Best of
English-Literature

2004

Toki Pona: The Language of Good


Sonja Lang - 2004
    If you are hungry, you 'want eat'. To teach is to 'give knowledge'.Training your mind to think in Toki Pona can lead to deeper insights. The micro-language filters out the noise of our excess thoughts and points to the centre of things.

Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest


P.G. Wodehouse - 2004
    A friend of Bertie's Aunt Agatha, Lady Malvern requests that Wilmot stay with Bertie for a couple of weeks whilst she is away in America. Whilst not perfectly happy with the idea, Bertie agrees, to find that the seemingly mild-mannered Wilmot may have a wilder side, especially when it comes to alcohol! And as ever, trusty valet Jeeves is quietly and staunchly on the scene, working fastidiously to keep everything on an even keel, and of course, to try to persuade Bertie not to make his rotten fashion mistakes.

Wilfred Owen


Wilfred Owen - 2004
    Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by leading poets and biographers of our present day.Dying at twenty-five, a week before the end of the First World War, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) has come to represent a generation of young men sacrificed - as it seems to the next generation, one in unprecedented rebellion against its fathers - by guilty old men: generals, politicians, profiteers. Owen has now taken his place in literary history as perhaps the first, certainly the quintessential, war poet.

That's Not My Car...


Fiona Watt - 2004
    Babies love the best-selling That's not my… books with their bold illustrations, patches to stroke, and a mouse to spot on every page, all designed to develop sensory and language awareness.

The Prisoner of Chillon


Lord Byron - 2004
    Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Five Great Science Fiction Novels


H.G. Wells - 2004
    G. Wells: The First Men in the Moon, The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau,and The War of the Worlds. Five remarkably prescient works by the "father" of modern science fiction include The First Men in the Moon, a 1901 novel about lunar life; The Invisible Man, the story of a scientist whose experiments take a terrifying turn; The Time Machine, a journey into the future; The Island of Dr. Moreau, the exploits of a mad surgeon; and The War of the Worlds, a grippingly realistic tale of hostile invaders from Mars.

Poems of Solitude


Emily Brontë - 2004
    Despite the isolation of Haworth, the small Yorkshire village where she was raised, Emily Brontë manages to transcend her surroundings to give the universal themes of love, time, and death a thoroughly new and fascinating interpretation. Penned for her own consolation, and as a kind of shorthand of her soul, these poems—most of which were unpublished in her lifetime—reveal the depth and scope of her vision. Emily Brontë is the author of Wuthering Heights, one of the most popular romances of all time.

Suomalaiset: People of the Marsh


Mark Munger - 2004
    A love story. A story of the labor movement. A story of immigration.

Impressions of an Indian Childhood


Zitkála-Šá - 2004
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Collected Later Poems


R.S. Thomas - 2004
    Thomas (1913-2000) is one of the major poets of our time, as well as one of the finest religious poets in the English language and possibly Wales's greatest poet. This gathering of his late poems shows us the final flowering of a truly great poet still writing at the height of his powers in his 70s and 80s.

Out of Nowhere: A History of the Military Sniper


Martin Pegler - 2004
    Despite the proven effectiveness of the rifleman in battle, the sniper in the 20th century has been regarded as little more than a paid assassin, whose life if captured was forfeit. However, since the Vietnam War the undeniably effective use of such men in combat means that the value of the sniper has gradually become more appreciated by the military, and their prominence on the modern battlefield has increased significantly. In the 21st century they are now regarded as one of the most vital battlefield specialists.Illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photographs, this is a chronological study of snipers, detailing their evolution, training, weaponry and actions. There are also unique contributions from the men and women whose skill and extraordinary courage have made them the most greatly feared specialist in warfare.From the Foreword by Harry Furness, decorated Sniper-Sergeant, British Army Wold War IIWe will always need to deploy our new age warrior, that highly trained specialist, the military sniper....Factual books on snipers are few and far between, so I find it refreshing and timely that this new book has been published which will provide the reader with the true facts about these unique soldiers; and readers of this excellent, deeply researched book will now be more knowledgeable about a rarely discussed subject. You have to dig deep to bypass the many half truths in order to reach any conclusion as to why manking continues to wage wars that kill off the cream of our young society, but it might be said that if it is the fate of a soldier to die in battle, then a sniper's swift killing bullet must be preferable to dying from devastating wounds.Chapter Heads The sniper in perspective. The rifleman emerges 1500-1854. The American Civil War and European wars 1854-1914. The First World War, the watershed 1914-16. The First World War, the fight back 1916-18. Russian sniping 1936-45. The German sniper and the war with Russia 1941-45. The war against Japan 1941-45. The war in Western Europe 1940-45. Limited wars 1945-85. Vietnam, America's nemesis. Into the 21st century.

Three Great Novels: The Next Accident / The Survivor's Club / The Killing Hour


Lisa Gardner - 2004
    He knew all about his daughter's problems with alcohol and about her loneliness. And so, he is sure, did the man who killed her... THE SURVIVORS CLUB: Three women band together to survive a horrific crime. The rapist left an indelible mark on all their lives and now each must live with the consequences. But when he's murdered on his way to trial, the police find all three women had reason to want him dead. But which one killed him? THE KILLING HOUR: For three summers, the residents of Atlanta have been gripped by terror when the temperature creeps up to a hundred. For with the relentless heat comes a vicious killer. Every time he takes two girls. Each time he leaves the first body to be discovered, with all the clues investigators need to find the second girl. But the police are never in time. As another heatwave descends, the game begins again...

Master of the Jinn: A Sufi Novel


Irving Karchmar - 2004
    The legendary seal ring is said to control the Jinn, those terrifying demons of living fire, and in seeking it the companions discover not only the truth of the Jinn, but also the path of Love and the infinite mercy of God.

The Way up to Heaven


Roald Dahl - 2004
    

The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader


Lawrence Durrell - 2004
    However, this wonderful book contains the best of Durrell's incomparable travel writing. It is collected here for the first time in a single volume and offers a chance to rediscover the author as one of the great travel writers of the twentieth century. Durrell's passionate, evocative writing about his travels—in particular the Greek islands—is a timeless exploration of how landscapes shape our experience. This collection also re-creates a world where a struggling author or artist could buy a cliff-side house on Corfu for a pittance and begin to invent himself as a man of letters while falling in love with an alien but endlessly entertaining culture. The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader combines the merits of great escape reading and serious literature and will interest fans of Durrell, fans of Greek islands, and lovers of travel writing.

The Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbit


Christopher Wormell - 2004
    Perhaps the most horrible and ugly monster in the world. . . .So ugly is the monster that he can turn a blue sky to snow and evaporate a pond just by dipping his toe in it. No living thing can stand to be in his presence. But the monster is not ugly on the inside; he’s just lonely. So he decides to build some friends out of stone, but even stones can’t stand the full force of the monster’s smile, and they all shatter . . . except for one.From the innovative author-illustrator Chris Wormell comes the story of a monster whose inner beauty will touch readers of all ages.

Introducing Jeeves: Six Classic Stories


P.G. Wodehouse - 2004
    G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) charmed generations of readers with such whimsical characters as the Honourable Bertie Wooster — a deliciously dim aristocrat — and Jeeves, his imperturbable manservant. This entertaining collection presents six entertaining tales featuring the unflappable valet, among them "Leave It to Jeeves," "Jeeves Takes Charge," and "Jeeves in the Springtime." Sure to seduce longtime Wodehouse fans, these clever send-ups of the idle rich in Edwardian England will also tickle the funny bones of new readers. Large print edition.

Schindler's List: Images of the Steven Spielberg Film


David James - 2004
    Schindler's List, a Steven Spielberg film, is a cinematic masterpiece that has become one of the most honored films of all time. Now, for the first time, this unique book captures the filmmaking experience, before and behind the cameras, during the memorable 72-day shoot in Krakow, Poland, in 1993, when an incredible cast and crew re-created the true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a Nazi party member and war profiteer, who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust.Just as Spielberg filmed the movie entirely in black-and-white, so did stills photographer David James shoot his pictures the same way. Now, Spielberg and James have selected over fifty of these stunning images for this commemorative volume, printed in a high-quality, four-color process for enhanced visual presentation. 50 b/w images.

Love My Enemy


Kate MacLachlan - 2004
    Passions come to a head and Conor is beaten up and Zee pays for her "disloyalty," in the dramatic and violent conclusion.

Mulan


Janet Hardy-Gould - 2004
    Wearing men's clothes and riding a horse, Mulan leaves her family and fights bravely for the Emperor in her father's place.She is soon a hero for all the soldiers in the Chinese army. One of them, Ye Ming, is her best friend. But does he know that she is a woman? And can Mulan fall in love with a friend?

Prisoner for Blasphemy


George William Foote - 2004
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Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God


Djanet Sears - 2004
    Rainey Baldwin-Johnson, a country doctor, struggles to come to terms with the loss of her daughter, the disintergration of her marriage and an eccentric elderly father on an astonishing crusade.

Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823


David Ricardo - 2004
    Hardbound. Octavo. xxiv, 251. Oxford, Clarendon Press: 1887. The letters in this collection were written between 1810 and 1823, the last ones dating only a few days before Ricardo's death. The letters are mostly devoted to discussing the many questions in political economy on which the two authors disagreed. Malthus' letters to Ricardo are lost, so we have only Ricardo's response to Malthus. The two men were personal friends, and were often in each other's company, but on economic themes they differed widely. The book is well edited and it contains much information, both in the text and in the notes, about Ricardo and Malthus themselves, and also about other political economists of the period.

The Rambler, Volume II (Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03)


Samuel Johnson - 2004
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Dark at the End of the Tunnel


Christopher Bollas - 2004
    Everyday scenes and characters form a background as he considers various issues, most centrally a feeling that good and evil have become inverted and that the western world has lost its meaning. In the first chapter the analyst's efforts to comprehend a patient's chaotic existence leads him to wonder how we think about "life." Through a series of conversations with a comedian friend, he argues that we have a psychic obligation to consider life as an object in itself, rather than merely to assume it exists and to go our own way. The three remaining chapters address other questions - one's self as the other's object versus one's self as the other's other; the ironic function of descending towards transcendence; and the moribund nature of soul without spirit. His investigations are set against a post 9/11 world. Although The Catastrophe is never defined, it infuses his thinking and yet is displaced by the power of ordinary disturbances in human life: a friend's premature death, the paradox of being a professional, and the failure of ordinary thought to grasp the rapid pace of life's events. Bollas suggests that comic fictional writing may approximate psychoanalytical experience more accurately than the more traditional essay form, precisely because the psychoanalyst is only ever partially conscious of the thick movement of life's meanings as they affect the self from day to day. He conjures a world that reflects the movement of inner thought, individual character and chance encounters in the real - the coordinates of ordinary lived experience. At times the writing is highly amusing; other aspects - a dream about a dead friend or a conversation with a dying patient - are profoundly moving. Troubling moments are quickly dispelled by the light-hearted details of life but, as the title indicates, this is a work of black humor and references to The Catastrophe beat like a drum throughout.

Speeches: Literary and Social


Charles Dickens - 2004
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Stories by English Authors: The Sea


William Clark Russell - 2004
    

In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays


Augustine Birrell - 2004
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