Author: Mrs. MolesworthPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Wrong Envelope and Other Stories
Author: Mrs. MolesworthAn Unshared Secret and Other Stories
Author: Florence MontgomeryOne Thousand and One-second Stories
Author: Taruho InagakiPublisher: Sun and Moon Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Writing from the 1920s to the 1970s, Taruho Inagaki created and imagined short tales of astonishing worlds. While other writers were learning the effective use of verbs and adjectives, Taruho explored aeroplane construction and flying in his teens. He entered literature from the outside. Mishima, the traditionalist who committed ritualistic suicide, always held a high opinion of Inagaki.
Candide and Other Stories
Author: VoltairePublisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 067941746X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan. Fast, funny, often outrageous, the French philosopher's immortal narrative takes Candide around the world to discover that — contrary to the teachings of his distinguished tutor Dr. Pangloss — all is not always for the best. Alive with wit, brilliance, and graceful storytelling, Candide has become Voltaire's most celebrated work.
Jan van Elselo, by G. & M. Coleridge
Author: Gilbert James D. Coleridge (hon.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Toll of the Bush
Author: William SatchellPublisher:
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Category : Farm life
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Last Chance: A Tale of the Golden West
Author: Rolf BoldrewoodPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
"The Last Chance: A Tale of the Golden West" By Rolf Boldrewood, the pen-name for Thomas Alexander Browne is one of his later books about traveling around the much uncharted Australian landscape. Though the author may be better known for his book "Robbery Under Arms" however though this work is less known, many consider it to be his masterpiece. Boldrewood lived an exciting and at times unconventional life, which made him uniquely qualified as an adventure writer. Readers will find themselves transported to an Australian outback that may no longer exist but in the minds of those who are able to imagine it.
Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: A Thousand Pieces of You
Author: Claudia GrayPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062278983
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Cloud Atlas meets Orphan Black in this epic dimension-bending trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray about a girl who must chase her father's killer through multiple dimensions. Marguerite Caine's physicist parents are known for their groundbreaking achievements. Their most astonishing invention, called the Firebird, allows users to jump into multiple universes—and promises to revolutionize science forever. But then Marguerite's father is murdered, and the killer—her parent's handsome, enigmatic assistant Paul— escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him. Marguerite refuses to let the man who destroyed her family go free. So she races after Paul through different universes, always leaping into another version of herself. But she also meets alternate versions of the people she knows—including Paul, whose life entangles with hers in increasingly familiar ways. Before long she begins to question Paul's guilt—as well as her own heart. And soon she discovers the truth behind her father's death is far more sinister than she expected. A Thousand Pieces of You explores an amazingly intricate multi-universe where fate is unavoidable, the truth elusive, and love the greatest mystery of all.
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