A World of My Own

A World of My Own
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Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 93
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ISBN-10 : 9781504054317
ISBN-13 : 1504054318
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A World of My Own by : Graham Greene

Download or read book A World of My Own written by Graham Greene and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British author shares the “strange . . . inner layers of his playful, guilty imagination” in this glimpse into a brilliant novelist’s subconscious (The New York Times). Culled from nearly eight hundred pages of the author’s “dream diaries” kept between 1965 and 1989, this singular journal reveals “the feverish inner life of an intensely private man, providing an uncanny mirror-image of [his] novelistic obsessions, insecurities, and moral preoccupations” (Publishers Weekly). In what Greene calls My Own World—as opposed to the Common World of shared reality—he accompanies Henry James on a disagreeable riverboat trip to Bogota, is caught in a guerilla crossfire with Evelyn Waugh and W. H. Auden, strolls in the Vatican garden with Pope John Paul II who’s doling out Perugina chocolates like hosts, offers refuge to a suicidal Charlie Chaplin, and stages a disastrous play in blank verse for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. He also shares his headspace with Goebbels, Castro, Cocteau, Queen Elizabeth, D. H. Lawrence, and talking kittens. And the landscape is just as wide: from Nazi Germany to Haiti to West Africa to Bethlehem 1 AD and to Sweden where he seeks treatment for leprosy. Greene is a criminal, spy, lover, assassin, witness, and writer. Encompassing life, death, war, feuds, and career, and alternately absurdist, frightening, funny, and revealing, these fertile imaginings—many of which found their way into Greene’s fiction—comprise nothing less than “an alternate autobiography . . . a uniquely candid self-portrait” of one of the giants of English literature (Kirkus Reviews).

Insomniac Dreams

Insomniac Dreams
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9780691196909
ISBN-13 : 0691196907
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Insomniac Dreams by : Vladimir Nabokov

Download or read book Insomniac Dreams written by Vladimir Nabokov and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First publication of an index-card diary in which Nabokov recorded sixty-four dreams and subsequent daytime episodes, allowing the reader a glimpse of his innermost life.

R. Crumb's Dream Diary

R. Crumb's Dream Diary
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1942884338
ISBN-13 : 9781942884330
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Book Synopsis R. Crumb's Dream Diary by : R. Crumb

Download or read book R. Crumb's Dream Diary written by R. Crumb and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 40 years, legendary American artist Robert Crumb has documented his nightly dreams in a meticulously kept private journal. This material has stood as a guarded secret in a career defined by an impish compulsion to publically self-disclose. All of the artist's well-documented preoccupations are present and accounted for--rampant egomania, insatiable lust, profound self-disgust, the sad beauty of old America, the moral bankruptcy of new America and the fool's errand quest for spiritual enlightenment--but here they are entirely untamed, springing forth from forces beyond even his control. Published for the first time, the complete Dream Diaries offer readers a deep, dark look under the hood of one of America's most aggressively dynamic comedic voices.

Dream Diary

Dream Diary
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 92
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ISBN-10 : 0944048528
ISBN-13 : 9780944048528
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Dream Diary by : Katia Mitova

Download or read book Dream Diary written by Katia Mitova and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious Emperor observes that while dreaming and living curve toward each other, dreams tend to curve away from one another. Dream Diary is a poetic exploration of this claim. There is a dog called Euclid in the non-Euclidean world of the book. There is a young woman, Zena, with Blake’s “fearful symmetry” tattooed on one arm and a six-legged octopus on the other. There is a flight over Patagonia, to the end of the world, on swan’s wings. Wild strawberries play the role of the Tree of Knowledge. Pairs of semi-opposites starting with the letter “B” appear like coded messages throughout the book but may mean just Bed & Breakfast or Brain & Belly or Blink & Blank. “The eyelids of darkness quiver with colors, foresee a thousand and one paths. All can be taken tonight…” reads the last poem in this collection. Following the thousand paths of Dream Diary is a feast for the imagination.

National Geographic Kids Dream Journal

National Geographic Kids Dream Journal
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Publisher : National Geographic Kids
Total Pages : 148
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ISBN-10 : 9781426333262
ISBN-13 : 1426333269
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Book Synopsis National Geographic Kids Dream Journal by : Allan Peterkin

Download or read book National Geographic Kids Dream Journal written by Allan Peterkin and published by National Geographic Kids. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Have you ever wondered where your dreams come from? Or why they're so hard to remember? Or how to make that monster in your nightmares a little bit more ... friendly? We've got answers to these musings and more! In this journal, you'll explore the mysteries of the unconscious mind. You'll learn how dreams inspired some of the most popular art in recent history, how the ancient Greeks used dreams to answer their questions, and how your brain works as it conjures up these amazing, imaginative, and often weird reveries. Plus, you'll find tips on how to get a good night's sleep, remember more about what you dream, and conjure lucid dreams. It's the perfect tool to help kids remember, record, and reflect on their nighttime adventures. Catching Z's has never been so much fun."--Goodreads

My Dream Journal

My Dream Journal
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages : 100
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ISBN-10 : 172313323X
ISBN-13 : 9781723133237
Rating : 4/5 (3X Downloads)

Book Synopsis My Dream Journal by : Lucy Tijan

Download or read book My Dream Journal written by Lucy Tijan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-14 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Dreams Journal is the perfect diary to write you dreams. The size is 6" x 9" and is wonderful to keep next to your bed for quick writing. With 100 blank lined pages (50 sheets) you will have plenty of room to record your dreams for analysis and comparison. Our dreams can teach us a lot about ourselves and our deepest desires and fears. Start your dream journaling today! Makes a great gift for anyone wanting a dream keeper.

The Dream

The Dream
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 185
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ISBN-10 : 9789774167997
ISBN-13 : 9774167996
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Dream by : Muḥammad Malaṣ

Download or read book The Dream written by Muḥammad Malaṣ and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1980, Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas traveled to Lebanon to film a documentary of interviews with Palestinians of the refugee camps around Beirut about their dreams. The Dream: A Diary of the Film is Malas's haunting chronicle of his immersion in the life of the camps, including Shatila, Burj al-Barajneh, Nahr al-Bared, and Ein al-Helweh. It also describes the filmmaking process, from the research stage to the film's unofficial release, in Shatila Camp, before it reached a global audience. In vivid and poetic detail, Malas provides a snapshot of Palestinian refugees at a critical juncture of Lebanon's bloody civil war, and at the height of the PLO's power in Lebanon before the 1982 Israeli invasion and the PLO's subsequent expulsion. Malas probes his subjects' dreams and existential fears with an artist's acute sensitivity, revealing the extent to which the wounds and contingencies of Palestinian statelessness are woven into the tapestry of a fragmented Arab nationalism. Although he halted his work on the film in 1982, following the massacres of Sabra and Shatila, he completed it in 1987, turning 400 interviews into 23 dreams and 45 minutes of screen time. Both diary and film present these people somewhere between present and past tense, but they are preserved forever in the word, magnetic tape, and now in digital code. The Dream is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the Palestinians in the modern Middle East, and for students and scholars of Arab filmmaking, politics, and literature.