Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780561003146
Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
White Tie Tales
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780561003146
Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Cat in a White Tie and Tails
Author: Carole Nelson DouglasPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765365934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Chaperoning Temple Barr's visit to Chicago to meet fiancé Matt Devine's family, hard-boiled feline sleuth Midnight Louie is unexpectedly catnapped by an abductor with ties to an unsolved string of murders in Vegas and Temple's ex, the amnesiac magician Max Kinsella.
Beanstalker and Other Hilarious Scarytales
Author: Kiersten WhitePublisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545945860
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Kiersten White, the author of the NYT bestselling Paranormalcy trilogy, is ready to make her middle grade debut! Once upon a time, a girl skipped into the forest and became a zombie.Wait, no, that's not how this story is supposed to go. Let's try again.Once upon a time, a boy did a horrible job as a sheep-sitter and burned his tongue on stolen pie.No, children in these stories are always good and virtuous. From the top.Once upon a time, a king and queen tried to find a princess for their son to marry, and he wound up fleeing from a group of very hairy vampires.Hmmm...What about, once upon a time, a bunch of fairy tales got twisted around to be completely hilarious, a tiny bit icky, and delightfully spooky scarytales... in other words, exactly what fairy tales were meant to be. Grab some flaming torches, maybe don't accept that bowl of pease porridge, and get ready for a wickedly fun ride with acclaimed author Kiersten White and fairy tales like you've never heard them before.
Key West Tales
Author: John HerseyPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593080750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Alternating a tale of the past that has become a part of Key West legend with a contemporary story that reflects the pulse of life there today, Hersey weaves in these stories a brilliant human tapestry of the place that means a great deal to him. From the author of A Bell For Adano and Hiroshima comes this final collections of stories.
Twelve Tales
Author: Grant AllenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Tales of Tchehov: The darling, and other stories
Author: Anton Pavlovich ChekhovPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Tales of Tchehov: The wife, and other stories
Author: Anton Pavlovich ChekhovPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Tales of Tchehov: The horse-stealers, and other stories
Author: Anton Pavlovich ChekhovPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Wessex Tales Series: 18 Novels & Stories (Complete Collection)
Author: Thomas HardyPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027241286
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 3684
Book Description
This ebook collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Wessex Novels and Tales of Thomas Hardy are set in the south and southwest of England, in the area Hardy named "Wessex" after the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom that existed in this part of that country prior to the unification of England by Æthelstan. These tales depict strong characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances. Wessex Novels: Under the Greenwood Tree Far from the Madding Crowd The Return of the Native The Mayor of Casterbridge The Woodlanders Tess of the d'Urbervilles Jude the Obscure A Pair of Blue Eyes The Trumpet-Major Two on a Tower The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid The Well-Beloved Wessex Tales: An Imaginative Woman The Three Strangers The Withered Arm Fellow-Townsmen Interlopers at the Knap The Distracted Preacher Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England. His most famous novels include Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure.
Author: Adon