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1933

Beyond Sing the Woods


Trygve Gulbranssen - 1933
    For the 2005 Norwegian edition, see: ISBN13: 9788203189081.The story of three generations of an old-lineage Norwegian family making their life in the northern woods (circa 1750's.) Main themes are the struggle between tradition and innovation, the prejudices of pastoral society, and a study in human nature and man's ability to make peace with it.

Dášeňka, čili život štěněte


Karel Čapek - 1933
    A naughty puppy's log book, followed by the fairy tales Capek told his puppy while trying to get her to sit still for photos, followed by the endearing photos.

My Life and Hard Times


James Thurber - 1933
    In My Life and Hard times, first published in 1933, he recounts the delightful chaos and frustrations of family, boyhood, youth, odd dogs, recalcitrant machinery, and the foibles of human nature.

Down and Out in Paris and London


George Orwell - 1933
    The Parisian episode is fascinating for its expose of the kitchens of posh French restaurants, where the narrator works at the bottom of the culinary echelon as dishwasher, or plongeur. In London, while waiting for a job, he experiences the world of tramps, street people, and free lodging houses. In the tales of both cities we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and of society.

The Street of Crocodiles


Bruno Schulz - 1933
    Most memorable - and most chilling - is the portrait of the author's father, a maddened shopkeeper who imports rare birds' eggs to hatch in his attic, who believes tailors' dummies should be treated like people, and whose obsessive fear of cockroaches causes him to resemble one. Bruno Schulz, a Polish Jew killed by the Nazis in 1942, is considered by many to have been the leading Polish writer between the two world wars.Bruno Schulz's untimely death at the hands of a Nazi stands as one of the great losses to modern literature. During his lifetime, his work found little critical regard, but word of his remarkable talents gradually won him an international readership. This volume brings together his complete fiction, including three short stories and his final surviving work, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. Illustrated with Schulz's original drawings, this edition beautifully showcases the distinctive surrealist vision of one of the twentieth century's most gifted and influential writers.

Testament of Youth


Vera Brittain - 1933
    Abandoning her studies at Oxford in 1915 to enlist as a nurse in the armed services, Brittain served in London, in Malta, and on the Western Front. By war's end she had lost virtually everyone she loved. Testament of Youth is both a record of what she lived through and an elegy for a vanished generation. Hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as a book that helped “both form and define the mood of its time,” it speaks to any generation that has been irrevocably changed by war.

The Mother


Pearl S. Buck - 1933
    Buck paints the portrait of a poor woman living in a remote village whose joys are few and hardships are many. As the ancient traditions, which she bases her philosophies upon, begin to collide with the new ideals of the communist era, this peasant woman must find a balance between them and deal with the consequences.

Business as Usual


Jane Oliver - 1933
    She decides to get a job and moves to London. With shades of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, this book will charm everyone with its evocative telling of life in a big store in 1930s London.

On the Nature of the Gods. Academics


Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1933
    In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches, delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political, before jurors if judicial, 58 survive (a few of them incompletely). In the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by others to him. These afford a revelation of the man all the more striking because most were not written for publication. Six rhetorical works survive and another in fragments. Philosophical works include seven extant major compositions and a number of others; and some lost. There is also poetry, some original, some as translations from the Greek.The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes.

The Gowk Storm


Nancy Brysson Morrison - 1933
    Like Chekov's famous play, and even more like the real-life Brontës whose story she told in another book, Morrison tells the story of three girls who were born to a minister and his wife in a remote Highland manse, nearly a hundred years ago. It is narrated by the youngest sister, Lisbet, who describes the love affairs of her older sisters, Julia and Emmy, each of whom falls in love with a man deemed an unacceptable match by their patriarchal, rigid and prejudiced society. These societal strictures are set against approaching womanhood, the growing awareness of a life beyond the safety of home, and the wild beauty of the surrounding countryside.

Library of History, Volume I: Books 1-2.34


Diodorus Siculus - 1933
    80-20 BCE, wrote forty books of world history, called "Library of History, " in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BCE); history to 54 BCE. Of this we have complete Books I-V (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks) and Books XI-XX (Greek history 480-302 BCE); and fragments of the rest. He was an uncritical compiler, but used good sources and reproduced them faithfully. He is valuable for details unrecorded elsewhere, and as evidence for works now lost, especially writings of Ephorus, Apollodorus, Agatharchides, Philistus, and Timaeus.The Loeb Classical Library edition of Diodorus Siculus is in twelve volumes.

Blavatsky and the Secret Doctrine


Max Heindel - 1933
    The problem is that the esteemed author, Madame Blavatsky used a prose and style that many contemporary readers would have trouble reading and understanding. The sheer size of the books is formidable. In addition the Secret Doctrine attempts to cover everything from the complete Cosmology of The Universe, God and the devil - just to name a few of the subjects. The third, also called Lost Volume of the work was published and mostly written by her disciple Annie Bessant, who naturally knew a great deal less than her Master.

Volume the First by Jane Austen: In Her Own Hand


Jane Austen - 1933
    Taking its name from the inscription on the cover, this brilliant little collection includes the stories, playlets, verses, and moral fragments she wrote likely from ages twelve to eighteen. The volume was produced for the enjoyment of her family and close friends—entertaining it was and is!Now it is available for all of us to see.As a young author, Jane Austen delighted in language, employing it with great humor and surprising skill. She was adept at parodying the popular stories of her day and entertained her readers with outrageous plotlines and characters. Kathryn Sutherland’s introduction places Austen’s earliest works in context and explains how she mimicked even the style and manner in which this contemporary popular fiction was presented and arranged on the page. The work of a young adult, Volume the First nevertheless reveals the development of the unmistakable voice and style that would mark her as one of the most popular authors of all time. None of her six famous novels survives in manuscript. This is a unique opportunity to own a likeness of Jane Austen’s hand in the form of a complete manuscript facsimile.

Anthony Adverse


Hervey Allen - 1933
    Conceived in France, born in an Alpine village, reared in a great house of Italy, Anthony never knew his parents, never had a name of his own. But he was born of passion and it filled his blood.Volume 1. The Roots of the Tree Volume 2. The Other Bronze BoyVolume 3. The Lonely Twin

Over the Garden Wall


Eleanor Farjeon - 1933
    A collection of poems for children, organized into four sections: Indoors, Out-of-Doors, The Nursery, and The Walled Garden.

Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin


Carl Darling Buck - 1933
    

The First Wife and Other Stories


Pearl S. Buck - 1933
    WalshOld and new:- The first wife- The old mother- The frill- The quarrel- Repatriated- The rainy dayRevolution:- Wang Lung- The communist- Father Andrea- The new roadFlood- Barren spring- The refugees- Fathers and mothers- The good river

Off to Arcady: Adventures in Poetry


Max J. Herzberg - 1933
    Subtitle: Edited With Introduction, Notes, and Study Suggestions

The Wooden Doctor


Margiad Evans - 1933
    From a childhood blighted by a violent, alcoholic father, Arabella grows into a passionate young woman, impatient of any restraints. Misunderstood by all around her, she craves the security and peace she associates with the Irish doctor, and develops a strange illness, like a fox inside her—biting and tearing her flesh. Her condition, it seems, is incurable.

American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick


Jane A. Delano - 1933
    It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Blakiston in 1913 in 284 pages; Subjects: Family & Relationships / Parenting / General; Health & Fitness / General; Medical / Nursing / General; Medical / Nursing / Home & Community Care; Medical / Public Health;

A Book of Medieval Latin for Schools (Education)


Helen Waddell - 1933
    

The Mother's Encyclopedia


Parents' Magazine - 1933
    First published in 1933.

Gulliver's Travels with The Battle of the Books & The Tale of the Tub


Jonathan Swift - 1933
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