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Woodcutters ( German title: Holzfällen) is a novel by Thomas Bernhard, originally published in German in 1984. A roman à clef, its subject is the theatre and it forms the second part of a trilogy, between The Loser (1983) and Old Masters (1985) which deal with music and painting respectively. Its publication created an uproar in Austria ...
List of illustrations from the book "Ship of Fools", which are attributed to Dürer. [ 4] Frontiscipe of The Ship of fools. Of Negligent Fathers Ayenst Their Children. Of Taleberers And Mouers Of Debate. Of Vngoodly Maners, And Dysordred. Of Dispysers Of Holy Scripture. Of Disordred And Venerious Loue.
Thomas Bewick (c. 11 August 1753 – 8 November 1828) was an English wood-engraver and natural history author. Early in his career he took on all kinds of work such as engraving cutlery, making the wood blocks for advertisements, and illustrating children's books. He gradually turned to illustrating, writing and publishing his own books ...
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce(2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic. He contributed to the modernistavant-gardemovement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses(1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odysseyare ...
The Honest Woodcutter. The Honest Woodcutter, also known as Mercury and the Woodman and The Golden Axe, is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 173 in the Perry Index. It serves as a cautionary tale on the need for cultivating honesty, even at the price of self-interest. It is also classified as Aarne-Thompson 729: The Axe falls into the Stream.
The Turn of the Screw. The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James which first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly (January 27 – April 16, 1898). In October 1898, it was collected in The Two Magics, published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. The novella follows a governess who, caring for two ...
before 8th century AD. [ 7][ 8] Orbis Pictus. John Amos Comenius. 1658. Earliest picture book specifically for children. [ 9][ 10] A Token for Children. Being An Exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lives, and Joyful Deaths of several Young Children. James Janeway.
This volume details the story of a family zoo and aviary, believed to have been jinxed by people out to take their land for high rise development. Nancy Drew and her friends must get to the bottom of the mystery, before they are jinxed themselves.