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William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham is perhaps his best known, describing the rise and fall of an American entrepreneur in the paint business. His social views were also strongly reflected in the novels Annie Kilburn (1888) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890). While known primarily as a novelist, his short
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Cornelis Johannes Kieviet (1858 -1931) was een Nederlandse onderwijzer en schrijver van jeugdboeken. Publicerend onder de naam C. Joh. Kieviet was hij de schepper van de beroemde romanfiguur Dik Trom. Dik Trom was door zijn bijzondere karakter een archetypisch Hollands jongetje geworden, dat ook op het toneel en in de film werd geportretteerd.
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À seulement neuf ans, Jacquot quitte la campagne pour Paris. Il rêve de s'enrichir afin d'acheter la maisonnette que sa famille peine à payer. Plein de vie et de curiosité, le p'tit homme découvre la ville de ses rêves. Mais bientôt, sous ses yeux d'enfants, le Paris mondain cède place au Paris des travailleurs. Les bonnes en tablier blanc, les ouvriers en sueur, et les balayeurs de trottoirs remplacent les bourgeois gantés aux souliers vernis et les dames sous leurs ombrelles.Cela dit, Jacquot n'a pas peur du travail. Sans perdre de vue ses rêves et ses valeurs, il gagnera son argent à la force de ses jambes et de son cœur.P. L. Jacob dresse le portrait du Paris du XIXe siècle au travers d'un récit initiatique. S'il décrit une capitale partagée entre deux mondes, les bourgeois et les travailleurs, P. L. Jacob offre une vision optimiste. Il rappelle qu'il n'est pas impossible de réaliser ses rêves les plus fous, et que l'optimisme paye toujours.
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"Two Little Savages" is a 1910 novel by Ernest Thompson Seton. One of the great classics of nature and youth written by one of America's best remembered nature experts, it tells the story of two boys who build a teepee in the woods and convince their parents to allow them to live alone among nature for a whole month. During that period, they learn how to cook food, make fires and beds, sanitise water, read the stars, hunt, and much, much more. Full of real lessons for real situations, this charming volume is both enjoyable and instructive, and it is ideal for young children with a love of the outdoors. Ernest Thompson Seton (1860 - 1946) was an English-born Canadian author and wildlife artist who founded the Woodcraft Indians in 1902. He was also among the founding members of the Boy Scouts of America, established in 1910. He wrote profusely on this subject, the most notable of his scouting literature including "The Birch Bark Roll" and the "Boy Scout Handbook". Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Boys --- Conduct of life.
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Of all the white American pop music groups that hit the charts before the Beatles, only the Beach Boys continued to thrive throughout the British Invasion to survive into the 1970s and beyond. The Beach Boys helped define both sides of the era we broadly call the sixties, split between their early surf, car, and summer pop and their later hippie, counterculture, and ambitious rock. No other group can claim the Ronettes and the Four Seasons as early 1960s rivals; the Mamas and the Papas and Crosby, Stills and Nash as later 1960s rivals; and the Beatles and the Temptations as decade-spanning counterparts. This is the first book to take an honest look at the themes running through the Beach Boys’ art and career as a whole and to examine where they sit inside our culture and politics—and why they still grab our attention.
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