Tale of a Plain Man
Title | Tale of a Plain Man PDF eBook |
Author | Alexis Stone |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0271045213 |
The Plain Man and His Wife
Title | The Plain Man and His Wife PDF eBook |
Author | Arnold Bennett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Conduct of life |
ISBN |
Plainsong
Title | Plainsong PDF eBook |
Author | Kent Haruf |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2001-04-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0375726934 |
National Book Award Finalist A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together—their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition.
The Story of the Glittering Plain, which Has Been Also Called, The Land of Living Men, Or, The Acre of the Undying
Title | The Story of the Glittering Plain, which Has Been Also Called, The Land of Living Men, Or, The Acre of the Undying PDF eBook |
Author | William Morris |
Publisher | |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Plain, Honest Men
Title | Plain, Honest Men PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Beeman |
Publisher | Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Pages | 546 |
Release | 2010-02-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0812976843 |
In May 1787, in an atmosphere of crisis, delegates met in Philadelphia to design a radically new form of government. Distinguished historian Richard Beeman captures as never before the dynamic of the debate and the characters of the men who labored that historic summer. Virtually all of the issues in dispute—the extent of presidential power, the nature of federalism, and, most explosive of all, the role of slavery—have continued to provoke conflict throughout our nation's history. This unprecedented book takes readers behind the scenes to show how the world's most enduring constitution was forged through conflict, compromise, and fragile consensus. As Gouverneur Morris, delegate of Pennsylvania, noted: "While some have boasted it as a work from Heaven, others have given it a less righteous origin. I have many reasons to believe that it is the work of plain, honest men."
A Darkling Plain
Title | A Darkling Plain PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Reeve |
Publisher | Scholastic UK |
Pages | 615 |
Release | 2011-06-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1407129155 |
The shattering final instalment of Philip Reeve's Predator Cities quartet flings you back into his blasted world of predator cities, ruinous wars and terrifying Stalkers. Abandoned by Hester, Tom and Wren stumble across the wreckage of a vast traction city: London. As the Green Storm take arms and the truce with the Traction Cities splinters, the world is on a collision course - beginning and ending in London's ruined shell. As everything Tom and Hester know and love hurtles towards apocalypse, who will be left to tell the tale? Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2007, this epic finale is fast-moving, thrilling, heartbreaking - and as exciting as hell!
The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories
Title | The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Etgar Keret |
Publisher | Riverhead Books |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2015-10-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 159463324X |
Originally published in 2004 by Toby Press.