Author : Thomas D. Kratzok
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 2007-04-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 148171578X
Once there was an old man who owned a small deli that was known for its sweet pickles. People came from all around to buy his pickles. One day the old man set out to make the best pickle the world had ever tasted. And that is when the fun began...The Picklepuss Man is a tasty version of the Gingerbread Man with a twist and a delicious ending. A lesson or two could also be learned along the way. Catch him if you can and taste for yourself....
Author : Helen Eustis
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1598536311
A philandering professor on the faculty of an Ivy League school is found murdered, setting off ripple effects of anxiety, suspicion, and panic in this Edgar Award-winning classic from 1946. The Horizontal Man was Helen Eustis's only crime novel, and she won an Edgar Award for it, combining a wildly disparate set of elements into an enduringly fascinating work. In its way it is a classical whodunit that stands comparison with old-school practitioners such as Agatha Christie or Dorothy Sayers. This mystery transpires in the rarefied precincts of the English department of a venerable New England college, one very much of the restless postwar moment, echoing with references to Freud and Kafka. Eustis finds comedy high and low in a cavalcade of characters bursting at the seams with repressed sexual longings and simmering malice. Beyond the satire, she stirs up--with a narrative whose multiple viewpoints give the book a striking modernistic edge--a troubling sense of the mental chaos lurking just beneath the civilized surfaces of her academic setting.
Author : Thomas D. Kratzok
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 2007-04-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481715771
The Three Little Worms need a new home. They can’t seem to agree with each other on what home they should have. They end up learning that their size could be overcome, if they stick together to ruin the appetite of the very hungry Big Bad Bird. Your children will love Kratzok’s illustrations and will giggle when the Three Little Worms outsmart the Big Bad Bird
Author : Thomas D. Kratzok
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 14,99 MB
Release : 2007-04-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481714899
Kenneth has a slight problem when it comes to listening. He learns through different experiences that grown-ups tell him rules, not to be bossy but to keep him safe and un-injured. Your children will learn by seeing what happens to Kenneth why they should listen too.
Author : Thomas D. Kratzok
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 2007-03-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481714937
A hippo named Happy had a hurt toe. He was afraid to go to the doctor. When he finally did he realized how silly he really was. Your children will learn in a hilarious way that doctors can really make you feel better.
Author : Mark Cantor
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 2077 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2023-04-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476646422
The 1940s saw a brief audacious experiment in mass entertainment: a jukebox with a screen. Patrons could insert a dime, then listen to and watch such popular entertainers as Nat "King" Cole, Gene Krupa, Cab Calloway or Les Paul. A number of companies offered these tuneful delights, but the most successful was the Mills Novelty Company and its three-minute musical shorts called Soundies. This book is a complete filmography of 1,880 Soundies: the musicians heard and seen on screen, recording and filming dates, arrangers, soloists, dancers, entertainment trade reviews and more. Additional filmographies cover more than 80 subjects produced by other companies. There are 125 photos taken on film sets, along with advertising images and production documents. More than 75 interviews narrate the firsthand experiences and recollections of Soundies directors and participants. Forty years before MTV, the Soundies were there for those who loved the popular music of the 1940s. This was truly "music for the eyes."
Author : Ричард А Спиерс
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Americanisms
ISBN :
Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 3959 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 2020-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1913487172
The American author of detective fiction, Raymond Chandler created the private detective Philip Marlowe, characterised as a poor, yet honest upholder of ideals in an opportunistic and brutal world. In total, Chandler completed seven novels, all featuring Philip Marlowe as their hero, many of which were adapted for the silver screen as film noir classics. As a founder of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction, Chandler was lionised by critics and leading writers, including W. H. Auden, Evelyn Waugh and Ian Fleming, who admired his literary prose and pithy dialogue. Chandler's innovative approach helped redefine the private eye fiction genre, winning him the designation of the most lyrical of the major crime writers. This comprehensive eBook presents Chandler’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Chandler’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 7 novels, with individual contents tables * Features the unfinished novel, ‘The Poodle Springs Story’, appearing here for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare short stories available in no other collection * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the stories you want to read * Includes Chandler’s rare poetry, his first published works – available in no other eBook * Rare essays and reviews * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please note: Chandler’s film scripts and the short story ‘English Summer’ cannot appear in this edition, due to copyright restrictions. CONTENTS: The Novels The Big Sleep (1939) Farewell, My Lovely (1940) The High Window (1942) The Lady in the Lake (1943) The Little Sister (1949) The Long Good-bye (1953) Playback (1958) The Poodle Springs Story (1962) The Short Stories The Short Stories of Raymond Chandler The Poetry The Poetry of Raymond Chandler The Non-Fiction Essays and Reviews Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
Author : James Wolcott
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0767930630
James Wolcott’s career as a critic has been unmatched, from his early Seventies dispatches for The Village Voice to the literary coverage made him equally feared and famous to his must-read reports on the cultural weather for Vanity Fair. Bringing together his best work from across the decades, this collection shows Wolcott as connoisseur, intrepid reporter, memoirist, and necessary naysayer. We begin with “O.K. Corral Revisited,” Wolcott’s career-launching account of the famed Norman Mailer–Gore Vidal dust-off on the original Dick Cavett Show. He goes on to consider (or reconsider) the towering figures of our culture, among them Lena Dunham Patti Smith, Johnny Carson, Woody Allen, and John Cheever. And we witness his legendary takedowns, which have entered into the literary lore of our time. In an age where a great deal of back scratching and softball pitching pass for criticism, Critical Mass offers a bracing taste of the real thing.
Author : Piers Anthony
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 21,75 MB
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345454316
A quest for the source of power threatened to doom the land of Xanth As a ruler of a country steeped in enchantment, King Trent was naturally curious about the source of its magic. It made sense to order Bink, the only one of his subjects immune to supernatural harm, to undertake a quest to discover the wellspring of Xanth’s uniqueness. From the beginning, Bink and his companions, Chester the centaur and Crombie, the soldier transformed into a griffin, were harried by an unseen enemy determined to thwart them. Even the power of Good Magician Humfrey, together with Bink’s protective talent, scarcely saved their lives. Then when Humfrey and Crombie turned against him, all seemed lost. But Bink's ingenuity and luck prevailed, and he reached his goal. The King’s orders had been carried out . . . But the King had not expected Bink’s next act—to destroy utterly the magic of Xanth!
