William Wharton: 27 books
Shrapnel
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Author of such classic wartime novels as Birdy and A Midnight Clear, William Wharton was one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. However, he was also a very private man—he wrote under a pseudonym and rarely gave interviews—so fans and critics could only speculate how much of his work...
Ever After
A Father's True Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
In August of 1988, heavy black smoke engulfed an Oregon highway, causing a massive 23-car pileup that claimed the lives of novelist William Wharton's 36-year-old daughter, her husband, and their two infant daughters. They'd been victims of field burning, a routine agricultural practice, and were burned...
Houseboat on the Seine
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
The title brings to mind a luxury vessel on the most glamorous river in the world, but readers expecting to learn about the high life in France will be in for a surprise. In this charming memoir, painter and novelist Wharton (Birdy) instead gives us literally the nuts and bolts of building a houseboat,...
Dad
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
John Tremont, a middle-aged man with a family, is summoned to his mother's bedside after she has suffered a heart attack. When he arrives, he finds her shaken but surviving; it is his father, left alone, who is unable to cope, who begins to fail, to slip away from life. Joined by his nineteen-year-old...
A Midnight Clear
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Set in the Ardennes Forest on Christmas Eve 1944, Sergeant Will Knott and five other GIs are ordered close to the German lines to establish an observation post in an abandoned chateau. Here they play at being soldiers in what seems to be complete isolation. That is, until the Germans begin revealing...
by William Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
During the Depression, a 10-year-old boy befriends a carnival stuntman and his lion cub and learns about the meaning of family, loyalty, love, and survival.
by William Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Know Scumbler in his poignant, hilarious life. Get mad at him and even cry with him. Here's Don Quixote, Santa Claus, and Faust rolled into one "thick shadow" of a man. A joyous sixty-year-old American street painter lives on the Left Bank in Paris, making a living by creating rentable apartments...
by William H. Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Texas a Brief Account of the Origin William H. Wharton, early colonist, political leader, diplomat, Senator and orator in Texas (1802-1839)
This ebook presents «Texas a Brief Account of the Origin», from William H. Wharton. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to...
10 Classic Novels Of Manners You Should Read (Golden Deer Classics)
Pride And Prejudice, Vanity Fair, Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina...
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
The novel of manners is a realistic story that concentrates the reader's attention upon the customs and conversation, and the ways of thinking and valuing of the people of a social class. This Golden Deer Classics collection comprises the following classic novels of manners: Sense and Sensibility - Jane...
Learn French with Bilingual Books
Bilingual Edition (English - French)
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Sometimes you want to read in French. Sometimes you want to read in English.
There’s a great option: bilingual books!
Bilingual, or dual-language books, are books in which text appears side-by-side in both the target language and English. These are some of the French books to enjoy since you can...
Futility
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Hailed by his famous contemporaries including Edith Wharton, H.G. Wells, Katherine Mansfield, Graham Greene, and Evelyn Waugh, who called him a "genius," William Gerhardi is one of the twentieth century's forgotten masters, and his lovely comedy Futility one of the century's neglected masterpieces.
It...
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
by A.A. Milne, Santa Claus, Adelaide Anne Procter
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!
by A.A. Milne, Santa Claus, Adelaide Anne Procter
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!
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