"A Happy Boy" was written in 1859 and 1860. It is, in my estimation, Bjornson's best story of peasant life. In it the author has succeeded in drawing the characters with remarkable distinctness, while his profound psychological insight, his perfec......
It was eight o'clock in the morning - the time when the officers, the local officials, and the visitors usually took their morning dip in the sea after the hot, stifling night, and then went into the pavilion to drink...
This is the story of a bad boy. Well, not such a very bad, but a pretty bad boy; and I ought to know, for I am, or rather I was, that boy myself. Lest the title should mislead the...
In the dark main room of the Fircone Tavern the warm June air seemed to have lost all its delicacy, like a degraded angel. It was sodden through and through, as with the lees of wine; it was stained and...
The Revolution reached our parish years ago, and Drumtochty has a School Board, with a chairman and a clerk, besides a treasurer and an officer. Young Hillocks, who had two years in a lawyer's office, is clerk, and summons meetings...
When one of the leading publicists in America, Dr. Albert Shaw of the Review of Reviews, after reading the manuscript of Part I of this volume, characterized the author as "The Robinson Crusoe of the Twentieth Century," he touched the...
"Dr. Mickey On Atkins - The Mijas-Diet" (a Mediterranean Diet) is a diet health eBook. It is easy reading. It is not technical. It is a very different type of diet book because (1) it "comments" and "features" seven diet...
These strong birds of prey have long been a symbol of wisdom. This book examines several species of owls and explores how the birds unusual talons and softly feathered wings make them such superb hunters.Author: Miller, Sara SwanPublisher: Pow......
These proud birds have captured the imaginations of millions. This interesting volume introduces young readers to several different species of eagles, offers information about aeries and eaglets, and describes efforts to save the worldÂs eagles.......
Rhode Island was settled by Massachusetts colonists seeking greater religious freedom. Follow the colony from these beginnings to the uniting of settlements to form Rhode Island in this book. The role of General Nathanael Greene and the Battle of ......
Poppers are among the new wave of inhalant drugs that can be disguised as household products (including leather cleaners and room deodorizers) making them easy to conceal and purchase. Known as a party drug, poppers are attractive to young people...
The story of Hillary Rodham Clinton in many ways parallels the story of the United States in the latter half of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century. As part of the baby boom generation, she came of...
The largest seaborne invasion in history began on June 6, 1944, with overnight parachute and glider landings, massive air attacks and naval bombardments, and an early morning amphibious assault on the beaches of Normandy, France. For two months th......
If you have ever dreamed of having a longer, larger, firmer, fuller penis, you owe it to yourself to learn about this easy, natural way to penis enlargement. This proven, step-by-step program is your drug-free and surgery-free way to a...
Written in 1903 by one of the first women Doctors. Her views are still salient now. KAREZZA, elucidating a theory of conjugal life, in which there is a love communion between husband and wife from which results a mastery of...
At about 9 o'clock on the morning, soon after sending her three children off to school, Helen List sat in the kitchen drinking a cup of coffee. She was still in her nightgown and slippers. John came up behind her...
Blood Moon is about passion, betrayal, and murder among the very rich and powerful, some of whom happen to be gay. It's about the false gods of power, wealth, and physical beauty. It's an epic tale about depravity in the...
Naturalized bioethics represents a revolutionary change in how health care ethics is practised. It calls for bioethicists to give up their dependence on utilitarianism and other ideal moral theories and instead to move toward a self-reflexive, soc......
The period leading up to the Revolutions of 1848 was a seminal moment in the history of political thought, demarcating the ideological currents and defining the problems of freedom and social cohesion which are among the key issues of modern...