Download or read book Antic Hay written by Aldous Huxley and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2019-12-11T00:02:31Z with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore Gumbril Junior is fed up with his job as a teacher, and tries a new tack as an inventor of pneumatic trousers. The development and marketing of these is set against his attempts to find love, and the backdrop of his friends’ and acquaintances’ similar quest for meaning in what seems to them a meaningless world. Aldous Huxley, although primarily known these days for his seminal work Brave New World, gained fame in the 1920s as a writer of social satires such as this, his second novel. Condemned at the time for its frank treatment of sexuality and adultery—it was even banned in Australia—the book’s characters’ comic lack of stability following the society-wide alignment of the Great War still resonates today. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book West of Warsaw written by Frank Serafino and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separated by six thousand miles of earth and ocean, the cities of Hamtramck and Warsaw, Poland intrically share a history of customs, pride and emotions. At the turn of the century, Poles journeyed to the United States to escape the persecution of foreign rule. Many came to Hamtramck, finding freedom and honest labor at one of the area's automobile factories. They brought with them a profound sense of unity and culture.
Download or read book Antic Hay written by Aldous Huxley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lost generation searches for meaning in chaotic post-WWI London in this satirical novel by the acclaimed author of Brave New World. First published in 1923, Aldous Huxley’s Antic Hay was banned in Australia and burned in Cairo for its frank depiction of bohemian life in the grim and listless aftermath of the Great War. Set in London, the comic novel follows a large cast of artists and intellectuals through their nihilistic yet determined pursuits. But at the center of these colorful characters is the peculiar man behind Gumbril’s Patent Small Clothes. While sitting on the hard oak pews of his school’s chapel, disenchanted schoolmaster Theodore Gumbril Junior fantasizes about a pair of trousers with an inflatable air cushion in the seat to make the endless sermon more tolerable. Deciding on a whim to pursue this absurd invention, Gumbril moves to London and soon finds himself among a circle of cynical poets, would-be artists, and bohemian philosophers. Though a timid romantic, Gumbril fashions a rakish alter ego for himself, “The Complete Man,” as he pursues his fortunes in this scathing satire of British conventionality.
Download or read book One Who Survived written by Alexander Barmine and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astounding personal document and unique autobiography—the life story of a Russian now living in America who was once soldier, industrialist, and diplomat under the Red Star.
Download or read book Adolescent Development and Adjustment written by Lester Donald Crow and published by New York : McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1965 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Three Conventions written by Denis Saurat and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Burning written by Nancy Holder and published by Simon Pulse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supernatural gang warfare forces Buffy and her friends to enter Angel's turf in Los Angeles, even as both Angel and Cordelia discover their own problems with vampire-worshiping cults and havoc in the local prisons.
Download or read book The Fruit of the Family Tree written by Albert Edward Wiggam and published by Garden City, N.Y., Garden City Pub. This book was released on 1925 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of the Hand written by Katharine St. Hill and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
Download or read book The Story of Weight Watchers written by Jean Nidetch and published by New Amer Library. This book was released on 1979 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founder of Weight Watchers discusses her life and the establishment and growth of her organization
Download or read book Mr Sandman written by Lyle Howard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic adventure in a life-long pursuit of the truth. What is the mystery that Lance Cutter's DNA is hiding? Whatever the secret is, they had it, they lost it, and now they will do anything to get it back... Time is running out. Lance Cutter is born out of a horrific experiment by a deranged scientist. Presumed dead in an explosion at birth, Lance and his mother create a quiet, normal life. But what is normal for others is not so for Lance. He is faster, smarter and more agile than other children. When Lance and his mother go to Washington seeking answers, they are greeted by deadly force. Barely escaping the clutches of government agents, the plane they are traveling on crashes into the icy Potomac river. Thought dead for the second time in his life, Lance grows up and finds a quiet, secluded existence working as an arson investigator in Florida. But when innocent people begin to spontaneously combust, Lance must use all of his extraordinary talents to stop the deranged killer. Cutter now finds himself front page news. It's these headlines that will finally bring him face to face with the truth about his birthright and put him in a life and death struggle to survive.
Download or read book Swan written by Naomi Campbell and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swan is the world's most successful supermodel. But she doesn't want to live this life forever--even if it means kissing goodbye a cosmetics contract worth millions. There are a thousand girls who'd do anything to get the job, but only five have what it takes. While they all know what they want and how to get it, it's a bumpy ride--and someone is trying to make it a whole lot rougher. Available in February.
Download or read book The Imperial Orgy written by Edgar Saltus and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Those Barren Leaves written by Aldous Huxley and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2022-03-04T03:01:11Z with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs. Aldwinkle, an English aristocrat of a certain age, has purchased a mansion in the Italian countryside. She wishes to bring a salon of intellectual luminaries into her orbit, and to that end she invites a strange cast of characters to spend time with her in her palazzo: Irene, her young niece; Ms. Thriplow, a governess-turned-novelist; Mr. Calamy, a handsome young man of great privilege and even greater ennui; Mr. Cardan, a worldly gentleman whose main talent seems to be the enjoyment of life; Hovenden, a young motorcar-obsessed lord with a speech impediment; and Mr. Falx, a socialist leader. To this unlikely cast is soon added Mr. Chelifer, an author with an especially florid, overwrought style that is wasted on his day job as editor of The Rabbit Fancier’s Gazette, and the Elvers, a scheming brother who is the guardian of his mentally-challenged sister. As this unlikely group mingles, they discuss a great many grand topics: love, art, language, life, culture. Yet very early on the reader comes to realize that behind the pompousness of their elaborate discussions lies nothing but vacuity—these characters are a satire of the self-important intellectuals of Huxley’s era. His skewering of their intellectual barrenness continues as the group moves on to a trip around the surrounding country, in a satire of the Grand Tour tradition. The party brings their English snobbery out in full force as they traipse around Rome, sure of nothing else except in their belief that Italy is culturally superior simply because it’s Italy. As the vacation winds down, we’re left with a biting lampoon of the elites who suppose themselves to be at the height of art and culture—the kinds of personalities that arise in every generation, sure of their own greatness but unable to actually contribute anything to the world of art and culture that they feel is so important. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book Eyeless in Gaza written by Aldous Huxley and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1995 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aldous Huxley- a major figure of the literary and intellectual history of this century- dramatizes here one man's disillusionment threatening to plunge the world into a new morass.
Download or read book Heidi Klum s Body of Knowledge written by Heidi Klum and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this funny, dishy, and highly practical book, Heidi Klum explains that by following eight essential rules, anyone can win people's admiration, without being a supermodel to do so.
Download or read book You Can Get There from Here written by Shirley MacLaine and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1975 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invited to visit the People's Republic of China, the author and a group of American women were not prepared for what they saw and learned.
