George: 12309 books
The Tell-Tale Heart
Simplified for Modern Readers
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
“The Tell-Tale Heart” is the Edgar Allan Poe gothic short story that continues to fascinate readers with its murder, beating heart, and insanity.
-The language of over 170 years ago has been updated making Poe’s difficult language easily understood by today’s readers.
-Every...
Chuvalo
A Fighter's Life: The Story of Boxing's Last Gladiator
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The inspirational memoir of the Canadian boxer who fought some of the greatest heavyweights in history, including Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, but lost everything outside the ring.
From a tough Toronto childhood as the only son of immigrant parents, through a twenty-three-year career that...
Jujitsu: Basic Techniques of the Gentle Art
Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Long before Brazilian jiu-jitsu came to the United States, George Kirby wrote a book that would shape America’s understanding of jujitsu for decades to come.
This seminal primer by Black Belt Hall of Fame member George Kirby is the perfect place to begin a journey toward jujitsu mastery....
In Search of Bacchus
Wanderings in the Wonderful World of Wine Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Judgment of Paris and To Cork or Not To Cork comes a delightful, entertaining, and informative exploration of the thriving world of wine tourism.
George M. Taber set out on the wine lover's ultimate dream: a journey to the twelve most...
Directions Home
Approaches to African-Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Home is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date. Building on the discoveries of his critically acclaimed Odysseys Home, Clarke passionately analyses the beautiful complexities and haunting...
Why We Make Movies
Black Filmmakers Talk About the Magic of Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A sparkling collection of interviews with African American directors and producers.
Bringing together more than thirty candid conversations with filmmakers and producers such as Spike Lee, Gordon Parks, Julie Dash, Charles Burnett, and Robert Townsend, Why We Make Movies delivers a cultural...
by George Sand
Language: French
Release Date: December 17, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: December 17, 2018
Les « Légendes Rustiques », texte injustement méconnu de la célèbre George Sand, font partie de ces livres qui parlent à un pan de notre esprit que nous pensions endormi: cette petite part de nous-mêmes que nous combattons la nuit, au moment d'éteindre la lumière, celle-là même qui nous...
by George Sampson
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
George Sampson has collected here some of William Hazlitt's finest works. The first four essays show him as the Boswell Lamb and the candid friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge. The next three are an extension of this group, forming a pleasant parallel to Lamb's Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading...
Plans Deranged by Time
The Poetry of George Fetherling
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The Toronto Star called him a legendary figure in Canadian writing, and indeed George Fetherling has been prolific in many genres: poetry, history, travel narrative, memoir, and cultural studies. Plans Deranged by Time is a representative selection from many of the twelve poetry collections he has...
by George Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The mystery of John H. Webb, the man claiming to be George “Machine Gun” Kelly, was to be explored in the opening program of the second season of "Unsolved Mysteries." A segment producer flew to Phoenix to spend the day with Jim Dobkins, Ben Jordan, and Cindy Webb, widow of John H. Webb.The segment...
The Collected Works of George Gordon Byron
The Complete Works PergamonMedia
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 9120 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Don Juan • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage • The Works of Lord Byron • The Works of Lord Byron, Vol....
by George Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Modern Painting George Moore, irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist (1852-1933)
This ebook presents «Modern Painting», from George Moore. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
Table of Contents...
by George Thomas Clark
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
In a rousing trip through the worlds of Basketball and Football, George Thomas Clark explores the professional basketball league in Mexico, the Herculean talents of Wilt Chamberlain, the difficulties and humor of attempting to play basketball in middle age, and observes that coaching at Caltech can...
The Cask of Amontillado
Simplified for Modern Readers
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
“The Cask of Amontillado” is the Edgar Allan Poe gothic short story that continues to fascinate and frighten readers.
-The language of over 170 years ago has been updated making the story easily understood by today’s readers.
-End notes, interpretation, and discussion of major...