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Book Synopsis Tilting at Windmills by : Julian Branston
Download or read book Tilting at Windmills written by Julian Branston and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively study of the story behind the creation of the classic tale of Don Quixote follows the trials and tribulations of Cervantes just as he begins to enjoy success with his comic masterpiece, as he discovers that his fictional hero has an all-too-real counterpart, a rival poet plots to humiliate him, and he falls in love with an unattainable duchess. A first novel. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
Book Synopsis Tilting at Windmills by : Henry Murphy
Download or read book Tilting at Windmills written by Henry Murphy and published by Orpen Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark had never thought of retiring. Barristers don’t retire. However, his 64th birthday was fast approaching. ‘When I’m 64’ and all that, and, beneath the wig and gown, he had always had a desire to write. Time was running out. It’s now or never. He – rather he and his wife, Helen – decided they would take a year out. Like their children had, only later. They quickly ruled out the West of Ireland and the Wild Atlantic Way. For obvious reasons. And opted instead for a pueblo blanco in Andalucía. Mark could write his bestseller there. A white-washed house in a white-washed village in the mountains of Andalucía. What more could an aspiring author want? He lost no time in getting down to it. A writing room without a view and a typewriter. And no interruptions. Everything went splendidly for a day or two, when fate intervened. Followed by weeks of slow progress while he negotiated surgery and the intricacies of plot. In May, Mark carried out a quarterly review. Radical changes were called for and implemented. Ruthlessly. Beginning with telling Helen he couldn’t come home for her birthday. Summer came and went, and so did Helen. Deadlines loomed. Would Mark do it? Would he achieve his New Year’s resolution: One Year, One Novel? From the author of the Dermot McNamara series, An Eye on the Whiplash, Brief Cases and A Night at the Inns, comes a hilarious new novel which will ring familiar to anyone who has ever thought there is a book within them.
Book Synopsis Tilting at Windmills by : Andy Miller
Download or read book Tilting at Windmills written by Andy Miller and published by . This book was released on 2003-02-25 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Miller is a sports atheist. The beautiful game, the roar of the crowd, winning, losing, taking part - these mean nothing to him. But at thirty he is worried. He thinks he's turning into a bit of a crank. So Andy decides that he must try to love sport - and just maybe it will love him back. He shivers for a season in the stands at QPR, braves the queues at Wimbledon, stays (reasonably) sober at the Boat Race, gets his money's worth at a WWF event. But to really show his commitment, he takes up the one sport now dear to his heart - crazy golf. Dreaming of putting glory, he heads for Europe and the International circuit. No one can accuse him of being a crank now . . .
Book Synopsis Tilting at Windmills by : Brian Hibbs
Download or read book Tilting at Windmills written by Brian Hibbs and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Columns the author wrote for Comics Retailer magazine.
Book Synopsis Tilting at Windmills by : Gary L Bean
Download or read book Tilting at Windmills written by Gary L Bean and published by L/L Research. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1948 a desire awoke in Don Elkins to move beyond the boundaries of the known in order to grasp the greater human purpose in context of the universe itself. Seven years later Elkins dedicated his life to a long-term investigation with a single objective: to find and fit together the puzzle pieces that would disclose this picture. This is his story. This is partners' story. This is the biography of L/L Research. Those who slowly and steadily, year after year made a labor of love to build a massive library of channeled philosophy, who gave away the fruit of their labors for the benefit of others similarly seeking, and who reached profoundly into the deep unknown to achieve the Ra contact, resulting in their extraordinary offering to others known as the Law of One material. Tilting at Windmills contains the transcripts of a seven-day interview conducted by Gary L. Bean with the then two surviving original members of L/L Research: Carla L. Rueckert and Jim McCarty. It includes exploration of the Ra contact, the life story of L/L Research, personal biography of its three founding members, and examination of spiritual principles and philosophy. Along with abundant endnotes, headers, mirrored margins, complementary typefaces, exquisite indentation, line and paragraph spacing, and other absolutely splendid formatting.
Download or read book Quichotte written by Salman Rushdie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An epic Don Quixote for the modern age, “a brilliant, funny, world-encompassing wonder” (Time) from internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • “Lovely, unsentimental, heart-affirming . . . a remembrance of what holds our human lives in some equilibrium—a way of feeling and a way of telling. Love and language.”—Jeanette Winterson, The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND NPR Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where “Anything-Can-Happen.” Meanwhile, his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own. Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirize the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse. And with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of Rushdie’s work, the fully realized lives of DuChamp and Quichotte intertwine in a profoundly human quest for love and a wickedly entertaining portrait of an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction. Praise for Quichotte “Brilliant . . . a perfect fit for a moment of transcontinental derangement.”—Financial Times “Quichotte is one of the cleverest, most enjoyable metafictional capers this side of postmodernism. . . . The narration is fleet of foot, always one step ahead of the reader—somewhere between a pinball machine and a three-dimensional game of snakes and ladders. . . . This novel can fly, it can float, it’s anecdotal, effervescent, charming, and a jolly good story to boot.”—The Sunday Times “Quichotte [is] an updating of Cervantes’s story that proves to be an equally complicated literary encounter, jumbling together a chivalric quest, a satire on Trump’s America and a whole lot of postmodern playfulness in a novel that is as sharp as a flick-knife and as clever as a barrel of monkeys. . . . This is a novel that feeds the heart while it fills the mind.”—The Times (UK)
Book Synopsis Don Quixote and the Windmills by : Eric A. Kimmel
Download or read book Don Quixote and the Windmills written by Eric A. Kimmel and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2004-04-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-proclaimed knight Señor Quexada has read so many books about knights in shining armor that he thinks he is one. He gives himself a name more fitting for a knight -- Don Quixote -- and sets off one evening with his squire. At dawn they come across what Don Quixote recognizes as an army of monstrous giants. "Master!" cries Sancho Panza. "They are only windmills!" But Don Quixote knows what he has to do . . . Don Quixote is the creation of the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Eric A. Kimmel skillfully and cleverly crystallizes the character, and with his powerful line and vibrant color Leonard Everett Fisher completes the funny, loving portrait.
Book Synopsis Surviving the Peace by : Peter Lippman
Download or read book Surviving the Peace written by Peter Lippman and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years of on-the-ground reportage in the grassroots struggle for normalcy and postwar return in the former Republic of Yugoslavia
Book Synopsis Tilting at Windmills by : Phillip Edmonds
Download or read book Tilting at Windmills written by Phillip Edmonds and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Don Quixote by : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Download or read book Don Quixote written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Still Turning by : Christopher C. Gillis
Download or read book Still Turning written by Christopher C. Gillis and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aermotor Windmill Company, which commenced operations in Chicago in 1888, is the nation’s sole remaining full-time manufacturer of water-pumping machines. The company’s imprint on rural America, particularly across the West, is still visible today in the tens of thousands of its windmills that bring water to the earth’s surface. Still Turning is the first book to explore the rise of the American windmill through the experience of this important company. Aermotor founder La Verne Noyes and engineer Thomas Perry developed and perfected the all-metal wind pump in the 1880s. Within a decade, the “mathematical windmill” began to dominate the market. Aermotor continued to expand and innovate. The ruggedness and simplicity of the American mechanical windmill has allowed it to outlast many newer water-pumping technologies over the years with minimal maintenance and oversight. Christopher C. Gillis traces this story and more, from the early days of the company to Aermotor’s present-day relevance as it continues to produce its iconic windmills. Still Turning is a significant contribution not only to the history of wind power but also to the history of American enterprise.
Book Synopsis Civil Disobedience by : Elizabeth Schmermund
Download or read book Civil Disobedience written by Elizabeth Schmermund and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil disobedience, the refusal to obey certain laws, is a method of protest famously articulated by philosopher and writer Henry David Thoreau in his 1849 essay “Civil Disobedience.” Thoreau believed that protest became a moral obligation when laws collided with conscience. Since then, civil disobedience has been employed as a form of rebellion around the world. But is there a place for civil disobedience in democratic societies? When is civil disobedience justifiable? Is violence ever called for? Furthermore, how effective is civil disobedience?
Book Synopsis Tilting at Windmills by : Joseph Pittman
Download or read book Tilting at Windmills written by Joseph Pittman and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lyrical debut novel celebrates the joys and tears of love lost and found, and of a life renewed--in a most unexpected place. . . At thirty-four, Brian Duncan has it all. A trendy Manhattan life, a high-powered PR job, and a gorgeous fiancée with an exciting future of her own. Then, in a single moment of deception, Brian's world crumbles. Bitterly betrayed, he decides to toss away all he has worked for. Irresistibly drawn to the road, he leaves the city's busy streets behind. . . On a hillside along New York's Hudson River Valley, Brian is transfixed by the beauty of an enormous windmill. Running toward it is a lovely little girl and her alluring mother, Annie Sullivan, who owns the windmill. The two strike a chord in Brian's heart and soon he discovers the small-town charms of Linden Corners--and of Annie, whose elusive quality matches his own questions about life. And as their relationship deepens into passion, through the force of nature and the hand of fate, Brian will learn that love comes in unexpected ways. Pittman's debut novel is a feel-good fantasy. . . a nice feel for pace and place."--Publishers Weekly
Book Synopsis Windmills and Water Mills of Long Island by : Anne Frances Pulling
Download or read book Windmills and Water Mills of Long Island written by Anne Frances Pulling and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Windmills and water mills are truly the wonders of an earlier era, the wooden technology of yesteryear. To us, they may be graceful and charming relics. To the colonists, however, they were a vital necessity. Colonial craftsmen constructed them to mill grain, saw wood, pump water, and do various other jobs. Furthermore, the mill was the gathering place for the villagers. While they waited for their grain to be milled, the villagers exchanged news and gossip and stories. Millers were well respected not only for their mill's output but also for their own weather forecasts, knowledge of engines and machines, and, of course, up-to-date news. Long Island is an ideal place for catching the steady wind from the ocean and bays: 125 miles long, narrow--only 20 miles across at its widest, and relatively flat. Thus, many windmills were built here and still exist here, particularly at the island's east end. As a matter of fact, the south fork of eastern Long Island contains the greatest number of surviving windmills in the United States. Before 1700, Long Island also had many water mills, some of them powered by the tide.
Book Synopsis Fighting Windmills: A Quixotic Odyssey by : Robert O. Morris
Download or read book Fighting Windmills: A Quixotic Odyssey written by Robert O. Morris and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fighting Windmills" is the story of a modern-day Don Quixote, whose adventures are revealed as you march side by side with the author on his life's journey, one that has truly been to the beat of a different drum. His adventures as a CIA Operations Officer during pivotal times in our country's recent history, an Army 'Green Beret', an International Business Executive, and Entrepreneur, are chock full of life, laughter, love and the lessons learned along the way. This is a story about life as seen through the eyes of a romantic idealist, and the quixotic odyssey which evolves; as Webster defines, "quixotic" implies "extravagantly chivalrous or romantic, impractical, impulsive and often rashly unpredictable," which aptly describes the saga herein. This is a unique story of intrigue and normality, of success and failure, of love and the loss of it, of the perpetual seeking of wisdom and the occasional departure from sound judgment. In essence, it is a fundamental story of the human experience.
Book Synopsis A Christmas Hope by : Joseph Pittman
Download or read book A Christmas Hope written by Joseph Pittman and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Christmas, the greatest gifts can't be found beneath a tree. . .Eight-year-old Janey Sullivan has had a difficult year, between losing her mother and adjusting to life with her guardian, Brian Duncan. But with the holidays approaching, her one Christmas wish is to find the perfect gift for Brian--if she can learn to trust him first. Reeling from the loss of his soul mate, Brian is determined to give her daughter, Janey, an extraordinary Christmas. But he struggles to read her irregular moods, and when he catches her in a lie, he begins to doubt the future of their new little family. Yet with the help of their friends in Linden Corners, and a bit of Christmas magic riding on the wind, they may be able to preserve Janey's mother's traditions, perhaps even start some new ones--and discover that the life they hadn't planned on can still bring the happiness they've always wished for. This gentle read is big on heart. --Library JournalA wonderful Christmas story of moving on beyond grief and loss. --RT Book Reviews, 4 1/2 Stars
Book Synopsis Jousting with Windmills by : Peter Gabor Ernster
Download or read book Jousting with Windmills written by Peter Gabor Ernster and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Jousting with Windmills" (volume two of a trilogy) Peter Ernster charges full tilt into his intrepid legal and business career-his steed, confidence, his armor, a good brain. His career commences in the mid '60s "humping" freight cars in a New Jersey switching yard of the Pennsylvania Railroad while studying law (and later working on that railroad's bankruptcy!). After clerking for a federal judge in NYC and several years at a major NYC law firm, he becomes an international lawyer and later the international trouble shooter for a top U.S. multinational company, negotiating diverse, often tense international business deals (in three languages) in the cities of Europe and the Developing World. Dead honest, full of self-analysis and a fair amount of mea culpa, the memoir never flags. Along the way Ernster as a law clerk tactfully explains the antics in a porn film to a strait-laced judge preparing for an obscenity trial, learns about the business of chicken sexing in Belgium, and combats post-colonial economic nationalism, indigenous opportunism, byzantine governmental regulations and corruption. Always willing and curious, he gains knowledge from a Nigerian street peddler, a "tribal" mystic, a maharajah, the mayor of Bombay, a self-made Turkish industrialist, Chinese officials, among the many intriguing characters he encounters. Traveling the globe has its downsides. He misses his wife and sons, dines solo hundreds of evenings in foreign cities and mainly works alone. The work is difficult, and his efforts sometimes seem Quixotic and come to naught. Daunted but not defeated, when he breaks a lance, he picks up another and rides on. He also faces challenges within the company and to his integrity, unwilling to go along to get along. Throughout, Ernster's recall of his many adventures, capturing both place and time, is fascinating.
