Download or read book The Plain Princess written by Phyllis McGinley and published by HarperCollins Children's Books. This book was released on 1945 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spoiled, homely princess is sent to the home of Dame Goodwit to become beautiful.
Download or read book Esmerelda written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was an English- American playwright and author. She was best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden (1911) and Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886). Her first story was published in Godey's Lady's Book in 1868. Her main writing talent was combining realistic detail of workingclass life with a romantic plot. Her first novel was published in 1877; That Lass o' Lowrie's was a story of Lancashire life. After moving to Washington, D.C., Burnett wrote the novels Haworth's (1879), Louisiana (1880), A Fair Barbarian (1881), and Through One Administration (1883), as well as a play, Esmeralda (1881), written with William Gillette. Her later works include Sara Crewe, or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's (1888) - later rewritten as A Little Princess (1905); and A Lady of Quality (1896) - considered one of the best of her plays. The Lost Prince was published in 1915, and The Head of the House of Coombe was published in Canada in 1922. During World War I, Burnett put her beliefs about what happens after death into writing with her novella The White People (1917).
Download or read book Esmeralda written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A French tutor connects with an American family after succeeding in breaking into the iron industry. The family conspires to somehow become involved in French high society. Excerpt: "To begin, I am a Frenchman, a teacher of languages, and a poor man,—necessarily a poor man, as the great world would say, or I should not be a teacher of languages, and my wife a copyist of great pictures..."
Download or read book When I Was Puerto Rican written by Esmeralda Santiago and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of "The Best Memoirs of a Generation" (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to Harvard In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs, the taste of morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven. But when her mother, Mami, a force of nature, takes off to New York with her seven, soon to be eleven children, Esmeralda, the oldest, must learn new rules, a new language, and eventually a new identity. In the first of her three acclaimed memoirs, Esmeralda brilliantly recreates her tremendous journey from the idyllic landscape and tumultuous family life of her earliest years, to translating for her mother at the welfare office, and to high honors at Harvard.
Download or read book The Angel Esmeralda written by Don DeLillo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the greatest writers of our time, his first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011, chronicling—and foretelling—three decades of American life Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, these nine stories are a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo’s iconic voice, from the rich, startling, jazz-infused rhythms of his early work to the spare, distilled, monastic language of the later stories. In “Creation,” a couple at the end of a cruise somewhere in the West Indies can’t get off the island—flights canceled, unconfirmed reservations, a dysfunctional economy. In “Human Moments in World War III,” two men orbiting the earth, charged with gathering intelligence and reporting to Colorado Command, hear the voices of American radio, from a half century earlier. In the title story, Sisters Edgar and Grace, nuns working the violent streets of the South Bronx, confirm the neighborhood’s miracle, the apparition of a dead child, Esmeralda. Nuns, astronauts, athletes, terrorists and travelers, the characters in The Angel Esmeralda propel themselves into the world and define it. DeLillo’s sentences are instantly recognizable, as original as the splatter of Jackson Pollock or the luminous rectangles of Mark Rothko. These nine stories describe an extraordinary journey of one great writer whose prescience about world events and ear for American language changed the literary landscape.
Download or read book Sally Blane World s Greatest Girl Detective written by Helen Sneed and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Sally Blane, a pretty and indomitable seventeen-year-old, has solved mysteries all over the globe and has helped thousands of people in distress. Early in this, her latest adventure, she discovers that her father, Lane Blane, is being he
Download or read book Welfarewell written by Catherine Delaney and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic Comedy / Characters: 1m, 7f, Larger Cast Possibilities /Simple Set Winner of the 2009 Samuel French Canadian Playwriting Competition Esmerelda Quipp is 80, still of sound mind, but her body is beginning to come unglued, as she puts it. Having spent her working life as an actress, age pushing her gradually out of the business, she now faces the fact that her meagre government pension is insufficient to support her, even with her minimal needs. When she is arrested for attempting to bury her dead cat in her landlord's yard, she finds that there is some sense of community, not to mention free room and board, within the prison system. She devises a plan to get herself sent back to jail; she robs a bank. But a well-meaning public defender gets the charges against her dropped. Esmerelda Quipp is undeterred! Using money she gets from returning stolen wine bottles to a recycling depot, she buys a toy gun at the local dollar store, and commits armed robbery. Knowing that she will be convicted because she will plead guilty, she assumes that she can spend the rest of her days living free, hanging out with other women, and being fed decently in a women's prison.But the system that has failed her also wants to forgive her because of her age and general health, and the public defender wants to use an insanity plea to get her off. How will Esmerelda convince the legal system she should be incarcerated, literally, for life?
Download or read book The Wasp Factory written by Iain Banks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath. Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.
Download or read book Forever Merry Christmas written by Roxie Clarke and published by Write Free Press. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frankie is honored when the Tyler Creek Park and Recreation District ask her to run the Christmas at the Caverns holiday market. As the owner of the Snowdrift Christmas Shop in downtown Tyler Creek, Christmas is her business and her life. Unfortunately, the "enchanted" caverns where the holiday market is held are proving to be cursed instead. Two weeks into December and the Santas keep quitting on her. Whether it be illness, a minor accident, or a scheduling mishap, Frankie can't keep a single holly-jolly behind in Santa's sleigh. When Frankie's friend and fellow shop owner, Liv, suggests her brother Luca for the Santa position, Frankie questions Liv's intentions. Luca hates Christmas and everyone in Tyler Creek knows it. In fact, despite going on three wonderful dates, Frankie and Luca decided they could never work because of his distaste for her absolute favorite thing. Yet, when Luca survives and apparently enjoys his first time playing Santa, Frankie wonders if she and Luca might get a second chance at love - her Christmas wish come true.
Download or read book Mayab written by Malcolm Shuman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His mentor dead, an archaeologist returns to the mysterious Yucatán A novice archaeologist, Clay Holliman came to the Yucatán Peninsula in search of the secrets of the Maya. Taken in by the family of Doctor Leon, an expert on the local excavations, Clay discovered a world where the mysteries were not fully buried—where even the city was a jungle. Ten years later, his career is in a tailspin, Doctor Leon is dead, and the Yucatán is calling him home. Although he tells the man at customs that he has not come to dig, it will not be long before Holliman is lured back into the jungle. He goes to the infamous site at Chan Chen that has already claimed the reputations and lives of several brilliant archaeologists, and which Holliman must conquer if he is to unearth the truth about the jungle—and himself.
Download or read book Working Mother written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magazine that helps career moms balance their personal and professional lives.
Download or read book The Craftsman written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated monthly magazine in the interest of better art, better work and a better more reasonable way of living.
Download or read book Any Human Heart written by William Boyd and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Boyd’s masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart—writer, lover, art dealer, spy—as he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century.
Download or read book Bajan s Tale written by David G. Taylor and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-04-22 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a pleasure trip to Barbados, David and Robyne befriend a stray beach dog and Robyne decides he must come and live with her in America. Thus opens the story of the adventures of this “local” dog as he waits for the day when he can fly to Chicago and live with Robyne and David. Learn how he got his name—Bajan. Meet Basker-Ville Bajan’s worst enemy. Among Bajan’s local “friends” are Deedra Dread and Jeb the Kennel Master. Fly with Bajan and his companion Richard the Roach. You will enjoy meeting Tyler—and Jezebel, Bajan’s brother and sister. And live with the ache and pains of illness, the joys of a three dog family and the incredible magnetism of “just a beach dog” from Barbados. Enjoy the recognition Bajan receives from friends and organizations. Most of all feel the warmth and love and gratefulness of a lovely dog toward his parents and friends. He never forgets that he is a lucky dog!
Download or read book America written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Jesuit review of faith and culture," Nov. 13, 2017-
Download or read book Enamoured Once Upon a Crime 1 written by Shannon Curtis and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Stephanie Bond and Darynda Jones, fairy tales as you've never seen them before. The debut in a series that mixes suspense, sex, and just a sprinkle of fairy dust. Once Upon a Crime… Melanie wants to get incriminating information on her evil stepfather and she'll get it – even if it means giving in to an odious toad's demands. Cole is undercover, and when the opportunity arises for him to get closer to the criminal he's investigating using the man's beautiful stepdaughter, he grabs it. Esmerelda is a Fairy Godmother Enforcer charged with getting the Frog Prince fairytale back on track. But fate has saddled her with a partner, and Rumpelstiltskin – with his sexy bad boy swagger – has a hidden agenda of his own. In the Fairy Isle, nothing is as it seems…
Download or read book Working Mother written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magazine that helps career moms balance their personal and professional lives.
