Showing results for "Animal Worlds" in Literature & Fiction

Dive into a vibrant world of flora with this engaging volume, featuring delightful stories, enchanting poems, and fascinating facts about a diverse array of flowers. Designed specifically for children, this collection is thoughtfully divided into thirteen parts, each spotlighting a unique flower. - Summary by Rachel

In the enchanting sixth volume of The Little Colonel Series, join Lloyd as she embarks on an unforgettable journey to Europe to celebrate her twelfth birthday. Surprised with a magical gift, she befriends an old Prussian major and his loyal St. Bernard, Hero, who brings a touch of adventure to their travels. Through thrilling escapades, the Little Colonel discovers the profound meaning of selfless duty. Dont miss the exciting full-cast play with singing featured in Chapter 13! (Summary by Maria Therese)

Belfast, October 1940. Twenty-year-old zookeeper Hettie Quin arrives at the city docks in time to meet her new charge: an orphaned three-year-old Indian elephant named Violet. As Violet adjusts to her new solitary life in captivity and Hettie mourns the recent loss of her sister and the abandonment of her father, new storm clouds gather. A world war rages, threatening a city already reeling from escalating tensions between British Loyalists and those fighting for a free and unified Ireland.

Full-cast dramatisations of six masterpieces from the founding fathers of dystopian fiction Dark and disturbing, provocative and prescient, dystopian literature has long captured our imagination with its nightmarish visions of forbidding future worlds. Included here are six classic novels of...

Discover the wonders of nature with Handbook of Nature-Study, penned by Anna Botsford Comstock during a pivotal time of heightened awareness regarding humanitys impact on the natural world. This essential guide fueled the nature study movement, advocating for an immersive educational experience that encourages students to explore the environment through direct observation rather than merely relying on textbooks. Packed with a treasure trove of insights about plants, animals, and celestial phenomena, this book is designed for educators seeking to inspire curiosity in their students. Both ...

Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. A classic of Japanese literature, I Am a Cat is one of Soseki's best-known novels. Considered by many as the greatest writer in modern Japanese history, Soseki's I Am a Cat is a classic novel sure to be enjoyed for years to come.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Pippa Bennett- Warner. Pippa has recently starred in the BBC Drama MotherFatherSon alongside Richard Gere and has featured in Harlots and Sick Note. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Kathryn Sutherland. Taken...

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), affectionately known as Gurudev, was a transformative Bengali poet, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer who profoundly influenced Bengali literature and music during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He made history as Asia’s first Nobel laureate, receiving the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Home and the World, a novel published in 1916, unfolds against the backdrop of the affluent estate of Nikhil, a content nobleman who shares a blissful life with his beautiful wife, Bimala. Their serene existence is disrupted by the arrival of ...

Join White Tail, the spirited son of Father Buck, the revered leader of the herd, as he embarks on thrilling adventures alongside his rival, Young Black Buck. Navigating the vast wilderness is no easy feat, especially with the lurking dangers of Puma the Mountain Lion and Timber Wolf. Will White Tail learn to evade their threats and step confidently into his fathers legendary hoofprints? - Summary by Foon

Dive into the fascinating world of natures wonders as the author explores the extraordinary oddities of the animal kingdom. From the whimsical bookworm to the majestic rhinoceros, and from the industrious mole to the mythical unicorn, this collection of chapters unveils the captivating stories of these remarkable creatures. (Summary by mleigh)

Inspired by real places and events of WWII, Red Sky Over Hawaii immerses the reader in a time of American history full of suspicion and peril in this lush and poignant tale about the indisputable power of doing the right thing against all odds. The attack on Pearl Harbor changes everything for...

What does our nature writing say about us, and more urgently, what would it say without us? Tom Comitta investigates these questions and more in The Nature Book, a "literary supercut" that arranges writing about the natural world from three hundred works of fiction into a provocative re-envisioning of the novel. With fiction's traditional background of flora and fauna brought to the fore, people and their structures disappear, giving center stage to animals, landforms, and weather patterns—honored in their own right rather than for their ambient role in human drama.

Philip Roth, one of the best-known and award winning literary masters of our time, engages his readership with insightful and challenging novels of the human condition. With The Dying Animal, he revisits the character David Kepesh. At age 60, Kapesh is drawn out of his carefully ordered existence and into an obsessive affair with one of his students.

From internationally renowned medium, spiritual teacher and bestselling author Gordon Smith comes a captivating tale about finding your way through death, grief and loss.'Nothing that lives can truly die,' said the stag, 'but we must all experience a winter in our lives, otherwise we haven't...

Bad Dogs Have More Fun is an unforgettable collection of more that 75 newspaper columns by John Grogan, the number-one New York Times best-selling author of Marley & Me. Combining humor, wit, poignancy and affection, these columns provide insight into the intriguing and wonderful world we live in.

In the Early settler days, the British did more than go to war. Many found the local folklore and beliefs fascinating, and collected them together. This is one of the first explorations of South African folk tales.

Рассказы о животных. Когда слон и его магут-погонщик вместе выкорчёвывают пни, вместе едят и пьют, вместе спят и веселятся и не представляют себя один без другого - разве это не любовь? Пусть даже эти двое - отъявленные хитрецы и любители ничего не делать и получать при этом максимум удовольствия.