The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
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Publisher : Bond Street Books
Total Pages : 578
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307371898
ISBN-13 : 0307371891
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by : David Wroblewski

An Oprah's Book Club Pick A #1 New York Times Bestseller A National Bestseller Beautifully written and elegantly paced, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a coming-of-age novel about the power of the land and the past to shape our lives. It is a riveting tale of retribution, inhabited by empathic animals, prophetic dreams, second sight, and vengeful ghosts. Born mute, Edgar Sawtelle feels separate from the people around him but is able to establish profound bonds with the animals who share his home and his name: his family raises a fictional breed of exceptionally perceptive and affable dogs. Soon after his father's sudden death, Edgar is stunned to learn that his mother has already moved on as his uncle Claude quickly becomes part of their lives. Reeling from the sudden changes to his quiet existence, Edgar flees into the forests surrounding his Wisconsin home accompanied by three dogs. Soon he is caught in a struggle for survival—the only thing that will prepare him for his return home.

Edgar Gets Ready for Bed

Edgar Gets Ready for Bed
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Publisher : Babylit First Steps
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1423635280
ISBN-13 : 9781423635284
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Edgar Gets Ready for Bed by : Jennifer Adams

"Meet the plucky toddler Edgar the raven. He's mischievous, disobedient, and contrary. He's also lovable. Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe"--

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 872
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ISBN-10 : 0801857309
ISBN-13 : 9780801857300
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Edgar Allan Poe by : Arthur Hobson Quinn

Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Red Mask of Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders of the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" have been read as signs of his personal obsessions, and "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Descent into the Maelstrom" as symptoms of his own mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the opportunities to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poe's life. Against this tide of fancy, guesses, and amateur psychologizing, Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography devotes itself meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive, Quinn extracts the life from the legend, and describes how they both were distorted by prior biographies. "

Edgar

Edgar
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Publisher : Triumph Books
Total Pages : 320
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781641252621
ISBN-13 : 1641252626
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Edgar by : Edgar Martinez

Patience, persistence, and the most unlikely of circumstances vaulted Edgar Martinez from a poor neighborhood in Dorado, Puerto Rico to the spotlight in Seattle, where he spent the entirety of his 18-year major league career with the Mariners. At last, his path is destined for one last stop: the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Long before he cemented his status as one of the finest players of his generation, Martinez honed his batting skills by hitting rocks in his backyard and swinging for hours at individual raindrops during storms. Loyal and strong-willed from a young age, he made the difficult decision at only 11 to remain behind with his grandparents while his family relocated to New York, attending school and then working multiple jobs until a chance Mariners try-out at age 20 changed everything. In this illuminating, highly personal autobiography, Martinez shares these stories and more with candor, characteristic humility, and surprising wit. Highlights include the memorable 1995 and 2001 seasons, experiences playing with stars like Randy Johnson, Ken Griffey Jr., and Alex Rodriguez, and life after retirement as a family man, social advocate, and Mariners hitting coach. Martinez even offers practical insight into the mental side of baseball and his training regimen, detailing how he taught himself to see the ball better than so many before and after him. Interwoven with Martinez's own words throughout are those of his teammates, coaches, and contemporaries, contributing a distinctive oral history element to this saga of a remarkable career.

Edgar Snow

Edgar Snow
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Publisher : LSU Press
Total Pages : 404
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0807129127
ISBN-13 : 9780807129128
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Edgar Snow by : John Maxwell Hamilton

Edgar Snow (1905--1972) was one of the most notable Western journalists to report on China in both the revolutionary and postrevolutionary periods. He first became famous in the mid-1930s when he broke through a Nationalist blockade and reached the Communists in northwest China. For nearly a decade, no foreign reporter had seen the Communists, who were widely regarded as a ragtag bandit army. Snow took them seriously as a national movement. His reporting in the now-famous book Red Star over China was major news, even to the Chinese, thousands of whom joined the Communists after reading it. It has remained a seminal reference on the early Chinese Communist movement. In this award-winning biography, journalist John Maxwell Hamilton follows Snow from his birth in Kansas City to his rise as a celebrated foreign correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, his ostracism during the cold war, and his role as a singular journalistic bridge between Communist China and the United States. With a new preface by the author, this revealing portrait of the widely misunderstood Snow firmly establishes him as a model for the kind of committed reporting that is crucial to understanding our interdependent world.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 437
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780415159296
ISBN-13 : 0415159296
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Edgar Allan Poe by : Ian Malcolm Walker

Contemporary criticism about the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)
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Publisher : Delphi Classics
Total Pages : 3897
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781908909138
ISBN-13 : 1908909137
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated) by : Edgar Allan Poe

At last, America’s Master Storyteller joins the ranks of Delphi Classics’ scholarly collections. This is the COMPLETE WORKS of the great literary giant Edgar Allan Poe. Now you can truly own Poe’s immense and diverse works on your eReading device. (Version 6) * the COMPLETE poetry, with special Chronological and Alphabetical contents tables * the COMPLETE tales, with its own Chronological and Alphabetical contents tables * brief but informative introductions to many poems, tales and other texts * images of how the books first appeared, giving your EReader a taste of the original texts * Poe’s rare unfinished play POLITIAN, with perfect formatting * BOTH of Poe’s novels, including the very rare unfinished novel THE JOURNAL OF JULIUS RODMAN * many short stories and poems are presented with their original illustrations * Every non-fiction essay – even the rare ones recently discovered – available in no other digital collection * many images relating to Poe, his life and works * INCLUDES with the Complete Letters – spend hours perusing Poe’s personal correspondence! * the letters have separate tables to help you find whatever letter you want easily * scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * four biographical works exploring Poe’s mysterious life, including the infamous memoir by Griswold * criticism section, featuring essays by other famous writers examining Poe’s contribution to literature * features Poe’s contributions to THE CONCHOLOGIST’S FIRST BOOK The eBook also includes a front no-nonsense table of contents to allow easy navigation around Poe’s oeuvre. Contents The Poetry Collections TAMERLANE AND OTHER POEMS AL AARAAF, TAMERLANE AND MINOR POEMS POEMS, 1831 THE RAVEN AND OTHER POEMS UNCOLLECTED POEMS The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Novels THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET THE JOURNAL OF JULIUS RODMAN The Play POLITIAN The Essays INDEX OF THE COMPLETE ESSAYS The Non-Fiction THE CONCHOLOGIST’S FIRST BOOK THE LITERATI MARGINALIA FIFTY SUGGESTIONS A CHAPTER ON AUTOGRAPHY The Letters INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS, LETTERS AND DATES The Criticism EDGAR A. POE by James Russell Lowell. AN EXTRACT FROM ‘FIGURES OF SEVERAL CENTURIES’ by Arthur Symons AN EXTRACT FROM ‘LETTERS TO DEAD AUTHORS’ by Andrew Lang THE CENTENARY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE by Edmund Gosse FROM POE TO VALÉRY by T.S. Eliot The Biographies THE STORY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE by Sherwin Cody THE DREAMER by Mary Newton Stanard MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR by Rufus Wilmot Griswold DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE. by N. P. Willis

Finding Edgar

Finding Edgar
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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages : 113
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781543413618
ISBN-13 : 1543413617
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Finding Edgar by : Patricia Buck

In September of 1952, in small-town McFarland, North Dakota, Annie Clausen (the twelve-year-old daughter of the Farmers' Union store manager) doesn't know how good she has it. Annie is pretty sure her loving and hardworking parents expect way too much of her. Her mother's lists of chores take precedence over fun, and the math teacher seems to relish picking on her and her best friend, next-door neighbor, Bobby Merritt. A couple of bullies add to her list of problems. Meanwhile, Rosie Stample takes care of her little brother, Edgar, and doesn't realize how bad their life is going to get. Rosie's mother, who has suffered a horrific shock, has been hospitalized in Minnesota's state mental institution for the last two years. Her father brought his children to McFarland to live because he has found work nearby with a prosperous farmer, Herbert Sloven. Besides caring for Edgar, Rosie tries to do the laundry, cooking, cleaning, and still get to school, while her older brothers manage to bully and alienate everyone. Her father has started drinking again, and the news about her mother's progress gets worse. Neither girl could have predicted the changes that were to come.

Edgar Cayce in Context

Edgar Cayce in Context
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 200
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0791439062
ISBN-13 : 9780791439067
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Edgar Cayce in Context by : K. Paul Johnson

Places the work of Edgar Cayce in historical context and assesses the validity of his “readings.”

Edgar and Lucy

Edgar and Lucy
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 544
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781250096982
ISBN-13 : 1250096987
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Edgar and Lucy by : Victor Lodato

Eight-year-old Edgar Fini's loyalty is torn between the two women in his life. There's his mother, Lucy, who, though she has moments where she loves him, mostly disappears at night with her various 'suitors'. And then there's his grandmother, Florence, who dotes on him to the point where she is at a loss when he isn't around. Since his father's suicide, Florence and Edgar's relationship has become obsessive, each fully dependent on the other. When Florence suddenly dies, Lucy is thrown into the role of main caretaker and doesn't know how to handle her new job. But as Edgar and Lucy adjust, they must also deal with Ron, a local butcher who wants to court Lucy, and Conrad, an unsettlingly attentive adult whose intentions are at one more sinister and more innocent than Edgar could ever know.