The Longest Journey

Author : E. M. Forster
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : 55,8 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 : Eric Tagliacozzo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : 55,8 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 : Sandra Markle,Mia Posada
Publisher : Millbrook Press ™
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : William Barrett Morris
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Caterpillars
ISBN : PSU:000019672694

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The Longest Journey in the World by William Barrett Morris Pdf

To a little caterpillar a trip across the garden was the longest, most adventurous journey in the world.

Author : Rex Goyer
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781512799811

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The Long, Long Journey by Rex Goyer Pdf

This is the story of one mans journey through the pain of losing his beloved wife of more than twenty-two years when she died suddenly and unexpectedly in her sleep. It is filled with intense emotions rarely seen or even talked about as he recounts the story of this tragedy. If you have been touched by the loss of a spouse or a close loved one or know someone who has, this book offers comfort, hope, and healing to those with a hurting heart. It explores some of the hard questions and often common feelings that so many will find themselves confronting when that one special person steps from time to eternity. Most likely, you will find yourself crying, remembering, and sometimes even laughing right along with the author as you travel through The Long, Long Journey.

Author : Marianna D. Birnbaum
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789639241671

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The Long Journey of Gracia Mendes by Marianna D. Birnbaum Pdf

"After her arrival in 1553, she became the most prominent businesswoman of the community and a patron of Jewish causes. Her life exemplifies the perseverance of the Jewish culture to survive and triumph even in extremely adverse conditions."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Maria Pia Di Bella,Brian Yothers
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,9 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.

Author : Rohinton Mistry
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : A Samuel
Publisher : Chipmunkapublishing ltd
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Helen Notzl
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780300190182

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Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill Pdf

divEugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play Long Day’s Journey into Night is regarded as his masterpiece and a classic of American drama. With this new edition, at last it has the critical edition that it deserves. William Davies King provides students and theater artists with an invaluable guide to the text, including an essay on historical and critical perspectives; glosses of literary allusions and quotations; notes on the performance history; an annotated bibliography; and illustrations. "This is a worthy new edition, one that I'm sure will appeal to many students and teachers. William Davies King provides a thoughtful introduction to Long Day's Journey into Night—equally sensitive to the most particular and most encompassing of the play's materials."—Marc Robinson/DIV

Author : E. M. Forster
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547095026

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Pharos and Pharillon by E. M. Forster Pdf

"Pharos and Pharillon" by E. M. Forster is a 20th century book that will soon celebrate its 100th publication anniversary. Forster weaves a compelling tale that will keep readers unable to put the book down until they finish the last word. Luckily, this book was kept from being forgotten thanks to literary conservation efforts

Author : Mitchell Moise
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Change (Psychology)
ISBN : 1773540270

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Letter to Cody by Mitchell Moise Pdf