The Swan Suit

Author : Katherine Fawcett
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771622615

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The Swan Suit by Katherine Fawcett Pdf

Blending banalities of everyday human routines and dilemmas with elements of fairy tales, magic, the macabre and the downright inventive, Katherine Fawcett’s fiction is anything but predictable. In this collection, reimagined folktales appear alongside stories entirely new, serving to defamiliarize us from the undeniably odd tales we continue to pass down generation after generation, and lend a vague familiarity to the stories of Fawcett’s invention. One of the three little pigs launches a line of high-end, easy-to-prepare, wolf broth–based meals. The Devil is on a mission to steal a child’s soul, but is distracted when he develops a massive crush on the day-care worker. A man stands in the shower contemplating his future when he discovers tiny mushrooms growing in his body’s various nooks and crannies. Fawcett’s wry humour and prodigious imagination are an addictive mix. The weird becomes normal, and the normal, fascinating. Subverting expectations at every turn, her matter-of-fact style and narrative skill make this collection a must-read for any lover of short fiction.

Author : Alexis Wright
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501124785

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The Swan Book by Alexis Wright Pdf

Originally published: Australia: Giramondo, 2013.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061895087

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9th Circuit Update by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hubert J. C. Schuurman
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781412079624

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People of the Swan by Hubert J. C. Schuurman Pdf

The swan ballets on the river Sanctus drew Elves, Fairies, and many other visitors to town. Life flowed joyously. None heeded the Dwarves' warnings. They always talked gloom and doom!

Author : Lawrence M. Woods
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806155555

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Alex Swan and the Swan Companies by Lawrence M. Woods Pdf

The Swan name is inseparable from the history of Wyoming and the West, and when Swan made his mark in Wyoming in the 1880s, ranching was king. The largest among Alex Swan’s many corporate creations, The Swan Land and Cattle Company, Ltd., was one of the larger livestock companies to operate in the American West, and it survived long after it founder’s financial debacle in the great winter of 1886-1887. At one time, the Swan was said to be the largest private landowner in Wyoming, and at its peak it was certainly one of the largest sheep companies in the country. This new work for the first time relates the life of Alex Swan, and offers a complete history of the Swan companies. Lawrence M. Woods has combed the surviving corporate records and other documents held in the United States and abroad. At the height of his financial life, Swan was said to be the richest man in Wyoming Territory, and his influence extended beyond business affairs to community service, both in Wyoming and in Iowa. Yet, after his dramatic financial collapse, there were many who ridiculed what he had done, and Swan’s silence has left those criticisms on the record, without rebuttal. Swan, a leader in the Wyoming Stock Growers Association from its founding in 1873, served as its second president. Promoting the use of Hereford cattle on the high plains, he was a force in the Wyoming ranching world, especially after his move to Cheyenne in 1874. Woods details Swan’s life in the years after his separation from the Scottish-controlled Swan Land and Cattle Company, especially his activities in Ogden, Utah. The Swan companies continued operation into the mid-twentieth century. John Clay played a major role in their operation, and he figures prominently in their story. Alex Swan and the Swan Companies is an important portrait of the inner workings of the western cattle industry and its leaders. The book has a bibliography, index, and three appendices. It is bound in rich brown linen cloth and has a foil stamped spine and front cover. Western Lands and Waters Series, XXII

Author : Edison Electric Light Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electric lighting
ISBN : IOWA:31858027128226

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Bulletin by Edison Electric Light Company Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063496223

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The Law Times Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WSULL:WSUK7J34QK0P

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Murphy v. Charlton, 118 MICH 141 (1898) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Timothy Schaffert
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698152724

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The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert Pdf

A lush and thrilling romantic fable about two lovers set against the scandalous burlesques, midnight séances, and aerial ballets of the 1898 Omaha World’s Fair. On the eve of the 1898 Omaha World’s Fair, Ferret Skerritt, ventriloquist by trade, con man by birth, isn’t quite sure how it will change him or his city. Omaha still has the marks of a filthy Wild West town, even as it attempts to achieve the grandeur and respectability of nearby Chicago. But when he crosses paths with the beautiful and enigmatic Cecily, his whole purpose shifts and the fair becomes the backdrop to their love affair. One of a traveling troupe of actors that has descended on the city, Cecily works in the Midway’s Chamber of Horrors, where she loses her head hourly on a guillotine playing Marie Antoinette. And after closing, she rushes off, clinging protectively to a mysterious carpetbag, never giving Ferret a second glance. But a moonlit ride on the swan gondola, a boat on the lagoon of the New White City, changes everything, and the fair’s magic begins to take its effect. From the critically acclaimed author of The Coffins of Little Hope, The Swan Gondola is a transporting read, reminiscent of Water for Elephants or The Night Circus.

Author : Laura McNeal
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781643756042

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The Swan's Nest by Laura McNeal Pdf

A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great 19th-century poets, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she secretly idolized but had never seen. “I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett,” Robert Browning wrote, “and I love you too.” Elizabeth Barrett was ecstatic. She was famous for her poetry but completely cut off from the kind of international travel that Browning used to fuel his obscure, unsuccessful, innovative poems, one of which was written from a murderer’s point of view. They began an affectionate correspondence, but Elizabeth kept delaying a visit. What would happen when he saw her in person? What was Robert really like? Could she persuade her father and brothers that he was honorable, even though she had never met his family? And what would happen if she gave in to Robert’s wild proposal that they go to Italy and see if the sun could cure her? McNeal brilliantly tells the story of how Robert and Elizabeth fell in love with each other’s words and shocked her conservative, close-knit family and the literary world. Sensitively and lyrically written, as rich as the lovers' own poetry, The Swan's Nest will sweep up readers in the triumphant story of two people forced to choose between a safe, stable life and the love they felt for each other.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2046 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103141776

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The Federal Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Includes cases argued and determined in the District Courts of the United States and, Mar./May 1880-Oct./Nov. 1912, the Circuit Courts of the United States; Sept./Dec. 1891-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Circuit Courts of Appeals of the United States; Aug./Oct. 1911-Jan./Feb. 1914, the Commerce Court of the United States; Sept./Oct. 1919-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Art
ISBN : UIUC:30112075869674

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The Illustrated Exhibitor and Magazine of Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Serinity Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190659707

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Women Who Fly by Serinity Young Pdf

From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, stories of flying women-some carried by wings, others by clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, and flying horses-reveal the perennial fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who Fly, Serinity Young examines the motif of the flying woman as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, in legends, myths, rituals, sacred narratives, and artistic productions. She considers supernatural women like the Valkyries of Norse legend, who transport men to immortality; winged deities like the Greek goddesses Iris and Nike; figures of terror like the Furies, witches, and succubi; airborne Christian mystics; and wayward, dangerous women like Lilith and Morgan le Fay. Looking beyond the supernatural, Young examines the modern mythology surrounding twentieth-century female aviators like Amelia Earhart and Hanna Reitsch. Throughout, Young demonstrates that female power has always been inextricably linked with female sexuality and that the desire to control it is a pervasive theme in these stories. This is vividly depicted, for example, in the twelfth-century Niebelungenlied, in which the proud warrior-queen Brünnhilde loses her great physical strength when she is tricked into surrendering her virginity. Even in the twentieth-century the same idea is reflected in the exploits of the comic book and film character Wonder Woman who, Young suggests, retains her physical strength only because her love for fellow aviator Steve Trevor goes unrequited. The first book to systematically chronicle the figure of the flying woman in myth, literature, art, and pop culture, Women Who Fly offers a fresh look at the ways in which women have both influenced and been understood by society and religious traditions throughout the ages and around the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electrical engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015048964285

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Electrical World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Narayana Pandit
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Panchtantra Tales by Narayana Pandit Pdf

The word ‘Panchatantra’ is a combination of two words, ‘Pancha’ (five) and ‘Tantra’ (practice/ principle). Panchantantra is ancient Indian fables, believed to have been composed in the 3rd century BC, by Pandit Vishnu Sharma.The purpose behind the composition was to implant moral values and governing skills in the young sons of the king. The Panchatantra is the best guide to enroot moral values in children since its each tale has a moral lesson in its end. The Panchtantra is a great book where plants and animals can speak and converse with human beings too.