The Skipping Verger And Other Tales
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Author | : John Reid Young |
Publisher | : Reidten Publishing |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2012-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788461596324 |
The Skipping Verger and Other Tales is a collection of delightful short stories set in the Canary Islands between the late 19th and early 21st centuries. Written in Reid Young's engaging and unique style, the stories range from the humorous and romantic adventures of Victorian travellers, who were determined to understand and partake in the charms of local traditions, to intrigue at the start of the Spanish Civil War. An English scientist who meets a man with a strange walk, a Scottish artist who falls in love with a barefooted woman, foreigners who discover marvellous old wives tales and remedies for a variety of ailments, boys who get up to mischief in the bananas, secret agents, stowaways and even a grumpy chaplain can be found wrapped up in the charms of these Atlantic islands. Based on the personal experiences and recollections of a fourth generation British immigrant, these stories will appeal to those who enjoy a touch of eccentricity and old fashioned ways.
Author | : Pleasant DeSpain |
Publisher | : august house |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2005-12-14 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780874836691 |
Contains nine short folktales about tricksters, featuring selections from Persia, India, Poland, France, and other places.
Author | : Gregory Maguire |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0061792942 |
The New York Times bestseller and basis for the Tony-winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande With millions of copies in print around the world, Gregory Maguire’s Wicked is established not only as a commentary on our time but as a novel to revisit for years to come. Wicked relishes the inspired inventions of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, while playing sleight of hand with our collective memories of the 1939 MGM film starring Margaret Hamilton (and Judy Garland). In this fast-paced, fantastically real, and supremely entertaining novel, Maguire has populated the largely unknown world of Oz with the power of his own imagination. Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens. But Elphaba’s Oz is no utopia. The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere. Animals—those creatures with voices, souls, and minds—are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals—even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas. Recognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication, the novel has inspired the blockbuster musical of the same name—one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Popular, indeed. But while the novel’s distant cousins hail from the traditions of magical realism, mythopoeic fantasy, and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency, Maguire’s Wicked is as unique as its green-skinned witch.
Author | : Gwendolyn Raverat |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2022-08-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Period Piece" by Gwendolyn Raverat. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : Thomas Harris |
Publisher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0385334877 |
Seven years after his escape from the authorities, Hannibal Lecter, a serial killer, is tracked down by one of his former victims using FBI agent Clarice Starling as bait
Author | : Eleanor Farjeon |
Publisher | : Rare Treasure Editions |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2021-11-05T15:08:00Z |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1774642883 |
The Silver Curlew is one of Eleanor Farjeon's finest works, an intriguing re-telling of the classic story Rumpelstiltskin. Mother Codling lives with her children in a small, Norfolk windmill. One day, the Codlngs receive a surprise visit from the king of Norwich, who insists that eighteen-year-old Doll Codling must spin a certain amount of flax for him, or he will cut off her head. Doll, terrified of dying, makes a deal with a spindle-imp, in order to save herself and her family. The only clincher is, that he returns to the castle when Doll's daughter is born and insists that he take the newborn child as payment for his work. Doll, and her younger sister Poll, try desperately to keep the baby...
Author | : Aldous Huxley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Vicente Blasco Ibáñez |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465534628 |
Author | : Francis Bacon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Butler |
Publisher | : Shepheard-Walwyn |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2008-11-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0856833568 |
A personal account of searching for spiritual understanding initially outside Christian teaching, this book takes the position that there are as many ways to God as there are paths up a mountain. Interpreting his own spiritual breakthroughs, the author describes them as "windows of realization" and likens them to the sensation of being made whole. The book describes his journey from Eastern mantra-style meditation to the Orthodox "prayer of the heart" and details how a love of nature and a desire to do good played an important part in his spiritual unfoldment.