Eye of the Storm

Eye of the Storm PDF Author: Charles F. Bryan, Jr.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684863669
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Book Description
In this historical treasure, now restored to posterity, text and drawings by a Union cartographer record the daily life of Civil war soldiers, the firsthand observation of officers, and the battles he witnessed from Yorkville to Bull Run. 85 full-color illustrations.

Eye of the Storm

Eye of the Storm PDF Author: Charles F. Bryan, Jr.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684863669
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Book Description
In this historical treasure, now restored to posterity, text and drawings by a Union cartographer record the daily life of Civil war soldiers, the firsthand observation of officers, and the battles he witnessed from Yorkville to Bull Run. 85 full-color illustrations.

A Fringe Of Leaves

A Fringe Of Leaves PDF Author: Patrick White
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1742743706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Set in Australia in the 1840s, A Fringe of Leaves combines dramatic action with a finely distilled moral vision. Returning home to England from Van Diemen's land, the Bristol Maid is shipwrecked on the Queensland coast and Mrs Roxburgh is taken prisoner by a tribe of Australian Aboriginals, along with the rest of the passengers and crew. In the course of her escape, she is torn by conflicting loyalties - to her dead husband, to her rescuer, to her own and to her adoptive class.

The Living and the Dead

The Living and the Dead PDF Author: Patrick White
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446435016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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To hesitate on the edge of life or to plunge in and risk change -this is the dilemma explored in THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. Patrick White's second novel is set in thirties London and portrays the complex ebb and flow of relationships within the Standish family. Mrs Standish, ageing but still beautiful, is drawn into secret liaisons, while her daughter Eden experiments openly and impulsively with left-wing politics and love affairs. Only the son, Elyot, remains an aloof and scholarly observer - until dramatic events shock him into sudden self-knowledge.

The Glass Canoe: Text Classics

The Glass Canoe: Text Classics PDF Author: David Ireland
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1921961023
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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Meat Man is a regular at the Southern Cross pub in Sydney. With his tribe he sits and drinks and watches as life spirals around him. David Ireland’s novel tells his stories, about the pub, its patrons and their women, about the brutal, tender and unexpected places his glass canoe takes him.

Since You've Been Gone

Since You've Been Gone PDF Author: Morgan Matson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471122670
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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A perfect summertime read for fans of John Green, Stephanie Perkins, and Sarah Dessen: It was Sloane who yanked Emily out of her shell and made life 100% interesting. But right before what should have been the most epic summer, Sloane just…disappears. All she leaves behind is a to-do list. On it, thirteen Sloane-inspired tasks that Emily would normally never try. But what if they could bring her best friend back? Apple picking at night? Okay, easy enough. Dance until dawn? Sure. Why not? Kiss a stranger? Um... Emily now has this unexpected summer, and the help of Frank Porter (totally unexpected), to check things off Sloane's list. Who knows what she’ll find? 'Some books leave a very real mark on you and Since You’ve Been Gone is one of those utterly brilliant books' - The Guardian 'A winning blend of touching moments, memorable characters and situational humor takes readers to a surprising revelation at the story’s end.' - Kirkus Reviews 'Morgan Matson is the epitome of YA contemporary.' - Ariel Bissett, Booktuber and blogger

We Are Unprepared

We Are Unprepared PDF Author: Meg Little Reilly
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 1460395883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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Meg Little Reilly places a young couple in harm’s way—both literally and emotionally—as they face a cataclysmic storm that threatens to decimate their Vermont town, and the Eastern Seaboard in her penetrating debut novel, WE ARE UNPREPARED. Ash and Pia move from hipster Brooklyn to rustic Vermont in search of a more authentic life. But just months after settling in, the forecast of a superstorm disrupts their dream. Fear of an impending disaster splits their tight-knit community and exposes the cracks in their marriage. Where Isole was once a place of old farm families, rednecks and transplants, it now divides into paranoid preppers, religious fanatics and government tools, each at odds about what course to take. WE ARE UNPREPARED is an emotional journey, a terrifying glimpse into the human costs of our changing earth and, ultimately, a cautionary tale of survival and the human

The Swan Book

The Swan Book PDF Author: Alexis Wright
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501124781
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Book Description
Originally published: Australia: Giramondo, 2013.

The Cockatoos

The Cockatoos PDF Author: Patrick White
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1925774414
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Book Description
An essential story collection from one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century, now a part of the Text Classics series

A Fringe of Leaves

A Fringe of Leaves PDF Author: Patrick White
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780380018260
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Those Barren Leaves

Those Barren Leaves PDF Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Book Description
Mrs. Aldwinkle, an English aristocrat of a certain age, has purchased a mansion in the Italian countryside. She wishes to bring a salon of intellectual luminaries into her orbit, and to that end she invites a strange cast of characters to spend time with her in her palazzo: Irene, her young niece; Ms. Thriplow, a governess-turned-novelist; Mr. Calamy, a handsome young man of great privilege and even greater ennui; Mr. Cardan, a worldly gentleman whose main talent seems to be the enjoyment of life; Hovenden, a young motorcar-obsessed lord with a speech impediment; and Mr. Falx, a socialist leader. To this unlikely cast is soon added Mr. Chelifer, an author with an especially florid, overwrought style that is wasted on his day job as editor of The Rabbit Fancier’s Gazette, and the Elvers, a scheming brother who is the guardian of his mentally-challenged sister. As this unlikely group mingles, they discuss a great many grand topics: love, art, language, life, culture. Yet very early on the reader comes to realize that behind the pompousness of their elaborate discussions lies nothing but vacuity—these characters are a satire of the self-important intellectuals of Huxley’s era. His skewering of their intellectual barrenness continues as the group moves on to a trip around the surrounding country, in a satire of the Grand Tour tradition. The party brings their English snobbery out in full force as they traipse around Rome, sure of nothing else except in their belief that Italy is culturally superior simply because it’s Italy. As the vacation winds down, we’re left with a biting lampoon of the elites who suppose themselves to be at the height of art and culture—the kinds of personalities that arise in every generation, sure of their own greatness but unable to actually contribute anything to the world of art and culture that they feel is so important. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.