Milky Way Railroad
Author: Kenji Miyazawa
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1933330406
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A tender, timeless fable about afterlife from Japan's best-loved children's writer.
Author: Kenji Miyazawa
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1933330406
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A tender, timeless fable about afterlife from Japan's best-loved children's writer.
Author: Kenji Miyazawa
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780873328203
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Giovanni and his friend Campanella, who is dead from drowning, travel on a celestial railway which is a ferry of souls journeying to the afterlife.
Author: Kenji Miyazawa
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Published: 2014-01-16
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1935548999
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) is one of Japan's most beloved writers and poets, known particularly for his sensitive and symbolist children's fiction. This volume collects stories that focus on Miyazawa's love of space and his use of the galaxy as a metaphor for the concepts of purity, self-sacrifice, and faith, which were near and dear to his heart. "The Nighthawk Star" follows a lowly bird as he struggles to transform himself into something greater, a constellation in the night sky; "Signal & Signal-less" depicts a pair of star-crossed train signals who dream of eloping to the moon; and "Night on the Galactic Railroad," Miyazawa's most famous work, tells the story of two boys as they journey upon a train that traverses the Milky Way, learning the true meaning of friendship, happiness, and life itself along the way.
Author: Kenji Miyazawa
Publisher: Shelley Marshall
Published: 2015-08-14
Total Pages: 63
ISBN-13: 1959002015
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tonight, Giovanni's town celebrates the Milky Way galaxy. Giovanni can't join his friends but finds himself on a train traveling the Milky Way. His surprising encounters with people from his world and the other world teach him the importance of being happy and bringing happiness to others.
Author: Anne Billson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-12-16
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781978038745
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the budget version of CATS ON FILM, with black and white photos instead of colour ones. What is a Catguffin? Why should you be wary of a Catzilla? What is the difference between a Catagonist and a Heropuss? Who or what is a Modesty Cat, and why does The Third Man have such problems with kitten continuity? All these questions and many others are answered in CATS ON FILM, the definitive work of feline film scholarship, in which critic and novelist Anne Billson explores the many and varied narrative functions of cats by examining their appearances in one hundred films, from blockbusters to art films, foreign films to cult oddities, rom-coms to horror movies. Meet Clovis, Ulysses, Jezebel, Pyewacket, Pumpkin and a clowder of other celebrated film felines, learn how the White Cat of Evil launched his career as Blofeld's lapcat in the James Bond franchise, and thrill to My Day By Jones, in which the cat's eye view of Alien is finally revealed. CATS ON FILM. No cat-loving film fan can afford to be without it.
Author: Kenji Miyazawa
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2018-10-02
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1681372614
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kenji Miyazawa is one of modern Japan’s most beloved writers, a great poet and a strange and marvelous spinner of tales, whose sly, humorous, enchanting, and enigmatic stories bear a certain resemblance to those of his contemporary Robert Walser. John Bester’s selection and expert translation of Miyazawa’s short fiction reflects its full range from the joyful, innocent “Wildcat and the Acorns,” to the cautionary tale “The Restaurant of Many Orders,” to “The Earthgod and the Fox,” which starts out whimsically before taking a tragic turn. Miyazawa also had a deep connection to Japanese folklore and an intense love of the natural world. In “The Wild Pear,” what seem to be two slight nature sketches succeed in encapsulating some of the cruelty and compensations of life itself.
Author: 宮沢賢治
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9784061860315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This translation of one of Miyazawa Kenji's children's tales explores the relationship between the infinite and everyday life in Northern Japan through a galactic journey undertaken by the two young protagonists."--Publisher description.
Author: Mark Haddon
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Published: 2009-02-24
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 0307371565
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A bestselling modern classic—both poignant and funny—narrated by a fifteen year old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions. Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. At fifteen, Christopher’s carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbour’s dog Wellington impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing. Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer, and turns to his favourite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents’ marriage. As Christopher tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, the narrative draws readers into the workings of Christopher’s mind. And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon’s choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotions. The effect is dazzling, making for one of the freshest debut in years: a comedy, a tearjerker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read.
Author: Rachel Walker
Publisher: Flying Start Books
Published: 2020-12-07
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 1776544013
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Earth is one of eight planets in our Solar System, that circle around the Sun. Our Solar System is just one tiny part of The Milky Way. The Milky Way is the galaxy we live in. There are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe.