Download or read book The Three Authors Tales written by Michael LaReaux and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-07-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wonder what would happen if a Princess was abducted by a vile beast, and then met a talking rock and a depressed jester, and they all ended up fighting against an evil wizard with a magic boot? If you haven’t wondered that, you’re probably like most people, who tend to wonder about more important things like, “When does the bus get here?” and “How come they keep putting ‘Survivor’ back on?”Even if you haven’t wondered about things like vile beasts and princesses, you’ll still enjoy reading The Three Authors’ Tales, because the authors have gone to the trouble of wondering about these things for you. The Three Authors’ Tales are loaded with vile beasts, princesses, talking rocks, wizards, fuzzy pink alligators, Space Boss Model Three Head Melters, and lots of other interesting topics that generally aren’t discussed in polite circles. With the wondering already taken care of, you can sit back, relax and enjoy a collection of tales that are sure to entertain, and who knows…you just might get your mind to take a break from more important things for a little while.
Download or read book Three Rings written by Daniel Mendelsohn and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir, biography, work of history, and literary criticism all in one, this moving book tells the story of three exiled writers—Erich Auerbach, François Fénelon, and W. G. Sebald—and their relationship with the classics, from Homer to Mimesis. In a genre-defying book hailed as “exquisite” (The New York Times) and “spectacular” (The Times Literary Supplement), the best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own—works that pondered the nature of narrative itself: Erich Auerbach, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler’s Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature, Mimesis, in Istanbul; François Fénelon, the seventeenth-century French archbishop whose ingenious sequel to the Odyssey, The Adventures of Telemachus—a veiled critique of the Sun King and the best-selling book in Europe for a hundred years—resulted in his banishment; and the German novelist W.G. Sebald, self-exiled to England, whose distinctively meandering narratives explore Odyssean themes of displacement, nostalgia, and separation from home. Intertwined with these tales of exile and artistic crisis is an account of Mendelsohn’s struggle to write two of his own books—a family saga of the Holocaust and a memoir about reading the Odyssey with his elderly father—that are haunted by tales of oppression and wandering. As Three Rings moves to its startling conclusion, a climactic revelation about the way in which the lives of its three heroes were linked across borders, languages, and centuries forces the reader to reconsider the relationship between narrative and history, art and life.
Download or read book Three written by Valérie Perrin and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the international bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers, a beautifully told and suspenseful story about the ties that bind us and the choices that make us who we are. 1986: Adrien, Etienne and Nina are 10 years old when they meet at school and quickly become inseparable. They promise each other they will one day leave their provincial backwater, move to Paris, and never part. 2017: A car is pulled up from the bottom of the lake, a body inside. Virginie, a local journalist with an enigmatic past reports on the case while also reflecting on the relationship between the three friends, who were unusually close when younger but now no longer speak. . As Virginie moves closer to the surprising truth, relationships fray and others are formed. Valérie Perrin has an unerring gift for delving into life. In Three, she brings readers along with her through a sequence of heart-wrenching events and revelations that span three decades. Three tells a moving story of love and loss, hope and grief, friendship and adversity, and of time as an ineluctable agent of change.
Download or read book Kid Authors written by David Stabler and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny and totally true childhood biographies and full-color illustrations tell the tales from the growing-up years of Beverly Cleary, J. R. R. Tolkien, and 13 other great writers. Every great author started out as a kid. Before the best sellers, fan clubs, and beloved stories we know today, the world's most celebrated writers had regular-kid problems just like you. Sam Clemens (aka Mark Twain) loved to skip school and make mischief, with his best friend Tom, of course! A young J. R. R. Tolkien was bitten by a huge tarantula—or as he called it, “a spider as big as a dragon.” Toddler Zora Neale Hurston took her first steps when a wild hog entered her house and started chasing her! Kid Authors tells their stories and more—the diverse and inclusive cast that includes Roald Dahl, Beverly Cleary, J. K. Rowling, Jules Verne, Lewis Carroll, Stan Lee—through kid-friendly texts and full-color cartoon illustrations on nearly every page.
Download or read book The Sketches Three Tales By the Author of Amy Herbert i e Elizabeth M Sewell Third Edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales and Sketches for the Fireside by the Best American Authors written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sideways Stories From Wayside School written by Louis Sachar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a terrible mistake. Instead of having thirty classrooms side by side, Wayside School is thirty storeys high! (The builder said he was sorry.) Perhaps that's why all sorts of strange and unusual things keep happening – especially in Mrs Jewls's classroom on the very top floor. There's the terrifying Mrs Gorf, who gets an unusually fruity comeuppance; Terrible Todd, who always gets sent home early; and Mauricia, who has a strange ice-cream addiction. Meanwhile, John can only read upside down, and Leslie is determined to sell her own toes. From top to bottom, Wayside is packed with quirky and hilarious characters who are all brought to life in this new edition with delightful illustrations by Aleksei Bitskoff throughout. This is an unmissable, irrepressible story of mixed-up mayhem from Louis Sachar, the bestselling author of Holes.
Download or read book The Seven Basic Plots written by Christopher Booker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-11-11 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling. But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how and why we are 'programmed' to imagine stories in these ways, and how they relate to the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years. This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives, and will be a talking point for years to come.
Download or read book Romantic tales by the author of John Halifax gentleman written by Dinah Maria Craik and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sunbeam stories a selection of the tales by the author of A trap to catch a sunbeam written by Matilda Anne Mackarness and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The kiddle a wink or The three guests by the author of Patience Caerhydon written by Frances Eliza Millett Notley and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Colville Family and Seven Tales by Seven Authors G P R James Etc Edited by F E Smedley New Edition written by Francis Edward SMEDLEY and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kid Legends written by David Stabler and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny and totally true childhood biographies and full-color illustrations tell the tales from the challenging yet defining growing-up years of great writers, artists, athletes, and presidents.
Download or read book Helena Bertram a tale by the author of The four sisters written by D. Richmond and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mirvan a Moorish Tale in verse etc By an Author without a Publisher J A Smith written by J. A. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley St Ronan s Wall Redgauntlet Tales of the Crusaders The Betrothed The Talisman Woodstock Chronicles of the Canongate The Highland Widow c The Fair Maid of Perth Anne of Geierstein Tales of My Landlord Count Robert of Paris Castle Dangerous c Vol 15 16 Introductions and Notes and Illustrations to the Novels Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Romantic Tales by M G Lewis Author of the Monk Adelgitha c in Four Volumes written by Matthew Gregory Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
