The Centaur

The Centaur

Author: John Updike

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-06-05

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 067964587X

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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes small-town Olinger High School; Chiron is George Caldwell, a science teacher there; and Prometheus is Caldwell’s fifteen-year-old son, Peter. Brilliantly conflating the author’s remembered past with tales from Greek mythology, John Updike translates Chiron’s agonized search for relief into the incidents and accidents of three winter days spent in rural Pennsylvania in 1947. The result, said the judges of the National Book Award, is “a courageous and brilliant account of a conflict in gifts between an inarticulate American father and his highly articulate son.”


The Centaur

The Centaur

Author: Algernon Blackwood

Publisher:

Published: 2017-01-14

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9781542547826

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Algernon Blackwood was a prolific English writer best known for being one of the greatest authors in the horror and ghost genres of fiction. Some of Blackwood's most famous work includes Incredible Adventures, The Centaur, The Wendigo, and The Willows.The Centaur, published in 1911, is a supernatural thriller that centers around very different people who are living in a world they can't comprehend.


Divine by Mistake

Divine by Mistake

Author: P. C. Cast

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 2019-08-27

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 1982618418

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It’s the beginning of summer break, and high school English teacher Shannon Parker is ready to relax poolside with some red wine and a good book. She’s friggin’ earned it! But first—a little shopping, a la fancy estate auction. Surrounded by old folks and even older artifacts, Shannon never expects to find something that shocks her down to her very core: an ancient vase, complete with a beautiful painting of a goddess that looks just like her. And just as she’s stealing away with her seriously suspicious purchase, she’s magically thrown into the world of Partholon, where not only has she taken the place of Rhiannon, Goddess Incarnate and Epona’s Chosen, but she’s due to be married to a surly (but oh-so-handsome) High Shaman centaur, ClanFintan. But serving as Epona’s Chosen isn’t just luxury baths and buff horse-guys. A dark power grows in the wastelands to the north, and Rhiannon will need much more than just the favor of Epona to protect the land—and the man—she’s grown to love.


The Centaur

The Centaur

Author: John Updike

Publisher:

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 9780233983059

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Retells the myth of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the Centaurs, through the medium of a science teacher and his son.


Janey and the Famous Author

Janey and the Famous Author

Author: Mary Downing Hahn

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9780618354085

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Third-grader Janey is so excited about meeting her favorite author at a literature festival that she almost ruins the day for her entire class.


The Centaur in the Garden

The Centaur in the Garden

Author: Moacyr Scliar

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780896727304

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"A novel of magical realism set in an early twentieth-century Jewish immigrant colony in southern Brazil"--Provided by publisher.