Author: Jean Jackson
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Hungry for a snack, Mrs. Piccolo's easy chair follows her to the grocery store, swallowing up several people as it goes.
Mrs. Piccolo's Easy Chair
Author: Jean Jackson
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Hungry for a snack, Mrs. Piccolo's easy chair follows her to the grocery store, swallowing up several people as it goes.
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Hungry for a snack, Mrs. Piccolo's easy chair follows her to the grocery store, swallowing up several people as it goes.
Musical Digest
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Great Gastby
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781954921009
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby continues to attract popular and scholarly attention. The novel was most recently adapted to film in 2013 by director Baz Luhrmann, while modern scholars emphasize the novel's treatment of social class, inherited wealth compared to those who are self-made, race, environmentalism, and its cynical attitude towards the American dream. As with other works by Fitzgerald, criticisms include allegations of antisemitism. The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary masterwork and a contender for the title of the Great American Novel.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781954921009
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby continues to attract popular and scholarly attention. The novel was most recently adapted to film in 2013 by director Baz Luhrmann, while modern scholars emphasize the novel's treatment of social class, inherited wealth compared to those who are self-made, race, environmentalism, and its cynical attitude towards the American dream. As with other works by Fitzgerald, criticisms include allegations of antisemitism. The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary masterwork and a contender for the title of the Great American Novel.
Oryx and Crake
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307400840
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize. Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. For readers of Oryx and Crake, nothing will ever look the same again. The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief. With breathtaking command of her shocking material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter.
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307400840
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize. Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. For readers of Oryx and Crake, nothing will ever look the same again. The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief. With breathtaking command of her shocking material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter.
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Author: Hugh Lofting
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Doctor Dolittle heads for the high seas in perhaps the most amazing adventure ever experienced by man or animal. Told by nine-and-a-half-year-old Tommy Stubbins, crewman and future naturalist, the voyages of Doctor Dolittle and his company lead them to Spidermonkey Island. Along with his faithful friends, Polynesia the parrot and Chee-Chee the monkey, Doctor Dolittle survives a perilous shipwreck and lands on the mysterious floating island. There he meets the wondrous Great Glass See Snail who holds the key to the greatest mystery of all.
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Doctor Dolittle heads for the high seas in perhaps the most amazing adventure ever experienced by man or animal. Told by nine-and-a-half-year-old Tommy Stubbins, crewman and future naturalist, the voyages of Doctor Dolittle and his company lead them to Spidermonkey Island. Along with his faithful friends, Polynesia the parrot and Chee-Chee the monkey, Doctor Dolittle survives a perilous shipwreck and lands on the mysterious floating island. There he meets the wondrous Great Glass See Snail who holds the key to the greatest mystery of all.
The Voice of New Music
Author: Tom Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
An anthology of articles on the evolution of minimal music in New York in 1972-1982, which originally appeared in the Village Voice (New York).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
An anthology of articles on the evolution of minimal music in New York in 1972-1982, which originally appeared in the Village Voice (New York).
I Am Third
Author: Gale Sayers
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142000752
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
"Gale Sayers' book I Am Third, with Al Silverman, is a stirring, painfully honest account of his struggle to become the greatest running back in history and that agonizing moment between immortality and becoming a cripple." —The New York Times Book Review
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142000752
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
"Gale Sayers' book I Am Third, with Al Silverman, is a stirring, painfully honest account of his struggle to become the greatest running back in history and that agonizing moment between immortality and becoming a cripple." —The New York Times Book Review
The Flute Book
Author: Nancy Toff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195373081
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 559
Book Description
The instrument -- Performance -- The music -- Repertoire catalog -- Fingering chart for the Boehm flute -- Flute manufacturers -- Repair shops -- Sources for instruments and accessories -- Sources for music and books -- Journals, societies, and service organizations -- Flute clubs and societies.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195373081
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 559
Book Description
The instrument -- Performance -- The music -- Repertoire catalog -- Fingering chart for the Boehm flute -- Flute manufacturers -- Repair shops -- Sources for instruments and accessories -- Sources for music and books -- Journals, societies, and service organizations -- Flute clubs and societies.
The Examiner
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
SINCERITY AND AUTHENTICITY
Author: Lionel TRILLING
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674044460
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
“Now and then,” writes Lionel Trilling, “it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself.” In this new book he is concerned with such a mutation: the process by which the arduous enterprise of sincerity, of being true to one’s self, came to occupy a place of supreme importance in the moral life—and the further shift which finds that place now usurped by the darker and still more strenuous modern ideal of authenticity. Instances range over the whole of Western literature and thought, from Shakespeare to Hegel to Sartre, from Robespierre to R.D. Laing, suggesting the contradictions and ironies to which the ideals of sincerity and authenticity give rise, most especially in contemporary life. Lucid, and brilliantly framed, its view of cultural history will give Sincerity and Authenticity an important place among the works of this distinguished critic.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674044460
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
“Now and then,” writes Lionel Trilling, “it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself.” In this new book he is concerned with such a mutation: the process by which the arduous enterprise of sincerity, of being true to one’s self, came to occupy a place of supreme importance in the moral life—and the further shift which finds that place now usurped by the darker and still more strenuous modern ideal of authenticity. Instances range over the whole of Western literature and thought, from Shakespeare to Hegel to Sartre, from Robespierre to R.D. Laing, suggesting the contradictions and ironies to which the ideals of sincerity and authenticity give rise, most especially in contemporary life. Lucid, and brilliantly framed, its view of cultural history will give Sincerity and Authenticity an important place among the works of this distinguished critic.