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The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet is the debut novel by American author Reif Larsen, first published in 2009.The book follows the exploits of a 12-year-old mapmaker named T.S. Spivet, who lives on a ranch near Divide, Montana, as he receives a prestigious award and accepts it, hitch-hiking on a freight train for the acceptance speech in Washington D.C..
Fire Bringer is a young adult fantasy novel by David Clement-Davies published in 1999, in the United Kingdom and 2000, in the United States. It tells the story of Rannoch, a red deer whose life is the subject of an old prophecy among the deer.
Killing Commendatore (Japanese: 騎士団長殺し, Hepburn: Kishidanchō-goroshi) is a 2017 novel written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. [8] [9] It was first published in two volumes–The Idea Made Visible (顕れるイデア編, Arawareru idea hen) and The Shifting Metaphor (遷ろうメタファー編, Utsurou metafā hen), respectively–by Shinchosha in Japan on 24 February 2017. [8]
The novel is often described as Kafkaesque, but Nabokov claimed that at the time he wrote the book, he was unfamiliar with German and "completely ignorant" of Franz Kafka's work. [1] Nabokov interrupted his work on The Gift in order to write Invitation to a Beheading , describing the creation of the first draft as "one fortnight of wonderful ...
The book is a re-narration of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. [1] Baum's name is sometimes credited in the book (in the appendix by Volkov, which is found in some editions, where Volkov describes the origins of his book). The names of most characters are changed, some elements of Baum's novel are removed, and some new elements are ...
After running away from home and his abusive father, the young Henry Evans falls into a life of crime, then is recruited into the Independence movement. As tensions between the Independents and the ruling Alliance increase, Evans volunteers to infiltrate the Alliance military and spy on them using a video transmitter implanted in his eye. After ...
In the 1875 St. Nicholas tale, a childless old woman bakes a gingerbread man, who leaps from her oven and runs away. The woman and her husband give chase, but are unable to catch him. The gingerbread man then outruns several farm workers, farm men, and farm animals. I've run away from a little old woman, A little old man,
1929 drawing of grandfather, grandmother, and Kolobok by artist Конончук Сергій Пилипович, Kononchuk Serhii Pylypovych (1912—1941) Kolobok is translated from Ukrainian as "small round bun", [8] or from Russian as round dough, [7] though it has also been thought to reference the Eastern European Bread, kalach, [2] or possibly a round palt (based on the Swedish food item ...