Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10929487
Hard Times
Charles Dickens
Hard Times Annotated
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
Author : Mark Haddon
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307371560
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Pdf
A bestselling modern classic—both poignant and funny—narrated by a fifteen year old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions. Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. At fifteen, Christopher’s carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbour’s dog Wellington impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing. Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer, and turns to his favourite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents’ marriage. As Christopher tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, the narrative draws readers into the workings of Christopher’s mind. And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon’s choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotions. The effect is dazzling, making for one of the freshest debut in years: a comedy, a tearjerker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read.
Hard Times
Studs Terkel
Author : Studs Terkel
Publisher : New Press/ORIM
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595587602
Hard Times by Studs Terkel Pdf
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Good War: A masterpiece of modern journalism and “a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit” (Saturday Review). In this “invaluable record” of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity. Featuring a mosaic of memories from politicians, businessmen, artists, striking workers, and Okies, from those who were just kids to those who remember losing a fortune, Hard Times is not only a gold mine of information but a fascinating interplay of memory and fact, revealing how the 1929 stock market crash and its repercussions radically changed the lives of a generation. The voices that speak from the pages of this unique book are as timeless as the lessons they impart (The New York Times). “Hard Times doesn’t ‘render’ the time of the depression—it is that time, its lingo, mood, its tragic and hilarious stories.” —Arthur Miller “Wonderful! The American memory, the American way, the American voice. It will resurrect your faith in all of us to read this book.” —Newsweek “Open Studs Terkel’s book to almost any page and rich memories spill out . . . Read a page, any page. Then try to stop.” —The National Observer
Hard Times
Charles Dickens
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1508525293
Hard Times by Charles Dickens Pdf
In the city of Coketown, young and stifled Louisa accepts the marriage proposal of a man 30 years her senior, Stephen strives to earn a living by honest means, and Sissy has to decide between an education and the circus she grew up in. In this classic of great renown, Charles Dickens brings to life a world where each character has a choice and every choice has the power to evoke good or the greatest of evils.
Hard Times Annotated
Charles Dickens
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798672903354
Hard Times Annotated by Charles Dickens Pdf
Hard Times - For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era.Hard Times is unusual in several ways.
Hard Times for These Times
Charles Dickens
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Paw Prints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN : 1439570787
Hard Times for These Times by Charles Dickens Pdf
Thomas Gradgrind destroys the spiritual and emotional lives of his children by denying the importance of human feelings.
Wayward Son
Rainbow Rowell
Author : Rainbow Rowell
Publisher : Wednesday Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250146090
Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell Pdf
THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED SEQUEL TO THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER CARRY ON Simon Snow is back and he's coming to America! The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after... So why can’t Simon Snow get off the couch? What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light. That’s how Simon and Penny and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing across the American West. They find trouble, of course. (Dragons, vampires, skunk-headed things with shotguns.) And they get lost. They get so lost, they start to wonder whether they ever knew where they were headed in the first place. With Wayward Son, Rainbow Rowell has written a book for everyone who ever wondered what happened to the Chosen One after he saved the day. And a book for everyone who was ever more curious about the second kiss than the first. It’s another helping of sour cherry scones with an absolutely decadent amount of butter. Come on, Simon Snow. Your hero’s journey might be over – but your life has just begun.
Look Both Ways
Jason Reynolds
Author : Jason Reynolds
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481438292
Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds Pdf
"A collection of ten short stories that all take place in the same day about kids walking home from school"--
Interesting Times
Terry Pratchett
Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Random House
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407034966
Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett Pdf
'There is a curse. They say: may you live in interesting times . . .' This is the worst thing you can wish on a citizen of Discworld. Especially for the magically challenged Rincewind, who has already had far too much excitement in his life. Unfortunately, the unlucky wizard always seems to end up in the middle of, well, absolutely everything. So when a request for a 'Great Wizzard' arrives from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it's obviously Rincewind who's sent. For one thing, he's the only one who spells wizard that way. Once again Rincewind is thrown headfirst into a dangerous adventure. For the oldest empire on the Disc is in turmoil and Chaos is building. And, for some reason, someone believes Rincewind will have a vital role in the coming war . . . 'Pratchett is a comic genius' Daily Express 'Funny, delightfully inventive, and refuses to lie down in its genre' Observer Interesting Times is the fifth book in the Wizards series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.
Welcome to Hard Times
E.L. Doctorow
Author : E.L. Doctorow
Publisher : Random House
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307762979
Welcome to Hard Times by E.L. Doctorow Pdf
Here is E. L. Doctorow’s debut novel, a searing allegory of frontier life that sets the stage for his subsequent classics. Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage. By the time he is through and has ridden off, Hard Times is a smoking ruin. The de facto mayor, Blue, takes in two survivors of the carnage–a boy, Jimmy, and a prostitute, Molly, who has suffered unspeakably–and makes them his provisional family. Blue begins to rebuild Hard Times, welcoming new settlers, while Molly waits with vengeance in her heart for the return of the outlaw. Praise for Welcome to Hard Times “A forceful, credible story of cowardice and evil.”—The Washington Post “We are caught up with these people as real human beings.”—Chicago Sun-Times “Dramatic and exciting.”—The New York Times “Terse and powerful.”—Newsweek “A taut, bloodthirsty read.”—The Times Literary Supplement “A superb piece of fiction.”—The New Republic
Earning the Rockies
Robert D. Kaplan
Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780399588228
Earning the Rockies by Robert D. Kaplan Pdf
An incisive portrait of the American landscape that shows how geography continues to determine America’s role in the world Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “There is more insight here into the Age of Trump than in bushels of political-horse-race journalism.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) At a time when there is little consensus about who we are and what we should be doing with our power overseas, a return to the elemental truths of the American landscape is urgently needed. In Earning the Rockies, New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan undertakes a cross-country journey, traversing a rich and varied landscape that still remains the primary source of American power. Traveling west, in the same direction as the pioneers, Kaplan witnesses both prosperity and decline, and reexamines the history of westward expansion in a new light: as a story not just of genocide and individualism but also of communalism and a respect for the limits of a water-starved terrain. Concluding at the edge of the Pacific Ocean with a gripping description of an anarchic world, Earning the Rockies shows how America’s foreign policy response ought to be rooted in its own geographical situation. Praise for Earning the Rockies “Unflinchingly honest . . . a lens-changing vision of America’s role in the world . . . a jewel of a book that lights the path ahead.”—Secretary of Defense James Mattis “A sui generis writer . . . America’s East Coast establishment has only one Robert Kaplan, someone as fluently knowledgeable about the Balkans, Iraq, Central Asia and West Africa as he is about Ohio and Wyoming.”—Financial Times “Kaplan has pursued stories in places as remote as Yemen and Outer Mongolia. In Earning the Rockies, he visits a place almost as remote to many Americans: these United States. . . . The author’s point is a good one: America is formed, in part, by a geographic setting that is both sanctuary and watchtower.”—The Wall Street Journal “A brilliant reminder of the impact of America’s geography on its strategy. . . . Kaplan’s latest contribution should be required reading.”—Henry A. Kissinger “A text both evocative and provocative for readers who like to think … In his final sections, Kaplan discusses in scholarly but accessible detail the significant role that America has played and must play in this shuddering world.”—Kirkus Reviews
Dreaming in Cuban
Cristina García
Author : Cristina García
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307798008
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García Pdf
“Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post
In Such Hard Times
Yingwu Wei
Author : Yingwu Wei
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781556592799
In Such Hard Times by Yingwu Wei Pdf
Presents one hundred fifty poems in Chinese and English translation by a classic eighth-century Chinese poet little known in the West, with explanatory notes accompanying each one.
Hard Times
Charles Charles Dickens
Author : Charles Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798681595519
Hard Times by Charles Charles Dickens Pdf
In Hard Times, Thomas Gradgrind raises his kids Tom and Louisa to learn facts and only facts. Consequently, Louisa marries a man she doesn't love, and Tom robs the bank he works at. The entire family ends up unhappy and unfeeling.Early in the novel, Gradgrind considers expelling a girl named Sissy Jupe for being a bad influence on his children. Realizing that Sissy's father has abandoned her, he lets her stay.
My Life and Hard Times
James Thurber
Author : James Thurber
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547188735
My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber Pdf
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "My Life and Hard Times" by James Thurber. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.