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ISBN. 978-0-8021-2586-6 (First edition hardcover) OCLC. 951453058. Dewey Decimal. 813/.6. LC Class. PS3566.E718 O43 2017b. The Old Man is a stand-alone thriller novel by Thomas Perry, published by the Mysterious Press imprint of Grove Atlantic in January 2017.
Cannery Row. Sweet Thursday is a 1954 novel by John Steinbeck. It is a sequel to Cannery Row and set in the years after the end of World War II . According to Steinbeck in the narrative, "Sweet Thursday" is the day between Lousy Wednesday and Waiting Friday. The book is not held in as high esteem as is Cannery Row, which is considered one of ...
Private collection. View of the World from 9th Avenue (sometimes A Parochial New Yorker's View of the World, A New Yorker's View of the World or simply View of the World) is a 1976 illustration by Saul Steinberg that served as the cover of the March 29, 1976, edition of The New Yorker. The work presents the view from Manhattan of the rest of ...
As Time Goes By is a novel written by American author Michael Walsh, intended as a prequel/sequel to the film Casablanca. [1] It was published in 1998. The book alternates between the early life of Rick Blaine (played by Humphrey Bogart in the film) in America and the period immediately after the plane leaves Casablanca at the end of the 1942 film.
The Pearl is a [ [novella] by the American author John Steinbeck. The story, first published in 1947, [citation needed] follows a pearl diver, Kino, and explores man’s purpose as well as greed, defiance of societal norms, and evil. Steinbeck's inspiration was a Mexican folk tale from La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, which he had heard in ...
The Number: One Man's Search for Identity in the Cape Underworld and Prison Gangs is a non-fiction book written by Jonny Steinberg about South Africa's criminal tradition of prison gangs, and published in 2004 by Jonathan Ball Publishers. The book won South Africa's premier nonfiction literary award, the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award.
As a Driven Leaf is a 1939 novel by Milton Steinberg based on the life of Elisha ben Abuyah. Steinberg's novel wrestles with the 2nd century Jewish struggle to reconcile Rabbinic Judaism both culturally and philosophically with Greek Hellenistic society. In Elisha's struggle, Steinberg speculates about questions and events that may have driven ...
World War II is a series of books published by Time-Life that chronicles the Second World War. Each book focused on a different topic, such as the resistance, spies, the home front but mainly the battles and campaigns of the conflict. They are each 208 pages in length, heavily illustrated and with pictorial essays on specific topics within the ...