William: 20584 books

An imaginative and exciting short story by William Raymond Hicks about a young boy, Bill, and his older brother, Joe, who mysteriously find themselves in a strange land of fantastical creatures, causing them to expand their view of the world and themselves. It is a fun story for all ages to enjoy, with a taste of "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe."

Autobiographies consists of six autobiographical works that William Butler Yeats published together in the mid-1930s to form a single, extraordinary memoir of the first fifty-eight years of his life, from his earliest memories of childhood to winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. This volume provides...

Follow the evolution of the vision and career of one of the South's foremost photographers."Santa Claus had brought me and my sister a small Brownie camera in the late 1940s, and I just loaded it with color film and went out to that Alabama landscape and began to photograph what caught my eye."...

"When Bill Faulkner came to New Orleans he was a skinny little guy, three years older than I, and was not taken very seriously except by a few of us." Thus the late William Spratling, popularly known as the Taxco "Silver King," recalled the mid-1920's, when Faulkner, a young man fresh from Oxford, Mississippi,...

William E Simon-quintessential American figure of the American century: Wall Street wunderkind, treasury secretary under Presidents Nixon and Ford, successful entrepreneur, US Olympic Committee president, best-selling author, pioneering philanthropist, and devout Catholic. Simon's insightful and often...

" Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography explores the life and career of one of Hollywood's great dames. She was a leading film personality for more than fifty years, from her beginnings as a dancer in silent films of the 1920s, to her portrayals of working-class shop girls in the Depression...

William A. Keleher always had an active curiosity and this made him an outstanding newspaperman and an indefatigable researcher of historical events. It led him into many intellectual adventures that resulted in a whole series of books of New Mexicana. In this personal narrative, he gives readers...

This early work by William Ernest Henley was originally published in 1890 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Views and Reviews' is a volume of literary criticism that he described as "less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot...

william peterson grew up in a rural small town in upper michigan., where his wife began saving all of his business cards. he is multi-talented , but bores easily. he has previously been a flight instructor in both airplanes and helicopters and a corporate pilot for 18 years. amongst his endeavors...

The Cruise of the Land Yacht Wanderer William Gordon Stables, scottish-born medical doctor in the Royal Navy and a prolific author of adventure fiction (1840-1910) This ebook presents «The Cruise of the Land Yacht Wanderer», from William Gordon Stables. A dynamic table of contents...

The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C. Vann Woodward. Masterfully drawn...

The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast William Roscoe, english historian and miscellaneous writer (1753-1831) This ebook presents «The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast», from William Roscoe. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter...

In life, sometimes you have to look at the world from a different standpoint than the obvious. William M. Ruggiero's collection of poems range anywhere from history to philosophy, and reflect upon varied thoughts on life in the world. Focusing on heavy emotional and mental questions, this book contains a selection of poems that truly entertain and challenge the mind.

This first biography of Dr. Albert C. Barnes was serialized on the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer when it appeared in 1960. In it, arts journalist William Schack interviewed dozens of people who knew the famously pugnacious art collector as he assembled his world-famous collection outside...