Download or read book World s Greatest Books Volume 04 Fiction written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World s Greatest Books Volume 04 written by Hammerton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-29 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World's Greatest Books - Volume 04 - Fiction by Hammerton and Mee
Download or read book The World s Greatest Books Volume IV Fiction written by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
Download or read book The World s Greatest Books Volume II written by Various and published by . This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enterprise such as THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS is to be judged from two different standpoints. It may be judged with respect to its specific achievement-the material of which it consists; or it may be judged with regard to its general utility in the scheme of literature to which it belongs. In an age which is sometimes ironically called remarkable for its commercialism, nothing has been more truly remarkable than the advancement in learning as well as in material progress; and of all the instruments that have contributed to this end, none has been more effective, perhaps, than the practical popularisation of literature.
Download or read book The World s Greatest Books Volume 04 Fiction written by Arthur Mee and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World's Greatest Books Volume 04 (Fiction)Various AuthorsARTHUR MEEEditor and Founder of the Book of KnowledgeJ.A. HAMMERTONEditor of Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia [ZHINGOORA BOOKS]Table of ContentsEBERS, GEORG An Egyptian PrincessEDGEWORTH, MARIE Belinda Castle RackrentELIOT, GEORGE Adam Bede Felix Holt Romola Silas Marner The Mill on the FlossERCKMANN-CHATRIAN WaterlooFEUILLET, OCTAVE Romance of a Poor Young ManFIELDING, HENRY Amelia Jonathan Wild Joseph Andrews Tom JonesFLAMMARION, CAMILLE UraniaFOUQUÃ, DE LA MOTTE UndineGABORIAU, EMILE File No. 113GALT, JOHN Annals of the ParishGASKELL, MRS. Cranford Mary BartonGODWIN, WILLIAM Caleb WilliamsGOETHE Sorrows of Young Werther Wilhelm MeisterGOLDSMITH, OLIVER Vicar of WakefieldGONCOURT, EDMOND AND JULES DE Renée MauperinGRANT, JAMES Bothwell
Download or read book The World s Greatest Books Volume 04 Fiction written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The World's Greatest Books Volume 04 Fiction', Various authors come together to present a diverse collection of classic literary works, showcasing the beauty and power of fiction. From timeless tales of love and tragedy to thrilling adventures and thought-provoking narratives, this volume offers readers a rich tapestry of storytelling styles and themes. Each author's unique voice and perspective add depth and dimension to the overall reading experience, serving as a testament to the enduring impact of fiction in literature. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of storytelling and its significance in shaping our understanding of the human experience. It is a must-read for anyone interested in exploring the world of fiction across different genres and time periods. The compilation of works in this volume offers a valuable insight into the creative minds of renowned authors and their contributions to the literary canon.
Download or read book The World s Greatest Books written by Arthur Mee and published by . This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enterprise such as THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS is to be judged from two different standpoints. It may be judged with respect to its specific achievement-the material of which it consists; or it may be judged with regard to its general utility in the scheme of literature to which it belongs. In an age which is sometimes ironically called remarkable for its commercialism, nothing has been more truly remarkable than the advancement in learning as well as in material progress; and of all the instruments that have contributed to this end, none has been more effective, perhaps, than the practical popularisation of literature.
Download or read book The World s Greatest Books Volume 04 Fiction written by Hammerton Mee and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About AuthorsArthur Henry Mee was born on 21st July 1875 and died on 27th May 1943. He was a British writer, journalist and educator. His famous works includes: The Harmsworth Self-Educator, The Children's Encyclopædia, The Children's Newspaper, and The King's England. Sir John Alexander Hammertonwas born on 27th February 1871 and died on 12th May 1949. He is famous for Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopædiaand great contribution to Mee's Children's Encyclopædia.
Download or read book The World s Greatest Books Volume VI Dodo Press written by Arthur Mee and published by . This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joseph Sheridan le Fanu, Irish novelist, poet, and journalist, was born at Dublin on August 28, 1814. His grandmother was a sister of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, his father a dean. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Le Fanu became a contributor to the "Dublin University Magazine, " afterwards its editor, and finally its proprietor. He also owned and edited a Dublin evening paper. Le Fanu first came into prominence in 1837 as the author of the two brilliant Irish ballads, "Phaudhrig Croohore" and "Shamus O'Brien. " His novels, which number more than a dozen, were first published in most cases in his magazine. His power of producing a feeling of weird mystery ranks him with Edgar Allan Poe. It may be questioned whether any Irish novelist has written with more power. "
Download or read book The World s Greatest Books written by Various and published by . This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Samuel Eliot, a historian and educator, was born in Boston in 1821, graduated at Harvard in 1839, was engaged in business for two years, and then travelled and studied abroad for four years more. On his return, he took up tutoring and gave gratuitous instruction to classes of young workingmen. He became professor of history and political science in Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., in 1856, and retained that chair until 1864. During the last four years of that time, he was president of the institution. From 1864 to 1874 he lectured on constitutional law and political science. He lectured at Harvard from 1870 to 1873. He was President of the Social Science Association when it organised the movement for Civil Service reform in 1869. "
Download or read book A Peculiar Peril written by Jeff VanderMeer and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Peculiar Peril is a head-spinning epic about three friends on a quest to protect the world from a threat as unknowable as it is terrifying, from the Nebula Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer. Jonathan Lambshead stands to inherit his deceased grandfather’s overstuffed mansion—a veritable cabinet of curiosities—once he and two schoolmates catalog its contents. But the three soon discover that the house is filled with far more than just oddities: It holds clues linking to an alt-Earth called Aurora, where the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley has stormed back to life on a magic-fueled rampage across a surreal, through-the-looking-glass version of Europe replete with talking animals (and vegetables). Swept into encounters with allies more unpredictable than enemies, Jonathan pieces together his destiny as a member of a secret society devoted to keeping our world separate from Aurora. But as the ground shifts and allegiances change with every step, he and his friends sink ever deeper into a deadly pursuit of the profound evil that is also chasing after them.
Download or read book The Best of Me written by David Sedaris and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume. For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to read without laughing. Now, for the first time collected in one volume, the author brings us his funniest and most memorable work. In these stories, Sedaris shops for rare taxidermy, hitchhikes with a lady quadriplegic, and spits a lozenge into a fellow traveler's lap. He drowns a mouse in a bucket, struggles to say 'give it to me' in five languages and hand-feeds a carnivorous bird. But if all you expect to find in Sedaris's work is the deft and sharply observed comedy for which he became renowned, you may be surprised to discover that his words bring more warmth than mockery, more fellow-feeling than derision. Nowhere is this clearer than in his writing about his loved ones. In these pages, Sedaris explores falling in love and staying together, recognizing his own aging not in the mirror but in the faces of his siblings, losing one parent and coming to terms - at long last - with the other. Taken together, the stories in The Best of Me reveal the wonder and delight Sedaris takes in the surprises life brings him. No experience, he sees, is quite as he expected - it's often harder, more fraught and certainly weirder - but sometimes it is also much richer and more wonderful. Full of joy, generosity, and the incisive humor that has led David Sedaris to be called 'the funniest man alive' (Time Out New York), The Best of Me spans a career spent watching and learning and laughing - quite often at himself - and invites readers deep into the world of one of the most brilliant and original writers of our time.
Download or read book Ursula K Le Guin Conversations on Writing written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ursula K. Le Guin discusses her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry?both her process and her philosophy?with all the wisdom, profundity, and rigor we expect from one of the great writers of the last century. When the New York Times referred to Ursula K. Le Guin as America’s greatest writer of science fiction, they just might have undersold her legacy. It’s hard to look at her vast body of work?novels and stories across multiple genres, poems, translations, essays, speeches, and criticism?and see anything but one of our greatest writers, period. In a series of interviews with David Naimon (Between the Covers), Le Guin discusses craft, aesthetics, and philosophy in her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction respectively. The discussions provide ample advice and guidance for writers of every level, but also give Le Guin a chance to to sound off on some of her favorite subjects: the genre wars, the patriarchy, the natural world, and what, in her opinion, makes for great writing. With excerpts from her own books and those that she looked to for inspiration, this volume is a treat for Le Guin’s longtime readers, a perfect introduction for those first approaching her writing, and a tribute to her incredible life and work.
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
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Download or read book The Road written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). • From the bestselling author of The Passenger A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
Download or read book Winter of the World written by Ken Follett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is truly epic. . . . The reader will probably wish there was a thousand more pages." —The Huffington Post Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World War II, and into the beginning of the long Cold War. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed by the Nazi tide until daring to commit a deed of great courage and heartbreak . . . . American brothers Woody and Chuck Dewar, each with a secret, take separate paths to momentous events, one in Washington, the other in the bloody jungles of the Pacific . . . . English student Lloyd Williams discovers in the crucible of the Spanish Civil War that he must fight Communism just as hard as Fascism . . . . Daisy Peshkov, a driven social climber, cares only for popularity and the fast set until war transforms her life, while her cousin Volodya carves out a position in Soviet intelligence that will affect not only this war but also the war to come.
