Time S Fool

Author : Glyn Maxwell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 061825756X

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Time's Fool by Glyn Maxwell Pdf

Edmund Lea perpetually rides a ghost train -- except every seven years on Christmas Eve, when he is allowed to revisit his home town. Like Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Edmund is condemned to eternity alone until he determines how to lift the curse upon him. Time passes, from 1970 to 2019, but Edmund remains seventeen, unable to age and watching the world grow older. He tries in vain to break the spell by way of true love, repentance, hedonism; he tries to change the world and he tries to die. Characters move in and out of Maxwell's story like Dante's figures in Hell, but Edmund's own Virgil is a careless and unhelpful poet, a portrait of the author as a student. The tale is told in formal terza rima, but its language and tone, its humor and sense of homesickness, are decidedly contemporary. It is a brilliant achievement.

Author : Christopher Moore
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061974779

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Fool by Christopher Moore Pdf

“Hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters, and ministerial students.” —Dallas Morning News Fool—the bawdy and outrageous New York Times bestseller from the unstoppable Christopher Moore—is a hilarious new take on William Shakespeare’s King Lear…as seen through the eyes of the foolish liege’s clownish jester, Pocket. A rousing tale of “gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity,” Fool joins Moore’s own Lamb, Fluke, The Stupidest Angel, and You Suck! as modern masterworks of satiric wit and sublimely twisted genius, prompting Carl Hiassen to declare Christopher Moore “a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word.”

Author : Celia Rees
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780747597346

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The Fool's Girl by Celia Rees Pdf

Nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2011 Shakespeare in Love meets Twelfth Night - A gripping and evocative historical novel by bestselling Celia Rees

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001200147861

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The Expository Times by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Russo
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101946961

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Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, the Rust Belt town first brought to unforgettable life in Nobody’s Fool. Now, ten years later, Doug Raymer has become the chief of police and is tormented by the improbable death of his wife—not to mention his suspicion that he was a failure of a husband. Meanwhile, the irrepressible Sully has come into a small fortune, but is suddenly faced with a VA cardiologist’s estimate that he only has a year or two left to live. As Sully frantically works to keep the bad news from the important people in his life, we are reunited with his son and grandson . . . with Ruth, the married woman with whom he carried on for years . . . and with the hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren’t still best friends. Filled with humor, heart, and hard-luck characters you can’t help but love, Everybody’s Fool is a crowning achievement from one of the great storytellers of our time. Look for Everybody’s Fool, available now, and Somebody’s Fool, coming soon.

Author : Prof. Vikas Sharma
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789355990457

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Love's Not Time's Fool by Prof. Vikas Sharma Pdf

An effort has been made in Love's Not Time's Fool to inspire the readers to face social and economic problems without feeling tense. The author has attached due importance to the rights of women and attracts the attention of the rich people towards the problems of widows, orphans and helpless old people. The theme of love has been painted with the colours of false love. extra-marital affairs and flirtations for merely sexual satisfaction but then the depth of pure love for marriage has been proved victorious towards the end. Richa is bold enough to accept her club-footed son Amitabh and pays money regularly to Nora to take care of this child. She hides this fact from her husband Malya who gets injured playing cricket. As an impotent man he continues to work hard for footwear products and dies with another hit of baseball in U.S.A. Richa, a young widow, gets married with her loving employee Abhilash. The positive side of life has aptly been elaborated in this novel so as to encourage readers to have patience in adverse circumstances. The terrible effects of the pandemic have been described in details and hence the novel is a criticism of life.

Author : Bill Griffith
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781683354529

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Nobody's Fool by Bill Griffith Pdf

A graphic biography of the real-life sideshow performer who inspired Zippy the Pinhead: “An uplifting, wonderfully humane book.” —The New York Times From Coney Island and the Ringling Bros. Circus to small-town carnivals and big-city sideshows, Nobody’s Fool follows the long, legendary career of Schlitzie, today best known for his appearance in the cult classic film Freaks, the making of which is a centerpiece of the story. In researching Schlitzie’s life, Griffith has tracked down primary sources and archives throughout the country, conducting interviews with those who worked with him and had intimate knowledge of his personality, his likes and dislikes, how he responded to being a sideshow “freak,” and much more. This graphic biography provides never-before-revealed details of his life, offering a unique look into his world and contributions to popular culture, including the immortal phrase “Are we having fun yet?” “Virtuoso comic-strip artist Bill Griffith gives voice to a true outcast—the sideshow attraction born Simon Metz (probably) in the Bronx (probably) in 1901.” —The New York Times “The underlying message of Nobody’s Fool? I get it—underneath our grandiose opinions of ourselves we’re all pinheads and freaks . . . The best graphic novel of the year.” —R. Crumb “A captivating labor of love that integrates American sideshow history and autobiographical segments . . . an astonishing life, beautifully told. Or, as Schlitzie would say, it’s boffo!” —Booklist (starred review) “A masterpiece of absurdity and humanity. After all these years Schlitzie still triggers laughter and tears.” —Steve Heller, Print

Author : Mike Girard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 170536358X

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A Fool in Time by Mike Girard Pdf

In his last book, "Psycho Chicken & Other Foolish Tales," the author shared the sort of true story of his band; legendary Boston rockers The Fools. This time in a much more intimate and personal story, Mike reveals the secrets behind his previously only hinted at jaunts back in time as he encounters Bigfoot, explorers Lewis & Clark, Abe Lincoln, The Beatles, Ancient Aliens, cowboys and inexplicably The Lizard King himself Jim Morrison. Along the way, he learns more about himself than he ever bargained for including a harrowing trip back to World War II's Battle of the Bulge to save his time traveling mentor; risking life, limb and the threat of being trapped in the past forever.

Author : Robert Trivers
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465028054

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The Folly of Fools by Robert Trivers Pdf

Explores the author's theorized evolutionary basis for self-deception, which he says is tied to group conflict, courtship, neurophysiology, and immunology, but can be negated by awareness of it and its results.

Author : Charles Allix Wilkinson
Publisher : London, Hurst
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Germany Social life and customs
ISBN : PRNC:32101073844803

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Reminiscences of the Court and Times of King Ernest of Hanover by Charles Allix Wilkinson Pdf

Author : David Einhorn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470481547

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Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story, Updated with New Epilogue by David Einhorn Pdf

A revealing look at Wall Street, the financial media, and financial regulators by David Einhorn, the President of Greenlight Capital Could 2008's credit crisis have been minimized or even avoided? In 2002, David Einhorn-one of the country's top investors-was asked at a charity investment conference to share his best investment advice. Short sell Allied Capital. At the time, Allied was a leader in the private financing industry. Einhorn claimed Allied was using questionable accounting practices to prop itself up. Sound familiar? At the time of the original version of Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story the outcome of his advice was unknown. Now, the story is complete and we know Einhorn was right. In 2008, Einhorn advised the same conference to short sell Lehman Brothers. And had the market been more open to his warnings, yes, the market meltdown might have been avoided, or at least minimized. Details the gripping battle between Allied Capital and Einhorn's Greenlight Capital Illuminates how questionable company practices are maintained and, at times, even protected by Wall Street Describes the failings of investment banks, analysts, journalists, and government regulators Describes how many parts of the Allied Capital story were replayed in the debate over Lehman Brothers Fooling Some of the People All of the Time is an important call for effective government regulation, free speech, and fair play.

Author : Russell Baker
Publisher : Diversion Publishing Corp.
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781626813250

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The Good Times by Russell Baker Pdf

A “superb [and] often hilarious” memoir of a life in journalism, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Growing Up (The New York Times Book Review). “Baker here recalls his years at the Baltimore Sun, where, on ‘starvation wages,’ he worked on the police beat, as a rewrite man, feature writer and White House correspondent. Sent to London in 1953 to report on the coronation, he spent the happiest year of his life there as an innocent abroad. Moving to the New York Times and becoming a ‘two-fisted drinker,’ he covered the Senate and the national political campaigns of 1956 and 1960, and, just as he was becoming bored with routine reporting and the obligation to keep judgments out of his stories, was offered the opportunity to write his own op-ed page column, ‘The Observer.’ With its lively stories about journalists, Washington politicians and topical scandals, the book will delight Baker’s devotees—and significantly expand their already vast number.” —Publishers Weekly “Aspiring writers will chuckle over Baker’s first, horrible day on police beat, his panicked interview with Evelyn Waugh, and his arrival at Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in top hat, tails, and brown-bag lunch.” —Library Journal “A wonderful book.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : CORNELL:31924065973384

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The Tammany Times by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Napier Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11481258

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A history of the Scottish people from the earliest times by Thomas Napier Thomson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000000489486

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The Current by Anonim Pdf