Download or read book Teller of Tales written by Daniel Stashower and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Best Biographical Work, this is "an excellent biography of the man who created Sherlock Holmes" (David Walton, The New York Times Book Review) This fresh, compelling biography examines the extraordinary life and strange contrasts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the struggling provincial doctor who became the most popular storyteller of his age. From his youthful exploits aboard a whaling ship to his often stormy friendships with such figures as Harry Houdini and George Bernard Shaw, Conan Doyle lived a life as gripping as one of his adventures. Exhaustively researched and elegantly written, Daniel Stashower's Teller of Tales sets aside many myths and misconceptions to present a vivid portrait of the man behind the legend of Baker Street, with a particular emphasis on the Psychic Crusade that dominated his final years--the work that Conan Doyle himself felt to be "the most important thing in the world."
Download or read book A Teller s Tale written by Alan Karls and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a dystopian world where a man's title defines him, the Tellers are powerful orators who control society through carefully crafted storytelling. When told that he has the potential to be a Teller, Jon is hesitant to pursue the role. He is critical of the lessons and rules these authoritative storytellers perpetuate. Thrown off course on his journey to the annual Festival, Jon's travels lead him to a deeper understanding of the people inhabiting his mysterious homeland and the secrets that the powerful Tellers have hidden from the masses. As the wrinkled truth unfolds, and the fabric of the Teller's stories unravels, Jon is forced to make a decision. He can either accept the highly revered position of Teller and control the narrative or choose the honest path of a renegade and find out whether one lone man from a fishing community has the power to ignite a revolution.
Download or read book Fortune Tellers written by Walter Friedman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping history of the pioneers who sought to use science to predict financial markets The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of economic fortune tellers, men such as Roger Babson, Irving Fisher, John Moody, C. J. Bullock, and Warren Persons. They competed to sell their distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses, and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to predict the devastating crash of 1929. Walter Friedman paints vivid portraits of entrepreneurs who shared a belief that the rational world of numbers and reason could tame--or at least foresee--the irrational gyrations of the market. Despite their failures, this first generation of economic forecasters helped to make the prediction of economic trends a central economic activity, and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They also raised questions that are still relevant today. What is science and what is merely guesswork in forecasting? What motivates people to buy forecasts? Does the act of forecasting set in motion unforeseen events that can counteract the forecast made? Masterful and compelling, Fortune Tellers highlights the risk and uncertainty that are inherent to capitalism itself.
Download or read book The Fairy Tellers written by Nicholas Jubber and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A carnival of a book, rigorously researched and jostling with life’ —Amy Jeffs, author of Storyland Who were the Fairy Tellers? In this far-ranging quest, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber unearths the lives of the dreamers who made our most beloved fairy tales: inventors, thieves, rebels and forgotten geniuses who gave us classic tales such as ‘Cinderella’, ‘Hansel and Gretel’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Baba Yaga’. From the Middle Ages to the birth of modern children’s literature, they include a German apothecary’s daughter, a Syrian youth running away from a career in the souk and a Russian dissident embroiled in a plot to kill the tsar. Following these and other unlikely protagonists, we travel from the steaming cities of Italy and the Levant, under the dark branches of the Black Forest, deep into the tundra of Siberia and across the snowy fells of Lapland. In the process, we discover a fresh perspective on some of our most frequently told stories. Filled with adventure, tragedy and real-world magic, this bewitching book uncovers the stranger lives behind the strangest of tales.
Download or read book The Tale and the Teller written by Kathleen Tillotson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tellers Tales and Translation in Chaucer s Canterbury Tales written by Warren Ginsberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tellers, Tales, and Translation argues that Chaucer often recast a coordinating idea or set of concerns in the portraits, prologues, tales, and epilogues that make up a 'Canterbury' performance.
Download or read book The Teller s Tale written by Philip Augustus Rush and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teller s War written by William J. Broad and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter reveals how the father of the H-bomb sold the nation the pipe dream called Star Wars. Broad shows how Teller disregarded evidence, ignored colleagues, and continued to promote the Star Wars program. Ultimately, more than $25 billion was misspent on this system, still more a dream than reality. Photographs and line drawings.
Download or read book The Story teller written by Maud Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of tales told by the Story-Teller for young children.
Download or read book The Tale and the Teller written by Kathleen Mary Tillotson and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tickety Tale Teller written by Maureen Haselhurst and published by QED Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tickety Tale Teller is so busy going from house to house to tell stories to all children that she becomes exhausted, prompting her to find a way to make her job easier.
Download or read book Asian Tales and Tellers written by Cathy Spagnoli and published by august house. This book was released on 1998 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 30 stories from the rich Asian cultural panorama illuminate the wisdom and humor of Eastern cultures. In her search for stories, Cathy Spagnoli has slid through Indian rice fields, sipped sake with Japanese epic singers, met with monks in Thailand and Korea, and hiked the Himalayas with Tibetan dancers.
Download or read book The Tale Teller written by Anne Hillerman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Legendary Navajo policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn takes center stage in this riveting atmospheric mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman that combines crime, superstition, and tradition and brings the desert Southwest vividly alive. Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the Tribal Police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifact—a reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joe’s been hired to find a missing biil, a traditional dress that had been donated to the Navajo Nation. His investigation takes a sinister turn when the leading suspect dies under mysterious circumstances and Leaphorn himself receives anonymous warnings to beware—witchcraft is afoot. While the veteran detective is busy working to untangle his strange case, his former colleague Jim Chee and Officer Bernie Manuelito are collecting evidence they hope will lead to a cunning criminal behind a rash of burglaries. Their case takes a complicated turn when Bernie finds a body near a popular running trail. The situation grows more complicated when the death is ruled a homicide, and the Tribal cops are thrust into a turf battle because the murder involves the FBI. As Leaphorn, Chee, and Bernie draw closer to solving these crimes, their parallel investigations begin to merge . . . and offer an unexpected opportunity that opens a new chapter in Bernie’s life.
Download or read book The Teller s Tale written by Sophie Raynard and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers new, often unexpected, but always intriguing portraits of the writers of classic fairy tales. For years these authors, who wrote from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, have been either little known or known through skewed, frequently sentimentalized biographical information. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were cast as exemplars of national virtues; Hans Christian Andersen's life became—with his participation—a fairy tale in itself. Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, the prim governess who wrote moral tales for girls, had a more colorful past than her readers would have imagined, and few people knew that nineteen-year-old Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy conspired to kill her much-older husband. Important figures about whom little is known, such as Giovan Francesco Straparola and Giambattista Basile, are rendered more completely than ever before. Uncovering what was obscured for years and with newly discovered evidence, contributors to this fascinating and much-needed volume provide a historical context for Europe's fairy tales.
Download or read book Teller of Tales written by William J. Brooke and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1995-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his unfortunate clothing story, the Emperor's elderly reporter is ordered to write fairy tales, and with the help of a reluctant streetwise girl, comes up with a whole new slant on the old classics
Download or read book A Story Teller s Story written by Sherwood Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Story Teller s World written by R K Narayan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REQUIRED, THE STORY-TELLER COULD HAVE AN AUDIENCE BUT IN THIS CASE HE WOULDN'T BE READING FROM HIS MS, BUT WOULD BE LOOKING AT THE VILLAGERS. I MUCH PREFER THE STORY-TELLER ALONE.
