What's the key to happiness?Detroit newspaperman Brady Ritz thinks the key is to marry someone better than yourself. Brady does just that by marrying beautiful, straight-talking Natalie. Thirty years later, the still-happy Ritzes retire to a Naples, Florida golf community.But happiness has rules, and Brady starts breaking them. He loses interest in golf and country club small talk, in karaoke and Trivia Night. To amuse himself, he writes a secret humor column for Grumble, a...

Raymond Knister had a strong sense of commitment both to his own career and to literature, particularly Canadian literature. In his ten working years he proved himself a prolific writer with wide-ranging interests.Although his work has appeared in many anthologies of Canadian literature, there remains a great deal of out of print or unpublished material.This volume brings together not only for his more well-known stories but also all his unpublished stories, a few travel pi...

Who is targeting Brenda's college students?Brenda Contay used to be a local Detroit celebrity. She covered gruesome stories as WDIG's Lightning Rod tabloid reporter, but she hated the violence and sensationalism. That's why Brenda is happy to leave crime reporting to teach journalism at her alma mater, Davison Polytechnical University.Except murder and mayhem have followed her to campus.A Davison student is blown up while hitchhiking home fo...

The Ontario farmland described with arresting clarity in White Narcissus is, despite its beauty and abundance, “a place of choked vistas” where bitterness and rivalry have taken root. Against this backdrop Raymond Knister portrays the triumph of longing over despair, as his hero, Richard Milne, struggles to redeem his childhood sweetheart from the spiritual imprisonment of her parents’ home.First published in 1929, White Narcissus was a groundbreak...

So ein Pech, was soll bloß aus Leons Geburtstagsparty werden? Weil Mama und Papa nicht da sind, kommt Tante Elli zum Aufpassen. Doch die ist immer so streng, bei ihr darf man gar nichts. Außer … was wäre, wenn Lilli ihr geheimes Hexenbuch benutzt? Dann tanzen ganz sicher die Puppen! - Hexe Lilli auf Englisch! - KNISTER singt!Ideal für GrundschulkinderKurze Sätze, viele WortwiederholungenFür Schüler am Ende des ersten Englischjahres.Ungekürzte Lesung mit Tom Zah...

"The hero's . . . consciousness gave rise to a . . . lyricism that was endlessly sustained by the raw yearning . . . for an epic American existence." —Philip Roth, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of Portnoy's ComplaintOriginally published in 1929, Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical novel is a "sprawling, fecund, subtly rhythmic and amazingly vital" epic of rural American life ( The New York Times). Based on his own up...

This book-collection file includes: Cavanagh's Forest Ranger, A Daughter of the Middle Border, The Eagle's Heart, The Forester's Daughter, A Little Norsk, Main-Travelled Roads, The Moccasin Ranch, Other Main-Traveled Roads, Prairie Folks, The Spirit of Sweetwater, A Spoil of Office, The Tyranny of the Dark, and Wayside Courtships. According to Wikipedia: "Hannibal Hamlin Garland (September 14, 1860 – March 4, 1940) was an American novelist, poet, psychical researcher essayist, and short st...

Of Time and the River is a 1935 novel by American novelist Thomas Wolfe. It is a fictionalized autobiography, using the name Eugene Gant for Wolfe's, detailing the protagonist's early and mid-twenties, during which time the character attends Harvard University, moves to New York City and teaches English at a university there, and travels overseas with the character Francis Starwick. Francis Starwick was based on Wolfe's friend, playwright Kenneth Raisbeck. The novel was published by Scribn...

One of the most popular and critically respected American poets of the twentieth century, Robert Frost created a body of poetry that is now celebrated for portraying the life of ordinary men, whilst being rich in its depiction of rural life and subtle in its handling of complex social and philosophical themes. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the pre-1923 poetical works of Robert Frost, with beautiful...

Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was a major American novelist of the early 20th century.Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works and novellas. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. His books, written and published from the 1920s to the 1940s, vividly reflect on American culture and mores of the period, albeit filtered through Wolfe's sensitive, s...

The Woman Who Had Imagination, H.E. Bates's fourth volume of stories, first published in 1934 (Jonathan Cape), is a fascinating collection of contrasts. The stories combine elements of realism and poetry, beauty and ugliness, tenderness and irony. Graham Greene, writing in the Spectator, lauded the collection as 'the first volume of Mr. Bates's maturity' and Bates as 'an artist of magnificent originality with a vitality quite unsuspected hitherto'.This is brillian...