The Coachman's Club, Or Tales Told Out of School (Classic Reprint)

The Coachman's Club, Or Tales Told Out of School (Classic Reprint)

Author: George Robert Sims

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780267948796

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Excerpt from The Coachman's Club, or Tales Told Out of School I think it was a piece of poetry I wrote about our coach that first gave me a taste for pen and ink. We used to carry the same passengers pretty Often in the season, and Old Jim Dolby, who was our driver, and one Of the best whips on the road, having taken a fancy to me from the first, and always saying, Come along, John, when he went in to have a drink when we were changing horses, I got to be well known to most Of them, and, what with tips and one thing and the other, I did very well. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Swami and Friends

Swami and Friends

Author: R. K. Narayan

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-07-25

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0345803795

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R. K. Narayan (1906—2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. Swami and Friends introduces us to Narayan’s beloved fictional town of Malgudi, where ten-year-old Swaminathan’s excitement about his country’s initial stirrings for independence competes with his ardor for cricket and all other things British. Written during British rule, this novel brings colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts of this master of literary realism.


What's Bred in the Bone

What's Bred in the Bone

Author: Robertson Davies

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Published: 2015-08-25

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0771027877

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Called “an altogether remarkable creation, his most accomplished novel to date” (The New York Times), What's Bred in the Bone is the second brilliant novel in Robertson Davies’ The Cornish Trilogy. Available as an eBook for the first time. Francis Cornish was always good at keeping secrets. From the well-hidden family secret of his childhood to his mysterious encounters with a small-town embalmer, a master art restorer, a Bavarian countess, and various masters of espionage, the events in Francis’s life were not always what they seemed. In this wonderfully ingenious portrait of an art expert and collector of international renown, Robertson Davies has created a spellbinding tale of artistic triumph and heroic deceit. It is a tale told in stylish, elegant prose, endowed with lavish portions of Davies’ wit and wisdom. “Davies’s make-believe universe has the appeal of a mystic’s vision… What’s Bred in the Bone is vintage Davies.” The Globe and Mail


The Eternal Husband

The Eternal Husband

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-03-05

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 0486114406

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A rich and idle man confronts his dead mistress's husband in this psychological novel of duality. Powerful and accessible, it offers a captivating and revealing exploration of love, guilt, and hatred.