Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486148505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Three of the finest of the author's numerous short stories include the romantic title tale, the comic "The Distracted Preacher," and "The Three Strangers," a tribute to community life.
The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486148505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Three of the finest of the author's numerous short stories include the romantic title tale, the comic "The Distracted Preacher," and "The Three Strangers," a tribute to community life.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486148505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Three of the finest of the author's numerous short stories include the romantic title tale, the comic "The Distracted Preacher," and "The Three Strangers," a tribute to community life.
The Moon and Sixpence
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486446026
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
"Witty, compelling." — The Boston Globe. Gripped by an overwhelming obsession, Charles Strickland, a conventional London stockbroker, decides in midlife to desert his wife, family, business, and civilization for his art. One of Maugham's most popular works, The Moon and Sixpence is a riveting story about an uncompromising and self-destructive man who forsakes wealth and comfort to pursue the life of a painter. Drifting from Paris to Marseilles, Strickland eventually settles in Tahiti, takes a mistress, and in spite of poverty and a long, terminal illness, produces his most passionate and mysterious works of art. Loosely based on the life of Paul Gauguin, Maugham's timeless masterpiece is storytelling at its best — an insightful work focusing on artistic fixation that propels the artist beyond the commonplace into the selfish realm of genius.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486446026
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
"Witty, compelling." — The Boston Globe. Gripped by an overwhelming obsession, Charles Strickland, a conventional London stockbroker, decides in midlife to desert his wife, family, business, and civilization for his art. One of Maugham's most popular works, The Moon and Sixpence is a riveting story about an uncompromising and self-destructive man who forsakes wealth and comfort to pursue the life of a painter. Drifting from Paris to Marseilles, Strickland eventually settles in Tahiti, takes a mistress, and in spite of poverty and a long, terminal illness, produces his most passionate and mysterious works of art. Loosely based on the life of Paul Gauguin, Maugham's timeless masterpiece is storytelling at its best — an insightful work focusing on artistic fixation that propels the artist beyond the commonplace into the selfish realm of genius.
Jude the Obscure
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486452433
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Originally published: London: Macmillan, 1912.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486452433
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Originally published: London: Macmillan, 1912.
The War of the Worlds
Author: H. G. Wells
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486295060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
An English astronomer, in company with an artilleryman, a country curate, and others struggle to survive the invasion of Earth by Martians in 1894
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486295060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
An English astronomer, in company with an artilleryman, a country curate, and others struggle to survive the invasion of Earth by Martians in 1894
Favorite Fairy Tales
Author: Jacob Grimm
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486419797
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A collection of twenty-one traditional tales collected by the Grimm brothers.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486419797
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A collection of twenty-one traditional tales collected by the Grimm brothers.
Greek and Roman Lives
Author: Plutarch
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486119025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Written early in the 2nd century, Plutarch's Lives offers richly detailed and anecdotal profiles of some of the ancient world's mightiest and most influential figures, including those of Alexander the Great, Cicero, and Julius Caesar.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486119025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Written early in the 2nd century, Plutarch's Lives offers richly detailed and anecdotal profiles of some of the ancient world's mightiest and most influential figures, including those of Alexander the Great, Cicero, and Julius Caesar.
Hard Times
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486115100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Classic 1845 novel offered a powerful indictment of dehumanizing effects of industrialization. Thomas Gradgrind raises his children in strict observance of practicality, only to see them fall into lives of desperation and despair.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486115100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Classic 1845 novel offered a powerful indictment of dehumanizing effects of industrialization. Thomas Gradgrind raises his children in strict observance of practicality, only to see them fall into lives of desperation and despair.
Far from the Madding Crowd
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114589
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Now a major motion picture! This tale of a passionate, independent woman and her three suitors explores Hardy's trademark themes: thwarted love, the inevitability of fate, and the encroachment of industrial society on rural life.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114589
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Now a major motion picture! This tale of a passionate, independent woman and her three suitors explores Hardy's trademark themes: thwarted love, the inevitability of fate, and the encroachment of industrial society on rural life.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Author: Edmond Rostand
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486112055
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A quarrelsome, hot-tempered, and unattractive swordsman falls hopelessly in love with a beautiful woman and woos her for a handsome but slow-witted suitor. A witty and eloquent drama.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486112055
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A quarrelsome, hot-tempered, and unattractive swordsman falls hopelessly in love with a beautiful woman and woos her for a handsome but slow-witted suitor. A witty and eloquent drama.
Paradise Lost
Author: John Milton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486113248
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
First published in 1667, Paradise Lost ranks among the greatest of English literature's epic poems. It's a sublime retelling of Adam and Eve's fall from grace and expulsion from Eden. Notes by John A. Himes.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486113248
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
First published in 1667, Paradise Lost ranks among the greatest of English literature's epic poems. It's a sublime retelling of Adam and Eve's fall from grace and expulsion from Eden. Notes by John A. Himes.