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The Burning Boy (Penguin Award Winning Classics)

Author : Maurice Gee
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1742539556
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book The Burning Boy (Penguin Award Winning Classics) written by Maurice Gee and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Burning Boy is a vivid picture of life in a provincial town in times of disturbance and change. Certainties collapse in the face of violence. People start along strange ways, some to loss or ruin, others to unexpected happiness. The Burning Boy won the New Zealand Book Awards in 1991. 'Written with verve and economy, Maurice Gee's novel has a wealth of penetratingly observed incidents, some spectacular and dramatic, some distinctly unpleasant. Most, however, are ordinary, everyday events from which Gee builds an engaging narrative and a detailed picture of the life of the city - a city which, under different names in successive novels, he is steadily making into his equivalent of Hardy's Wessex.' - Times Literary Supplement

The Skinny Louie Book (Penguin Award Winning Classics)

Author : Fiona Farrell
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1743487266
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Skinny Louie Book (Penguin Award Winning Classics) written by Fiona Farrell and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiona Farrell's first novel – always moving, often hilarious – is a breathtakingly accomplished debut. It presents a head-on confrontation with a New Zealand psyche rarely found in history books. Skinny Louie, daughter of Shanghai Lil, has a baby in the Begonia House on the day of the royal visit. Maura finds the baby and takes it home. Tia grows up with magical powers into the brave new world of the twenty-first century. Fiona Farrell's first novel – always moving, often hilarious – is a breathtakingly accomplished debut. It presents a head-on confrontation with a New Zealand psyche rarely found in history books. The Skinny Louie Book won the 1993 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction.

The Burning Boy

Author : Maurice Gee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780143573760
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (737 download)

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Download or read book The Burning Boy written by Maurice Gee and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A picture of life in a provincial town in times of disturbance and change. Certainties collapse in the face of violence. People start along strange ways, some to loss or ruin, others to unexpected happiness"--Publisher information.

Let the River Stand (Penguin Award Winning Classics)

Author : Vincent O'Sullivan
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1742287107
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Let the River Stand (Penguin Award Winning Classics) written by Vincent O'Sullivan and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the apparently quiet Waikato of the 1930s and 1940s a number of lives connect in a complex web of family ties, desire and violence. Things are often not what they seem. The events of this story also take in boxing and farming, devotion and perversion, ranging as far as Tasmania and the Spanish Civil War.

The Singing Whakapapa

Author : CK Stead
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1743487258
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Singing Whakapapa written by CK Stead and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 1994-07-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Singing Whakpapa is a tale for our time - a compelling historical detective story in which the truth is stranger than any fiction, and in which the present becomes a backseat driver to the past. What is the truth of history, what are the facts - and how are we to know them? This powerful novel is the story of John Flatt - missionary agriculturalist, witness to Waharoa's war of the 1830s against the Arawa, to the murder of the young woman Tarore and to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi - and his great-great-grandson Hugh Grady, who more than a hundred-and-fifty years later tried to make sense of his own life by exploring all that has gone before. It is a story laced with passion, betrayal and revenge, at many levels, as greed overtakes good intentions and the cloak of history is pulled aside. The Singing Whakapapa won the New Zealand Book Awards in 1995.

Folktales from India Penguin Premium Classic Edition

Author : A.K. Ramanujan
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 935492977X
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Folktales from India Penguin Premium Classic Edition written by A.K. Ramanujan and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folklore pervades childhoods, families and communities and is the language of the illiterate. Even in large, modern cities, folklore-proverbs, lullabies, folk medicine, folktales-is only a suburb away, a cousin or a grandmother away. Wherever people live, folklore grows. India is a country of many languages, religions, sects and cultures. It is a land of many myths and countless stories. Translated from twenty-two Indian languages, these one hundred and ten tales cover most of the regions of India and represent favorite's narratives from the subcontinent. A.K. Ramanujan's outstanding selection is an indispensable guide to the richness and vitality of India's ageless oral folklore tradition.

Burning Boy

Author : Paul Auster
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250235847
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Burning Boy written by Paul Auster and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane. With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight. Auster’s probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from one perilous situation to the next: A controversial article written at twenty disrupts the course of the 1892 presidential campaign, a public battle with the New York police department over the false arrest of a prostitute effectively exiles him from the city, a star-crossed love affair with an unhappily married uptown girl tortures him, a common-law marriage to the proprietress of Jacksonville’s most elegant bawdyhouse endures, a shipwreck results in his near drowning, he withstands enemy fire to send dispatches from the Spanish-American War, and then he relocates to England, where Joseph Conrad becomes his closest friend and Henry James weeps over his tragic, early death. In Burning Boy, Auster not only puts forth an immersive read about an unforgettable life but also, casting a dazzled eye on Crane’s astonishing originality and productivity, provides uniquely knowing insight into Crane’s creative processes to produce the rarest of reading experiences—the dramatic biography of a brilliant writer as only another literary master could tell it.

Burning Bright

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141186062
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Burning Bright written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2001-01-18 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Such is the strength of Joe Saul's longing for a child, that he feels he is cursed after three unfruitful years of marriage. Yet unbeknown to him, he is sterile. His young wife secretly conceives the child of another man and when Joe discovers her deception, his anguish is greater than ever.

To a God Unknown

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140187510
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book To a God Unknown written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-08-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Penguin Classic Ancient pagan beliefs, the great Greek epics, and the Bible all inform this extraordinary novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, which occupied him for more than five difficult years. While fulfilling his dead father’s dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father’s spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph’s prosperity, and the farm flourishes—until one brother, frightened by Joseph’s pagan belief, kills the tree, allowing disease and famine to descend on the farm. Set in familiar Steinbeck country, To a God Unknown is a mystical tale, exploring one man’s attempt to control the forces of nature and, ultimately, to understand the ways of God and the forces of the unconscious within. This edition features an introduction and notes by Steinbeck scholar Robert DeMott. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Penguin Book of Dragons

Author : Scott G. Bruce
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014313504X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Dragons written by Scott G. Bruce and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two thousand years of legend and lore about the menace and majesty of dragons, which have breathed fire into our imaginations from ancient Rome to Game of Thrones A Penguin Classic The most popular mythological creature in the human imagination, dragons have provoked fear and fascination for their lethal venom and crushing coils, and as avatars of the Antichrist, servants of Satan, couriers of the damned to Hell, portents of disaster, and harbingers of the last days. Here are accounts spanning millennia and continents of these monsters that mark the boundary between the known and the unknown, including: their origins in the deserts of Africa; their struggles with their mortal enemies, elephants, in the jungles of South Asia; their fear of lightning; the world’s first dragon slayer, in an ancient collection of Sanskrit hymns; the colossal sea monster Leviathan; the seven-headed “great red dragon” of the Book of Revelation; the Loch Ness monster; the dragon in Beowulf, who inspired Smaug in Tolkien’s The Hobbit; the dragons in the prophecies of the wizard Merlin; a dragon saved from a centipede in Japan who gifts his human savior a magical bag of rice; the supernatural feathered serpent of ancient Mesoamerica; and a flatulent dragon the size of the Trojan Horse. From the dark halls of the Lonely Mountain to the blue skies of Westeros, we expect dragons to be gigantic, reptilian predators with massive, bat-like wings, who wreak havoc defending the gold they have hoarded in the deep places of the earth. But dragons are full of surprises, as is this book. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Puffin Book of Classic Stories for Boys

Author : Paro Anand
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184752644
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Puffin Book of Classic Stories for Boys written by Paro Anand and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-06-11 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pick up an alien’s egg go crocodile hunting; run with a gang of pickpockets get lost in a magical maze. All this and more in these stories of adventure, humour and imagination.Oliver Twist leaves behind his gang of criminals for a better life an open window is just what a fertile mind needs in Saki’s ‘The Open Window’ Satyajit Ray’s Badan Babu has a brush with a Pterodactyl’s egg Rabindranath Tagore recollects boyhood days spent dreaming in an abandoned palanquin; and Sherlock Holmes sets off to solve the mystery of the engineer’s thumb. Featuring the works of such renowned authors as Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Premchand, Mark Twain and others, and a lively introduction by well-known children’s author Paro Anand, The Puffin Book of Classic Stories for Boys is a matchless collection from the masters of world literature for boys of all ages.

Penguin Classics

Author : Penguin (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780147715975
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Penguin Classics written by Penguin (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Never Let Me Go

Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307371336
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Never Let Me Go written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • The moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic from the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and Klara and the Sun—“a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist. “Brilliantly executed.” —Margaret Atwood “A page-turner and a heartbreaker.” —TIME “Masterly.” —Sunday Times As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special—and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together.

Burned

Author : Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 141690008X
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Burned written by Franklin W. Dixon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Frank and Joe Hardy must track down the mastermind behind an illegal international CD burning operation that employs teenagers, they begin with Julian Sanders, their classmate.

The Burning Kingdoms

Author : Sally Green
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425290271
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book The Burning Kingdoms written by Sally Green and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heart-pounding conclusion to the daring Smoke Thieves trilogy. In this conclusion to the epic Smoke Thieves trilogy, the world has erupted into all-out war. King Aloysius is mining powerful demon smoke and using it to fuel an unstoppable army of children. March, now banished for treason, has joined up with this boy army. Forbidden from ever seeing Edyon again, and overwhelmed by his own betrayal, March no longer cares if he lives or dies. Catherine--now queen of Pitoria--must find a way to defeat the boy army, while also grappling with her own troubles: her secret demon smoke addiction, and unresolved tension with her former lover, Ambrose. Catherine seeks military support from Calidor by reaching out to her illegitimate cousin Edyon, who has been proclaimed heir to the Calidorian throne. But Edyon has almost no power as he's entangled in the unfamiliar machinations and manipulations of the royal court, finding that being the claimed son of a prince may be no easier than being a bastard. With Catherine, his love, now married off and moving on, and his brother and sister tortured and executed before him, Ambrose doesn't know what his role in this world is any more. He leads an expedition into the demon world, hoping to destroy the boy army's stores of demon smoke. In this underground world, he runs into Tash, whom everyone had believed dead. She has survived in this new world using magical abilities that, prior to now, only demons had. Aloysius will send his demon smoke-powered boy army to kill them all, if he can. But what nobody knows is that there is more to the smoke than meets the eye...

The Penguin Book of Classic Urdu Stories

Author : Mohammad Asaduddin
Publisher : Penguin Global
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Classic Urdu Stories written by Mohammad Asaduddin and published by Penguin Global. This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Barely A Hundred Years Old, The Urdu Short Story, Or Afsana', Has Established Itself At The Forefront Of Urdu Literature. Emerging As A Discrete Narrative Genre With Munshi Premchand, It Gained Momentum With The Progressive Writers' Movement In The 1930S. The Partition Of The Subcontinent In 1947 Introduced New Dynamics Into The Genre As Writers Grappled With Emerging Trends Of Modernism And Symbolism As Well As With A Depleted Readership In India And The Challenge Of Establishing A New Literary Tradition Commensurate With A New Nationhood In Pakistan. The Penguin Book Of Classic Urdu Stories Brings Together Sixteen Memorable Tales That Have Influenced Generations Of Readers. From Saadat Hasan Manto'S Immortal Partition Narrative Toba Tek Singh' And The Harrowing Realism Of Premchand'S The Shroud' To The Whimsical Strains Of Qurratulain Hyder'S Confessions Of St Flora Of Georgia' And The Daring Experimentation Of Khalida Husain'S Millipede', This Definitive Collection Represents The Best Of Short Fiction In Urdu. In The Process, It Provides A Glimpse Of The Works Of Acclaimed Masters On Both Sides Of The Border Ismat Chughtai And Ashfaq Ahmad, Rajinder Singh Bedi And Intizar Husain, Krishan Chander And Hasan Manzar, Naiyer Masud And Ikramullah.

The Penguin Arthur Miller

Author : Arthur Miller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101991976
Total Pages : 1314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Arthur Miller written by Arthur Miller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 1314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To celebrate the centennial of his birth, the collected plays of America’s greatest twentieth-century dramatist in a beautiful bespoke hardcover edition In the history of postwar American art and politics, Arthur Miller casts a long shadow as a playwright of stunning range and power whose works held up a mirror to America and its shifting values. The Penguin Arthur Miller celebrates Miller’s creative and intellectual legacy by bringing together the breadth of his plays, which span the decades from the 1930s to the new millennium. From his quiet debut, The Man Who Had All the Luck, and All My Sons, the follow-up that established him as a major talent, to career hallmarks like The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, and later works like Mr. Peters’ Connections and Resurrection Blues, the range and courage of Miller’s moral and artistic vision are here on full display. This lavish bespoke edition, specially produced to commemorate the Miller centennial, is a must-have for devotees of Miller’s work. The Penguin Arthur Miller will ensure a permanent place on any bookshelf for the full span of Miller’s extraordinary dramatic career. The Penguin Arthur Miller includes: The Man Who Had All the Luck, All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, An Enemy of the People, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, After the Fall, Incident at Vichy, The Price, The Creation of the World and Other Business, The Archbishop’s Ceiling, The American Clock, Playing for Time, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, The Last Yankee, Broken Glass, Mr. Peters’ Connections, and Resurrection Blues.