Author: Gary Adams
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449061060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
This is a simple story whose words and sketches will inspire all ages. It tells of a clock who felt unwanted...until someone came along who wanted him...just the way he was.
The Little Clock Who Had No Hands
Author: Gary Adams
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449061060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
This is a simple story whose words and sketches will inspire all ages. It tells of a clock who felt unwanted...until someone came along who wanted him...just the way he was.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449061060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
This is a simple story whose words and sketches will inspire all ages. It tells of a clock who felt unwanted...until someone came along who wanted him...just the way he was.
The Clock that Had no Hands
Author: Herbert Kaufman
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375237599X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Clock that Had no Hands by Herbert Kaufman
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375237599X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Clock that Had no Hands by Herbert Kaufman
Clock Without Hands
Author: Carson McCullers
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
The story is set in a small town of Georgia, a disparate bunch of people come together under court-ordered integration. What follows is unique blend of humour, power, irony, and love. Excerpt: "Death is always the same, but each man dies in his own way. For J.T. Malone it began in such a simple ordinary way that for a time he confused the end of life with the beginning of a new season. The winter of his fortieth year was an unusually cold one for the Southern town—with icy, pastel days and radiant nights. The spring came violently in middle March in that year of 1953, and Malone was lazy and peaked during those days of early blossoms and windy skies."
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
The story is set in a small town of Georgia, a disparate bunch of people come together under court-ordered integration. What follows is unique blend of humour, power, irony, and love. Excerpt: "Death is always the same, but each man dies in his own way. For J.T. Malone it began in such a simple ordinary way that for a time he confused the end of life with the beginning of a new season. The winter of his fortieth year was an unusually cold one for the Southern town—with icy, pastel days and radiant nights. The spring came violently in middle March in that year of 1953, and Malone was lazy and peaked during those days of early blossoms and windy skies."
A Clock Without Hands
Author: Guy Burt
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307414388
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
“I want to turn back the hands on the clock and change it all, make it different; three friends who meet up by chance in an old city and share a beer and laugh at old stories and jokes. But it wasn’t like that; and the clock has no hands, so I can’t turn them back.” [p.171] Alex Carlise has returned to a place he thought he’d never see again, outside of his dreams. As he walks the ochre-dusted road to the house in which he grew up, the memories of his young life in a small Italian town push all other thoughts out of his head: thoughts about the major exhibition of his artwork opening soon in London, thoughts of the myriad things he should be doing in preparation–everything subsides to make room for the warm flood of a time long past. When he opens the door to the now-deserted house, he is suddenly seven again. There is Jamie, his first friend, his best friend; Anna, his first love; and the delicious days they spent exploring the valley and swimming in the cerulean blue Mediterranean Sea. It all comes back to Alex in a way he can neither control nor discern. But the memories are insistent, demanding. Soon Alex loses entire hours to the past, overwhelmed by the haunting memories of a youth turned tragic. Alex remembers the day he, Jamie, and Anna went to their favorite place, an abandoned church far up in the hills. There they stumbled upon a man, injured and sick. From this discovery, a series of events tumbled forth that would change them all forever. Alex now realizes that he must confront the truth about himself, about the echoes of the past that still haunt him, and about the friends whose legacy has meant only devastation. Guy Burt’s vision of youth is piercingly accurate, and his sense of how time can play tricks on the mind is startling. Haunting, eerie, and remarkably assured, The Clock Without Hands will resonate with the child that hides inside your own memories.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307414388
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
“I want to turn back the hands on the clock and change it all, make it different; three friends who meet up by chance in an old city and share a beer and laugh at old stories and jokes. But it wasn’t like that; and the clock has no hands, so I can’t turn them back.” [p.171] Alex Carlise has returned to a place he thought he’d never see again, outside of his dreams. As he walks the ochre-dusted road to the house in which he grew up, the memories of his young life in a small Italian town push all other thoughts out of his head: thoughts about the major exhibition of his artwork opening soon in London, thoughts of the myriad things he should be doing in preparation–everything subsides to make room for the warm flood of a time long past. When he opens the door to the now-deserted house, he is suddenly seven again. There is Jamie, his first friend, his best friend; Anna, his first love; and the delicious days they spent exploring the valley and swimming in the cerulean blue Mediterranean Sea. It all comes back to Alex in a way he can neither control nor discern. But the memories are insistent, demanding. Soon Alex loses entire hours to the past, overwhelmed by the haunting memories of a youth turned tragic. Alex remembers the day he, Jamie, and Anna went to their favorite place, an abandoned church far up in the hills. There they stumbled upon a man, injured and sick. From this discovery, a series of events tumbled forth that would change them all forever. Alex now realizes that he must confront the truth about himself, about the echoes of the past that still haunt him, and about the friends whose legacy has meant only devastation. Guy Burt’s vision of youth is piercingly accurate, and his sense of how time can play tricks on the mind is startling. Haunting, eerie, and remarkably assured, The Clock Without Hands will resonate with the child that hides inside your own memories.
Death and a Maiden
Author: William David Myers
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN: 1501756923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
On the feast of St. Michael, September 1659, a thirteen-year-old peasant girl left her family's rural home to work as a maid in the nearby city of Braunschweig. Just two years later, Grethe Schmidt found herself imprisoned and accused of murdering her bastard child, even though the fact of her pregnancy was inconclusive and no infant's body was found to justify the severe measures used against her. The tale spiraled outward to set a defense lawyer and legal theorist against powerful city magistrates and then upward to a legal contest between that city and its overlord, the Duchy of Brunswick, with the city's independence and ancient liberties hanging in the balance. Death and a Maiden tells a fascinating story that begins in the bedchamber of a house in Brunswick and ends at the court of Duke Augustus in the city of Wolfenbettel, with political intrigue along the way. After thousands of pages of testimony and rancorous legal exchange, it is still not clear that any murder happened. Myers infuses the story of Grethe's arrest, torture, trial, and sentence for "suspected infanticide" with a detailed account of the workings of the criminal system in continental Europe, including the nature of interrogations, the process of torture, and the creation of a "criminal" identity over time. He presents an in-depth examination of a criminal system in which torture was both legal and an important part of criminal investigations. This story serves as a captivating slice of European history as well as a highly informative look at the condition of poor women and the legal system in mid-seventeeth century Germany. General readers and scholars alike will be riveted by Grethe's ordeal.
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN: 1501756923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
On the feast of St. Michael, September 1659, a thirteen-year-old peasant girl left her family's rural home to work as a maid in the nearby city of Braunschweig. Just two years later, Grethe Schmidt found herself imprisoned and accused of murdering her bastard child, even though the fact of her pregnancy was inconclusive and no infant's body was found to justify the severe measures used against her. The tale spiraled outward to set a defense lawyer and legal theorist against powerful city magistrates and then upward to a legal contest between that city and its overlord, the Duchy of Brunswick, with the city's independence and ancient liberties hanging in the balance. Death and a Maiden tells a fascinating story that begins in the bedchamber of a house in Brunswick and ends at the court of Duke Augustus in the city of Wolfenbettel, with political intrigue along the way. After thousands of pages of testimony and rancorous legal exchange, it is still not clear that any murder happened. Myers infuses the story of Grethe's arrest, torture, trial, and sentence for "suspected infanticide" with a detailed account of the workings of the criminal system in continental Europe, including the nature of interrogations, the process of torture, and the creation of a "criminal" identity over time. He presents an in-depth examination of a criminal system in which torture was both legal and an important part of criminal investigations. This story serves as a captivating slice of European history as well as a highly informative look at the condition of poor women and the legal system in mid-seventeeth century Germany. General readers and scholars alike will be riveted by Grethe's ordeal.
My Double Life
Author: Sarah Bernhardt
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734091217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: My Double Life by Sarah Bernhardt
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734091217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: My Double Life by Sarah Bernhardt
The Old Tobacco Shop
Author: William Bowen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1633554856
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Magic tobacco transports a little boy and his several adult friends on a quest to an island that also happens to hold a pirate's treasure hoard.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1633554856
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Magic tobacco transports a little boy and his several adult friends on a quest to an island that also happens to hold a pirate's treasure hoard.
The Athenaeum
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
Author: Sarah Bernhardt
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt" by Sarah Bernhardt. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt" by Sarah Bernhardt. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Norfolk and Western Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1396
Book Description