Guests on Earth

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Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616203463
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Guests on Earth written by Lee Smith and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Reading Lee Smith ranks among the great pleasures of American fiction . . . Gives evidence again of the grace and insight that distinguish her work.” —Robert Stone, author of Death of the Black-Haired Girl It’s 1936 when orphaned thirteen-year-old Evalina Toussaint is admitted to Highland Hospital, a mental institution in Asheville, North Carolina, known for its innovative treatments for nervous disorders and addictions. Taken under the wing of the hospital’s most notable patient, Zelda Fitzgerald, Evalina witnesses cascading events that lead up to the tragic fire of 1948 that killed nine women in a locked ward, Zelda among them. Author Lee Smith has created, through a seamless blending of fiction and fact, a mesmerizing novel about a world apart--in which art and madness are luminously intertwined.

Down the Garden Path

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Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
ISBN 13 : 9780881927108
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (271 download)

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Book Synopsis Down the Garden Path by : Beverley Nichols

Download or read book Down the Garden Path written by Beverley Nichols and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Down the Garden Path has stood the test of time as one of the world's best-loved and most quoted gardening books. Ostensibly an account of the creation of a garden in Huntingdonshire in the 1930s, it is really about the underlying emotions and obsessions for which gardening is just a cover story. The secret of this book's success---and its timelessness---is that it does not seek to impress the reader with a wealth of expert knowledge or advice. Beverley Nichols proudly declares his status as a newcomer to gardening: "The best gardening books should be written by those who still have to search their brains for the honeysuckle's languid Latin name."As unforgettable as the plants in the garden are, the cast of visitors and neighbours who invariably turn up at inopportune moments are truly memorable. For every angelic Miss Hazlitt there is an insufferable Miss Wilkins waiting in the wings. For every thought-provoking Professor, there is an intrusive Mrs. M., whose chief offense may be that she is a "damnably efficient" gardener. From a disaster in building a rock garden---"It reminded me of those puddings made of spongecake and custard which are studded with almonds"---to a triumph in building an "avalanche" of chionodoxas---"Ah, but it was worth waiting for"---to further adventures with greenhouses, woodland gardens, not to mention cats and treacle, Nichols has left us a true gardening classic.

The Prairie Garden

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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299083045
Total Pages : 236 pages
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Download or read book The Prairie Garden written by J. Robert Smith and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.

The Poetics of Gardens

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Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262631532
Total Pages : 286 pages
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Download or read book The Poetics of Gardens written by Charles W. Moore and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an entirely different garden book: a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideas for transforming our own backyards. There is a universality about the creation of gardens across time and in diverse cultures that has inspired this entirely different garden book: a playful and affectionate typology of gardens; a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideas for transforming our own backyards. The Poetics of Gardens is a celebration of places and the gardens they can become. Most of the 500 sketches, axonometric drawings, and photographs were created especially for this book. They explore the special qualities of places and the acts that can transform them into gardens. The authors discuss the qualities that create the promise of a garden the shapes of land and water, the established plants, the light and wind, the climate and show how these can be organized to give a place a special meaning. And they pay particular attention to the "rituals of habitation" by which we imaginatively take possession of places on the surface of the earth. The Poetics of Gardens examines great gardens made in other places, with other climates, at other times from ancient Rome to modem England, from Ball to Botany Bay, from the court of Ch'ien Lung to the magic kingdom of Walt Disney to explore their devices and record their images, scents, and sounds. The authors discuss the adaptation of the great garden traditions of the past to North American soil and call together the creators of these gardens to speculate about how their patterns and ideas can be appropriated, transformed, and composed into places that come alive for us.

Encyclopedia of American Humorists

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317362276
Total Pages : 578 pages
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Humorists written by Steven H. Gale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.

Low Man on a Totem Pole

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Publisher : eNet Press
ISBN 13 : 1618868780
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Low Man on a Totem Pole written by H Allen Smith and published by eNet Press. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H Allen Smith has sometimes been referred to as "the best-selling humorist since Mark Twain". Considering that he wrote against the likes of James Thurber, Robert Benchley, and S. J. Perelman, that's quite a statement. And probably true. He sold a million copies of each of his first several books, starting with Low Man on a Totem Pole. In this book, which might be called a fraction of his memoirs (Mr. Smith claimed he could have filled twenty), he recounts the high points of his life amid the human race -- a race he appreciated and observed with a keen nose for the humor hiding in the most unexpected places. Here is a panorama of unlikely people who really existed, of inconceivable things that actually happened, of the commonplace rarities of our frenzied epoch. Among others, there is the newspaperman who suffered under the delusion that Herbert Hoover had bladders on his feet: the man who thoughtfully and perpetually bounced turtle eggs on a bar: a deaf dentist who trained his dog to act as his receptionist; a child prodigy who couldn't talk any too well, but appeared to know more about swing music than the head usher at the Paramount Theater -- all these are part of Mr. Smith's life and times.

The Library of Congress Author Catalog

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Library of Congress Author Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bibliography of Agriculture

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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The Colonial Office List

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
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Download or read book The Colonial Office List written by Great Britain. Colonial Office and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Colonial Office List, Comprising Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the Colonial Empire, List of Officers Serving in the Colonies, Etc

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Total Pages : 346 pages
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Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1142 pages
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Download or read book Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Men Called Him Master

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ISBN 13 : 9781017510423
Total Pages : 0 pages
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A Garden of One's Own

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Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469649314
Total Pages : 308 pages
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Download or read book A Garden of One's Own written by Barbara Scott and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardening enthusiasts and those who love to read about gardening will be delighted by this new collection of Elizabeth Lawrence's work. A gifted landscape architect and writer, Lawrence (1904-85) chronicled her experiences with plants in a voice treasured for its distinctive blend of horticultural expertise and stylistic elegance. Through her six books, all still in print, Lawrence continues to inspire an ever-widening circle of dedicated readers everywhere. Between 1932 and 1978, Lawrence wrote more than fifty articles for gardening magazines, newsletters, and plant society bulletins. These writings--uncovered in a seven-year search and collected here for the first time--offer further testament to her talent for conveying practical details in an engaging, literate manner. Treating such subjects as trees and shrubs, bulbs, perennials, native plants, even fellow gardeners, this collection will be welcomed by the novice and knowledgeable gardener alike. Elizabeth Lawrence, a graduate of Barnard College, was the first woman to receive a degree in landscape architecture from the North Carolina State College School of Design. Her writings were informed and inspired by her own legendary gardens in Raleigh and Charlotte.

Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

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Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1206 pages
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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1949 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals

The Secret Garden

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Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5521055061
Total Pages : 237 pages
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Download or read book The Secret Garden written by Hodgson B.F. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «Таинственный сад» – любимая классика для читателей всех возрастов, жемчужина творчества Фрэнсис Ходжсон Бернетт, роман о заново открытой радости жизни и магии силы. Мэри Леннокс, жестокое и испорченное дитя высшего света, потеряв родителей в Индии, возвращается в Англию, на воспитание к дяде-затворнику в его поместье. Однако дядя находится в постоянных отъездах, и Мэри начинает исследовать округу, в ходе чего делает много открытий, в том числе находит удивительный маленький сад, огороженный стеной, вход в который почему-то запрещен. Отыскав ключ и потайную дверцу, девочка попадает внутрь. Но чьи тайны хранит этот загадочный садик? И нужно ли знать то, что находится под запретом?.. Впрочем, это не единственный секрет в поместье...

Portrait of an Expatriate

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313064385
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Portrait of an Expatriate written by Buelette E. Hodges and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1985-11-14 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LeRoy S. Hodges, Jr., has written a lively and informative biography of a Black writer of merit whose works have not enjoyed the wide readership they deserve. Interweaving discussion and criticism of William Gardner Smith's literary work with an account of his life, Hodges provides summaries and critical evaluations of Smith's novels and his nonfiction. He gives us insight into the experience of Black writers who chose to live abroad and looks searchingly at the problem of alienation.