The Legacy

Literature & Fiction

HOWARD FAST

Contemporary

Harcourt

Establishment

The Second Generation

The American: A Middle Western Legend (Classic Reprint)

Children's Books

Forgotten Books

Excerpt from The American: A Middle Western Legend The father was A hard man; he was like ﬂint. If he had ever been anything else, weak or sentimental or loving or kind, there was no trace left now, no trace at all. Between him and the boy, there was fear. And when the boy did wrong, or what the father conceived to be wrong, there was punishment. You would have to have a sheet of paper as long as the Ohio River to write down all the hard, bitter things which had left their mark on the father, and a little of each of those things went into the punishment. The father didn't drink - except beer - but anger let things out of him and relieved him, the way drink lets things out of some men. And anger went into the punishment. On the wall in the kitchen, there was a piece of an old harness, and when the father got angry, he would walk toward it, and the expression on his lined brown face would tell the boy all the boy had to know. There was a special expression for the boy, a singularity of rage that would indicate his guilt as separate from that of his two brothers and his three sisters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Hessian

Genre Fiction

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

<p>A young Hessian boy, drawn into the ravages of war, seeks refuge from a band of American militiamen</p>

A collection of 13 stunning stories by one of the most celebrated American writers of the 20th century A follow-up to his 1970 science fiction collection, The General Zapped an Angel, Fast's book of 13 new science fiction stories is brisk and engrossing. In "The Hoop," a scientist builds a portal to an unknown destination, which the mayor of New York City hijacks to use as a garbage dump until the location's surprising, and hilarious, revelation. And in "The Egg," set 3,000 years in the future, a research team discovers an egg, something they have never seen before, cryogenically frozen in a nuclear bunker. These 13 stories are bizarre, hilarious, poignant, and sure to entertain.

A Touch of Infinity: Thirteen New Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Hodder&Stoughton

This is a love story of great beauty and great tenderness, the kind of love story that entangles the listener in the lives of the characters, so that after the story is over, one continues to live with those characters.  And fortunately, the listener will not have to say farewell to these characters.  The Immigrants is complete in itself, an absorbing novel of high adventure, romance, joy and tragedy.  But it is also the first in a series that will tell the story of three Californian families over the course of the twentieth century.

The Immigrants

Don Lavette, the son of an Italian fisherman, battles from the ruins of the San Francisco earthquake to build a fortune in the shipping industry. Rising to success he risks all for the exotic beauty of a woman who shares his secret passion.

Immigrants

Coronet

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