Humbug A Lance Leftfoot Adventure Part 8

Author : Lizzy Duckpond
Publisher : Elizabeth Helena Margaretha Swanepoel
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Humbug! A Lance Leftfoot Adventure - Part 8 by Lizzy Duckpond Pdf

The Lance Leftfoot Series continues... Read Parts 1 - 8 and catch up on all the curious goings-on. So, there they were, Lance Leftfoot, his crazy kid-Mother, the hushperer Miss Sing, and upside-down talker Fizz Fizzpatrick. Having just said goodbye to Humbug! the Voice in the Box, the four continued on their quest to find their lost dog, William Wallace, The Scottish Terrier, the lion, and Mom's 'it'. Mom had lost her 'it' in the park one morning when she saw a lion with a lion's tooth necklace dangling down its neck. She plumb lost 'it' and turned into a kid. Read all about Mom losing 'it' in Bonkers! Part 1 of the Lance Leftfoot Adventures. Just as they were making their way to the cliffside a most beautiful sound lured kid-Mom, Mrs. Leftfoot closer and closer. It was the sound of angels! Join our travelers as they encounter yet another curious creature. A Diva with three songs stuck in her throat. Get ready for another curious meeting. The Lance Leftfoot Series continues... Read Parts 1 - 8 and catch up on all the curious goings-on. There they were: Lance Leftfoot, his crazy kid-Mother, and the hushperer Miss Sing. The quest for a lost dog, a lion, and Mom's 'it' continued. Mom had lost her 'it' in the park one morning when she saw a lion with a lion's tooth necklace dangling down its neck. She plumb lost 'it' and turned into a kid. Read all about Mom losing 'it' in Bonkers! Part 1 of the Lance Leftfoot Adventures. Having said goodbye to Fizz (the upside-down talker) in Gobbledygook they continued uphill when! Lo and behold the mystery box appeared again. There was something different about the box... I was huge! The giant box lying just off the path called out to them. Free me, free me .... screeched the terrible voice from inside the gigantic box. Curious as always, they moved closer ....

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547754558

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John Macnab by John Buchan Pdf

Three successful but bored friends in their mid-forties decide to turn to poaching. They are Sir Edward Leithen, lawyer, Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), and ex-Attorney General; John Palliser-Yeates, banker and sportsman; and Charles, Earl of Lamancha, former adventurer and present Conservative Cabinet Minister. Under the collective name of 'John Macnab', they set up in the Highland home of Sir Archie Roylance, a disabled war hero who wishes to be a Conservative MP. They issue a challenge to three of Roylance's neighbours: first the Radens, who are an old-established family, about to die out; next, the Bandicotts: an American archaeologist and his son, who are renting a grand estate for the summer; and lastly the Claybodys, vulgar, bekilted nouveaux riches. These neighbours are forewarned that 'John Macnab' will poach a salmon or a stag from their land and return it to them undetected...

Author : John Galsworthy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368430474

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The Freelands by John Galsworthy Pdf

Reproduction of the original.

Author : L. Frank Baum
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547423270

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Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum Pdf

Ozma of Oz is the book in Frank Baum's Oz book series. It records the adventures of Oz with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; and other characters. It is the first Oz narrative in which the majority of the events occur outside of Oz. Only the final two chapters are set in Oz. This conveys a slight change in theme: in the first book, Oz is the perilous land through which Dorothy must make her way back to Kansas; in the third, Oz is the book's conclusion and goal. Dorothy's wish to return home is not as strong as it was in the first book, and it is her uncle's need for her rather than her own that compels her to do so.

Author : Sidney Lanier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : MINN:31951D029710764

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Tiger-lilies by Sidney Lanier Pdf

"Tiger-Lilies is actually a somewhat autobiographical book. In it, Lanier analyzes the relationship between a Northerner and a Southerner throughout the Civil War. As a Southerner who had fought for the Confederate army, Lanier had experienced the war firsthand, both on the battlefield and as a prisoner of war. These experiences are recognizable in the battle scenes especially, which are considered some of the most realistic representations of Civil War combat in literature. Ultimately, Tiger-Lilies can be interpreted as an anti-war novel and one of Lanier's less successful endeavors in the course of his career."--The History Engine

Author : Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801868823

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The Mysteries of New Orleans by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein Pdf

"Reizenstein's peculiar vision of New Orleans is worth resurrecting precisely because it crossed the boundaries of acceptable taste in nineteenth-century German America and squatted firmly on the other side... This work makes us realize how limited our notions were of what could be conceived by a fertile American imagination in the middle of the nineteenth century." -- from the Introduction by Steven Rowan A lost classic of America's neglected German-language literary tradition, The Mysteries of New Orleans by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein first appeared as a serial in the Louisiana Staats-Zeitung, a New Orleans German-language newspaper, between 1854 and 1855. Inspired by the gothic "urban mysteries" serialized in France and Germany during this period, Reizenstein crafted a daring occult novel that stages a frontal assault on the ethos of the antebellum South. His plot imagines the coming of a bloody, retributive justice at the hands of Hiram the Freemason -- a nightmarish, 200-year-old, proto-Nietzschean superman -- for the sin of slavery. Heralded by the birth of a black messiah, the son of a mulatto prostitute and a decadent German aristocrat, this coming revolution is depicted in frankly apocalyptic terms. Yet, Reizenstein was equally concerned with setting and characters, from the mundane to the fantastic. The book is saturated with the atmosphere of nineteenth-century New Orleans, the amorous exploits of its main characters uncannily resembling those of New Orleans' leading citizens. Also of note is the author's progressively matter-of-fact portrait of the lesbian romance between his novel's only sympathetic characters, Claudine and Orleana. This edition marks the first time that The Mysteries of New Orleans has been translated into English and proves that 150 years later, this vast, strange, and important novel remains as compelling as ever.

Author : Edwin Markham
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 102164644X

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The Shoes of Happiness: And Other Poems by Edwin Markham Pdf

This collection of lyrical and inspirational poems by Edwin Markham, one of America's most beloved poets of the early 20th century, celebrates the beauty, diversity, and dignity of human experience. Markham's poetry blends a deep appreciation for nature, art, and spirituality with a compassionate and hopeful vision of social and political change. The title poem, 'The Shoes of Happiness', captures the essence of Markham's philosophy of life, and his commitment to the transformative power of empathy and imagination. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Maaike Bleeker
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789053565162

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Anatomy Live by Maaike Bleeker Pdf

Gross anatomy, the study of anatomical structures that can be seen by unassisted vision, has long been a subject of fascination for artists. For most modern viewers, however, the anatomy lesson—the technically precise province of clinical surgeons and medical faculties—hardly seems the proper breeding ground for the hybrid workings of art and theory. We forget that, in its early stages, anatomy pursued the highly theatrical spirit of Renaissance science, as painters such as Rembrandt and Da Vinci and medical instructors like Fabricius of Aquapendente shared audiences devoted to the workings of the human body. Anatomy Live: Performance and the Operating Theatre, a remarkable consideration of new developments on the stage, as well as in contemporary writings of theorists such as Donna Haraway and Brian Massumi, turns our modern notions of the dissecting table on its head—using anatomical theatre as a means of obtaining a fresh perspective on representations of the body, conceptions of subjectivity, and own knowledge about science and the stage. Critically dissecting well-known exhibitions like Body Worlds and The Visible Human Project and featuring contributions from a number of diverse scholars on such subjects as the construction of spectatorship and the implications of anatomical history, Anatomy Live is not to be missed by anyone with an interest in this engaging intersection of science and artistic practice.

Author : Y. Harari
Publisher : Springer
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230583887

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The Ultimate Experience by Y. Harari Pdf

For millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more than a test: it became a secular revelation. This new understanding of war as revelation completely transformed Western war culture, revolutionizing politics, the personal experience of war, the status of common soldiers, and the tenets of military theory.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783846051764

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The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Author : Nathaniel Goodwin
Publisher : Litres
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040877003

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Nat Goodwin's Book by Nathaniel Goodwin Pdf

Author : Sir H Rider Haggard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798620546275

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The Treasure Of The Lake by Sir H Rider Haggard Pdf

Now when I grow old it becomes every day more clear to me, Allan Quatermain, that each of us is a mystery living in the midst of mysteries, bringing these with us when we are born and taking them away with us when we die; doubtless into a land of other and yet deeper mysteries. At first, while we are quite young, everything seems very clear and simple. There is a male individual called Father and a female called Mother who, between them, have made us a present to the world, or of the world to us, whichever way you like to put it, apparently by arrangement with the kingdom of heaven; at least that is what we are taught. There are the sun, the moon, and the stars above us and the solid earth beneath, there are lessons and dinner and a time to get up and a time to go to bed-in short there are a multitude of things, all quite obvious and commonplace, which may be summed up in three words, the established order, in which, by the decree of Papa and Mamma and the heavens above, we live and move and have our being.Then the years go by, the terrible, remorseless years that bear us as steadily from the cradle to the grave as a creeping glacier bears a stone. With every one of them, after the first fifteen or so when we become adult, or in some instances earlier if we chance to be what is called "rather unusual", a little piece of the curtain is rolled up or a little hole is widened in the veil, and beneath that curtain, or through that enlarging hole, we see the mysteries moving in the dusk beyond. So swiftly do they come and go, and so dark is the background, that we never discern them clearly. There, if time is given to us to fix them in our minds, they appear; for a moment they are seen, then they are gone, to be succeeded by others even yet more wondrous, or perhaps more awful.

Author : Compton Mackenzie
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 1513 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1913-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465521699

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Sinister Street (Complete) by Compton Mackenzie Pdf

From a world of daisies as big as moons and of mountainous green hillocks Michael Fane came by some unrealized method of transport to the thin red house, that as yet for his mind could not claim an individual existence amid the uniformity of a long line of fellows. His arrival coincided with a confusion of furniture, with the tramp of men backwards and forwards from a cavernous vehicle very dry and dusty. He found himself continually being lifted out of the way of washstands and skeleton chests of drawers. He was invited to sit down and keep quiet, and almost in the same breath to walk about and avoid hindrance. Finally, Nurse led him up many resonant stairs to the night-nursery which at present consisted of two square cots that with japanned iron bars stood gauntly in a wilderness of oilcloth surrounded by four walls patterned with a prolific vegetation. Michael was dumped down upon a grey pillow and invited to see how well his sister Stella was behaving. Nurse’s observation was true enough: Stella was rosily asleep in an undulation of blankets, and Michael, threatened by many whispers and bony finger-shakes, was not at all inclined to wake her up. Nurse retired in an aura of importance, and Michael set out to establish an intimacy with the various iron bars of his cage. For a grown-up person these would certainly have seemed much more alike than even the houses of Carlington Road, West Kensington: for Michael each bar possessed a personality. Minute scratches unnoticed by the heedless adult world lent variety of expression: slight irregularities infused certain groups with an air of deliberate consultation. From the four corners royal bars, crowned with brass, dominated their subjects. Passions, intrigues, rumours, ambitions, revenges were perceived by Michael to be seething below the rigid exterior of these iron bars: even military operations were sometimes discernible. This cot was guarded by a romantic population, with one or two of whose units Michael could willingly have dispensed: one bar in particular, set very much askew, seemed sly and malignant. Michael disliked being looked at by anybody or anything, and this bar had a persistent inquisitiveness which already worried him. ‘Why does he look at me?’ Michael would presently ask, and ‘Nobody wants to look at such an ugly little boy,’ Nurse would presently reply. So one more intolerable question would overshadow his peace of mind. Meanwhile, far below, the tramp of men continued, until suddenly an immense roar filled the room. Some of the bars shivered and clinked, and Michael’s heart nearly stopped. The roar died away only to be succeeded by another roar from the opposite direction. Stella woke up crying. Michael was too deeply frightened so to soothe himself, as he sat clutching the pointed ears of the grey pillow. Stella, feeling that the fretful tears of a sudden awakening were insufficient, set up a bellow of dismay. Michael was motionless, only aware of a gigantic heart that shook him horribly. At last the footsteps of Nurse could be heard, and over them, the quick ‘tut-tut-tuts’ that voiced her irritation.

Author : E. J. Harrison
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547196785

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The Fighting Spirit of Japan by E. J. Harrison Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Fighting Spirit of Japan" by E. J. Harrison. 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.

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : UOMDLP:acm7375:0001.001

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John Macnab by John Buchan Pdf

"Who is John Macnab? Three prominent Scottish landowners receive a challenging note which tells them that he intends to poach from their estates without being caught, though if he is caught, he will donate money to a good cause. The reactions of the landowners provide conflicting evidence as to his identity, prompting speculation as to whether he is a gentleman or a tramp ...