books by Charles Scribner's Sons     books:       Past Reason Hated15 reviews Peter Robinson Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993 An excellent piece of work The novel just before this one in the DCI Alan Banks series, _The Hanging Valley_, was pretty lackluster, but Robinson springs back in this one with a major winner. A young woman is found murdered in her own parlor by her lesbian partner, Veronica, a classical recording playing over and over on the stereo. Caroline had been involved in a local amateur theater production of _Twelfth Night_ -- nice ...             A Challenge For The Actor12 reviews Uta Hagen Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991 even more respect for acting... a follow-up to her RESPECT FOR ACTING..I'd recommend reading her first book then this one..there are alot more activities and exercises you can do here..and some reiterations from the first book but an acting book that should be read and kept by any serious student             The Body Farm126 reviews Patricia Cornwell Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994 Descriptive Forensic Thriller... This is the fifth installment in the Kay Scarpetta series. Kay and Marino are summoned to Asheville, North Carolina to evaluate the murder of a child. The characteristics of the body and the scene are similar to the previous murders by serial killer Temple Gault, who first appeared in Cruel and Unusual. This book is best enjoyed in fact if you've read Cruel and Unusual. Lucy is now working with ...             A journey to the centre of the earth127 reviews Jules Verne Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906 Recommended as a faithful translation If you are looking for a English translation of JTTCOTE that is faithful to Verne's French one, this one (and a couple others) has been recommended to me by members of the North American Jules Verne Society ([...]). Verne has been poorly translated since the novels were first published and he has received unfair reviews based on those poor translations. I think we owe it to this brilliant man to ...             The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classic)1120 reviews F. Scott Fitzgerald Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953 Classic romance and tale of a man who isn't exactly what he seems Set in the Roarin' Twenties, this unforgetable classic is a romance as well as the story of Jay Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald told the story in a unique way, through the voice of Nick Carraway, an impartial aquaintace of both Gatsby and Daisy. Details of the golden era come alive in vivid descriptions of fashion, music, and decor, carrying the reader back to a time of bootleg liquor and the ...             In Our Time50 reviews Ernest Hemingway Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980 Hemingway at his best, the understated short story Hemingway is the master of the understated short story. He takes simple themes and without use of superlatives, makes it real. This book is a collection of short stories where most feature a man name Nick, from his time as a young boy to manhood as it closes with two stories about him fishing. There is one story where no male name is given, so it may also be about Nick. The most gripping story ...             The Old Man and the Sea8 reviews Ernest Hemingway Charles Scribner's & Sons, 1979 Sea Novel This is about an old man's determination to catch a fish. In the story of the old man and the sea, a man shows that he can do what he sets out to do. The story shows his strong will and struggle against the weather, fatigue, pain and other elements that he encountered while at sea. In the story, Santiago said, "A man can be destroyed, not defeated." I really like this statement. I think it is ...             A Farewell to Arms2 reviews Ernest Hemingway Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957 Best ending I have ever read "I rewrote the ending to Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied" - Ernest Hemingway I have read this book twice now, across the period of about 15 months. The first time I read it and finished the last page, I closed the book slowly and just sat there in silence for about ten seconds. The only thing I could think of was - "that was the best ending of ...             Cry, the Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation247 reviews Alan Paton Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948 It's on my Top 10 How much can a man love his country? How much can he love his son? His God? Can justice prevail when man cannot? What is forgiveness? Redemption? Grace? To consider all these elements in one novel is not possible. Or is it? "Cry, the Beloved Country" is all these things and more. It is forgiveness writ large. It is agape love in the doing. It is the story of two fathers, each with a son. One ...             Stone soup: An old tale21 reviews Marcia Brown Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947 Great classic story! We had the privilege of seeing this story live at the Broward Center for Performing Arts, and my four year old loved it! I had to buy him the book and now we read it at home and he still loves it! It's a great classic story, and teaches about sharing, friendship and caring for others.             I and Thou37 reviews Martin Buber Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958 The Gem at the Navel of the Lotus Ich und Du (badly) translated as I And Thou, by Martin Buber, takes me beyond any book I've ever read before. I had to read it with another selection, because after a few pages, my soul became saturated, and I had to read something else. I am at a loss for how to describe this book. The Third Testament hints at the idea. We construct the world in one of two ways: either through a ...             The American Boy's Handy Book35 reviews D.C. Beard Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905 Get 'em out of the house This is a masterwork by one of the founders of the Scouting movement. It is designed to provide children (boys) with ideas and plans to make everything from kites to traps to invisible ink. It is writen in a style that is easy for the child to understand. In an age when kids can't be pried away from the TV and video games, this book takes us back to a simpler time when kids were sent outside in ...             Gift of Stones, The14 reviews Jim Crace Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1988, 1988 The nature of storytelling explored This short novel ruminates on a number of very interesting themes in an unusual way. It is a book about the nature of stories, the nature of people, and the ways that we think about ancient peoples. Most of all, though, it makes the reader think about how change affects individuals and groups ... all through the story of a young man and his daughter. If a book about the stone age conjures images ...             Look Homeward, Angel62 reviews Thomas Wolfe Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957 A tour de force of pure emotion Thomas Wolfe reminds me of the eager kid who was smarter than the rest, surging ahead for pure love of learning and life itself. This transcendental outlook pervades this meandering story which in lesser hands would become saccharine, but veers away from that precipice with carefully constructed characters who are not cut-outs used in the puppet show of stories with a "moral," but these vivid, ...             The shape of a year1 review Jean Hersey Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967 Description "..a month-by-month chronicle of events in one woman's life, in her Connecticut house set in a meadow bounded by a rushing brook and hills covered with maples and hemlocks. It tells about her neighbors, her hisband and their visiting children and grandchildren; about winter nights by the fire with books and handiwork, summer days in the garden or on the not-too-distant beach;.."             Old Man and the Sea1 review Ernest Hemingway Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952 Missing Pages I wanted a first addition to add to my new library. Well, this book was signed, "To Jeffrey, 1963"...he never read it. There were four blank pages, and four pages that needed to be sliced open. It left "blanks" in the story, got a copy from the local library to finish the story.             Beautiful and Damned50 reviews F. Scott Fitzgerald Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920 Beautifully Written about Depressing Story of the B & D'd [96] Fitzgerald's farce or satire on upper crust New Yorkers can only be described as being realty becoming greater than fiction. Proclaiming the story "was all true", Fitzgerald intimated that this book was something akin to a kiss-and-tell novel about what had happened within America's richest crowd during the time of World War I. "Anthony, Maury, and Dick sent in their applications for ...             A Treasury of Knitting Patterns49 reviews Barbara G. Walker Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968 a lifetime of patterns If this was the only book of knitting patterns I ever purchased, it would be enough to last a lifetime. The pictures are clear and the author adds commentary to the different sections and to most of the patterns. This is helpful in choosing the appropriate pattern for the project.              search for books actor, american, angel, beautiful, beloved, centre, challenge, classic, comfort, country, damned, desolation, earth, farewell, gatsby, great, handy, hated, homeward, journey, knitting, look, patterns, reason, scribner, shape, stone, stones, story, treasury books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Taking Care of Yourself leave a comment home  impressum - about us