Day Gone By

Day Gone By
Author: Richard Adams
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2014-12-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1783015705

Richard Adams, author of 'Watership Down' and described recently as a legend of literature, was born in Newbury in 1920 as the replacement for a baby brother who died in the great influenza epidemic of 1917-19. His mother was well over 40 at the time of his birth, and his was a solitary childhood spent in a large garden. Here he explains how his days spent watching bird, beetles and wild creatures around his home engendered in him a lifelong love of nature. His years at prep and public school, at Oxford and in the army are all vividly described, and their influence on the recurrent themes in his writing of battle, leadership, friendship, bullying, solitude and longing made plain.

Come Day, Go Day, God Send Sunday

Come Day, Go Day, God Send Sunday
Author: Robin Morton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317300882

Originally published in 1973. Folk-life and folk-culture, usually the preserve of the scholar, have been brought vividly and entertainingly to life in these recollections and stories of one man’s life in the Irish countryside. This book tells the life story of John Maguire, who died in 1975, including over 50 of the songs he sang, with full musical transcriptions. He was a fine singer, firmly within the Irish tradition, and his songs are the record of a people, their history and traditions, their joys and sufferings, their comedies and tragedies. John Maguire’s fascinating story, skilfully and unobtrusively collated by Robin Morton, is full of material that will interest singers and students of folksongs. His songs and music will be of value to all those interested in traditional music and song.

The Meat on the Bone

The Meat on the Bone
Author: Janice Kelley
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2014-01-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1480805173

Born and raised in a midwestern town that sits on the outskirts of postWorld War II events, bright but shy boy named Harry Porter lives an even-keeled life. As he matures, attends college, and prepares for a corporate career, Harry begins dating fellow philosophy student Sylvia Silverstein with no idea of what the future holds. Feeling complete for the first time in his life, Harry happily immerses himself in Sylvias life and her Jewish traditions. He soon meets her overprotective parents, who teach him he is a visiting guest on Earth with a purpose. But after tragedy strikes and Sylvia dies unexpectedly, a grief-stricken Harry decides to seek solace from his demands by dropping out of college and applying for a job as a bus driver. Twelve years later, he encounters circumstances beyond his control during a snowstorm. Events then send Harry on the journey of a lifetime, during whichwith the help of his childhood friend, Quincyhe will make discoveries beyond his wildest imagination. The Meat on the Bone is the poignant tale of one mans unexpected path through life as he peers into the promise of tomorrow and finds the answers to some of lifes greatest questions.

Never a Day Go Bye: You Make Me Dream

Never a Day Go Bye: You Make Me Dream
Author: Andrew Marshall Jr.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2018-12-26
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 198457230X

A Split in Love’s Hair Love charges the same price for love That love make believe was love-free. Love is not just a blinded, bluffing dove, Love with open eyes cannot always see. Love finds love that doxy rather not keep. Love’s insomniacs do never get no sleep . . .

Steppenwolf

Steppenwolf
Author: Hermann Hesse
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2010
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0875867847

Thomas Wayne presents a fresh new translation of this classic that is a particular favorite of young adults confronting life's deepest questions and equally liberating for readers facing a mid-life crisis. Basil Creighton's 1929 version (revised in 1963 by Joseph Mileck) is the best-known version in English; it skips words, smoothes out long, involved passages, unnecessarily "improves" the text ndash; all things Thomas Wayne refuses to do. As with his already published translations of Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, Ecce Homo, and The Antichrist, he emphasizes a strict adherence and reverence for the literal ndash; a Hesse for the 21st century, meaningful and faithful to the original.

Using Computers in the Translation of Literary Style

Using Computers in the Translation of Literary Style
Author: Roy Youdale
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2019-06-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429638493

This volume argues for an innovative interdisciplinary approach to the analysis and translation of literary style, based on a mutually supportive combination of traditional close reading and ‘distant’ reading, involving corpus-linguistic analysis and text-visualisation. The book contextualizes this approach within the broader story of the development of computer-assisted translation -- including machine translation and the use of CAT tools -- and elucidates the ways in which the approach can lead to better informed translations than those based on close reading alone. This study represents the first systematic attempt to use corpus linguistics and text-visualisation in the process of translating individual literary texts, as opposed to comparing and analysing already published originals and their translations. Using the case study of his translation into English of Uruguayan author Mario Benedetti’s 1965 novel Gracías por el Fuego, Youdale showcases how a close and distant reading approach (CDR) enhances the translator’s ability to detect and measure a variety of stylistic features, ranging from sentence length and structure to lexical richness and repetition, both in the source text and in their own draft translation, thus assisting them with the task of revision. The book reflects on the benefits and limitations of a CDR approach, its scalability and broader applicability in translation studies and related disciplines, making this key reading for translators, postgraduate students and scholars in the fields of literary translation, corpus linguistics, corpus stylistics and narratology.

Revolving Shades of Blue

Revolving Shades of Blue
Author: Jeanne Campbell
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2016-05-11
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1504350944

Editing these poems decades later, I am remembering something that I lost or surrendered. As a young adult, I struggled to reconcile awareness of my higher self and spirit guide with the day-to-day reality. As a result, I lost faith in both. Today, at fifty-four years young, I have come home to the open channel of youth. My higher self and spirit guide are a comfort to me still. They have cared for and protected me in some of the most peculiar situations. I have listened to them and ignored them over the years. They have loved me unconditionally, regardless. Life is a journey that explores the spiritual realms of Being, weaving our souls contracts into meaningful purpose.