From Place to Place - formato ePub

Dr. Woods Hutchinson says that fat people are happier than other people. How does Dr. Woods Hutchinson know? Did he ever have to leave the two top buttons of his vest unfastened on account of his extra...

Read in the light of WW2, this book is chilling. Cobb joined the staff of the magazine Saturday Evening Post during 1911, and covered the Great War for the magazine. At the same time, he wrote a book...

Okay, let’s confront the elephant in the room and get this out of the way so we can talk about Irvin S. Cobb, J. Exodus Poindexter, and this remarkable book. The title, J. Poindexter, Colored, is politically...

“There was a house in this town where always by night lights burned. In one of its rooms many lights burned; in each of the other rooms at least one light. It stood on Clay Street, on a treeless plot...

Felix Looms, the well-known author, disappeared - or, rather, he went away - on or about June fifteenth, four years ago. He told his friends, his landlady and his publisher - he had no immediate family...

What is enclosed between these covers was written as a series of first hand impressions during the fall and early winter of 1914 while the writer was on staff service for The Saturday Evening Post in...

Cobb is remembered best for his humorous stories of Kentucky and is part of the American literary regionalism school. These stories were collected first in the book Old Judge Priest (1915), whose title...

“Cobb is a marvelous writer. The section about his travels in the Grand Canyon needs to be read by every person who likes both travel and humor, because it's hysterically funny. Cobb comes across in some...

American humorist and newspaper columnist for The Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan, Cobb is best known for his Judge Priest stories. Contents: The Lord Provides; A Blending of the Parables; Judge...

Mr. Cobb's commentary on traveling in Europe as an American around the turn of the previous century gives an interesting sense of the era, and is always at least mildly amusing. But the real joy of this...

A classic work of fiction featuring Judge Priest, dramatic and compelling, using a wealthy of precisely rendered detail to evoke a powerful mood. Cobb joined the staff of the magazine Saturday Evening...

“It had been a successful party, most successful. Mrs. Carroway's parties always were successes, but this one nearing its conclusion stood out notably from a long and unbroken Carrowayian record. It had...

A classic late 19th-century US detective story! Cobb is remembered best for his humorous stories of Kentucky and is part of the American literary regionalism school. These stories were collected first...

Cobb is remembered best for his humorous stories of Kentucky and is part of the American literary regionalism school. These stories were collected first in the book Old Judge Priest (1915), whose title...

The famous book of wartime culinary memoirs by Irvin S. Cobb. Cobb joined the staff of the magazine Saturday Evening Post during 1911, and covered the Great War for the magazine. At the same time, he...

Cobb is remembered best for his humorous stories of Kentucky and is part of the American literary regionalism school. These stories were collected first in the book Old Judge Priest (1915), whose title...

A spicy small-town, brother’s best friend, sports romance “packed with sizzling tension, heat, and sweet, swoon-worthy moments” (Peyton Corinne, author of TikTok sensation Unsteady) between a college...

Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome,...

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES 'Clavell never puts a foot wrong . . . Get it, read it, you'll enjoy it mightily' DAILY MIRRORThis is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne,...

"The Demoiselle d'Ys" by Robert W. Chambers is a chilling tale of the supernatural, woven into the haunting atmosphere of France. The story follows the narrator as he becomes enchanted—and disturbed—by...

Little Women or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Written and published in two parts in 1868 and 1869, the novel follows the lives of four sisters — Meg,...

And then it started, little by little it started, until they were married five years later and his real life began.'Exquisite ... A super-abundantly gifted, big-hearted novelist.' Ian McEwan'A writer...

THE INSPIRATION FOR HBO AND SKY TV’S EMMY NOMINATED HOUSE OF THE DRAGON. Centuries before A Game of Thrones, an even greater game began, one that set the skies alight with dragon...

Metamorphosis is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa who wakes one morning to...

Emma is a novel written by Jane Austen. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey, and involves the relationships among...

"Listen to themthe children of the night. What music they make!"A Timeless Tale of Gothic Horror Awaits YouDracula, written by Bram Stoker and first published in 1897, is a masterpiece of Victorian gothic...

DCI Matilda Darke is back. And it might be her most personal case yet. ‘Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths FIVE PERFECT MURDERS...

'⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ This book needs to be pre-ordered right now! It was such a great story''⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Oh my days! I absolutely LOVED this book from the first page''⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ I loved this book so much that I didn't...

Friday Night Dinner and Timewaster Letters creator Robert Popper's new book of brilliantly funny letters, from Britain's oldest letter writer.'Ridiculous, hilarious and sweet' GREG DAVIES'One of Britain's...

Following her 2021 bestselling memoir Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her comes the laugh out loud follow-up Hexy B*tch.'My life's changed a lot since This Country came out. Among all the amazing times...

For the baby-faced dictator in your life, a guide to throwing shindigs that go off like an intercontinental ballistic missile. 안녕하세요! Please express profound gratitude to Revered Marshall Kim Jong-un,...

'I remain in unchanged admiration for this bold, headstrong, carefree undertaking, a first novel published when the author was twenty-five, which proved to be the first prose masterpiece in Russian' Julian...

'There's no single answer that will solve all our future problems.There's no magic bullet.Instead there are thousands of answers - at least.You can be one of them if you choose to be'***Honest and wise...

Sharpen your claws and use the power of deduction to solve 75 feline felonies.From Dr Gareth Moore and Laura Jayne Ayres, Britain's leading puzzle-writing duo, comes Meowdle - a collection of 75 original...

From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark, satirical parable about a string of mysterious high school disappearances, the seedy underbellies of billionaires, and the tough choices we make...

'Anyone who wants to understand contemporary Germany must read The Granddaughter now' Le Monde 'The great novel of German reunification' Le Figaro 'A masterpiece' Maurice SzafranMay, 1964. At a youth...

Dis//Integration, a previously unpublished work by William Melvin Kelley, author of A Different Drummer, is a notable and welcome addition to African American literature.The linked "2 novelas, 3 stories,...

'Kristin Harmel is firmly in the top echelon of WW2 storytellers' HEATHER MORRIS'A master storyteller' SANTA MONTEFIORESome secrets echo through timeEmily Emerson has recently lost her job and is looking...

'Warm, joyful and full of heart. The perfect feel-good Christmas rom com with characters I didn't want to leave behind' LAURA KAY'I was reading this on the grass in a literal summer heatwave, and it still...

A street robbery in Oxford ends with the fatal injury of the victim. Less than twenty four hours later, when the police investigation already appears to be on the verge of a successful conclusion, Superintendent...

'Barrowbeck casts a real spell - or is it a curse?' Mail on SundayFor centuries, the inhabitants of Barrowbeck, a remote valley on the Yorkshire-Lancashire border, have lived uneasily with forces beyond...

'Delicate and devastating . . . a brilliant novel'INDEPENDENT'Disruptive and graceful beyond anything I've read'SARAH HALL, author of Burntcoat'Absolutely essential . . . gently and startlingly beautiful'JENN...

Adam is your typical shy guy in school, with no thoughts towards romance outside of his daydreaming. However, that all changes one day, when he gets saved by an unlikely hero: Eve. Eve is one of the more...

Bambi by American author Marjorie Benton Cooke is a classic book of romance and comedy first published in 1914.A celebrated American novel classic, filled with humor, wit, and charm, about a young woman...

WINNER OF THE 2024 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVELWINNER OF THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVELWINNER OF THE 2024 BARRY BEST FIRST MYSTERY OR CRIME NOVEL AWARDWINNER OF...

Chance brings together Nina Thomas and elderly Laura Chadwick just at the time when Laura is in need of a friend to help with an interfering family member. Their growing bond is one thing that Nina will...