Author: Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
Publisher: Classic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
High quality reprint of Snake Doctor, and Other Stories by Irvin S. Cobb.
Snake Doctor
Author: Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
Publisher: Classic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
High quality reprint of Snake Doctor, and Other Stories by Irvin S. Cobb.
Publisher: Classic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
High quality reprint of Snake Doctor, and Other Stories by Irvin S. Cobb.
Doctor Sax
Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802195725
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
“Kerouac’s best book.”—TIME Dr. Sax is a haunting novel of deeply felt adolescence, Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac’s own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. There, Dr. Sax, with his flowing cape, slouched hat, and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons that populate Jack’s fantasy world. Deftly mingling memory and dream, Kerouac captures the accents and textures of his boyhood in Lowell in this novel of a cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom that he once described as “the greatest book I ever wrote, or that I will write.”
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802195725
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
“Kerouac’s best book.”—TIME Dr. Sax is a haunting novel of deeply felt adolescence, Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac’s own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. There, Dr. Sax, with his flowing cape, slouched hat, and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons that populate Jack’s fantasy world. Deftly mingling memory and dream, Kerouac captures the accents and textures of his boyhood in Lowell in this novel of a cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom that he once described as “the greatest book I ever wrote, or that I will write.”
The Man and the Snake
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher: Modernista
ISBN: 918108028X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
»The Man and the Snake« is a short story by Ambrose Bierce, originally published in 1893. AMBROSE BIERCE [1842-1914] was an American author, journalist, and war veteran. He was one of the most influential journalists in the United States in the late 19th century and alongside his success as a horror writer he was hailed as a pioneer of realism. Among his most famous works are The Devil's Dictionary and the short story »An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.«
Publisher: Modernista
ISBN: 918108028X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
»The Man and the Snake« is a short story by Ambrose Bierce, originally published in 1893. AMBROSE BIERCE [1842-1914] was an American author, journalist, and war veteran. He was one of the most influential journalists in the United States in the late 19th century and alongside his success as a horror writer he was hailed as a pioneer of realism. Among his most famous works are The Devil's Dictionary and the short story »An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.«
The Snake Doctor
Author: Odie Hawkins
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481709348
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Snake Doctor is a modern, African-American Faustian epic. The story is of a man who made a supernatural deal with a wizard in the Equatorial Rain Forest of Northern Ghana. The deal that was made guaranteed this man that he would receive the money he needed to make the break out film he yearned to make. The proper sacrifices were made, the money poured in and the filmmaker became an international success. But all does not remain sweetness n light. The shadow of the wizards influence remains a mental section that the filmakers son must deal with. It takes grit, determination and hard work to overcome the obstacles, but the deeds are done and we are led to believe that all will be well.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481709348
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Snake Doctor is a modern, African-American Faustian epic. The story is of a man who made a supernatural deal with a wizard in the Equatorial Rain Forest of Northern Ghana. The deal that was made guaranteed this man that he would receive the money he needed to make the break out film he yearned to make. The proper sacrifices were made, the money poured in and the filmmaker became an international success. But all does not remain sweetness n light. The shadow of the wizards influence remains a mental section that the filmakers son must deal with. It takes grit, determination and hard work to overcome the obstacles, but the deeds are done and we are led to believe that all will be well.
Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from North Carolina
Author: Wayland D. Hand
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822302599
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822302599
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Snakes of Arizona
Author: Andrew T. Holycross
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938850608
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938850608
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake
Author: T. A. Cavanaugh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190673672
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This book articulates the Hippocratic Oath as establishing the medical profession by a promise to uphold an internal medical ethic that particularly prohibits doctors from killing. In its most basic and least controvertible form, this ethic mandates that physicians help and not harm the sick.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190673672
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This book articulates the Hippocratic Oath as establishing the medical profession by a promise to uphold an internal medical ethic that particularly prohibits doctors from killing. In its most basic and least controvertible form, this ethic mandates that physicians help and not harm the sick.
The Works of Irvin S. Cobb...: Snake doctor
Author: Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Snake in the Glass
Author: Bruno Caporrimo
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1467058351
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1467058351
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Myth of The Negro Past
Author: Melville Herskovits
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807009055
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Almost fifty years ago Melville Herskovits set out to debunk the myth that black Americans have no cultural past. Originally published in 1941, his unprecedented study of black history and culture recovered a rich African heritage in religious and secular life, the language and arts of the Americas.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807009055
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Almost fifty years ago Melville Herskovits set out to debunk the myth that black Americans have no cultural past. Originally published in 1941, his unprecedented study of black history and culture recovered a rich African heritage in religious and secular life, the language and arts of the Americas.