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The hidden roof (野屋根, noyane) [note 1] is a type of roof widely used in Japan both at Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. It is composed of a true roof above and a second roof beneath, [ 1 ] permitting an outer roof of steep pitch to have eaves of shallow pitch, jutting widely from the walls but without overhanging them. [ 2 ]
Pointed Roofs, published in 1915, is the first work (she called it a "chapter") in Dorothy Richardson's (1873–1957) series of 13 semi-autobiographical novels titled Pilgrimage, [1] and the first complete stream of consciousness novel published in English.
Frederick Joseph Thwaites (23 May 1908 – 13 August 1979) was an Australian novelist whose books sold over four million copies. He was best known for his first work The Broken Melody, which was adapted into a 1938 film. [1]
العربية; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Boarisch; Чӑвашла
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction is a single volume featuring two novellas by J. D. Salinger, which were previously published in The New Yorker: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955) and Seymour: An Introduction (1959). Little, Brown republished them in this anthology in 1963. It was the first time the ...
A Wikipedia Book (or a Wikipedia Reading list) is a book formed from an organized collection of Wikipedia articles. Their list forms (generally created using the Book Creator tool) are often nowadays hosted in the User namespace in the form of a list of Wikipedia article tiles, some lists may also include for reading only specific sections of ...
The Room on the Roof is a novel written by Ruskin Bond. It was Bond's first literary venture. Bond wrote the novel when he was seventeen [ 2 ] and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1957.
Mendelssohn Is on the Roof is a novel by Jiří Weil written in 1959 and first translated into English by Marie Winn in 1991. The book took 15 years to write. It is an exploration of the many forms of corruption in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and embeds historical events, such as the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in 1942, among fictional stories concerning the Holocaust, Nazi ...