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Author : Evan Esar
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781566195294
Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (952 download)
Download or read book 20,000 Quips & Quotes written by Evan Esar and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giovanni Capurro
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595214088
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book The Death Valley Kids written by Giovanni Capurro and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROG. Of course he's nuts, but just how dangerous is he? ABEL. He just wants to know one thing: when does friendship end and kidnapping begin? DAN. Fun is fun, but is he the only one who has noticed that everything is getting out of hand? JOHNNY. The dreams come frequently, but what do they mean and why can he get the blood off of his hands? THE DEATH VALLEY KIDS. THEY'RE ALL GROWN UP WITH NOTHING TO DO…
Author : John Jacob Niles
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813157846
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles written by John Jacob Niles and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A legend in the folk music community, John Jacob Niles enjoyed a lengthy career as a balladeer, folk collector, and songwriter. Ever close to his Kentucky roots, he spent much of his adulthood searching for the most well-loved songs of the southern Appalachia. The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles brings together a wealth of songs with the stories that inspired them, arranged by a gifted performer. This new edition includes all of the melodies, text, commentary, and illustrations of the 1961 original and features a new introduction by Ron Pen, director of the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music at the University of Kentucky.
Author : Anna T. Litovkina
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030890627
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages written by Anna T. Litovkina and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on well-known proverbs. Proverbs are by no means fossilized texts but are adaptable to different times and changed values. While anti-proverbs can be considered as variants of older proverbs, they can also become new proverbs reflecting a more modern worldview. Anti-proverbs are therefore a lingo-cultural phenomenon that deserves the attention of cultural and literary historians, folklorists, linguists, and general readers interested in language and wordplay.
Author : Noel Streatfeild
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 0349010951
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Noel Streatfeild's Holiday Stories written by Noel Streatfeild and published by Virago. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *'Classic Noel Streatfeild at her warm-hearted best. I absolutely loved it' Hilary McKay, author of THE SKYLARKS' WAR *'Such rewarding reading' Daily Telegraph There are stories for every reader in this delightful collection - exciting crime-solving adventures; nervous young actors in the spotlight for the first time; unforgettable holidays and unlikely friendships. Featuring beautiful illustrations by PETER BAILEY Stories include: The Plain One; Devon Mettle; Chicken for Supper; Flag's Circus; The Secret; Coralie; Ordinary Me; Cows Eat Flowers; Andrew's Trout; The Old Fool; Let's Go Coaching; Howard; The Quiet Holiday; Roberta; Green Silk Originally written for annuals and magazines from the 1930s-70s, these newly discovered stories make captivating reading for Noel Streatfeild fans of all ages.
Author : Miguel Ángel Asturias
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593512456
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)
Download or read book Men of Maize written by Miguel Ángel Asturias and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel whose time has come: the Nobel Prize–winning author of Mr. President’s visionary epic of ecological devastation, capitalist exploitation, and Indigenous wisdom, now available again for its 75th anniversary with a new introduction and with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar A Penguin Classic Deep in the mountain forests of Guatemala, a community of Indigenous Mayans—the "men of maize"—serves as stewards to sacred corn crops. When profiteering outsiders encroach on their territory and threaten to abuse the fertile land, they enter a bloody struggle to protect their way of life. Blurring the lines between history and mythology, Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias's lush, dream-like work offers a prescient warning against the loss of ancestral wisdom and the environmental destruction set in motion by colonial oppression and capitalist greed. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Neil Hutchison
Publisher : Proglen Trading Co., Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 6167817375
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (678 download)
Download or read book The Fool's Best Joke Book Volume 1 written by Neil Hutchison and published by Proglen Trading Co., Ltd.. This book was released on with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the world of humour. What makes human beings laugh can be broadly defined under three headings: someone else's misfortune, someone else's misunderstanding or someone else's stupidity. The keywords here are "someone else's" because, let's face it, most silly things are much funnier when they happen to someone else. Neil Hutchison, creator of The Fool in Paradise, has collected thousands of jokes, then catalogued and listed them in this first volume of the Fool's Best Jokes. Now the many fans of the Fool will not have to be told that the jokes will veer away from political correctness until they are travelling in the absolute opposite direction. Now, if you have never read any of the many books about the Fool be prepared to be shocked. This book is not recommended to be read in situations where others may report you for laughing and talking to yourself. It's not recommended for those of a more liberal bent, be it feminism or any other trendy ism. The author refuses to take responsibility for any medical problems that this book may engender in readers. Life is ShortBreak the Rules Forgive Quickly Love Truly Laugh Uncontrollably ... and ... Never Regret Anything That Made You Smile
Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191580015
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Proverbs written by Jennifer Speake and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-10-23 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and authoritative dictionary contains over 1,100 of the most widely used proverbs in English and uses research from the Oxford English Corpus, the world's largest language databank. This edition has been revised and fully updated and includes numerous entirely new entries. It also features expanded coverage of foreign language proverbs currently in use in English. With an emphasis on examples of usage, including the earliest written evidence of its use, this A-Z guide provides a thorough - and fascinating - history for every entry. Arranged in A-Z format and with a useful thematic index, A Dictionary of Proverbs is ideal for browsing and perfectly suited for quick reference. Look up your old favourites, learn punchy new expressions to get your point across, and find the answer to that crossword clue. Seeing is believing: find proverbs relevant to every aspect of life in this entertaining and informative collection.
Author : Cam Rascoe
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (694 download)
Download or read book Ironies Volume 2 written by Cam Rascoe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-06-12 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No About the Book information at this time.
Author : Joseph Straus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040114571
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Cultural Narratives of Old Age in the Lives, Work, and Reception of Old Musicians written by Joseph Straus and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-23 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operating largely within the world of European-American classical music, this book discusses the creative work of old musicians—composers, performers, listeners, and scholars—and how those forms of music- making are received and understood. Like everything else about old age, music-making is usually understood as a decline from a former height, a deficiency with respect to a youthful standard. Against this ageist mythology, this book argues that composing oldly, performing oldly, and listening oldly are distinctive and valuable ways of making music—a difference, not a deficit; to be celebrated, not ignored or condemned. Instead of the usual biomedical or gerontological understanding of old age, with its focus on bodily, cognitive, and sensory decline, this book follows Age Studies in seeing old age through a cultural lens, as something created and understood in culture. This book seeks to identify the ways that old musicians (composers, performers, listeners, and scholars) accept, resist, adapt, and transform the cultural scripts for the performance of old age. Musicking oldly (making music in old age) often represents an attempt to rewrite ageist cultural scripts and to find ways of flourishing musically in a largely hostile landscape.
Author : Charles Hawtrey
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513285637
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)
Download or read book The Private Secretary written by Charles Hawtrey and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Private Secretary (1883) is a three-act comedy by English actor and playwright Charles Hawtrey. Adapted from a popular German farce, The Private Secretary helped launch Hawtrey’s career as one of Victorian England’s leading theatrical figures. Initially panned by critics and audiences, The Private Secretary was revised and shortened by Hawtrey, who then restaged the play to resounding praise. Revived countless times throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, The Private Secretary is a comic masterpiece that set the stage for such playwrights as Oscar Wilde. Harry Marsland and Douglas Cattermole are two young friends who find themselves deeply in debt. Ever unwilling to take responsibility, they look to Robert Spalding, a clergyman as honest as he is innocent, for a way out. While Spalding is employed as a secretary for the Marsland family, Douglas...borrows...his identity in order to seek forgiveness from his creditors. Meanwhile, Douglas’ uncle returns from India and mistakes the unwitting clergyman for his nephew and precedes to berate him for his newfound silence and passivity. When a suspicious creditor uncovers their poorly concealed plan, the two friends must bribe him with a chance to stay at Harry’s family estate, which only further risks the chance of Spalding getting to the bottom of his own strange situation. The Private Secretary is a comedy of manners that dissects English aristocratic life in order to expose its capacity for vanity, greed, and exploitation. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition Charles Hawtrey’s The Private Secretary is a classic work of English comedy reimagined for modern readers.
Author : Julian Branston
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 030742250X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Tilting at Windmills written by Julian Branston and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seventeenth-century Valladolid, Spain’s new capital, Miguel Cervantes is busy writing his comic masterpiece, Don Quixote, which is being issued in installments. It is quickly making him the most popular author in the country, when three potential disasters strike: Cervantes discovers that there is a real Don Quixote, just like the character he thought he’d invented; a jealous poet concocts a scheme involving one of the novel’s other characters to make Cervantes a laughingstock; and Cervantes falls in love with a beautiful, widowed, but un-available duchess. Many duels, misunderstandings, politicking, and betrayals later, Don Quixote himself comes to Cervantes’ rescue. This sparkling tale of crazed knights, thwarted love, and literary rivalry is set against the back-ground of a mighty empire suffering from a century of reckless wars and a ruling hierarchy stultified by patronage and ritual. Peopled with an engagingly idiosyncratic cast that ranges from a Machiavellian duke to a misanthropic poacher, this charming story is imbued with the spirit, verve, and humor of the great novel to which it pays playful tribute. Tilting at Windmills is a dazzling evocation of Cervantes’ life and times, and a brilliant weave of fact, fiction, and farce.
Author : Akeam Simmons
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491717076
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Download or read book Inside a Poet's Heart written by Akeam Simmons and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a jewel, for it takes us into the deepest darkest crevasse of our hearts, and exposes some things that we have choses to forget. It uncovers the secret places that we keep covered, but need to unveil for our own sake of sanity. Inside a Poet's Heart helps us heal some of the brokenness in us, and explains some of our secret issues.
Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Songs of the West written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195053990
Total Pages : 1348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of American Proverbs written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have a gift for coining proverbs. "A picture is worth a thousand words" was not, as you might imagine, the product of ancient Chinese wisdom -- it was actually minted by advertising executive Fred Barnard in a 1921 advertisement for Printer's Ink magazine. After all, Americans are first and foremost a practical people and proverbs can be loosely defined as pithy statements that are generally accepted as true and useful. The next logical step would be to gather all of this wisdom together for a truly American celebration of shrewd advice.A Dictionary of American Proverbs is the first major collection of proverbs in the English language based on oral sources rather than written ones. Listed alphabetically according to their most significant key word, it features over 15,000 entries including uniquely American proverbs that have never before been recorded, as well as thousands of traditional proverbs that have found their way into American speech from classical, biblical, British, continental European, and American literature. Based on the fieldwork conducted over thirty years by the American Dialect Society, this volume is complete with historical references to the earliest written sources, and supplies variants and recorded geographical distribution after each proverb.Many surprised await the reader in this vast treasure trove of wit and wisdom. Collected here are nuggets of popular wisdom on all aspects of American life: weather, agriculture, travel, money, business, food, neighbors, friends, manners, government, politics, law, health, education, religion, music, song, and dance. And, to further enhance browsing pleasure, the editors have provided a detailed guide to the use of the work. While it's true that many of our best known proverbs have been supplied by the ever-present "Anonymous," many more can be attributed to some very famous Americans, like Ernest Hemingway, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Alva Edison, Abigail Adams, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, to name but a few offered in this fascinating collection.Who wouldn't want to know the origin of "the opera ain't over till the fat lady sings?" This uniquely American proverb and many more are gathered together in A Dictionary of American Proverbs. A great resource for students and scholars of literature, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, and cultural history, this endlessly intriguing volume is also a delightful companion for anyone with an interest in American culture.
Author : Robin Hobb
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0553897047
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (538 download)
Download or read book Fool's Errand written by Robin Hobb and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2002-11-26 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hobb’s fans won’t be disappointed with this latest installment. Fool’s Errand lives up to the legacy of the Farseer trilogy.”—Monroe News-Star Fitz and the Fool are reunited in the first book in the Tawny Man Trilogy—“a stay-up-until-2:00 a.m.-to-finish type of book” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). For fifteen years, FitzChivalry Farseer has lived in self-imposed exile, assumed to be dead by almost all who once cared about him. But now, into his isolated life, visitors begin to arrive: Fitz’s mentor from his assassin days; a hedge-witch who foresees the return of a long-lost love; and the Fool, the former White Prophet, who beckons Fitz to fulfill his destiny. Then comes the summons he cannot ignore. Prince Dutiful, the young heir to the Farseer throne, has vanished. Fitz, possessed of magical skills both royal and profane, is the only one who can retrieve him in time for his betrothal ceremony, thus sparing the Six Duchies profound political embarrassment . . . or worse. But even Fitz does not suspect the web of treachery that awaits him—or how his loyalties will be tested to the breaking point.
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Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning written by and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
