Download or read book TALES FROM A BYGONE ERA written by J.A. RAMA MOORTY and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an attempt to spread some cheer and positive vibes at a time when there is an almost all-pervading gloom – largely triggered by the pandemic. The author has used his phenomenal memory to chronicle the instances narrated by luminaries like his family elders, school teachers, instructors from an in-service training institution and professional colleagues. There is also a section about some memorable programmes beamed over All India Radio. The readers will find that the book covers a wide gamut that includes humour, pragmatism, and life-skills. It could also be seen that the central characters in these instances are not well- known personalities (about whom most of us have already read or heard a lot). Instead, the ‘narrators’ have been persons with whom most of us can easily identify.
Download or read book Tales of a Bygone ERA written by James Royston and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book STORIES of ENCHANTMENT 12 Illustrated Children s Stories from a Bygone Era written by Anon E. Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the borders of the “Land o’ Dreams” and broad daylight, the real and the unreal are so strangely blended that children are puzzled to know where the boundary lies. It is from this land that the 12 illustrated stories in this volume are taken. Herein you will find stories of: The Ghost Flower, Or The White Blackbird The Little Yellow Moccasins The Little Ghost Who Laughed Titania’s Maid Of Honor Bran, The Wolf Dog The Corn Fairy At The Wayside Cross In Quest Of The Dark The King Will Hunt To-Day He Was A Prince Where The River Hides Its Pearls The Mist Lady These stories are taken from a place where good wishes come true: where the poor and the lonely are rich in castles and friends: and where sorrowful folk are happy. If you listen carefully, here you will hear the birds singing and children laughing, all day long. The trees are full of blossoms and fruit. The sky is always blue, the grass green and soft. Under the trees dwell the fairies, and against the blue sky you will sometimes see the sheen of angels’ wings as the flit by. So, we invite you to curl up with this unique sliver of Fairy culture not seen in print for over a century; and immerse yourself in the tales and fables of yesteryear. ---------------------------- TAGS: fairy tales, folklore, myths, legends, children’s stories, children’s stories, bygone era, fairydom, fairy land, classic stories, children’s bedtime stories, ghost flower, white blackbird, little yellow moccasins, little ghost who laughed, titania, maid of honor, bran, wolf dog, corn fairy, wayside cross, quest of the dark, king, hunt, to-day, prince, where the river hides its pearls, mist lady
Download or read book The Roar of the Tiger written by PKS and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compilation of hunting tales from the jungles of India from the centuries gone by. “…We have no word in English that properly embraces all this, but all are expressed by the Persian word ‘shikar!’…” “…Sitting on the ground in a thorn “Boma” for a lion in Africa is considered an ordinary enough thing to do; but sitting on the ground for a tiger in dense jungles of the Indian subcontinent can be an entirely different experience. The risk inherent should be obvious to all. Sitting on a machan built on a tree was the more common approach employed by Tiger hunters of yore; but of course, there were exceptions...” “…In another moment the old Panther sprang out of the jungle, made a pat at the kid, and then crouched by its side. If there had been more space, I should have waited and watched the Panther’s proceedings, but as I was afraid that she would drag the goat into the jungle, I fired at once, and immediately jumped up so as to see above the smoke. The Panther sprang into the air, fell backwards, and then disappeared among the bushes…” “…I was standing at the junction of two pathways, and the beat had approached to within a hundred yards, when I heard “Woof! Woof!” I imagined the beaters had started up a big wild boar. The “woofing” was repeated during the next minute, coming closer each time, until finally there was a resounding “Woof” in the tall grass about fifteen yards in front of me. By this time I was standing on tip-toe, trying to peer into the grass ahead of me, when suddenly I realized that what I was staring at behind an ant-heap was the tail-end of a tiger…” The stories in this collection are extracted from rare works from the 17th, 18th, 19th centuries.
Download or read book Best Loved Tales of the Countryside written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of the Party written by Irvin S. Cobb and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-24 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It had been a successful party, most successful. Mrs. Carroway's parties always were successes, but this one nearing its conclusion stood out notably from a long and unbroken Carrowayian record. It had been a children's party; that is to say, everybody came in costume with intent to represent children of any age between one year and a dozen years. But twelve years was the limit; positively nobody, either in dress or deportment, could be more than twelve years old. Mrs. Carroway had made this point explicit in sending out the invitations, and so it had been, down to the last hair ribbon and the last shoe buckle. And between dances they had played at the games of childhood, such as drop the handkerchief, and King William was King James' son and prisoner's base and the rest of them.
Download or read book Baseball in the Afternoon written by Robert Smith and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everyone who loves the game of baseball carries with him a memory of the game's golden age: when players played the game for love; when they were loyal to their teams; when they were a part of their community; when long train rides on road trips bred close friendships and cruel practical jokes; when they were with and among us as heroes, but as people, too. Baseball under the blazing sun, on God's green grass. Baseball played with heart, and with joy. Baseball in the Afternoon." "For most of us, those memories are cherished, but they are false; the baseball world was really not so different when we were young. For Robert Smith, though, those memories - augmented by a lifetime of friendships with the greats and near-greats of the game - are of a truly different age. The memories of the men Smith came to know in his youth reach back to the infancy of the game, back to when men in whiskers and knickers rode from town to town taking on all comers; to when the self-proclaimed Greatest Feller on Earth, Chris von der Ahe, bankrupted himself throwing grand parties to celebrate the latest triumph of the team he owned, his beloved St. Louis Browns; to the real first black players in baseball, Oberlin-educated Moses Fleetwood Walker and his brother Welday, who played briefly for Toledo in the American Association in 1884; and on through the reminiscences of Waite Hoyt, one of the many men able to say, "I didn't room with Babe Ruth; I roomed with his suitcase." Smith's rich, evocative prose reminds us all of why we fell in love with baseball in the first place, and shows us pieces of the game's history we may never have seen before." "Once every ten years or so a book with this kind of charm and appeal comes along: Lawrence Ritter's The Glory of Their Times. Fred Lieb's Baseball As I Have Known It. And now Baseball in the Afternoon. It's the baseball book of a lifetime."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Whispers of A Bygone Era written by Marna M. Linzy and published by . This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories from the Sailor, Johnson, Linzy and Wilson families from the mid-1800's to the present day.
Download or read book Fashion Retailing and a Bygone Era written by Marvin Klapper and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look back into the publication, Women's Wear Daily, by seven former editors.
Download or read book Tales of Times Now Past written by Marian Ury and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of Times Now Past is a translation of 62 outstanding tales freshly selected from Konjaku monogatari shu, a Japanese anthology dating from the early twelfth century. The original work, unique in world literature, contains more than one thousand systematically arranged tales from India, China, and Japan. It is the most important example of a genre of collections of brief tales which, because of their informality and unpretentious style, were neglected by Japanese critics until recent years but which are now acknowledged to be among the most significant prose literature of premodern Japan. “Konjaku” in particular has aroused the enthusiasm of such leading 20th-century writers as Akutagawa Ryunosuke and Tanizaki Jun’ichiro. The stories, with sources in both traditional lore and contemporary gossip, cover an astonishing range—homiletic, sentimental, terrifying, practical-minded, humorous, ribald. Their topics include the life of the Buddha, descriptions of Heaven and Hell, feats of warriors, craftsmen, and musicians, unsuspected vice, virtue, and ingenuity, and the ways and wiles of bandits, ogres, and proverbially greedy provincial governors, to name just a few. Composed perhaps a century after the refined, allusive, aristocratic Tale of Genji, Konjaku represents a masculine outlook and comparatively plebeian social orientation, standing in piquant contrast to the earlier masterpiece. The unknown compiler was interested less in exploring psychological subtleties than in presenting vivid portraits of human foibles and eccentricities. The stories in the present selection have been chosen to provide an idea of the scope and structure of the book as a whole, and also for their appeal to the modern reader. And the translation is based on the premise that the most faithful rendering is also the liveliest.
Download or read book Tales of Times Now Past written by Marian Ury and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Time Tales written by Lawton Bryan Evans and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Tales from a Rolltop Desk written by Christopher Morley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a captivating collection of short stories by American journalist and writer Christopher Morley. These stories revolve around writing and are set in New York. The readers will find humor, twists, intricacies, and intriguing characters in this collection. Contents include The Prize Package Advice to To Lovelorn The Curious Case of Kenelm Digby Gloria and the Garden of Sweden The Commutation Chophouse The Pert Little Hat Urn Burial The Battle of Manila Envelopes The Climacteric Punch and Judy Referred to the Author
Download or read book Hal Chase written by Martin Donell Kohout and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hal Chase is considered by many to be one of the best first basemen ever to play the game of baseball. He was able to make the routine look spectacular, the spectacular look routine. But Chase will never have his plaque in Cooperstown because he has gone down in history as the biggest crook in baseball. Chase was repeatedly accused of throwing games, bribing players, betting against his own team, and various other crimes, yet with his relaxed nature he always managed to get off the hook for his misdeeds by working his charm. His major league career lasted from 1905 to 1919, and by the mid-1930s he was a destitute alcoholic living off friends. The last fifteen years of Chase's life saw him hospitalized repeatedly for a variety of ailments, living off a sister and brother-in-law who loathed him. This work traces the turbulent life and times of Hal Chase from his humble beginnings to his sad end.
Download or read book The Fading Voices of Alcatraz written by Jerry Lewis Champion Jr. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrays the history of Alcatraz Island as shared by the men who lives and worked there.
Download or read book At a Winter s Fire written by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At a Winter's Fire" by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes is a collection of strange, adventure, and ghost tales. Each story takes readers on a journey so vivid, it will almost feel like you're watching it on screen. Capes is able to craft narratives that will easily pull the emotion he wants from his readers. From eerie uneasiness to awe and wonder, he's a master of his skill and this book shows that.
Download or read book Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century written by David Stuart Davies and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of classic featuring tales by Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, RL Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Anthony Trollope and many others.
