Number Seventeen. A Novel

Number Seventeen. A Novel
Author: Henry Kingsley
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2024-03-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3385382971

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Seventeen

Seventeen
Author: Hideo Yokoyama
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2018-11-13
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0374719160

“A meditative and multilayered narrative that is as much about a man at a mid-life crossroads as it is about journalism or a plane crash.” —Los Angeles Review of Books 1985. Kazumasa Yuuki, a seasoned reporter at the North Kanto Times, runs a daily gauntlet of the power struggles and office politics that plague its newsroom. But when an air disaster of unprecedented scale occurs on the paper’s doorstep, its staff is united by an unimaginable horror and a once-in-a-lifetime scoop. 2003. Seventeen years later, Yuuki remembers the adrenaline-fueled, emotionally charged seven days that changed his and his colleagues’ lives. He does so while making good on a promise he made that fateful week—one that holds the key to its last solved mystery and represents Yuuki’s final, unconquered fear. From Hideo Yokoyama, the celebrated author of Six Four, comes Seventeen—an investigative thriller set amid the aftermath of disaster. “Adrenaline-filled.” —The New Yorker “Tense and powerful.” —The Wall Street Journal “An astringent, unforgiving picture of modern Japanese society.” —Barry Forshaw, The Guardian “Seventeen is a thrilling, thought-provoking, and important book, and one for anyone who cares about the state of journalism.” —Hans Rollmann, PopMatters “An engrossing thriller . . . Readers will be deeply moved.” —Publishers Weekly “A darkly humorous tale.” —Booklist

Seventeen

Seventeen
Author: Booth Tarkington
Publisher: The Floating Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2011-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1775453294

Booth Tarkington's wildly successful novel Seventeen satirizes the vagaries of American adolescence. Though 17-year-old protagonist William Sylvanus Baxter is awkward, tactless, and often less than likable, Tarkington's insightful -- and hilarious -- take on teenage life and love is sure to please readers who appreciate top-notch humor writing.

Number Seventeen

Number Seventeen
Author: Louis Tracy
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2021-05-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"Number Seventeen" by Louis Tracy is an early 1900s mystery and romance novel. The story is set in London and based on Theydon, a young dashing man, two detectives, and a beautiful girl. The plot also includes families who are unfortunate to share the same serendipity in the suspected murders as they've been to China. One rainy London night when Theydon leaves a theater, a man and his beautiful daughter share his taxi queue. He reaches home only to get caught up along with this man as they are both being accused of murdering a wife whose husband has been killed in China for a political conspiracy...

Rereadings

Rereadings
Author: Anne Fadiman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2006-09-05
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780374530549

Answering the question "is a book the same the second time around?" this collection of essays includes contributions from Sven Krkerts, Allegra Goodman, Vivian Gornick, Patricia Hampl, Phillip Lopate, and Luc Sante, among others.

Two Novels

Two Novels
Author: Kenzaburō Ōe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 177
Release: 1996
Genre: Teenagers
ISBN:

Two views of a world whose traditional values have been blown away: Seventeen, the story of a lonely boy who turns to a right-wing group for self-esteem, and J, the story of a spoiled young drifter son of a Japanese executive.

17 & Gone

17 & Gone
Author: Nova Ren Suma
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2014-03-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 014242532X

Original publication and copyright date: 2013.

Through the Window

Through the Window
Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2012-11-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0345805518

From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending and one of Britain’s greatest writers: a brilliant collection of essays on the books and authors that have meant the most to him throughout his illustrious career. • "[A] blissfully intelligent gathering of literary essays." —Financial Times In these seventeen essays (plus a short story and a special preface, “A Life with Books”), Julian Barnes examines the British, French and American writers who have shaped his writing, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures. From the deceptiveness of Penelope Fitzgerald to the directness of Hemingway, from Kipling’s view of France to the French view of Kipling, from the many translations of Madame Bovary to the fabulations of Ford Madox Ford, from the National Treasure status of George Orwell to the despair of Michel Houellebecq, Julian Barnes considers what fiction is, and what it can do. As he writes, “Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it.”

The Seventeen Second Miracle

The Seventeen Second Miracle
Author: Jason F. Wright
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2010-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101443650

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wednesday Letters and The Cross Gardener, a story of small kindnesses-and life-changing miracles. Seventeen seconds can change a life forever. This is what Rex Connor learned on a gorgeous summer afternoon in 1970 when, as a lifeguard, he diverted his gaze for seventeen seconds and tragedy occurred. Forty years later the waves of that day still ripple through the lives of countless people, including his son, Cole. Cole Connor has become a patient teacher, and now he has invited three struggling teenagers to visit him on his front porch to learn about Rex Connor—and the Seventeen Second Miracle. Together they will learn how Rex Connor could have allowed seventeen seconds to destroy him, but instead he chose to live every day believing the smallest of acts could change the world for good. And the students, each with their own secrets and private pains, will begin to understand that even tragedy brings lessons. Even pain brings comfort. Even death brings miracles. A seventeen second miracle can change a life—if you let it.