Download or read book A Tyranny of Toads written by Jessica Green and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Year Six has started badly for Jillian James. A new teacher. New enemies - the Toad Clones. Not to mention her brother Richard. It's hard to follow the Middle Path when there's toads on the road!
Download or read book The Toad written by Elise Gravel and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "She's good for the environment... and she's disgusting! Distinctive trait: Warts Food preference: Bugs and worms Special talent: Eating her own skin Disgusting? Yes, but fun, too! The Toad is the next installment of the Disgusting Critter series. Hilarious illustrated non-fiction about toads perfect for beginning readers. Although silly and off-the-wall, The Toad contains factual information that will both amuse and teach at the same time."--
Download or read book The So Called Human Race written by Bert Leston Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women s Utopias of the Eighteenth Century written by Alessa Johns and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No human society has ever been perfect, a fact that has led thinkers as far back as Plato and St. Augustine to conceive of utopias both as a fanciful means of escape from an imperfect reality and as a useful tool with which to design improvements upon it. The most studied utopias have been proposed by men, but during the eighteenth century a group of reform-oriented female novelists put forth a series of work that expressed their views of, and their reservations about, ideal societies. In Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century, Alessa Johns examines the utopian communities envisaged by Mary Astell, Sarah Fielding, Mary Hamilton, Sarah Scott, and other writers from Britain and continental Europe, uncovering the ways in which they resembled--and departed from--traditional utopias. Johns demonstrates that while traditional visions tended to look back to absolutist models, women's utopias quickly incorporated emerging liberal ideas that allowed far more room for personal initiative and gave agency to groups that were not culturally dominant, such as the female writers themselves. Women's utopias, Johns argues, were reproductive in nature. They had the potential to reimagine and perpetuate themselves.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of American Poetry written by David Lehman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redefines the great canon of American poetry from its origins in the 17th century right up to the present.
Download or read book The Arrogant Toad written by Daniel Gershkovitz and published by Daniel Gershkovitz. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling children's author Daniel Gershkovitz, a new educational story will help children to enhance their self-confidence, sense of capability, and self-esteem. The Arrogant Toad is the second book in the new series We Can Do It 2!: Stories for Brave Little Kids. The Arrogant toad story will teach the kids that true friendship and respect are earned by being humble and sensitive to others. "Help me, I beg you!" he called out in distress. I'm so sorry, I regret it! I'm ashamed to confess! I was arrogant and selfish. Please forgive me, my friends. Come back and take me! I promise to make amends!" Dear Readers! The conceited toad we describe in this story thought his behavior would bring him glory. To his friends in the pond he was anything but nice, and looked with contempt at their prudent advice. But arrogance has a price, you will soon find out. Would his friends forgive him, or rather, cast him out?
Download or read book Lingua Tersancta Or A Most Sure and Compleat Allegorick Dictionary to the Holy Language of the Spirit written by William Freke and published by . This book was released on 1703 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collected Poems written by Robert Bly and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathering more than sixty years of poetry, Collected Poems showcases the brilliant career of a "great American transcendentalist" (New York Times). An extraordinary culmination for Robert Bly’s lifelong intellectual adventure, Collected Poems presents the full magnitude of his body of work for the first time. Bly has long been the voice of transcendentalism and meditative mysticism for his generation; every stage of his work is warmed by his devotion to the art of poetry and his affection for the varied worlds that inspire him. Influenced by Emerson and Thoreau alongside spiritual traditions from Sufism to Gnosticism, he is a poet moved by mysteries, speaking the language of images. Collected Poems gathers the fourteen volumes of his impressive oeuvre into one place, including his imagistic debut, Silence in the Snowy Fields (1962); the clear-eyed truth-telling of his National Book Award–winning collection, The Light Around the Body (1967); the masterful prose poems of The Morning Glory (1975); and the fiercely introspective, uniquely American ghazals of his latest collection, Talking into the Ear of a Donkey (2011). A monumental poetic achievement, Collected Poems makes clear why poets and lovers of poetry have long looked to Robert Bly for emotional authenticity, moral authority, and artistic inspiration.
Download or read book Pat Barker written by Mark Rawlinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pat Barker is one of the leading British political and historical novelists of her generation. This introduction places her fiction in historical and theoretical contexts. Including a timeline of key dates and an interview with the author, Rawlinson establishes the cultural importance of her work and provides an overview of its critical reception.
Download or read book Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture 1681 1714 written by Abigail Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-24 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers a revisionist history of early eighteenth-century poetry. It demonstrates that many of the Whig writers frequently attacked as hacks and dunces were in fact successful and popular in their own time. This text maps the evolution of this poetic tradition, examining the relationship between literary and political culture in the early eighteenth-century"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Toads Museum of Freaks and Wonders written by Goldie Goldbloom and published by New Issues Poetry and Prose. This book was released on 2010 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. WP Award Series in the Novel. In the wake of a thwarted career as a concert pianist and the accompanying emotional fallout, Gin accepts a marriage proposal from the peculiar Mr. Toad. But nothing from the albino Gin Toad's upbringing in the bourgeois drawing rooms of Perth has prepared her for a hardscrabble existence on a subsistence farm in the Australian outback. In her Wyalkatchem exile, she explores what it means to be a mother and wife, an underappreciated musician, and the town freak. She walks on eggshells to accommodate the cantankerous Toad and comes to accept her life without independence, music, or love until Antonio arrives. The Italian POWs forced into the Toads' service change the landscape of Gin's world. She is haunted by the memory of her first child's death; Antonio is exiled from a country and family he cherishes, banished to Western Australia while WWII threatens all he holds dear. In their mutual isolation and loss, the growing intimacy between Gin and Antonio becomes their escape from hardship but will it also be their undoing?
Download or read book Louis XIV Outside In written by Tony Claydon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis XIV - the ’Sun King’ - casts a long shadow over the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. Yet while he has been the subject of numerous works, much of the scholarship remains firmly rooted within national frameworks and traditions. Thus in France Louis is still chiefly remembered for the splendid baroque culture his reign ushered in, and his political achievements in wielding together a strong centralised French state; whereas in England, the Netherlands and other protestant states, his memory is that of an aggressive military tyrant and persecutor of non-Catholics. In order to try to break free of such parochial strictures, this volume builds upon the approach of scholars such as Ragnhild Hatton who have attempted to situate Louis’ legacy within broader, pan-European context. But where Hatton focused primarily on geo-political themes, Louis XIV Outside In introduces current interests in cultural history, integrating aspects of artistic, literary and musical themes. In particular it examines the formulation and use of images of Louis XIV abroad, concentrating on Louis' neighbours in north west Europe. This broad geographical coverage demonstrates how images of Louis XIV were moulded by the polemical needs of people far from Versailles, and distorted from any French originals by the particular political and cultural circumstances of diverse nations. Because the French regime’s ability to control the public image of its leader was very limited, the collection highlights how - at least in the sphere of public presentation - his power was frequently denied, subverted, or appropriated to very different purposes, questioning the limits of his absolutism which has also been such a feature of recent work.
Download or read book History of Four Footed Beasts and Serpents and Insects written by Topsell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-11 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Toad Rage written by Morris Gleitzman and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2005-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Determined to understand why humans hate cane toads and to improve relations between the species, Limpy embarks on a dangerous trek from his swamp to the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
Download or read book Firefly written by Sean Coons and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a daredevil stunt goes horribly wrong, firefly Flash will need more than his wit and cocky attitude to fix the mess he's made of his life. Firefly Flash just gained the ability to illuminate and fly, and it's gone to his head. He flits around his hometown of Temple Hollow avoiding work and finding mischief. When his latest daredevil stunt spirals out of control, he lands himself and his two friends far from home in a dangerous desert in Texas. Meanwhile, Temple Hollow is captured by a goon-squad of tyrannical dragonflies-and that's Flash's fault, too. After a mysterious encounter in the desert, Flash inspires a ragtag band of Misfits to join him on his mission to return home. The Misfits encounter trouble at every turn, yet these challenges are nothing compared to the epic battle awaiting them back in Temple Hollow. Packed with comedy, action, and insights for children of all ages, this middle grade adventure is the perfect chapter book for independent, family, and classroom reading. Read Firefly today-and see the Light!
Download or read book Crossing the Line with His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales written by Victor E. Marsden and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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