Author: Laura Rapley
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504993888
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
When a lonely little boy rescues and adopts an orphaned Little Donkey, who could have imagined the adventure that was about to unfold
Giuseppe and the Little Donkey
Author: Laura Rapley
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504993888
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
When a lonely little boy rescues and adopts an orphaned Little Donkey, who could have imagined the adventure that was about to unfold
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504993888
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
When a lonely little boy rescues and adopts an orphaned Little Donkey, who could have imagined the adventure that was about to unfold
The Long Years
Author: Carmen Pascal Fabian
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514488213
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
A story of love and hardship between a man and a woman who grew up from childhood in rural Italy during the rise of Benito Mussolini and World War II.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514488213
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
A story of love and hardship between a man and a woman who grew up from childhood in rural Italy during the rise of Benito Mussolini and World War II.
The Century
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Languages : en
Pages : 994
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Languages : en
Pages : 994
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Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People
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Languages : en
Pages : 976
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Languages : en
Pages : 976
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Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine ...
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 972
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 972
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Scribner's Monthly
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Pages : 1078
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Pages : 1078
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Tomato Rhapsody
Author: Adam Schell
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0440338611
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A village in Tuscany is the setting for this joyous debut—a novel that defies all our expectations as it puts a fresh, clever, captivating spin on the age-old tale of forbidden love. Rich in literary delights, filled with spectacular wordplay, and rife with the bawdy humor of Shakespeare’s comedies, Tomato Rhapsody is the almost-true tale of how the tomato came to Italy—at once a brilliantly inventive fable of love, lust, and longing, and a dazzling feast for the imagination. This is a story born from love—a forbidden love—between Davido, an Ebreo tomato farmer, and Mari, a beautiful Catholic girl.…But it’s not only Davido and Mari who have secrets of the heart. Everyone around them yearns for something—from Davido’s grandfather, who tenderly cultivates the tomato plant he stole on his voyages with Columbus, to Mari’s villainous stepfather, whose eye is trained on his stepdaughter’s virginity and his neighbor’s land. Caught in the midst of these passions and machinations is a village full of eccentrics who speak in rhyme, celebrate the Feast of the Drunken Saint, and live a life untouched by the passage of time. The schemes and dreams of these men and women are about to change as what is forbidden becomes too delicious to resist. Tradition, religion, and good taste collide unforgettably in a story about the courage to pursue love and tomato sauce at all costs.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0440338611
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A village in Tuscany is the setting for this joyous debut—a novel that defies all our expectations as it puts a fresh, clever, captivating spin on the age-old tale of forbidden love. Rich in literary delights, filled with spectacular wordplay, and rife with the bawdy humor of Shakespeare’s comedies, Tomato Rhapsody is the almost-true tale of how the tomato came to Italy—at once a brilliantly inventive fable of love, lust, and longing, and a dazzling feast for the imagination. This is a story born from love—a forbidden love—between Davido, an Ebreo tomato farmer, and Mari, a beautiful Catholic girl.…But it’s not only Davido and Mari who have secrets of the heart. Everyone around them yearns for something—from Davido’s grandfather, who tenderly cultivates the tomato plant he stole on his voyages with Columbus, to Mari’s villainous stepfather, whose eye is trained on his stepdaughter’s virginity and his neighbor’s land. Caught in the midst of these passions and machinations is a village full of eccentrics who speak in rhyme, celebrate the Feast of the Drunken Saint, and live a life untouched by the passage of time. The schemes and dreams of these men and women are about to change as what is forbidden becomes too delicious to resist. Tradition, religion, and good taste collide unforgettably in a story about the courage to pursue love and tomato sauce at all costs.
The Metropolitan
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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History
Author: Elsa Morante
Publisher: Steerforth
ISBN: 1586422375
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 755
Book Description
History was written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hiding among remote farming villages in the mountains south of Rome. There she witnessed the full impact of the war and first formed the ambition to write an account of what history - the great political events driven by men of power, wealth, and ambition - does when it reaches the realm of ordinary people struggling for life and bread. The central character in this powerful and unforgiving novel is Ida Mancuso, a schoolteacher whose husband has died and whose feckless teenage son treats the war as his playground. A German soldier on his way to North Africa rapes her, falls in love with her, and leaves her pregnant with a boy whose survival becomes Ida's passion. Around these two other characters come and go, each caught up by the war which is like a river in flood. We catch glimpses of bombing raids, street crimes, a cattle car from which human cries emerge, an Italian soldier succumbing to frostbite on the Russian front, the dumb endurance of peasants who have lived their whole lives with nothing and now must get by with less than nothing.
Publisher: Steerforth
ISBN: 1586422375
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 755
Book Description
History was written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hiding among remote farming villages in the mountains south of Rome. There she witnessed the full impact of the war and first formed the ambition to write an account of what history - the great political events driven by men of power, wealth, and ambition - does when it reaches the realm of ordinary people struggling for life and bread. The central character in this powerful and unforgiving novel is Ida Mancuso, a schoolteacher whose husband has died and whose feckless teenage son treats the war as his playground. A German soldier on his way to North Africa rapes her, falls in love with her, and leaves her pregnant with a boy whose survival becomes Ida's passion. Around these two other characters come and go, each caught up by the war which is like a river in flood. We catch glimpses of bombing raids, street crimes, a cattle car from which human cries emerge, an Italian soldier succumbing to frostbite on the Russian front, the dumb endurance of peasants who have lived their whole lives with nothing and now must get by with less than nothing.