In The Land Of Larks And Heroes

Author : Thomas Keneally
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504038061
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bring Larks and Heroes written by Thomas Keneally and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a remote British penal colony in the late eighteenth century, Bring Larks and Heroes explores the early years of European settlement of desperate men and corrupt soldiers to Australia, the world’s end. Corporal Phelim Halloran, an honest man, poet and lover, attempts to make a home for himself while confronting the demands of his secret bride, a convict-artist, his Irish comrades, and his own conscience. Can he overcome the hellish, sun-parched landscape to believe in something greater than his own existence?

Author : Geordie Williamson
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921961236
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning Library written by Geordie Williamson and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alarmed by the increasingly marginal status of Australian literature in the academy, Williamson has set out to reintroduce us to those key writers whose works we may have forgotten or missed altogether. His focus is on fiction that gives pleasure, and he is ardent in defence of books that for whatever reason sit uneasily in the present moment.

Author : Melvin B. Voorhees
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839743026
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Show Me A Hero written by Melvin B. Voorhees and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy” is the quotation from F. Scott Fitzgerald that supplies the poignantly appropriate title to this novel. The hero is a three-star general in field command of the U.S. Army in Korea. He is a magnificent hero—brave, profoundly patriotic, professionally skillful, intensely human. His tragedy is double-barreled: his position requires him to fight a containing war when he believes that he should fight a war to win; and his personal life is closing in defeat because his wife and son cannot share his devotion to the Army. But the book is far more than the personal tragedy of General Lark Logan. It gives a panoramic and detailed picture of a modern army action. It traces the peculiar and often humorous experiences of enlisted men; it presents the details of a grimly conscientious court martial; it follows the working press and the working espionage systems of both sides; it affords a touching picture of a brave and deeply religious superannuated chaplain. Each of the individual stories is interrelated in a fine and highly skilled mosaic of narrative that keeps the reader turning pages to see what happens next—and that always satisfies him with the solution of each dramatic situation as it develops. In the end, one is exalted by the fine picture of devoted Americans in action—Americans who, with all their blatancy and occasional commercial cynicism, live the sort of lives and perform the sort of actions which have made America great and must continue to do so.

Author : E. Nesbit
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241983495
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lark written by E. Nesbit and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A charming and brilliantly entertaining novel... shot through with the light-hearted Nesbit touch' Penelope Lively, from the introduction "When did two girls of our age have such a chance as we've got - to have a lark entirely on our own? No chaperone, no rules, no..." "No present income or future prospects," said Lucilla. It's 1919 and Jane and her cousin Lucilla leave school to find that their guardian has gambled away their money, leaving them with only a small cottage in the English countryside. In an attempt to earn their living, the orphaned cousins embark on a series of misadventures - cutting flowers from their front garden and selling them to passers-by, inviting paying guests who disappear without paying - all the while endeavouring to stave off the attentions of male admirers, in a bid to secure their independence. 'To come upon any Nesbit today, hitherto unread... is like receiving a letter from a friend whom you have believed dead' New York Times 'A wry, charming delight of a book' The Pool

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395345306
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Song of the Lark written by Willa Cather and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1983 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of a young woman's awakening as an artist and her struggle to escape the constraints of a small town in Colorado.

Author : Annie F. Johnston
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Colonel's Hero written by Annie F. Johnston and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Little Colonel's Hero" by Annie F. Johnston. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Annie Fellows Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Colonel's Hero written by Annie Fellows Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Lark
Publisher : Amazon Crossing
ISBN 13 : 9781612184265
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Land of the Long White Cloud written by Sarah Lark and published by Amazon Crossing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Davenport, governess for a wealthy London household, spots an advertisement seeking young women to marry New Zealand's honorable bachelors and begins correspondence with a gentleman farmer. When her church offers to pay her travels under an unusual arrangement, she jumps at the opportunity. On the ship, she meets Gwyneira Silkham, traveling to meet a New Zealand baron who won her in a game of blackjack. When their new husbands turn out to be very different than expected, the women must help one another find the life they'd hoped for.

Author : Rachelle Saltzman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526130653
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A lark for the sake of their country written by Rachelle Saltzman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lark for the sake of their country tells the tale of the upper and middle-class ‘volunteers’ in the 1926 General Strike in Great Britain. With behaviour derived from their play traditions - the larks, rags, fancy dress parties, and treasure hunts that prevailed at universities and country houses - the volunteers transformed a potential workers’ revolution into festive public display of Englishness. Decades later, collective folk memories about this event continue to define national identity. Based on correspondence and interviews with volunteers and strikers, as well as contemporary newspapers and magazines, novels, diaries, plays, and memoirs, this book recreates the context for the volunteers’ actions. It explores how the upper classes used the strike to assert their ideological right to define Britishness as well as how scholars, novelists, playwrights, diarists, museum curators, local historians, and even a theme restaurant, have continued to recycle the strike to define British identity.

Author : Barbara L. Estrin
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838750759
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Raven and the Lark written by Barbara L. Estrin and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lost child plot, which appears in the work of virtually every major author of the English Renaissance, is examined in this study of a wide variety of the literature of that period.