Author: Jerry A
Publisher: Voyageur Pre
Keywords: country, humor
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-03-10
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0760325510
ISBN-13: 9780760325513
Life during the early to middle twentieth century is often viewed as a time of backbreaking work for meager returns. Often, the strength and resiliency of family and neighbors is overlooked. Through stories based on childhood memories, master storyteller Jerry Apps gives us insights into the lighter side of country life.
Author: Edward E. Hale
Publisher: Duff Pre
Keywords: country, man
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2009-05-13
List price: $26.45
ISBN-10: 1444636650
ISBN-13: 9781444636659
PREFACE: This story was written in the summer of 1863. It was meant for the Americans of that day. It has since been introduced as a reading book in schools, and it is largely used in celebrations, especially on the patriotic anniversaries. It came into existence about the time when General Grant was entering Vicksburg, which he had been besieging for many months; and when nearly one hundred thousand men in the Northern army fought with nearly the same number in the Southern Army at Gettysburg.... Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900’s and before, are no
Author: J. M. Coetzee
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: novel, country, heart
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1982-10-28
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0140062289
ISBN-13: 9780140062281
A novel set in colonial South Africa, where a lonely sheepfarmer makes a bid for private salvation in the arms of a black concubine, while his daughter dreams of and executes a bloody revenge. From the author of DUSKLANDS and WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS.
Author: Lin Yutang
Publisher: Hesperides Press
Keywords: people, country
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $43.45
ISBN-10: 1443723770
ISBN-13: 9781443723770
MY COUNTRY AND MY PEOPLEby LIN YUTANGINTRODUCTION In this atmosphere of change, the present intellectual youth of China has grown up. Where the fathers imbibed the doctrine of Confucius and learned the classics and revolted against them, these young people have been battered by many forces of the new times. They have been taught something of science, something of Christianity, something of atheism, something of free love, something of communism, something of Western philosophy, something of modern militarism, something, in fact, of everything. In the midst of the sturdy medievalism of the mass
Author: Lin Yutang
Publisher: Hesperides Press
Keywords: people, country
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2006-11-12
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 1406724459
ISBN-13: 9781406724455
MY COUNTRY AND MY PEOPLEby LIN YUTANGINTRODUCTION In this atmosphere of change, the present intellectual youth of China has grown up. Where the fathers imbibed the doctrine of Confucius and learned the classics and revolted against them, these young people have been battered by many forces of the new times. They have been taught something of science, something of Christianity, something of atheism, something of free love, something of communism, something of Western philosophy, something of modern militarism, something, in fact, of everything. In the midst of the sturdy medievalism of the mass
Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: country
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1992-12-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0679744711
ISBN-13: 9780679744719
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In a small set of friends, Baldwin imbues the best and worst intentions of liberal America in the early 1970s.
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Publisher: teNeues
Keywords: country, houses, luxury
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2005-09-15
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 3832790616
ISBN-13: 9783832790615
Luxury Houses Country Cristina Paredes 220 pp., Hardcover with jacket 272 color photographs Format: 10 x 12 7/8 in. Living in the country means enjoying peace and calm far away from urban stress. The country retreats we create for ourselves reflect this difference. A measure of the value we place on our rural sanctuaries is the attention paid to every aspect of their design and construction. Today’s rural retreats are far more luxurious, with a greater emphasis on rich and exceptional materials. Yet these dwellings are still quite different from their counterparts in the city. The
