole, he saw a small creature, kind of fuzzy. It had feet very different from his own tiny little mouse feet. None of Maurice’s friends had feet like that! “And what’s that on it’s mouth?” he wondered as he wrinkled up his cute little...

Stephenie Meyer reinterpreta su exitosa novela 10 años más tarde. ¡Celebra el décimo aniversario de Crepúsculo! ¡Celebra el décimo aniversario de Crepúsculo! Los lectores disfrutarán de la icónica historia de amor de Bella y Edward con una perspectiva renovada. Esta...

If Richard Dawkins had decided to write a book about irrational beliefs in mathematics this is the book that he would have written. This is a book that is both controversial and illuminating and which forces us to take a fresh look at what we believe and why we believe it. The book asks why...

This book offers a new approach to the principles and functioning of rhetoric. In everyday life, we often debate issues or simply discuss questions. Rhetoric is the way in which we answer questions in an interpersonal context, when we want to have an effect on those with whom we are communicating....

Although the ideas of “tradition” and “modernity” may seem to be directly opposed, David Ellenson, a leading contemporary scholar of modern Jewish thought, understood that these concepts can also enjoy a more fluid relationship. In honor of Ellenson, editors Michael A. Meyer and David N. Myers...