The Story of a Lie
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1904 |
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Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1904 |
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Author | : Zora Neale Hurston |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2005-10-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780060006556 |
LIES AND OTHER TALL TALES These tales are so tall they touch the sky! From Caldecott Honor artist Christopher Myers and Zora Neale Hurston. While traveling in the Gulf States in the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston collected and recorded some real whoppers told by folks from all walks of life. Not "dog ate my homework" kind of lies, but tales so wild you didn't ever want to hear the truth. And now today's picture–book readers can enjoy these far–fetched fibs, with Caldecott Honor artist Christopher Myers's spirited adaption and bold, expressive collages.
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2018-01-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780483526853 |
Excerpt from The Story of a Lie: And Other Tales The Misadventures of john Nicholson has heretofore been published only in paper covers and in the subscription editions. In it S teven son makes use of his knowledge of California, acquired under conditions not so favorable as those in which he describes his hero. The story first appeared in the Christmas Yule Tide for 1887. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : Kessinger Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2009-04 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781104331504 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. 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.
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1907 |
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Author | : Patricia McKissack |
Publisher | : Schwartz & Wade |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2008-12-18 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307559173 |
Side-splittingly funny, spine-chillingly spooky, this companion to a Newbery Honor–winning anthology The Dark Thirty is filled with bad characters who know exactly how to charm. From the author's note that takes us back to McKissack's own childhood when she would listen to stories told on her front porch... to the captivating introductions to each tale, in which the storyteller introduces himself and sets the stage for what follows... to the ten entertaining tales themselves, here is a worthy successor to McKissack's The Dark Thirty. In "The Best Lie Ever Told," meet Dooley Hunter, a trickster who spins an enormous whopper at the State Liar's contest. In "Aunt Gran and the Outlaws," watch a little old lady slickster outsmart Frank and Jesse James. And in "Cake Norris Lives On," come face to face with a man some folks believe may have died up to twenty-seven different times!
Author | : George Shannon |
Publisher | : Greenwillow Books |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2001-05-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780688176433 |
A man is thrown in jail for picking up a rope. A student earns one hundred points on his math and history tests, yet fails both classes. A spider saves a fugitive from a legion of warriors. A farmer buys a cow, a horse, and a donkey, all with a single ear of corn.... Each of the eighteen stories in this book is true, technically. But each is also a lie. In his second collection of "true lies" from around the world, George Shannon challenges young readers to uncover the whole truth. But be careful: a word with more than one meaning can obscure the facts. And a hidden detail can mean the difference between honesty and a twisted truth that is, in its essence, a lie. Can you tell the difference? Can you discover: "What's the truth, the whole truth? And where's the lie?"
Author | : Mary Ladd Gavell |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 030743124X |
It is the stuff of fiction: A collection of stories, never made public, is lost in a drawer for thirty years until, miraculously, the stories are discovered and published. It is also the true story of the book you are holding in your hands. Mary Ladd Gavell died in 1967 at the age of forty-seven, having published nothing in her lifetime. She was the managing editor of Psychiatry magazine in Washington, D.C., and after her death, her colleagues ran her story "The Rotifer" in the magazine as a tribute. The story was, somehow, plucked from that nonliterary journal and selected for The Best American Short Stories 1967. And again, thirty-three years later, "The Rotifer" emerged from near obscurity when John Updike selected it for The Best American Short Stories of the Century. In his Introduction to that collection, Updike called Gavell's story a "gem" and said that her writing was "feminism in literary action." "The Rotifer" has remained, until now, Gavell's only published work. The sixteen stories collected here include the anthologized classic "The Rotifer," in which a young woman learns the extent to which a bit of innocent interference, or the refusal to interfere, can change the course of lives. "The Swing" depicts a mother's strange reconnection to her adult son's childhood as she is summoned outside, night after night, by the creak of his old swing. "Baucis" introduces a woman longing for widowhood who is cheated of the respite she craves and whose last words are tragically misunderstood by her family. The title story, based on the last-minute announcement by Gavell's own son that he was in a school play, is infused with the gentle humor and vivid insights that make all of Mary Ladd Gavell's stories timeless and utterly beguiling. With the publication of I Cannot Tell a Lie, Exactly, Mary Ladd Gavell takes her rightful place among the best writers of her, and our, time.
Author | : Juliana Horatia Ewing |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2020-11-27 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Lob Lie-by-the-Fire, The Brownies and Other Talesis a collection of a dozen children's holiday stories._x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ Lob Lie-by-the-fire, or, The luck of Lingborough (4064066386740)_x000D_ Timothy's Shoes_x000D_ Old Father Christmas_x000D_ Benjy in Beastland_x000D_ The Peace-Egg_x000D_ The Brownies_x000D_ The Land of Lost Toys_x000D_ Three Christmas-Trees_x000D_ An Idyl ofthe Wood_x000D_ Christmas Crackers_x000D_ Amelia and the Dwarfs_x000D_ Spoons
Author | : Claire Contreras |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2020-12-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780998345680 |
Do you believe in curses? I never did. Not until that fated night, six years ago, when I sat in The Devil's Chair and made a wish. Not until it came true. Not until I met River Caliban himself, heir to a fortune of curses. My fated sworn enemy. I knew I should have stayed away from him. I should have run the other way when he called out my name, when he flashed that sinful smile of his, but instead, I walked toward him, leaving the light behind. Instead, I go against all reason, against all warning, and attended the gala of the year at his dark, allegedly haunted home at the top of the hill. The moment I step foot inside I know I'm in trouble, but there's something about River that magnetizes me, reels me in, and when he asks for the impossible, I find it impossible to turn him away.