Author: Josef Škvorecký
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393308495
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This energetic and hilarious novel is made even more important by the current final thawing of the long, Communist winter in Czechoslovakia. Moving between 1948, when our hero Danny Smiricky falls asleep in church while a miraculous event occurs, and 1968, when he observes the miracle of Prague Spring, The Miracle Game is a sharp look at the strange, sad, and silly things people do to survive.
The Miracle Game
Author: Josef Škvorecký
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393308495
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This energetic and hilarious novel is made even more important by the current final thawing of the long, Communist winter in Czechoslovakia. Moving between 1948, when our hero Danny Smiricky falls asleep in church while a miraculous event occurs, and 1968, when he observes the miracle of Prague Spring, The Miracle Game is a sharp look at the strange, sad, and silly things people do to survive.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393308495
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This energetic and hilarious novel is made even more important by the current final thawing of the long, Communist winter in Czechoslovakia. Moving between 1948, when our hero Danny Smiricky falls asleep in church while a miraculous event occurs, and 1968, when he observes the miracle of Prague Spring, The Miracle Game is a sharp look at the strange, sad, and silly things people do to survive.
Miracle of the Rose
Author: Jean Genet
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802130884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This nightmarish account of prison life during the German occupation of France is dominated by the figure of the condemned murderer Harcamone, who takes root and bears unearthly blooms in the ecstatic and brooding imagination of his fellow prisoner Genet.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802130884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This nightmarish account of prison life during the German occupation of France is dominated by the figure of the condemned murderer Harcamone, who takes root and bears unearthly blooms in the ecstatic and brooding imagination of his fellow prisoner Genet.
The Miracle of Purun Bhagat
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Creative Education
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Relates how a very high caste Indian Brahmin came to be worshipped as a saint by the inhabitants of a remote village in the Himalayas.
Publisher: Creative Education
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Relates how a very high caste Indian Brahmin came to be worshipped as a saint by the inhabitants of a remote village in the Himalayas.
Democratisation, Governance and Regionalism in East and Southeast Asia
Author: Ian Marsh
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134184352
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book provides a comparative study of the development of central institutions of governance in the emerging democracies of East and Southeast Asia. There are no other books exploring these developments on a region wide scale. Democratisation, governance and regionalism in East and Southeast Asia is taught worldwide on politics and Asian studies course. This book presents new comparative data on drawn from a survey of opinions in these regions as well as identifying the emerging challenges.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134184352
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book provides a comparative study of the development of central institutions of governance in the emerging democracies of East and Southeast Asia. There are no other books exploring these developments on a region wide scale. Democratisation, governance and regionalism in East and Southeast Asia is taught worldwide on politics and Asian studies course. This book presents new comparative data on drawn from a survey of opinions in these regions as well as identifying the emerging challenges.
Journal of a Tour Through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himālā Mountains
Author: James Baillie Fraser
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ganges River (India and Bangladesh)
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
James Baillie Fraser (1783-1856) was a Scot who in 1813 went to Kolkata (Calcutta) to join the family firm of Becher and Fraser. He remained there until 1820. In 1815, he accompanied his brother William, who was taking part in the Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814-16, on an expedition into the Garwhal Hills to find the sources of the Jumna and Ganges rivers. James and William Fraser were the first Europeans to reach many of the places they visited, which James vividly described in this account of the journey. He characterized the Gurkha soldiers whom the British were fighting as "stout, thick, well built men, in general; very active and strong for their size. They understand the use of the 'tulwār,' or saber, and prefer close fighting, giving an onset with a loud shout...." British officers were so impressed by the martial qualities of the Gurkhas that in 1817 the British East India Company began to employ Gurkha regiments in its forces.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ganges River (India and Bangladesh)
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
James Baillie Fraser (1783-1856) was a Scot who in 1813 went to Kolkata (Calcutta) to join the family firm of Becher and Fraser. He remained there until 1820. In 1815, he accompanied his brother William, who was taking part in the Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814-16, on an expedition into the Garwhal Hills to find the sources of the Jumna and Ganges rivers. James and William Fraser were the first Europeans to reach many of the places they visited, which James vividly described in this account of the journey. He characterized the Gurkha soldiers whom the British were fighting as "stout, thick, well built men, in general; very active and strong for their size. They understand the use of the 'tulwār,' or saber, and prefer close fighting, giving an onset with a loud shout...." British officers were so impressed by the martial qualities of the Gurkhas that in 1817 the British East India Company began to employ Gurkha regiments in its forces.
Journal of a Tour Through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himala Mountains, and to the Sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges
Author: James Baillie Fraser
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Himalaya Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Himalaya Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
The God Memorandum
Author: Og Mandino
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780883911808
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The text of The God memorandum itself first appeared in The greatest miracle in the world, by Og Mandino copyright 1975, published by Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc."--T.p. verso
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780883911808
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The text of The God memorandum itself first appeared in The greatest miracle in the world, by Og Mandino copyright 1975, published by Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc."--T.p. verso
Peaks and Precipices
Author: Guido Rey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alps, French (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alps, French (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Soviet Life
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Decisions on Names in the United States
Author: United States Board on Geographic Names
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description