The Robber

Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547544375
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Robber Bridegroom written by Eudora Welty and published by HMH. This book was released on 1978-11-08 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes a classic fairy tale and turns it into a novel set along the eighteenth-century frontier of the Natchez Trace. In the clammy forests of Louisiana, somewhere between New Orleans and the muddy Mississippi River, the berry-stained bandit of the woods, Jamie Lockhart, saves the life of a gullible planter. In reward, Jamie is given shelter—only to kidnap the planter’s lovely young daughter, Rosamund. It’s an impulsive act that will have far-reaching consequences, and will set in motion a series of fantastic, murderous, and flamboyantly uncivilized romantic adventures. With legendary figures of Mississippi’s past—including notorious riverboatman Mike Fink and the thrill-killing Harp brothers—mingling side-by-side with characters from legendary fairy tales and the author’s own imagination, The Robber Bridegroom in an exuberant cocktail of fantasy, folklore and history along the treacherous Natchez Trace. The basis of the popular musical that has run both on and off Broadway, The Robber Bridegroom is “a modern fairy tale, where irony and humor, outright nonsense, deep wisdom and surrealistic extravaganzas becomes a poetic unity through the power of a pure exquisite style” (The New York Times). “As sly and irresistible as anything in Candide. For all her wild, rich fancy, Welty writes prose that is as disciplined as it is beautiful.” —The New Yorker

Author : Franny Billingsley
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536206938
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Robber Girl written by Franny Billingsley and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part literary mystery, part magical tour de force—an incantatory novel of fierce beauty, lyricism, and originality from a National Book Award Finalist A brilliant puzzle of a book from the author of Chime and The Folk Keeper plunges us into the vulnerable psyche of one of the most memorable unreliable narrators to grace the page in decades. The Robber Girl has a good dagger. Its voice in her head is as sharp as its two edges that taper down to a point. Today, the Robber Girl and her dagger will ride with Gentleman Jack into the Indigo Heart to claim the gold that’s rightfully his. But instead of gold, the Robber Girl finds a dollhouse cottage with doorknobs the size of apple seeds. She finds two dolls who give her three tasks, even though she knows that three is too many tasks. The right number of tasks is two, like Grandmother gave to Gentleman Jack: Fetch unto me the mountain’s gold, to build our city fair. Fetch unto me the wingless bird, and I shall make you my heir. The Robber Girl finds what might be a home, but to fight is easier than to trust when you’re a mystery even to yourself and you’re torn between loyalty and love. The Robber Girl is at once achingly real—wise to the nuances of trauma—and loaded with magic, action, and intrigue. Every sentence shines, sharp as a blade, in a beautifully crafted novel about memory, identity, and the power of language to heal and reconstruct our lives.

Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803298095
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Robber written by Robert Walser and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Robber, Robert Walser?s last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons, flirts with important politicians, plays maidservant to young boys, and uses a passerby?s mouth as an ashtray. Walser?s novel spoofs the stiff-upper-lipped European petit bourgeois and its nervous reactions to whatever threatens the stability of its worldview.

Author : Otfried Preussler
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590179625
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Robber Hotzenplotz written by Otfried Preussler and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Robber Hotzenplotz is a merry tale of two scoundrels, two friends, a toad-fairy, and an unforgettable escapade. The Robber Hotzenplotz works hard at his job, waking early to hide in the woods and waylay new victims. One morning Kasperl’s grandmother is sitting in the sun outside her house, grinding coffee in her new musical coffee mill—a birthday gift from Kasperl and his best friend Seppel—when suddenly Hotzenplotz, attracted by the music, leaps out to steal the mill. Sergeant Dimplemoser hears Grandmother’s cries and comes to her aid, but Hotzenplotz has evaded the useless police for years. So Kasperl and Seppel vow to catch the robber themselves. But catching robbers is not as easy as all that ... Kasperl and Seppel soon discover that even the best-laid plans can be foiled, especially when Hotzenplotz enlists the help of his wicked magician friend Petrosilius Zackleman, a gluttonous villain with a weakness for fried potatoes.

Author : George Payne Rainsford James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Robber written by George Payne Rainsford James and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Burton W. Folsom
Publisher : Young Americas Foundation
ISBN 13 : 0963020315
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the Robber Barons written by Burton W. Folsom and published by Young Americas Foundation. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his book The Myth of the Robber Barons, Folsom distinguishes between political entrepreneurs who ran inefficient businesses supported by government favors, and market entrepreneurs who succeeded by providing better and lower-cost products or services, usually while facing vigorous competition.

Author : James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Robber: a Tale written by James and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. Laurence
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412234719
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Robber's Dog written by D. Laurence and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Laurence was born the son of a British diplomat and as such he enjoyed the high life on various overseas postings during his early years. Having spent the first 13 years of his life living in various British Embassies around the world, protected by diplomatic immunity, the world was supposed to be his oyster Having successfully passed his common entrance exam into one of the most respected schools in the country at 13 years of age, by 24 he found himself within the confines of the violent and often drug infested world of the British penal system, rubbing shoulders with some of the most notorious figures in the London underworld. Fifteen years later he was to face the ultimate legal nightmare. This time caught between the defense and prosecution where he had to fight not only for his own future but also that of his children, in a case that was to set a legal precedent. What follows is a harrowing insight into one man's personal voyage of discovery, in order to gain custody and control over his 2 beloved children. We follow the journey from it's origins in East Africa through the jungles of South America and onto the deserts of Saudi Arabia, before fi nally arriving at the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand/London - where personal triumph would mean eternal happiness..... but failure would mean the ultimate sacrifice.

Author : J. H. Hanson
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Northfield Tragedy; or, the Robber's Raid written by J. H. Hanson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Northfield Tragedy, or the Robber's Raid is a book by James Hobbs Hanson. It describes the extraordinary and dangerous effort to rob a bank at Northfield, Minnesota, along with the murder of a cashier.

Author : Michael Jacobs
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1847085903
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Robber of Memories written by Michael Jacobs and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running through the heart of Colombia is a river emblematic of the fascination and tragedy of South America, the Magdalena. Considered by some to be the most dangerous place in the world, travellers along the river - for centuries the only route into the vast South American interior - were at the mercy of tropical disease, dangerous animals and precarious barges. A third of the victims of 'la violencia', Colombia's period of civil conflict which began in the 1950s, ended up in its waters. Townships alongside it have experienced some of the worst massacres in South American history. In 2011, Michael Jacobs travelled its whole length to the river's source high up in Andean moorlands controlled by guerrillas. In spellbinding prose, he charts the dangers he negotiated - including a terrifying three day encounter with the FARC - while uncovering the river's history of pioneering explorations, environmental decline and political violence. As Jacobs delves into the history of destruction and decay along the river, he also makes a deeply personal exploration into memory and its loss: not far from the river's banks lies a group of townships with the highest incidence of early onset Alzheimer's in the world. Jacobs reflects on the lives of his father, and his mother - sufferers respectively from Alzheimer's and dementia - as he travels upstream towards what comes to seem like a heartland of mystery, magic and darkness.