Author: Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910 Gra
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1425005977
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A gem of the short story genre that chronicles the life of Prince Stefan Kasatzky. Enjoying a successful career and a high place in society, he discovers that he has been betrayed by those he held dearest. This revelation makes him renounce the world and he becomes a monk. His ultimate failure is heart-rending and has been portrayed by Tolstoy with great sensitivity. A timeless classic!
Father Sergius EasyRead Edition
Author: Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910 Gra
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1425005977
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A gem of the short story genre that chronicles the life of Prince Stefan Kasatzky. Enjoying a successful career and a high place in society, he discovers that he has been betrayed by those he held dearest. This revelation makes him renounce the world and he becomes a monk. His ultimate failure is heart-rending and has been portrayed by Tolstoy with great sensitivity. A timeless classic!
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1425005977
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A gem of the short story genre that chronicles the life of Prince Stefan Kasatzky. Enjoying a successful career and a high place in society, he discovers that he has been betrayed by those he held dearest. This revelation makes him renounce the world and he becomes a monk. His ultimate failure is heart-rending and has been portrayed by Tolstoy with great sensitivity. A timeless classic!
Father Sergius EasyRead Comfort Edition
Author: Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910 Gra
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1425012140
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
A gem of the short story genre that chronicles the life of Prince Stefan Kasatzky. Enjoying a successful career and a high place in society, he discovers that he has been betrayed by those he held dearest. This revelation makes him renounce the world and he becomes a monk. His ultimate failure is heart-rending and has been portrayed by Tolstoy with great sensitivity. A timeless classic!
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1425012140
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
A gem of the short story genre that chronicles the life of Prince Stefan Kasatzky. Enjoying a successful career and a high place in society, he discovers that he has been betrayed by those he held dearest. This revelation makes him renounce the world and he becomes a monk. His ultimate failure is heart-rending and has been portrayed by Tolstoy with great sensitivity. A timeless classic!
Father Sergius EasyRead Large Edition
Author: Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910 Gra
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1425016588
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A gem of the short story genre that chronicles the life of Prince Stefan Kasatzky. Enjoying a successful career and a high place in society, he discovers that he has been betrayed by those he held dearest. This revelation makes him renounce the world and he becomes a monk. His ultimate failure is heart-rending and has been portrayed by Tolstoy with great sensitivity. A timeless classic!
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1425016588
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A gem of the short story genre that chronicles the life of Prince Stefan Kasatzky. Enjoying a successful career and a high place in society, he discovers that he has been betrayed by those he held dearest. This revelation makes him renounce the world and he becomes a monk. His ultimate failure is heart-rending and has been portrayed by Tolstoy with great sensitivity. A timeless classic!
Father Sergius (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
Author:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427034303
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427034303
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Father Sergius (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)
Author:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427028958
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427028958
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Two Hussars
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8726649276
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
"He is a regular dare-devil, you know: a gambler, a duellist, a seducer, but a jewel of an hussar - a real jewel." A handsome young hussar rides through a small town, seduces a young widow and leaves nothing but havoc in his wake. But the young hussar is so pleasing and charming that no one really minds the trouble. When another young hussar, his son, comes to town twenty years later, however, the reaction is another. The hussar acts in the same mindless way as his father, but unlike him he is calculating and unlikeable. With 'Two Hussars' Tolstoy pits two generations against each other; his own and the one preceding, underlining the nostalgia with which Tolstoy viewed the good old days. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian author, a master of realistic fiction and one of the world’s greatest novelists. Tolstoy’s major works include "War and Peace" (1865–69) and "Anna Karenina" (1875–77), two of the greatest novels of all time and pinnacles of realist fiction. Beyond novels, he wrote many short stories and later in life also essays and plays.
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8726649276
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
"He is a regular dare-devil, you know: a gambler, a duellist, a seducer, but a jewel of an hussar - a real jewel." A handsome young hussar rides through a small town, seduces a young widow and leaves nothing but havoc in his wake. But the young hussar is so pleasing and charming that no one really minds the trouble. When another young hussar, his son, comes to town twenty years later, however, the reaction is another. The hussar acts in the same mindless way as his father, but unlike him he is calculating and unlikeable. With 'Two Hussars' Tolstoy pits two generations against each other; his own and the one preceding, underlining the nostalgia with which Tolstoy viewed the good old days. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian author, a master of realistic fiction and one of the world’s greatest novelists. Tolstoy’s major works include "War and Peace" (1865–69) and "Anna Karenina" (1875–77), two of the greatest novels of all time and pinnacles of realist fiction. Beyond novels, he wrote many short stories and later in life also essays and plays.
Hands of My Father
Author: Myron Uhlberg
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553906275
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents—and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it. “Does sound have rhythm?” my father asked. “Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does it come and go like the wind?” Such were the kinds of questions that Myron Uhlberg’s deaf father asked him from earliest childhood, in his eternal quest to decipher, and to understand, the elusive nature of sound. Quite a challenge for a young boy, and one of many he would face. Uhlberg’s first language was American Sign Language, the first sign he learned: “I love you.” But his second language was spoken English—and no sooner did he learn it than he was called upon to act as his father’s ears and mouth in the stores and streets of the neighborhood beyond their silent apartment in Brooklyn. Resentful as he sometimes was of the heavy burdens heaped on his small shoulders, he nonetheless adored his parents, who passed on to him their own passionate engagement with life. These two remarkable people married and had children at the absolute bottom of the Great Depression—an expression of extraordinary optimism, and typical of the joy and resilience they were able to summon at even the darkest of times. From the beaches of Coney Island to Ebbets Field, where he watches his father’s hero Jackie Robinson play ball, from the branch library above the local Chinese restaurant where the odor of chow mein rose from the pages of the books he devoured to the hospital ward where he visits his polio-afflicted friend, this is a memoir filled with stories about growing up not just as the child of two deaf people but as a book-loving, mischief-making, tree-climbing kid during the remarkably eventful period that spanned the Depression, the War, and the early fifties. From the Hardcover edition.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553906275
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents—and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it. “Does sound have rhythm?” my father asked. “Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does it come and go like the wind?” Such were the kinds of questions that Myron Uhlberg’s deaf father asked him from earliest childhood, in his eternal quest to decipher, and to understand, the elusive nature of sound. Quite a challenge for a young boy, and one of many he would face. Uhlberg’s first language was American Sign Language, the first sign he learned: “I love you.” But his second language was spoken English—and no sooner did he learn it than he was called upon to act as his father’s ears and mouth in the stores and streets of the neighborhood beyond their silent apartment in Brooklyn. Resentful as he sometimes was of the heavy burdens heaped on his small shoulders, he nonetheless adored his parents, who passed on to him their own passionate engagement with life. These two remarkable people married and had children at the absolute bottom of the Great Depression—an expression of extraordinary optimism, and typical of the joy and resilience they were able to summon at even the darkest of times. From the beaches of Coney Island to Ebbets Field, where he watches his father’s hero Jackie Robinson play ball, from the branch library above the local Chinese restaurant where the odor of chow mein rose from the pages of the books he devoured to the hospital ward where he visits his polio-afflicted friend, this is a memoir filled with stories about growing up not just as the child of two deaf people but as a book-loving, mischief-making, tree-climbing kid during the remarkably eventful period that spanned the Depression, the War, and the early fifties. From the Hardcover edition.
When Elves Attack
Author: Tim Dorsey
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062092855
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
“The undisputed king of the comic crime novel.” —Providence Journal Nobody does Florida weirdness quite like Tim Dorsey! Case in point: When Elves Attack, the New York Times bestselling author’s twisted Christmas present to his legion of adoring fans who can’t get enough of thrill-killer and Sunshine State historian Serge A. Storms, the most endearing psychopath since Dexter. Dorsey offers the perfect antidote for all those sappy feel-good holiday stories with this zany blockbuster extravaganza in which his wonderfully deranged serial killer Floridaphile delivers his special brand of Christmas cheer. More outrageous than Santa Claus in a Speedo, When Elves Attack serves up a Yuletide feast of the “pure gonzo humor” the New York Times Book Review enthusiastically attributes to this fearlessly funny writer. Think Bad Santa and National Lampoon’s Family Vacation, blend in Dorsey’s trademark appetite for destruction, and you’ve got hilarious crime fiction black comedy that anyone would be thrilled to discover stuffed in their Christmas stocking.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062092855
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
“The undisputed king of the comic crime novel.” —Providence Journal Nobody does Florida weirdness quite like Tim Dorsey! Case in point: When Elves Attack, the New York Times bestselling author’s twisted Christmas present to his legion of adoring fans who can’t get enough of thrill-killer and Sunshine State historian Serge A. Storms, the most endearing psychopath since Dexter. Dorsey offers the perfect antidote for all those sappy feel-good holiday stories with this zany blockbuster extravaganza in which his wonderfully deranged serial killer Floridaphile delivers his special brand of Christmas cheer. More outrageous than Santa Claus in a Speedo, When Elves Attack serves up a Yuletide feast of the “pure gonzo humor” the New York Times Book Review enthusiastically attributes to this fearlessly funny writer. Think Bad Santa and National Lampoon’s Family Vacation, blend in Dorsey’s trademark appetite for destruction, and you’ve got hilarious crime fiction black comedy that anyone would be thrilled to discover stuffed in their Christmas stocking.
Chicago
Author: Sam Moussavi
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1680761633
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
When Serge is recruited from the Sudan to come play basketball at a high profile prep school in Chicago, there are bigger obstacles than culture shock to contend with. His teammates are skeptical of his skills and do not fully bring him into their circle. Plus, the thoughts of Serge's father and older brother being killed by rebels back in the Sudan, consume him. Will Serge be able to put his past behind him and make something of his life in America through basketball? Chicago is a book from Hoop City, an EPIC Press six set series. Some titles may contain explicit content and/or language.
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1680761633
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
When Serge is recruited from the Sudan to come play basketball at a high profile prep school in Chicago, there are bigger obstacles than culture shock to contend with. His teammates are skeptical of his skills and do not fully bring him into their circle. Plus, the thoughts of Serge's father and older brother being killed by rebels back in the Sudan, consume him. Will Serge be able to put his past behind him and make something of his life in America through basketball? Chicago is a book from Hoop City, an EPIC Press six set series. Some titles may contain explicit content and/or language.
Geek Dad
Author: Ken Denmead
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101404310
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The ultimate DIY project guide for techie dads raising kids in their own geeky image, in the spirit of The Dangerous Book for Boys Today's generation of dads grew up more tech-savvy than ever. Rather than joining the Little League team, many grew up playing computer games, Dungeons and Dragons, and watching Star Wars. Now with kids of their own, these digital-age dads are looking for fresh ways to share their love of science and technology, and help their kids develop a passion for learning and discovery. Enter supergeek, and father of two, Ken Denmead. An engineer and editor of the incredibly popular GeekDad blog on wired.com, Ken has created the ultimate, idea-packed guide guaranteed to help dads and kids alike enjoy the magic of playtime together and tap into the infinite possibility of their imagination. With illustrations throughout, this book offers projects for all ages to suit any timeframe or budget. With Denmead's expert guidance, you and your child can: •Fly a night-time kite ablaze with lights or launch a video camera with balloons •Construct the "Best Slip n' Slide Ever," a guaranteed thrill ride •Build a working lamp with LEGO bricks and CDs •Create a customized comic strip or your own board game •Transform any room into a spaceship •Make geeky crafts like cyborg jack-o'-lanterns or Ethernet cuff links Brimming with endlessly fun and futuristic tidbits on everything from gaming to gadgets, GeekDad helps every tech-savvy father unleash his inner kid-and bond with the next generation of brainiacs. Watch a Video
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101404310
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The ultimate DIY project guide for techie dads raising kids in their own geeky image, in the spirit of The Dangerous Book for Boys Today's generation of dads grew up more tech-savvy than ever. Rather than joining the Little League team, many grew up playing computer games, Dungeons and Dragons, and watching Star Wars. Now with kids of their own, these digital-age dads are looking for fresh ways to share their love of science and technology, and help their kids develop a passion for learning and discovery. Enter supergeek, and father of two, Ken Denmead. An engineer and editor of the incredibly popular GeekDad blog on wired.com, Ken has created the ultimate, idea-packed guide guaranteed to help dads and kids alike enjoy the magic of playtime together and tap into the infinite possibility of their imagination. With illustrations throughout, this book offers projects for all ages to suit any timeframe or budget. With Denmead's expert guidance, you and your child can: •Fly a night-time kite ablaze with lights or launch a video camera with balloons •Construct the "Best Slip n' Slide Ever," a guaranteed thrill ride •Build a working lamp with LEGO bricks and CDs •Create a customized comic strip or your own board game •Transform any room into a spaceship •Make geeky crafts like cyborg jack-o'-lanterns or Ethernet cuff links Brimming with endlessly fun and futuristic tidbits on everything from gaming to gadgets, GeekDad helps every tech-savvy father unleash his inner kid-and bond with the next generation of brainiacs. Watch a Video