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Author : Western teacher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Royal Oak written by Western teacher and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. J. Weaver
Publisher : Origin
ISBN 13 : 9781912476626
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Nightmare at Scapa Flow written by H. J. Weaver and published by Origin. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Peppard Common, Oxfordshire: Cressrelles Pub., 1980.
Author : G. S. Reaney
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385252180
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)
Download or read book Sunbeam Willie, And Other Stories written by G. S. Reaney and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Dilip Sarkar
Publisher : Amberley Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781848689442
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (894 download)
Download or read book Hearts of Oak written by Dilip Sarkar and published by Amberley Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This book ... provides a completely new and unique perspective on the tragedy ... [of] the Royal Oak story.--the author has ... traced the families of various souls lost with the battleship that fateful night in 1939. Their photographs and stories are representative of all their shipmates. Interviews with survivors bring the dramatic events vivdly to life, emphasizing the human tragedy and experience of war.' (Back cover)
Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575114797
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Salvage Rites: And Other Stories written by Ian Watson and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Watson's latest collection shows the same range and apparently inexhaustible fund of ideas that have characterized all his previous books. No other contemporary figure in SF is so prolific or inventive a writer of short stories. In the title story we immediately encounter a phantasmagoric vision of a society increasingly dependent on recycling its usable material; other brilliant inventions include a planet inhabited by lemur-like aliens who bafflingly produce marvellously finished stone carvings without apparently having the tools to do so ('The Moon and Michelangelo'); people fighting their way through the various levels of what appears to be a real-life version of a computer adventure game ('Jewels in an Angel's Wing'); and a zoo in which are caged the extensions into our universe of four-dimensional hyberbeings ('Hyperzoo'). And that is only the beginning: there are fifteen stories in all, each one a state-of-the-art example of short science fiction at its finest.
Author : Nigel Miller
Publisher : Wally Miller
ISBN 13 : 1105036154
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Vast Unknown and Other Stories written by Nigel Miller and published by Wally Miller. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast unknown is a short story about a teenager who is forced to help another to flee the country, The infernal packet is a short story about a boy who agrees to deliver a packet but has a hellish time doing so, Terror in the trees is a short story about a child who goes to collect some material from someone she contacted over the internet and receives an unexpected shock, The way to the void is a short story about two children who go for a ramble in the country and circumstances land them in an unknown place. Children of the narrow boat is a short story about three children who have a holiday boating on a canal. The hour of vengeance is a short story about the effect that two mysterious strangers have on some local people who have reasons to be worried about their past.
Author : Penelope Lively
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735222053
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories written by Penelope Lively and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glimmering collection of new short fiction from the Booker Prize winner. “Lively writes with an astringent blend of sympathy and detachment, emotional wisdom and satiric wit.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In such acclaimed novels as The Photograph, Family Album, and How It All Began, Penelope Lively has captivated readers with her singular blend of wisdom, elegance, and humor. Now, in her first story collection in decades, Lively takes up themes of history, family, and relationships across varied and vividly rendered settings. In the title story, a Mediterranean purple swamp hen chronicles the secrets and scandals of Quintus Pompeius’s villa, culminating with his narrow escape from the lava and ash of Vesuvius. “Abroad” captures the low point of an artist couple’s tumultuous European road trip, trapped in a remote Spanish farmhouse and forced to paint a family mural and pitch in with chores to pay for repairs to their broken-down car. Other stories reveal friends and lovers in fateful moments of indiscretion, discovery, and even retribution—as in “The Third Wife,” when a woman learns her husband is a serial con artist and turns a house-hunting trip into an elaborately staged revenge trap. Each of these delightful stories is elevated by Lively’s signature graceful prose and eye for the subtle yet powerfully evocative detail. Wry, charming, and keenly insightful, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories is a masterful achievement from one of our most beloved writers.
Author : Florence Marryat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Moment of Madness and Other Stories written by Florence Marryat and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Alice Dugdale, and Other Stories written by Anthony Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dilip Sarkar
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1399062360
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Faces of HMS Royal Oak written by Dilip Sarkar and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 14 October each year, a White Ensign is placed on the stern of an upturned warship by Royal Navy divers. This act commemorates the 835 men of HMS Royal Oak who died in 1939 when the battleship was sunk at anchor in Scapa Flow by the German U-boat U-47. The sinking of the veteran First World War Revenge-class Royal Oak shocked not only the Admiralty, but the whole nation. Though Scapa Flow was far from being impregnable as a base for the Royal Navy’s Home Fleet, it was surrounded by a ring of islands separated by shallow channels subject to fast-racing tides. While it was recognized that it was not impervious to enemy submarines, measures had been put in place to minimize any such threat. Blockships had been sunk at potentially vulnerable points and anti-submarine booms deployed across the wider channels. The outbreak of war in September 1939 saw additional anti-submarine measures put in hand. Despite these increased precautions, German aerial reconnaissance had spotted weaknesses which were exploited on the night of 13/14 October 1939, by Kapitänleutnant Günther Prien in U-47. The German submarine was able to slip into Scapa Flow undetected and fire three torpedoes towards Royal Oak. Only one torpedo found its mark. A second salvo was fired and this time all three hit the battleship, igniting a magazine causing massive damage. Within thirteen minutes, HMS Royal Oak had turned over and sank. In Faces of HMS Royal Oak, Dilip Sarkar not only reveals the tragic and moving stories of many of those who died, but also some of the 399 who survived the sinking of the first Royal Navy battleship lost in the Second World War. Through their photographs, and in some cases words, the horrors of those fateful few minutes as Royal Oak rolled and slid into the cold, dark waters of Scapa Flow, are relived in startling clarity.
Author : Jules Acton
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1771649674
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Oaklore written by Jules Acton and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'As rich, satisfying and revelatory as a long walk in the woods.' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees What connects Robin Hood, the history of ink, fungi, Shakespeare and sorcery? In Oaklore, Jules Acton, an ambassador for The Woodland Trust, explores the incredibly diverse history of the ‘king of the woods’: from a source of food and shelter to its use in literature as a plot device and muse, its role as an essential ingredient in ink, and in mythology from across the British Isles as a sacred plant and precious resource. Acton’s infectious enthusiasm shines through in chapters that open with excerpts from oak-y poems, as well as tips for connecting with nature – like how to recognize bird songs and help moths and butterflies thrive. Meeting fellow oak-lovers along the way, and trees like Sherwood Forest’s Medusa Oak or the gargantuan Marton Oak in Cheshire, Acton plots an unforgettable journey through the tangled roots of the oak’s story, and that of Britain itself.
Author : Western teacher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (489 download)
Download or read book The Royal Oak, and Other Stories written by Western teacher and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Boscobel; Or, the Royal Oak written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Anecdotes, Humorous Tales, Witticisms, and Amusing Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Waldorf Astor Astor (Viscount)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pharaoh's Daughter and Other Stories written by William Waldorf Astor Astor (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bethany Ball
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802158897
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Pessimists written by Bethany Ball and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Center for Fiction First Novel Prize finalist Bethany Ball comes a biting and darkly funny new novel that follows a set of privileged, jaded Connecticut suburbanites whose cozy, seemingly picture-perfect, lives begin to unravel amid shocking turns of fate and revelations of long-held secrets. Welcome to small-town Connecticut, a place whose inhabitants seem to have it all — the status, the homes, the money, and the ennui. There’s Tripp and Virginia, beloved hosts whom the community idolizes, whose basement hides among other things a secret stash of guns and a drastic plan to survive the end times. There’s Gunter and Rachel, recent transplants who left New York City to raise their children, only to feel both imprisoned by the banality of suburbia. And Richard and Margot, community veterans whose extramarital affairs and battles with mental health are disguised by their enviably polished veneers and perfect children. At the center of it all is the Petra School, the most coveted of all the private schools in the state, a supposed utopia of mindfulness and creativity, with a history as murky and suspect as our character’s inner worlds. With deep wit and delicious incisiveness, in The Pessimists, Bethany Ball peels back the veneer of upper-class white suburbia to expose the destructive consequences of unchecked privilege and moral apathy in a world that is rapidly evolving without them. This is a superbly drawn portrait of a community, and its couples, torn apart by unmet desires, duplicity, hypocrisy, and dangerous levels of discontent.
