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Author: John Collier
Publisher: eNet Press
Published: 2012-12-01
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1618865129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDefy the Foul Fiend: Willoughby Corbo is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, and is soon abandoned on the doorstep of his uncle, neglected and mostly unloved, to make his way in a somewhat tilted modern world.
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-25
Total Pages: 1585
ISBN-13: 1349813664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1935
Total Pages: 2338
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes Part 1, Books, Group 1, Nos. 1-155 (March - December, 1934)
Author: John Collier
Publisher: eNet Press
Published:
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1618865153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlayful and wickedly mischievous, John Collier's short stories will reappear in your memory to make you smile or laugh or sigh long after the title and author are forgotten. A wonderful collection of all John Collier's brilliantly structured and perfectly crafted tales not found in Fancies and Goodnights.
Author: John Collier
Publisher: eNet Press
Published:
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1618865021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of John Collier short stories won the International Fantasy Award in 1951. His fantastic ability to mix satire with thought provoking 'what ifs' is clearly seen in this compilation of thirty-two short stories.
Author: John Collier
Publisher: eNet Press
Published:
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1618865072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA schoolmaster in the heart of Africa takes his best and most attentive student, a chimp, to England. The chimp, Emily, has learned to read and obtained a classically trained mind. We listen as her thoughts become a searchlight upon the English culture of the 1920s. A remarkable social satire, and a best seller.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Published: 1934
Total Pages: 1310
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher Fowler
Publisher: riverrun
Published: 2017-10-05
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1786484919
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'JOYOUS . . . READERS WILL LOVE THIS FASCINATING BOOK' CATHY RENTZENBRINK 'A GODSEND WITH THE PRESENT SEASON APPROACHING' IRISH INDEPENDENT 'THE PERFECT GIFT FOR A BOOK-OBSESSED FRIEND' STYLIST, 50 UNMISSABLE BOOKS FOR AUTUMN 2017 'EXCELLENT . . . SHOULD BE READ BY ANYONE WHO LOVES BOOKS' EVENING STANDARD Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you're dead. So begins Christopher Fowler's foray into the back catalogues and backstories of 99 authors who, once hugely popular, have all but disappeared from our shelves. Whether male or female, domestic or international, flash-in-the-pan or prolific, mega-seller or prize-winner - no author, it seems, can ever be fully immune from the fate of being forgotten. And Fowler, as well as remembering their careers, lifts the lid on their lives, and why they often stopped writing or disappeared from the public eye. These 99 journeys are punctuated by 12 short essays about faded once-favourites: including the now-vanished novels Walt Disney brought to the screen, the contemporary rivals of Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie who did not stand the test of time, and the women who introduced us to psychological suspense many decades before it conquered the world. This is a book about books and their authors. It is for book lovers, and is written by one who could not be a more enthusiastic, enlightening and entertaining guide. 'A BIBLIOPHILE'S DREAM' FINANCIAL TIMES 'WILL HAVE READERS SCURRYING INTO SECONDHAND BOOKSHOPS' GUARDIAN
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Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-03-05
Total Pages: 1555
ISBN-13: 1349036501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patricia Meyer Spacks
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-11-18
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0674267478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter retiring from a lifetime of teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, fiction first encountered in young adulthood and never before revisited, books frequently reread, canonical works of literature she was supposed to have liked but didn’t, guilty pleasures (books she oughtn’t to have liked but did), and stories reread for fun vs. those read for the classroom. On Rereading records the sometimes surprising, always fascinating, results of her personal experiment. Spacks addresses a number of intriguing questions raised by the purposeful act of rereading: Why do we reread novels when, in many instances, we can remember the plot? Why, for example, do some lovers of Jane Austen’s fiction reread her novels every year (or oftener)? Why do young children love to hear the same story read aloud every night at bedtime? And why, as adults, do we return to childhood favorites such as The Hobbit, Alice in Wonderland, and the Harry Potter novels? What pleasures does rereading bring? What psychological needs does it answer? What guilt does it induce when life is short and there are so many other things to do (and so many other books to read)? Rereading, Spacks discovers, helps us to make sense of ourselves. It brings us sharply in contact with how we, like the books we reread, have both changed and remained the same.
