Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Title | Dictionary of Phrase and Fable PDF eBook |
Author | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1112 |
Release | 1879 |
Genre | Allusions |
ISBN |
Bigotes' Temper
Title | Bigotes' Temper PDF eBook |
Author | Yaneth Nieto |
Publisher | |
Pages | 29 |
Release | 2019-05-05 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781096872733 |
The focus of this book is anger management and the importance of talking about feelings at a very young age. The story is about a cat with anger issues that get resolved as the story goes on. It has both English and Spanish in the same page. It is recommended for children ages 2- 7 years old. El enfoque de este libro es el manejo de el mal genio y la importancia de hablar sobre los sentimientos a una edad muy temprana. La historia trata sobre un gato con problemas de mal genio que se resuelven a medida que avanza la historia. Tiene tanto inglés como español en la misma página. Se recomienda para niños de 2 a 7 años.
Dictionary of phrase and fable. [A dictionary of English literature] by W.D. Adams, with additions
Title | Dictionary of phrase and fable. [A dictionary of English literature] by W.D. Adams, with additions PDF eBook |
Author | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1098 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Death and Life of Miguel De Cervantes: A Novel
Title | The Death and Life of Miguel De Cervantes: A Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Marlowe |
Publisher | Skyhorse |
Pages | 681 |
Release | 2012-02-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1628720018 |
This is the story of my death and life, in which fiction and that lesser truth, history, from time to time form a seamless whole. Speaking is the hero of Stephen Marlowe's brilliant new novel. He is Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: son of a barber-surgeon (always on the run from the bill collector), grandson of a converso(a Jew who chose Christianity over the flames of the Spanish Inquisition), adorer of his own sister (who may not have been his sister after all), brother of one of the most famous spies in recorded history (though the records have mysteriously vanished), prisoner in an Algerian dungeon (following capture by Barbary Pirates), friend to a Faustian eunuch astrologer named Cide Hamete Benegeli (whose missing private parts are miraculously regenerating), and, of course, creator of the most celebrated of all fictional historical novels--The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Handbook
Title | Handbook PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 728 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | National parks and reserves |
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Quivira
Title | Quivira PDF eBook |
Author | William Brandon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
New Mexico was a frontier to the wilderness, for Europeans, for almost three hundred years. No other frontier history in the area of what is now the United States can support such continuity, or even come close. It was the outside edge of the northern borderlands of New Spain, that later became the northern borderlands of Mexico. It was the western rim of the world for the French explorers and fur traders in the Mississippi valley and for the English who followed them there. It was lastly the frontier for the newly minted Americans who came with the opening of the nineteenth century to Missouri, the sill of the great plains, across which lay fabled Santa Fe, for Santa Fe, New Mexico's capital, was in effect another name for the entire province. The route between the Missouri River and New Mexico that eventually became known as the Santa Fe Trail was a road not for would-be settlers but for exploration, trade, adventure, and as such it was more an extension of the frontier itself than a road leading to a frontier. And it remained so throughout a very long sweep of time, from before -- from long before -- the founding of Santa Fe or the earliest Spanish exploration in the Southwest. Quivira provides a closely written synthesis of Spanish exploration eastward from New Mexico and French exploration westward from Louisiana and "the Illinois" in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Archaeological and ethnological evidence is presented to show that the country between these regions had been a frontier between east and west from time immemorial. William Brandon ably demonstrates that European efforts to penetrate this ancient frontier were predominately motivated by illusion -- misconceptions or outright fictions dealing with supposed riches someplace ahead. Brandon explores the question of whether the pursuit of illusion is a distinctive activity of all people or only of certain societies who possess an overwhelming interest in gain, profit, and money. Brandon concludes by asking whether or not a world established by Europe in American continues this bent for self-delusion.
Both Sides of the Border
Title | Both Sides of the Border PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Edward Abernethy |
Publisher | University of North Texas Press |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1574411845 |
Collection covers Remembering Our Ancestors, Folklore Tales and Memorabilia and Family Sagas from favorite storytellers like James Ward Lee, Thad Sitton, J. Frank Dobie, Jean Granberry Schnitz, and many more.