The History Of Mr Polly

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Mr. Polly written by H. G. Wells and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The History of Mr. Polly" by H. G. Wells. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Mr. Polly Illustrated written by H. G. Wells and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Mr. Polly is a 1910 comic novel by H. G. Wells.The protagonist of The History of Mr. Polly is an antihero inspired by H. G. Wells's early experiences in the drapery trade: Alfred Polly, born circa 1870, a timid and directionless young man living in Edwardian England, who despite his own bumbling achieves contented serenity with little help from those around him. Mr. Polly's most striking characteristic is his "innate sense of epithet", which leads him to coin hilarious expressions like "the Shoveacious Cult" for "sunny young men of an abounding and elbowing energy" and "dejected angelosity" for the ornaments of Canterbury Cathedral.

Author : Herbert George Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tono-Bungay written by Herbert George Wells and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Polly Horvath
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
ISBN 13 : 0375898271
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. and Mrs. Bunny--Detectives Extraordinaire! written by Polly Horvath and published by Schwartz & Wade. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From National Book Award winner Polly Horvath comes a hopping mad mystery that's perfect for Easter baskets everywhere! In this hilarious chapter book mystery, meet a girl whose parents have been kidnapped by disreputable foxes, and a pair of detectives that also happen to be bunnies! When Madeline gets home from school one afternoon to discover that her parents have gone missing, she sets off to find them. So begins a once-in-a-lifetime adventure involving a cast of unforgettable characters. There's Mr. and Mrs. Bunny, who drive a smart car, wear fedoras, and hate marmots; the Marmot, who loves garlic bread and is a brilliant translator; and many others. Translated from the Rabbit by Newbery Honor-winning author Polly Horvath, and beautifully illustrated by Caldecott Medal winner Sophie Blackall, here is a book that kids will both laugh over and love. "National Book Award-winner Polly Horvath's latest, a rabbity romp complete with whimsical illustrations and a quirky cast of characters, has both the look and feel of a classic children's book," raves The Washington Post.

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0143122096
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Man of Parts written by David Lodge and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting novel about the remarkable life—and many loves—of author H. G. Wells H. G. Wells, author of The Time Machine and War of the Worlds, was one of the twentieth century's most prophetic and creative writers, a man who immersed himself in socialist politics and free love, whose meteoric rise to fame brought him into contact with the most important literary, intellectual, and political figures of his time, but who in later years felt increasingly ignored and disillusioned in his own utopian visions. Novelist and critic David Lodge has taken the compelling true story of Wells's life and transformed it into a witty and deeply moving narrative about a fascinating yet flawed man. Wells had sexual relations with innumerable women in his lifetime, but in 1944, as he finds himself dying, he returns to the memories of a select group of wives and mistresses, including the brilliant young student Amber Reeves and the gifted writer Rebecca West. As he reviews his professional, political, and romantic successes and failures, it is through his memories of these women that he comes to understand himself. Eloquent, sexy, and tender, the novel is an artfully composed portrait of Wells's astonishing life, with vivid glimpses of its turbulent historical background, by one of England's most respected and popular writers.

Author : Charlaine Harris
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101145064
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Touch of Dead written by Charlaine Harris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sookie Stackhouse short story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris. Together in one edition, five stories from Harris’s supernatural Louisiana town of Bon Temps, featuring telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse. In “Fairy Dust,” Sookie must use her talents to help fairies in danger. In “One Word Answer,” Sookie comes face to face with some unpleasant family secrets. Sookie gets an unexpected—though not unpleasant—present while celebrating the Prince of Darkness’s birthday in “Dracula Night.” Sookie’s witchy friend Amelia helps Sookie on a case in “Lucky.” And in “Giftwrap,” Sookie fights to overcome holiday blues until she has a surprising chance encounter.

Author : Adam Roberts
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030264211
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book H G Wells written by Adam Roberts and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-23 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first new complete literary biography of H G Wells for thirty years, and the first to encompass his entire career as a writer, from the science fiction of the 1890s through his fiction and non-fiction writing all the way up to his last publication in 1946. Adam Roberts provides a comprehensive reassessment of Wells’ importance as a novelist, short-story writer, a theorist of social prophecy and utopia, journalist and commentator, offering a nuanced portrait of the man who coined the phrases ‘atom bomb’, ‘League of Nations’ ‘the war to end war’ and ‘time machine’, who wrote the world’s first comprehensive global history and invented the idea of the tank. In these twenty-six chapters, Roberts covers the entirety of Wells’ life and discusses every book and short story he produced, delivering a complete vision of this enduring figure.

Author : Herbert George Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men Like Gods written by Herbert George Wells and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775410536
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Mr. Polly written by H. G. Wells and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. G. Wells' comic 1910 novel, The History of Mr. Polly, stars Alfred Polly, a timid man who is more successful at daydreaming than working in the local draper's shops. He marries a woman he's not really in love with, despite being in love with another, and together they attempt to create a success of their own shop while slowly making one another miserable. But on the night of a fire everything changes in Mr. Polly's life.

Author : Claire Tomalin
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0241974852
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Young H.G. Wells written by Claire Tomalin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction? From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to educate himself at any cost, to the serious ill health that dominated his twenties and thirties, his complicated marriages, and love affair with socialism, the first forty years of H. G. Wells' extraordinary life would set him on a path to become one of the world's most influential writers. The sudden success of The Time Machine and The War of The Worlds transformed his life and catapulted him to international fame; he became the writer who most inspired Orwell and countless others, and predicted men walking on the moon seventy years before it happened. In this remarkable, empathetic biography, Claire Tomalin paints a fascinating portrait of a man like no other, driven by curiosity and desiring reform, a socialist and a futurist whose new and imaginative worlds continue to inspire today. 'The finest of biographers' Hilary Mantel 'A most intelligent and sympathetic biographer' Daily Telegraph 'One of the best biographers of her generation' Guardian