The Story Of The Other Wise Man (Classic Reprint)

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The Story of the Other Wise Man .by: Henry Van Dyke

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The Story of the Other Wise Man. Novel by: Henry Van Dyke (Original Version)

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The Story of the Other Wise Man

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The Story of the Other Wise Man

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The Story of the Other Wise Man

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The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke.

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Dominoes: Two: The Bird of Happiness and Other Wise Tales Audio Pack Oxford University Press

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Ideal for elementary or pre-intermediate learners of English lookingto improve and practise their English. The book is filled with usefulvocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it alsocomes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.What is the secret of happiness, or the best thing for awife to take with her when she leaves home? How does a man pay for the smell of bread, or decide if he is lucky? What happens when a friendsteals a gift meant for you, or is careless when he tries to make hisdreams of a better life come true? How can you change dirt into gold,or get what you want?The eight wise tales in this collection can teach us some important lessons about life.

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Father Joe The Man Who Saved My Soul Random House

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A key comic writer of the past three decades has created his most heartfelt and hard-hitting book. Father Joe is Tony Hendra's inspiring true story of finding faith, friendship, and family through the decades-long influence of a surpassingly wise Benedictine monk named Father Joseph Warrillow. Like everything human, it started with sex. In 1955, fourteen-year-old Tony found himself entangled with a married Catholic woman. In Cold War England, where Catholicism was the subject of news stories and Graham Greene bestsellers, Tony was whisked off by the woman's husband to see a priest and be saved. Yet what he found was a far cry from the priests he'd known at Catholic school, where boys were beaten with belts or set upon by dogs. Instead, he met Father Joe, a gentle, stammering, ungainly Benedictine who never used the words 'wrong' or 'guilt,' who believed that God was in everyone and that 'the only sin was selfishness.' During the next forty years, as his life and career drastically ebbed and flowed, Tony discovered that his visits to Father Joe remained the one constant in his life -- the relationship that, in the most serious sense, saved it. From the fifties and his adolescent desire to join an abbey himself; to the sixties, when attending Cambridge and seeing the satire of Beyond the Fringe convinced him to change the world with laughter, not prayer; to the seventies and successful stints as an original editor of National Lampoon and a writer of Lemmings, the off-Broadway smash that introduced John Belushi and Chevy Chase; to professional disaster after co-creating the legendary English series Spitting Image; from drinking to drugs, from a failed first marriage to a successful second and the miracle of parenthood -- the years only deepened Tony's need for the wisdom of his other and more real father, creating a bond that could not be broken, even by death. A startling departure for this acclaimed satirist, Father Joe is a sincere account of how Tony Hendra learned to love. It's the story of a whole generation looking for a way back from mockery and irony, looking for its own Father Joe, and a testament to one of the most charismatic mentors in modern literature.

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Consolations of Philosophy Penguin

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Alain de Botton, best-selling author of How Proust can Change Your Life, has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Here then are Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on some of the things that bother us all; lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety, the fear of failure and the pressure to conform.

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White Teeth - Zadie Smith

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Opis - Zadie Smith"s White Teeth is a classic international bestseller and an unforgettable portrait of London, available as a Penguin Essential for the first timeOne of the most talked about fictional debuts ever, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book."Funny, clever ... and a rollicking good read" Independent "An astonishingly assured debut, funny and serious ... I was delighted" Salman Rushdie"The almost preposterous talent was clear from the first pages" Julian Barnes, Guardian"Quirky, sassy and wise ... a big, splashy, populous production reminiscent of books by Dickens and Salman Rushdie ... demonstrates both an instinctive storytelling talent and a fully fashioned voice that"s street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time" New York Times"Smith writes like an old hand, and, sometimes, like a dream" New Yorker"Outstanding ... A strikingly clever and funny book with a passion for ideas, for language and for the rich tragic-comedy of life" Sunday Telegraph"Do believe the hype" The Times"Relentlessly funny ... idiosyncratic, and deeply felt" GuardianZadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. Her debut novel, White Teeth, won the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Guardian First Book Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Writers? First Book Prize, and was included in TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. Her second novel, On Beauty, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction. She has written two further novels, The Autograph Man and NW, a collection of essays, Changing My Mind, and also edited a short-story anthology, The Book of Other People. Nazwa - White Teeth Autor - Zadie Smith Oprawa - Miękka Wydawca - Penguin Books Kod ISBN - 9780241981399 Kod EAN - 9780241981399 Rok wydania - 2017 Język - angielski Format - 11.1x18.1cm Ilość stron - 560 Podatek VAT - 5% Premiera - 2017-07-21

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Mansion Fredonia Books (NL)

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Van Dyke's Christmas story about a mansion that speaks "not of money squandered but of wealth prudently applied" - the companion story to The Other Wise Man.Henry van Dyke (1852B1933) was an American clergyman, educator, and author. He graduated from Princeton in 1873, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1874. He was pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City (1883B99), professor of English literature at Princeton (1899B1923), and U.S. minister to the Netherlands (1913B16). Among his popular inspirational writings is the Christmas story The Other Wise Man (1896). As President Wilson's ambassador to the Netherlands from 1913, Van Dyke was a first-hand witness to the outbreak of World War I and its progress, and was a key player in the President's diplomatic efforts to keep the U.S. out of the conflict.

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Sam Walton Random House

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Wise and inspiring autobiography... Walton tells his quietly fantastic story with conviction and makes no bones about his mistakes. -- San Francisco ChronicleIt's a story about entrepreneur, and risk, and hard work, and knowing where you want to go and being willing to do what it takes to get there. And it's a story about believing in your idea even when maybe some other folks don't, and about sticking to your guns. Sam Walton.Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who turned a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch. Here, finally, Sam Walton tells his extraordinary story in his won inimitable words.Genuinely modest, but always sure of his ambitious and achievements, Sam shares his thinking in a candid, straight-from-the-shoulder style. In a story rich with anecdotes and the "rules of the road" of both Main Street and Wall Street, Sam Walton chronicles the inspiration, heart, and optimism that propelled him to lasso the American Dream. "Here is an extraordinary success story about a man whose empire was built not with smoke and mirrors, but with good old-fashioned elbow grease." -- Detroit Free Press

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