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Book Synopsis The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris by : Leon Garfield
Download or read book The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris written by Leon Garfield and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harris and Bostock are best friends, but they are as different from one another as night and day. Harris thinks up harebrained schemes and Bostock gets in trouble for them. When Harris puts his baby sister Adelaide in the woods to see if she will be adopted by a fox, little do they realize that they are starting a chain of events that will be remembered in their little seaside town as the Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris.
Book Synopsis The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris by : Leon Garfield
Download or read book The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris written by Leon Garfield and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient history lessons were the inspiration behind Harris' ingenious notion of exposing his infant sister, Adelaide, on the Sussex Downs in the hope that she, like the Romans infants, would be suckled by a she-wolf. The complications which result are told with inventive energy and the author creates a gallery of characters drawn with affectionate humour.
Book Synopsis The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris by : Leon Garfield
Download or read book The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris written by Leon Garfield and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An experiment to see if a wolf will adopt an abandoned baby turns into a desperate situation for two schoolboys in early nineteenth-century England when the child is recovered by well-meaning passersby.
Book Synopsis The Complete Bostock and Harris by : Leon Garfield
Download or read book The Complete Bostock and Harris written by Leon Garfield and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Review Children's Collection Original The Complete Bostock and Harris combines two delightful, suspenseful, and madly funny tales about two boys in eighteenth-century England, clever and mischievous Harris and sweet but not-so-bright Bostock, who in spite of their differences are the best of friends. In “The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris,” the wily pair put their classical education to the test when they adopt the Spartan custom of exposing infants to the wild, leaving Harris’s infant sister, Adelaide, to the elements. The boys imagine a wolf will come to nourish her, but their plan backfires. It is springtime in “The Night of the Comet,” and in the days before Pigott’s comet will pass over their town, Harris’s and Bostock’s thoughts turn to love: Bostock swoons over Harris’s sister Mary; Harris longs for Captain Bostock’s telescope. The boys strike a deal: Bostock will make off with the telescope in exchange for Harris’s “expert” wooing advice. Unfortunately, that expertise is not quite what Bostock would have hoped.
Book Synopsis Computer Interpretation of Metaphoric Phrases by : Sylvia Weber Russell
Download or read book Computer Interpretation of Metaphoric Phrases written by Sylvia Weber Russell and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The computational approach of this book is aimed at simulating the human ability to understand various kinds of phrases with a novel metaphoric component. That is, interpretations of metaphor as literal paraphrases are based on literal meanings of the metaphorically used words. This method distinguishes itself from statistical approaches, which in general do not account for novel usages, and from efforts directed at metaphor constrained to one type of phrase or to a single topic domain. The more interesting and novel metaphors appear to be based on concepts generally represented as nouns, since such concepts can be understood from a variety of perspectives. The core of the process of interpreting nominal concepts is to represent them in such a way that readers or hearers can infer which aspect(s) of the nominal concept is likely to be intended to be applied to its interpretation. These aspects are defined in terms of verbal and adjectival predicates. A section on the representation and processing of part-sentence verbal metaphor will therefore also serve as preparation for the representation of salient aspects of metaphorically used nouns. As the ability to process metaphorically used verbs and nouns facilitates the interpretation of more complex tropes, computational analysis of two other kinds of metaphorically based expressions are outlined: metaphoric compound nouns, such as "idea factory" and, together with the representation of inferences, modified metaphoric idioms, such as "Put the cat back into the bag".
Book Synopsis Enser’s Filmed Books and Plays by : Ellen Baskin
Download or read book Enser’s Filmed Books and Plays written by Ellen Baskin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 2398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003. The sixth edition of this compendium of film and television adaptations of books and plays includes several thousand new listings that cover the period from 1992 to December 2001. There are 8000 main entries, covering 70 years of film history, including some foreign language material.
Book Synopsis Written for Children by : John Rowe Townsend
Download or read book Written for Children written by John Rowe Townsend and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a brief, readable account of English prose fiction for children from its beginning main streams of development and includes the 'Courtesy Books' of a later age, and the work of the remarkable John Newbery in the eighteenth century. The nineteenth century which began with Mrs. Sherwood's The Fairchild Family - 'designed to strike the fear of hellfire into every child's soul' - later saw the works of Lewis Carroll, Stevenson, Henty and the development of the school story from 'Tom Brown' to 'Stalky.'"--Book Jacket.
Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.
Book Synopsis Recreating the Past by : Lynda G. Adamson
Download or read book Recreating the Past written by Lynda G. Adamson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1994-06-30 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning grades 1-10+, this annotated bibliography of 970 recommended American and world titles published through early 1994 includes adult titles suitable for young readers; at least 200 of the titles are award winners. In support of interdisciplinary English and social studies curricula, librarians and teachers can easily assemble a basic list of books on a geographical place and time period. Geographical sections are divided into historical time periods within which entries are organized alphabetically by author. Each entry contains both reading and interest grade levels, a short incisive annotation about the historical event, setting, plot, protagonist and theme, current publication availability, and awards won. Seven reference appendices allow for easy searching. These helpful appendices and an authors, a titles, and an illustrators index help to make this volume a critical professional tool.
Book Synopsis The Best in Children's Books by : Zena Sutherland
Download or read book The Best in Children's Books written by Zena Sutherland and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews 1,400 books for children chosen as the best published during the years 1966-1972.
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Writers and their Works by : Christopher Riches
Download or read book A Dictionary of Writers and their Works written by Christopher Riches and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 1431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.
Download or read book John Diamond written by Leon Garfield and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'My father, that stern and upright man, was nothing but a swindler and a thief!' What is the matter with old Mr Jones? Endless footsteps and low groans can be heard from his room in the dead of night. Only his son William knows the a terrible secret: his father betrayed his business partner Mr Diamond, and swindled him out of a great fortune. William resolves to go to London, find Mr Diamond and make amends. But the murky big city, with its sinister characters and treacherous back streets, is no place for a boy of twelve. And Mr Diamond's own son is not the sort of person to forgive and forget. Danger and deceit lie waiting... Includes exclusive material: In the Backstory you can find out more about the wonderful author and learn some Cockney rhyming slang! Vintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Book Synopsis The House of Cards by : Leon Garfield
Download or read book The House of Cards written by Leon Garfield and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-05-31 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1847, an orphaned baby is rescued as the sole survivor of a massacre in a Polish village. Many years later a mysterious and disturbed Russian lady turns up unexpectedly at one of Mr Dolly’s regular Friday night dinner parties. So begins a search for identity and lost inheritance in the seedy and crowded streets of nineteenth century London.
Book Synopsis The Sound of Coaches by : Leon Garfield
Download or read book The Sound of Coaches written by Leon Garfield and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One stormy December night some time in the eighteenth century, a coach came thundering down the long hill outside of Dorking on its usual journey into London. But something unusual was to happen that night as one of the passengers unexpectedly gave birth to a child. Not until he was eight did Sam Chichester discover that the coachman and guard he called 'Ma and 'Pa' were not his real parents. Sam will need to grow up, leave home, and find love before he will finally uncover the truth about his parentage.
Download or read book The Drummer Boy written by Leon Garfield and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'As far as the eye can see, scarlet men are marching . . . A rich and splendid company, but none more so than the drummer boy.' But a moment later, the sound of Charlie Samson's drum was swallowed in a wild thunder. The glorious scarlet troops had been ambushed. Men were dead and dying all around, and all the beauty was gone. All that was left was himself and his drum, and a few shady nightwalkers - cowards who came crawling from the ditches and knaves who scoured the dead for wealth . . .
Download or read book The Empty Sleeve written by Leon Garfield and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Him what's born on the chime . . . he's the one what'll have communications with the devil.' At the age of fourteen, 'chime-child' Peter Gannet is apprenticed to a locksmith in Covent Garden. But his desperate longing to escape from the insufferable adults around him and go to sea leads him into some dubious undertakings. Before long, the old ship's carpenter's dire prophecy comes true, for in the locksmith's workroom he meets a phantom with an empty sleeve. Tense and atmospheric, this is a gripping thriller about ghosts, a wall of hands, envy, dishonesty and finally murder!
Book Synopsis International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature by : Peter Hunt
Download or read book International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature written by Peter Hunt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 1399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's publishing is a huge international industry and there is ever-growing interest from researchers and students in the genre as cultural object of study and tool for education and socialization.
