Books published by publisher Charles SchribnerÕs Sons

Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920) was an immediate, spectacular success and established his literary reputation. Perhaps the definitive novel of that "Lost Generation," it tells the story of Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy Princeton student who halfheartedly involves himself in literary cults, "liberal" student activities, and a series of empty flirtations with young women. When he finally does fall truly in love, however, the young woman rejects him for another. After serving in France during the war, Blaine returns to embark on a career in advertising. Still young, but already cynical and world-weary, he exemplifies the young men and women of the '20s, described by Fitzgerald as "a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken."

The hours of this novel tell a love story, tender and moving, but dark under the inexorable shadow of what must come. The story is a thing of mood, flawlessly projected. Venice is part of it, a Venice whose canals, bars, and cosmopolitan hotel life are at first less familiar under a winter sky, but a Venice that has never been made so real. There is the incomparable Hemingway magic---a duck blind with a thin skim of morning ice over its waters; the Venetian countryside seen from a moving car, every mile alive with memories of two wars. And over it all is the brooding awareness of the tragic which invests all the great Hemingway novels, an awareness into which he has always admitted his readers from the start. (From the dustjacket)

SLAVE: Brought to Sargon in chains as a child -- unwanted by all save a one-legged beggar -- Thorby learned well the wiles of the street people and the mysterious ways of his crippledmaster . . .OUTLAW: Hunted by the police for some unknown treasonous acts committed by his beloved owner, Thorby risked his life to deliver a dead man's message and found himself both guest and prisoner aboard an alien spaceship . . .CITIZEN: Unaware of his role in an ongoing intrigue, Thorby became one of the freest of the free in the entire galaxy as the adopted son of a noble space captain . . . until he became a captive in an interstellar prison that offered everything but the hope of escape!

Spanning more than 4, 000 years, from the Early Bronze Age to 325 B.C.E., this Encyclopedia provides an overview of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran/Persia, the Arabian Peninsula and more. This 4-vol. set is fully illustrated, and including sidebars, marginal definitions and maps, this set provides an accurate, comprehensive and accessible research reference for students, and is modeled Ancient Greece and Rome and The Middle Ages.

Here is a book which will have rare appeal to boys. Every boy wants to know the HOW and the WHY of airplane motors, automobile engines, Diesel engines, steam engines, steam turbines, electrical generators and motors and hydraulic plants, the machines which produce power in the world of our times. This remarkable book does two things -- it furnishes amusement and it instructs. It provides simple plans with illustrations and instructions which tell how to make numerous toy motors and engines that a boy can build and operate himself. This book tells how to build small mill wheels, how to make a steam engine, a steam turbine, an engine that will run on dry ice, how to make a toy electric motor which will run on either alternating or direct current.