Download or read book The Reformed Pirate and Other Stories written by Frank R. Stockton and published by . This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank R. Stockton (April 5, 1834 - April 20, 1902), was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. Stockton avoided the didactic moralizing common to children's stories of the time, instead using clever humor to poke at greed, violence, abuse of power and other human foibles, describing his fantastic characters' adventures in a charming, matter-of-fact way in stories like "The Griffin and the Minor Canon" (1885) and "The Bee-Man of Orn" (1887).

Download or read book The Reformed Pirate written by Frank Richard Stockton and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents twelve tales drawn from three story collections previously published 1881-1906.

Download or read book The phantom rickshaw and other stories written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wish House and Other Stories written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rudyard Kipling, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907, has long been considered an important and vibrant, even controversial, storyteller and poet. The Wish House and Other Stories is a collection of Kipling’s finest works, including the stories “In the House of Suddhoo,” “The Disturber of Traffic,” and “The Eye of Allah,” the poems “The Runners,” “The Return of the Children,” and “The Last Ode,” and his famous story about Afghanistan, “The Man Who Would Be King.” Each piece was selected by poet and scholar Craig Raine, who writes in his Preface, “We need to think about Kipling. He is our greatest short-story writer, but one whose achievement is more complex and surprising than even his admirers recognize.”

Download or read book The Legacy and Other Stories written by Edith Layton and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published individually, these four great novellas are collected in one book for the first time! “The Legacy”—Valerian Blackwood is summoned to his aged uncle’s country estate to help the old man settle a problem with his heir. What Valerian finds is a mystery—and the love of his life. He only has to decide which is more important to him: solving the mystery or winning his lady. “Buried Treasure”—What is Hannah Jenkins to make of the wildly attractive silver-tongued man villagers bring to her family’s house after he is found injured on the shore near her seacoast home? He says he was the victim of pirates. But who is the pirate, and who is the prey? “Something Blue”—June Heywood’s coming wedding day is clouded by a vicious remark she overhears, causing her to wonder why the handsome and clever Lawrence, Lord Morrow, ever asked for her hand. Who should she believe? Gossip or her heart? “A Marriage of True Minds”—The bride’s sister and the groom’s brother, alike in temper, lock horns—all the while missing what their relatives can so plainly see.

Download or read book The Writings in Prose and Verse The phantom rickshaw and other stories written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Among Our Books written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Great Piratical Rumbustification written by Margaret Mahy and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yo ho ho! All across the city, the pirates are getting restless and long for a party. So when a retired pirate comes to babysit for the Terrapin family, they are in for quite a surprise... From the rumbustious author and artist team of Margaret Mahy, winner of the Carnegie medal, and Quentin Blake, the first Children's Laureate, and best known for his partnership with Roald Dahl, this is a dazzling story which will delight pirate loving boys everywhere.

Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Children s Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of Books for Public School Libraries in the City of New York written by New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Education and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Good Saint Nicholas written by Century Company and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of Books Annotated and Arranged and Provided by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh for the Use of Th First Eight Grades in the Pittsburgh Schools written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Graded and Annotated Catalogue of Books in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Combined List of Books for Elementary and Junior High School Libraries written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of English Prose Fiction written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Empire Islands written by Rebecca Weaver-Hightower and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a detailed unpacking of the castaway genre’s appeal in English literature, Empire Islands forwards our understanding of the sociopsychology of British Empire. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower argues convincingly that by helping generations of readers to make sense of—and perhaps feel better about—imperial aggression, the castaway story in effect enabled the expansion and maintenance of European empire. Empire Islands asks why so many colonial authors chose islands as the setting for their stories of imperial adventure and why so many postcolonial writers “write back” to those island castaway narratives. Drawing on insightful readings of works from Thomas More’s Utopia to Caribbean novels like George Lamming’s Water with Berries, from canonical works such as Robinson Crusoe and The Tempest to the lesser-known A Narrative of the Life and Astonishing Adventures of John Daniel by Ralph Morris, Weaver-Hightower examines themes of cannibalism, piracy, monstrosity, imperial aggression, and the concept of going native. Ending with analysis of contemporary film and the role of the United States in global neoimperialism, Weaver-Hightower exposes how island narratives continue not only to describe but to justify colonialism. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower is assistant professor of English and postcolonial studies at the University of North Dakota.