Download or read book Tamarisk Town Classic Reprint written by Sheila Kaye-Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tamarisk Town IN the hollow of the hills that, to the North, melted into the Sussex Weald and, to the South, broke and crumbled into the sea, Marlingate lay with the green of the tamarisks hazing its streets. The town itself was a tumble of blacks and reds, a. Mass of broken colours flung between the hills, into the lit tle scoop between the woods and the sea. It lay there like a thing flung down, heaped and broken, rolling to the very edge of the waves, and held from falling into them only by its thick, battered town-wall. 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 Tamarisk Row written by Gerald Murnane and published by Giramondo Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1974, and out of print for almost twenty years, Tamarisk Row is Gerald Murnane's first novel, and in many respects his masterpiece, an unsparing evocation of a Catholic childhood in a Victorian country town in the late 1940s.
Download or read book Our Village Classic Reprint written by Joseph Crosby Lincoln and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Village The reminiscences of boy life in a New England seashore village, contained in this volume, originally appeared as follows: "Our House," "Our Oldest Inhabitant," "The Old Maids," and "Teacher," in Collier's Weekly; "The Cape Cod Clambake," in Good Housekeeping; "The School Picnic," in Success; and" A Christmas Memory," in Country Life in America. The author desires to thank the editors of these periodicals for their courteous permission to republish. 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 Bookman s Journal and Print Collector written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cabool written by Alexander Burnes and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cabool: A Personal Narrative of a Journey to and Residence in That City in the Years 1836, 7, and 8 Objects of the Mission - Departure from Bombay - Arrival in Sinde - Embedded ship - Changes in the Indus - Reminiscences - Tame Otter - Vikkur - Pelican - Fish - The Boolun, or porpoise - Singular ceremony - Peer Putta - Tatta - Chief of the Jokeeas - Superjore - Presentation to the Amcers of Sinde - Conference - Hydrabad - Old acquaintances; Hunting excursion with the Amcers - Camel-riding - Cotumes - Accident - Mode of hunting - Murderous sport - Lakat - Amusements - Hawking - Sehwun - Moral degradation - Geology - Nutural history - New comparisons - Larkhanu - Dr. Lord - Amcer of Khyrpoor - Sindian dance - Ghoolam Nubee Khan - Deejee - Maraschino, a new medicine - Antelope hunting - Sindian falcons - Bukkur; Sukkur - Shikarpoor - Its commercial communications, population, bazars, &c. - River festival - Beauties - Character of the people - Wild tribes - Muzarees - A chief - Native song - Crocodile-steaks - Alligators - Mittuncote - Bhawul Khan, chief of Bhawulpoor - A French adventurer, Mons. Argoud - Mahommedan convent - Don Jose Gonsalvez, our artist - Runject Sing's officers - Kine reception - The Indus at Mittun - Dera Ghazee Khan - District of Deerajat - Its great importance - lohance Afghans - Their routes - The "Gates of Khorasan" - Traffic of Dera Ghazee Khan - Vicinity - Bazars; Battle between the Afghans and Sikhs - Departure from Dera Ghazee - Baber's routes - Voyage upwards - Sungur - Gurung - Dera Ismael Kban - Bazars, &c. - Corps de ballet - Donna of the Indus - Voyage to Kaln Bagh - Romantic country - Kussooree hills - Singular formation - Villages - Sooleeman range; Our critical position - State of the country - Influence of the Sikhs - The Euzoofzyes and their Chief - Plain of Peshawur - Futtighur - The Khuttuks - Kala Bagh - Eesa Khyl Afghans - The Wuzarees - Ascent of the Indus - Coal deposits - Excessive heat - Duncote - Husn Abdal - Dr. Falconer - Arrival at Attock; Croos the Attock - Khyrabad and fort - Bridge of the Indus - Inscriptions at Hund - Arrival at Peshawur - Reception by General Avitabile - Prince Kurruck Sing - Review of his troops - A Peshawuree's story - Changes by the Sikhs - Curious incident - Arrival at Jumrood - Enter the Khyber Pass - Ali musjid - Duka - Visit from the chiefs - Cutoms of the Khyberees 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 Mod Mirage written by Melissa Riche and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No longer overshadowed by neighboring Palm Springs, Mod Mirage reveals in photos and stories the historic homes and communities of Rancho Mirage that make up its significant midcentury heritage. Mod Mirage documents the architecturally innovative homes and communities that were built on and adjacent to the historic Thunderbird and Tamarisk Country Clubs from 1950 to 1970, in what is now the community of Rancho Mirage, California. Some of the midcentury's most distinguished architects, including William Cody, Donald Wexler, William Krisel, E. Stewart Williams, and William Pereira, designed many of these structures, many of which are hidden behind country club gates and not easily accessible to the public. This is the first book to focus solely on Rancho Mirage's rich architecture while also discussing its influential social history. Melissa Riche is a writer, researcher, architecture enthusiast, preservationist, and media consultant. She has written about architecture and design for twenty years, including articles for Atomic Ranch magazine and the Desert Sun newspaper and historic nominations for the Palm Springs Preservation Foundation. She is the founder of Mod Mirage, a group of midcentury modern homeowners in Rancho Mirage, California. Melissa and her husband, photographer Jim Riche, live in Tamarisk Ranchos, a William Krisel-designed midcentury modern community.
Download or read book Border Districts written by Gerald Murnane and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] man moves from a capital city to a remote town in the border country, where he intends to spend the last years of his life. It is time, he thinks, to review the spoils of a lifetime of seeing, a lifetime of reading. Which sights, which people, which books, fictional characters, turns of phrase, and lines of verse will survive into the twilight? A dark-haired woman with a wistful expression? An ancestral house in the grasslands? The colors in translucent panes of glass, in marbles and goldfish and racing silks? Feeling an increasing urgency to put his mental landscape in order, the man sets to work cataloging this treasure, little knowing where his 'report' will lead and what secrets will be brought to light"--Amazon.com.
Download or read book A Sport of Nature written by Nadine Gordimer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold, sweeping story of one girl's rise from obscurity to an unpredictable kind of political powerAbandoned by her mother, Hillela is left to be raised by her two aunts in South Africa. At Olga's she might have acquired a taste for antiques and a style of dress to please a suitable husband. At Pauline's she might have developed a social conscience. But Hillela's betrayal of her position as a surrogate daughter so shocks both families that at seventeen she is cast adrift.Swiftly and perilously, her life opens out. She lives as a footloose girl among political exiles on a beach in East Africa, drifting between jobs and lovers, and finally becomes the wife of a black revolutionary. Personal tragedy is ultimately the catalyst for her political development, leading her into a heroic role in the overthrow of apartheid.
Download or read book A Wild Surrender written by Anne Mather and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rachel Clairborne is a blonde beauty but, tired of being judged on her appearance, she's never let a man close. For the moment she's focused on finding her mother, who abandoned her family for the sultry paradise island of St. Antoine. But soon St. Antoine works its dark magic on Rachel, too, in the shape of irresistible Matt Brody. For the first time ever, she wants to give herself to a man. But Rachel can only look, not let herself be touched ... because Matt clearly knows something about her missing mother."--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book The Guncle written by Steven Rowley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Lily and the Octopus comes a moving and deeply funny novel about a once-famous sitcom star who is left to care for his niece and nephew after an unexpected family tragedy. Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them … in small doses, with their parents there to handle the tears and tricky questions. So when tragedy strikes and Patrick finds himself suddenly taking on the role of primary guardian, he is, honestly, overwhelmed. Patrick has no idea what to expect, having spent years barely holding on after the loss of his great love, a stalled acting career, and a lifestyle not-so-suited to young children. But when he realises that parenting isn’t solved with treats and jokes, Patrick’s eyes are opened to a new sense of responsibility and the realisation that, sometimes, being vulnerable is the only way to heal from grief. Tender, charming and laugh-out-loud funny, The Guncle is a testament to finding happiness and peace in the most trying of times. ‘Steven Rowley’s The Guncle is a gift. At once funny, charming and heartbreaking, it’s that rare novel that will have you laughing out loud, even through tears. I have yet to meet a person who did not love this book.’ Sally Hepworth, bestselling author of The Good Sister and The Younger Wife ‘A joyous Auntie Mame spritz! A reading pleasure; pour yourself a tall glass and enjoy, preferably poolside. You deserve it!’ Andrew Sean Greer, winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Less
Download or read book Dog Run Moon written by Callan Wink and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, and Kent Haruf comes a dazzling debut story collection by a young writer from the American West who has been published in The New Yorker, Granta, and The Best American Short Stories. SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE • 2017 PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD HONORABLE MENTION A construction worker on the run from the shady local businessman whose dog he has stolen; a Custer’s Last Stand reenactor engaged in a long-running affair with the Native American woman who slays him on the battlefield every year; a middle-aged high school janitor caught in a scary dispute over land and cattle with her former stepson: Callan Wink’s characters are often confronted with predicaments few of us can imagine. But thanks to the humor and remarkable empathy of this supremely gifted writer, the nine stories gathered in Dog Run Moon are universally transporting and resonant. Set mostly in Montana and Wyoming, near the borders of Yellowstone National Park, this revelatory collection combines unforgettable insight into the fierce beauty of the West with a powerful understanding of human beings. Tender, frequently hilarious, and always electrifying, Dog Run Moon announces the arrival of a bold new talent writing deep in the American grain. Praise for Dog Run Moon “[An] excellent first book of stories . . . One of the great things about Dog Run Moon is how resilient and funny [the characters] are. They’re at the end of their ropes, but they can still howl about the joy and pain each day brings, as if the young Levon Helm were singing their stories. . . . This is Thomas McGuane territory, and also that of writers like Joy Williams and Jim Harrison.”—The New York Times “Wink is definitely not a writer of half measures; each of these stories demonstrates his ability to lay life bare. A significant collection highly deserving of the spotlight.”—Library Journal (starred review) “Myth and history color these highly satisfying fictions about the way men and women struggle to shape their lives.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “The perils of work and the weight of bequeathal fuel these stories, and each one holds a lasting, unshakable image. Sometimes grace is bestowed upon the characters in a sidewindering, not altogether fabulous fashion; sometimes it’s not bestowed at all. Callan Wink seems to know well the stratagems and delusions of men’s hearts. He also seems born and bred to short-story mastery.”—Joy Williams, author of The Visiting Privilege “Callan Wink’s debut is impressive indeed. Fine, old-fashioned, rich and juicy fiction. Weeks later I’m still living with the characters.”—Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall “Callan Wink’s fresh, urgent stories have an energy and propulsion that set them well apart from the cerebral finger painting of so much literary fiction. Here is a writer with a great big horizon.”—Thomas McGuane, author of Crow Fair “Callan Wink’s stories remind me of expertly tied trout flies—beautifully crafted, true to reality, and barbed. What a fine young writer.”—Ron Rash, author of Above the Waterfall “As in all the best collections, each and every story in Dog Run Moon sings in the essential registers of love and death, work and nature. Callan Wink has the wisdom to write only of the things that matter, and the talent to make these stories as fresh as the literary headwaters from which they come.”—Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek
Download or read book Water is for Fighting Over written by John Fleck and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Illuminating." --New York Times WIRED's Required Science Reading 2016 When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis. Yet despite decades of headlines warning of mega-droughts, the death of agriculture, and the collapse of cities, the Colorado River basin has thrived in the face of water scarcity. John Fleck shows how western communities, whether farmers and city-dwellers or U.S. environmentalists and Mexican water managers, actually have a promising record of conservation and cooperation. Rather than perpetuate the myth "Whiskey's for drinkin', water's for fightin' over," Fleck urges readers to embrace a new, more optimistic narrative--a future where the Colorado continues to flow.
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs written by Gerald Murnane and published by Giramondo Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays leads into the eccentric imagination of Gerald Murnane, one of the masters of contemporary Australian writing, and winner of the Patrick White Literary Award.
Download or read book Barley Patch written by Gerald Murnane and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the Australian novelist ranked by Ladbrokes as a top-five contender for the 2010 Nobel Prize. Barley Patch takes as its subject the reasons an author might abandon fiction—or so he thinks—forever. Using the form of an oblique self-interrogation, it begins with the Beckettian question “Must I write?” and proceeds to expand from this small, personal query to fill in the details of a landscape entirely unique in world letters, a chronicle of the images from life and fiction that have endured and mingled in the author’s mind, as well as the details (and details within details) that they contain. As interested, if not more so, in the characters from his books—finished or unfinished—as with the members of his family or his daily life, the narrator lays bare the act of writing and imagining, finally giving us a glimpse of the mythical place where the characters of fiction dwell before they come into existence in books. In the spirit of Italo Calvino and Georges Perec, Barley Patch is like no other fiction being written today.
Download or read book Stream System written by Gerald Murnane and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories from a mind-bending Australian master, “a genius on the level of Beckett” (Teju Cole) Never before available to readers in this hemisphere, these stories—originally published from 1985 to 2012—offer an irresistible compendium of the work of one of contemporary fiction’s greatest magicians. While the Australian master Gerald Murnane’s reputation rests largely on his longer works of fiction, his short stories stand among the most brilliant and idiosyncratic uses of the form since Borges, Beckett, and Nabokov. Brutal, comic, obscene, and crystalline, Stream System runs from the haunting “Land Deal,” which imagines the colonization of Australia and the ultimate vengeance of its indigenous people as a series of nested dreams; to “Finger Web,” which tells a quietly terrifying, fractal tale of the scars of war and the roots of misogyny; to “The Interior of Gaaldine,” which finds its anxious protagonist stranded beyond the limits of fiction itself. No one else writes like Murnane, and there are few other authors alive still capable of changing how—and why—we read.
