Author: Sidney Sheldon
Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780614194937
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jean Craighead George
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1999-05-05
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 0060236280
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Each day as the sun makes its dawn-to-dusk journey from the Eastern seaboard to the Pacific coast, the animals perform their daily routines.
Author: Arnold Weinstein
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-02-15
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 0679604472
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From Homer and Shakespeare to Toni Morrison and Jonathan Safran Foer, major works of literature have a great deal to teach us about two of life’s most significant stages—growing up and growing old. Distinguised scholar Arnold Weinstein’s provocative and engaging new book, Morning, Noon, and Night, explores classic writing’s insights into coming-of-age and surrendering to time, and considers the impact of these revelations upon our lives. With wisdom, humor, and moving personal observations, Weinstein leads us to look deep inside ourselves and these great books, to see how we can use art as both mirror and guide. He offers incisive readings of seminal novels about childhood—Huck Finn’s empathy for the runaway slave Jim illuminates a child’s moral education; Catherine and Heathcliff’s struggle with obsessive passion in Wuthering Heights is hauntingly familiar to many young lovers; Dickens’s Pip, in Great Expectations, must grapple with a world that wishes him harm; and in Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical Persepolis, little Marjane faces a different kind of struggle—growing into adolescence as her country moves through the pain of the Iranian Revolution. In turn, great writers also ponder the lessons learned in life’s twilight years: both King Lear and Willy Loman suffer as their patriarchal authority collapses and death creeps up; Brecht’s Mother Courage displays the inspiring indomitability of an aging woman who has “borne every possible blow. . . but is still standing, still moving.” And older love can sometimes be funny (Rip Van Winkle conveniently sleeps right through his marriage) and sometimes tragic (as J. M. Coetzee’s David Lurie learns the hard way, in Disgrace). Tapping into the hearts and minds of memorable characters, from Sophocles’ Oedipus to Artie in Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Morning, Noon, and Night makes an eloquent and powerful case for the role of great literature as a knowing window into our lives and times. Its intelligence, passion, and genuine appreciation for the written word remind us just how crucial books are to the business of being human.
Author: Spalding Gray
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2000-09-30
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 0374527210
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In a hilarious new monologue about fatherhood, the author of "Swimming to Cambodia" tells the event-filled, trauma-driven, emotionally charged, and outrageously funny story of a day of his life in October 1997, after the birth of his son, Theo.
Author: Sidney Sheldon
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780006498063
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Who is the beautiful woman who appears out of the blue after Harry Stanford, one of the wealthiest men in the world, is mysteriously drowned in his yacht off the coast of Corsica? She claims to be his child--and entitled to her shar of the tycoon's estate--but is she genuine or just an imposter? National ads/media.
Author: Lisa Bullard
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9781404800458
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sam spends a typical day having breakfast with his family, jostling with his brothers for the bathroom sink, learning and having fun at school, playing with his friend Max, and heading for bed with his dog, Lucky.