Author: Louis Phillips Publisher: World Audience Inc ISBN: 1541295986 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 189
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Louis Phillips’ most recent books are: THE WOMAN WHO WROTE KING LEAR and other stories (Pleasure Boat Studio), THE KILROY SONATA (a poetic sequence) and ROBOT 9 IN WONDERLAND (World Audience Publishers), and FIREWORKS WITH SOME PARTICULAR (stories, poems, plays, & humor pieces, published by Fort Schuyler Press).
Author: Mark Helprin Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0143035762 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 385
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A dazzling collection of short stories by Mark Helprin, bestselling author of Winter's Tale, which is now a major motion picture starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Russell Crowe, William Hurt, and Jennifer Connelly The Pacific and Other Stories is a collection of sixteen stories that display the remarkable scope, incomparable wit, and deft prose that have come to be Mark Helprin's signature. A British paratrooper jumps into occupied territory; the 1958 New York Yankees gain an unexpected teammate in a puny, teenaged Hasidic Jew; a September 11th widow receives an astonishing gift from the contractor working on her new apartment—these and other stories exhibit the constantly changing variety of the ocean itself, the peaks and troughs of life. Lighthearted, glittering fables are met with starker tales that sound the depths of sacrifice and duty. The Pacific and Other Stories is a resplendent, powerful collection of lasting substance and emotional import.
Author: Louis Phillips Publisher: World Audience Inc ISBN: 1546430466 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 124
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Louis Phillips, a widely published poet, playwright, and short story writer, has written some 50 books for children and adults. Among his published works are: six collections of short stories – A Dream of Countries Where No One Dare Live (SMU Press), The Bus to the Moon (Fort Schuyler Press), The Woman Who Wrote King Lear and Other Stories (Pleasure Boat Studio), Must I Weep for The Dancing Bear (Pleasure Boat Studio), Galahad in the City of Tigers, and Sheathed Bayonets (World Audience). Hot Corner, a collection of his baseball writings, and R.I.P. (a sequence of poems about Rip Van Winkle) from Livingston Press; The Envoi Messages, The Ballroom in St. Patrick’s Cathedral and The Last of The Marx Brothers' Writers, full-length plays, (Broadway Play Publishers). Fireworks in Some Particulars (Fort Schuyler Press) is a collection of poetry, short stores, and humor pieces. That book also contains his play – God Have Mercy on the June-Bug. Pleasure Boat Studio has published The Domain of Silence/The Domain of Absence: New & Selected Poems, and The Domain Of Small Mercies: New & Selected Poems (2).
Author: Louis Phillips Publisher: World Audience Inc ISBN: 1548047465 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 165
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Louis Phillips, a widely published poet, playwright, and short story writer, has written some 50 books for children and adults. Among his published works are: six collections of short stories – A Dream of Countries Where No One Dare Live (SMU Press), The Bus to the Moon (Fort Schuyler Press), The Woman Who Wrote King Lear and Other Stories (Pleasure Boat Studio), Must I Weep for The Dancing Bear (Pleasure Boat Studio), Galahad in the City of Tigers, and Sheathed Bayonets (World Audience). Hot Corner, a collection of his baseball writings, and R.I.P. (a sequence of poems about Rip Van Winkle) from Livingston Press; The Envoi Messages, The Ballroom in St. Patrick’s Cathedral and The Last of The Marx Brothers' Writers, full-length plays, (Broadway Play Publishers). Fireworks in Some Particulars (Fort Schuyler Press) is a collection of poetry, short stores, and humor pieces. That book also contains his play – God Have Mercy on the June-Bug. Pleasure Boat Studio has published The Domain of Silence/The Domain of Absence: New & Selected Poems, and The Domain Of Small Mercies: New & Selected Poems (2).
Author: Louis Phillips Publisher: World Audience Inc ISBN: 1548047473 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 147
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Louis Phillips, a widely published poet, playwright, and short story writer, has written some 50 books for children and adults. Among his published works are: six collections of short stories – A Dream of Countries Where No One Dare Live (SMU Press), The Bus to the Moon (Fort Schuyler Press), The Woman Who Wrote King Lear and Other Stories (Pleasure Boat Studio), Must I Weep for The Dancing Bear (Pleasure Boat Studio), Galahad in the City of Tigers, and Sheathed Bayonets (World Audience). Hot Corner, a collection of his baseball writings, and R.I.P. (a sequence of poems about Rip Van Winkle) from Livingston Press; The Envoi Messages, The Ballroom in St. Patrick’s Cathedral and The Last of The Marx Brothers' Writers, full-length plays, (Broadway Play Publishers). Fireworks in Some Particulars (Fort Schuyler Press) is a collection of poetry, short stores, and humor pieces. That book also contains his play – God Have Mercy on the June-Bug. Pleasure Boat Studio has published The Domain of Silence/The Domain of Absence: New & Selected Poems, and The Domain Of Small Mercies: New & Selected Poems (2).
Author: Stephen Crane Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1060
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This meticulously edited short story collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Table of Contents: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets George's Mother The Third Violet The Monster The Little Regiment and Other Episodes from the American Civil War: The Little Regiment Three Miraculous Soldiers A Mystery of Heroism An Indiana Campaign A Grey Sleeve The Veteran The Open Boat and Other Stories: The Open Boat A Man and Some Others The Bride comes to Yellow Sky The Wise Men The Five White Mice Flanagan and His Short Filibustering Adventure Horses Death and the Child An Experiment in Misery The Men in the Storm The Dual that was not Fought An Ominous Baby A Great Mistake An Eloquence of Grief The Auction The Pace of Youth A Detail Blue Hotel His New Mittens Whilomville Stories: The Angel Child Lynx-Hunting The Lover and the Telltale "Showin' Off" Making an Orator Shame The Carriage-Lamps The Knife The Stove The Trial, Execution, and Burial of Homer Phelps The Fight The City Urchin and the Chaste Villagers A Little Pilgrimage Wounds in the Rain – War Stories: The Price of the Harness The Lone Charge of William B. Perkins The Clan of No-Name God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen The Revenge of the Adolphus The Sergeant's Private Madhouse Virtue in War Marines Signalling under Fire at Guantanamo This Majestic Lie War Memories The Second Generation Great Battles of the World: Vittoria The Siege of Plevna The Storming of Burkersdorf Heights A Swede's Campaign in Germany The Storming of Badajoz The Brief Campaign Against New Orleans The Battle of Solferino The Battle of Bunker Hill Last Words: The Reluctant Voyagers Spitzbergen Tales Wyoming Valley Tales London Impressions New York Sketches The Assassins in Modern Battles Irish Notes Sullivan County Sketches Miscellaneous Other Short Stories: The Black Dog A Tent in Agony An Experiment in Luxury The Judgement of the Sage The Scotch Express Marines Signaling Under Fire at Guantanamo Twelve O'Clock The Great Boer Trek A Dark-Brown Dog Manacled The Woof of Thin Red Threads
Author: Stephen Crane Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 2061
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DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited Stephen Crane collection: Table of Contents: Novels and Novellas: The Red Badge of Courage Maggie: A Girl of the Streets George's Mother The Third Violet Active Service The Monster The O'Ruddy Short Stories: The Little Regiment and Other Episodes from the American Civil War: The Little Regiment Three Miraculous Soldiers A Mystery of Heroism An Indiana Campaign A Grey Sleeve The Veteran The Open Boat and Other Stories: The Open Boat A Man and Some Others The Bride comes to Yellow Sky The Wise Men The Five White Mice Flanagan and His Short Filibustering Adventure Horses Death and the Child An Experiment in Misery The Men in the Storm The Dual that was not Fought An Ominous Baby A Great Mistake An Eloquence of Grief The Auction The Pace of Youth A Detail Blue Hotel His New Mittens Whilomville Stories: The Angel Child Lynx-Hunting The Lover and the Telltale "Showin' Off" Making an Orator Shame The Carriage-Lamps The Knife The Stove The Trial, Execution, and Burial of Homer Phelps The Fight The City Urchin and the Chaste Villagers A Little Pilgrimage Wounds in the Rain – War Stories: The Price of the Harness The Lone Charge of William B. Perkins The Clan of No-Name God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen The Revenge of the Adolphus The Sergeant's Private Madhouse Virtue in War Marines Signalling under Fire at Guantanamo This Majestic Lie War Memories The Second Generation Great Battles of the World: Vittoria The Siege of Plevna The Storming of Burkersdorf Heights A Swede's Campaign in Germany The Storming of Badajoz The Brief Campaign Against New Orleans The Battle of Solferino The Battle of Bunker Hill Last Words: The Reluctant Voyagers Spitzbergen Tales Wyoming Valley Tales London Impressions New York Sketches The Assassins in Modern Battles Irish Notes Sullivan County Sketches Miscellaneous The Black Dog A Tent in Agony An Experiment in Luxury The Scotch Express Twelve O'Clock Manacled A Dark-Brown Dog... Poetry: The Black Riders and Other Lines War is Kind
Author: John Price Publisher: UBC Press ISBN: 0774819839 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 466
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Colony to nation? Isolationism to internationalism? WASP society to a multicultural Canada? Focusing on imperial conflicts in the Pacific, Orienting Canada disrupts these familiar narratives in Canadian history by tracing the relationship between racism and Canadian foreign policy. Grounded in transnationalism and anti-racist theory, this book reassesses critical transpacific incidents, including Vancouver's riots of 1907, the Chinese head tax, the wars in the pacific from 1937 to 1945, the internment of Japanese-Canadians, and Canada’s significant role in consolidating the US anti-communist empire in postwar Asia. Shocking revelations about the effects of racism and war into the 1960s are tempered by stories of community resilience and transformation. As a transpacific lens on the past, Orienting Canada deflects Canada’s European gaze back onto itself to reveal images that both provoke and unsettle.
Author: John Nadler Publisher: Anchor Canada ISBN: 0307375064 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 418
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It’s 1942 and Hitler’s armies stand astride Europe like a colossus. Germany is winning on every front. This is the story of how one of the world’s first commando units, put together for the invasion of Norway, helped turn the tide in Italy. 1942. When the British generals recommend an audacious plan to parachute a small elite commando unit into Norway in a bid to put Nazi Germany on the defensive, Winston Churchill is intrigued. But Britain, fighting for its life, can’t spare the manpower to participate. So William Lyon MacKenzie King is contacted and asked to commit Canadian troops to the bold plan. King, determined to join Roosevelt and Churchill as an equal leader in the Allied war effort, agrees. One of the world’s first commando units, the First Special Service Force, or FSSF, is assembled from hand-picked soldiers from Canadian and American regiments. Any troops sent into Norway will have to be rugged, self-sufficient, brave, and weather-hardened. Canada has such men in ample supply. The all-volunteer FSSF comprises outdoorsmen — trappers, rangers, prospectors, miners, loggers. Assembled at an isolated base in Helena, Montana, and given only five months to train before the invasion, they are schooled in parachuting, mountain climbing, cross-country skiing, and cold-weather survival. They are taught how to handle explosives, how to operate nearly every field weapon in the American and German arsenals, and how to kill with their bare hands. After the Norway plan is scrapped, the FSSF is dispatched to Italy and given its first test — to seize a key German mountain-top position which had repelled the brunt of the Allied armies for over a month. In a reprise of the audacity and careful planning that won Vimy Ridge for the Canadians in WWI, the FSSF takes the twin peaks Monte la Difensa and Monte la Remetanea by storming the supposedly unscalable rock face at the rear of the German position, and opens the way through the mountains. Later, the FSSF will hold one-quarter of the Anzio beachhead against a vastly superior German force for ninety-nine days; a force of only 1,200 commandos does the work of a full division of over 17,000 troops. Though badly outnumbered, the FSSF takes the fight to the Germans, sending nighttime patrols behind enemy lines and taking prisoners. It is here that they come to be known among the dispirited Germans as Schwartzer Teufel (“Black Devils”) for their black camouflage face-paint and their terrifying tactic of appearing out of the darkness. John Nadler vividly captures the savagery of the Italian campaign, fought as it was at close quarters and with desperate resolve, and the deeply human experiences of the individual men called upon to fight it. Based on extensive archival research and interviews with veterans, A Perfect Hell is an important contribution to Canadian military history and an indispensable account of the lives and battlefield exploits of the men who turned the tide of the Second World War.
Author: Louis Phillips
Author: Mark Helprin
Author: Louis Phillips
Author: Louis Phillips
Author: Louis Phillips
Author: Louis Phillips
Author: Stephen Crane
Author: Stephen Crane
Author: John Price
Author: John Nadler