Old Man of the Sea

Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Sho...

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Daftary traces the origins and early development of the legends of the Assassins of Northern Iran and Syria - as well as investigating the historic...

Reducere. "What I want you to do, " said Mr. George Wright, as he leaned towards the old sailor, "is to be an uncle to me." "Aye, aye, " said the mystified M...

Paddy Cole, affectionately known as The King of The Swingers, has taken his style of Jazz, Dixieland and Swing band music all over the world - and ...

Classic / British English Sindbad the Sailor went to sea seven times and his voyages were always dangerous. He met giant men, snakes and birds, and...

Reducere. Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The ...

Reducere. In The Grand Old Man of Baseball, Norman L. Macht chronicles Connie Mack's tumultuous final two decades in baseball. After Mack had built one of ba...

The Old Man and the Sea, an apparently simple fable, represents the mature Hemingway at his best. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature soo...

The Old Man and the SeaSet in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a g...

Reducere. A Study Guide for Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea, " excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide inclu...

Reducere. Unmasks the tough, street-smart persona of Charles Bukowski--America's "Ultimate Outsider" Amazing letters filled with passionate, literary, and pe...

Three ancient story cycles of Inuit culture made available as poetry: Sedna the Sea Goddess, Kiviuq the Hunter, and The Old Woman Who Changed Herse...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the year 778 A.D., Charles the Great, King of the Franks, returned from a military expedition into Spain, whither he had been led by ...

Reducere. "An Old Man and His Penguin holds a number of important messages about human/animal relationships, love, oil slicks and their impact on sea life, a...

Reducere. Outsider and Adventurer Daniel Richter has remained true to his characteristic outsider and adventurer theme in his latest paint-ings. At centre of...

Reducere. Assassins ( Hashashin; from Assassiyun: "those faithful to the foundation"), is the name used to refer to the medieval Nizari Ismailis. Often chara...

Reducere. Christmas under the sea is a very special time of year! Music and good cheer fill the waters, and young sea creatures all over snuggle into bed hop...

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Reducere. A seventeen-year-old taken from her mother at birth; an Episcopal priest with a daughter whose face he cannot bear to see; a mother weary of search...

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Reducere. The resourcefulness of Granite Staters in their efforts to innovate and improvise is the reason for this incredible and intriguing cast of true sto...

Reducere. The resourcefulness of Granite Staters in their efforts to innovate and improvise is the reason for this incredible and intriguing cast of true sto...

Reducere. A Shocking Bible Discovery found in the Dead Sea Scrolls! After forty years of research in the Biblical text, this book came about while studying B...

During much of his early career, from 1944 through to the early 1960s, Richard Hardy took hundreds of pictures of life on the railways and the men ...

Soon after Sally Lockhart's father drowns at sea, she receives an anonymous letter. The dire warning it contains makes a man die of fear at her fee...

Dark, menacing forms attack an old man on the beach, leaving him for dead, then return to the water. Sadie struggles to comprehend what she has jus...

Reducere. When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this book offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanat...

The dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology takes place in the late 1960s. Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a si...

'You're beautiful, ' Johnny told her and so, full of hope, seventeen-year-old Felicia crosses the Irish Sea to England to find her lover and tell h...

Reducere. Connie Mack (1862-1956) was the Grand Old Man of baseball and one of the game's first true celebrities. This book, spanning the first fifty-two yea...

Reducere. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea tells the classic story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus as seen from the point of view of Professo...

The first Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea 1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command . ....

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Reducere. This beautifully illustrated storybook tells the tale of an old man who embarks on a journey at sea. While on his voyage, he encounters a mighty st...

Reducere. With its inspired counterpointing of Homeric and Caribbean themes, Derek Walcott's new play, commissioned by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, s...

Marooned on a sandbank, a boy faces certain death. With the sea closing in and the current about to drag him to a watery grave, his final wish is t...

Why is the old sailor so terrified of the blind man? What is hidden inside his mysterious sea chest? What lies behind his cruel, drunken songs? Thi...

DescriptionA cornerstone of modern western philosophy, addressing the role of man in government, society and religion In 1651, Hobbes published his...

Reducere. Guilt, secrets, and lies haunt two men whose lives are bound by a long-ago tragedy in this "riveting" novel by the author of The Sea, The Sea (Los ...

Reducere. Mafeking Road is the first published collection of Herman Charles Bosman's Oom Schalk Lourens stories. This edition contains the original and unabr...

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Reducere. DescriptionHe suddenly looks different, less bent, less old, less broken, what a strange man. Is there some magic here? Is he a wizard? Old man . ....

"Sons of Atreus, " he cried, "and all other Achaeans, may the gods who dwell in Olympus grant you to sack the city of Priam, and to reach your home...

Harriet, Jake and Mathew are enjoying a holiday fishing trip when suddenly a strange mist descends and surrounds their boat. As it clears, the thre...

At a language school on the Pacific Ocean, 18-year-old Sylvia falls in love with a devastating young Saudi man named Malik. After obtaining two col...

Reducere. Set in Jazz Age San Diego against the backdrop of yellow journalism, notorious Hollywood scandals, Prohibition corruption and a lively culture war,...

MALTA 1941. The war has created a soldier-saluting adventure for eleven-year-old Joe Zarb, until a telegram arrives with news of papa, Victor. 1961...

Reducere. DescriptionThe hysterical, clever, and unforgettable sequel to Jonas Jonasson's international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out o...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Linda GreenlawTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER--NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK Known to millions of readers of The Perfect Storm a...

I am the sonof manI am the onemade of clayI was driven by the callin my chestto see the seaI was driven by its saltcalling the salt in me If I was ...

Reducere. Drowned Country is the the stunning sequel to Silver in the Wood, Emily Tesh's lush, folkloric debut. This second volume of the Greenhollow duology...

Reducere. From a New York Times-bestselling author: An island off the Georgia coast holds the memory of a broken heart and the secrets of a woman's past. It'...

Reducere. According to the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the man Yakub lived 6, 600 years ago in the holy land of the east. He lived to be 150 ...

"A bittersweetmodern love storythat] reads as easily as a novel." --VogueHemingway'screative influences for novels like The Sun Also Rises, A Farew...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the FoxTales edition of the book previously published by Samhain Publishing. Other than the cover art and description, the book ...

Reducere. Not a man to dwell on the past, Stone Barrington has no choice but to rattle old skeletons when the people closest to him start dying, and he has l...

Reducere. Thomas Kydd was promoted to acting lieutenant at the bloody Battle of Camperdown in October 1797. Now, he must sit an examination to confirm his ra...

Reducere. ENGLAND, SUMMER 1940. Following a brush with death on the Irish Sea, ten-year-old K fer Avigdor unexpectedly finds himself back in London. There, h...

An isolated cottage on the rugged coastline of North Devon is the home of Joe, a 12-year-old boy, his mum, and his two younger sisters. The propert...

Reducere. First published in 1970, nine years after Ernest Hemingway's death, Islands in the Stream is the story of an artist and adventurer -- a man much li...

Reducere. Fall in love with a USA Today bestselling author's unforgettable summer beach read of sisterly bonds, first love, and second chances--perfect for f...

Reducere. A beautifully told and intriguing mystery about two generations of Scottish women united by blood, an obsession with the past, and a long-hidden bo...

Reducere. The war with France ended in 1818 and Captain Adam Bolitho is given command of the newly commissioned frigate Onward, He is sent to North Africa on...

Reducere. In the year 2514, the only thing more dangerous than the seas is those who sail them. Life aboard the mercenary ship Man o' War is rarely dull as h...

Reducere. Soon after taking part in the dramatic capture of Martinique in the Caribbean, Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho is next despatched to the African c...

Stel Caine faces the greatest challenge to her hope yet. Meanwhile, Tajo returns to her family home on Salus, only to find a city on the brink of d...

Reducere. CD: 1 Red Roses For Me (1984) 1. Transmetropolitan 2. The Battle Of Brisbane 3. The Auld Lang Triangle 4. Waxie's Dargle 5. Boys From The County He...

Reducere. DescriptionFriendship and magical realism sparkle on the page in this heartwarming, delightfully eccentric illustrated middle-grade gem from an ext...

Reducere. After a sailing ship breaks up on the rocks off Washington's storm-tossed Cape Flattery, Nathan McAllister, the fourteen-year-old son of the lighth...