My Longest Journey

Author : E. M. Forster
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735254619

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The Longest Journey by E. M. Forster Pdf

E. M. Forster once described The Longest Journey as the book "I am most glad to have written." An introspective novel of manners at once comic and tragic, it tells of a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent. He sets out full of hope to become a writer but gives up his aspirations for those of the conventional world, gradually sinking into a life of petty conformity and bitter disappointments. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Author : E. M. Forster
Publisher : East West Studio
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Longest Journey by E. M. Forster Pdf

The Longest Journey is a bildungsroman by E. M. Forster, first published in 1907. It is the second of Forster's six published novels, following Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) and preceding A Room with a View (1908) and Howards End (1910). It has a reputation for being the least known of Forster's novels, but was also the author's personal favourite and one of his most autobiographical. It is the only one of Forster's novels not to have received a film or television adaptation.

Author : A Samuel
Publisher : Chipmunkapublishing ltd
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781904697961

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My Longest Journey by A Samuel Pdf

DescriptionThis book is an interesting account of one woman's battle with depression. It demonstrates the difficulty she had in finding herself and trying to understand herself. It is an extremely touching book and it deals with a variety of issues to do with religion and culture, as well as depression. About the AuthorAnn Samuel suffered from clinical depression. This book is a diary account of three years of her life while she was suffering from depression. She aims to give people hope and connect with other mental health sufferers.

Author : Eric Tagliacozzo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195308280

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The Longest Journey by Eric Tagliacozzo Pdf

The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in Muslim lands for well over one thousand years. Each year, millions of pilgrims from throughout the Dar al-Islam, or Islamic world, stretching from Morocco east to Indonesia, make the trip to Mecca as one of the five pillars of their faith. By the end of the nineteenth century, and the beginning of the twentieth, fully half of all pilgrims making the journey in any given year could come from Southeast Asia. The Longest Journey, spanning eleven modern nation-states and seven centuries, is the first book to offer a history of the Hajj from one of Islam's largest and most important regions.

Author : Amy Hevron
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823447008

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The Longest Journey by Amy Hevron Pdf

Follow the epic annual migration of an Arctic Tern on its sixty-thousand-mile journey to the South Pole and back again, the longest such migration in the animal kingdom. In their thirty-year lifetimes, Arctic Terns travel nearly 1.5 million miles, that’s enough to fly to the Moon and back three times! Each year they brave blistering winds, storms, rough seas, and airborne predators as they travel between the Earth’s poles, chasing the summer. In The Longest Journey: An Arctic Tern’s Migration, we follow one such bird as it spreads its wings and sets out to make its first globe-spanning trip with its flock. Amy Hevron's brilliant, naturalistic artwork mimicking maps and nautical charts is supported by extensive research and paired with material at the back of the book explaining the science behind the life cycle of Arctic Terns. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Named to the Delaware Diamonds Book List

Author : Charles Ota Heller
Publisher : Abbott Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781458201218

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Prague: My Long Journey Home by Charles Ota Heller Pdf

Author Charles Ota Heller's early childhood in Czechoslovakia was idyllic, but his safe and happy world didn't last long, Three years after his birth, Germany forced an occupation of his country; afterward, most of his young life consisted of running and hiding. His life, just like those of the other youths who lived in Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s, was shaped forever by the dangers, horrors, and unsettling events he experienced. In this memoir, Heller, born Ota Karel Heller, narrates his family's story—a family nearly destroyed by the Nazis. Son of a mixed marriage, he was raised a Catholic and was unaware of his Jewish roots, even after his father escaped to join the British army and fifteen members of his family disappeared. Prague: My Long Journey Home tells of his Christian mother being sent to a slave labor camp and of his hiding on a farm to avoid deportation to a death camp. With the war coming to a close, Heller tells of how he picked up a revolver and shot a Nazi when he was just nine years old. Heller, now an assimilated American, left the horrors of the past—along with his birth name—behind to live the proverbial American Dream. In his memoir, he recalls how two cataclysmic events following Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution brought him face-to-face with demons of his former life. On his personal journey Heller discovered and embraced his heritage—one which he had abandoned decades earlier.

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : English poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:HWP52N

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Underwoods by Robert Louis Stevenson Pdf

"Of all my verse, like not a single line; But like my title, for it is not mine." -Robert Louis Stevenson, Underwoods Underwoods (1887), by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a collection of original poetry that Stevenson wrote during one of the most prolific periods of his career. Like his more famous collection, A Child's Garden of Verses, it was inspired by the author's own childhood and is written in both English and his native Scots.

Author : Rohinton Mistry
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551994406

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Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry Pdf

It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working bank clerk, Gustad Noble is a devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling. His young daughter falls ill; his promising son defies his father’s ambitions for him. He is the one reasonable voice amidst the ongoing dramas of his neighbours. One day, he receives a letter from an old friend, asking him to help in what at first seems like an heroic mission. But he soon finds himself unwittingly drawn into a dangerous network of deception. Compassionate, and rich in details of character and place, this unforgettable novel charts the journey of a moral heart in a turbulent world of change.

Author : Biswanath Bhattacharjee
Publisher : Sankalp Publication
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789393849311

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My Long Journey With Tata Motors by Biswanath Bhattacharjee Pdf

A sort of Autobiography of a person attached with a Tata group of company for four decades, his feelings, views, sweet & bitter memories, learnings and achievements with lot of funny stories. It also talks about the work culture & relations between employee & employer, some thing new for the present generation.

Author : Sandra Markle,Mia Posada
Publisher : Millbrook Press ™
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467742870

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The Long, Long Journey by Sandra Markle,Mia Posada Pdf

Crackle! Crackle! Crunch! What's hatching from that egg? It's a young bar-tailed godwit. She will spend the summer in Alaska learning to fly, find her own food, and escape from scary predators. Her long, long journey begins in October when she flies to New Zealand. This 7,000-mile flight is the longest nonstop bird migration ever recorded. Follow along on her amazing voyage!

Author : Song-nai Rhee
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781666751642

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Meaningful Connections in My Long Journey between a Pine Grove of Songki-ri and the Bank of the Siuslaw River by Song-nai Rhee Pdf

This is Song-nai Rhee’s personal memoirs of an eighty-seven-year-long life between a pine grove of Songki-riin, Korea and the bank of the Siuslaw River on the West Coast, covering his early life during World War II; his existential crisis during the Korean War; his life transformation from Confucian to Christian; coming to America and Northwest Christian College; his formal education in America (resulting in two bachelors, four masters, and two PhD degrees); thirty-seven years of professional service at NCC (now Bushnell University) as a professor of history, Bible, and archaeology, as well as academic vice president/dean; and as a father, grandfather, and writer/publisher, retiring as a farmer/fisherman on the bank of the Siuslaw River. Most of all, this book is about the people, beginning with Bill Peterson in a war zone, who helped make all this and Rhee’s life possible—the meaningful connections.

Author : Helen Notzl
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781525508189

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Long Journey Home by Helen Notzl Pdf

A four-year-old girl survives a harrowing escape across the heavily armed border of Czechoslovakia with her mother and brother after the Communist takeover in 1948. The family leaves everything behind to flee to freedom in Canada. Years later, as a young woman living in Toronto, she finds herself drawn to the country of her birth and returns to Prague, along the way finding love, danger, heartbreak, and her family's legacy. Helen Notzl's poignant memoir takes readers on a voyage between two starkly different and conflicting worlds - from affluence and fulfillment in Canada to passion and revolution in Prague. Must she choose between the two? With intense drama, vivid narration, and brilliant detail, Long Journey Home tells the story of a woman's quest for those things that truly matter to all of us: love, family, identity and homeland.

Author : Mitchell Moise
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Change (Psychology)
ISBN : 1773540270

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Letter to Cody by Mitchell Moise Pdf

Author : Edward Morgan Forster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:68745481

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The Longest Journey by Edward Morgan Forster Pdf

Author : Maria Pia Di Bella,Brian Yothers
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789209358

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The Long Journey by Maria Pia Di Bella,Brian Yothers Pdf

Travel writing has, for centuries, composed an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization. This interdisciplinary volume brings together anthropologists, literary scholars, social historians, and other scholars to illuminate travel writing in all its forms. With studies ranging from colonial adventurism to the legacies of the Holocaust, The Long Journey offers a unique dual focus on experience and genre as it applies to three key realms: memory and trauma, confrontations with the Other, and the cultivation of cultural perspective.