The Man Who Lost His Head

Author : Claire Huchet Bishop
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-09-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781681378435

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The Man Who Lost His Head by Claire Huchet Bishop Pdf

It’s bad news when you wake up in the morning and find you’ve lost your head, especially if it’s an especially agreeable and handsome head, but there you go, such things happen. In any case, the man who loses his head in The Man Who Lost His Head isn’t about to grin (that is, if he could grin) and bear it. No, he’ll make himself a new one, and starting with a pumpkin and moving on to a parsnip and finally picking up a block of wood, he sets about getting it just right. Still, for all his efforts, it somehow isn’t right. It isn’t the head he had before. It turns out that only a brash bold boy can save the man who lost his head from losing it altogether.Claire Huchet Bishop’s charming parable is illustrated by the great Robert McCloskey, whose books for children include One Morning in Maine, Blueberries for Sal, and the Caldecott Medal–winning Make Way for Ducklings.

Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781039002494

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks Pdf

In his most beloved and extraordinary book, Dr. Sacks recounts the case histories of patients inhabiting the compelling world of neurological disorders. Featuring a preface never before included. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; whose limbs seem alien to them; who lack some skills yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. In Dr. Sacks's splendid and sympathetic telling, his patients are deeply human, and his tales are studies of struggles against incredible adversity. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine's ultimate responsibility: "the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject."

Author : Dalton Trumbo
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780806537603

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Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo Pdf

The Searing Portrayal Of War That Has Stunned And Galvanized Generations Of Readers An immediate bestseller upon its original publication in 1939, Dalton Trumbo?s stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of World War I brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era. Johnny Got His Gun is an undisputed classic of antiwar literature that?s as timely as ever. ?A terrifying book, of an extraordinary emotional intensity.?--The Washington Post "Powerful. . . an eye-opener." --Michael Moore "Mr. Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury amounting to eloquence."--The New York Times "A book that can never be forgotten by anyone who reads it."--Saturday Review

Author : Zach Savich
Publisher : Omnidawn
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1890650501

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The Man who Lost His Head by Zach Savich Pdf

Zach Savich's The Man Who Lost His Head wrestles with the irrational rationality of life as we dimly perceive it. Yet these poems elicit, like the ambiguity of life itself, our most fervent and strange fidelities. There's such a thing as a willed poetic ignorance: it forms its own epistemological haven, and these poems live in that locale. Thus the poet can ask Does dark mean blank? and, in the very asking, expand the horizon of possibility (that is, knowing) by which we recognize the interchangeability of absence and desire. In that dark, we grope into and through the rudiments of our own longing, melted to its presences. When Savich writes I suppose I do believe in nothing, his words resound as a positive statement of belief.

Author : Louis Sachar
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780747589778

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The Boy who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar Pdf

An action-packed, humorous tale from mega-selling Louis Sachar, author of HOLES.

Author : Claire Huchet Bishop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:20838420

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The Man who Lost His Head by Claire Huchet Bishop Pdf

Author : Julian Symons
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755148387

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The Man Who Lost His Wife by Julian Symons Pdf

Gilbert Welton’s life changed one breakfast time – his wife, Virginia, announced she was leaving him. Perhaps not the expected beginning of a comedy, but Symons employs his customary skill and brilliant wit to reveal the funny side of the tale. The result is a hilarious and riotous look at the life of a very ordinary middle-aged man.

Author : Gayleen Froese
Publisher : DSP Publications
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781641084604

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The Man Who Lost His Pen by Gayleen Froese Pdf

Calgary PI Ben Ames expects a relaxing evening off as he supports his boyfriend, Jesse, one of the star performers at a charity concert. But when another performer drops dead, Ben has his work cut out for him to solve the case before Jesse's reputation becomes collateral damage.

Author : Andre Bouchard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fathers
ISBN : 1862309965

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Daddy Lost His Head by Andre Bouchard Pdf

A modern-day fable that's so funny you'll laugh your head off! What would you do if your daddy lost his head? You'd make him a new one of course! All you need is some old newspapers, paint and a potato for his ose. It turns out there are lots of advantages to having a dad with no head: he doesn't shout or snore, he always agrees with you, and he loves doing the hoovering. But will Daddy ever find his real head?

Author : S. T. Joshi
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 048641938X

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Great Tales of Terror by S. T. Joshi Pdf

These 23 chilling tales tell of the returning dead, haunted places, weird creatures, and the supernatural in "The Return of the Soul" by Robert Hichens, "The Mummy's Foot" by Theophile Gautier, Lafcadio Hearn's "Of a Promise Broken," as well as spine-tinglers by Algernon Blackwood, J. Sheridan LeFanu, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Lord Dunsany, and other masters.

Author : Jonathan Franklin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501116292

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438 Days by Jonathan Franklin Pdf

The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and interviews with his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders who nursed him back to health, this is an epic tale of survival. Print run 75,000.

Author : Fatḥī Ghānim
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9774243471

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The Man who Lost His Shadow by Fatḥī Ghānim Pdf

The Man Who Lost His Shadow tells the story of Yusif Abdul Hamid, an ambitious Cairo journalist, through the eyes of four people: Mabruka, the young peasant girl who marries Yusif’s aging father while being attracted to Yusif; Samia, a minor actress, who Yusif lives with and almost marries but latter rejects; Muhammad Nagi, who Yusif pushes out of his job as newspaper editor after Muhammad marries Samia; and finally Yusif himself, editor-in-chief of the newspaper al-Ayyam, a stranger to himself.

Author : Aditya Sinha
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781509859368

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The CEO Who Lost His Head by Aditya Sinha Pdf

Morning Analysis CEO Buster Das has been found dead in his office with his head bashed in. When unlikely detective duo Sandesh Solvekar and Mona Ramteke make it their mission to catch the reckless criminal, they find themselves knee-deep in Mumbai’s sordid world of dissolute starlets, business moguls and a sell-out media, even as they attempt to deal with a dysfunctional police machinery and their own secret lives. The list of suspects is also turning out to be a headscratcher: there’s the eccentric editor-in-chief; the irreverent dating editor; and several vice-presidents who would kill to be CEO. A whodunit as wicked as it is irresistible, this is a cracker of a novel that takes Indian crime writing to dazzling new heights.

Author : Sheila Hale
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781843105640

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The Man who Lost His Language by Sheila Hale Pdf

When Sir John Hale suffered a stroke that left him unable to walk, write or speak, his wife, Shelia, followed every available medical trail seeking knowledge of his condition and how he might be restored to health. This book is a unique exploration of aphasia - losing the ability to use or comprehend words - as well as of the resilience of love.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547572482

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The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick Pdf

Slavery is back. America, 1962. Having lost a war, America finds itself under Nazi Germany and Japan occupation. A few Jews still live under assumed names. The 'I Ching' is prevalent in San Francisco. Science fiction meets serious ideas in this take on a possible alternate history.