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The Golden Flea: A Story of Obsession and Collecting

Author : Michael Rips
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324004088
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Flea: A Story of Obsession and Collecting written by Michael Rips and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lovable oddball cast of characters is at the heart of this treasure-hunt through the last days of one of the greatest flea markets on earth. "[Rips] has humanity, humor and the gift of a limpid, agile, unpretentious prose style.… A captivating portrait.”—Ben Downing, Wall Street Journal Across America and around the world, people wander through flea markets to search for lost treasures. For decades, no such market was more renowned than the legendary Chelsea flea market, which sprawled over several blocks and within an old garage on the west side of Manhattan. Visitors would trawl through booths crammed with vintage dresses, rare books, ancient swords, glass eyeballs, Afghan rugs, West African fetish dolls, Old Master paintings, and much more. In The Golden Flea, the acclaimed writer Michael Rips takes readers on a trip through this charmed world. With a beguiling style that has won praise from Joan Didion and Susan Orlean, Rips recounts his obsession with the flea and its treasures and provides a fascinating account of the business of buying and selling antiques. Along the way, he introduces us to the flea’s lovable oddball cast of vendors, pickers, and collectors, including a haberdasher who only sells to those he deems worthy; an art dealer whose obscure paintings often go for enormous sums; a troubadour who sings to attract customers; and the Prophet, who finds wisdom among all the treasures and trash. As Rips’s passion for collecting grows and the flea’s last days loom, he undertakes a quest to prove the provenance of a mysterious painting that just might be the one.

The Golden Flea

Author : Michael Rips
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911547761
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Flea written by Michael Rips and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captivating story of Manhattan's legendary Chelsea Flea Market.

Justinian's Flea

Author : William Rosen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101202424
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Justinian's Flea written by William Rosen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-05-03 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Miracle Cure and The Third Horseman, the epic story of the collision between one of nature's smallest organisms and history's mightiest empire During the golden age of the Roman Empire, Emperor Justinian reigned over a territory that stretched from Italy to North Africa. It was the zenith of his achievements and the last of them. In 542 AD, the bubonic plague struck. In weeks, the glorious classical world of Justinian had been plunged into the medieval and modern Europe was born. At its height, five thousand people died every day in Constantinople. Cities were completely depopulated. It was the first pandemic the world had ever known and it left its indelible mark: when the plague finally ended, more than 25 million people were dead. Weaving together history, microbiology, ecology, jurisprudence, theology, and epidemiology, Justinian's Flea is a unique and sweeping account of the little known event that changed the course of a continent.

The Golden Pot and Other Tales

Author : E. T. A. Hoffmann
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0199552479
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Pot and Other Tales written by E. T. A. Hoffmann and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoffmann is among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics. This selection, while stressing the variety of his work, puts in the foreground those tales in which the real and the supernatural are brought into contact and conflict. The humour of these tales is a result of the incongruity of supernatural beings at large in an ostentatiously everyday world. They include The Golden Pot, recognized as Hoffmann's masterpiece by himself and posterity; its spine-chilling companion tale, The Sandman, which Offenbach drew on for his opera Tales of Hoffmann, and which Freud examines in his essay `The Uncanny'; two longer and more elaborate fantasies, set respectively in Germany and Italy; and the late story, My Cousin's Corner Window, which shows the powers of the imagination being applied to everyday urban life, and marks a transition in European literature generally from Romanticism to Realism. Ritchie Robertson's detailed introduction places the stories in their intellectual and historical context and explores their compelling narrative complexities.

The Golden Locket

Author : Carol Greene
Publisher : Voyager Books
ISBN 13 : 9780152010089
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Locket written by Carol Greene and published by Voyager Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoping to avoid the worry of caring for a valuable object, Miss Teaberry gives away the locket her cat finds in the garden, only to find herself enmeshed in a situation of escalating chaos.

The Flea - The Amazing Story of Leo Messi

Author : Michael Part
Publisher : Sole Books
ISBN 13 : 1938591100
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book The Flea - The Amazing Story of Leo Messi written by Michael Part and published by Sole Books. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captivating story of soccer legend Lionel Messi, from his first touch at age five in the streets of Rosario, Argentina, to his first goal on the Camp Nou pitch in Barcelona, Spain. The Flea tells the amazing story of a boy who was born to play the beautiful game and destined to become the world's greatest soccer player.

Pasquale's Nose

Author : Michael Rips
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 147351309X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Pasquale's Nose written by Michael Rips and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A refreshing antidote to the saccharine charms of Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence and Frances Mayes' Under the Tuscan Sun, this is the quirky and hilarious memoir of a criminal lawyer who gives up his New York practise to spend a year in the Etruscan town of Sutri, near Rome, where he moves - reluctantly - with his artist wife and baby. Himself something of an eccentric from a bizarre Nebraskan family, he has spent his adult life living in hotels; and in Sutri, he heads straight for the caf- in the main square. From there he observes the baroque events of small-town life, conjures up a cast of Italian eccentrics (including Pasquale and his hypersensitive organ of smell), and relishes the weirdness and the wonder of Sutri's history, folklore, architecture and above all its food - particularly the notorious 'fagioli regina' (beans in a tomato and pig skin sauce) and the annual Bean Festival. Part of the delight of reading this memoir is that it not only evokes the sights and smells of an ancient and little-known town in Southern Italy, and brings its people to extraordinary life, but it also reveals the irresistible foibles and philosophy of a talented and unusual mind. Funny, philosophical and surprisingly moving, this is the story of how a rootless American finds home in the most unexpected places and how Pasquale and his compatriots put life into perspective in the strangest way.

Meet the Golden

Author : American Kennel Club
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1620080168
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Meet the Golden written by American Kennel Club and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Golden is the American Kennel Club's first official publication on this ever-popular sporting breed, published in conjunction with the Golden Retriever Club of America. Meet the Golden presents accurate, authoritative information on all aspects of purchasing and owning the Golden Retriever, heavily illustrated with color images of well-bred puppies and beautiful adults. The book contains eleven detailed chapters devoted to the breed's history, characteristics, and the special requirements for owning this versatile, active dog that excels in countless areas of work and sport. A chapter devoted to the purchase and selection of the Golden puppy gives the reader specific guidance on how to locate a qualified breeder and to recognize a healthy, sound puppy. Individual chapters on house-training and basic obedience serve as a crash course in positive-training techniques, the AKC's recommended way of training dogs. Chapters on exercise, grooming, feeding, and healthcare present indispensable information for new dog owners.As an official publication of the AKC, Meet the Golden also explains the many vital programs offered by the country's leading canine organization to all pet dog owners, including the S.T.A.R. Puppy and the Canine Good Citizen programs. The final chapter offers owners over a dozen ways to get active with their Golden Retrievers, including the various dog sports sponsored by the AKC, from conformation showing and obedience trials to agility, hunting tests, field trials and more. A detailed resources section offers recommendations for websites, books, periodicals, and club affiliate programs, all of great interest to responsible new dog owners.

The Golden Retriever

Author : September Morn
Publisher : Eldorado Ink
ISBN 13 : 1932904468
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Retriever written by September Morn and published by Eldorado Ink. This book was released on 2009 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this day and age, children and young adults need every advantage they can get from their education. At Eldorado Ink, we strive to establish our company as an exciting resource for nonfiction reference materials for sixth grade and beyond.

The Golden Pot and Other Tales

Author : E. T. A. Hoffmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192656414
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Pot and Other Tales written by E. T. A. Hoffmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoffmann is among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics. This selection, while stressing the variety of his work, puts in the foreground those tales in which the real and the supernatural are brought into contact and conflict. The humour of these tales is a result of the incongruity of supernatural beings at large in an ostentatiously everyday world. They include The Golden Pot, recognized as Hoffmann's masterpiece by himself and posterity; its spine-chilling companion tale, The Sandman, which Offenbach drew on for his opera Tales of Hoffmann, and which Freud examines in his essay `The Uncanny'; two longer and more elaborate fantasies, set respectively in Germany and Italy; and the late story, My Cousin's Corner Window, which shows the powers of the imagination being applied to everyday urban life, and marks a transition in European literature generally from Romanticism to Realism. Ritchie Robertson's detailed introduction places the stories in their intellectual and historical context and explores their compelling narrative complexities. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The Golden Retriever

Author : Julie Cairns
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470331070
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Retriever written by Julie Cairns and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to know about Golden Retrievers is here, from buying one to grooming, training, understanding the breed standard, breeding and health concerns.

The Golden Grasshopper

Author : Rosemary Nelson
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 0929141504
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Grasshopper written by Rosemary Nelson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisa is a spunky, mischievous ten-year-old, living on a farm. In preparation for the school's Science Fair, Lisa convinces her classmate and cousin, Paul, that they should camp out on the front lawn one night to take pictures of UFOs. But the pair get a whole lot more than they bargained for when a real, live alien appears on their front lawn.

A Little Frog’s Heart:The Golden Quill, Angel Or Executioner?

Author : Vîrtosu George
Publisher : Elefant Online
ISBN 13 : 6069344731
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (693 download)

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Download or read book A Little Frog’s Heart:The Golden Quill, Angel Or Executioner? written by Vîrtosu George and published by Elefant Online. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I don’t think I was expecting to read a children’s book with so much concentration, and I also have to admit, with such great pleasure. However, I don’t think this means that I’m entering my second childhood. Leaving aside the fact that the book is well written - putting it purely and simply, I was gripped by the ingenuity of the characters, and by the exciting nature of their experiences. I am glad this first volume is not actually the last, and that we are talking about an entire cycle which is far from its end. You are now about to read the first volume in the cycle of ‘A Frog’s Heart’, while I have already read the second one and I’m preparing for the reading of the third. So I have a serious motive for wanting to encounter the same freshness as I read the rest of it. I do not know what exactly drove the author towards children’s literature, but two things seem clear to me. Firstly, that he has all the gifts of imagination and expression necessary for this genre, so he has an indisputable leaning towards it. Secondly, that he fell upon a genre which has been a stepchild, in our literature, for a good few decades. In recent years, the genre has had a presence for its readers, mainly through translations and re-editing, with original works being immensely rare, if not almost absent. I am glad that, among the few who sought to fill this gap, there is an author so visibly gifted. He is an author who, besides the gifts of imagination and expression already mentioned, has another gift which I consider to be essential – he knows how to introduce that moral dimension without which literature for children cannot be conceived, but he never falls into merely preaching. The moral thesis emerges from the happenings, dialogues and meditations of the characters. This seems to me, as I’ve already mentioned, essential. Nothing drives a child – or even a grown-up – further away from the ethical dimension than a moralising lecture. As far as I know, these stories will be presented to the public in several formulae – as richly illustrated volumes, as comic strips, and – if I understood it correctly – as animated cartoons. This is excellent – since our way of perception differs both according to our ages and according to our personalities; and it is very good to be reached through the means best suited to us. I would not like to conclude before wishing the readers a pleasant read, irrespective of their age and the form of the story for which they’ve opted – book, comic strips, etc. I would also like to wish great energy to the author, so that he can make us glad with as many adventures as possible of his ingenious and charming characters. Had anyone told me, before reading this book, that fleas, rats and even silkworms would seem cute creatures to me, I would have said he didn’t know what he was talking about! Once again, have a pleasant read!“ – Liviu Antonesei

A Merry Crusade to the Golden Gate

Author : Edmund Frederick Erk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book A Merry Crusade to the Golden Gate written by Edmund Frederick Erk and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Golden Rat (Cryptofiction Classics - Weird Tales of Strange Creatures)

Author : Alexander Harvey
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473399254
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Rat (Cryptofiction Classics - Weird Tales of Strange Creatures) written by Alexander Harvey and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Alexander Harvey was originally published in 1908 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Golden Rat' tells the tale of a psychoanalyst and a troubling patient who hides a secret behind her emotional disturbance. The Cryptofiction Classics series contains a collection of wonderful stories from some of the greatest authors in the genre, including Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack London. From its roots in cryptozoology, this genre features bizarre, fantastical, and often terrifying tales of mythical and legendary creatures. Whether it be giant spiders, werewolves, lake monsters, or dinosaurs, the Cryptofiction Classics series offers a fantastic introduction to the world of weird creatures in fiction.

A Golden Wedding Day and Other Poems

Author : Mrs. Robert Dalzell Jillson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book A Golden Wedding Day and Other Poems written by Mrs. Robert Dalzell Jillson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Golden Statue Plot (Geronimo Stilton #55)

Author : Geronimo Stilton
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545556813
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Statue Plot (Geronimo Stilton #55) written by Geronimo Stilton and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each Geronimo Stilton book is fast-paced, with lively full-color art and a unique format kids 7-10 will love. Rancid rat hairs, the cat pirates are coming to town! They're planning on stealing New Mouse City's Statue of Liberty and taking it back to Cat Island. They think it's completely made of gold! My friends and I are determined to protect our city's precious symbol. But can we stop these fearsome felines?