A modern-day Bengali Decameron, My Kind of Girl is a sensitive and vibrant novella containing four disarming accounts of unrequited love. In a railway station one bleak December night, four strangers from different walks of life —a contractor, a government bureaucrat, a writer, and a doctor—face an overnight delay. The sight of a young loving couple prompts them to reflect on and share with each other their own experiences of the vagaries of the human heart in a story cycle that is in turn melancholy, playful, wise, and heart-wrenching. The tales reveal each traveler's inner landscape and provide an illuminating glimpse into contemporary life in India. Coming out of a great storytelling tradition, My Kind of Girl is a moving and imaginative look at love from one of India's most celebrated writers. Views: 72
From Library JournalIn The Fugitive, the seventh volume of Proust's classic Remembrance of Things Past, the focus is grief. The plot is superficially simple: Albertine, the narrator's mistress, has left him; he considers his love for her, her reasons for departure, what response(s) he should make, and his life. He makes several attempts to manipulate her return; when it becomes impossible, he mourns and remembers the past. This series is a pseudoautobiographical study of the author's own self-centered, physically restricted, self-reflective life in pre-World War I France. In Time Regained, the final volume, Proust gathers together all the themes of the previous seven. The narrator pays several visits to Paris, during and after the war, observing the military and nonmilitary behaviors of old and new acquaintances. Later, he is shocked to recognize that they and he have become old. Finally, his thoughts turn to former events, old loves, and reliving his experiences through writing. The author is known for his complicated thought patterns and recurring, interwoven themes. Unfortunately, both the abridgment and the format compound these textual difficulties. There is likely to be little demand for this abridged French classic in translation, unless it is made into a movie. Neville Jason has a beautiful voice and an obvious love for the text. Recommended for large academic and public libraries. I. Pour-El, Iowa State Univ. Lib., Ames Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review“Proust is perhaps the last great historian of the loves.” —Edmund Wilson Views: 72
The story of a wizard’s unwieldly gift and a hero who becomes an "angel unaware." You’d think that someone with a name like Harry Houdini Marco would be deft and skillful, but Harry could only occasionally catch even an easy fly ball without making some dumb error. On top of that, most of his friends’ families were moving to the suburbs. It would have been a long, dreary summer, but then a Mr. Mazeeck showed up and turned out to be more than he seemed. This now classic book was first published by Atheneum in 1966. It was selected by Scholastic Books for inclusion in the Arrow Book Club and later republished in a Dell Yearling edition in 1988. Views: 72
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. Views: 72
Product DescriptionSedentary sleuth Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, leave West Thirty-fifth Street for a Montana dude ranch to clear an innocent man of a murder charge. From the PublisherThe mountain couldn't come to Wolfe, so the great detective came to the mountain--to Lame Horse, Montana, to be exact. Here a city slicker got a country girl pregnant and then took a bullet in the back. Wolfe's job was to get an innocent man exonerated of the crime and catch a killer in the process. But when he packed his silk pajamas and headed west, he found himself embroiled in a case rife with local cynicism, slipshod police work, and unpleasant political ramifications. In fact, Nero Wolfe was buffaloed until the real killer struck again, underestimating the dandified dude with an unerring instinct for detection. Views: 71
Here are the deadliest warriors in the universe—awesome gladiators caught in the ultimate one-on-one battles of all eternity. These explosive tales of future combat are collected here for the first time—featuring today’s acclaimed masters of science fiction. Views: 71
Spike Tracy, playboy and
amateur detective, is bored at his country retreat, until a woman comes out of
the storm, exhausted and nearly dead. His housekeeper helps him nurse her but
he's relieved when the storm finally clears, several days later, and he can get
a doctor...but before he does anything, he learns that she's wanted by the
police for murder. Still keeping the woman under cover, he infiltrates himself
into the investigation--it helps that his brother is the district attorney--and
finds himself in a world of obsessive stamp collectors and valuable stamps.
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Warrior Scarlet is set in the far-off days of Britain's Bronze Age. Drem, a young boy with a crippled arm, longs to become a warrior and wear the scarlet of a hunter. But he must first pass the dangerous initiation test. The Mark of the Horse Lord: Phaedrus is a Roman gladiator who has won his freedom. By chance, he is also the exact double of Midir, the Horse Lord, lost King of the Dalriad tribe. To rid the Dalriads of the usurping Queen Liadhan, Phaedrus agrees to a daring pretence -- he will impersonate Midir and become the Horse Lord. Knight's Fee is an exciting story of Norman England, which tells how Ranald the servant boy strives to achieve his ambition and become a knight. Views: 71
Although for most busy nurses, the pressure of an intensive hospital routine is demandingly wearing, to Nora Hilton, beset at home by the demands of a selfish and irresponsible family, the hospital meant rest and relaxation. She loved her work, and she also loved Dr. Paul Anderson with whom she worked.This made Nora vulnerable when the doctor, suddenly unsure of his surgical skill and on the point of quitting his profession in despair, turned away from her and seemingly shut her out of his life. For now she had neither anchor nor ballast, and no solace for those hours not spent in nursing.Under the circumstances, the prospect of marriage with a lonely patient seemed rather attractive, yet Nora wondered if it would really solve even her own problem, much less Paul's and her family's. Views: 71
