Author: St. Louis Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin
Author: St. Louis Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Unhurried Tales
Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789386021885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Unhurried Tales brings together, for the very first time, Ruskin Bond's favourite (and finest) novellas. These stories speak of a world that has long vanished, but it is a world that has lost none of its power to enchant. Whether we are accompanying Sita on her perilous journey down the angry river or Bisnu as he gets the better of a dangerous leopard, whether we delight in Binya's joy at owning her blue umbrella or are saddened by the fate of the last tiger, whether we laugh uproariously at the antics of the eccentric guests at the 'hotel' in Shamli, get involved in the adventures of the boys in Pipalnagar or plunge into the various goings-on in the 'backwater' of Fosterganj, we are always entertained, always charmed."--Publisher.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789386021885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Unhurried Tales brings together, for the very first time, Ruskin Bond's favourite (and finest) novellas. These stories speak of a world that has long vanished, but it is a world that has lost none of its power to enchant. Whether we are accompanying Sita on her perilous journey down the angry river or Bisnu as he gets the better of a dangerous leopard, whether we delight in Binya's joy at owning her blue umbrella or are saddened by the fate of the last tiger, whether we laugh uproariously at the antics of the eccentric guests at the 'hotel' in Shamli, get involved in the adventures of the boys in Pipalnagar or plunge into the various goings-on in the 'backwater' of Fosterganj, we are always entertained, always charmed."--Publisher.
Literary Digest
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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Monthly Bulletin. New Series
Author: St. Louis Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
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Book Review Digest
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
4 Classic Ghostly Tales
Author: Anita Miller
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 0897338456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Here lie four remarkable ghost stories, carefully culled from a genre that had a great flowering in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They have been chosen because they are skillfully written; the reader—like the protagonists—is drawn slowly and inexorably into a nightmare that seems all the more credible because the world in which it happens is ordinary, filled with realistic detail. In addition, each of the four authors employs consideration psychological insight, so that the tales operate on multiple levels. The length of these stories has prevented them from being frequently anthologized. Aficionados of ghost stories are in for a treat! Included in this collection: "The Beckoning Fair One" by Oliver Onions, "How Love Came to Professor Guildea" by Robert Hichens, "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell, "Couching at the Door" by D.K. Broster
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 0897338456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Here lie four remarkable ghost stories, carefully culled from a genre that had a great flowering in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They have been chosen because they are skillfully written; the reader—like the protagonists—is drawn slowly and inexorably into a nightmare that seems all the more credible because the world in which it happens is ordinary, filled with realistic detail. In addition, each of the four authors employs consideration psychological insight, so that the tales operate on multiple levels. The length of these stories has prevented them from being frequently anthologized. Aficionados of ghost stories are in for a treat! Included in this collection: "The Beckoning Fair One" by Oliver Onions, "How Love Came to Professor Guildea" by Robert Hichens, "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell, "Couching at the Door" by D.K. Broster
Tales From Gulinger High: Tale Twenty
Author: Julie Steimle
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3736852088
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Tom Brown finally gets the girl. He is taking Selena Davenport to the Junior League equivalent to Prom as Rick Deacon brings along a date from Gulinger Private Academy--a public faux pas according to Junior League on-lookers. Friends of Ewan P. Steed in Junior League have concocted a way to take revenge on Tom 'stealing his girl'--framing the boy from the wrong side of the tracks for theft. Will Tom go to jail for a crime he did not commit? It is up to Selena to finally stand up for herself and what she really wants. Money or freedom. Good thing she is part fish-folk.
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3736852088
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Tom Brown finally gets the girl. He is taking Selena Davenport to the Junior League equivalent to Prom as Rick Deacon brings along a date from Gulinger Private Academy--a public faux pas according to Junior League on-lookers. Friends of Ewan P. Steed in Junior League have concocted a way to take revenge on Tom 'stealing his girl'--framing the boy from the wrong side of the tracks for theft. Will Tom go to jail for a crime he did not commit? It is up to Selena to finally stand up for herself and what she really wants. Money or freedom. Good thing she is part fish-folk.
The Terrifying Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501115936
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The melancholy, brilliance, passionate lyricism, and torment of Edgar Allen Poe are all well represented in this collection. Here, in one volume, are his masterpieces of mystery, terror, humor, and adventure, including stories such as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Pit and the Pendulum, to name just a few, that defined American romanticism and secured Poe as one of the most enduring literary voices of the nineteenth century.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501115936
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The melancholy, brilliance, passionate lyricism, and torment of Edgar Allen Poe are all well represented in this collection. Here, in one volume, are his masterpieces of mystery, terror, humor, and adventure, including stories such as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Pit and the Pendulum, to name just a few, that defined American romanticism and secured Poe as one of the most enduring literary voices of the nineteenth century.
Nobody Rich Or Famous
Author: Richard Shelton
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816533997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Nobody Rich or Famous is a literary memoir about family and place. Shelton travels to his childhood home in rural Idaho to connect with his past and discover his family history. The manuscript touches upon family dynamics, death and mortality, alcoholism, abusive relationships, and life in the rural and urban West. The book simultaneously exposes the conflicts within Shelton's family while illustrating life in Great Basin during the first half of the 20th century.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816533997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Nobody Rich or Famous is a literary memoir about family and place. Shelton travels to his childhood home in rural Idaho to connect with his past and discover his family history. The manuscript touches upon family dynamics, death and mortality, alcoholism, abusive relationships, and life in the rural and urban West. The book simultaneously exposes the conflicts within Shelton's family while illustrating life in Great Basin during the first half of the 20th century.
The Sky Wept Fire
Author: Mikail Eldin
Publisher: Portobello Books
ISBN: 1846273927
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
On the eve of the first Chechen war in the 1990s, Mikail Eldin was a young and nave arts journalist. By the end of the second war, he had become a battle-hardened war reporter and mountain partisan who had endured torture and imprisonment in a concentration camp. His compelling memoir traces the unfolding of the conflict from day one, with vivid scenes right from the heart of the war. The Sky Wept Fire presents a unique glimpse into the lives of the Chechen resistance, providing testimony of great historical value. Yet it is not merely the story of the battle for Chechnya: this is the story of the battle within the heart, the struggle to conquer fear, hold on to faith and preserve one's humanity. Eldin was fated to witness key events in Chechnya's history: from the first day of the attack on Grozny, and the full-scale Russian invasion that followed it, to the siege of Grozny five years later that razed the city to the ground and has been compared to the destruction of Dresden. Resurrecting these memories with extraordinary lyricism, Eldin observes the sights, the sounds and smells of war. Having fled Grozny alongside the droves of refugees, he joins the defending army - yet he always considers his role as that of journalist and witness. Shortly after joining the Chechen resistance, Eldin is captured in the mountains. He undergoes barbaric torture as his captors attempt to break his will. They fail to make him talk, and he is eventually transferred to a concentration camp. There a new struggle awaits him: the battle to overcome his own suicidal thoughts and ensuing insanity.
Publisher: Portobello Books
ISBN: 1846273927
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
On the eve of the first Chechen war in the 1990s, Mikail Eldin was a young and nave arts journalist. By the end of the second war, he had become a battle-hardened war reporter and mountain partisan who had endured torture and imprisonment in a concentration camp. His compelling memoir traces the unfolding of the conflict from day one, with vivid scenes right from the heart of the war. The Sky Wept Fire presents a unique glimpse into the lives of the Chechen resistance, providing testimony of great historical value. Yet it is not merely the story of the battle for Chechnya: this is the story of the battle within the heart, the struggle to conquer fear, hold on to faith and preserve one's humanity. Eldin was fated to witness key events in Chechnya's history: from the first day of the attack on Grozny, and the full-scale Russian invasion that followed it, to the siege of Grozny five years later that razed the city to the ground and has been compared to the destruction of Dresden. Resurrecting these memories with extraordinary lyricism, Eldin observes the sights, the sounds and smells of war. Having fled Grozny alongside the droves of refugees, he joins the defending army - yet he always considers his role as that of journalist and witness. Shortly after joining the Chechen resistance, Eldin is captured in the mountains. He undergoes barbaric torture as his captors attempt to break his will. They fail to make him talk, and he is eventually transferred to a concentration camp. There a new struggle awaits him: the battle to overcome his own suicidal thoughts and ensuing insanity.