The Poet And The Lunatics

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : House of Stratus
ISBN 13 : 0755100204
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poet and the Lunatics written by G. K. Chesterton and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2001 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriel Gale is an eccentric poet. His madness is the madness of insight and he uses this gift to solve or prevent crimes committed by madmen. Chesterton ably illustrates his own premise that lunacy and sanity may just be a point of view...

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486140024
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poet and the Lunatics written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eccentric poet acts as spiritual detective in these eight stories by the Father Brown author, in which the philosophical policeman solves and prevents crimes perpetrated by madmen.

Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poet and the Lunatics written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781533134448
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poet and the Lunatics written by G. K. Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-07 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G.K. Chesterton was a legendary English writer who is often referred to as the prince of paradox. Due to Chesterton's unique writing style and numerous works in many genres, he is still one of the most widely read authors today. Whether it be the Father Brown detective stories or his great apologetic books The Everlasting Man and Orthodoxy, most people have come across Chesterton's work. The Poet and the Lunatics is a collection of short stories that center around an eccentric poet named Gabriel Gale.

Author : Daniel Hahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lunatics, Lovers & Poets written by Daniel Hahn and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve contemporary stories inspired by Shakespeare and Cervantes, to mark the 400th anniversaries of their deaths. Introduced by Salman Rushdie.

Author : Kathryn Burtinshaw
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473879051
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots written by Kathryn Burtinshaw and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Reveals the grisly conditions in which the mentally ill were kept . . . [and] harrowing details of the inhumane and gruesome treatment of these patients.”—Daily Mail In the first half of the nineteenth century, treatment of the mentally ill in Britain and Ireland underwent radical change. No longer manacled, chained and treated like wild animals, patient care was defined in law and medical understanding, and treatment of insanity developed. Focusing on selected cases, this new study enables the reader to understand how progressively advancing attitudes and expectations affected decisions, leading to better legislation and medical practice throughout the century. Specific mental health conditions are discussed in detail and the treatments patients received are analyzed in an expert way. A clear view of why institutional asylums were established, their ethos for the treatment of patients, and how they were run as palaces rather than prisons giving moral therapy to those affected becomes apparent. The changing ways in which patients were treated, and altered societal views to the incarceration of the mentally ill, are explored. The book is thoroughly illustrated and contains images of patients and asylum staff never previously published, as well as first-hand accounts of life in a nineteenth-century asylum from a patient’s perspective. Written for genealogists as well as historians, this book contains clear information concerning access to asylum records and other relevant primary sources and how to interpret their contents in a meaningful way. “Through the use of case studies, this book adds a personal note to the historiography in a way that is often missing from scholarly works.”—Federation of Family History Societies

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006224213X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Graveyard for Lunatics written by Ray Bradbury and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery—and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.

Author : Siobhan Carroll
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250237564
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For He Can Creep written by Siobhan Carroll and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For He Can Creep" by Siobhan Carroll is a dark fantasy about Jeoffry, a cat who fights demons, a poet, who is Jeoffry’s human confined to an insane asylum, and Satan, who schemes to end the world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Charles Simic
Publisher : Ecco
ISBN 13 : 9780062364753
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lunatic written by Charles Simic and published by Ecco. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate Charles Simic comes a dazzling collection of poems as original, meditative, and humorous as the legendary poet himself. This latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic, one of America’s most celebrated poets, demonstrates his revered signature style—a mix of understated brilliance, wry melancholy, and sardonic wit. These seventy luminous poems range in subject from mortality to personal ads, from the simple wonders of nature to his childhood in war-torn Yugoslavia. For over fifty years, Simic has delighted readers with his innovative form, quiet humor, and his rare ability to limn our interior life and concisely capture the depth of human emotion. These stunning, succinct poems—most no longer than a page, some no longer than a paragraph—validate and reinforce Simic’s importance and relevance in modern poetry.

Author : Martín Espada
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393344541
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trouble Ball: Poems written by Martín Espada and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[An] important work . . . inspiring its readers to greater human connection and to keep fighting the good fight.”—The Rumpus In this new collection of poems, Martín Espada crosses the borderlands of epiphany and blasphemy: from a pilgrimage to the tomb of Frederick Douglass to an encounter with the swimming pool at a center of torture and execution in Chile, from the adolescent discovery of poet Omar Khayyám to the death of an "illegal" Mexican immigrant. from "The Trouble Ball" On my father's island, there were hurricanes and tuberculosis, dissidents in jail and baseball. The loudspeakers boomed: Satchel Paige pitching for the Brujos of Guayama. From the Negro Leagues he brought the gifts of Baltasar the King; from a bench on the plaza he told the secrets of a thousand pitches: The Trouble Ball, The Triple Curve, The Bat Dodger, The Midnight Creeper, The Slow Gin Fizz, The Thoughtful Stuff. Pancho Coímbre hit rainmakers for the Leones of Ponce; Satchel sat the outfielders in the grass to play poker, windmilled three pitches to the plate, and Pancho spun around three times. He couldn't hit The Trouble Ball.