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Tells the story of a father who dreamed of being able to fly and how that dream was passed on to future generations.
Author : Grahame Baker-Smith
Publisher : Templar
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Ambition
ISBN : 9780763663704
Tells the story of a father who dreamed of being able to fly and how that dream was passed on to future generations.
Author : Jonathan Franzen
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0374708762
Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it "a masterpiece of American fiction" and lauded its illumination, "through the steady radiance of its author's profound moral intelligence, [of] the world we thought we knew." In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen's implicit promise to conceal nothing. On a trip to China to see first-hand the environmental devastation there, he doesn't omit mention of his excitement and awe at the pace of China's economic development; the trip becomes a journey out of his own prejudice and moral condemnation. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day. Farther Away is remarkable, provocative, and necessary.
Author : Anthony C. Gilbert
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 19,46 MB
Release : 2006-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1847531504
Are any religions true? What is life for? What happens after we die? Cynical, hard-headed reporter Gerok doesn't waste time on such things - till he dies, and suddenly it matters. Being sent to Hell was a shock, but not a surprise: after all, he'd been warned. Being rescued from Hell was the surprise. And that's just the start of an adventure that takes him from the cold depths of Nifleheim to the peaceful heights of the Pure Land of the Sages, to the Old Gods and beyond, to a logical end that has a meaning for us all. By turns poetic, crude, wry, reflective, violent and philosophical, Farther Up and Farther In is a practical man's search for practical answers to the deepest of questions.
Author : John PERCEVAL (2nd Earl of Egmont.)
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 1733
Category : Excise tax
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Author : Daniel Defoe Defoe
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 36,96 MB
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1684483271
Defoe’s The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was almost always published together with The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Only after 1950 was the first volume printed alone—a shorter work for some classes. But in addition to fulfilling the promise of the first volume, The Farther Adventures is an exciting adventure novel by itself. Crusoe returns to his island to learn about his colony, and then travels to Madagascar, India, and China before returning to England after some exciting encounters. Complete with an introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes, this is an edition like no other. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 39,35 MB
Release : 1676
Category : Indians of North America
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Author : Benjamin Marshall
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 36,17 MB
Release : 1728
Category : Bible
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Author : Daniel Lysons
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 1777
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Author : Thomas MORGAN (M.D., Philosophical Writer.)
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Page : 34 pages
File Size : 37,16 MB
Release : 1727
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Author : Robert KINGLAKE
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Page : 468 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 1807
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