Author: Lizzy Duckpond
Publisher: Elizabeth Helena Margaretha Swanepoel
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The Lance Leftfoot Series continues... Read Parts 1 - 8 and catch up on all the curious goings-on. So, there they were, Lance Leftfoot, his crazy kid-Mother, the hushperer Miss Sing, and upside-down talker Fizz Fizzpatrick. Having just said goodbye to Humbug! the Voice in the Box, the four continued on their quest to find their lost dog, William Wallace, The Scottish Terrier, the lion, and Mom's 'it'. Mom had lost her 'it' in the park one morning when she saw a lion with a lion's tooth necklace dangling down its neck. She plumb lost 'it' and turned into a kid. Read all about Mom losing 'it' in Bonkers! Part 1 of the Lance Leftfoot Adventures. Just as they were making their way to the cliffside a most beautiful sound lured kid-Mom, Mrs. Leftfoot closer and closer. It was the sound of angels! Join our travelers as they encounter yet another curious creature. A Diva with three songs stuck in her throat. Get ready for another curious meeting. The Lance Leftfoot Series continues... Read Parts 1 - 8 and catch up on all the curious goings-on. There they were: Lance Leftfoot, his crazy kid-Mother, and the hushperer Miss Sing. The quest for a lost dog, a lion, and Mom's 'it' continued. Mom had lost her 'it' in the park one morning when she saw a lion with a lion's tooth necklace dangling down its neck. She plumb lost 'it' and turned into a kid. Read all about Mom losing 'it' in Bonkers! Part 1 of the Lance Leftfoot Adventures. Having said goodbye to Fizz (the upside-down talker) in Gobbledygook they continued uphill when! Lo and behold the mystery box appeared again. There was something different about the box... I was huge! The giant box lying just off the path called out to them. Free me, free me .... screeched the terrible voice from inside the gigantic box. Curious as always, they moved closer ....
Humbug! A Lance Leftfoot Adventure - Part 8
Author: Lizzy Duckpond
Publisher: Elizabeth Helena Margaretha Swanepoel
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The Lance Leftfoot Series continues... Read Parts 1 - 8 and catch up on all the curious goings-on. So, there they were, Lance Leftfoot, his crazy kid-Mother, the hushperer Miss Sing, and upside-down talker Fizz Fizzpatrick. Having just said goodbye to Humbug! the Voice in the Box, the four continued on their quest to find their lost dog, William Wallace, The Scottish Terrier, the lion, and Mom's 'it'. Mom had lost her 'it' in the park one morning when she saw a lion with a lion's tooth necklace dangling down its neck. She plumb lost 'it' and turned into a kid. Read all about Mom losing 'it' in Bonkers! Part 1 of the Lance Leftfoot Adventures. Just as they were making their way to the cliffside a most beautiful sound lured kid-Mom, Mrs. Leftfoot closer and closer. It was the sound of angels! Join our travelers as they encounter yet another curious creature. A Diva with three songs stuck in her throat. Get ready for another curious meeting. The Lance Leftfoot Series continues... Read Parts 1 - 8 and catch up on all the curious goings-on. There they were: Lance Leftfoot, his crazy kid-Mother, and the hushperer Miss Sing. The quest for a lost dog, a lion, and Mom's 'it' continued. Mom had lost her 'it' in the park one morning when she saw a lion with a lion's tooth necklace dangling down its neck. She plumb lost 'it' and turned into a kid. Read all about Mom losing 'it' in Bonkers! Part 1 of the Lance Leftfoot Adventures. Having said goodbye to Fizz (the upside-down talker) in Gobbledygook they continued uphill when! Lo and behold the mystery box appeared again. There was something different about the box... I was huge! The giant box lying just off the path called out to them. Free me, free me .... screeched the terrible voice from inside the gigantic box. Curious as always, they moved closer ....
Publisher: Elizabeth Helena Margaretha Swanepoel
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The Lance Leftfoot Series continues... Read Parts 1 - 8 and catch up on all the curious goings-on. So, there they were, Lance Leftfoot, his crazy kid-Mother, the hushperer Miss Sing, and upside-down talker Fizz Fizzpatrick. Having just said goodbye to Humbug! the Voice in the Box, the four continued on their quest to find their lost dog, William Wallace, The Scottish Terrier, the lion, and Mom's 'it'. Mom had lost her 'it' in the park one morning when she saw a lion with a lion's tooth necklace dangling down its neck. She plumb lost 'it' and turned into a kid. Read all about Mom losing 'it' in Bonkers! Part 1 of the Lance Leftfoot Adventures. Just as they were making their way to the cliffside a most beautiful sound lured kid-Mom, Mrs. Leftfoot closer and closer. It was the sound of angels! Join our travelers as they encounter yet another curious creature. A Diva with three songs stuck in her throat. Get ready for another curious meeting. The Lance Leftfoot Series continues... Read Parts 1 - 8 and catch up on all the curious goings-on. There they were: Lance Leftfoot, his crazy kid-Mother, and the hushperer Miss Sing. The quest for a lost dog, a lion, and Mom's 'it' continued. Mom had lost her 'it' in the park one morning when she saw a lion with a lion's tooth necklace dangling down its neck. She plumb lost 'it' and turned into a kid. Read all about Mom losing 'it' in Bonkers! Part 1 of the Lance Leftfoot Adventures. Having said goodbye to Fizz (the upside-down talker) in Gobbledygook they continued uphill when! Lo and behold the mystery box appeared again. There was something different about the box... I was huge! The giant box lying just off the path called out to them. Free me, free me .... screeched the terrible voice from inside the gigantic box. Curious as always, they moved closer ....
The Mysteries of New Orleans
Author: Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801877695
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
One of the most scandalous books published in America at the time. "Reizenstein's peculiar vision of New Orleans is worth resurrecting precisely because it crossed the boundaries of acceptable taste in nineteenth-century German America and squatted firmly on the other side . . . This work makes us realize how limited our notions were of what could be conceived by a fertile American imagination in the middle of the nineteenth century."—from the Introduction by Steven Rowan A lost classic of America's neglected German-language literary tradition, The Mysteries of New Orleans by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein first appeared as a serial in the Louisiana Staats-Zeitung, a New Orleans German-language newspaper, between 1854 and 1855. Inspired by the gothic "urban mysteries" serialized in France and Germany during this period, Reizenstein crafted a daring occult novel that stages a frontal assault on the ethos of the antebellum South. His plot imagines the coming of a bloody, retributive justice at the hands of Hiram the Freemason—a nightmarish, 200-year-old, proto-Nietzschean superman—for the sin of slavery. Heralded by the birth of a black messiah, the son of a mulatto prostitute and a decadent German aristocrat, this coming revolution is depicted in frankly apocalyptic terms. Yet, Reizenstein was equally concerned with setting and characters, from the mundane to the fantastic. The book is saturated with the atmosphere of nineteenth-century New Orleans, the amorous exploits of its main characters uncannily resembling those of New Orleans' leading citizens. Also of note is the author's progressively matter-of-fact portrait of the lesbian romance between his novel's only sympathetic characters, Claudine and Orleana. This edition marks the first time that The Mysteries of New Orleans has been translated into English and proves that 150 years later, this vast, strange, and important novel remains as compelling as ever.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801877695
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
One of the most scandalous books published in America at the time. "Reizenstein's peculiar vision of New Orleans is worth resurrecting precisely because it crossed the boundaries of acceptable taste in nineteenth-century German America and squatted firmly on the other side . . . This work makes us realize how limited our notions were of what could be conceived by a fertile American imagination in the middle of the nineteenth century."—from the Introduction by Steven Rowan A lost classic of America's neglected German-language literary tradition, The Mysteries of New Orleans by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein first appeared as a serial in the Louisiana Staats-Zeitung, a New Orleans German-language newspaper, between 1854 and 1855. Inspired by the gothic "urban mysteries" serialized in France and Germany during this period, Reizenstein crafted a daring occult novel that stages a frontal assault on the ethos of the antebellum South. His plot imagines the coming of a bloody, retributive justice at the hands of Hiram the Freemason—a nightmarish, 200-year-old, proto-Nietzschean superman—for the sin of slavery. Heralded by the birth of a black messiah, the son of a mulatto prostitute and a decadent German aristocrat, this coming revolution is depicted in frankly apocalyptic terms. Yet, Reizenstein was equally concerned with setting and characters, from the mundane to the fantastic. The book is saturated with the atmosphere of nineteenth-century New Orleans, the amorous exploits of its main characters uncannily resembling those of New Orleans' leading citizens. Also of note is the author's progressively matter-of-fact portrait of the lesbian romance between his novel's only sympathetic characters, Claudine and Orleana. This edition marks the first time that The Mysteries of New Orleans has been translated into English and proves that 150 years later, this vast, strange, and important novel remains as compelling as ever.
Tiger-lilies
Author: Sidney Lanier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"Tiger-Lilies is actually a somewhat autobiographical book. In it, Lanier analyzes the relationship between a Northerner and a Southerner throughout the Civil War. As a Southerner who had fought for the Confederate army, Lanier had experienced the war firsthand, both on the battlefield and as a prisoner of war. These experiences are recognizable in the battle scenes especially, which are considered some of the most realistic representations of Civil War combat in literature. Ultimately, Tiger-Lilies can be interpreted as an anti-war novel and one of Lanier's less successful endeavors in the course of his career."--The History Engine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"Tiger-Lilies is actually a somewhat autobiographical book. In it, Lanier analyzes the relationship between a Northerner and a Southerner throughout the Civil War. As a Southerner who had fought for the Confederate army, Lanier had experienced the war firsthand, both on the battlefield and as a prisoner of war. These experiences are recognizable in the battle scenes especially, which are considered some of the most realistic representations of Civil War combat in literature. Ultimately, Tiger-Lilies can be interpreted as an anti-war novel and one of Lanier's less successful endeavors in the course of his career."--The History Engine
American Holocaust
Author: David E. Stannard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199838984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people. Indeed, as historian David E. Stannard argues in this stunning new book, the European and white American destruction of the native peoples of the Americas was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. Stannard begins with a portrait of the enormous richness and diversity of life in the Americas prior to Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492. He then follows the path of genocide from the Indies to Mexico and Central and South America, then north to Florida, Virginia, and New England, and finally out across the Great Plains and Southwest to California and the North Pacific Coast. Stannard reveals that wherever Europeans or white Americans went, the native people were caught between imported plagues and barbarous atrocities, typically resulting in the annihilation of 95 percent of their populations. What kind of people, he asks, do such horrendous things to others? His highly provocative answer: Christians. Digging deeply into ancient European and Christian attitudes toward sex, race, and war, he finds the cultural ground well prepared by the end of the Middle Ages for the centuries-long genocide campaign that Europeans and their descendants launched--and in places continue to wage--against the New World's original inhabitants. Advancing a thesis that is sure to create much controversy, Stannard contends that the perpetrators of the American Holocaust drew on the same ideological wellspring as did the later architects of the Nazi Holocaust. It is an ideology that remains dangerously alive today, he adds, and one that in recent years has surfaced in American justifications for large-scale military intervention in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. At once sweeping in scope and meticulously detailed, American Holocaust is a work of impassioned scholarship that is certain to ignite intense historical and moral debate.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199838984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people. Indeed, as historian David E. Stannard argues in this stunning new book, the European and white American destruction of the native peoples of the Americas was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. Stannard begins with a portrait of the enormous richness and diversity of life in the Americas prior to Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492. He then follows the path of genocide from the Indies to Mexico and Central and South America, then north to Florida, Virginia, and New England, and finally out across the Great Plains and Southwest to California and the North Pacific Coast. Stannard reveals that wherever Europeans or white Americans went, the native people were caught between imported plagues and barbarous atrocities, typically resulting in the annihilation of 95 percent of their populations. What kind of people, he asks, do such horrendous things to others? His highly provocative answer: Christians. Digging deeply into ancient European and Christian attitudes toward sex, race, and war, he finds the cultural ground well prepared by the end of the Middle Ages for the centuries-long genocide campaign that Europeans and their descendants launched--and in places continue to wage--against the New World's original inhabitants. Advancing a thesis that is sure to create much controversy, Stannard contends that the perpetrators of the American Holocaust drew on the same ideological wellspring as did the later architects of the Nazi Holocaust. It is an ideology that remains dangerously alive today, he adds, and one that in recent years has surfaced in American justifications for large-scale military intervention in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. At once sweeping in scope and meticulously detailed, American Holocaust is a work of impassioned scholarship that is certain to ignite intense historical and moral debate.
The Innocents Abroad
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846051764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846051764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Ozma of Oz
Author: L. Frank Baum
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Ozma of Oz is the book in Frank Baum's Oz book series. It records the adventures of Oz with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; and other characters. It is the first Oz narrative in which the majority of the events occur outside of Oz. Only the final two chapters are set in Oz. This conveys a slight change in theme: in the first book, Oz is the perilous land through which Dorothy must make her way back to Kansas; in the third, Oz is the book's conclusion and goal. Dorothy's wish to return home is not as strong as it was in the first book, and it is her uncle's need for her rather than her own that compels her to do so.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Ozma of Oz is the book in Frank Baum's Oz book series. It records the adventures of Oz with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; and other characters. It is the first Oz narrative in which the majority of the events occur outside of Oz. Only the final two chapters are set in Oz. This conveys a slight change in theme: in the first book, Oz is the perilous land through which Dorothy must make her way back to Kansas; in the third, Oz is the book's conclusion and goal. Dorothy's wish to return home is not as strong as it was in the first book, and it is her uncle's need for her rather than her own that compels her to do so.
The Shoes of Happiness
Author: Edwin Markham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A Tramp Abroad
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The Freelands
Author: John Galsworthy
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427067058
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Books for All Kinds of Readers ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Each edition has been optimized for maximum readability, using our patent-pending conversion technology. We are partnering with leading publishers around the globe to create accessible editions of their titles. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to readtoday.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427067058
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Books for All Kinds of Readers ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Each edition has been optimized for maximum readability, using our patent-pending conversion technology. We are partnering with leading publishers around the globe to create accessible editions of their titles. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to readtoday.
The Ultimate Experience
Author: Y. Harari
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230583881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
For millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more than a test: it became a secular revelation. This new understanding of war as revelation completely transformed Western war culture, revolutionizing politics, the personal experience of war, the status of common soldiers, and the tenets of military theory.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230583881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
For millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more than a test: it became a secular revelation. This new understanding of war as revelation completely transformed Western war culture, revolutionizing politics, the personal experience of war, the status of common soldiers, and the tenets of military theory.