Florence & Leon

2018-09-04 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Simon Boulerice
Release : 2018-09-04
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 245/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Florence & Leon by : Simon Boulerice

Download or read book Florence & Leon written by Simon Boulerice. This book was released on 2018-09-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florence and Leon have never met. Florence is a swimming instructor. She has a small problem with her lungs: it's as if she's breathing through a straw. Leon is an insurance salesman. He has a small problem with his eyes: it's as if he's seeing the world through a straw. One day Florence and Leon bump into each other, literally, and this mishap turns their lives upside down. Over slushy drinks with proper straws, Florence and Leon find out how their differences make them alike.

The Complete Stories

2011-04-01 Fiction

Author : Bernard Malamud
Release : 2011-04-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 896/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Complete Stories written by Bernard Malamud. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Notable Book of the Year Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1997 With an Introduction by Robert Giroux, The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud is "an essential American book," Richard Stern declared in the Chicago Tribune when the collection was published in hardcover. His praise was echoed by other reviewers and by readers, who embraced the book as they might a displaced person in one of Malamud's stories, now returned to us, complete and fulfilled and recognized at last. The volume gathers together fifty-five stories, from "Armistice" (1940) to "Alma Redeemed" (1984), and including the immortal stories from The Magic Barrel and the vivid depictions of the unforgettable Fidelman. It is a varied and generous collection of great examples of the modern short story, which Malamud perfected, and an ideal introduction to the work of this great American writer.

The Family in Renaissance Florence

1994-10-10 History

Author : Leon Battista Alberti
Release : 1994-10-10
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 688/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Family in Renaissance Florence written by Leon Battista Alberti. This book was released on 1994-10-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of Italian literature! The chief merit of this work lies in its scope: it directly assays the personal value system of the Florentine bourgeois class, which did so much to foster the development of art, literature, and science. It displays a variety of high styleshigh rhetoric, systematic moral exposition, novelistic portrayal of characterin the typical Renaissance framework of the dialogue. The treatise, in its entirety, shows a Florentine paterfamilias and two uncles instructing some submissive nephews in the ethics of private life. Money and reputation are its primary themes. Book III, the most dramatic, far-ranging, and down-to-earth of the four books, does not present a single bourgeois outlook but, as a dialogue, expresses conflicting points of view, enabling students to relive social and moral conflicts that troubled early capitalist society.

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