Original Riddles And Satirical Fables Galore

Author : Gerald Amada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1736901915

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Original Riddles and Satirical Fables Galore by Gerald Amada Pdf

Take heed! The author of this book is about to escort you into a wonderland of strange and mysterious characters that inhabit each riddle and fable you will meet along the way. You will encounter Santa Claus with a sleigh pulled by a team of miniature poodles; the Devil himself as he plots to ravage the planet by allowing humans to carry out his evil schemes for him; a citified woman who, on her first stay on a farm, attempts to milk the pigs and collect eggs from the cows; famous composers, who exhibit bizarre behavior when they and their wives botch their homemade meals, and you will be challenged by such original riddles as What is the difference between a poodle and a puddle? and What is the fastest growing mountain in the United States? This book is ideal for those who attend parties where there is a lull requiring pick-me-up humor. In other words, you are likely to find this book to be an excellent companion on your everyday excursions. Also, the author has tested some of these fables and riddles on both adults and adolescents and the results have generally been equally positive, which makes the book a cheering gift for families.

Author : Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781368053242

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The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes Pdf

OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD OF THE #1 BESTSELLING SERIES! Don't miss this New York Times bestselling "impossible to put down" (Buzzfeed) novel with deadly stakes, thrilling twists, and juicy secrets—perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying and Knives Out. Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why—or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch—and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a conwoman, and he's determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive. **The games continue in The Hawthorne Legacy, The Final Gambit, and The Brothers Hawthorne!

Author : Gerald Amada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0991352173

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Coping with the Disruptive College Student by Gerald Amada Pdf

Author : George Carlson
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781606995082

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Perfect Nonsense by George Carlson Pdf

Perfect Nonsense tells the complete story behind one of the most innovative and under-rated Golden Age artists, classic children’s illustrators, and nonsense poets in American history. For more than 50 years, George Carlson created thousands of distinctive and dynamic cartoons, comics, riddles, and games that thrilled both children and adults with their fanciful spirit and nonsensical humor. There has never been a career retrospective of this startling cartoonist and illustrator ― until now! Carlson’s inspired cartoons ― ranging from the intellectual to the surreal ― place him at home with not only acknowledged masters of American humor like George Herriman, S. J. Perelman, Milt Gross, Bill Holman, and Jack Kent, but also globally celebrated absurdists like Beckett, Pirandello, and his life-long inspiration, Lewis Carroll.

Author : Mark Dunn
Publisher : MP Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781596929999

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Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn Pdf

An epistolary novel set on a fictional island off the South Carolina coastline, 'Ella Minnow Pea' brings readers to the hometown of Nevin Nollop, inventor of the pangram 'The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog'. Deified for his achievement in life, Nevin has been honored in death with a monument featuring his famous phrase. One day, however, the letter 'Z' falls from the monument, and some of the islanders interpret the missing tile as a message from beyond the grave. The letter 'Z' is banned from use. On an island where the residents pride them-selves on their love of language, this is seen as a tragedy. They are still reeling from the shock when another tile falls. And then another... In his charming debut, first published in 2001, Mark Dunn took readers on a journey through the eyes of Ella Minnow Pea, a young woman forced to create another clever turn of phrase in order to save the islanders’ beloved language.

Author : Nick Offerman
Publisher : Dutton
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780451473011

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Gumption by Nick Offerman Pdf

First paperback printing includes "Bonus chapter."

Author : Larry Niven,Edward M. Lerner
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765357836

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Fleet of Worlds by Larry Niven,Edward M. Lerner Pdf

A brand-new novel set in Niven's Known Space, two hundred years before the discovery of the Ringworld.

Author : Burton Lane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Musicals
ISBN : OCLC:538022595

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Finian's Rainbow by Burton Lane Pdf

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547806448

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ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series) by James Joyce Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature, and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between its characters and events and those of the poem (the correspondence of Leopold Bloom to Odysseus, Molly Bloom to Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus to Telemachus). Joyce divided Ulysses into 18 chapters or "episodes". At first glance much of the book may appear unstructured and chaotic; Joyce once said that he had "put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant", which would earn the novel "immortality". James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses, the short-story collection Dubliners, and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake.

Author : Robert Rankin
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575086791

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Retromancer by Robert Rankin Pdf

There is big and evil magic abroad upon the face of the Earth. History has been changed. The Germans have won WWII. America is a nuclear wasteland. And worst of all, the breakfast menu at The Wife's Legs Café in Brentford is serving Bratwurst rather than the proper big boys' British banger. Something is Not Right. And when the world's all wrong and it needs setting right, who're you gonna call? Hugo Rune, that's who. A man who offers the world his genius, and asks only, in return, that the world cover his expenses. And so, with the aid of his faithful acolyte and companion Rizla, the guru's guru, also known as the hokus bloke, the Lad Himself and the Retromancer*, sets out to rewrite history the way it should be. Together they return to war-torn London, to solve the twelve cosmic conundra based on Hugo Rune's personal tarot deck, each one leading them closer to a final terrifying confrontation. They must match their wits against beautiful spies, advanced alien technology, killer robots and death rays, do battle with an ancient god, and come face to face once more with Hugo Rune's arch-enemy, the sinister Count Otto Black, all the while finding time to drink ale, talk the toot and dine out in some of London's swankiest eateries. Without ever paying the bill.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101064474313

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The Chautauquan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Theodore L. Flood,Frank Chapin Bray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:319510018917834

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The Chautauquan by Theodore L. Flood,Frank Chapin Bray Pdf

Author : Walter de la Mare
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02T14:05:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781774642481

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Best Stories of Walter de la Mare by Walter de la Mare Pdf

Walter de la Mare's best stories, including depictions of supernatural occurrences, people haunted by strange dreams, and encounters with ghosts.

Author : Dinah Birch
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191030840

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The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Dinah Birch Pdf

The Oxford Companion to English Literature has long been established as the leading reference resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers of English literature. It provides unrivalled coverage of all aspects of English literature - from writers, their works, and the historical and cultural context in which they wrote, to critics, literary theory, and allusions. For the seventh edition, the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated to meet the needs and concerns of today's students and general readers. Over 1,000 new entries have been added, ranging from new writers - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Patrick Marber, David Mitchell, Arundhati Roy - to increased coverage of writers and literary movements from around the world. Coverage of American literature has been substantially increased, with new entries on writers such as Cormac McCarthy and Amy Tan and on movements and publications. Contextual and historical coverage has also been expanded, with new entries on European history and culture, post-colonial literature, as well as writers and literary movements from around the world that have influenced English literature. The Companion has always been a quick and dependable source of reference for students, and the new edition confirms its pre-eminent role as the go-to resource of first choice. All entries have been reviewed, and details of new works, biographies, and criticism have been brought right up to date. So also has coverage of the themes, approaches and concepts encountered by students today, from terms to articles on literary theory and theorists. There is increased coverage of writers from around the world, as well as from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and of contextual topics, including film and television, music, and art. Cross-referencing has been thoroughly updated, with stronger linking from writers to thematic and conceptual entries. Meanwhile coverage of popular genres such as children's literature, science fiction, biography, reportage, crime fiction, fantasy or travel literature has been increased substantially, with new entries on writers from Philip Pullman to Anne Frank and from Anais Nin to Douglas Adams. The seventh edition of this classic Companion - now under the editorship of Dinah Birch, assisted by a team of 28 distinguished associate editors, and over 150 contributors - ensures that it retains its status as the most authoritative, informative, and accessible guide to literature available.

Author : Mark Henshaw
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925095326

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The Snow Kimono by Mark Henshaw Pdf

Winner of the 2015 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and ACT Book of the Year Award. Paris: 1989. Recently retired Inspector of Police Auguste Jovert receives a letter from a woman who claims to be his daughter. Two days later, a stranger comes knocking on his door. Set in Paris and Japan, The Snow Kimono tells the stories of Inspector Jovert, former Professor of Law Tadashi Omura, and his one-time friend the writer Katsuo Ikeda. All three men have lied to themselves, and to each other. And these lies are about to catch up with them. A quarter of a century after the award-winning bestseller Out of the Line of Fire, Mark Henshaw returns with an intricate psychological thriller that is also an unforgettable meditation on love and loss, on memory and its deceptions, and the ties that bind us to others. Mark Henshaw has lived in France, Germany, Yugoslavia and the USA. He currently lives in Canberra. His first novel, Out of the Line of Fire (1988), won the FAW Barbara Ramsden Award and the NBC New Writers Award. It was one of the biggest selling Australian literary novels of the decade and has been re-released as a Text Classic. The Snow Kimono won the 2014 NSW Premier’s Award for Fiction and Mark Henshaw was the 2015 winner of the Copyright Agency’s Author Fellowship. ‘With agile intelligence, with boldness in what he has imagined and tight control over how it is developed, Henshaw has announced triumphantly that he is no longer a ghost on the Australian literary scene, but one of its most substantial talents.’ Australian ‘Gripping...Like a Japanese puzzle, prized for their infinite solutions and depth of revelation, each chapter builds on the one before, unfolding through levels of story to unpack deeper and deeper truths...Henshaw’s ability to combine such cultural and aesthetic diversity in his fiction is not only an example of what a period of dedicated study can do, but a marker of his ability as a writer.’ Guardian ‘Henshaw’s prose [is] luminous and crisp, like the snowy countryside of Japan or the barren lanes of Algiers...When I finished The Snow Kimono, I raised my head, vaguely surprised that I was at home, in familiar surrounds, and it was still daylight outside. I turned straight back to page one and began again.’ Saturday Paper ‘Henshaw’s effects are consistently magical...[He] has perfected a particular technique for the scenes set in Japan, one we might call leisurely lyricism.’ Sydney Morning Herald ‘A confident, complex, ludic and engrossing performance that will make readers glad Henshaw is back...With agile intelligence, with boldness in what he has imagined and tight control over how it is developed, Henshaw has announced triumphantly that he is no longer a ghost on the Australian literary scene, but one of its most substantial talents.’ Weekend Australian ‘The writing is beautiful: pellucid and wonderfully visual, painting memorable landscape cameos. The reader is compliant, willingly engaged with a story that starts in medias res and branches in unexpected and seemingly unconnected yet complementary directions, ending with a twist that is hard to get one’s head around.’ Adelaide Advertiser ‘An exquisitely written puzzle.’ Jennifer Byrne, Australian Women’s Weekly ‘A triumph.’ Salty Popcorn ‘Henshaw doesn’t offer the easy satisfactions of much puzzle-literature, but the many turns and shifts make for a constantly engaging read...An interesting, engaging work...Fascinating.’ Complete Review