The Life And Death Of A Brave Bull

Author : Maia Wojciechowska
Publisher : Harcourt Childrens Books
ISBN 13 : 9780152452001
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Death of a Brave Bull written by Maia Wojciechowska and published by Harcourt Childrens Books. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The confrontation between a matador and a bull climaxes a lifetime of courage and pride for both.

Author : Valerie Hemingway
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345467345
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Running with the Bulls written by Valerie Hemingway and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2005-11-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chance encounter in Spain in 1959 brought young Irish reporter Valerie Danby-Smith face to face with Ernest Hemingway. The interview was awkward and brief, but before it ended something had clicked into place. For the next two years, Valerie devoted her life to Hemingway and his wife, Mary, traveling with them through beloved old haunts in Spain and France and living with them during the tumultuous final months in Cuba. In name a personal secretary, but in reality a confidante and sharer of the great man’s secrets and sorrows, Valerie literally came of age in the company of one of the greatest literary lions of the twentieth century. Five years after his death, Valerie became a Hemingway herself when she married the writer’s estranged son Gregory. Now, at last, she tells the story of the incredible years she spent with this extravagantly talented and tragically doomed family. In prose of brilliant clarity and stinging candor, Valerie evokes the magic and the pathos of Papa Hemingway’s last years. Swept up in the wild revelry that always exploded around Hemingway, Valerie found herself dancing in the streets of Pamplona, cheering bullfighters at Valencia, careening around hairpin turns in Provence, and savoring the panorama of Paris from her attic room in the Ritz. But it was only when Hemingway threatened to commit suicide if she left that she realized how troubled the aging writer was–and how dependent he had become on her. In Cuba, Valerie spent idyllic days and nights typing the final draft of A Moveable Feast, even as Castro’s revolution closed in. After Hemingway shot himself, Valerie returned to Cuba with his widow, Mary, to sort through thousands of manuscript pages and smuggle out priceless works of art. It was at Ernest’s funeral that Valerie, then a researcher for Newsweek, met Hemingway’s son Gregory–and again a chance encounter drastically altered the course of her life. Their twenty-one-year marriage finally unraveled as Valerie helplessly watched her husband succumb to the demons that had plagued him since childhood. From lunches with Orson Welles to midnight serenades by mysterious troubadours, from a rooftop encounter with Castro to numbing hospital vigils, Valerie Hemingway played an intimate, indispensable role in the lives of two generations of Hemingways. This memoir, by turns luminous, enthralling, and devastating, is the account of what she enjoyed, and what she endured, during her astonishing years of living as a Hemingway.

Author : Maia Wojciechowska
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1626365938
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Kingdom in a Horse written by Maia Wojciechowska and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Lee is twelve years old and disappointed in his father Earl, a once-famous rodeo clown who has quit the circuit and moved David to a small town in Vermont to start a new life. David has a hard time adjusting to life as a “normal” boy and is hurt that his father never allowed him the chance to be his partner in the rodeo arena. When Earl tries to buy David a horse at auction, David pretends to have no interest in it, and the horse is sold, instead, to a seventy-year-old woman named Sarah Tierney. Sarah, grief-stricken at the death of her husband, tries to ?nd solace in her new horse, Gypsy, but she needs help from Earl and David to learn how to care for her. As the three of them spend more and more time with Gypsy, they all become entranced—in their own ways—by the horse and begin to learn more and more about themselves. A heartfelt story, this middle-reader novel is a must read for any girl or boy interested in nature and horses. Ages 9-12.

Author : Tom Lea
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292747333
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brave Bulls written by Tom Lea and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2002-05-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Texas's true renaissance men, Tom Lea (1907-2001) was already a noted artist, muralist, and book illustrator when he published his first novel, The Brave Bulls, in 1949. This suspenseful story of bullfighting in Mexico, elegantly illustrated by the author, spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was hailed by Time magazine as the best first novel of the year. It also won the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, went through numerous reprints and translations, and became a 1951 movie starring Mel Ferrer and Anthony Quinn.

Author : Harrison Mujica-Jenkins
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557015863
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ninth Hour written by Harrison Mujica-Jenkins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-10-03 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ninth hour is the hour in which the sun possesses us and we abandon ourselves to its burning, blinding flame to think with a light so bright. At noon we come out of Plato's cave and stare into the sun: the unknown gazing into the unknown. These writings do not owe anything to the philosophical sun, the good sun of Plato that erases all differences, the good sun of enlightened reason that is oblivious to the knowledge of the "madman." They are writings born beyond the sun, on the "rotten" side of the sun, unprotected by the shadow of logic; writings come out of darkness, of the spiritual umbra of he who stares directly at the sun. And, more specifically, writings begotten out of the spiritual nigrescence of whom writes at the ninth hour, at high noon.

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Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Illustrated Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1786 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1974 with total page 1786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349036501
Total Pages : 1555 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writers Directory written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-05 with total page 1555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Petersen
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781555662875
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Barbarian written by David Petersen and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconoclast, activist, philosopher, and spiritual father of the environmental movement, the author of The Monkeywrench Gang was also an avid journal keeper. Here Abbey's longtime friend David Petersen showcases the best of these journals, complete with Abbey's philosophical musings, notes, character sketches, and illustrations.

Author : Robert A. Nowlan
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147662058X
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film Quotations written by Robert A. Nowlan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain lines define a movie. Marlene Dietrich in Morocco: “Anyone who has faith in me is a sucker.” Too, there are lines that fit actor and character. Mae West in I’m No Angel: “I’m very quick in a slow way.” Jane Fonda in California Suite: “Fit? You think I look fit? What an awful shit you are. I look gorgeous.” From the classics to the grade–B slasher movies, over 11,000 quotes are arranged by over 900 subjects, like accidents, double entendres, eyes (and other body parts!), ice cream, luggage, parasites, and ugliness. Each quote gives the movie title, production company, year of release, speaker of the line, and, when appropriate, a comment putting the quote in context.