Author :
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780809493074
One stormy day, an old sea captain tells his grandchildren five stories that present lessons on how to live one's life.
Author : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher : Collins Educational
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780048232656
Author : David Dary
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN :
'Rollicking, adventurous, touching. Whether the reader invests only a few minutes at a time or finishes the book at one sitting, he is in for a lot of fun.' - American West'Fascinating tales set down succinctly and excitingly. There are stories of lost treasure and sudden riches, of outlaws and sheriffs, of massacres and heroics.' - Kansas City Times'A fun book. Where else but in the frontier West were such stories really lived?' - Richard Bartlett, author of Great Surveys of the American West and The New Country: A Social History of the American Frontier
Author : Tom Nissley
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0393351696
A witty and addictively readable day-by-day literary companion. At once a love letter to literature and a charming guide to the books most worth reading, A Reader's Book of Days features bite-size accounts of events in the lives of great authors for every day of the year. Here is Marcel Proust starting In Search of Lost Time and Virginia Woolf scribbling in the margin of her own writing, "Is it nonsense, or is it brilliance?" Fictional events that take place within beloved books are also included: the birth of Harry Potter’s enemy Draco Malfoy, the blood-soaked prom in Stephen King’s Carrie. A Reader's Book of Days is filled with memorable and surprising tales from the lives and works of Martin Amis, Jane Austen, James Baldwin, Roberto Bolano, the Brontë sisters, Junot Díaz, Philip K. Dick, Charles Dickens, Joan Didion, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Keats, Hilary Mantel, Haruki Murakami, Flannery O’Connor, Orhan Pamuk, George Plimpton, Marilynne Robinson, W. G. Sebald, Dr. Seuss, Zadie Smith, Susan Sontag, Hunter S. Thompson, Leo Tolstoy, David Foster Wallace, and many more. The book also notes the days on which famous authors were born and died; it includes lists of recommended reading for every month of the year as well as snippets from book reviews as they appeared across literary history; and throughout there are wry illustrations by acclaimed artist Joanna Neborsky. Brimming with nearly 2,000 stories, A Reader's Book of Days will have readers of every stripe reaching for their favorite books and discovering new ones.
Author : Soso Tham
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 2018-04-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1783744715
Soso Tham (1873–1940), the acknowledged poet laureate of the Khasis of northeastern India, was one of the first writers to give written poetic form to the rich oral tradition of his people. Poet of landscape, myth and memory, Soso Tham paid rich and poignant tribute to his tribe in his masterpiece The Old Days of the Khasis. Janet Hujon’s vibrant new translation presents the English reader with Tham’s long poem, which keeps a rich cultural tradition of the Khasi people alive through its retelling of old narratives and acts as a cultural signpost for their literary identity. This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Indian literature and culture and in the interplay between oral traditions and written literary forms. This edition includes: • English translation • Critical apparatus • Embedded audio recordings of the original text
Author : Marian Ury
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780520038646
Author : Wayne D. McFarland
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781684331246
A collection of 19 humorous, moving, and often heart-pounding stories. Yeah, this is a memoir of sorts, if shark fishing in one's underwear, roping a bear, getting drunk with your Grandfather, or losing ten grand at the Hollywood Sign is a memoir. The Day Johnny Cash Hit On My Wife is on the roster as well, for the only name drop in all the stories. There's also a thing about getting shot in Arkansas and a road trip with a monkey. I can't deny these were life shaping events, but truth be told they all happened under the heading of "oops."
Author : Frank Oppel
Publisher : Castle Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,96 MB
Release : 2008-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781555212254
One hundred years ago, Florida was a wilderness of swamp and beach, dense forest and abundant wild game. Undiscovered, except for a few pioneer sportsmen and hearty farmers and ranchers, the state was still a frontier. True, a few towns flourished on the fishing and the Caribbean trade, but it was generally a sleepy place, far removed from the later boom of the 1920s. Here is a collection of original articles and stories of the old Florida, of hunters and Indians, the development of the sportsman's paradise, the vast canvas of nature prior to the coming of the condominium. Illustrated with rare drawings, photographs and engravings, this book will recreate a paradise that can never be again.
Author : Andrea N. Richesin
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 28,89 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1459205405
Readers will fall head over heels for this nostalgic and irreverent collection. Twenty-six bestselling authors return to the teenage bedrooms, school hallways and college dorms of their youth to share passionate essays of love lost and found and lessons learned along the way. Whether heartbreaking or hilarious, their soul-baring honesty reminds us to keep reaching for true love wherever we can find it and for as long as it takes. Their intimate reflections will fascinate and move any reader who remembers her first love.
Author : Ella Zerbey Elliott
Publisher : Pantianos Classics
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The local history of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania is full of interesting stories about the intrepid souls who settled there, building the first towns and industries of the region. This is a well-researched and superbly composed chronicle which traverses various aspects of Schuylkill life. It begins with a profile of the German settlers who were the majority group who established themselves in areas of Penn State during the mid-1700s. We continue onto accounts of the initial settlements; essential matters include agriculture and an effective defense from aggressive Native American tribes. To better place the reader character profiles are given, describing certain people and the environs that surrounded them. As the decades went by, hamlets and villages grew into towns such as Pottsville. New industries were born and developed rapidly as the population burgeoned. The discovery of coal plus the advent of steam engines and the railroad led the economy of Schuylkill to prosperity. Churches were built to keep the locals mindful of the Lord, and schools were set up to educate the new generations. Amid all this activity, many intriguing stories and events ensued - together, these bring alive a distant era of grit, determination and hardiness.
