Author: Regina V. Phelan
Publisher: california history
ISBN: 9780870622922
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Several families living in Southern California in the late nineteenth century find their frontier existence busy and challenging.
The Crying of Lot 49
Author: Thomas Pynchon
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101594608
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years “The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes.”—The New York Times “The work of a virtuoso with prose . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce’s Ulysses.”—Chicago Tribune “A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.”—San Francsisco Examiner The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy. When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101594608
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years “The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes.”—The New York Times “The work of a virtuoso with prose . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce’s Ulysses.”—Chicago Tribune “A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.”—San Francsisco Examiner The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy. When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.
They Came Around the Horn
Author: Regina V. Phelan
Publisher: california history
ISBN: 9780870622922
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Several families living in Southern California in the late nineteenth century find their frontier existence busy and challenging.
Publisher: california history
ISBN: 9780870622922
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Several families living in Southern California in the late nineteenth century find their frontier existence busy and challenging.
Around the Horn
Author: Emil Mihelich
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1469776162
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Set in 1949 in the mining city of Butte, Montana, a world unto itself sitting a mile above sea level in the southwestern corner of the state, Around the Horn takes its readers on a journey into the world that was with the hope of discovering what could be-both now and in the decades and centuries to come. After World War II baseball was king in America as well as in Butte. As result, it can serve as a metaphor for life, holding out infinite possibilites because of its freedom from the ticking of the clock. To score a run the ballplayer must return to home plate, the place from which he started. Similarly, to complete our own journey "around the horn," we must, as T. S. Eliot reminds us, return to the point from which we started and know the place for the first time. Around the Horn celebrates the adventure and shows us the way.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1469776162
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Set in 1949 in the mining city of Butte, Montana, a world unto itself sitting a mile above sea level in the southwestern corner of the state, Around the Horn takes its readers on a journey into the world that was with the hope of discovering what could be-both now and in the decades and centuries to come. After World War II baseball was king in America as well as in Butte. As result, it can serve as a metaphor for life, holding out infinite possibilites because of its freedom from the ticking of the clock. To score a run the ballplayer must return to home plate, the place from which he started. Similarly, to complete our own journey "around the horn," we must, as T. S. Eliot reminds us, return to the point from which we started and know the place for the first time. Around the Horn celebrates the adventure and shows us the way.
The Overland Monthly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine
The Log of Mystic Seaport
Around Cape Horn Once More
Author: Paul W Simpson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365112012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Around Cape Horn Once More is the story of the French Bounty Clipper Ship, Montebello. She was built in Nantes, France in 1900 and was lost on the rugged and lonely south coast of Kangaroo Island, South Australia in 1906. This book is a tale of the adventures of the Montebello and the men who sailed her around the globe. It brings to light a period of France's maritime history that has never before been told in such thrilling and dramatic detail. ""we heard the roar of breakers, and then we knew that we were close to the land, and there was still no visible light. All hands turned out to put on canvas with a view to heading the vessel off the shore, but we had received the warning too late and within a few minutes we had struck on the fearful rocks. The ship shivered all over with the shock. I shall never forget the sensation it created. She bumped hard several times and threatened to go to pieces at any moment. The seas broke over her from end to end.""
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365112012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Around Cape Horn Once More is the story of the French Bounty Clipper Ship, Montebello. She was built in Nantes, France in 1900 and was lost on the rugged and lonely south coast of Kangaroo Island, South Australia in 1906. This book is a tale of the adventures of the Montebello and the men who sailed her around the globe. It brings to light a period of France's maritime history that has never before been told in such thrilling and dramatic detail. ""we heard the roar of breakers, and then we knew that we were close to the land, and there was still no visible light. All hands turned out to put on canvas with a view to heading the vessel off the shore, but we had received the warning too late and within a few minutes we had struck on the fearful rocks. The ship shivered all over with the shock. I shall never forget the sensation it created. She bumped hard several times and threatened to go to pieces at any moment. The seas broke over her from end to end.""
Edward Rowland Sill
Author: G. FERGUSON
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401766487
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401766487
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The Bulletin of the General Contractors Association
Author: General Contractors Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages
Author: University of California, San Diego. University Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description