1# Library to Find Best eBook for Read
Author : Willa Muir
Release : 1987
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Imagined Corners by : Willa Muir
Download or read book Imagined Corners written by Willa Muir. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Elizabeth Shand, newly married to the unstable but handsome Hector, finds herself in the social, intellectual and spiritual strait-jacket of small-town life early in the 20th century.
Author : Paul Binding
Release : 2003
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 403/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Imagined Corners by : Paul Binding
Download or read book Imagined Corners written by Paul Binding. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in Antwerp in 1570, the Theatrum orbis terrarum did something no previous book had done—it presented the world in all its component parts, offering the chance to see our planet as a place of staggering variety and ultimate unity. It was the world’s first atlas. Brainchild of Abraham Ortelius, the Theatrum reflected the enormous vitality of the era, the prevailing zest for exploration and discovery, and the linked activities of international commerce and mapmaking. Paul Binding has immersed himself in the Antwerp that produced Ortelius and his atlas, and he draws on a mass of letters, personal documents, maps, and pictures to bring it vividly to life. A masterly volume that stands as a tribute to the human need to impose order and reason on an all-too-turbulent world.
Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner
Release : 2019-09-10
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 882/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Corner That Held Them by : Sylvia Townsend Warner
Download or read book The Corner That Held Them written by Sylvia Townsend Warner. This book was released on 2019-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, and seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and with themselves. The book that emerges is a picture of a world run by women but also a story—stirring, disturbing, witty, utterly entrancing—of a community. What is the life of a community and how does it support, or constrain, a real humanity? How do we live through it and it through us? These are among the deep questions that lie behind this rare triumph of the novelist’s art.
Author : Ken D. Watson
Release : 1999
Genre : Poetry
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 937/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners by : Ken D. Watson
Download or read book At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners written by Ken D. Watson. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are a multicultural society. The 43 poets whose work is presented here come from cultures which have so richly contributed, through immigration, to Australia in the period since World War II: Italy, Greece, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, the Czech Republic. Included also are poets from Asia: from India, China, Vietnam. This new edition includes poets from several Middle Eastern countries and Turkey, bringing countries and cultures represented to 21. The range of Australian poets has been expanded to include additional Aboriginal poets, and poets born elsewhere and influenced by other cultures, now writing in Australia. We have also included a group of Australian poets strongly influenced by Asia. Poetry helps us understand the nuances of our diverse cultural heritage.
Author : Jennifer Egan
Release : 2014
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 226/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Best American Short Stories 2014 by : Jennifer Egan
Download or read book The Best American Short Stories 2014 written by Jennifer Egan. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
