Author: Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374519978
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
This collection includes: How Wand-fo was Saved, Marko's Smile, The Milk of Death, The Last Love of Princess Genji, The Man Who Loved the Nereids, Our Lady of the Swallows, Aphrodissia; the Widow, Kali Beheaded, The End of Marko Kraljevic, The Sadness of Cornelius Berg, and a Postscript by the Author. "From China to Japan, the Balkans to India, Oriental Tales addresses love, conquest, betrayal, murder, religion, and passion in an eloquent and exquisite telling."--Kirkus Reviews.
Oriental Tales
Author: Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374519978
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
This collection includes: How Wand-fo was Saved, Marko's Smile, The Milk of Death, The Last Love of Princess Genji, The Man Who Loved the Nereids, Our Lady of the Swallows, Aphrodissia; the Widow, Kali Beheaded, The End of Marko Kraljevic, The Sadness of Cornelius Berg, and a Postscript by the Author. "From China to Japan, the Balkans to India, Oriental Tales addresses love, conquest, betrayal, murder, religion, and passion in an eloquent and exquisite telling."--Kirkus Reviews.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374519978
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
This collection includes: How Wand-fo was Saved, Marko's Smile, The Milk of Death, The Last Love of Princess Genji, The Man Who Loved the Nereids, Our Lady of the Swallows, Aphrodissia; the Widow, Kali Beheaded, The End of Marko Kraljevic, The Sadness of Cornelius Berg, and a Postscript by the Author. "From China to Japan, the Balkans to India, Oriental Tales addresses love, conquest, betrayal, murder, religion, and passion in an eloquent and exquisite telling."--Kirkus Reviews.
The Oriental Story Book
Author: Wilhelm Hauff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caravans
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caravans
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Story of Oriental Philosophy
Author: Lily Adams Beck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Tales by Wilhelm Hauff
Author: Wilhelm Hauff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cheese
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cheese
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Oriental Stories, Vol 1, No. 1 (October-November 1930)
Author: Farnsworth Wright
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434402401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The first issue of Oriental Stories, edited by Farnsworth Wright, includes work by such "Weird Tales" regulars as Robert E. Howard, Frank Owen, Otis Adelbert Kline, and many more.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434402401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The first issue of Oriental Stories, edited by Farnsworth Wright, includes work by such "Weird Tales" regulars as Robert E. Howard, Frank Owen, Otis Adelbert Kline, and many more.
The Story of P & O
Author: David Howarth
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9780297835400
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
For more than 150 years P&O has been one of the world's greatest shipping lines. Beginning with the mail contract to Gibraltar, P&O quickly became the British way to travel the world. The first shipping company to offer cruises, more than 100 years later cruising on P&O's famous white ships remains an important part of the company's activities, although it is now an internationally based group with many wide-ranging interests. This is the history of the company and its operations.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9780297835400
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
For more than 150 years P&O has been one of the world's greatest shipping lines. Beginning with the mail contract to Gibraltar, P&O quickly became the British way to travel the world. The first shipping company to offer cruises, more than 100 years later cruising on P&O's famous white ships remains an important part of the company's activities, although it is now an internationally based group with many wide-ranging interests. This is the history of the company and its operations.
The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Ted Riccardi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681770059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
From the fertile crescent to the far east, the great adventures of Holmes and Watson during the three-year gap between Holmes's "death" and his dramatic return. What exactly happened during Sherlock Holmes's “great hiatus” after his supposed death and triumphant return three years later? Riccardi images his travels in Europe and Asia during those years in nine original short stories set in places as far flung as Sumatra and Tibet. Given the uncertain grip of the British empire over its colonies, the murders and other mayhem Holmes confronts often have potentially grave political repercussions. Filled with local color and Holmes’ signature wit and logic, Sherlockians the world over will relish this missing chapter in the life of the world’s greatest detective.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681770059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
From the fertile crescent to the far east, the great adventures of Holmes and Watson during the three-year gap between Holmes's "death" and his dramatic return. What exactly happened during Sherlock Holmes's “great hiatus” after his supposed death and triumphant return three years later? Riccardi images his travels in Europe and Asia during those years in nine original short stories set in places as far flung as Sumatra and Tibet. Given the uncertain grip of the British empire over its colonies, the murders and other mayhem Holmes confronts often have potentially grave political repercussions. Filled with local color and Holmes’ signature wit and logic, Sherlockians the world over will relish this missing chapter in the life of the world’s greatest detective.
The Oriental Wife
Author: Evelyn Toynton
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1590514424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Oriental Wife is the story of two assimilated Jewish children from Nuremberg who flee Hitler’s Germany and struggle to put down roots elsewhere. When they meet up again in New York, they fall in love both with each other and with America, believing they have found a permanent refuge. But just when it looks as though nothing can ever touch them again, their lives are shattered by a freakish accident and a betrayal that will reverberate into the life of their American daughter. In its portrait of the immigrant experience, and of the tragic gulf between generations, The Oriental Wife illuminates the collision of American ideals of freedom and happiness with certain sterner old world virtues.
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1590514424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Oriental Wife is the story of two assimilated Jewish children from Nuremberg who flee Hitler’s Germany and struggle to put down roots elsewhere. When they meet up again in New York, they fall in love both with each other and with America, believing they have found a permanent refuge. But just when it looks as though nothing can ever touch them again, their lives are shattered by a freakish accident and a betrayal that will reverberate into the life of their American daughter. In its portrait of the immigrant experience, and of the tragic gulf between generations, The Oriental Wife illuminates the collision of American ideals of freedom and happiness with certain sterner old world virtues.
Oriental Vagabonds
Author: Richard Regan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648354208
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
An exciting tale of an aging tramp steamer and her hard bitten skipper as they navigate the dangerous waters of the Far East on the eve of World War Two.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648354208
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
An exciting tale of an aging tramp steamer and her hard bitten skipper as they navigate the dangerous waters of the Far East on the eve of World War Two.
Beauty and the East
Author: Wendy Buonaventura
Publisher: Interlink Books
ISBN: 9781566563871
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This fascinating story of body care and the creation of sensual ambiance focuses on customs practiced in the Middle East, Africa and India and takes a humorous look at the often converse attitudes toward the body prevailing in the West.
Publisher: Interlink Books
ISBN: 9781566563871
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This fascinating story of body care and the creation of sensual ambiance focuses on customs practiced in the Middle East, Africa and India and takes a humorous look at the often converse attitudes toward the body prevailing in the West.