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Book Synopsis The Improbable Tale by : Zahid Ameer
Download or read book The Improbable Tale written by Zahid Ameer and published by Zahid Ameer. This book was released on 2024-03-03 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unbelievable heist! Con man attempts the impossible: selling the Eiffel Tower... twice. [Eiffel Tower and the Con Man Who Sold it Twice] unravels a hilarious true story.
Book Synopsis Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings by : Rose Macaulay
Download or read book Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings written by Rose Macaulay and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry, looking disgusted, as well he might, picked his way down the dark and dirty corkscrew stairway of the dilapidated fifteenth century house where he had rooms during the fourth (or possibly it was the fifth) Assembly of the League of Nations. The stairway, smelling of fish and worse, opened out on to a narrow cobbled alley that ran between lofty mediæval houses down from the Rue du Temple to the Quai du Seujet, in the ancient wharfside quarter of Saint Gervais. Henry, pale and melancholy, his soft hat slouched over his face, looked what he was, a badly paid newspaper correspondent lodging in unclean rooms. He looked hungry; he looked embittered; he looked like one of the underdogs, whose time had not come yet, would, indeed, never come. He looked, however, a gentleman, which, in the usual sense of the word, he was not. He was of middle height, slim and not inelegant of build; his trousers, though shiny, were creased in the right place; his coat fitted him though it lacked two buttons, and he dangled a monocle, which he screwed impartially now into one brown eye, now into the other. If any one would know, as they very properly might, whether Henry was a bad man or a good, I can only reply that we are all of us mixed, and most of us not very well mixed.
Download or read book OK written by Allan Metcalf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is said to be the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet, more common than an infant's first word ma or the ever-present beverage Coke. It was even the first word spoken on the moon. It is "OK"--the most ubiquitous and invisible of American expressions, one used countless times every day. Yet few of us know the hidden history of OK--how it was coined, what it stood for, and the amazing extent of its influence. Allan Metcalf, a renowned popular writer on language, here traces the evolution of America's most popular word, writing with brevity and wit, and ranging across American history with colorful portraits of the nooks and crannies in which OK survived and prospered. He describes how OK was born as a lame joke in a newspaper article in 1839--used as a supposedly humorous abbreviation for "oll korrect" (ie, "all correct")--but should have died a quick death, as most clever coinages do. But OK was swept along in a nineteenth-century fad for abbreviations, was appropriated by a presidential campaign (one of the candidates being called "Old Kinderhook"), and finally was picked up by operators of the telegraph. Over the next century and a half, it established a firm toehold in the American lexicon, and eventually became embedded in pop culture, from the "I'm OK, You're OK" of 1970's transactional analysis, to Ned Flanders' absurd "Okeley Dokeley!" Indeed, OK became emblematic of a uniquely American attitude, and is one of our most successful global exports. "An appealing and informative history of OK." --Washington Post Book World "After reading Metcalf's book, it's easy to accept his claim that OK is 'America's greatest word.'" --Erin McKean, Boston Globe "Entertaininga treat for logophiles." --Kirkus Reviews "Metcalf makes you acutely aware of how ubiquitous and vital the word has become." --Jeremy McCarter, Newsweek
Book Synopsis A Very Improbable Story by : Edward Arthur Einhorn
Download or read book A Very Improbable Story written by Edward Arthur Einhorn and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethan wakes up one morning with a talking cat on his head. The cat refuses to budge until Ethan wins a game of probability.
Download or read book Improbable Tales written by Clinton Ross and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories by : Sandra McDonald
Download or read book Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories written by Sandra McDonald and published by Lethe Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A beautiful adventuress from the ancient city of New Dalli sets off to reclaim her missing lover. What secrets does she hide beneath her silk skirts? A gay cowboy flees the Great War in search of true love and the elusive undead poet Whit Waltman, but at what cost? A talking statue sends an abused boy spinning through a great metropolis, dodging pirates and search for a home. On these quests, you will meet macho firefighters, tiny fairies, collapsible musicians, lady devils and vengeful sea witches.""--Cover, p. [4].
Book Synopsis The Disappearing Duke by : Tom Freeman-Keel
Download or read book The Disappearing Duke written by Tom Freeman-Keel and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating tale of deceipt and secret lives peels back the layers on the fifth Duke of Portland, a strange man who deliberately cloaked his life in mystery and his eccentric family, in a strange saga of fratricide, missing heirs, disputed fortunes, mock burials, clandestine marriages, fraud, perjury, blackmail, and bribery.
Book Synopsis Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012 by : Alasdair Gray
Download or read book Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012 written by Alasdair Gray and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first sixteen tales in this collection were published by Canongate in 1983 with the title Unlikely Stories, Mostly. This collection also has fifty-seven tales from later books, plus sixteen new ones written for the hardback publication of this collection. This last section, Tales Droll and Plausible, shows that Gray's recent twenty-first-century fiction is as uncomfortably funny and up to date as his earliest.
Book Synopsis The Story of Rome by : Norwood Young
Download or read book The Story of Rome written by Norwood Young and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of the Normans by : Sarah Orne Jewett
Download or read book The Story of the Normans written by Sarah Orne Jewett and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fairy Tale written by Andrew Teverson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a comprehensive critical and theoretical introduction to the genre of the fairy tale. It: explores the ways in which folklorists have defined the genre assesses the various methodologies used in the analysis and interpretation of fairy tale provides a detailed account of the historical development of the fairy tale as a literary form engages with the major ideological controversies that have shaped critical and creative approaches to fairy tales in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries demonstrates that the fairy tale is a highly metamorphic genre that has flourished in diverse media, including oral tradition, literature, film, and the visual arts.
Book Synopsis The Infernal Quixote. A Tale of the Day by : Charles LUCAS (M.A.)
Download or read book The Infernal Quixote. A Tale of the Day written by Charles LUCAS (M.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chronicles and Stories of the Craven Dales by : James Henry Dixon
Download or read book Chronicles and Stories of the Craven Dales written by James Henry Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buzz Saw written by Jesse Dougherty and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of the 2019 World Series champion Washington Nationals told by the Washington Post writer who followed the team most closely. By May 2019, the Washington Nationals—owners of baseball’s oldest roster—had one of the worst records in the majors and just a 1.5 percent chance of winning the World Series. Yet by blending an old-school brand of baseball with modern analytics, they managed to sneak into the playoffs and put together the most unlikely postseason run in baseball history. Not only did they beat the Houston Astros, the team with the best regular-season record, to claim the franchise’s first championship—they won all four games in Houston, making them the first club to ever win four road games in a World Series. “You have a great year, and you can run into a buzz saw,” Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg told Washington Post beat writer Jesse Dougherty after the team advanced to the World Series. “Maybe this year we’re the buzz saw.” Dougherty followed the Nationals more closely than any other writer in America, and in Buzz Saw he recounts the dramatic year in vivid detail, taking readers inside the dugout, the clubhouse, the front office, and ultimately the championship parade. Yet he does something more than provide a riveting retelling of the season: he makes the case that while there is indisputable value to Moneyball-style metrics, baseball isn’t just a numbers game. Intangibles like team chemistry, veteran experience, and childlike joy are equally essential to winning. Certainly, no team seemed to have more fun than the Nationals, who adopted the kids’ song “Baby Shark” as their anthem and regularly broke into dugout dance parties. Buzz Saw is just as lively and rollicking—a fitting tribute to one of the most exciting, inspiring teams to ever take the field.
Book Synopsis Stories for the American Freemason's Fireside by : Catharine Webb Barber Towles
Download or read book Stories for the American Freemason's Fireside written by Catharine Webb Barber Towles and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Among Our Books by : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Download or read book Among Our Books written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bookman's Tale by : Charlie Lovett
Download or read book The Bookman's Tale written by Charlie Lovett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious portrait ignites an antiquarian bookseller’s search through time and the works of Shakespeare for his lost love. Charlie Lovett’s new book, The Lost Book of the Grail, is now available. Guaranteed to capture the hearts of everyone who truly loves books, The Bookman’s Tale is a former bookseller’s sparkling novel and a delightful exploration of one of literature’s most tantalizing mysteries with echoes of Shadow of the Wind and A.S. Byatt's Possession. Nine months after the death of his beloved wife Amanda left him shattered, Peter Byerly, a young antiquarian bookseller, relocates from North Carolina to the English countryside, hoping to outrun his grief and rediscover the joy he once took in collecting and restoring rare books. But upon opening an eighteenth-century study of Shakespeare forgeries, he discovers a Victorian watercolor of a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to Amanda. Peter becomes obsessed with learning the picture’s origins and braves a host of dangers to follow a trail of clues back across the centuries—all the way to Shakespeare’s time and a priceless literary artifact that could prove, once and for all, the truth about the Bard’s real identity.
