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Sailor and Fiddler

Author : Herman Wouk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501128561

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In an unprecedented literary accomplishment, Herman Wouk, one of America’s most beloved and enduring authors, reflects on his life and times from the remarkable vantage point of 100 years old. Many years ago, the great British philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin urged Herman Wouk to write his autobiography. Wouk responded, “Why me? I’m nobody.” Berlin answered, “No, no. You’ve traveled. You’ve known many people. You have interesting ideas. It would do a lot of good.” Now, in the same year he has celebrated his hundredth birthday, Herman Wouk finally reflects on the life experiences that inspired his most beloved novels. Among those experiences are his days writing for comedian Fred Allen’s radio show, one of the most popular shows in the history of the medium; enlisting in the US Navy during World War II; falling in love with Betty Sarah Brown, the woman who would become his wife (and literary agent) for sixty-six years; writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Caine Mutiny; as well as a big hit Broadway play The Caine Mutiny Court Martial; and the surprising inspirations and people behind such masterpieces as The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Marjorie Morningstar, and Youngblood Hawke. Written with the wisdom of a man who has lived through two centuries and the wit of someone who began his career as professional comedy writer, the first part of Wouk’s memoir (“Sailor”) refers to his Navy experience and writing career, the second (“Fiddler”) to what he’s learned from living a life of faith. Ultimately, Sailor and Fiddler is an unprecedented reflection from a vantage point few people have lived to experience.

Sailor and Fiddler

Author : Herman Wouk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501128547

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"Written with the wisdom of a man who has lived through two centuries and the wit of someone who began his career as professional comedy writer, the first part of Wouk's memoir ("Sailor") refers to his Navy experience and writing career, the second ("Fiddler") to what he's learned from living a life of faith."

The Lawgiver

Author : Herman Wouk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471112577

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The Lawgiver by Herman Wouk Pdf

96-year-old author of Pulitzer Prize-winning The Caine Mutinypens an ingeniously witty novel about the life of Moses For more than 50 years, Herman Wouk has dreamed of writing a novel about the life of Moses Finally, at the age of 96, he has found an ingeniously witty way to tell the tale of The Lawgiver, a romantic and suspenseful epistolary novel about a group of people trying to make a movie about Moses in the present day. At its centre is Margo Solovei, a brilliant young writer-director who has rejected her father's strict Jewish upbringing to pursue a career in the arts. When an Australian multi-billionaire promises to finance a movie about Moses, Margo does everything she can to land the job, including a reunion with her estranged first love, an influential lawyer with whom she has unfinished business. * Visit Herman Wouk's website at www.hermanwouk.net 'Endearing and light-hearted' Michael Prodger, FT

Marjorie Morningstar

Author : Herman Wouk
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316248549

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Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk Pdf

Now hailed as a "proto-feminist classic" (Vulture), Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk's powerful coming-of-age novel about an ambitious young woman pursuing her artistic dreams in New York City has been a perennial favorite since it was first a bestseller in the 1950s. A starry-eyed young beauty, Marjorie Morgenstern is nineteen years old when she leaves home to accept the job of her dreams--working in a summer-stock company for Noel Airman, its talented and intensely charismatic director. Released from the social constraints of her traditional Jewish family, and thrown into the glorious, colorful world of theater, Marjorie finds herself entangled in a powerful affair with the man destined to become the greatest--and the most destructive--love of her life. Rich with humor and poignancy, Marjorie Morningstar is a classic love story, one that spans two continents and two decades in the life of its heroine. "I read it and I thought, 'Oh, God, this is me.'" --Scarlet Johansson

The Caine Mutiny

Author : Herman Wouk
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316248563

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The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk Pdf

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a perennial favorite of readers young and old, Herman Wouk's masterful World War II drama set aboard a U.S. Navy warship in the Pacific is "a novel of brilliant virtuosity" (Times Literary Supplement). Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life--and mutiny--on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951, as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of World War II. In the intervening half century, The Caine Mutiny has sold millions of copies throughout the world, and has achieved the status of a modern classic.

The Fiddler's Gun

Author : A. S. Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0615325424

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Phinea Button was abandoned at a South Carolina orphanage by parents who had already produced twelve girls. Fin grows up to be quite a tomboy, more interested in playing with her only friend, Peter, and getting into fights than in becoming a proper lady. The sisters in charge of the orphanage, despairing of her behavior, place Fin in the kitchen to assist Bartimaeus, the aging cook. Bartimaeus takes Fin under his wing, but when his dark past catches up to him, Fin's life is thrown into turmoil once more. And it's not just Fin's life; the entire colony is in a state of unrest, chafing under British rule on the eve of the American Revolution. Fin has a series of encounters with British soldiers before she makes a rash decision that has her fleeing from the orphanage, and finding work on a sailing ship. But while Fin loves the ocean and its accompanying sense of freedom, she's still dogged by her past and her new-found reputation& and the accompanying danger that will come to threaten everything she holds dear.

Fiddler's Green

Author : Van Reid
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781608935277

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Fiddler's Green by Van Reid Pdf

Opening with the long-awaited wedding of Mister Walton, Fiddler's Green follows Mister Walton's aide-de-camp, Sundry Moss, as he embarks on a Good Samaritan mission. What seems like a harmless journey soon turns into a nearly fatal scrape as he finds himself in a strange rustic netherworld, caught between two feuding--and fantastical--families who are determined to cover up a dark secret no matter what the cost. Full of romantic yearning, knockabout comedy, and touching drama, fans and newcomers alike will be pleased to keep company with the honorable Gentlemen of the Club. This is a worthy successor to its wonderfully reviewed predecessor, Mrs. Roberto.

The Winds of War

Author : Herman Wouk
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444779271

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The Winds of War by Herman Wouk Pdf

Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II, which begins with THE WINDS OF WAR and continues in WAR AND REMEMBRANCE, stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - the drama, the romance, the heroism and the tragedy of World War II - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very centre of the maelstrom.

The Fiddler's Tune Book

Author : Peter Kennedy
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457446839

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The Fiddler's Tune Book by Peter Kennedy Pdf

100 traditional airs, hornpipes, jigs, reels, schottisches, polkas, and waltzes for soprano or tenor recorders or tin whistle D.

The Dog Fiend

Author : Frederick Marryat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1YUD

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Phil the Fiddler

Author : Horatio Alger
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734063459

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Phil the Fiddler by Horatio Alger Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Phil the Fiddler by Horatio Alger

Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191504518

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Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales by Herman Melville Pdf

`Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.' So wrote Melville of Billy Budd, Sailor, among the greatest of his works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. As the critic E. L. Grant Watson writes, `In this short history of the impressment and hanging of a handsome sailor-boy are to be discovered problems as profound as those which puzzle us in the pages of the Gospels.' Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd, Sailor is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good and evil, a meditation on justice and political governance, and a searching portrait of three extraordinary men. The passion it has aroused in its readers over the years is a measure of how deeply it addresses some of the fundamental questions of experience that every age must reexamine for itself. The selection in this volume represents the best of Melville's shorter fiction, and uses the most authoritative texts. The eight shorter tales included here were composed during Melville's years as a magazine writer in the mid 1850's and establish him, along with Hawthorne and Poe, as the greatest American story writer of his age. Several of the tales - Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids - are acknowledged masterpieces of their genres. All show Melville a master of irony, point-of-view, and tone whose fables ripple out in nearly endless circles of meaning. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Snarleyyow

Author : Frederick Marryat
Publisher : Fireship Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781935585091

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From the Father of Modern Nautical Fiction "If Mr. MIdshipman Easy is today his best known story, the one which followed it, Snarleyyow, is in a purely literary sense the real masterpiece of his literary output, in which his skill in characterization and construction, coupled with his sense of the truly dramatic reached its peak." - The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea The story takes place in 1699, during the reign of William III, and touches on Jacobite affairs following the attempt of Sir George Barclay to assassinate the King. The dog (Snarleyyow), which plays such a prominent role, belongs to a rascally lieutenant commanding a small vessel hunting for smugglers. The lieutenant's avarice gets him mixed up with the Jacobites. But the real hero of the story is the half-starved sailor Smallbones. Captain Vanslyperken tries vainly to kill him-while Smallbones tries to get even by attempting to kill the captain's hated dog, Snarleyyow. But, somehow, neither will be killed. All attempts at drowning, bashing on the head, and hanging fail, as they both seem to live charmed lives. There is great macabre farce here as one crazy situation follows another; but, at the same time, the story has many episodes of characteristic fun and outrageous comedy.

Snarleyyow

Author : Frederick Marryat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038307158

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Snarleyyow Or The Dog Fiend

Author : Frederick Marryat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BCUL:1093293079

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