Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Random House
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473522536
Probably the most autobiographical of his novels, From the Diary of a Snail balances the agonising history of the persecuted Danzig Jews with an account of Grass's political campaigning with Willie Brandt. Underlying all is the snail, the central symbol that is both model and a parody of social progress, and a mysterious metaphor for political reform. From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of The Tin Drum.
Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : HarperVia
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 38,39 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780156339506
Probably the most autobiographical of his novels, it balances the agonizing history of the persecuted Danzig Jews with an account of Grass's political campaigning with Willie Brandt.
Author : Damian Harvey
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,20 MB
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 9781845076429
Snail and Frog have a race to decide who has the strongest legs, and will have the honour of helping the King's chef prepare a surprise for the King.
Author : Judy Allen
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,60 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Snails
ISBN : 9780753406687
This introduction to the world of the snail aims to bring this familiar, small creature sympathetically to life. Young children should be fascinated by this tiny life found just outside their back door.
Author : Mary Peterson
Publisher : Aladdin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1534463445
When Snail leaves his bucket, he discovers a whole, wide world in this illustrated bind-up of sweet and funny chapter books Snail Has Lunch and Snail Finds a Home. Snail is a merry little mollusk who lives in a rusty bucket. Day after day, rain or shine, snail doesn’t move—and that suits him just fine. But when his bucket is turned over, his life takes a topsy-turvy turn. A journey through the vegetable garden opens up a whole world of new friends, new foods, and maybe even a little danger. Can Snail find happiness out here, or will he wish he never left his bucket? In his next adventure, Snail eats too many strawberries—his favorite food—and makes himself sick. His best friend Ladybug tells him he needs to find a forever home away from the tempting, yummy, red fruit. But Snail’s journey puts him in the path of a hungry chicken! Will he make it to his new home or be a tasty treat for this feathered, famished fiend? Filled with simple text, speech balloons, and engaging illustrations, these easy-to-follow stories are a blend between a picture book and a chapter book, making it an ideal bridge for independent readers.
Author : Viktor Shklovsky
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 2024-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1628975210
While living in exile in Berlin, the formidable literary critic Viktor Shklovsky fell in love with Elsa Triolet. He fell into the habit of sending Elsa several letters a day, a situation she accepted under one condition: he was forbidden to write about love. Zoo, or Letters Not about Love is an epistolary novel born of this constraint, and although the brilliant and playful letters contained here cover everything from observations about contemporary German and Russian life to theories of art and literature, nonetheless every one of them is indirectly dedicated to the one topic they are all required to avoid: their author's own unrequited love.
Author : Maria Popova
Publisher : Enchanted Lion Books
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 34,42 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781592703494
Based on a real scientific event and inspired by a beloved real human in the author's life, this is a story about science and the poetry of existence; about time and chance, genetics and gender, love and death, evolution and infinity -- concepts often too abstract for the human mind to fathom, often more accessible to the young imagination; concepts made fathomable in the concrete, finite life of one tiny, unusual creature dwelling in a pile of compost amid an English garden. Emerging from this singular life is a lyrical universal invitation not to mistake difference for defect and to welcome, across the accordion scales of time and space, diversity as the wellspring of the universe's beauty and resilience.
Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 18,43 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Manners and customs
ISBN :
Author : April Pulley Sayre
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 12,50 MB
Release : 2004-05
Category : Counting
ISBN : 9781844281640
If one is a snail, and two is a person... we must be counting by feet! Children will love this hilariously illustrated introduction to simple counting and multiplication with big feet and small - on people and spiders, dogs and insects, snails and crabs - from one to one hundred!
Author : Jamie McGarry
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,44 MB
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Snails
ISBN : 9780957459694
A beguiling collection of observational poems and literary parodies which explore and celebrate snail culture, as told by a prematurely-crushed snail poet. Jamie McGarry of Scarborough and Valley Press writes with infectious verve and his poems are frequently romantic and always very funny. Several poems examine snailkind's unhealthy adoration of slugs - the rebels without shells of the kitchen garden - and highlights include a thrilling travel account ('A Snail of Two Cities') and a poignant account of moving house ('A Shell of My Former Self'). This book features a number of joyous homages to human poets including Robert Frost, John Betjeman, T.S. Eliot and Gervase Phinn, and was previously published by Valley Press. Jamie McGarry founded small publishing operation Valley Press in 2008, which he continues to run to this day. Uncovering and translating the original 'snail diary' in 2009, Jamie made it his mission in life to honour the author's memory, and spread the word of his literary prowess far and wide.
