Waiting For Gertrude

Author : Bill Richardson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466866119

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Waiting for Gertrude by Bill Richardson Pdf

In Paris's Pere-Lachaise cemetery lie the bones of many renowned departed. It is also home to a large number of stray cats. Now, what if by some strange twist of fate, the souls of the famous were reborn in the cats with their personalities intact? There's Maria Callas, a willful and imperious diva, wailing late into the night. Earthy, bawdy chanteuse Edith Piaf is a foul-mouthed washerwoman. Oscar Wilde is hopelessly in love with Jim Morrison, who sadly does not return his affections. Frederic Chopin is as melancholic and deeply contemplative as ever, and in honor of the tradition of leaving love letters at his tomb, he is now the cemetery's postmaster general. Last but not least, Marcel Proust is trying to solve the mystery behind some unusual thefts - someone has stolen Rossini's glass eye and Sarah Bernhardt's leg. Told in a series of amusing set pieces and intercepted letters, this is a delicious tale of intrigue, unrequited love, longstanding quarrels, character assassinations, petty spats, and sorcery that builds to a steady climax at the cats' annual Christmas pageant.

Author : Bill Richardson
Publisher : Saint Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0312991983

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Waiting for Gertrude by Bill Richardson Pdf

Author : Kirsten Osbourne
Publisher : Unlimited Dreams Publishing
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Gertrude by Kirsten Osbourne Pdf

Gertrude Sanders is completely devoted to her family and her job as the librarian of the Nowhere, Texas library. When a man starts parking his book wagon outside the library, she makes it her business to force him to leave town. It doesn’t take her long to discover that most of the people in town are happier to go to the book wagon than go to the library. Jed Thorn owns a traveling book wagon, and he’s happy to keep traveling, not settling down anywhere. The first time he sees Gertrude, he’s certain that she’s the woman who God created just for him. He loves everything about her from her prickly personality to her animosity toward him. Will Jed be able to convince Gertrude they’re meant to be together? Or will he be forced to move on…without her.

Author : Win Wells
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : France
ISBN : 0573690359

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Gertrude Stein and a Companion by Win Wells Pdf

"The play begins just after the death of Gertrude Stein. Her ghost returns to Alice B. Toklas and the genesis and development of their relationship is richly portrayed. Mr. Wells has truly captured the feeling, art, music and literature of Paris of those years, when Pablo and Ernest and Henri and all of Gertrude's friends spent their free time in the great writer's salon. This play is a director's dream. It flits back and forth in time as the actors play not only Gertrude and Alice but a host of famous people who were part of their lives."--Publisher's website.

Author : Elizabeth Ashurst Biggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V001486071

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Waiting for Tidings by Elizabeth Ashurst Biggs Pdf

Author : Katie Booth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501167119

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The Invention of Miracles by Katie Booth Pdf

"An astonishingly revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell, telling the true-and troubling-story of the inventor of the telephone. We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that's not how he saw his own career. Bell was an elocution teacher by profession. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach the deaf to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his teaching work; the telephone had its origins as a speech reading machine. And yet by the end of his life, despite his best efforts-or perhaps, more accurately, because of them-Bell had become the American Deaf community's most powerful enemy. The Invention of Miracles recounts an extraordinary piece of forgotten history. Weaving together a moving love story with a fascinating tale of innovation, it follows the complicated tragedy of a brilliant young man who set about stamping out what he saw as a dangerous language: Sign. The book offers a heartbreaking look at how heroes can become villains and how good intentions are, unfortunately, nowhere near enough-as well as a powerful account of the dawn of a civil rights movement and the triumphant tale of how the Deaf community reclaimed their once-forbidden language. Katie Booth has been researching this story for over a decade, poring over Bell's papers, Library of Congress archives, and the records of deaf schools around America. But she's also lived with this story for her entire life. Witnessing the damaging impact of Bell's legacy on her family would set her on a path that upturned everything she thought she knew about language, power, deafness, and the telephone"--

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Penny Candy Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Families
ISBN : 0999658492

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Little Called Pauline by Gertrude Stein Pdf

Jump into extreme language play with A Little Called Pauline where young readers will experience Gertrude Stein's playful, mysterious language for the very first time--and delight in a girl named Pauline who lives by the sea with her mom.

Author : Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101003656756

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The Rejected Bride by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015006998291

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Gertrude by Elizabeth Missing Sewell Pdf

Author : Ellen Ross (formerly Brook.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000550510

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Gertrude Winn; Or, Our Nation's Curse: how it Works in Homes: a Story from Real Life by Ellen Ross (formerly Brook.) Pdf

Author : afterwards ROSS BROOK (Ellen)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017444810

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Gertrude Winn; or, Our nation's curse: how it works in homes. A story from real life by afterwards ROSS BROOK (Ellen) Pdf

Author : Margaret Craven
Publisher : Dell
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1983-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780440300748

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Again Calls the Owl by Margaret Craven Pdf

“A rich memoir . . . a woman of sensitivity, forthrightness, warmth, and talent.”—Booklist To become a writer, she chose loneliness. To write a bestseller, she embraced a rugged land. Deceptively simple in style, stunning in its implications, this gem of an autobiography carries readers back to the beginning of the century when Margaret Craven—one a handful of women at Stanford and a groundbreaking woman journalist—made the audacious decision not to work for a living, but to work as a writer. Here Margaret Craven brings vividly to life an idyllic childhood which suddenly vanishes; advice from a red-robed Gertrude Stein propped up in bed; a nearly tragic battle with blindness; and a fateful trip to a magnificently wild Pacific Northwest, a town called Kingcome . . . and her emergence, at sixty-nine, as a women who realized a dream. Praise for Again Calls the Owl “A writer of compassion, humor, spirit, and persistence.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Readers will find in this small memoir courage, joy, inspiration.”—Library Journal “An unabashed joy for living.”—Santa Barbara News-Press

Author : Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600055144

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Gertrude, by the author of 'Amy Herbert', ed. by W. Sewell by Elizabeth Missing Sewell Pdf

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520248069

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Gertrude Stein by Gertrude Stein Pdf

"One of the best introductions to Gertrude Stein's work I've ever read. Joan Retallack's research is thorough and impressive, and she has done an outstanding job of assembling a valuable and interesting collection of Stein's writings."—Hank Lazer, author of Lyric & Spirit “This exquisitely edited volume of Gertrude Stein's writings is far more informative than the usual 'selected works.' Out of the immense opus that Stein produced over a long and prolific career, Joan Retallack has chosen telling pieces, so as to show both the extraordinary thematic, generic, and stylistic variety, and the coherence of her life's work. Meanwhile, Retallack's delightful and informative introduction can stand on its own as a luminous contribution to our understanding of Gertrude Stein's work and her place in literary history. The fascinating documents that end the book can be regarded as the sweet at the end of a fully satisfying and memorable experience. This is an essential book for both new and long-term discoverers of the wonder of Gertrude Stein's writings.”—Lyn Hejinian, author of The Language of Inquiry “Retallack's illuminating introduction is a vital contribution to our knowledge of Stein, revelatory of such issues as racism while viewing Stein's presence on the page and in the ear as performative play that creates a sensual apprehension of a new time (a perception of the activity of happiness). The selections and introduction demonstrate how Stein changed reading and perceiving.”—Leslie Scalapino, author of It's go in horizontal

Author : Bernard Harper Friedman
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Art patrons
ISBN : UOM:39015058014021

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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney by Bernard Harper Friedman Pdf