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Tales Ridiculous and Sublime

Author : Cyril Smith
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 145686808X
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book Tales Ridiculous and Sublime written by Cyril Smith and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TALES RIDICULOUS AND SUBLIME There is something for all tastes in these Tales GINGER This is about a kind hearted chap who does not always get things right at work and who rescues two pets from owners who could no longer look after the creatures. JAKE is a beautiful hound. The important part of this tale is fact. The remainder is fi ction. All animal lovers will understand the bond between Jake and his master Nigel. TRADE SECRET is entirely fi ction about a family that has its own small company and the men-folk are excellent tree surgeons except that on one occasion the instructions were not carried out correctly. THE HAPPY ONE about Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy is a very brief biography of Mendelssohn who composed some very beautiful music. THE WEDDING where several events occur to make a couple’s special day a little haphazard to say the least. HAMMER & SICKLE a purely imaginary piece of work that will make any secret agent smile. THE REFUSE MAN although all the characters are fi ctitious there is an element of fact in the story of an innocent individual being accused of doing wrong and the dreadful consequences. SHERLOCK HOMES one will have to read this story about a very strange homicide case and why HOMES is spelt this way. THE REVEREND a kind and gentle man has more than he bargains for when he opens the door one night. Read on to see how the story evolves.

The Sublime and the Ridiculous

Author : Ashley Burgoyne
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781987613797
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book The Sublime and the Ridiculous written by Ashley Burgoyne and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From birds and beasts, fairy tales, dreams and flights of fancy to harsh reality, this weird and wonderful collection of poetry takes you on an emotional journey through life. Birth, growth, love and loss are explored through humour, high drama and tight poetic forms. It is a unique poetic journey that is, like life, sublime and ridiculous.

Travelers' Tales Brazil

Author : Annette Haddad
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
ISBN 13 : 9781932361056
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Travelers' Tales Brazil written by Annette Haddad and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2004 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With stories ranging from delightful to funny to cautionary and inspiring, these tales about Brazil explore the many facets of the country--from the biggest freshwater fish and the rivers they live in to the world's largest jungle. Illustrations & maps.

Stories from the Ridiculous to the Sublime

Author : Lynda Wyatt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473489137
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Stories from the Ridiculous to the Sublime written by Lynda Wyatt and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grok

Author : Tom Maremaa
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462079660
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Grok written by Tom Maremaa and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-01-20 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grok is a huge, sprawling epic novel about the comic misadventures of an eccentric family and its young son’s quest to solve the elusive Turing test. The story spans the contours of the 20th century, from the literary salons of Paris in the twenties to the seamy side of LA in the thirties, from the counterculture wars of the sixties and beyond to the software-inspired nineties. Along the way we are wildly entertained by a huge cast of colorful characters, scenes and happenings, as Grok, the book’s hero, fights off the beguiling demons of the past and changes the world around him. There is never a dull moment in this wonderful, mind-bending story, which holds the mirror of ourselves up to Nature and shows us that we can have the last laugh.

Little Lit: Folklore & Fairy Tale Funnies

Author : Art Spiegelman
Publisher : HarperColl
ISBN 13 : 9780060286248
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Little Lit: Folklore & Fairy Tale Funnies written by Art Spiegelman and published by HarperColl. This book was released on 2000-10-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasure and a treasury! Innovative cartoonist and renowned children's book artists from around the world have gathered to bring you the magic of fairy tales through the wonder of comics. The stories range from old favorites to new discoveries, from the profound to the silly. A treat for all ages, these picture stories unlock the enchanted door into the pleasures of books and reading! Best Children's Books 2000 (PW)

The Abundance

Author : Annie Dillard
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062433016
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Abundance written by Annie Dillard and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author In recognition of her long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the author herself “Annie Dillard’s books are like comets, like celestial events that remind us that the reality we inhabit is itself a celestial event.”—Marilynne Robinson, Washington Post Book World “Annie Dillard is, was, and will always be the very best at describing the landscapes in which we find ourselves.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune “Annie Dillard is a writer of unusual range, generosity, and ambition. . . . Her prose is bracingly intelligent, lovely, and human. ”—Margot Livesey, Boston Globe “A writer who never seems tired, who has never plodded her way through a page or sentence, Dillard can only be enjoyed by a wide-awake reader,” warns Geoff Dyer in his introduction to this stellar collection. Carefully culled from her past work, The Abundance is quintessential Annie Dillard, delivered in her fierce and undeniably singular voice, filled with fascinating detail and metaphysical fact. The pieces within will exhilarate both admiring fans and a new generation of readers, having been “re-framed and re-hung,” with fresh editing and reordering by the author, to situate these now seminal works within her larger canon. The Abundance reminds us that Dillard’s brand of “novelized nonfiction” pioneered the form long before it came to be widely appreciated. Intense, vivid, and fearless, her work endows the true and seemingly ordinary aspects of life—a commuter chases snowball-throwing children through neighborhood streets, a teenager memorizes Rimbaud’s poetry—with beauty and irony, inviting readers onto sweeping landscapes, to join her in exploring the complexities of time and death, with a sense of humor: on one page, an eagle falls from the sky with a weasel attached to its throat; on another, a man walks into a bar. Reminding us of the indelible contributions of this formative figure in contemporary nonfiction, The Abundance exquisitely showcases Annie Dillard’s enigmatic, enduring genius, as Dillard herself wishes it to be marked.

A Tale of a Vampire

Author : Henry Kuttner
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2804 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book A Tale of a Vampire written by Henry Kuttner and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 2804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited collection of the greatest vampire classics of all time: The Vampyre (John William Polidori) Dracula (Bram Stoker) Dracula's Guest (Bram Stoker) Clarimonde (Théophile Gautier) Carmilla (Sheridan Le Fanu) Vikram and the Vampire (Sir Richard Francis Burton) The Vampire (Jan Neruda) Varney the Vampire, or, the Feast of Blood (Thomas PeckettPrest and James Malcolm Rymer) The Vampire of Croglin Grange (Augustus Hare) Aylmer Vance and the Vampire (Alice and Claude Askew) The Vampire Maid (Hume Nisbet) The Room in the Tower (E. F. Benson) Mrs.Amworth (E. F. Benson) Vampires and Vampirism (Dudley Wright) I, the Vampire (Henry Kuttner) The House of the Vampire (George Sylvester Viereck) Vampires of Venus (Anthony Pelcher) Doom of the House of Duryea (Earl Peirce) Isle of the Undead (Lloyd Arthur Eshbach) Four Wooden Stakes (Victor Rowan) Each Man Kills (Victoria Glad)

The World Treasury of Fairy Tales & Folklore

Author : Joanna Gilar
Publisher : Wellfleet Press
ISBN 13 : 1627889582
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book The World Treasury of Fairy Tales & Folklore written by Joanna Gilar and published by Wellfleet Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relive the magic of classic fairy tales in this beautifully illustrated edition. For centuries fantastical stories of witches, giants, princesses, talking animals, and magical kingdoms have been passed from generation to generation. Many of the fairy tales we are most familiar with today have their roots in this oral tradition of storytelling. The World Treasury of Fairy Tales and Folklore is a stunning collection of fairy tales organized by date of printing. From tales of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries (Little Red Riding Hood, Fair Goldilocks, Beauty and the Beast), to familiar tales collected by The Brothers Grimm in the 19th century (The Frog King, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Snow White), to some lesser-known tales and stories from outside Europe, this book showcases a broad range of examples from this extraordinary genre. Tales are compiled and introduced by leading academics in the field, adding to a deeper understanding of beloved stories. This beautifully illustrated collection of fairy tales and folklore is an essential addition to all family libraries.

The Reception of Grimms' Fairy Tales

Author : Donald Haase
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814322086
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Reception of Grimms' Fairy Tales written by Donald Haase and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The essays address the reception of the Grimms' texts by their readers; the dynamics between Grimms' collection and its earliest audiences; and aspects of the literary, philosophical, creative, and oral reception of the tales, illuminating how writers, philosophers, artists, and storytellers have responded to, reacted to, and revised the stories, thus shedding light on the ways in which past and contemporary transmitters of culture have understood and passed on the Grimms' tales."--BOOK JACKET.

PIRATE TALES: 80+ Novels, Stories, Legends & History of the True Buccaneers

Author : Jack London
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026877500
Total Pages : 13376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book PIRATE TALES: 80+ Novels, Stories, Legends & History of the True Buccaneers written by Jack London and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 13376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come along on a great pirate adventure with hand-picked literary classics and true stories about the legendary outlaws: History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates (Captain Charles Johnson) The Book of Buried Treasure The Pirates' Own Book Treasure Island (R. L. Stevenson) Captain Blood (Rafael Sabatini) Sea Hawk (Sabatini) Blackbeard: Buccaneer (R. D. Paine) Pieces of Eight (Le Gallienne) Captain Singleton (Defoe) Gold-Bug (Edgar Allan Poe) Hearts of Three (Jack London) The Dark Frigate (C. B. Hawes) Isle of Pirate's Doom (Robert E. Howard) Swords of Red Brotherhood (Howard) Queen of Black Coast (Howard) Black Vulmea (Howard) Afloat and Ashore (James F. Cooper) Homeward Bound (Cooper) Red Rover (Cooper) Facing the Flag (Jules Verne) Pirate Gow (Daniel Defoe) The King of Pirates (Defoe) The Pirate (Walter Scott) Rose of Paradise (Howard Pyle) Captain Sharkey (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Pirate (Frederick Marryat) Three Cutters (Marryat) Madman and the Pirate (R. M. Ballantyne) The Offshore Pirate (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Martin Conisby's Vengeance (J. Farnol) Coral Island (Ballantyne) Pirate of Panama (W. M. Raine) Under the Waves (Ballantyne) Pirate City (Ballantyne) Gascoyne (Ballantyne) Captain Boldheart (Dickens) The Ways of the Buccaneers (J. Masefield) Master Key (L. Frank Baum) Black Bartlemy's Treasure (J. Farnol) A Man to His Mate (J. Allan Dunn) Tales of the Fish Patrol (Jack London) Barbarossa—King of the Corsairs (E. H. Currey) Robinson Crusoe (Defoe) Jim Davis (J. Masefield) Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) Mysterious Island (Jules Verne) Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas) Ghost Pirates (W. H. Hodgson) The Pagan Madonna (H. MacGrath) A Pirate of the Caribbees (H. Collingwood) The Pirate Island (H. Collingwood) The Devil's Admiral (F. F. Moore) The Pirate of the Mediterranean (W. H. G. Kingston) The Black Buccaneer (Stephen W. Meader) The Third Officer (P. Westerman) Narrative of the Capture of the Ship Derby ...

The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays, Articles, Speeches, Travel Sketches & Letters (Illustrated)

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Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12855 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays, Articles, Speeches, Travel Sketches & Letters (Illustrated) written by Charles Dickens and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 12855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Charles Dickens" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Novels Oliver Twist The Pickwick Papers Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop Barnaby Rudge Martin Chuzzlewit Dombey and Son David Copperfield Bleak House Hard Times Little Dorrit A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations Our Mutual Friend The Mystery of Edwin Drood Christmas Novellas A Christmas Carol The Chimes The Cricket on the Hearth The Battle of Life The Haunted Man Short Story Collections Sketches by Boz Sketches of Young Gentlemen Sketches of Young Couples Master Humphrey' Clock Reprinted Pieces The Mudfog Papers Pearl-Fishing (First Series) Pearl-Fishing (Second Series) Christmas Stories Other Stories Children's Books Child's Dream of a Star Holiday Romance Stories About Children Every Child Can Read Dickens's Children Plays The Village Coquettes The Strange Gentleman The Lamplighter Is She His Wife Mr. Nightingale's Diary No Thoroughfare The Frozen Deep Poetry The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens Travel Books American Notes Pictures From Italy The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices Other Works Sunday Under Three Heads A Child's History of England Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi The Life of Our Lord The Uncommercial Traveller Contributions to "All The Year Round" Contributions to "The Examiner" Miscellaneous Papers Essays & Articles A Coal Miner's Evidence The Lost Arctic Voyagers Frauds on the Fairies Adelaide Anne Procter In Memoriam W. M. Thackeray Speeches of Charles Dickens: Literary and Social Letters of Charles Dickens Criticism CHARLES DICKENS by G. K. Chesterton DICKENS by Sir Adolphus William Ward THE LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS by John Forster MY FATHER AS I RECALL HIM by Mamie D. Charles Dickens (1812-1870), an English writer and social critic, created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.

The Squire's Tale

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806121543
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The Squire's Tale written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part Twelve In the list of scholarly problems it presents, The Squire’s Tale ranks among the highest in The Canterbury Tales. Being incomplete and coming to a halt on a baffling note-was it in fact evolving into a tale of incest?-the tale has undergone the most remarkable shift in critic acceptance of any of Chaucer’s works. This tale of oriental wonder, with its strong base in magic, excited the admiration of Chaucer’s contemporaries and inspired Spenser’s imitative speculation and Milton’s famous desire that the old poet be summoned up to finish his task. It retained for the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries its Gothic fascination, being ranked with the very best of Chaucer’s work. In the second half of the twentieth century, it has been seen from a number of provocative perspectives. Is it a parody of the long Eastern romance? Is it a satire on the values of an aristocracy whose time is past? Is it a rhetorical joke on Chaucer’s part, extending the character of the young Squire into an earnest and somewhat naïve competition with his father, the Knight? The concerns of contemporary scholarship reveal as much about the critical temper of the time as about the work itself. On its own merits The Squire’s Tale compels our attention as an example of Chaucer’s wide-ranging and sometimes inscrutable genius. It provides us with an exotic literary type not otherwise represented in the Tales. It reverberates, in its discussion of ’gentilesse’ with other such discussions in Chaucer’s poetry; it demonstrates, in its use of the love-vision and the complaint, the experimental ways in which Chaucer handles the conventions of French poetry. Perhaps most fascinating is the range of Chaucer’s mind revealed by the casual uses of the science of his time: its knowledge of meteorology, optics, glass and metal work, astrology, and astronomy. The tale offers yet one more example of Chaucer’s genius at work, speaking to us in a voice that is at once suggestive, provocative, and mystifying as always.

Arabian Tales

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Arabian Tales written by and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Greatest Russian Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Folk Tales & Legends

Author : Leonid Andreyev
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 9335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Book Synopsis The Greatest Russian Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Folk Tales & Legends by : Leonid Andreyev

Download or read book The Greatest Russian Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Folk Tales & Legends written by Leonid Andreyev and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 9335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this unique and meticulously edited collection of the greatest Russian classics: Introduction: The History of the Russian Empire Novels & Novellas: Dead Souls A Hero of Our Time Oblomov Fathers and Sons Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment The Idiot The Brothers Karamazov Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace Anna Karenina The Death of Ivan Ilych The Kreutzer Sonata Anton Chekhov: The Steppe: The Story of a Journey Ward No. 6 Mother (Maxim Gorky) Satan's Diary (Leonid Andreyev) Plays: The Choice of a Tutor (Denis Fonvizin) The Inspector General; or, The Government Inspector (Nikolai Gogol) Anton Chekhov: On the High Road Swan Song, A Play in one Act Ivanoff The Anniversary; or, the Festivities The Three Sisters The Cherry Orchard... Leo Tolstoy: The Power of Darkness The First Distiller Fruits of Culture The Live Corpse The Cause of it All The Light Shines in Darkness Leonid Andreyev: Savva The Life of Man Nikolai Evreinov: A Merry Death The Beautiful Despot Short Stories: The Queen of Spades The Cloak The District Doctor The Christmas Tree and the Wedding God Sees the Truth, but Waits How A Muzhik Fed Two Officials The Shades, a Phantasy The Heavenly Christmas Tree The Peasant Marey The Crocodile Bobok The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Mumu The Viy Knock, Knock, Knock The Inn Lieutenant Yergunov's Story The Dog The Watch... Russian Folk Tales & Legends: The Fiend The Dead Mother The Dead Witch The Treasure The Cross-Surety The Awful Drunkard The Bad Wife The Golovikha The Three Copecks The Miser The Fool and the Birch-Tree The Mizgir The Smith and the Demon Ivan Popyalof The Norka Marya Morevna Koshchei the Deathless The Water Snake The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise The Baba Yaga Vasilissa the Fair The Witch The Witch and the Sun's Sister One-Eyed Likho Woe... Essays: On Russian Novelists Lectures on Russian Novelists

The Tales of the Sea

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Tales of the Sea written by Herman Melville and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 3267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and meticulously edited collection of sea adventure novels includes: White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is a memoir of a year spent on a U.S. man-of-war, the 54-gun frigate USS "Neversink" in a voyage from Chile to Norfolk._x000D_ Redburn: His First Voyage recounts the adventures of a refined young man among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool._x000D_ Mardi, and a Voyage Thither details the traveling of an American sailor who abandons his whaling vessel to explore the South Pacific._x000D_ Moby-Dick; or, The Whale – Sailor Ishmael tells the story of the obsessive quest of captain Ahab for revenge on Moby Dick, the white whale that on the previous whaling voyage bit off his leg at the knee._x000D_ Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile – After hearing a rousing speech by General George Washington, Israel Potter leaves his plow to fight in the American Revolution._x000D_ Billy Budd, Sailor: (An Inside Narrative) – A tale about seaman impressed into service in the year 1797, when the British Royal Navy was reeling from two major mutinies._x000D_ Benito Cereno is a story about the revolt on a Spanish slavery ship captained by Don Benito Cereno._x000D_ The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles consists of ten "Sketches" on the Galápagos Islands._x000D_ Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life describes the narrator's four month stay on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands. It is a story of capture, escape and romance._x000D_ Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas – After leaving the island of Nuku Hiva, the narrator ships aboard a whaling vessel that makes its way to Tahiti._x000D_ Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change.

The Great & Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms

Author : Ian Thornton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451678509
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Great & Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms written by Ian Thornton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johan Thoms is poised for greatness. A promising student at the University of Sarajevo, he is young, brilliant, and in love with the beautiful Lorelei Ribeiro. He can outwit chess masters, quote the Kama Sutra, and converse with dukes and drunkards alike. But he cannot drive a car in reverse. And as with so much in the life of Johan Thoms, this seemingly insignificant detail will prove to be much more than it appears. On the morning of June 28, 1914, Johan takes his place as the chauffeur to Franz Ferdinand and the royal entourage and, with one wrong turn, he forever alters the course of history. Blaming himself for the deaths of the archduke and his wife, Johan hastens from the scene, and for once his inspired mind cannot process what to do next. Guilt-ridden, he flees Sarajevo, abandoning his friends, family, and beloved in the fear that he has caused them irreparable grievance. He watches in horror as the Great War unfolds, every death settling squarely on his conscience. Turning his back on his old life, Johan does his best to fade out of memory. But the world has other plans for Johan Thoms. As each passing year burdens Johan with further guilt for his inaction, he seeks solace in his writing and in the makeshift family he has assembled around himself. With everyone from emperors to hooligans at his side, and pursued by Lorelei, Johan winds his way through Europe and the twentieth century, leaving his indelible mark on both.