Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
This collection of short stories and essays by renowned writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley. This edition includes these stories:, Centenaries, On Re-reading "Candide", Accidie, Subject-matter of Poetry, Water Music, Pleasures, Modern Folk Poetry, Bibliophily, Democratic Art, Accumulations, On Deviating into Sense, Polite Conversation, Nationality in Love, How the Days Draw In!, Tibet, Beauty in 1920, Great Thoughts, Advertisement, Euphues Redivivus, The Author of "Eminent Victorians", A Wordsworth Anthology, Ferhaeren, Edward Lear, Sir Christopher Wren, Ben Jonson, Chaucer
Delina Delaney
Author: Amanda McKittrick Ros
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Category : Irish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Category : Irish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Irene Iddesleigh
Author: Amanda McKittrick Ros
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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On the Margin
Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
This collection of short stories and essays by renowned writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley. This edition includes these stories:, Centenaries, On Re-reading "Candide", Accidie, Subject-matter of Poetry, Water Music, Pleasures, Modern Folk Poetry, Bibliophily, Democratic Art, Accumulations, On Deviating into Sense, Polite Conversation, Nationality in Love, How the Days Draw In!, Tibet, Beauty in 1920, Great Thoughts, Advertisement, Euphues Redivivus, The Author of "Eminent Victorians", A Wordsworth Anthology, Ferhaeren, Edward Lear, Sir Christopher Wren, Ben Jonson, Chaucer
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
This collection of short stories and essays by renowned writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley. This edition includes these stories:, Centenaries, On Re-reading "Candide", Accidie, Subject-matter of Poetry, Water Music, Pleasures, Modern Folk Poetry, Bibliophily, Democratic Art, Accumulations, On Deviating into Sense, Polite Conversation, Nationality in Love, How the Days Draw In!, Tibet, Beauty in 1920, Great Thoughts, Advertisement, Euphues Redivivus, The Author of "Eminent Victorians", A Wordsworth Anthology, Ferhaeren, Edward Lear, Sir Christopher Wren, Ben Jonson, Chaucer
The Athenaeum
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Athenaeum
Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Languages : en
Pages : 808
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The Mammoth Book of Losers
Author: Karl Shaw
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1780338317
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This compendious celebration of ineptitude includes some of history’s most spectacularly ill-conceived expeditions and entirely useless pursuits, and features tales of black comedy, insane foolhardiness, breathtaking stupidity and relentless perseverance in the face of inevitable defeat. It rejoices in men and women made of the Wrong Stuff: writers who believed in the power of words, but could never quite find the rights ones; artists and performers who indulged their creative impulse with a passion, if not a sense of the ridiculous, an eye for perspective or the ability to hold down a tune; scientists and businessmen who never quite managed to quit while they were ahead; and sportsmen who seemed to manage always to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Like Walter Oudney, one of three men chosen to find the source of the River Niger in Africa, who could not ride a horse, nor speak any foreign languages and who had never travelled more than 30 miles beyond his native Edinburgh; or the explorer-priest Michel Alexandre de Baize, who set off to explore the African continent from east to west equipped with 24 umbrellas, some fireworks, two suits of armor, and a portable organ; or the Scottish army which decided to invade England in 1349 – during the Black Death. Entries include: briefest career in dentistry; least successful bonding exercise; most futile attempt to find a lost tribe; most pointless lines of research by someone who should have known better; least successful celebrity endorsement; least convincing excuse for a war; worst poetic tribute to a root vegetable; least successful display of impartiality by a juror; Devon Loch – sporting metaphor for blowing un unblowable lead; least dignified exit from office by a French president; and least successful expedition by camel.
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1780338317
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This compendious celebration of ineptitude includes some of history’s most spectacularly ill-conceived expeditions and entirely useless pursuits, and features tales of black comedy, insane foolhardiness, breathtaking stupidity and relentless perseverance in the face of inevitable defeat. It rejoices in men and women made of the Wrong Stuff: writers who believed in the power of words, but could never quite find the rights ones; artists and performers who indulged their creative impulse with a passion, if not a sense of the ridiculous, an eye for perspective or the ability to hold down a tune; scientists and businessmen who never quite managed to quit while they were ahead; and sportsmen who seemed to manage always to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Like Walter Oudney, one of three men chosen to find the source of the River Niger in Africa, who could not ride a horse, nor speak any foreign languages and who had never travelled more than 30 miles beyond his native Edinburgh; or the explorer-priest Michel Alexandre de Baize, who set off to explore the African continent from east to west equipped with 24 umbrellas, some fireworks, two suits of armor, and a portable organ; or the Scottish army which decided to invade England in 1349 – during the Black Death. Entries include: briefest career in dentistry; least successful bonding exercise; most futile attempt to find a lost tribe; most pointless lines of research by someone who should have known better; least successful celebrity endorsement; least convincing excuse for a war; worst poetic tribute to a root vegetable; least successful display of impartiality by a juror; Devon Loch – sporting metaphor for blowing un unblowable lead; least dignified exit from office by a French president; and least successful expedition by camel.
On the Margin
Author: Aldous Huxley
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Category : Essays
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Category : Essays
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Curiosities of Literature
Author: John Sutherland
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1616080744
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A grab bag of a book crammed with amusing trivia.The Wall Street...
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1616080744
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A grab bag of a book crammed with amusing trivia.The Wall Street...
Gene Wolfe's First Four Novels
Author: Michael Andre-Driussi
Publisher: Sirius Fiction
ISBN: 1947614142
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A chapter guide to Gene Wolfe's early novels Operation ARES (1970), The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972), Peace (1975), and The Devil in a Forest (1976).
Publisher: Sirius Fiction
ISBN: 1947614142
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A chapter guide to Gene Wolfe's early novels Operation ARES (1970), The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972), Peace (1975), and The Devil in a Forest (1976).
A Necklace of Peach-stones
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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