The Headman was a Woman
Author : Kirk M. Endicott
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,14 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Headman
Author : Kin Platt
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Children's stories
ISBN :
Book Description
A teenage boy tries to find a way of surviving in his bleak and violent city neighborhood.
The Giants of Russian Literature: The Greatest Russian Novels, Stories, Plays, Folk Tales & Legends
Author : Leonid Andreyev
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 9091 pages
File Size : 22,91 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
Book Description
This unique collection of the greatest novesl, short stories & plays in Russian literature has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards: Introduction: The Rise of the Russian Empire Novels & Novellas: Dead Souls Oblomov Fathers and Sons Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment The Idiot The Brothers Karamazov Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace Anna Karenina The Death of Ivan Ilych The Kreutzer Sonata Anton Chekhov: The Steppe: The Story of a Journey Ward No. 6 Mother (Maxim Gorky) Satan's Diary (Leonid Andreyev) Plays: The Inspector General; or, The Government Inspector (Nikolai Gogol) Anton Chekhov: On the High Road Swan Song, A Play in one Act Ivanoff The Anniversary; or, the Festivities The Three Sisters The Cherry Orchard... Leo Tolstoy: The Power of Darkness The First Distiller Fruits of Culture The Live Corpse The Cause of it All The Light Shines in Darkness Leonid Andreyev: Savva The Life of Man Short Stories: The Queen of Spades The Cloak The District Doctor The Christmas Tree and the Wedding God Sees the Truth, but Waits How A Muzhik Fed Two Officials The Shades, a Phantasy The Heavenly Christmas Tree The Peasant Marey The Crocodile Bobok The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Mumu The Viy Knock, Knock, Knock The Inn Lieutenant Yergunov's Story The Dog The Watch... Russian Folk Tales & Legends: The Fiend The Dead Mother The Dead Witch The Treasure The Cross-Surety The Awful Drunkard The Bad Wife The Golovikha The Three Copecks The Miser The Fool and the Birch-Tree The Mizgir The Smith and the Demon Ivan Popyalof The Norka Marya Morevna Koshchei the Deathless The Water Snake The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise The Baba Yaga Vasilissa the Fair The Witch The Witch and the Sun's Sister One-Eyed Likho Woe... Essays: On Russian Novelists Lectures on Russian Novelists
The Novels of Oe Kenzaburo
Author : Yasuko Claremont
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 2008-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134118341
Book Description
The author's critical study examines the key works of fiction by Oe Kenzaburo – the internationally renowned Japanese writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994.
The Head Man
Author : Francis Bancroft
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 1917
Category : English fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
Dictionary of the Ponca People
Author : Louis V. Headman
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 24,93 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1496204352
Book Description
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Dictionary of the Ponca People presents approximately five thousand words and definitions used by Ponca speakers from the late nineteenth century to the present. Until relatively recently, the Ponca language had been passed down solely as part of an oral tradition in which children learned the language at home by listening to their elders. Almost every family on the southern Ponca reservation in Oklahoma spoke the language fluently until the 1940s, when English began to replace the Ponca language as children entered government boarding schools and were forced to learn English. In response to demand, Ponca language classes are now being offered to children and adults as people seek to gain knowledge of this important link to tradition and culture. The approximately five thousand words in this volume encompass the main artery of the language heard and spoken by the parents and grandparents of the Ponca Council of Elders. Additional words are included, such as those related to modern devices and technology. This dictionary has been compiled at a time when the southern Poncas are initiating a new syntactic structure to the language, as few can speak a full sentence. This dictionary is not intended to recover a cultural period or practice but rather as a reference to the spoken language of the people.
Frozen Prospects: A YA Epic Fantasy Novel (Volume 1 of The Guadel Chronicles Books)
Author : Dean Murray
Publisher : Fir'shan Publishing
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 2011-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1939363128
Book Description
The invitation to join the secretive Guadel should have been the fulfillment of dreams Va'del didn't even realize he had. When his sponsors are killed in an ambush a short time later, he instead finds his probationary status revoked, and becomes a pawn between various factions inside the Guadel ruling body. Jain's never known any life but that of a Guadel in training. She'd thought herself reconciled to the idea of a loveless marriage for the good of her people, but meeting Va'del changes everything. Their growing attraction flies against hundreds of years of precedent, but as wide-spread attacks threaten their world, the Guadel have no choice but to use even Jain and Va'del in their fight for survival. Publisher's Note: Frozen Prospects is a YA Epic Fantasy book, and is the first novel in the Guadel Chronicles Series which is written so that it can be safely enjoyed by teens and adults alike. Frozen Prospects is followed by Thawed Fortunes, and is only one of several free YA books available from Dean. The Guadel Chronicles: All the scope of an epic fantasy combined with the action of a sword and sorcery book! Keywords: Free, Freebie, Young Adult, Epic Fantasy, YA, Free Book
The Gray Man
Author : Mark Greaney
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 28,3 MB
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101140445
Book Description
THE FIRST GRAY MAN NOVEL FROM #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR MARK GREANEY—Now a Netflix Film Starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans “Hard, fast, and unflinching—exactly what a thriller should be.”—Lee Child To those who lurk in the shadows, he’s known as the Gray Man. He is a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible and then fading away. And he always hits his target. Always. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. Forces like money. And power. And there are men who hold these as the only currency worth fighting for. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. But Court Gentry is going to prove that, for him, there’s no gray area between killing for a living and killing to stay alive....
George Orwell: The Complete Novels (The Greatest Novelists of All Time – Book 7)
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1302 pages
File Size : 10,47 MB
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
E-artnow presents to you the complete novels by one of the greatest novelists of English literature. This edition includes: "Burmese Days" – a tale from the waning days of British colonialism, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as a part of British India–a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj. "A Clergyman's Daughter" – which tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an attack of amnesia. "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" – is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results. "Coming Up for Air" – Published shortly before the outbreak of World War II, this novel combines premonitions of the impending war with images of an idyllic Thames-side Edwardian era childhood. "Animal Farm" – is an allegorical novel which reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. "1984" – a political and dystopian science-fiction novel set in Airstrip One, a province of the superstate Oceania. The story is about a mind-numbing world in a state of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation.
Isan Writers, Thai Literature
Author : Martin B. Platt
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9971696975
Book Description
Regional characteristics and regional language feature prominently in discussions of Thai identity, but there is little mention of regional literatures. In northeastern Thailand's Isan region, authors write primarily in Thai, but it is possible nonetheless to identify an Isan literature, which played a significant and at times pivotal role in the development of Thai literature in the second half of the twentieth century, as authors grappled with how their origins and experiences related to the Thai centre. Martin Platt's account of Isan literature is an important first step toward a broader study of regional literatures in Thailand, and shapes a model that has relevance for examining literary works in other Asian countries.
