Author: James Fenimore Cooper Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781534905382 Category : Languages : en Pages : 348
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Afloat and Ashore is a nautical fiction novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1844. Set in 1796-1804, the novel follows the maritime adventures of Miles Wallingford Jr. , the son of wealthy New York landowners who chooses to go to sea after the death of his parents. The novel ends abruptly part way through, and is followed by what critic Harold D. Langely called a "necessary" sequel Miles Wallingford, which resolves many thematic and plot elements. The novel is partially autobiographical, in part by Cooper's own experiences as a sailor, and is his first full-length novel to fully employ a first-person narrative.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper Publisher: ISBN: 9781517203726 Category : Languages : en Pages : 446
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The writer has published so much truth which the world has insisted was fiction, and so much fiction which has been received as truth, that, in the present instance, he is resolved to say nothing on the subject. Each of his readers is at liberty to believe just as much, or as little, of the matter here laid before him, or her, as may suit his, or her notions, prejudices, knowledge of the world, or ignorance.
Author: Louisa May Alcott Publisher: Golgotha Press ISBN: 1610426045 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 6739
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The Works of Louisa May Alcott are collected in this giant anthology. Included with this collection is a biography about the life and times of Alcott, and essay on each of Alcott's major works. Works include: Old-fashioned Girl Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag The Candy Country Comic Tragedies Eight Cousins Louisa May Alcott's Flower Fables A Garland for Girls Jack and Jill Jo's Boys Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories Little Men Little Women Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott The Louisa Alcott Reader Lulu's Library Marjorie's Three Gifts A Modern Cinderella Moods The Mysterious Key And What It Opened Picket Duty and Other Tales Passion and Punishment Rose in Bloom Shawl-Straps Silver Pitchers: and Independence Three Unpublished Poems Under the Lilacs Work: A Story of Experience
Author: Louisa May Alcott Publisher: Golgotha Press ISBN: 1610426096 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 405
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Jo’s Boys continues the story of many of the characters that appeared in Little Women and Little Men. Jo and her husband Professor Bhaer are now running Laurence College, the funding of which was made possible by the estate of Old Mr. Laurence. The institution supports the educational philosophy and practices evident in Little Men and reflects the ideas of Alcott and her father Amos Bronson Alcott, an educator and philosopher. Laurence College is a post-secondary school where the students of Little Men are continuing their education. This annotated edition includes a biography and critical essay.
Author: Mike Bruton Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa ISBN: 177584501X Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 339
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When the famous South African fish scientist Professor JLB Smith published Old Fourlegs – The Story of the Coelacanth in 1956 he created an international sensation. After all, this 400-million-year-old fish, known only from fossil remains, was thought to have become extinct around 66 million years ago! JLB Smith’s dramatic account of the discovery of the first and second coelacanths in 1938 and 1952 turned him into a cult figure and put South African science on the world map. His book was eventually published in six English editions and translated into nine foreign languages. Mike Bruton’s The Annotated Old Fourlegs includes a facsimile reprint of the original book, to which he has added notes and images in the margins that provide an interesting and revealing commentary on Smith’s text, as well as new introductory and explanatory chapters that bring the coelacanth story up to date.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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Author: Indiana
Author: Louisa May Alcott
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Author: Louisa May Alcott
Author: Catherine M. Parisian
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Author: Mike Bruton