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A Day in the Country and Other Stories

Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191606006
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book A Day in the Country and Other Stories written by Guy de Maupassant and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1998-09-10 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of twenty-seven stories shows Maupassant at his comic, cruel, and brilliant best. In addition to the poignant title story, it includes one of the most famous tales ever written, The Necklace , and Le Horla, an account of a disintegrating personality that chillingly parallels the author's own decline into madness. All the stories demonstrate his genius for invention and his ability to write unblinkingly about the absurdity of the human condition, supporting Henry James' claim that in the annals of story-telling, Maupassant stands `like a lion in the path'. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

A Day in the Country and Other Stories

Author : Ismith Khan
Publisher : Peepal Tree Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Day in the Country and Other Stories written by Ismith Khan and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these stories of Indian life in Trinidad in the 1940s and 50s, Ismith Khan brings to vivid life the morning smells of eggplant frying in coconut oil, and herrings baking in the embers of the earthen fireplace; childhoods such as Pooran's, who has to make his way between the poetic mythology of the pundit and the cold, rationalistic materialism of his science teacher, or 'Thiney Boney' who, newly arrived in Port of Spain from the country, has to choose between his new Creole friends and his father's harsh moral certainties. These are not comfortable childhoods, and several stories show the pressures of poverty and despair leading to the abuse of children by their parents. Stories deal with the trauma of urbanisation as Indians are drawn from the country to Port of Spain, though even in the villages, where the shining metal of the oil refineries dwarfs the grasscutter tending his oxen, old ways must change. Ismith Khan brings a tender and affecting style to stories of troubled childhoods, questioning youth and adult struggle. This is beautiful writing to savour beyond place and time. "The brilliant short story 'A Day in the Country' has a home in my heart. It reminded me of the intense, uplifting genius of Thomas Wolfe's (1900-1938) short story 'Circus at Dawn'. In both stories the concentration on life, on living, on things seen, heard and felt, is so full and rich that plot becomes unnecessary. But 'A Day in the Country' is much more than a generous slice of life, and it does much more than revel in secure country childhood, or celebrate boyhood in the countryside. It makes a moving, ominous communication about the unsheltering of Trinidad, about its unprepared journey, from the 'Drinking Rum and Coca Cola' years of the 40s and 50s to the bewildering, homogeneous brutality of the 20th century." Keith Jardim, The Trinidad Guardian Ismith Khan was born in Trinidad in 1925. He is the author of The Jumbie Bird and The Obeah Man. He lived in New York until his death in 2002.

The Country Wife and Other Plays

Author : William Wycherley
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191611425
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Country Wife and Other Plays written by William Wycherley and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wycherley's four comedies are admired for their satirical wit, farcical humour, vivid characterization, and social criticism.Love in a Wood, a lively comedy of intrigue, established him as a brilliant new dramatist.The Gentleman Dancing-Master, in contrast, disappointed contemporary audiences, but the central relationship between Hippolyta and Gerrard features an original and sympathetic study of a young woman's attitudes and feelings. The Country Wife is a sharp but also highly amusing attack on social and sexual hypocrisy. The Plain Dealer, a powerful dramatic satire loosely based on Moliere's Le Misanthrope, continues and enlarges Wycherley's assault on greed and corruption. Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction, a note on staging, and detailed annotation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

In the Country

Author : Mia Alvar
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385352840
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book In the Country written by Mia Alvar and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these nine globe-trotting tales, Mia Alvar gives voice to the women and men of the Philippines and its diaspora. From teachers to housemaids, from mothers to sons, Alvar’s stories explore the universal experiences of loss, displacement, and the longing to connect across borders both real and imagined. In the Country speaks to the heart of everyone who has ever searched for a place to call home—and marks the arrival of a formidable new voice in literature.

Home Is Not a Country

Author : Safia Elhillo
Publisher : Make Me a World
ISBN 13 : 0593177088
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Home Is Not a Country written by Safia Elhillo and published by Make Me a World. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “Nothing short of magic.” —Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X From the acclaimed poet featured on Forbes Africa’s “30 Under 30” list, this powerful novel-in-verse captures one girl, caught between cultures, on an unexpected journey to face the ephemeral girl she might have been. Woven through with moments of lyrical beauty, this is a tender meditation on family, belonging, and home. my mother meant to name me for her favorite flower its sweetness garlands made for pretty girls i imagine her yasmeen bright & alive & i ache to have been born her instead Nima wishes she were someone else. She doesn’t feel understood by her mother, who grew up in a different land. She doesn’t feel accepted in her suburban town; yet somehow, she isn't different enough to belong elsewhere. Her best friend, Haitham, is the only person with whom she can truly be herself. Until she can't, and suddenly her only refuge is gone. As the ground is pulled out from under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life not chosen—the name her parents meant to give her at birth—Yasmeen. But that other name, that other girl, might be more real than Nima knows. And the life Nima wishes were someone else's. . . is one she will need to fight for with a fierceness she never knew she possessed.

The Picnic

Author : Walter Levy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0759121826
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book The Picnic written by Walter Levy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picnics are happy occasions and have always been a diversion from every day cares. We think of the picnic as an outdoor meal, set on a blanket, usually in the middle of the day, featuring a hamper filled with tasty morsels and perhaps a bottle of wine, but historically picnics came in many forms, served any time of the day. This first culinary history reveals rustic outdoor dining in its more familiar and unusual forms, the history of the word itself, the cultural context of picnics and who arranged them, and, most important, the gastronomic appeal. Drawing on various media and literature, painting, music, and even sculpture, Walter Levy provides an engaging and enlightening history of the picnic.

Top 10 Normandy

Author : Fiona Duncan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756685885
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Top 10 Normandy written by Fiona Duncan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the same standards of accuracy as the acclaimed DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, The DK Top 10 Guides use exciting colorful photography and excellent cartography to provide a reliable and useful pocket-sized travel companion. Dozens of Top 10 lists provide vital information on each destination, aswell as insider tips, from avoiding the crowds to finding out the freebies. The DK Top 10 Guides take the work out of planning any trip.

The West Indian Novel and Its Background

Author : Kenneth Ramchand
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9766371512
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book The West Indian Novel and Its Background written by Kenneth Ramchand and published by Ian Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the emergence of the West Indian novel in English, this work provides valuable insights into the social, cultural and political background, offering concise and focused accounts of the growth of education, the development of literacy, and the formation of West Indian Creole languages.

Exemplary Stories

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192832436
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book Exemplary Stories written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More popular in their day than DON QUIXOTE, Cervantes's EXEMPLARY STORIES (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. This new translation captures the full vigor of Cervantes's wit and makes available two rarely printed gems, "The Illustrious Kitchen Maid" and "The Power of Blood".

Another Day in the Death of America

Author : Gary Younge
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 156858976X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Another Day in the Death of America written by Gary Younge and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas PrizeShortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation AwardFinalist for the 2017 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismLonglisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non Fiction On an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during one such day. It could have been any day, but he chose November 23, 2013. Black, white, and Latino, aged nine to nineteen, they fell at sleepovers, on street corners, in stairwells, and on their own doorsteps. From the rural Midwest to the barrios of Texas, the narrative crisscrosses the country over a period of twenty-four hours to reveal the full human stories behind the gun-violence statistics and the brief mentions in local papers of lives lost. This powerful and moving work puts a human face-a child's face-on the "collateral damage" of gun deaths across the country. This is not a book about gun control, but about what happens in a country where it does not exist. What emerges in these pages is a searing and urgent portrait of youth, family, and firearms in America today.

War Stories and Poems

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192836861
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book War Stories and Poems written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique anthology of Kipling's war stories and poems provides critical comment on the ineptitude of the British in the Boer War. Including such stories as "Barrack-Room Ballads," this work provides tales of courage and adventure, as well as shameful episodes of retreat and failure.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191504327
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-06-12 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And now I found these fancies creating their own realities, and all imagined horrors crowding upon me in fact'. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage. But it also goes much deeper, as Pym encounters various interpretative dilemmas, at last leaving the reader with a broken-off ending that defies solution. Apart from its violence and mystery, the tale calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing truth. Layer upon layer of elaborate hoaxes include its author's own role of posing as ghost-writer of the narrative; Pym - his only novel - has become the key text for our understanding of Poe. This edition offers eight short tales which are linked to Pym by their treatment of persistent themes - fantastic voyages, gigantic whirlpools, and premature burials - or by their ironic commentary on Poe's mystification of his readers. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin

Author : Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192839541
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin written by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin's best works of fiction. The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are witty parodies of sentimentalism, while Peter the Great's Blackamoor is an early experiment with recreating the past. The Captain's Daughter is a novel-length masterpiece which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the devices of the Russian fairy-tale. The Introduction provides close readings of the stories and places them in their European literary context.

An Enemy of the People ; The Wild Duck ; Rosmersholm

Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192839435
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book An Enemy of the People ; The Wild Duck ; Rosmersholm written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three plays in this volume all deal with the moral courage needed to tell the truth. They are peopled by complex individuals pitted against, or part, of a society that Ibsen felt was morally abhorrent.

The Son of the Wolf

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192834867
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Son of the Wolf written by Jack London and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Jack London (1876-1916) wrote on a great variety of subjects, he gained his first and most lasting fame as the author of tales of the Klondike gold rush.At the age of twenty-one London himself had trekked to the Yukon in hope of easy riches. What he found instead was a wealth of extraordinary experience, which he turned to account in his first collection of stories, The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North (1900).The book centres on the exploits of Malemute Kid, who dispenses crude but unerring justice through his canny understanding of the minds and hearts of the people of this raw frontier territory. They act out their dramas of life and death in mining camps and on the Long Trail, against the backdrop ofthe frozen Northland. The stories tell of gambles won and lost, of endurance and sacrifice, and often turn on the unsuspected qualities of exceptional women and the complex relations between the white adventurers and the native tribes.This new edition, which includes the whole of London's first book and many of the best Northland tales from his later collections, makes available fresh perspectives on the work of this enduringly rewarding writer.

The Lives of the Artists

Author : Giorgio Vasari
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199537194
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Lives of the Artists written by Giorgio Vasari and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-14 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the 13th century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo.

The House of the Seven Gables

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019953912X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The House of the Seven Gables written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the Pyncheon family who lived for generations under a dead man's curse until his death restored their house.