Beatrice And Virgil [may-10]

Beatrice And Virgil [may-10] PDF Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 0670084514
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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Book Description
When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey--named Beatrice and Virgil--and the epic journey they undertake together.

Beatrice And Virgil [may-10]

Beatrice And Virgil [may-10] PDF Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 0670084514
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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Book Description
When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey--named Beatrice and Virgil--and the epic journey they undertake together.

Last Night in Twisted River

Last Night in Twisted River PDF Author: John Irving
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588369005
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577

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In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County—to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto—pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River depicts the recent half-century in the United States as “a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.” What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author’s unmistakable voice—the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.

Self

Self PDF Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307375633
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Book Description
A modern-day Orlando—edgy, funny and startlingly honest—Self is the fictional autobiography of a young writer and traveller who finds his gender changed overnight.

The High Mountains of Portugal

The High Mountains of Portugal PDF Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1782114726
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Lost in Portugal. Lost to grief. With nothing but a chimpanzee. A man thrown backwards by heartbreak goes in search of an artefact that could unsettle history. A woman carries her husband to a doctor in a suitcase. A Canadian senator begins a new life, in a new country, in the company of a chimp called Odo. From these stories of journeying, of loss and faith, Yann Martel makes a novel unlike any other: moving, profound and magical. A New York Times Bestseller An Australian Independent Bookseller Bestseller #1 on The Globe & Mail's Bestseller List #1 on Toronto Star's Bestseller List #1 on Maclean's Bestseller List #1 on National Post's Bestseller List #1 on McNally Robinson's Bestseller List An ABA Indie Bestseller

Leonardo's Swans

Leonardo's Swans PDF Author: Karen Essex
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385517661
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Isabelle d’Este, daughter of the Duke of Ferrara, born into privilege and the political and artistic turbulence of Renaissance Italy, is a stunning black-eyed blond and an art lover and collector. Worldly and ambitious, she has never envied her less attractive sister, the spirited but naïve Beatrice, until, by a quirk of fate, Beatrice is betrothed to the future Duke of Milan. Although he is more than twice their age, openly lives with his mistress, and is reputedly trying to eliminate the current duke by nefarious means, Ludovico Sforza is Isabella’s match in intellect and passion for all things of beauty. Only he would allow her to fulfill her destiny: to reign over one of the world’s most powerful and enlightened realms and be immortalized in oil by the genius Leonardo da Vinci. Isabella vows that she will not rest until she wins her true fate, and the two sisters compete for supremacy in the illustrious courts of Europe. A haunting novel of rivalry, love, and betrayal that transports you back to Renaissance Italy, Leonardo’s Swans will have you dashing to the works of the great master—not for clues to a mystery but to contemplate the secrets of the human heart.

The Ancient Flame

The Ancient Flame PDF Author: Winthrop Wetherbee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Book Description
Winthrop Wetherbee's study of Dante's relationship to the classical Latin poets--Vergil, Ovid, Lucan, Statius--is a genuine tour-de-force.

A Son of the Circus

A Son of the Circus PDF Author: John Irving
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307362000
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 758

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A Hindi film star and an American missionary are twins separated at birth; a dwarf — a former circus clown — mistakes the missionary for the movie star. And stalking one of them is a serial killer...

101 Letters to a Prime Minister

101 Letters to a Prime Minister PDF Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307402088
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Book Description
A compendium of 101 book recommendations from Booker Prize–winning author Yann Martel (Life of Pi) to Prime Minister Stephen Harper—each with an accompanying letter, together probing the question: what sort of mind, nourished by what, do we want our leaders to have? Politely and unfailingly, every two weeks for almost four years, Yann Martel sent Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper a book and accompanying letter. He completed the project in 2011 with 101 book recommendations. Now, from the mailbox of the Prime Minister’s Office to your bookshelf comes a list of essential reading for all Canadians. This largely one-sided correspondence from the “loneliest book club in the world” (Stephen Harper never personally responded to Yann Martel’s gifts) is a valuable compendium for bibliophiles and those who follow the Canadian political scene. Smart, subversive, signed, sealed, and now available to you . . . even if your address is not 80 Wellington Street.

Dante Studies

Dante Studies PDF Author: Charles Southward Singleton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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Journey to Beatrice

Journey to Beatrice PDF Author: Charles S. Singleton
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9781421432649
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Book Description
Singleton attempts to restore the allegorical elements to the foreground of interpreting the Comedy.