Author: Herbert Ernest Bates
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 191

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Author: Stephen M. Giles
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402240910
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Lured to their sick Uncle Silas's home under the pretense of becoming heirs to his vast fortune, cousins Adele, Isabella, and Milo soon learn that the old man has a diabolical plan to prevent his own death.

Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101605421
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Meet Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, Roald Dahl's most disgraceful and extraordinary character . . . Aside from being thoroughly debauched, strikingly attractive and astonishingly wealthy, Uncle Oswald was the greatest bounder, bon vivant and fornicator of all time. In this instalment of his scorchingly frank memoirs he tells of his early career and erotic education at the hands of a number of enthusiastic teachers, of discovering the invigorating properties of the Sudanese Blister Beetle, and of the gorgeous Yasmin Howcomely, his electrifying partner in a most unusual series of thefts . . . 'Raunchy and cheeky entertainment' Sunday Express 'Immense fun' Daily Telegraph Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.

Author: H.E. Bates
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1448215323
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :

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Bates's famous loveable rogue, Uncle Silas, has a unique range of work to his name. For the first time, all of these stories are gathered together in one collection, allowing readers to experience Silas from multiple perspectives. Some tales offer sly, affectionate glimpses of the narrator's great-uncle Silas – the rural oldster of the earthy, boozy, incorrigible school. But there is also an active tenderness as seen in 'The Revelation,' where the narrator watches old Silas being given a bath by his surly, long-time housekeeper – and realises that their relationship is intensely romantic. In 'The Lily', in a voice at once dreamy, devilish, innocent, mysterious and triumphant, 93-year-old Silas recalls his more youthful days of poaching and wooing. Elsewhere, in 'A Funny Thing' Silas chortles over tall tales of his Casanova days, trying to out-lie his dandyish, equally ancient brother-in-law, Cosmo. There are nostalgic vignettes of roof-thatching, pig-wrestling, and grave-digging. Bates claims some of the stories to be "so near to reality that they needed only the slightest recolouring on my part", citing 'The Wedding,' 'The Revelation,' 'Silas the Good,' and 'The Death of Uncle Silas'. It is in these examples that we see how he was inspired by that “apocryphal legend” borne of “every country child who keeps his ears cocked when men are talking." Silas shrewdly and gently opens the eyes of his young listener to the adult world. V.S. Pritchett acknowledged Bates's gift in the short story genre, finding that he avoided farce with Silas through the use of the "passive, wondering audience" of the boy and the fidelity of style to the "techniques of rural story-telling...Uncle Silas is in fact the scandalizing village memory at work."

Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060530944
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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It takes a graveyard to raise a child. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family.

Author: Stan Hoig
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806187123
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Sometimes called "The Chivington Massacre" by those who would emphasize his responsibility for the attack and "The Battle of Sand Creek" by those who would imply that it was not a massacre, this event has become one of our nation’s most controversial Indian conflicts. The subject of army and Congressional investigations and inquiries, a matter of vigorous newspaper debates, the object of much oratory and writing biased in both directions, the Sand Creek Massacre very likely will never be completely and satisfactorily resolved. This account of the massacre investigates the historical events leading to the battle, tracing the growth of the Indian-white conflict in Colorado Territory. The author has shown the way in which the discontent stemming from the treaty of Fort Wise, the depredations committed by the Cheyennes and Arapahoes prior to the massacre, and the desire of some of the commanding officers for a bloody victory against the Indians laid the groundwork for the battle at Sand Creek.

Author: Si Robertson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471133729
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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The star of the global hit TV series Duck Dynasty gives his inside track on life and the Roberston clan. With more than 12 million viewers in the US now tuning in to watch the latest episodes of the Duck Dynasty, and a growing cult following in the UK and around the world, there is sure to be an eager audience for this wonderful volume from the Ducks' favourite uncle. Si is the wise-cracking, tea-drinking uncle of the Robertson clan. His book showcases his unique, often weirdly true (if somewhat nonsensical) sayings about life, ducks and everything in between. He talks about his off-screen family members, including his wife and children, to provide a new insight to the wider Robertson world and give a revealing glimpse into his life and times - something that is sure to delight his millions of fans. In a world that is often made more complicated than it needs to be, the Robertsons show that there is another way to achieve peace and happiness. With more than a million copies already sold in the US, where it has been a No 1 bestseller, Si-Cology 1 is the perfect gift for all fans of the Duck Dynasty.

Author: Silas House
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616202971
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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On a bone-chilling New Year's Day, when all the mountain roads are slick with ice, Clay's mother, Anneth, insists on leaving her husband. She packs her things, and with three-year-old Clay in tow, they inch their way toward her hometown along the treacherous mountain roads. That journey ends in the death of Clay's mother. It's a day that comes to haunt her only son, who's left without a family and a history. This is the story of how Clay Sizemore, a coal miner in love with his town but unsure of his place within it, finds a family to call his own. And it's the story of the people who become part of the life he shapes: Aunt Easter, always filled with a sense of foreboding and bound to her faith above all; Uncle Paul, quietly producing quilt after quilt; Dreama, beautiful and flighty; Evangeline, the untameable daughter of a famous gospel singer; and Alma, the fiddler whose song wends its way into Clay's heart. Together, they all help Clay to fashion a quilt of a life from what treasured pieces are around him. Authentic and moving, Clay's Quilt is both the story of a young man's journey and of Appalachian people struggling to hold on to their heritage.

Author: Herbert Ernest Bates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Midlands (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: H. E. Bates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Midlands (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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