Owen Books

Apollinair creates a novel about a noble that lives a very vivid sex life, almost all sexual standards are shot down in this excellent parade of perverted minds that fill the characters...Excellent fot the reader who does not fear to read something that might be socially unacceptable, though really entertaining. Concerning literature, the book has all that could characterise any other book as a great creation.

The writer of this novel is better known as Anna Kavan - the name of a character in one of her earlier novels that she later took for herself. There must be some hidden significance in that! This is probably the strongest modern novel I have read. The start is captivating and brilliantly exposed, the middle is a bit flat and rather remorseless, but the ending is electric. At long last the principle character feels an iota of remorse for her actions against an unlikeable victim of her actions. I wonder how a woman could have written this novel - is it a brilliant psychological expose - almost a thriller - or is it a wonderfully personal account of a life written with startling naivete?

An Excellent resource for getting around San Francisco, CA, USA ... it's a tough city to drive in, and you always need a good map or reference around to get where you are going. Tells you where all the hot spots are - a must by for those that live in San Fran as well as tourists!

I picked this book up on a whim without knowing much about it, and I'm glad I did! You don't have to be a do-it-yourself wizard or even a homeowner to appreciate the insights in this book. The book's title implies that the book is about houses, but the subject matter is really oriented around family--if you are part of or have ever been part of a pleasantly dysfunctional family, you will recognize truths about yourself.

The book is a collection of very short and informally written humorous essays. David Owen writes with a lot of heart and I often found myself laughing out loud. It was hard to put this book down! The stories are consistently humorous without being sarcastic or biting--and the reason they're so funny is that I can recognize aspects of myself and the people I know in every one of them. The author has put his finger on the pulse of everyday things, and has found truth and goodness there.

This book is an excellent, heartwarming, and funny expose of the foibles and ridiculous tendencies that make us human; I would recommend it to anyone.

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Western writer Dane Coolidge observed that a copy of "Lin McLean" could be found in almost any bunkhouse across the West in the first decades of the twentieth century. Its cowboy hero, an early version of Wister's Virginian, who came along just a few years later, has the same boyish charm and natural nobility. Though he comes from Eastern stock, he's a son of the plains, a man of homespun character, mostly unschooled, but both fiercely egalitarian and gentlemanly. An excellent horseman, good with a gun, handsome and gallant in his courtship of women, he is respected by all. Generous to a fault, he also takes under his wing a boy who has run away from a home that we'd describe today as thoroughly dysfunctional.

A series of short stories strung together into a novel, Wister's book is really a romance in a Western setting - the open range and frontier towns of Wyoming in the 1880s, an era already regarded as long past, just a decade later at the time of Wister's writing. There are no gunfights or outlaws. While the book is chiefly a portrayal of an admirable young man, its storyline has to do with the winning of a young woman's hand - two women, actually, each of whom betrays him, one for lack of principle and the other for principles too highly refined.

Altogether, the book is an enjoyable and entertaining read that, besides its occasional quaintness, is fully enjoyable more than 100 years after its writing. Wister has a gift for both humor and poignancy, and while the realities of cowboying, homesteading, and working with cattle hardly get a mention, his depiction of the Old West ranges easily from farce to sentiment to the starkly grim. McLean's visit to Denver at Christmas suggests something of Dickens' London, and the account of a funeral comes as close as anything to black humor. As a precursor to Wister's bestseller "The Virginian," this book raises many issues that get fuller treatment in the later novel. There are even glimpses of the Virginian himself, who gets brief walk-ons, with references to his own longstanding courtship of the schoolmarm from Vermont. With both men, Wister did more than anyone to invent the cowboy hero as he came to be known by everyone, from the bunkhouse to the parlor and eventually to the movie screen.

The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 helped bring to a head many significant issues from slavery and states' rights to the legal status of blacks in America, yet most of these debates have been diluted to mere paragraphs over history. Dover's republication of the two speeches and seven debates which originally appeared in a 1913 Putnam hardcover now returns here as a standby for any solid American history collection and makes one of the most pivotal pre-Civil War political events readily accessible to a new generation of readers.

This is an excellent biography of American actress Elizabeth Quinn, who played the role of Sarah in the London stage production of Children of a Lesser God.

Throughout her entire life, Quinn was resented and criticized by others in the deaf community because she didn't quite fit the mold. She became deaf after she learned to speak, and while she became fluent in sign language, her hearing father also provided her with a love of storytelling and he took her to stage plays and musicals as a child. This made her less than deaf. Not hearing, but not Deaf either.

The book is also a story of hope and making impossible dreams come true - Quinn was an integral part of establishing modern deaf theater in America.

I highly recommend this book for coaches who want to be effective in their work with teachers. I was pleased with how the author clarifies the roles of the teacher and the coach. I am recommending that this book be required reading for coaches in my school district.
Elizabeth Hamilton, Hutto, TX

This short book is brimming with black humor, comedy, farce, and an inside look at the the UK acting profession, something which is not always as pretty as one might think..Very breezy and fun, with top drawer dialogue, and interesting, slightly eccentric characters, I dare anyone to try this without finishing it!. Plus, there is a very nifty plot twist that was not a total surprise to this reviewer, but still came as a slight shock! Highly recommended!