Playing Beatie Bow

Playing Beatie Bow PDF Author: Ruth Park
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 0670076864
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
'Now then,' thought Abigail, 'something very weird has happened to me. I'm in the last century. I don't know why, and that doesn't matter. I've got to get back.' Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving that it cannot be left in the past. Rediscover the magic of our country's most memorable children's books in the Penguin Australia Children's Classics series of stories too precious to leave behind.

The Harp in the South

The Harp in the South PDF Author: Ruth Park
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780855946081
Category : Fiction in English, 1900- Texts
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description

A Fence Around The Cuckoo

A Fence Around The Cuckoo PDF Author: Ruth Park
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0857969978
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327

Book Description
Written as vividly as any of her novels, Ruth Park's autobiography is a moving, passionate, often funny account of the people and places which influenced her early years. Her isolated childhood in the rainforests of New Zealand fed her fertile imagination; her convent education encouraged her love of words and writing, and the bitter years of the Depression exposed her to poverty and injustice.

Fever Pitch

Fever Pitch PDF Author: Nick Hornby
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141926546
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
*WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR* Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby's million-copy-selling, award-winnning football classic 'A spanking 7-0 away win of a football book. . . inventive, honest, funny, heroic, charming' Independent For many people watching football is mere entertainment, to some it's more like a ritual; but to others, its highs and lows provide a narrative to life itself. But, for Nick Hornby, his devotion to the game has provided one of few constants in a life where the meaningful things - like growing up, leaving home and forming relationships, both parental and romantic - have rarely been as simple or as uncomplicated as his love for Arsenal. Brimming with wit and honesty, Fever Pitch, catches perfectly what it really means to be a football fan - and in doing so, what it means to be a man. 'Hornby has put his finger on truths that have been unspoken for generations' Irish Times 'Funny, wise and true' Roddy Doyle

King of Shadows

King of Shadows PDF Author: Susan Cooper
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689845782
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 5

Book Description
Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream in a new replica of the famous Globe theater. Shortly after arriving in England, Nat goes to bed ill and awakens transported back in time four hundred years -- to another London, and another production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Amid the bustle and excitement of an Elizabethan theatrical production, Nat finds the warm, nurturing father figure missing from his life -- in none other than William Shakespeare himself. Does Nat have to remain trapped in the past forever, or give up the friendship he's so longed for in his own time?

Junky

Junky PDF Author: William S. Burroughs
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802194052
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life. In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the 1950s into a work that reads like a field report from the underworld of post-war America. The Burroughs-like protagonist of the novel, Bill Lee, see-saws between periods of addiction and rehab, using a panoply of substances including heroin, cocaine, marijuana, paregoric (a weak tincture of opium) and goof balls (barbiturate), amongst others. For this definitive edition, renowned Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has gone back to archival typescripts to re-created the author's original text word by word. From the tenements of New York to the queer bars of New Orleans, Junky takes the reader into a world at once long-forgotten and still with us today. Burroughs’s first novel is a cult classic and a critical part of his oeuvre.

Playing Beatie Bow

Playing Beatie Bow PDF Author: Ruth Park
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780808561002
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby PDF Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Modernista
ISBN: 9180946127
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
Ranked 2nd [after James Joyce's Ulysses] on the Modern Library's list of "The 100 Best Novels" Ranked 46th on the French Le Monde's list of "The 100 Best Novels in the World” The Great Gatsby is the anthem of the Jazz Age, the decadent twenties' seminal work, and the ultimate novel about the American Dream. It doesn't matter how many times it's adapted into film. Or theater. Or opera. It's through F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterful prose that the story of the ruthless and extravagant Jay Gatsby, narrated by the honest Nick Carraway, continues to live on as the great American classic. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD [1896-1940] was an American author, born in St. Paul, Minnesota. His legendary marriage to Zelda Montgomery, along with their acquaintances with notable figures such as Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, and their lifestyle in 1920s Paris, has become iconic. A master of the short story genre, it is logical that his most famous novel is also his shortest: The Great Gatsby [1925].

Bluey: Easter

Bluey: Easter PDF Author: Bluey
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241569230
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
Celebrate Easter with Bluey! It's Easter and Bingo is worried the Easter bunny has forgotten about her and Bluey like last year. But when they wake up to a series of clues, Bluey and Bingo are led on an exciting Easter egg treasure hunt around the house! Join Bluey and Bingo on this fun adventure around the Heelers' home. Want more Bluey? Also available: Bluey: Fun and Games Colouring Book Bluey: Meet Bluey! Sticker Activity Book Bluey: Bluey and Friends Sticker Activity Book
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