The Gray Notebook
The Gray Notebook

Author: Josep Pla

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2014-04-08

Total Pages: 657

ISBN-13: 1590176715

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Josep Pla’s masterpiece, The Gray Notebook, is one of the most colorful and unusual works in modern literature. In 1918, when Pla was in Barcelona studying law, the Spanish flu broke out, the university shut down, and he went home to his parents in coastal Palafrugell. Aspiring to be a writer, not a lawyer, he resolved to hone his style by keeping a journal. In it he wrote about his family, local characters, visits to cafés; the quips, quarrels, ambitions, and amours of his friends; writers he liked and writers he didn’t; and the long contemplative walks he would take in the countryside under magnificent skies. Returning to Barcelona to complete his studies, Pla kept up his diary, scrutinizing life in the big city with the same unflagging zest and humor. Pla, one of the great Catalan writers, held on to this youthful journal for close to fifty years, reworking and adding to it, until he finally published The Gray Notebook as both the first volume and the capstone of his collected works. It is a beautiful, entrancing, delightful book—at once a distillation of the spirit of youth and the work of a lifetime.

Chairmaker's Notebook
Chairmaker's Notebook

Author: Peter Galbert

Publisher:

Published: 2015-03-15

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780990623038

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A complete treatise on building Windsor chairs, hand-illustrated by the author.

The Golden Notebook
The Golden Notebook

Author: Doris Lessing

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2008-10-14

Total Pages: 694

ISBN-13: 0061582484

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Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna resolves to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook. Doris Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.

Ledger Accounting Notebook
Ledger Accounting Notebook

Author: Susan F. Gray

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-08-17

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9781725932050

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Paper: 120 pages, Size: 8.5 inches x 11 inches. Include subject section: Date, Account, Memo, Debit, Credit, Balance fields

An Architecture Notebook
An Architecture Notebook

Author: Simon Unwin

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 710

ISBN-13: 9780415228732

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A companion volume to the author's successful text, Analysing Architecture, this book follows the same approach and format to explore conceptual themes in architecture further.

The Lonliest Bachelor in the World
The Lonliest Bachelor in the World

Author: M. E. Robertson-Hoon

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-10-21

Total Pages: 63

ISBN-13: 0557311004

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After waking up one rainy morning in his palatial manor house, Philip Crawford began feeling like an old man, that's when he began to worry. What did he have to show for his place in life? He wasn't married and had no children, out of wedlock or otherwiuse, so what was he going to do about it? How about a newspaper ad in the lonly hearts club section, that oughta work shouldn't it? Let's find out shall we?

The Dog in the Wood
The Dog in the Wood

Author: Monika Schröder

Publisher: Boyds Mills Press

Published: 2017-11-21

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 1684372402

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When the Russians come, where do you go? Fritz loves his vegetable garden. His tomatoes are delicious, he's attentive to the asparagus, and he remembers how to keep slugs off the strawberries. But his tranquil life on the family farm is about to end—the Russians are near, Hitler has died, and known Nazi sympathizers like the Friedrich family brace for the Bolsheviks to take over their town. Local German supporters of the Bolshevik regime seize the Friedrich farm in the name of Communism, forcing Fritz's family to flee to the distant house of his grandmother, Oma Clara. Life there for Fritz is horrible, made even worse when Communists arrest his mother and Lech, the Polish farmhand who has tended the Friedrich land, for hiding weapons. Though there is no evidence to support the accusation, Gertrude and Lech are taken away, and Fritz commits to finding where they are imprisoned. Despite the boy's heroic efforts, the story ends with one of the war's ambiguities: that Lech and Gertrude may not return home.

Tristana
Tristana

Author: Benito Perez Galdos

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2014-12-02

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1590177657

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An NYRB Classics Original Don Lope is a Don Juan, an aging but still effective predator on the opposite sex. He is also charming and generous, unhesitatingly contributing the better part of his fortune to pay off a friend’s debts, kindly assuming responsibility for the friend’s orphaned daughter, lovely Tristana. Don Lope takes her into his house and before long he takes her to bed. It’s an arrangement that Tristana accepts more or less unquestioningly— that is, until she meets the handsome young painter Horacio. Then she actively rebels, sets out to educate herself, reveals tremendous talents, and soon surpasses her lover in her open defiance of convention. One thing is for sure: Tristana will be her own woman. And when it counts Don Lope will be there for her. Benito Pérez Galdós, one of the most sophisticated and delightful of the great European novelists, was a clear-eyed, compassionate, and not-a-little amused observer of the confusions, delusions, misrepresentations, and perversions of the mind and heart. He is the unsurpassed chronicler of the reality show called real life.

Lend Me Your Character
Lend Me Your Character

Author: Dubravka Ugrešić

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9781564783752

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"Splendidly ambitious . . . A brilliant, enthralling spread of story-telling and high-velocity reflections. In her indignation and in her sorrow Ugresic speaks for many people, many experiences. She is a writer to follow. A writer to be cherished." Susan Sontag"