Tempest Tost

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771027895

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Tempest-Tost by Robertson Davies Pdf

The debut novel that launched Robertson Davies’ literary career, Tempest-Tost is a magnificent display of his legendary wit. The first novel in The Salterton Trilogy is now available as an eBook for the first time. An amateur production of The Tempest provides a colourful backdrop for a hilarious look at unrequited love. Mathematics teacher Hector Mackilwraith, stirred and troubled by Shakespeare’s plays, falls in love with the beautiful Griselda Webster. When Griselda shows she has plans of her own, Hector despairs and tries to commit suicide on the play’s opening night.

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771027901

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Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies Pdf

Winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, Leaven of Malice is the second novel in Robertson Davies’ much-loved Salterton Trilogy. Available as an eBook for the first time. The following announcement appeared in the Salterton Evening Bellman: “Professor and Mrs. Walter Vambrace are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Pearl Veronica, to Solomon Bridgetower, Esq., son of . . .” Although the malice that prompted this false engagement notice was aimed at three people only–Solly Bridgetower, Pearl Vambrace, and Gloster Ridley, the anxiety-ridden local newspaper editor–before the leaven of malice had ceased to work it had changed permanently, for good or ill, the lives of many citizens of Salterton. This is the second novel in The Salterton Trilogy (which also includes Tempest-Tost and A Mixture of Frailties).

Author : Peter I. Rose
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015040553599

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Tempest-tost by Peter I. Rose Pdf

In this collection of essays, Rose (sociology, Smith College) explores race, immigration, refugee policies, and inter-ethnic conflict. The title essay--about the general plight of refugees--is followed by a more narrowly focused section: the making and implementing of US refugee policy and the experiences of those who escaped from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos and who managed to resettle in the US following the fall of Saigon. Interviews with caretakers, gatekeepers, guides and go-betweens, middle managers and directors of refugee agencies, and some of those affected by forced migration are included. Commentaries and critiques of important books on minorities conclude the work. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Robert Dodge
Publisher : WildBlue Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781947290327

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Tempest-Tost by Robert Dodge Pdf

“Dodge takes us behind the headlines and introduces real people and their very real struggles yearning to breathe free. Page-turning [and] proactive.” —Craig McGuire, author of Brooklyn’s Most Wanted Kahassai fled the Ethiopian Red Terror that killed his father and hundreds of thousands of others, trekking through a snake-infested jungle while hyenas followed him at night. Georgette crossed the Congo while the Hutus and Tutsis struggled for control as millions of defenseless people were murdered and displaced. Asmi and Leela were children in Bhutan when soldiers burned their villages and drove out the Nepalese-speaking Hindus. Roy narrowly escaped Afghanistan after the Americans began bombing Kabul to drive out the Taliban. Mahn made it out of Vietnam only after his twenty-second attempt. Mohammed survived daily beatings when imprisoned in Syria, though many of his fellow prisoners died. What do these people have in common beyond tales of horror and hardship that caused them to flee their countries, leaving their homes, families, and previous lives behind? They all found a new place to live in Denver, Colorado, the “Queen City of the Plains.” In this timely and important book, author Robert Dodge describes the circumstances that caused these refugees to flee their homes and shares their experiences after they arrived in Denver. This is the refugee story behind the headlines and political posturing. This is what coming to America has meant to those displaced, as represented by various refugee communities that over the years have come to think of Denver, Colorado as home.

Author : Ronald Takaki
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781609804176

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A Different Mirror for Young People by Ronald Takaki Pdf

A longtime professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Ronald Takaki was recognized as one of the foremost scholars of American ethnic history and diversity. When the first edition of A Different Mirror was published in 1993, Publishers Weekly called it "a brilliant revisionist history of America that is likely to become a classic of multicultural studies" and named it one of the ten best books of the year. Now Rebecca Stefoff, who adapted Howard Zinn's best-selling A People's History of the United States for younger readers, turns the updated 2008 edition of Takaki's multicultural masterwork into A Different Mirror for Young People. Drawing on Takaki's vast array of primary sources, and staying true to his own words whenever possible, A Different Mirror for Young People brings ethnic history alive through the words of people, including teenagers, who recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and poems. Like Zinn's A People's History, Takaki's A Different Mirror offers a rich and rewarding "people's view" perspective on the American story.

Author : Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781779505279

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Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed by Laurie Halse Anderson Pdf

Princess Diana of Themyscira believes that her 16th birthday will be one of new beginnings-namely, acceptance into the warrior tribe of the Amazons. But her birthday celebrations are cut short when rafts carrying refugees break through the barrier that separates her island home from the outside world. When Diana defies the Amazons to try to bring the outsiders to safety, she finds herself swept away by the stormy sea. Cut off from everything she's ever known, Diana herself becomes a refugee in an unfamiliar land. Now Diana must survive in the world beyond Themyscira for the first time-a world that is filled with danger and injustice unlike anything she's ever experienced. With new battles to be fought and new friends to be made, she must redefine what it means to belong, to be an Amazon, and to make a difference. From New York Times bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak) and acclaimed artist Leila del Duca (Shutter), Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed is a story about growing into your strength, fighting for justice, and finding home.

Author : Lidia Yuknavitch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781501120060

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The Misfit's Manifesto by Lidia Yuknavitch Pdf

The author explores the status of being a misfit as something to be embraced, and social misfits as being individuals of value who have a place in society, in a work that encourages people who have had difficulty finding their way to pursue their goals.

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : London : Chatto and Windus
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CUB:P103032505005

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Tempest-tost by Robertson Davies Pdf

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771027789

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The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies Pdf

Gathering Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders together, The Deptford Trilogy has been hailed as a modern classic and is available as an eBook for the first time. Woven around a mysterious death, the novels trace the rich and varied, and fatefully linked, lives of Dunstan Ramsay, David Staunton, and Magnus Eisengrim. Davies has created a beguiling, fantastical, cunningly contrived trilogy of novels, luring the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth, history, and magic and providing an exhilarating antidote to a world from where “the fear and dread and splendor of wonder have been banished.”

Author : Emma Lazarus,Valenti Angelo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Broadsides
ISBN : LCCN:98125118

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The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus,Valenti Angelo Pdf

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771027840

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Murther and Walking Spirits by Robertson Davies Pdf

Murther & Walking Spirits is available as an eBook for the first time. “I was never so amazed in my life as when the Sniffer drew his concealed weapon from its case and struck me to the ground, stone dead.” So begins the unusual story of Connor “Gil” Gilmartin when he catches his wife in flagrante with the Sniffer, his former colleague and now his murderer. Though he is struck dead in the very first line of this novel, death is only the first indignity Gil is about to suffer. For he lingers on as a ghost, and from this bleak vantage–made even less endurable by the fact that he must spend the afterlife sitting beside his killer at a film festival–he is forced to view the exploits and failures of his ancestors, from the forerunners who sailed up the Hudson to Canada during the American Revolution right up to his university-professor parents.

Author : Robertson Davies,Sarah Menell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Canada
ISBN : 1846480345

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Tempest-Tost by Robertson Davies,Sarah Menell Pdf

Author : Sam Levenson
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781504038126

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Everything But Money by Sam Levenson Pdf

In this timeless classic that topped the New York Times bestseller list in 1966 and 1967, Sam Levenson recalls his childhood with the warmth and affectionate humor that endeared the author and humorist to millions of Americans. He describes the cramped New York tenement which he shared with his parents, his six older brothers, and his sister as a “a life of plenty”—plenty of relatives, neighbors, boarders, janitors, hugs, slaps, books, music, weddings, illnesses, cats, dogs, cockroaches, and the like. He recalls how his parents bestowed upon him a “life of plenty”—plenty of hope, ambition, and faith in education, all of which became the hallmarks of his life and career. As he remembers his parents with overwhelming love, and cherishes the ethical values they instilled in him, he shows how those values are timeless and have helped him as he became a parent. His vivid recollections of a big family, rich in everything but money, are interspersed with a deep concern for the social and moral dilemmas facing today’s young people, dilemmas which carry on to this day. Sam Levenson’s blend of sweetness, hilarity and wisdom shines through Everything But Money and offers lessons that we can all learn from, lessons that are timeless and as relevant now as they were 50 years after Everything But Money was first released . . .

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771029875

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World of Wonders by Robertson Davies Pdf

World of Wonders, the concluding novel in Robertson Davies’ celebrated Deptford Trilogy, is available as an e-book for the first time. Called “a spectacular, soaring work, an astounding tour de force unequaled in recent literature,” World of Wonders follows the story of Magnus Eisengrim—the most illustrious magician of his age—who is spirited away from his home by a member of a traveling sideshow, the Wanless World of Wonders. “One of the great modern novelists.” Sunday Times

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141186151

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Fifth Business by Robertson Davies Pdf

The first book in Robertson Davies's acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly Link Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. His apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of card tricks to a small boy in the end prove neither innocent nor innocuous. Fifth Business stands alone as a remarkable story told by a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.