Download or read book Tales of the Road Classic Reprint written by Charles N. Crewdson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tales of the Road By salesman I do not mean the man who stands behind the counter and lets the customer who comes to him and wants to buy a necktie slip away because the spots on the silk are blue instead of green; nor do I mean the man who wraps up a collar, size 16, and calls cash I mean the man who takes his grip or sample trunks and goes to hunt his customer - the traveling salesman. Certainly there are salesmen behind the counter, and he has much in common with the man on the road. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Roads A Legend of Santa Claus written by Seabury Quinn and published by Red Jacket Press. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I have not tried to paint the portrait of a man, but merely to present a personality and hazard a guess as to the motivation that makes Santa Claus the wondrous figure he is — a figure who more than any other exemplifies the beauty of selflessness.” — Seabury Quinn Drawing upon the original Christian legends that coalesced over centuries into the familiar, jolly form of Saint Nicholas, pulp fiction pioneer Seabury Quinn weaves a spellbinding new origin for this most beloved of children’s icons in his classic novella Roads.
Download or read book The Tales of a Traveler written by S. S. Skidelsky and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Tales of a Traveler: Reminiscences and Reflections From Twenty-Eight Years on the Road Early Struggles At the suggestion of a few of my florist friends, I am undertaking to write a series of reminiscences of road life during the past thirty years. As I look back over that period of time, it occurs to me that many things have transpired in horticulture, as well as in other lines of human activity, and that they may prove interesting reading, especially to the younger generation of florists whose existence I never dreamed of when I first took up the work of soliciting orders for immortelles, cape-flowers, wheat-sheaves, doves, etc. First "Job" It was in the late 80's about 1888 that I secured a job with an insignificant florists supply house in Philadelphia, long since out of existence, at the munificent sum of ten dollars per.I say I secured a job, advisedly; for in those days, unlike the present time, jobs were by no means waiting for the man. As a matter of fact, there were dozens of men waiting for every job, and the wages paid would startle a newly arrived immigrant. That job proved the beginning of my career, and of my association with horticulture. I was determined there and then to put forth my best efforts, to work hard and untiringly in order to prove to my employer that my assurances to him of giving him the very best in me were fully justified. The cupidity of human nature was well demonstrated by my first boss (may his ashes rest in peace!). Despite the good work I was doing, and my untiring efforts at all times in behalf of his interests, he could never see his way to increase my salary by the sum of one or two dollars in order to enable me to provide a little more comfortably for my small family. My first work was in the city of Philadelphia. Determined to succeed, I visited every flower shop, never hesitating to intrude myself upon men well up at that time in the business. I had but one aim in view, and that was to succeed. And right here I cannot refrain from saying a few words to my younger friends on the road about the importance of studying human nature before attempting to solicit an order. There is nothing that will impress a buyer less favorably than the intrusion of a young man with his samples at a time when business is at a rush. I gained that knowledge after being two weeks out, and I have profited by it ever since. One must know, too, the calibre of the man approached. There are many men of many minds; some will give you a hearing at once, and others again will give you a stare which tells you more eloquently than words to get out. Know your man, my young friend, and your battle is half won. Earliest Experiences on the Road About the beginning of December, 1888, it occurred to my employer to venture me out on the road. That was a new departure in my life. To go on the road how inviting and attractive the idea seemed to me! I boarded the train one fine morning at Broad Street Station, my first destination being Columbia, Pa. There, to my delight, I found two florists, Mr. Ahern, a very estimable old gentleman who is still continuing the business, and a Mr. Purple, who has long since discontinued. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Wayside Experiences written by C. Elton Blanchard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wayside Experiences: A Collection of Plain Tales as Heard Along the Road These stories may be premature. They may be timely or untimely; they may be good or bad fiction as judged by the usual standards of literary criticism. They have at least one merit none can deny to them: sincerity and reality, for they are bits of real life gathered from the writer's diversified experiences. Let them serve you if they may, to some good end. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Roads Not Taken written by Stanley Schmidt and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With these dazzling stories, discover just how different things might have been! Alternate History: The What-If? fiction that has finally come into its own! Shedding light on the past by exploring what could have happened, this bold genre tantalizes your imagination and challenges your perceptions with thrilling reinventions of humanity's most climactic events. Enter worlds that are at once fanciful and familiar, where fact and fiction meld in a provocative landscape of infinite possibilities. . . . "An Ink from the New Moon" by A. A. Attanasio "We Could Do Worse" by Gregory Benford "The West Is Red" by Greg Costikyan "The Forest of Time" by Michael F. Flynn "Southpaw" by Bruce McAllister "Over There" by Mike Resnick "An Outpost of the Empire" by Robert Silverberg "Aristotle and the Gun" by L. Sprague de Camp "Must and Shall" by Harry Turtledove "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion" by Gene Wolfe
Download or read book Tales for Road and Rail written by Mrs. S. C. Hall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tales for Road and Rail: From Chambers's Misscellany The space appointed for the reception of the prisoners consisted of four equal divisions or quadrangles; and these again Were divided into four parts, each of which was surrounded by a high palisade of wood, and paved for walking on; but the small ground it occupied scarcely left us sufficient room to exercise for our health, and this was a very great privation. In each of these subdivisions was a large wooden building, covered with red tiles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Tales of the Paria Main Road Classic Reprint written by Jerry Besson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tales of the Paria Main Road He looked around and saw that he was alone in the plunging sea. Boat, old woman, men, Mother, bags of yam. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Book of Lost Tales written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 1992-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first form of the myths and legends in Tolkien's conception of the Middle Kingdom features the adventures of Eriol, and the tales of Beren and Luthien, Turin and the dragon, the necklace of the dwarves, and the fall of Gondolin.
Download or read book Tales of a Pathfinder Classic Reprint written by A. L. Westgard and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tales of a Pathfinder The story of the highways is the story of mankind, whether in a state of barbarism or of civilization. The movement of primitive peoples has been by waterways and land-routes which, following lines of least resistance, often appropriated the trails made by wild animals. The movements of civilized men likewise followed the least resistive lines with the result that the great railways and the National highways coincide with the game-trails and the Indian paths of long ago. The ascent of man has been in direct ratio to the progress that has been made in the speed, safety, comfort and convenience of the movement of men and goods from one place to another. The wheel is the emblem of human progress. The supreme evolution of the wheel is the automobile. Already six and a half million automobiles are daily employed In speeding a third of the population of the United States along their way with the demand increasing so rapidly that the factories are unable to meet it. Every Intelligent citizen in the United States knows that the next big job for America now that the war is over is to construct road beds as perfectly adapted to the economic operation thereon of motor vehicles as the road bed of the railway is adapted to the use thereon of its rolling stock. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Plain Tales From the Hills Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plain Tales From the Hills, Vol. 1 of 2 Eight-and-twenty of these tales appeared originally in the Civil and Military Gazette. I am indebted to the kindness of the Proprietors of that paper for permission to reprint them The remaining tales are, more or less, new. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Road to Tara written by Anne Edwards and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Mitchell was as complex and compelling as her legendary heroine, Scarlett O’Hara, and her story is as dramatic as anything out of her own imagination—indeed, it is the basis for the legend she created. Gone With the Wind took the American reading public by storm and went on to become the most popular motion picture of all time. It was a phenomenon whose success has never been equaled—and it shattered Margaret Mitchell’s private life. In this commemorative reprint of Road to Tara, Anne Edwards tells the real story of Margaret Mitchell and the extraordinary novel that has become part of our heritage.
Download or read book Skid Road written by Murray Morgan and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skid Road tells the story of Seattle “from the bottom up,” offering an informal and engaging portrait of the Emerald City’s first century, as seen through the lives of some of its most colorful citizens. With his trademark combination of deep local knowledge, precision, and wit, Murray Morgan traces the city’s history from its earliest days as a hacked-from-the-wilderness timber town, touching on local tribes, settlers, the lumber and railroad industries, the great fire of 1889, the Alaska gold rush, flourishing dens of vice, the 1919 general strike, the 1962 World’s Fair, and the stuttering growth of the 1970s and ’80s. Through it all, Morgan shows us that Seattle’s one constant is change and that its penchant for reinvention has always been fueled by creative, if sometimes unorthodox, residents. With a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Mary Ann Gwinn, this redesigned edition of Murray Morgan’s classic work is a must for those interested in how Seattle got to where it is today.
Download or read book Who Needs a Road written by Harold Stephens and published by Wolfenden. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about two men who wanted to drive around the world, to remote corners, to those places where few men have ventured before. They wanted to do it in a four-wheel drive, taking their own camper-trailer with them, to live at the edge of deserts and at the rim of tropical jungles, to drive the highest roads, and the lowest, to be free to make their own choices, and the Trans World Expedition was born. This is their incredible journey. That they did it, and how they did it is their tale told in this exciting book.
Download or read book Hound of the Road Classic Reprint written by Mary Cameron Gilmore and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hound of the Road When that restless pilgrim whose unwritten story is partly suggested in the second half of these pages came to my house I brought him in and gave him meat and drink. But when he had rested a while he rose and went his way again leaving me with the fragments of the uncompleted and with a deep wonder as to why so many must follow a far star when a near one shines in the heart and is spoken in the deep moments of the inner self. That some of this wonder will remain with those for whom this is written is the hope of the writer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book New Canterbury Tales Classic Reprint written by John Philipps Emslie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New Canterbury Tales That we begin to ask what halves may mean, Since they in ever-changing forms are seen. Take half of eight; twice two, or four times one, And see how different halves in form may run, When equal area's not of equal length, While equal size may have unequal strength; A whole mob's wisdom often will not reach To half of what one learned sage can teach; When two take halves in sharing wisdom, it Not follows they take equal shares of wit; And, two wits being equal, oft we find Their gifts unequal; so wills Fortune blind; And then, again - stop, lest my brain, o'erwrought, Should find its travelled farther than it ought. Thus thought I, as, in fancy, once I went Along that pleasant road in fertile Kent That's known as Watling Street. I rode a horse That lightly carried me along the course; Though you'll say I did ne'er on horseback act; But this is fancy; don't forget that fact. My head, with gloomy lumbering thought opprest, So heavy grew, it drooped upon my breast; It had, with heavier thought, dropped at my feet, And thought no more; 'tis thus extremes do meet. When, on a sudden, a sharp clattering sound Of hoofs disturbed my thought, and, looking round, I saw, swift coming onward, and with force, A heavier man than I, a heavier horse About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Tales Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by George Crabbe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tales, Vol. 1 But if these characters which seemed to be at my disposal were not such as would coalesce into one body, nor were of a nature to he commanded by one mind, so neither on examination did they appear as an unconnected multitude, accidentally. Collected, to be suddenly dispersed but rather beings of whom might be formed groups and smaller societies, the relations of whose adven tures and pursuits might bear that kind of simi-i litude to an Heroic Poem, which these minor as sociations of men (as pilgrims on the way to their saint, or parties in search of amusement, travellers excited by chriosity, or adventurers in pursuit of gain) have in points of connection and importance with a regular and disciplined Army. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Road written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). • From the bestselling author of The Passenger A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
