And Then? And Then? What Else?
Title | And Then? And Then? What Else? PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Handler |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 172 |
Release | 2024-06-27 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0861549430 |
A memoir from the beloved author behind the multimillion-copy bestselling A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS ‘One of our most dazzling literary conjurers.’ MICHAEL CHABON Known to most as Lemony Snicket, the tormented narrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events, Daniel Handler spends his days writing – for children and adults; film and television; and, occasionally, the accordion. Mainly, he writes about horrible things: orphans, abusive uncles, poison, murder, arson, bad grammar… A love letter to the consoling and terrifying power of books, And Then? And Then? What Else? traces Handler’s life through morbid poetry collections, eccentric acting troupes, hazy midnight taxi rides, second-hand bookstores and psychiatric units. Traversing his personal canon from his first encounter with Baudelaire to Vladimir Nabokov, Elizabeth Bishop and The Pet Shop Boys, Handler offers a witty, poignant exploration of reading, writing and why we tell stories. 'Daniel Handler’s series did something other books would not: took children seriously… [A Series of Unfortunate Events] taught me that my own thoughts could be trusted, that my impulses to read and make things were not unusual, to find joy and sanctuary where there was none.’ GUARDIAN
Poison for Breakfast
Title | Poison for Breakfast PDF eBook |
Author | Lemony Snicket |
Publisher | Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | 100 |
Release | 2021-08-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1324090634 |
Washington Post Bestseller A new stand-alone adventure—appropriate for all ages—by Lemony Snicket, one of the twenty-first century’s most beloved authors. In the years since this publishing house was founded, we have worked with an array of wondrous authors who have brought illuminating clarity to our bewildering world. Now, instead, we bring you Lemony Snicket. Over the course of his long and suspicious career, Mr. Snicket has investigated many things, including villainy, treachery, conspiracy, ennui, and various suspicious fires. In this book, he is investigating his own death. Poison for Breakfast is a different sort of book than others we have published, and from others you may have read. It is different from other books Mr. Snicket has written. It could be said to be a book of philosophy, something almost no one likes, but it is also a mystery, and many people claim to like those. Certainly Mr. Snicket didn’t relish the dreadful task of solving it, but he had no choice. It was put in front of him, right there, on his plate.
Works of S. Weir Mitchell: The autobiography of a quack, and other stories
Title | Works of S. Weir Mitchell: The autobiography of a quack, and other stories PDF eBook |
Author | Silas Weir Mitchell |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 346 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
The Juvenile Instructor
Title | The Juvenile Instructor PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 892 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Mormon Church |
ISBN |
A More Perfect Union
Title | A More Perfect Union PDF eBook |
Author | Hana Schank |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 225 |
Release | 2006-02-07 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 141652293X |
Hana Schank had never given much thought to her wedding, or even really imagined herself married, so when she found herself suddenly sporting a brand-new engagement ring she assumed planning a small, low-key wedding would be no big deal. But soon she finds herself adrift in Wedding Land, a world where all brides are expected to want to look like Cinderella, where women plan weddings with fantasy butterfly themes, where a woman's wedding is, without question, the Happiest Day of Her Life. Despite her best efforts not to become a Bridezilla, Hana finds herself transformed from a thirty-year-old woman with a 401(k) into a nearly unrecognizable version of herself as she spends weeks crafting save-the-date cards, worries about matching her cocktails to her wedding colors, and obsessively reads Martha Stewart Weddings magazine. She decides that, if she is going to follow traditions like wearing white and walking down the aisle with flowers, she at least wants to understand why. In her search she turns up interesting wedding facts: bridesmaids, for instance, were originally recruited to confuse evil spirits. Ultimately, she casts a critical eye on the $72 billion wedding industry, from the women at wedding websites who cackle over the etiquette missteps of others to wedding magazines that provide checklists of 187 tasks to plan the perfect wedding, suggesting that to have anything less is to fail as a bride, as a woman, as a wife. Part confessional memoir, part social critique, A More Perfect Union chronicles a year in Wedding Land, capturing as it does not only the stresses but the undoubted joys of becoming a bride.
A Complete Latin-English and English-Latin Dictionary
Title | A Complete Latin-English and English-Latin Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | John Tahourdin White |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1062 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Directory of Professional Workers in State Agricultural Experiment Stations and Other Cooperating State Institutions
Title | Directory of Professional Workers in State Agricultural Experiment Stations and Other Cooperating State Institutions PDF eBook |
Author | Erval Jackson Newcomer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 806 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Agricultural experiment stations |
ISBN |
Set includes revised editions of some issues.