Man Who Loved Children
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The Man Who Loved Children
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Author : Christina Stead
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-04-07
The Man Who Loved Children written by Christina Stead and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-07 with Fiction categories.
All the June Saturday afternoon Sam Pollit's children were on the lookout for him as they skated round the dirt sidewalks and seamed old asphalt of R Street and Reservoir Road... Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money and too much loathing for each other. As Sam uses the children's adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny becomes a geyser of rage against her improvident husband. And, caught in the midst of it all, is Louisa, Sam's watchful eleven-year-old daughter.
The Man Who Loved Children
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Author : Christina Stead
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2012-10-23
The Man Who Loved Children written by Christina Stead and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-23 with Fiction categories.
“This crazy, gorgeous family novel” written at the end of the Great Depression “is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century” (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times). First published in 1940, The Man Who Loved Children was rediscovered in 1965 thanks to the poet Randall Jarrell’s eloquent introduction (included in this ebook edition), which compares Christina Stead to Leo Tolstoy. Today, it stands as a masterpiece of dysfunctional family life. In a country crippled by the Great Depression, Sam and Henny Pollit have too much—too much contempt for one another, too many children, too much strain under endless obligation. Flush with ego and chilling charisma, Sam torments and manipulates his children in an esoteric world of his own imagining. Henny looks on desperately, all too aware of the madness at the root of her husband’s behavior. And Louie, the damaged, precocious adolescent girl at the center of their clashes, is the “ugly duckling” whose struggle will transfix contemporary readers. Named one of the best novels of the twentieth century by Newsweek, Stead’s semiautobiographical work reads like a Depression-era The Glass Castle. In the New York Times, Jonathan Franzen wrote of this classic, “I carry it in my head the way I carry childhood memories; the scenes are of such precise horror and comedy that I feel I didn’t read the book so much as live it.”
The Man Who Loved Children
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Author : Christina Stead
language : en
Publisher: Victory Books
Release Date : 2010
The Man Who Loved Children written by Christina Stead and has been published by Victory Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Fiction categories.
The Man Who Loved Children is Christina Stead's masterpiece about family life. Set in Washington during the 1930s, Sam and Henny Pollit are a warring husband and wife. Their tempestuous marriage, aggravated by too little money, lies at the centre of Stead's satirical and brilliantly observed novel about the relations between husbands and wives, and parents and children. Sam, a scientist, uses words as weapons of attack and control on his children and is prone to illusions of power and influence that fail to extend beyond his family. His wife Henny, who hails from a wealthy Baltimore family, is disastrously impractical and enmeshed in her own fantasies of romance and vengeance. Much of the care of their six children is left to Louisa, Sam's 14-year-old daughter from his first marriage. Within this psychological battleground, Louisa must attempt to make a life of her own. First published in 1940, The Man Who Loved Children was hailed for its satiric energy. Now its originality is again lauded by novelist, Jonathan Franzen, in his illuminating new introduction.
Man Who Loved Children
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Author : Christina Stead
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Man Who Loved Children written by Christina Stead and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Families categories.
"This crazy, gorgeous family novel is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century. I carry it in my head the way I carry childhood memories; the scenes are of such precise horror and comedy that I feel I didn't read the book so much as live it."--Jonathan Franzen, author of FreedomThe Man Who Loved Children is a brutally honest examination of domestic life and family. Sam and Henny Pollit have too much-too much contempt for one another, too many children, too much strain under endless obligation. Flush with ego and a chilling domestic power, Sam torments his children, bending and manipulating their seemingly limitless love to his overbearing advantage, while Henny looks on desperately, all too aware of the madness at its root. A favorite novel of Jonathan Franzen and Randall Jarrell, among many others, The Man Who Loved Children stands as Christina Stead's masterwork.
Love You Forever
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Author : Robert N. Munsch
language : en
Publisher: Firefly Books
Release Date : 2003
Love You Forever written by Robert N. Munsch and has been published by Firefly Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A young woman holds her newborn son And looks at him lovingly. Softly she sings to him: "I'll love you forever I'll like you for always As long as I'm living My baby you'll be." So begins the story that has touched the hearts of millions worldwide. Since publication in l986, Love You Forever has sold more than 15 million copies in paperback and the regular hardcover edition (as well as hundreds of thousands of copies in Spanish and French). Firefly Books is proud to offer this sentimental favorite in a variety of editions and sizes: We offer a trade paper and laminated hardcover edition in a 8" x 8" size. In gift editions we carry: a slipcased edition (8 1/2" x 8 1/4"), with a laminated box and a cloth binding on the book and a 10" x 10" laminated hardcover with jacket. And a Big Book Edition, 16" x 16" with a trade paper binding.
The Man Who Loved Children
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Author : Christina Stead
language : en
Publisher: Everyman
Release Date : 1995
The Man Who Loved Children written by Christina Stead and has been published by Everyman this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Fiction categories.
Set in Baltimore in the 1930s, this novel tells of American family life, of the relations between parents and children, husbands and wives.
The Giving Tree
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Author : Shel Silverstein
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2014-02-18
The Giving Tree written by Shel Silverstein and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-18 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
As The Giving Tree turns fifty, this timeless classic is available for the first time ever in ebook format. This digital edition allows young readers and lifelong fans to continue the legacy and love of a classic that will now reach an even wider audience. "Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. This moving parable for all ages offers a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. He is also the creator of picture books including A Giraffe and a Half, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and the perennial favorite The Giving Tree, and of classic poetry collections such as Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, Every Thing On It, Don't Bump the Glump!, and Runny Babbit. And don't miss the other Shel Silverstein ebooks, Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic!
Janusz Korczak
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Author : Itzchak Belfer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-03-30
Janusz Korczak written by Itzchak Belfer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-30 with categories.
The Man Who Knew How to Love Children tells the story of young Itzchak Belfer, the author and artist, at a joyful and pleasant orphanage. It was a beautiful big four story building, and it had a great hall for performances and a black grand piano. There was no other house like it anywhere in the world. It was the children's empire. They had daily duties and chores, and yet enjoyed great freedom to decide and adjust the rules. Belfer is one of three living children from the famous Janusz Korczak orphanage in Warsaw, Poland. He allows us a rare glimpse into Korczak's innovative liberal methods of thinking and education, over a hundred years ago, by describing his daily life, the house arrangements, and the way conflicts were resolved. No doubt, Korczak's great personality and attitude during the most crucial eight years of Belfer's childhood had a powerful effect throughout his life, which radiates from his loving voice and all the colors of his description. During World War II, after the Nazis conquered Warsaw, Belfer escaped through the woods to Russia, and remains the only survivor of his family, who all perished in the Holocaust. Belfer realized his dream to leave Europe, establish a family and settle in Israel. Korczak, the legendary Polish pediatrician, author and educator, was murdered in 1942by the Nazis when he refused to save himself and abandon his Jewish students. He was not able to betray his entire doctrine and life work, and desert his students. Instead, he marched with them, walking tall, into the Treblinka incinerators. Korczak is known as one of the pioneers of current multiple pedagogical streams. He truly understood children, loved them and had a revolutionary approach toward children. Teachers all over the world have adopted his ideas and practice.
The Man Who Loved Children
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Author : Christina Stead
language : en
Publisher:
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The Man Who Loved Books
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Author : Jean Fritz
language : en
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 1981
The Man Who Loved Books written by Jean Fritz and has been published by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A brief biography of the Irish saint who was known for his love of books and his missionary work throughout Scotland.