Penpal

Penpal PDF Author: Dathan Auerbach
Publisher: 1000Vultures
ISBN: 0985545518
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Penpal

Penpal PDF Author: Dathan Auerbach
Publisher: 1000Vultures
ISBN: 0985545518
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Composition of California Shellmounds

Composition of California Shellmounds PDF Author: Edward Winslow Gifford
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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Records & Briefs

Records & Briefs PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1112

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Current Opinion

Current Opinion PDF Author:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 606

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The Tongue Is Fire

The Tongue Is Fire PDF Author: Harold Scheub
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299150945
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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In the years between the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 and the Soweto Uprising of 1976—a period that was both the height of the apartheid system in South Africa and, in retrospect, the beginning of its end—Harold Scheub went to Africa to collect stories. With tape-recorder and camera in hand, Scheub registered the testaments of Swati, Xhosa, Ndebele, and Zulu storytellers, farming people who lived in the remote reaches of rural South Africa. While young people fought in the streets of Soweto and South African writers made the world aware of apartheid’s evils, the rural storytellers resisted apartheid in their own way, using myth and metaphor to preserve their traditions and confront their oppressors. For more than 20 years, Scheub kept the promise he made to the storytellers to publish his translations of their stories only when freedom came to South Africa. The Tongue Is Fire presents these voices of South African oral tradition—the historians, the poets, the epic-performers, the myth-makers—documenting their enduring faith in the power of the word to sustain tradition in the face of determined efforts to distort or eliminate it. These texts are a tribute to the storytellers who have always, in periods of crisis, exercised their art to inspire their own people.

Just Short Stories

Just Short Stories PDF Author: Red Dragon GGD
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543475442
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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The book is about dreams made into stories. 1. Mysteriesthings that are not believed in 2. Adventuresgetting into drama and solving problems in oneself 3. Fantasiesanother world of mythological creatures and beings

National Magazine ...

National Magazine ... PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1134

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Harper's Young People

Harper's Young People PDF Author:
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Category : Children's periodicals, American
Languages : en
Pages : 950

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The Hidden Hollow

The Hidden Hollow PDF Author: Njord Kane
Publisher: Spangenhelm Publishing
ISBN: 1943066248
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Awakened late in the night, Rowan's life is changed forever. The events that follow propel him on a journey that only the foolhardy or desperate would risk. He is led into the forest and up the mountain – into a whole world of secrets in itself. This is only the beginning of his adventures. Something is stirring in the forest, something more ominous than the rising threat across the seas. Fearful travelers whisper of a darkness breathing in the forest, disturbing it, corrupting it. In the very heart of these stirrings, Rowan encounters that which defies belief, leaving him speechless with terror – and wonder. A historical fiction that carries you into the fantasy world of Norse myth and Viking legend.

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe PDF Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
ISBN: 6155564582
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe (1719) tells of a man's shipwreck on a deserted island and his subsequent adventures. The author based part of his narrative on the story of the Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk, who spent four years stranded on the island of Juan Fernandez. He may have also been inspired by the Latin or English translation of a book by the Andalusian-Arab Muslim polymath Ibn Tufail, who was known as "Abubacer" in Europe. The Latin edition of the book was entitled Philosophus Autodidactus and it was an earlier novel that is also set on a deserted island. "One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand."— Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, 1719 The novel has been variously read as an allegory for the development of civilisation, as a manifesto of economic individualism and as an expression of European colonial desires but it also shows the importance of repentance and illustrates the strength of Defoe's religious convictions. It is also considered by many to be the first novel written in English. Early critics, such as Robert Louis Stevenson admired it saying that the footprint scene in Crusoe was one of the four greatest in English literature and most unforgettable; more prosaically, Dr. Wesley Vernon has seen the origins of forensic podiatry in this episode. It has inspired a new genre, the Robinsonade as works like Johann David Wyss's The Swiss Family Robinson (1812) adapt its premise and has provoked modern postcolonial responses, including J. M. Coetzee's Foe (1986) and Michel Tournier's Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (in English, Friday, or, The Other Island) (1967). Two sequels followed, Defoe's The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) and his Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: with his Vision of the angelick world (1720). Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) in part parodies Defoe's adventure novel..