Download or read book The Street of a Thousand Delights Classic Reprint written by Jay Gelzer and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Street of a Thousand Delights There is no reason whatever, at first glance, why the thoughts of Sen Yeng, fat John Chinaman sitting in the doorway of his shop in Melbourne like some obese spider awaiting unwary prey, should roam out persistently to Nels Larsen, striding to and fro over the narrow bridge of a tramp steamer laboring through heavy seas. To look at Sen Yeng in his black satin coat and skull cap, his face with its three chins placidly benignant, is to imagine that his reflections, perhaps faintly tinged with poppy smoke, are of cormorants fishing in the rivers of Soochow, or of soft breezes blowing through papery leaves of bamboo with perhaps the slim sickle of a new moon overhead; or even of temple bells at twilight, their soft mellow tones mingled with the voices of shaven-headed, scarlet-robed priests chanting in the dusk. 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 Street of a Thousand Delights written by Jay Gelzer and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book The Street of a Thousand Delights written by Jay Gelzer and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to Reprints written by K G Saur Publishing and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The established reference work Guide to Reprints has been radically reworked for this edition. Bibliographical data was substantially increased where information was obtainable. In addition, the user-friendliness of Guide to Reprints was raised to the high level of other K.G. Saur directories through author-title cross-references, a subject volume, a person index and a publisher index. In this edition, the directory lists more than 60,000 titles from more than 350 publishers.
Download or read book The United States Catalog written by Mary Burnham and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of P C Wren Illustrated written by P. C. Wren and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2022-10-19 with total page 7789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P. C. Wren was an English author of adventure fiction, who is best remembered today for his enduring 1924 classic ‘Beau Geste’. It concerns the adventures of three brothers that enlist in the French Foreign Legion, based partly on the author’s own military experiences. Inspired by the works of Marryat, Ballantyne, Henty and Haggard, Wren’s novels demonstrate an inventive, humorous and thrilling taste for adventure, which has captivated readers for over a century. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Wren’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Wren’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels * All 26 novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare novels and stories * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special series contents tables for the ‘Beau Geste’ and ‘Sinbad’ books * Rare short story collections digitised here for the first time * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the stories * Easily locate the stories you want to read * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Beau Geste Series The Sinbad Books The Novels Father Gregory (1913) Snake and Sword (1914) The Wages of Virtue (1916) Driftwood Spars (1916) Cupid in Africa (1920) Beau Geste (1924) Beau Sabreur (1926) Beau Ideal (1928) Soldiers of Misfortune (1929) Mysterious Waye (1930) The Mammon of Righteousness (1930) Valiant Dust (1932) Action and Passion (1933) Beggars’ Horses (1934) Sinbad the Soldier (1935) Explosion (1935) Spanish Maine (1935) Fort in the Jungle (1936) Bubble Reputation (1936) The Man of a Ghost (1937) Worth Wile (1937) Cardboard Castle (1938) Paper Prison (1939) The Disappearance of General Jason (1940) Two Feet from Heaven (1940) The Uniform of Glory (1941) The Shorter Fiction Dew and Mildew (1912) In the Midst of Life (1914) Stepsons of France (1917) The Young Stagers (1917) Good Gestes (1929) Flawed Blades (1933) Port o’ Missing Men (1934) Rough Shooting (1938) Odd – But Even So (1941) The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
Download or read book The House of Twenty Thousand Books written by Sasha Abramsky and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tender and compellling memoir of the author's grandparents, their literary salon, and a way of life that is no more. The House of Twenty Thousand Books is the story of Chimen Abramsky, an extraordinary polymath and bibliophile who amassed a vast collection of socialist literature and Jewish history. For more than fifty years Chimen and his wife, Miriam, hosted epic gatherings in their house of books that brought together many of the age’s greatest thinkers. The atheist son of one of the century’s most important rabbis, Chimen was born in 1916 near Minsk, spent his early teenage years in Moscow while his father served time in a Siberian labor camp for religious proselytizing, and then immigrated to London, where he discovered the writings of Karl Marx and became involved in left-wing politics. He briefly attended the newly established Hebrew University in Jerusalem, until World War II interrupted his studies. Back in England, he married, and for many years he and Miriam ran a respected Jewish bookshop in London’s East End. When the Nazis invaded Russia in June 1941, Chimen joined the Communist Party, becoming a leading figure in the party’s National Jewish Committee. He remained a member until 1958, when, shockingly late in the day, he finally acknowledged the atrocities committed by Stalin. In middle age, Chimen reinvented himself once more, this time as a liberal thinker, humanist, professor, and manuscripts’ expert for Sotheby’s auction house. Journalist Sasha Abramsky re-creates here a lost world, bringing to life the people, the books, and the ideas that filled his grandparents’ house, from gatherings that included Eric Hobsbawm and Isaiah Berlin to books with Marx’s handwritten notes, William Morris manuscripts and woodcuts, an early sixteenth-century Bomberg Bible, and a first edition of Descartes’s Meditations. The House of Twenty Thousand Books is a wondrous journey through our times, from the vanished worlds of Eastern European Jewry to the cacophonous politics of modernity. The House of Twenty Thousand Books includes 43 photos.
Download or read book The Works of Victor Hugo Classic Reprint written by Victor Hugo and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Victor Hugo These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic caligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply. He questioned himself; he sought to divine who could have been that soul in torment which had not been willing to quit this world without leaving this stigma of crime or unhappi ness upon the brow of the ancient church. 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 Delight in One Thousand Characters written by Susan O'Leary and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully curated presentation of the Thousand Character Essay, a masterpiece of Chinese calligraphy that has served as the art form's classic manual for over 1,400 years. Sung to infants as a lullaby, used to teach reading and writing, and employed as library index codes, the Thousand Character Essay is China's most widely used and beloved calligraphy textbook. Composed by the literary giant Zhou Xingsi and handwritten by sixth-century Buddhist monk Zhiyong, this masterful work has endured for centuries as the standard guide for brush writing both in formal and cursive scripts. Delight in One Thousand Characters brings this sublime body of art-as-text to English-speaking readers through its translation and explanation by calligraphers and artists Kazuaki Tanahashi and Susan O'Leary. Preserving the renowned beauty of monk Zhiyong's only extant handwriting, the book visually depicts the traditional script through extensive imagery, including a full, one-hundred-strip edition of Zhiyong's calligraphy. All images also have corresponding commentary explaining the meaning of each character. Essays and appendices by Tanahashi and O'Leary detail the fascinating history, geographic range, and aesthetic nuance of the essay and of Zhiyong's rendering--essential material to be familiar with the history, thought, literature, and art of East Asian civilization. For calligraphers, Delight in One Thousand Characters can serve as an advanced primer for practicing both formal and cursive Chinese calligraphy.
Download or read book The Nation and Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fiend s Delight by Ambrose Bierce Delphi Classics Illustrated written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Fiend’s Delight’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Bierce includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Fiend’s Delight’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Bierce’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles
Download or read book Guide to Reprints 1986 written by Ann S. Davis and published by Guide to Reprints. This book was released on 1986-12 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Upper West Side Story written by Peter Salwen and published by Peter Salwen. This book was released on 1989 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As any resident, restaurateur, or realtor will tell you, New York's Upper West Side--that swath of Manhattan between Central Park and the Hudson River, from roughly Columbus Circle to Columbia University--is the place for fashionable dining, dwelling, and dressing up. But the Young Urban Professionals now discovering the area (and many oldtimers, too) might be surprised to learn that other colonists had preceded them by two or three hundred years--Dutch farmers and English gentry with names like Theunis Idens van Huys, Hendrick Hendrickon Bosch, Charles Ward Apthorpe, and Oliver De Lancey. The names of many later residents are more familiar: Edgar Allan Poe, William Tecumseh Sherman, Lillian Russell, Diamond Jim Brady, Florenz Ziegfeld, Arturo Toscanini, Fanny Brice, William Randolph Hearst, Theodore Dreiser, Lewis Mumford, Humphrey Bogart (he was a child there), Lauren Bacall (so was she), Gertrude Stein, Mae West, Leonard Bernstein, John Lennon. Quite a neighborhood. And Peter Salwen’s Upper West Side Story is quite a book: an engaging, often hilarious history of this fabulous city-within-a-city. It is a treasury of colorful biographies--of farmers, tycoons, thieves, and artists. It is an architectural grand tour--of the Dakota, the Ansonia, Lincoln Center, and the romantic residential skyscrapers of Central Park West. It is a compendium of Manhattan lore and delightful as well as occasionally horrifying trivia, enough to turn even a casual browser into the Compleat Upper West Sider. The story of this dynamic neighborhood begins with the colonial period, when merchant princes commanded royal views of the Hudson--until the approach of Washington’s troops drove them from their mansions--and continues through the bucolic nineteenth century, when the Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum at 116th and Broadway (site of today's Columbia University) was the Upper West Side's prime tourist attraction. By the turn of the [twentieth] century, the fashionable “West End," as the neighborhood was then known, boasted extravagant mansions and private homes, grand parks and equestrian boulevards, and its own unique theatrical and night life. Author Peter Salwen chronicles those high-living years, and the half century of inexorable decline that followed--with its poverty and often sensational crime--and brings us up-to-date with a lively account of [the 1980s'] galloping renaissance. [This book] is living history--an unfinished story--generously illustrated with vintage engravings and photos of the buildings and people great and humble (those still with us and those that are no more). Also included are special walking tours to suit all levels of ambition and energy, and a who’s who of famous and infamous residents and where they lived."--Dust jacket.
Download or read book New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of H Bedford Jones Illustrated written by H. Bedford-Jones and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2022-03-04 with total page 5425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ‘King of the Pulps’, H. Bedford-Jones was a Canadian-American writer, who penned a prolific and diverse output of fiction, including historical, adventure, fantasy, science fiction, crime and Western stories. An author of a rare and inventive genius, Bedford-Jones produced hundreds of compelling tales, writing several at the same time, for a host of magazines across the western world. This comprehensive eBook presents the largest collection of Bedford-Jones’ works ever compiled, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Bedford-Jones’ life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * Over 50 novels and novelettes, with individual contents tables * Features many rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Rare short stories available in no other collection * Easily locate the stories you want to read * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The John Solomon Series The Gate of Farewell (1914) John Solomon — Supercargo (1914) Solomon’s Quest (1915) The Case of the Kidnapped Duchess (1935) The Case of the Deathly Barque (1935) The John Barnes Series Spy against Europe (1935) Free-Lance Spy (1935) The Sphinx Strikes (1935) Vincent Connor Series Vincent Connor Stories The Sphinx Emerald Series Sphinx Emerald Stories Other Novels and Novellas The Cross and the Hammer (1912) Ghost Hills (1913) Flamehair the Skald (1913) The Conquest (1914) A Discord in Avalon (1914) Blood Royal (1914) Rajah of Hell Island (1917) Nuala O’Malley (1918) Bob Bowen Comes to Town (1918) The Opium Ship (1919) The House of Skulls (1919) The Second Life of Monsieur the Devil (1920) The Ship of Shadows (1920) Pirates’ Gold (1920) The Mesa Trail (1920) Arizona Argonauts (1920) The Boy Scouts of the Air at Cape Peril (1921) The Temple of the Ten (1921) The Mardi Gras Mystery (1921) Yellow Intrigue (1921) Treasure Royal (1922) The Second Mate (1922) Written in Red (1922) Down the Coast of Barbary (1922) Blood of the Eagle (1922) The Sheriff of Pecos (1923) Splendour of the Gods (1924) Madagascar Gold (1924) The Star Woman (1924) Cactus and Rattlers (1924) The Arizona Callahan (1924) The Barren Islands (1924) South, West and North (1924) Profit Intangible (1925) D’Artagnan (1928) The Thrust of a Finger (1932) Pearls from Macao (1933) The Deathly Island (1934) Colonel Flea (1930) The Brute’s Emeralds (1935) He Who Sets a Trap (1947) The Short Stories Miscellaneous Short Stories Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
Download or read book Guide to Reprints 1985 written by Ann S. Davis and published by Guide to Reprints. This book was released on 1985-03 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Books in Series in the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
