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Book Synopsis City of Marvels by : Eduardo Mendoza
Download or read book City of Marvels written by Eduardo Mendoza and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The City of Marvels by : Eduardo Mendoza
Download or read book The City of Marvels written by Eduardo Mendoza and published by San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. This book was released on 1988 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the story of Onofre Bouvila, a poor Catalan country boy who arrives in Barcelona in 1886 and lies, cheats, and murders his way to enormous wealth and power.
Book Synopsis City of Wonders by : Eduardo Mendoza
Download or read book City of Wonders written by Eduardo Mendoza and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eduardo Mendoza's classic novel about the birth of Barcelona as a world city, embodied in the rise of the ambitious and unscrupulous Onofre Bouvila "Though historical in subject matter, this story of Catalonian enterprise and Barcelonan ambition is thoroughly contemporary in spirit" Jonathan Franzen Stung by the realisation that his father is a fraud and a failure, Onofre Bouvila leaves a life of rural poverty to seek his fortune in Barcelona. The year is 1888, and the Catalan capital is about to emerge from provincial obscurity to take its place amongst the great cities of the world, thanks to the upcoming Universal Exhibition. Thanks to a tip-off from his landlord's daughter, Onofre gets his big break distributing anarchist leaflets to workers preparing for the World Fair. From these humble beginnings, he branches out as a hair-tonic salesman, a burglar, a filmmaker, an arms smuggler and a political dealmaker, in a multifaceted career that brings him wealth and influence beyond his wildest dreams. But, just as Barcelona's rise makes it a haven for gangsters, crooks and spivs, vice begins to fester in Onofre's heart. And the climax to his remarkable story will come just as a second World Fair in 1929 marks the city's apotheosis. Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor
Download or read book Church of Marvels written by Leslie Parry and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ravishing first novel, set in vibrant, tumultuous turn-of-the-century New York City, where the lives of four outsiders become entwined, bringing irrevocable change to them all. New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, determined to find where she belongs. Odile Church and her beautiful sister, Belle, were raised amid the applause and magical pageantry of The Church of Marvels, their mother’s spectacular Coney Island sideshow. But the Church has burnt to the ground, their mother dead in its ashes. Now Belle, the family’s star, has vanished into the bowels of Manhattan, leaving Odile alone and desperate to find her. A young woman named Alphie awakens to find herself trapped across the river in Blackwell’s Lunatic Asylum—sure that her imprisonment is a ruse by her husband’s vile, overbearing mother. On the ward she meets another young woman of ethereal beauty who does not speak, a girl with an extraordinary talent that might save them both. As these strangers’ lives become increasingly connected, their stories and secrets unfold. Moving from the Coney Island seashore to the tenement-studded streets of the Lower East Side, a spectacular human circus to a brutal, terrifying asylum, Church of Marvels takes readers back to turn-of-the-century New York—a city of hardship and dreams, love and loneliness, hope and danger. In magnetic, luminous prose, Leslie Parry offers a richly atmospheric vision of the past in a narrative of astonishing beauty, full of wondrous enchantments, a marvelous debut that will leave readers breathless.
Download or read book Marvels written by Kurt Busiek and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting Marvels #0-4. Within the Marvel Universe, heroes soar high in the skies, ready to battle the villains who threaten their world. Yet living in the shadow of these extraordinary icons are ordinary men and women who view the MARVELS with a mixture of fear, disbelief, envy and admiration. Among them is Phil Sheldon, a New York City photojournalist who has dedicated his career to covering the exploits of the Marvels and their effect on humankind. Written by Kurt Busiek and masterfully illustrated by Alex Ross, Marvels presents a richly painted historical overview of the entire Marvel Universe, spanning from the 1939 debut of the Human Torch to the fearsome coming of the world-devouring Galactus and culminating in the shocking death of Gwen Stacy, Spider-Mans first love.
Book Synopsis Engineering Marvels: Famous Bridges of the United States by : Jade Summers
Download or read book Engineering Marvels: Famous Bridges of the United States written by Jade Summers and published by Jade Summers. This book was released on with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the awe-inspiring world of America's most iconic bridges with "Engineering Marvels: Famous Bridges of the United States." This comprehensive travel guide takes you on a captivating journey across the country, showcasing the engineering brilliance and historical significance of these architectural wonders. From the majestic Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to the historic Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, this book provides detailed descriptions, stunning photographs, and fascinating stories behind each bridge's construction. Learn about the innovative techniques and visionary engineers who brought these monumental structures to life. Perfect for travel enthusiasts, history buffs, and engineering aficionados, this guide not only highlights the beauty and grandeur of these bridges but also offers practical travel tips, nearby attractions, and insights into the best times to visit. Whether you're planning a road trip or simply want to explore from the comfort of your home, "Engineering Marvels: Famous Bridges of the United States" will inspire you to appreciate the incredible feats of human ingenuity that span the nation's rivers and valleys.
Book Synopsis Boy's Book of Modern Marvels with One Hundred Illus. from Photographs by : Charles J. L. Clarke
Download or read book Boy's Book of Modern Marvels with One Hundred Illus. from Photographs written by Charles J. L. Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World by : Michelle Karnes
Download or read book Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World written by Michelle Karnes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cross-cultural study of magical phenomena in the Middle Ages. Marvels like enchanted rings and sorcerers’ stones were topics of fascination in the Middle Ages, not only in romance and travel literature but also in the period’s philosophical writing. Rather than constructions of belief accepted only by simple-minded people, Michelle Karnes shows that these spectacular wonders were near impossibilities that demanded scrutiny and investigation. This is the first book to analyze a diverse set of writings on such wonders, comparing texts from the Latin West—including those written in English, French, Italian, and Castilian Spanish —with those written in Arabic as it works toward a unifying theory of marvels across different disciplines and cultures. Karnes tells a story about the parallels between Arabic and Latin thought, reminding us that experiences of the strange and the unfamiliar travel across a range of genres, spanning geographical and conceptual space and offering an ideal vantage point from which to understand intercultural exchange. Karnes traverses this diverse archive, showing how imagination imbues marvels with their character and power, making them at once enigmatic, creative, and resonant. Skirting the distinction between the real and unreal, these marvels challenge readers to discover the highest capabilities of both nature and the human intellect. Karnes offers a rare comparative perspective and a new methodology to study a topic long recognized as central to medieval culture.
Book Synopsis Marvels of the New West by : William M. Thayer
Download or read book Marvels of the New West written by William M. Thayer and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands by : Sergey Minov
Download or read book The Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands written by Sergey Minov and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the original text, accompanied by an English translation and commentary, of a hitherto unpublished Syriac composition, entitled the Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands. Produced by an unknown East Syrian Christian author during the late medieval or early modern period, this work offers a loosely organized catalogue of marvellous events, phenomena, and objects, natural as well as human-made, found throughout the world. The Marvels is a unique composition in that it bears witness to the creative adoption by Syriac Christians of the paradoxographical literary mode of ‘aǧā’ib that enjoyed great popularity among their Arabic- and Persian-speaking Muslim neighbours. In this composition, the East Syrian author blends together a number of different paradoxographical traditions: some inherited from the earlier Christian works in Syriac, such as the Alexander Romance, some borrowed directly or indirectly from Muslim geographical and other works, and some, apparently, circulating as a part of local oral lore. Combining entertainment and didacticism, he provides his audience with a fascinating panorama of imaginary geography, which at the same time has unmistakable Christian features. This edition makes a fascinating Syriac work available to a wider audience, and provides detailed insights into the rich assortment of traditions creatively woven together by its author. Thanks to the combination of the original text, English translation and commentary, it will be of interest to scholars and readers alike.
Book Synopsis From Pyramids to Palaces: Architectural Marvels of the Ancient World by : George Wilton
Download or read book From Pyramids to Palaces: Architectural Marvels of the Ancient World written by George Wilton and published by Az Boek. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovery The From Pyramids to Palaces: Architectural Marvels of the Ancient World
Book Synopsis Barcelona: An Urban History of Science and Modernity, 1888-1929 by : Oliver Hochadel
Download or read book Barcelona: An Urban History of Science and Modernity, 1888-1929 written by Oliver Hochadel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four decades between the two Universal Exhibitions of 1888 and 1929 were formative in the creation of modern Barcelona. Architecture and art blossomed in the work of Antoni Gaudi and many others. At the same time, social unrest tore the city apart. Topics such as art nouveau and anarchism have attracted the attention of numerous historians. Yet the crucial role of science, technology and medicine in the cultural makeup of the city has been largely ignored. The ten articles of this book recover the richness and complexity of the scientific culture of end of the century Barcelona. The authors explore a broad range of topics: zoological gardens, natural history museums, amusement parks, new medical specialities, the scientific practices of anarchists and spiritists, the medical geography of the urban underworld, early mass media, domestic electricity and astronomical observatories. They pay attention to the agenda of the bourgeois elites but also to hitherto neglected actors: users of electric technologies and radio amateurs, patients in clinics and dispensaries, collectors and visitors of museums, working class audiences of public talks and female mediums. Science, technology and medicine served to exert social control but also to voice social critique. Barcelona: An urban history of science and modernity (1888-1929) shows that the city around 1900 was both a creator and facilitator of knowledge but also a space substantially transformed by the appropriation of this knowledge by its unruly citizens.
Download or read book Marvels Project written by Ed Brubaker and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is the mysterious old man who lies on his deathbed in a hospital in 1939, and how does his passing mark the beginning of the first heroic age of the Marvel Universe--and signal the rise of the superhumans? Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting unveil the defining story of the origin of the Marvel Universe, revealing the hidden connections that unite the earliest costumed champions, and whose reverberations are felt dramatically into the present day! It's a world on the brink of war, and the race is on to create the world's first super-soldier! Collecting Marvels Project (2009) #1-8.
Book Synopsis Scenic Marvels of Asia by : Zahid Ameer
Download or read book Scenic Marvels of Asia written by Zahid Ameer and published by Zahid Ameer. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering of incredible funnel-shaped slopes in focal Turkey has been made much progressively remarkable by nearby cavern occupants. A mountain-ringed lake in southern Siberia, the most profound on Earth, contains one-fifth of the world's crisp water. Common limestone dams slice over a stream to shape a chain of shiny lakes high in the Hindu Kush Mountains. Volcanic emission that slaughtered 36,000 individuals, another island has emerged from the ocean. What's more, some more
Book Synopsis Paris: Illuminating the City of Lights by : ChatStick Team
Download or read book Paris: Illuminating the City of Lights written by ChatStick Team and published by ChatStick Team. This book was released on 2023-08-06 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 🗼 Get ready to explore Paris like never before! 💖 "Paris: Illuminating the City of Lights" from the ChatStick Team is your personal guide to the City of Lights. Part of the beloved "Wanderlust Chronicles" series, this book takes you on an illuminating journey through the city's historical 🏰 landmarks, luminous 🌉 Seine River, vibrant 🎭 arts and culture, iconic culinary 🍷🧀 scenes, and the world-renowned fashion industry 👗. Immerse yourself in Paris's unique lifestyle and appreciate its diversity from a new perspective. Illuminate your understanding of the world with us - one book at a time! 🌍📚 https://www.chatstickmarket.com/ https://www.chatvariety.com/
Book Synopsis Shazam Family Giant: Marvels & Miracles by : Mini Komix
Download or read book Shazam Family Giant: Marvels & Miracles written by Mini Komix and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shazam Family Giant reveals Marvels and Miracles! The original Captain Marvel soars in a cosmic collection of his Golden Age adventures! Learn the secret origin of the World's Mightiest Mortal, plus he meets Mr. Tawny, hits haunted armor, strikes down Dr. Sivanna, wrecks the Island Wrecker, goes after a gorilla, halts the Human Hawks, and takes a trip to the moon! 100 Big Pages!