Once Aboard the Lugger


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Curtain rises on a lonely deserted dock on the Long Beach waterfront, where the schooner Carma has just been moored that afternoon. The date is December 6, 1932; the hour 9:30 of a dank and dripping evening. The scene is set for murder...




Once Aboard the Lugger


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'Once Aboard the Lugger' is an adventure novel by A. S. M. Hutchinson. The story begins by introducing us to Mr. Christopher Marrapit, who is dozing in a chair upon the lawn while his darling cat, the Rose of Sharon, is sleeping on his lap. Stiffly beside him sits Mrs. Major, his companion—that masterly woman.




Once Aboard the Lugger-- The History of George and his Mary


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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Once Aboard the Lugger-- The History of George and his Mary" by A. S. M. Hutchinson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.




Once Aboard A Cornish Lugger


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Paul Greenwood draws on his own experiences in the 1970s and 1980s to graphically bring to life the hardships and dangers faced by Cornish fishermen




Dictionary of Catch Phrases


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A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this Dictionary gathers together over 7,000 such phrases.







The Bookman


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The British Film Catalogue


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First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.




The English Catalogue of Books [annual]


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Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.




A Reader's Guide to William Faulkner


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The new guide, the first comprehensive book of its kind, offers analyses of all Faulkner's short stories, published and unpublished, that were not incorporated into novels or turned into chapters of a novel. Seventy-one stories receive individual critical analysis and evaluation. These discussions reveal the relationship of the stories to the novels and point up Faulkner's skills as a writer of short fiction. Although Faulkner often spoke disparagingly of the short story form and claimed that he wrote stories for moneywhich he didEdmond L. Volpe's study reveals that Faulkner could not escape even in this shorter form his incomparable fictional imagination nor his mastery of narrative structure and technique.