Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Henry Kingsley
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2024-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385382971
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Hideo Yokoyama
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374719160
A tense, powerful thriller from the bestselling author of Six Four 1985. Kazumasa Yuuki, a seasoned reporter at the North Kanto Times, runs a daily gauntlet of the power struggles and office politics that plague its newsroom. But when an air disaster of unprecedented scale occurs on the paper’s doorstep, its staff is united by an unimaginable horror and a once-in-a-lifetime scoop. 2003. Seventeen years later, Yuuki remembers the adrenaline-fueled, emotionally charged seven days that changed his and his colleagues’ lives. He does so while making good on a promise he made that fateful week—one that holds the key to its last solved mystery and represents Yuuki’s final, unconquered fear. From Hideo Yokoyama, the celebrated author of Six Four, comes Seventeen—an investigative thriller set amid the aftermath of disaster.
Author : Booth Tarkington
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1775453294
Booth Tarkington's wildly successful novel Seventeen satirizes the vagaries of American adolescence. Though 17-year-old protagonist William Sylvanus Baxter is awkward, tactless, and often less than likable, Tarkington's insightful -- and hilarious -- take on teenage life and love is sure to please readers who appreciate top-notch humor writing.
Author : Louis Tracy
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"Number Seventeen" by Louis Tracy is an early 1900s mystery and romance novel. The story is set in London and based on Theydon, a young dashing man, two detectives, and a beautiful girl. The plot also includes families who are unfortunate to share the same serendipity in the suspected murders as they've been to China. One rainy London night when Theydon leaves a theater, a man and his beautiful daughter share his taxi queue. He reaches home only to get caught up along with this man as they are both being accused of murdering a wife whose husband has been killed in China for a political conspiracy...
Author : Kenzaburō Ōe
Publisher : Foxrock Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Two views of a world whose traditional values had been blown away: Seventeen, the story of a lonely boy who turns to a right-wing group for self-esteem, and J, the story of a spoiled young drifter son of a Japanese executive.
Author : Maurice Yacowar
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 20,16 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 9780814334942
Originally published in 1977 and long out of print, Maurice Yacowar's Hitchcock's British Films was the first volume devoted solely to the twenty-three films directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his native England before he came to the United States. As such, it was the first book to challenge the assumption that Hitchcock's "mature" period in Hollywood, from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, represented the director's best work. In this traditional auteurist examination of Hitchcock's early work, author Maurice Yacowar considers Hitchcock's British films in chronological order, reads the composition of individual shots and scenes in each, and pays special attention to the films' verbal effects. Yacowar's readings remain compelling more than thirty years after they were written, and some-on Downhill, Champagne, and Waltzes from Vienna-are among the few extended interpretations of these films that exist. Alongside important works such as Murder , the first The Man Who Knew Too Much, Secret Agent, The Lady Vanishes, and Blackmail, readers will appreciate Yacowar's equal attention to lesser-known films like The Pleasure Garden, The Ring, and The Manxman. Yacowar dissects Hitchcock's precise staging and technical production to draw out ethical themes and metaphysical meanings of each film, while keeping a close eye on the source material, such as novels and plays, that Hitchcock used as the inspiration for many of his screenplays. Yacowar concludes with an overview of Hitchcock as auteur and an appendix identifying the director's appearances in these films. A foreword by Barry Keith Grant and a preface to the second edition from Yacowar complete this comprehensive volume. Anyone interested in Hitchcock, classic British cinema, or the history of film will appreciate Yacowar's accessible and often witty exploration of the director's early work.
Author : Henry Kingsley
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 37,96 MB
Release : 1875
Category :
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Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 2006-09-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780374530549
Answering the question "is a book the same the second time around?" this collection of essays includes contributions from Sven Krkerts, Allegra Goodman, Vivian Gornick, Patricia Hampl, Phillip Lopate, and Luc Sante, among others.
Author : John Brownlow
Publisher : Hanover Square Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,66 MB
Release : 2022-07-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781335429223
You'll never know my name. But you won't forget my number.
Author : Janet Evanovich
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 34,72 MB
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345527704
Where there’s smoke there’s fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clear is that Stephanie’s name is on the killer’s list. Short on time to find the murderer, Stephanie is also under pressure from family and friends to choose between her on-again-off-again boyfriend, Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and the bad boy in her life, security expert Ranger. Stephanie’s mom wants her to dump them both for a former high school football star who’s just returned to town. Stephanie’s sidekick, Lula, suggests a red-hot boudoir “bake-off.” And Joe’s old-world grandmother gives Stephanie “the eye,” which may mean that it’s time to get out of town. With a cold-blooded killer after her, a handful of hot men, and a capture list that includes a dancing bear and a senior citizen vampire, Stephanie’s life looks like it’s about to go up in smoke.