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All of Xanth is a stage as an unlikely hero saves the show in the New York Times–bestselling series.   There’s no shortage of laughs when Jess is around; she’s been cursed to have nobody take her seriously. But her dubious talent comes in handy when she meets the very handsome showman Magnus. He promises to fake taking her seriously—if Jess joins his traveling show.   But first they must see the Good Magician. He will give them the use of the flying Fire Boat to tour the realm if they complete a quest. The only problem is, he can’t remember what quest. Something to do with night mares, day mares, and one or two future princesses.   As Jess and Magnus try to unravel the mystery, they discover their true mission: to save Xanth from a big bird with a bone to peck . . .  

A long, oversized shirt with a light blue stripe pattern and tiny sparkling beads. With a classic collar and wide cuffs, it is fastened with tiny diamond buttons. It will look great loose, tacked in or with a corset over it. For the best fit, please refer to the detailed table of our sizes, which you can find in the Size Guide tab and our detailed measurements in the Sizing tab. Hand wash with delicate detergents Remove excess water Do not twist! Iron at 110°C on the reverse side through the protective pad COMPOSITION: 70% Cotton, 27% Nylon, 3% Spandex

A long, oversized shirt with a light blue stripe pattern and tiny sparkling beads. With a classic collar and wide cuffs, it is fastened with tiny diamond buttons. It will look great loose, tacked in or with a corset over it. For the best fit, please refer to the detailed table of our sizes, which you can find in the Size Guide tab and our detailed measurements in the Sizing tab. Hand wash with delicate detergents Remove excess water Do not twist! Iron at 110°C on the reverse side through the protective pad COMPOSITION: 70% Cotton, 27% Nylon, 3% Spandex

A long, oversized shirt with a light blue stripe pattern and tiny sparkling beads. With a classic collar and wide cuffs, it is fastened with tiny diamond buttons. It will look great loose, tacked in or with a corset over it. For the best fit, please refer to the detailed table of our sizes, which you can find in the Size Guide tab and our detailed measurements in the Sizing tab. Hand wash with delicate detergents Remove excess water Do not twist! Iron at 110°C on the reverse side through the protective pad COMPOSITION: 70% Cotton, 27% Nylon, 3% Spandex

A long, oversized shirt with a light blue stripe pattern and tiny sparkling beads. With a classic collar and wide cuffs, it is fastened with tiny diamond buttons. It will look great loose, tacked in or with a corset over it. For the best fit, please refer to the detailed table of our sizes, which you can find in the Size Guide tab and our detailed measurements in the Sizing tab. Hand wash with delicate detergents Remove excess water Do not twist! Iron at 110°C on the reverse side through the protective pad COMPOSITION: 70% Cotton, 27% Nylon, 3% Spandex

In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world.Trapped in a milieu of deceit and pettiness – her own and that of others – Rachel longs for love, and contact with another human being who shares her rebellious spirit. Through her summer affair with Nick Kazlik, a schoolmate from earlier years, she learns at last to reach out to another person and to make herself vulnerable.A Jest of God won the Governor General’s Award for 1966 and was released as the successful film, Rachel, Rachel. The novel stands as a poignant and singularly enduring work by one of the world’s most distinguished authors.

Jeff Marle tries to decide which member of Judge Matthew Quayle's unhappy household put poison in the judge's brandy

Jeff Marle tries to decide which member of Judge Matthew Quayle's unhappy household put poison in the Judge's brandy

1104 S. in gutem Zustand Einband mit Gebrauchsspuren. 29682 ISBN 9780274994748 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1098 Taschenbuch, Maße: 15.24 cm x 4.76 cm x 23.5 cm

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human - and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.

Title: Begun in Jest. [A novel.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++ British Library Wentworth, May; 1891. 3 vol. ; 8º. 012640.l.22.

From Leonardo's drawings of grotesque heads to contemporary prints lampooning American politicians, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a vast but largely unknown collection of caricatures and other satirical works. This handsome book offers 165 examples, dating from about 1500 to the present, that reflect the age-old tradition of using exaggeration and humor to convey personal, social, or political meaning. The selection of images is notably broad, ranging from the elevated to the rudely humorous: renowned writers and decidedly unhygienic cooks; elegantly dressed noblemen and victims of outrageous fashion fads; Napoleon as a tidy Lilliputian and Boss Tweed as a bloated Roman emperor.Stressing the continuity of certain artistic approaches, Infinite Jest examines the development of the genre across centuries and cultures. The essential visual components of caricature are discussed and illustrated, as are recurring motifs, including exaggerated faces and bodies, people depicted as animals or objects, and processions of bizarre figures. One section is devoted to social satire (eating and drinking, gambling, fashion, several of the Seven Deadly Sins), another to various aspects of political life (British, French, Mexican, and American). Artists as diverse as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, William Hogarth, Francisco de Goya, Thomas Rowlandson, Eugène Delacroix, Honoré Daumier, and Al Hirschfeld contribute their distinctive talents to this fascinating, informative, and very amusing volume.

This deluxe paperback edition--featuring flaps, new cover art, and a new foreword by Tom Bissell--celebrates the 20th anniversary of the original publication of Infinite Jest.A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human - and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.

The eighteenth-century Enlightenment in Western Europe was a time in which everyday life was still dominated by religion. Religion was the context in which life was lived from cradle to grave, scientific innovations were judged against its truth and it claimed allegiance from all levels of society. It was also a powerful political force, and the church dominated education. Religion impinged on people's lives whether they wished it or not. So investigation of religious thought in the Enlightenment goes to the very heart of what the Enlightenment was. The aim of this new text book is to situate Enlightenment ideas in context, to show the concerns which gave rise to them and to point out their consequences - which were far-reaching and tied to practical concerns. After two chapters which give a historical account of the period the focus turns to the main figures -Descartes, Pascal, Rousseau and Kant - along with considerations of the rise of deism and the shift from scepticism to atheism. There is also an account of the impact that science began to have on religion. Today the Enlightenment is seen not only in positive terms, as the emergence of humanity from darkness and an important step forward, but also negatively, as bearing the seeds of many of the ills of the modern world. In particular, theologians dissatisfied with the liberal theology which followed the Enlightenment have argued that true Christian theology must side-step, or go back on, Enlightenment thought. The argument is likely to go on for some time, but at least this book will help it to continue with a greater degree of understanding than has often been shown so far. James Byrne is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at St Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill.

Infinite Jest: Wit And Humor In Italian Renaissance Art by Paul Barolsky. London: University Of Missouri Press, 1978. Early Edition. 224 pages. Oversize . Hardcover w/Jacket. B&W illustrations throughout. Light wear to binding, covers, pages

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Title: Begun in Jest. [A novel.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++ British Library Wentworth, May; 1891. 3 vol. ; 8º. 012640.l.22.

Late summer near Dublin, 1920, and up at the great house there are still cucumber sandwiches for tea. Slipping away from Aunt Mary and dotty Grandfather, 18-year-old Nancy has escaped down to the shore to dream in the beach hut - longing for her life to begin.

Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony join forces with America's most-performed living composer John Adams for an album featuring two works written for the San Francisco Symphony. In the world premire recording of Absolute Jest, we hear Adams's inspired and witty take on Beethoven's spirited scherzos and in Grand Pianola Music, led here by John Adams, we revel in tongue-in-cheek allusions to Beethoven's Emperor Concerto. Both works speak to the deeply personal and vital relations

Infinite Jest: Wit And Humor In Italian Renaissance Art by Paul Barolsky. London: University Of Missouri Press, 1978. Early Edition. 224 pages. Oversize . Hardcover w/Jacket. B&W illustrations throughout. Light wear to binding, covers, pages