The Chestnut Tree A Short Story

Author : Jo Thomas
Publisher : Headline
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472223753

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The Chestnut Tree (A Short Story) by Jo Thomas Pdf

Treat yourself to this wonderfully funny and romantic short story by Jo Thomas, kindle bestselling author of The Oyster Catcher, The Olive Branch and Honey Farm on the Hill, available exclusively in ebook. Praise for Jo Thomas' The Olive Branch: 'Sun, good food and romance, what more could you want?' Heat When Ellie Russet leaves home and her restaurant in the wake of disaster to housesit in the Kent countryside, the last thing she wants to do is cook for a living - ever again. Ellie's new neighbour, Daniel Fender, is struggling to make ends meet as a furniture maker. Could the answer to his problems lie in the chestnut orchard at the bottom of the garden? Only Ellie can help Daniel unlock the delicious secret that will bring them the fresh starts they need. And as autumn approaches, romance will blossom amid the glowing embers of the chestnut fire... Contains an extract from Jo's second novel, THE OLIVE BRANCH What readers are saying about The Chestnut Tree: 'A gorgeously satisfying short tale that appeals to all the senses' 'This is a fab little story with delightful characters all played out in a beautiful rural setting' 'A lovely story. Strong characters, fast-paced plot. A joy to read'

Author : Susan Freinkel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520259942

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American Chestnut by Susan Freinkel Pdf

"In prose as strong and quietly beautiful as the American chestnut itself, Susan Freinkel profiles the silent catastrophe of a near-extinction and the impassioned struggle to bring a species back from the brink. Freinkel is a rare hybrid: equally fluid and in command as a science writer and a chronicler of historical events, and graced with the poise and skill to seamlessly graft these talents together. A perfect book."—Mary Roach, author of Stiff and Spook "A spellbinding, heart wrenching, and uplifting account of the American chestnut that asks the vastly important question: Have we learned enough, and do we care enough, to begin healing some of the wounds we've inflicted on the natural world?"—Scott Weidensaul, author of Return to Wild America and Mountains of the Heart "This is a beautifully written account of the passing of one of the botanical wonders of the North American landscape, the American chestnut tree, which was nearly extirpated by a plague that entered the ecosystem and swept these great trees away. Freinkel, a gifted writer whose research is impeccable and whose reporting is topnotch, tells of the impassioned work of scientists over the past century and up to today, trying to bring the American chestnut back from the brink of extinction. Only a person in love with trees could have written this lovely book."—Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone and The Wild Trees "Graceful, provocative, and inspiring. Thoreau would be proud."—Alan Burdick, author of Out of Eden, a 2005 National Book Award finalist "In this beautifully written volume, Susan Freinkel ably describes the marriage of science and passion that is being brought to bear to save this majestic American tree from extinction. The people whose ancestors lived among chestnut trees and their places come alive for the reader, as does the appearance and spread of the blight and the heroes who are struggling with it today. The book concludes with a tantalizing vision of chestnuts in the forests again—a thought of making the world right where it has gone wrong."—Peter H. Raven, Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Author : English history
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590339099

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Short stories from English history by English history Pdf

Author : English history
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600067655

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Short stories founded on English history by English history Pdf

Author : England. [Appendix. - History & Politics. - I.]
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000573634

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Short Stories Founded on English History. [With Plates.] by England. [Appendix. - History & Politics. - I.] Pdf

Author : Katherine Mansfield
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 2662 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547809357

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The Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield: Short Stories, Poetry, Letters, Diary, Essays by Katherine Mansfield Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield: Short Stories, Poetry, Letters, Diary, Essays & Book Reviews" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Short Story Collections Bliss, and Other Stories The Garden Party, and Other Stories The Doves' Nest, and Other Stories Something Childish, and Other Stories In a German Pension, and Other Stories The Aloe Unfinished Stories Poems Poems: 1909- 1910 Poems: 1911-1913 Poems at the Villa Pauline: 1916 Poems: 1917-1919 Child Verses: 1907 Letters Journal Essays & Book Reviews Biography: The Life of Katherine Mansfield by Ruth E. Mantz & J. Middleton Murry Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888–1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. Like Woolf, Mansfield was also interested in the feelings and thoughts of her characters rather than plot development and hence her short stories show the complexities of a character's interior life in all its various shades.

Author : Mira Stout
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007441174

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One Thousand Chestnut Trees by Mira Stout Pdf

An epic tale of an enigmatic land – Korea – and one woman’s search for her past.

Author : Halina Below
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1550416901

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Chestnut Dreams by Halina Below Pdf

A little girl and her grandmother discover a horse chestnut tree while on a walk in the park. The little girl yearns to have some chestnuts to play with as toys but her grandmother explains that she must be patient. Halina Below's beautiful illustrations show the changing of the seasons as the young narrator and her "Baba" watch the chestnuts, the young girl decides there is a better use for them than as her toys. "Did You Know" information on chestnut trees along with a life-cycle chart and glossary are included at the end of the story.

Author : Richard Powers
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781039000698

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The Overstory by Richard Powers Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal Winner of France's Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine Finalist for the Man Booker Prize Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award "Monumental. . . . A gigantic fable of genuine truths." --Barbara Kingsolver, The New York Times Book Review The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers's twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours--fast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

Author : Mary Gaitskill
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524749149

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This Is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill Pdf

Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations with searing, even prophetic honesty. In This Is Pleasure, she considers our present moment through the lens of a particular #MeToo incident. The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has been accused of repeated unforgivable transgressions toward women in his orbit. But are they unforgivable? And who has the right to forgive him? To Quin’s friend Margot, the wrongdoing is less clear. Alternating Quin’s and Margot’s voices and perspectives, Gaitskill creates a nuanced tragicomedy, one that reveals her characters as whole persons—hurtful and hurting, infuriating and touching, and always deeply recognizable. Gaitskill has said that fiction is the only way that she could approach this subject because it is too emotionally faceted to treat in the more rational essay form. Her compliment to her characters—and to her readers—is that they are unvarnished and real. Her belief in our ability to understand them, even when we don’t always admire them, is a gesture of humanity from one of our greatest contemporary writers.

Author : Stendhal,Jules Verne,Gustave Flaubert,Anatole France,Émile Zola,Victor Hugo,Guy de Maupassant,Jean-Jacques Rousseau,Alexandre Dumas,François Rabelais,George Sand,Marcel Proust,Gaston Leroux,Charles Baudelaire,Molière,Pierre Corneille,Jean Racine,Voltaire,Pierre Choderlos de Laclos,Alexandre Dumas fils
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 22274 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547723493

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The Greatest Works of French Literature: 100+ Novels, Short Stories, Poetry Collections & Plays by Stendhal,Jules Verne,Gustave Flaubert,Anatole France,Émile Zola,Victor Hugo,Guy de Maupassant,Jean-Jacques Rousseau,Alexandre Dumas,François Rabelais,George Sand,Marcel Proust,Gaston Leroux,Charles Baudelaire,Molière,Pierre Corneille,Jean Racine,Voltaire,Pierre Choderlos de Laclos,Alexandre Dumas fils Pdf

This unique collection of the greatest French classics is meticulously formatted for your eReader: A History of French Literature François Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel Molière: Tartuffe or the Hypocrite The Misanthrope The Miser The Imaginary Invalid The Impostures of Scapin... Jean Racine: Phaedra Pierre Corneille: The Cid Voltaire: Candide Zadig Micromegas The Huron A Philosophical Dictionary... Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Confessions Emile The Social Contract De Laclos: Dangerous Liaisons Stendhal‎: The Red and the Black The Charterhouse of Parma... Honoré de Balzac: Father Goriot Eugénie Grandet Lost Illusions The Lily of the Valley A Woman of Thirty Colonel Chabert The Magic Skin The Unknown Masterpiece... Victor Hugo: Les Misérables The Man Who Laughs The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Toilers of the Sea... George Sand: The Devil's Pool Mauprat Alexandre Dumas pere: The Three Musketeers Twenty Years After The Vicomte de Bragelonne Ten Years After Louise de la Valliere The Man in the Iron Mask The Count of Monte Cristo... Alexandre Dumas fils: The Lady with the Camellias Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary Salammbô Bouvard and Pécuchet Sentimental Education... Émile Zola: Thérèse Raquin The Fortune of the Rougons The Kill The Dram Shop A Love Episode Nana Piping Hot Germinal His Masterpiece The Earth The Dream The Human Beast Money The Downfall Doctor Pascal... Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Around the World in Eighty Days The Mysterious Island Journey to the Centre of the Earth From the Earth to the Moon Around the Moon In Search of the Castaways Guy de Maupassant: A Life Bel-Ami (The History of a Scoundrel) Mont Oriol Notre Coeur Pierre and Jean Strong as Death The Necklace The Horla Boul de Suif Two Friends Madame Tellier's Establishment... Charles Baudelaire: The Flowers of Evil Anatole France: The Revolt of the Angels The Gods are Athirst (The Gods Will Have Blood) Penguin Island Thaïs Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera The Mystery of the Yellow Room The Secret of the Night The Man with the Black Feather Marcel Proust: Swann's Way

Author : Stendhal,Jules Verne,Gustave Flaubert,Anatole France,Émile Zola,Victor Hugo,Guy de Maupassant,Jean-Jacques Rousseau,François Rabelais,George Sand,Marcel Proust,Gaston Leroux,Charles Baudelaire,Molière,Pierre Corneille,Jean Racine,Voltaire,Pierre Choderlos de Laclos,Alexandre Dumas pere,Alexandre Dumas fils
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 22274 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : EAN:8596547780793

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French Classics - Boxed Set: 100+ Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays & Philosophical Books by Stendhal,Jules Verne,Gustave Flaubert,Anatole France,Émile Zola,Victor Hugo,Guy de Maupassant,Jean-Jacques Rousseau,François Rabelais,George Sand,Marcel Proust,Gaston Leroux,Charles Baudelaire,Molière,Pierre Corneille,Jean Racine,Voltaire,Pierre Choderlos de Laclos,Alexandre Dumas pere,Alexandre Dumas fils Pdf

Good Press presents to you a unique collection of the greatest classics of French literature: A History of French Literature François Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel Molière: Tartuffe or the Hypocrite The Misanthrope The Miser The Imaginary Invalid The Impostures of Scapin... Jean Racine: Phaedra Pierre Corneille: The Cid Voltaire: Candide Zadig Micromegas The Huron A Philosophical Dictionary... Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Confessions Emile The Social Contract De Laclos: Dangerous Liaisons Stendhal‎: The Red and the Black The Charterhouse of Parma... Honoré de Balzac: Father Goriot Eugénie Grandet Lost Illusions The Lily of the Valley A Woman of Thirty Colonel Chabert The Magic Skin The Unknown Masterpiece... Victor Hugo: Les Misérables The Man Who Laughs The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Toilers of the Sea... George Sand: The Devil's Pool Mauprat Alexandre Dumas pere: The Three Musketeers Twenty Years After The Vicomte de Bragelonne Ten Years After Louise de la Valliere The Man in the Iron Mask The Count of Monte Cristo... Alexandre Dumas fils: The Lady with the Camellias Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary Salammbô Bouvard and Pécuchet Sentimental Education... Émile Zola: Thérèse Raquin The Fortune of the Rougons The Kill The Dram Shop A Love Episode Nana Piping Hot Germinal His Masterpiece The Earth The Dream The Human Beast Money The Downfall Doctor Pascal... Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Around the World in Eighty Days The Mysterious Island Journey to the Centre of the Earth From the Earth to the Moon Around the Moon In Search of the Castaways Guy de Maupassant: A Life Bel-Ami (The History of a Scoundrel) Mont Oriol Notre Coeur Pierre and Jean Strong as Death The Necklace The Horla Boul de Suif Two Friends Madame Tellier's Establishment... Charles Baudelaire: The Flowers of Evil Anatole France: The Revolt of the Angels The Gods are Athirst (The Gods Will Have Blood) Penguin Island Thaïs Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera The Mystery of the Yellow Room The Secret of the Night The Man with the Black Feather Marcel Proust: Swann's Way

Author : Ralpapajan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781291365832

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A Few Short Stories by Ralpapajan Pdf

Author : Warwick Deeping
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 13119 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066380021

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The Complete Works of Warwick Deeping: 120+ Novels & Short Stories by Warwick Deeping Pdf

Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited Warwick Deeping collection. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content:Uther and Igraine Love Among the Ruins The Slanderers The Seven Streams Bess of the Woods A Woman's War Bertrand of Brittany Mad Barbara (These White Hands) The Red Saint The Pride of Eve King Behind The King (The Shield of Love) Apples of Gold The Secret Sanctuary (The Saving of John Stretton) Sorrell and Son Doomsday Kitty Old Pybus Roper's Row Exiles The Road (The Ten Commandments) Old Wine and New The Challenge of Love (Sincerity) Smith The Eyes of Love (Fox Farm) Two Black Sheep Seven Men Came Back The Man on the White Horse Valour Sackcloth into Silk (The Golden Cord) The White Gate No Hero—This Blind Man's Year The Woman at the Door The Malice of Men Shabby Summer (Folly Island) The Man Who Went Back The Dark House Mr Gurney and Mr Slade (The Cleric's Secret) The Impudence of Youth Laughing House Man in Chains Caroline Terrace Slade Short Stories: Countess Glika and Other Stories: Countess Glika The Red Shirt The Girl on the Mountain The Lady of the Terrace Bitter Silence The Short Stories of Warwick Deeping: Wilmer's Wife Two Men The Pool of the Satyr Old Fagus That Vulgar Person The Immortals The Harmless Satyr Silver's Bus Poet and Peasant Gustave Sand Dunes The First Wrinkle Shipwreck and a Shrew Caliban Noise Six Months to Live Sennen Climbs a Wall Rachel in Search of Reality Ridicule The Great Saaba Bridge The Blue Tulip A Red Blind The Three Trees The Red Van Stockings Sappho The Black Cat The Other Woman About It? Contraband Heritage Discord Restitution At "The Golden Palace" The Hesperides Elizabeth The Man Who Came Back The Child Paternity The Strange Case of Sybil Carberry The Cave Precious Stones Barron's Broken Head In the Snow Laughing Sickness The Man with the Red Tie Escape The Sand-pit The Liars The Broken Violin The Son Two in a Train and Other Stories: Two in a Train The Rainbow The Madness of Professor Pye Lucky Ship A Waxwork Sow Compassion Francois Jack and Andrew Out of the Sea…

Author : J. M. Barrie
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1420 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9788027220960

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J. M. BARRIE: Complete Peter Pan Books, Novels, Plays, Short Stories, Essays & Autobiography by J. M. Barrie Pdf

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Peter Pan Adventures Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Peter and Wendy Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up When Wendy Grew Up Novels Better Dead When a Man's Single Auld Licht Idylls A Window in Thrums The Little Minister Sentimental Tommy Tommy and Grizel The Little White Bird A Tillyloss Scandal Life in a Country Manse Lady's Shoe Short Stories A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches Two of Them and Other Stories Other Short Stories Inconsiderate Waiter The Courting of T'Nowhead's Bell Dite Deuchars The Minister's Gown Shutting a Map An Invalid in Lodgings The Mystery of Time-Tables Mending the Clock The Biggest Box in the World The Coming Dramatist The Result of a Tramp The Other "Times" How Gavin Birse Put it to Mag Lownie The Late Sherlock Holmes Plays Ibsen's Ghost Jane Annie Walker, London The Professor's Love Story The Little Minister The Wedding Guest Little Mary Quality Street The Admirable Crichton What Every Woman Knows Der Tag (The Tragic Man) Dear Brutus Alice Sit-by-the-Fire A Kiss for Cinderella Half an Hour Seven Women Old Friends Mary Rose Pantaloon The Twelve-Pound Look Rosalind The Will The Old Lady Shows Her Medals The New Word Barbara's Wedding A Well-Remembered Voice Essays Neither Dorking Nor The Abbey Charles Frohman: A Tribute Courage Preface to The Young Visiters The Man from Nowhere Woman and the Press A Plea for Smaller Books Boy's Books The Lost Works of George Meredith The Humor of Dickens Ndintpile Pont Q What is Scott's Best Novel? Memoirs Margaret Ogilvy An Edinburgh Eleven My Lady Nicotine Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) is one of the greatest Scottish novelists and playwrights, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan.