Download or read book The King of the Hummingbirds written by John Gardner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic children’s collection: four fantastical stories filled with wit and wisdom, humor and heart In this wonderful collection of fairy tales, John Gardner turns a timeless tradition into a topsy-turvy whirlwind. In the title story, a kindly simpleton unwittingly becomes sovereign of an avian race. A wicked witch seeks a new profession—and, thus, identity—in “The Witch’s Wish.” In “The Pear Tree,” a sweet young boy is rewarded for his good deeds. And “The Gnome and the Dragon” presents a realm so mixed-up not even the reader can distinguish reality from illusion. With tongue-in-cheek wit and laugh-out-loud humor, Gardner has created a world that will delight readers of all ages.
Download or read book The King of the Hummingbirds and Other Tales written by John Gardner and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four fairy tales featuring a stupid coppersmith's son, a witch unhappy in her profession, a gnome with power to change things, and a fat, bespectacled Jewish boy who hopes to marry a princess.
Download or read book Hummingbirds And Other Tales written by Ml Binelli and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of short stories in which the fantastic joins comedy and horror. Themes such as aliens, cannibals, psychopaths, vampires, ghosts, zombies, dealing with the devil, buried people alive and eternal beings, are developed in a very peculiar way, demonstrating that already known stories can be retold endlessly in very different ways, without losing originality.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Fantasy written by John Clute and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like its companion volume, "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", this massive reference of 4,000 entries covers all aspects of fantasy, from literature to art.
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Twentieth century Literature in English written by Jenny Stringer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey of twentieth century English-language writers and writing from around the world, celebrating all major genres, with entries on literary movements, periodicals, more than 400 individual works, and articles on approximately 2,400 authors.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Don t Bet on the Prince written by Jack Zipes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review written by Neil Barron and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review" was founded in 1979 to provide comprehensive coverage of all the major and minor books being released in the genre at that time. This was the golden era of SF publishing, with a thousand titles (old and new) hitting the stands and the bookshelves each and every year. From the older classics to the newest speculative fiction, this was the period when the best and the brightest shined forth their talents. SF&FBR included reviews by writers in the field, by amateur critics, and by litterateurs and University professors. Over a thousand books were covered during the single year of publication, many of them having been reviewed no where else, before or since. The January 1980 issue includes a comprehensive index of all the works featured during the preceding year. This reprint will be a welcome addition to the literature of science fiction and fantasy criticism. Neil Barron is a retired bibliographer and literary critic, editor of the acclaimed "Anatomy of Wonder" series. Robert Reginald was the publisher for twenty-five years of Borgo Press, and has authored over 110 books of his own."
Download or read book Conversations with John Gardner written by John Gardner and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1990 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, selected from more than 140 interviews Gardner granted, presents a wealth of information on the life and art of one of America's foremost novelists. These interviews show him as a novelist, a charismatic teacher of creative writing, and a widely published scholar who has vast knowledge and who generated much literary information in his lectures and interviews. After the publication of such popular and critical successes as Grendel (1971) and The Sunlight Dialogues (1972), this philosophical writer with an enviable talent for storytelling was regarded as ""a major contemporary writer."" After Gardner had demonstrated that he was one of America's most prolific, versatile, and imaginative authors, he became one of its most controversial when he attacked the literary establishment in his book On Moral Fiction and in his interviews. These candid conversations reveal a man of contrasts and contradictions, a writer who, as one of his interviewers remarks, ""brought to everything he did a passion that at times bordered on madness.
Download or read book John Gardner a Bibliographical Profile written by John Michael Howell and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "So now," writes John Gardner in his Afterword to the first annotated bibliography of works by and about him, "reading John Howell's list of 'Separate publications'--XXXI in all (however many that is)--I feel pleasure and then alarm, rolling my eyes toward the ceiling, asking God, 'Is it enough?'" The book includes a biographical sketch; a collation of the first American edition; printing histories of first American and British editions and of subsequent editions; annotated checklists of fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, and letters; an annotated checklist of interviews: "I'm astonished, reading these summaries of interviews, at how often and how deeply I contradict myself"; a checklist of manuscripts and contributions to other media; secondary checklists of articles, essays, and reviews about Gardner and his works; plus photographs of assorted pages, dust jackets, and Gardner memorabilia.
Download or read book John Gardner written by Barry Silesky and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed portrait of one of the twentieth century's most controversial American authors describes John Gardner's turbulent and contradictory life, including his prodigious writing talents and literary success, chaotic personal life, contempt for convention, charisma, drinking problems, and tragic death in a motorcycle accident at the age of forty-nine.
Download or read book Oscar the Extraordinary Hummingbird written by Lisa Worthey Smith and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God dropped a gravely injured hummingbird into her life to reveal profound spiritual truths about trust, obedience, the love of the Creator, and finding blessings in brokenness. Lisa has gently woven these truths into simple lessons that point to the hand of God all around us. Ask the beasts and the birds of the heavensOr speak to the earthand let the fish of the sea declare to youthe LORDin whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind? Job 12:7-10 I was engaged and locked into this book from the very first words. The stories are captivating and the messages are moving. Dr. Cliff Robertson, Jr M.Div., ThD Poignant and purposeful. A lovely read that has plenty of meat and sweet. Rachel Warren, Author, The Road Home This true life story will leave the kiss of God on your heart! Travis Toth, Author of: The Promises of God Book 1: the Gospel Message Delightful and refreshing! Dr. Michael Cassity, Pastor, Jackson Way Baptist Church Well-written; biblically based; doctrinally soundinsightful and engaging! Randy Von Kanel, Th.D., Pastor, Cayman Islands Baptist Church
Download or read book A Changing of the Heart written by K. A. Radish and published by Humming Words Books. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TWO BIRDS caught in the troublesome winds of winter learn lessons of life that forever change them and the birds who witness their courage, strength, sacrifice, and love. A beautiful Hummingbird bruised by a lost love, and the jealous eyes of his brother and sister birds, gets trapped in the high early winter winds. When he falls from the sky he is certain he will die alone, far from his family, and the life he so loved. But a kind-hearted Goose who has spent his life ignoring the call from his own heart to help other birds finally discovers the courage he needs to do what is right. The Hummingbird and the Goose both realize that the world is full of miracles if only you can open your heart, embrace kindness, and live the truth that is in your own heart. A Changing of the Heart is a reaffirming and heartwarming tale that offers lessons of hope, healing, and happiness for readers of all ages.
Download or read book John Gardner written by Jeff Henderson and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henderson analyzes all 41 of Gardner's short stories, including the neglected children's stories and the post-humously published Julius Caesar and the Werewolf (1984). Included are excerpts from an interview with Gardner, selections from one of his letters, his outline for The Warden and commentary and criticism by Howell, Cowart and other critics.
Download or read book Fifth Book of Junior Authors Illustrators written by Sally Holmes Holtze and published by New York : H.W. Wilson Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises 239 sketches of authors and illustrators of young people's books who have come to prominence since the previous volume.
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1950 1977 Fiction Juvenile fiction written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Printings of American Authors written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
