[PDF] The Hours Of Childhood eBook

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 27,9 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780879239718

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Of all of Longfellow's beloved poems (and there are many) none is so personal, so sunny, or so touching as this affectionate love letter to his three daughters, "grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with the golden hair." Longfellow's happiest hours were spent writing on a cluttered desk by the south window of his beloved Craigie House, an imposing mansion still preserved on Cambridge's famous Brattle Street. It was here that most of the action takes place (except for his literary reference, and brief excursion, to the "Mouse-Tower on the Rhine"), here that his daughters come creeping down the stairs to beard the gentle, genial poet in his lair. Lang's luminous illustrations perfectly capture the happy atmosphere of that house, the author's affections for his daughters, and the painterly quality of his verse. This book for young readers presents one of the sweetest poems in the English language, her newly illustrated, beautifully presented, and now available to a new generation of readers.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 20,26 MB
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN :

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This unique anthology of seven poems focusing on childhood, motherhood and the parent-child relationship. Published in 1820, this collection offers a unique insight into the tenderness of familial relationships during a turbulent period in history. Contents include:Hours of Childhood, A Mother's Love, Addressed to a young lady, Stanza's, The Moon's Pale Ray, To A Friend, The Alter'd Lay

Author : James K. Whittaker
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 37,71 MB
Release : 1962-12-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0202260860

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Among other revolutionary developments of today's world is tie so-called "knowledge explosion." So much is being written so fast about so many things that it is becoming well nigh ir-retrievable. One consequently can never be sure that he knows what there is to know about many kinds of phenomena or types of problems existing in the modern world due to the chance that something exists in written form that simply cannot be found, so bulky is the load of literature. The common idea that only the sick child, and never the well, needs special emotional supports and helps from the adult is simply an error. For the well child is not immune from pile-ups of severe emotional intensity when overwhelmed by confusion and conflicts from within. Certainly, the normal kid can be ex-pected to handle such crises either from within or without better than his sick peer on the average, but that does not mean always; and the critical issue for the well child is: is he ready at the time they hit? If not, he needs, quite unmistakably, emotional first aid from the adult--parent, teacher, camp counselor (or what have you)--who is in charge of his life at that moment. The reader will find that what the authors describe in The Other 23 Hours as the everyday requirement diet, as far as child handling is concerned for their disturbed children, is transferable to the normal crises of normal child-hood.

Author : Michael Cunningham
Publisher : Picador
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250852684

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Michael Cunningham brings together his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel with the masterpiece that inspired it, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. In The Hours, the acclaimed author Michael Cunningham draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf and the story of her novel, Mrs. Dalloway, to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. In this edition, Cunningham brings his own Pulitzer Prize–winning novel together with Woolf’s masterpiece, which has long been hailed as a groundbreaking work of literary fiction and one of the finest novels written in English. The two novels, published side by side with a new introduction by Cunningham, display the extent of their affinity, and each illuminates new facets of the other in this joint volume. In his introduction, Cunningham re-creates the wonderment of his first encounter with Mrs. Dalloway at fifteen—as he writes, “I was lost. I was gone. I never recovered.” With this edition, Cunningham allows us to disappear into the world of Woolf and into his own brilliant mind.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385207835

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.