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Author : George Ade
Publisher : Copp, Clark Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Forty Modern Fables written by George Ade and published by Copp, Clark Company. This book was released on 1902 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Curt Moeller
Publisher : Kumo Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780994972705
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (727 download)
Download or read book Modern Fables written by Curt Moeller and published by Kumo Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Fables is a series of tales in which animals act like humans- complete with murder, adultery, and jealousy, but also forgiveness, intelligence, and compassion. The eighteen fables contained in this volume explore issues of morality, ethics, and psychology in both serious and lighthearted ways, creating just as many questions as they answer.
Author : Aesop
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781853261282
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Aesop's Fables written by Aesop and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1994 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.
Author : Jason Petersen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996775922
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (759 download)
Download or read book Modern Day Fables written by Jason Petersen and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recurring theme in Modern Day Fables is that of the eternal conflict between the individual and society, between the unique and the formulaic. Each story, or fable, looks at the issue from a different angle, and does so specifically within the context of the current way of thinking in the world.
Author : David Sedaris
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 031613127X
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk written by David Sedaris and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life. In "The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck," three strangers commiserate about animal bureaucracy while waiting in a complaint line. In "Hello Kitty," a cynical feline struggles to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings. In "The Squirrel and the Chipmunk," a pair of star-crossed lovers is separated by prejudiced family members. With original illustrations by Ian Falconer, author of the bestselling Olivia series of children's books, these stories are David Sedaris at his most observant, poignant, and surprising.
Author : Malcolm Bradbury
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141965150
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories written by Malcolm Bradbury and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1988-02-25 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology is in many was a ‘best of the best’, containing gems from thirty-four of Britain's outstanding contemporary writers. It is a book to dip into, to read from cover to cover, to lend to friends and read again. It includes stories of love and crime, stories touched with comedy and the supernatural, stories set in London, Los Angeles, Bucharest and Tokyo. Above all, as you will discover, it satisfies Samuel Butler's anarchic pleasure principle: 'I should like to like Schumann's music better than I do; I daresay I could make myself like it better if I tried; but I do not like having to try to make myself like things; I like things that make me like them at once and no trying at all ...'
Author : Robbie Arnott
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925626563
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Flames written by Robbie Arnott and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize 2019* ‘A strange and joyous marvel.’ Richard Flanagan *Shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize 2019* In Robbie Arnott’s widely acclaimed and much-loved first novel, a young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his sister, Charlotte—who promptly runs for her life. A water rat swims upriver in quest of the cloud god. A fisherman hunts for tuna in partnership with a seal. And a father takes form from fire. The answers to these riddles are to be found in this tale of grief and love and the bonds of family, tracing a journey across the southern island. Utterly original in conception, spellbinding in its descriptions of nature and celebration of language, Flames is one of the most exciting debuts of recent years. Robbie Arnott was born in Launceston in 1989. He was a 2019 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist, and won the 2019 Margaret Scott Prize, the 2015 Tasmanian Young Writers’ Fellowship and the 2014 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers. His widely acclaimed debut, Flames, was published in 2018. The Rain Heron, his second novel, will be published in 2020. Robbie’s writing has appeared in the Lifted Brow, Island, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin and the anthology Seven Stories. He lives in Hobart. ‘Ambitious storytelling from a stunning new Australian voice. Flames is constantly surprising—I never knew where the story would take me next. This book has a lovely sense of wonder for the world. It’s brimming with heart and compassion.’ Rohan Wilson ‘Arnott confidently borrows from the genres of crime fiction, thriller, romance, comedy, eco-literature, and magical realism, throws them in the air, and lets the pieces land to form a flaming new world.’ Sydney Morning Herald ‘This is a startlingly good first novel, stylistically adventurous, gorgeous in its descriptions and with a compelling narrative that should find a wide readership.’ Australian ‘An Australian literary fabulist classic – well, it certainly deserves to be.’ Avid Reader ‘Visionary, vivid, full of audacious transformations: there’s a marvellous energy to this writing that returns the world to us aflame. A brilliant and wholly original debut.’ Gail Jones ‘Robbie Arnott is a vivid and bold new voice in Australian fiction.’ Danielle Wood ‘Arnott skilfully switches between different voices and genres in a trick reminiscent of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. The range he displays is impressive, swinging from fable to gothic horror to hardboiled detective story.’ Books+Publishing ‘Flames is an exuberantly creative and confident debut. This is a story that sparks with invention...Invigorating, strange and occasionally brutal.’ Australian Book Review ‘This is the kind of book that you’ll be able to read a second, third, even fourth time, and it will still never reveal all its secrets. Composed with meticulous attention to detail, and a mastery of form rarely found in a debut novel, Flames will keep you stewing long after you’ve finished reading it.’ Readings 'A surprising story with a definite feminist edge...the novel’s playfulness and poetry make for a fresh and entertaining read.' Saturday Paper ‘It will be immediately apparent to anyone even vaguely familiar with Tasmania that Arnott is on intimate terms with his island, and his exquisite descriptive prose definitely does this gem of a place justice...More please, Mr Arnott.’ BookMooch ‘A gloriously audacious book. It runs astonishing risks and takes on the biggest emotions...It bowled me sideways.’ New Zealand Herald
Author : Terry Miles
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 1984819666
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Rabbits written by Terry Miles and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deadly underground game might just be altering reality itself in this all-new adventure set in the world of the hit Rabbits podcast. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL • “A wild ride . . . impossible to put down.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) It’s an average work day. You’ve been wrapped up in a task, and you check the clock when you come up for air—4:44 p.m. You check your email, and 44 unread messages have built up. With a shock, you realize the date is April 4—4/4. And when you get in your car to drive home, your odometer reads 44,444. Coincidence? Or have you just seen the edge of a rabbit hole? Rabbits is a mysterious alternate reality game so vast it uses the entire world as its canvas. Since the game started in 1959, ten iterations have appeared and nine winners have been declared. The identities of these winners are unknown. So is their reward, which is whispered to be NSA or CIA recruitment, vast wealth, immortality, or perhaps even the key to the secrets of the universe itself. But the deeper you get, the more dangerous the game becomes. Players have died in the past—and the body count is rising. And now the eleventh round is about to begin. Enter K—a Rabbits obsessive who has been trying to find a way into the game for years. That path opens when K is approached by billionaire Alan Scarpio, rumored to be the winner of the sixth iteration. Scarpio says that something has gone wrong with the game and that K needs to fix it before Eleven starts, or the whole world will pay the price. Five days later, Scarpio is declared missing. Two weeks after that, K blows the deadline: Eleven begins. And suddenly, the fate of the entire universe is at stake.
Author : Martin Shaw
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645020967
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Smoke Hole written by Martin Shaw and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With potent, lyrical language and a profound knowledge of storytelling, Shaw encourages and illuminates the mythic in our own lives. He is a modern-day bard." – Madeline Miller, author of Circe and The Song of Achilles At a time when we are all confronted by not one, but many crossroads in our modern lives—identity, technology, trust, politics, and a global pandemic—celebrated mythologist and wilderness guide Martin Shaw delivers Smoke Hole: three metaphors to help us understand our world, one that is assailed by the seductive promises of social media and shadowed by a health crisis that has brought loneliness and isolation to an all-time high. Smoke Hole is a passionate call to arms and an invitation to use these stories to face the complexities of contemporary life, from fake news, parenthood, climate crises, addictive technology and more. Shaw urges us to reclaim our imagination and untangle ourselves from modern menace, letting these tales be our guide. More Praise: "I can still remember the first time I heard Martin Shaw tell a story. The tale that emerged was like a living thing, bounding around, throwing itself at us there listening. I had never heard anything like it before." – Paul Kingsnorth, Booker shortlisted author of The Wake "Martin Shaw’s work is so very beautiful. A new animal. His love of images is deep and contagious." – Coleman Barks, author of The Essential Rumi "Through feral tales and poetic exegesis, Martin Shaw makes you re-see the world, as a place of adventure, and of initiation, as perfect home, and as perfectly other. What a gift." – David Keenan, author of Xstabeth "Shaw has so much wisdom and knowledge about the old stories, it emanates from his pores." – John Densmore, The Doors
Author : Rabindranath Tagore
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143335702
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Prince and Other Modern Fables written by Rabindranath Tagore and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pages of this book are full of insightful little stories that reveal the simple truth about life. Asking questions that we usually do not stop to ask ourselves, and often coming up with answers that are surprising in their simplicity. Every story sparkles with insights on the human condition, and remain etched in the mind of the for a long time.
Author : Patricia Craig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories written by Patricia Craig and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The inadequate acknowledgement of women short story writers in standard anthologies is a cause for wonder or affront. How else, indeed, can you view it, given the riches overlooked?" So states editor Patricia Craig in her introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories, a rich, wide-ranging collection that, at last, redresses this historical imbalance by bringing together forty examples of the very best women's stories--from established authors such as Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, and Katherine Mansfield, to such modern masters as Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Bharati Mukherjee, and Amy Tan. Here readers will find humor, passion, eccentricity, forcefulness, elan, intellectual vigor, subversion--indeed every shading of tone and mood, from ironic detachment to full-blooded engagement. Each writer has her own, perfectly realized angle of vision, whether it's the zestfulness of Angela Carter, the breathtaking evocations of Willa Cather, the quirkiness of Grace Paley, or the pungency of Flannery O'Connor. Breaking with tradition, editor Patricia Craig offers few stories about traditional "women's" topics. Instead, the entries in this collection range from an unforgettable tale of racism in South Africa to explorations of adultery, immigration, the importance of cultural identity, and the rootlessness of American cities. Craig also includes some provocative offerings from outside the mainstream of twentieth century fiction--a ghost story by Edith Wharton, a delightful fairy tale, and several engaging historical pieces. Eloquent and captivating, The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories offers a dazzling assortment of classic stories and overlooked gems that will amuse, intrigue, and challenge every lover of fine fiction.
Author : Melissa Gay
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781535442848
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Parkland Tales written by Melissa Gay and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in Parkland is not always, well, a walk in the park for its residents. It's every animal for himself. Follow the adventures of a quixotic squirrel, a middle-aged deer, a nearsighted owl and others in these tales of life in an overcrowded urban park. For every adult who still likes a grand bedtime story, Parkland Tales, Stories for 3 a.m. Readings is a pleasant distraction on sleepless nights.
Author : Sandra Bark
Publisher : Harper Design
ISBN 13 : 9780062071736
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Birds of a Feather Shop Together written by Sandra Bark and published by Harper Design. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No fashionista will be able to resist this witty collection of Aesop-inspired tales that rewrite morality for the stylish. Covering a range of beauty and fashion topics from head to toe— and including the original fables too—this charming volume gives important life lessons a couture twist.
Author : Dorothy Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Here Lies written by Dorothy Parker and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: ARRANGEMENT IN BLACK AND WHITE; SEXES, THE; WONDERFUL OLD GENTLEMAN, THE; TELEPHONE CALL, A; HERE WE ARE; LADY WITH A LAMP; TOO BAD; MR. DURANT; JUST A LITTLE ONE; HORSIE; CLOTHE THE NAKED; WALTZ, THE; LITTLE CURTIS; LITTLE HOURS, THE; BIG BLONDE; FROM THE DIARY OF A NEW YORK LADY; SOLDIERS OF THE REPUBLIC; DUSK BEFORE FIREWORKS; NEW YORK TO DETROIT; GLORY IN THE DAYTIME; LAST TEA, THE; SENTIMENT; YOU WERE PERFECTLY FINE; and CUSTARD HEART, THE.
Author : Madeline Hale
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781542678599
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (785 download)
Download or read book Table Fables written by Madeline Hale and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you play Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder or some other obscure brand of fantasy tabletop role-playing game? Do you enjoy lists of magical items, fantastical weapons, dubious potions and fascinating books? Do you tire of your players asking difficult questions, like 'what is in the dead guy's pocket?' or 'what is on this tavern's menu?' or other such wearisome inquiries concerning details you had no time to prepare for? Well, then this is the book for you. Table Fables is filled over eighty illustrated pages of lists and generators designed to be useful to game masters, young and wizened alike.
Author : Kevin J. Smitth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942731375
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (313 download)
Download or read book Discovering Kindness written by Kevin J. Smitth and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The path through life is littered with obstacles, some of them products of our environment and others of our own doing. Kindness often provides the positive energy we need to overcome real or imagined challenges and set us on the path to contentment. These nine stories, envisioned by Kevin J. Smith and expertly brought to life through the writing talents of Laura Sherman, deliver heartwarming examples of people from all walks of life who discover they truly deserve happiness and the sun is always lingering just behind the clouds.
Author : Rabindranath Tagore
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184750080
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)
Download or read book The Prince and Other Modern Fables written by Rabindranath Tagore and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-09-26 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy tales with a difference India's greatest poet of modern times, Nobel Prize-winning author Rabindranath Tagore was a philosopher, a visionary and a storyteller par excellence. His short, lyrical prose fables, set in a generic fairyland or in everyday locales, are philosophical excursions across magical landscapes that speak to the imaginative child in every reader. The pages of The Prince and Other Modern Fables are full of insightful little stories that reveal the simple truth about life. There is the story of a little boy who has lost his mother, of a tribal girl who is mistaken for a fairy, of a jester who watches a king fight his battles from the sidelines, of a young man who tries to come to terms with his first heartache, and of a modern-day prince who is trying to eke out a living in the unforgiving city. Asking questions that we usually don't stop to ask ourselves, and often coming up with answers that are surprising in their simplicity, every story sparkles with insights on the human condition, and remains etched in the mind long afterwards. Now available in a lucid and vibrant translation, this classic collection is sure to enchant modern readers who might never have encountered it before.
