A Handful of Dust
Author: Evelyn Waugh
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13:
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In a Handful of Dust
Author: Mindy McGinnis
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2014-09-23
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0062198556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFans of classic frontier survival stories, as well as readers of dystopian literature, will enjoy this futuristic story about an epic cross-country journey. In a Handful of Dust is set ten years after the first novel, Not a Drop to Drink, as a dangerous disease strikes the community where teenage Lucy lives. When her adoptive mother, Lynn, takes Lucy away from their home and friends in order to protect her, Lucy struggles to figure out what home means. During their journey west to find a new life, the two face nature’s challenges, including hunger, mountains, and deserts. New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant says Not a Drop to Drink is a debut “not to be missed,” and this companion title is full of Mindy McGinnis’s evocative, spare language matched with incredible drama and danger. In a Handful of Dust is perfect for fans of the Partials, Enclave, and Legend series.
Put Out More Flags
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Published: 2012-12-11
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 0316216437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUpper-class scoundrel Basil Seal, mad, bad, and dangerous to know, creates havoc wherever he goes, much to the despair of the three women in his life-his sister, his mother, and his mistress. When Neville Chamberlain declares war on Germany, it seems the perfect opportunity for more action and adventure. So Basil follows the call to arms and sets forth to enjoy his finest hour-as a war hero. Basil's instincts for self-preservation come to the fore as he insinuates himself into the Ministry of Information and a little-known section of Military Security. With Europe frozen in the "phoney war," when will Basil's big chance to fight finally arrive?
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English
Author: Jenny Stringer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 774
ISBN-13: 0192122711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurvey of twentieth century English-language writers and writing from around the world, celebrating all major genres, with entries on literary movements, periodicals, more than 400 individual works, and articles on approximately 2,400 authors.
ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Alien Ebooks
Published: 2023-06-01
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1667623753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA successful, middle-aged novelist with a case of 'bad nerves,' Gilbert Pinfold embarks on a recuperative trip to Ceylon. Almost as soon as the gangplank lifts, Pinfold hears sounds coming out of the ceiling of his cabin: wild jazz bands, barking dogs, loud revival meetings. He can only infer that somewhere concealed in his room an erratic public-address system is letting him hear everything that goes on aboard ship. And then, instead of just sounds, he hears voices. But they are not just any voices. These voices are talking, in the most frightening intimate way, about him!
Not a Drop to Drink
Author: Mindy McGinnis
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2013-09-24
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0062198521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFans of classic frontier survival stories, as well as readers of dystopian literature, will enjoy this futuristic story where water is worth more than gold. New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant says Not a Drop to Drink is a debut "not to be missed." With evocative, spare language and incredible drama, danger, and romance, Mindy McGinnis depicts one girl's journey in a frontierlike world not so different from our own. Teenage Lynn has been taught to defend her pond against every threat: drought, a snowless winter, coyotes, and most important, people looking for a drink. She makes sure anyone who comes near the pond leaves thirsty—or doesn't leave at all. Confident in her own abilities, Lynn has no use for the world beyond the nearby fields and forest. But when strangers appear, the mysterious footprints by the pond, nighttime threats, and gunshots make it all too clear Lynn has exactly what they want, and they won't stop until they get it. . . . For more in this gritty world, join Lynn on an epic journey to find home in the companion novel, In a Handful of Dust.
The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 658
ISBN-13: 0316925462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollected for the first time in a single volume: all of the short fiction by one of the 20th century's wittiest and most trenchant observers of the human comedy.
A Handful of Dust
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Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781942084488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn essential collection of reportage for those following the conflict in Syria and its impact on the rest of the world.
The Dreamt Land
Author: Mark Arax
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2019-05-21
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 1101875216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system, built in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, that is straining to keep up with California's relentless growth. The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history and memoir to confront the "Golden State" myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation's biggest farmers—the nut king, grape king and citrus queen—tell their story here for the first time. Arax, the native son, is persistent and tough as he treks from desert to delta, mountain to valley. What he finds is hard earned, awe-inspiring, tragic and revelatory. In the end, his compassion for the land becomes an elegy to the dream that created California and now threatens to undo it.
Modernism, Satire and the Novel
Author: Jonathan Greenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-09-15
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1139501518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this groundbreaking study, Jonathan Greenberg locates a satiric sensibility at the heart of the modern. By promoting an antisentimental education, modernism denied the authority of emotion to guarantee moral and literary value. Instead, it fostered sophisticated, detached and apparently cruel attitudes toward pain and suffering. This sensibility challenged the novel's humanistic tradition, set ethics and aesthetics into conflict and fundamentally altered the ways that we know and feel. Through lively and original readings of works by Evelyn Waugh, Stella Gibbons, Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Samuel Beckett and others, this book analyzes a body of literature - late modernist satire - that can appear by turns aloof, sadistic, hilarious, ironic and poignant, but which continually questions inherited modes of feeling. By recognizing the centrality of satire to modernist aesthetics, Greenberg offers not only a new chapter in the history of satire but a persuasive new idea of what made modernism modern.
