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Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Select Collection of Novels and Histories written by and published by . This book was released on 1729 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. S. Byatt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674004511
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book On Histories and Stories written by A. S. Byatt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interplay between fiction and history forms the core of Byatt's essays as she explores historical storytelling and the translation of historical fact into fiction.
Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466834951
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Selected Stories written by Robert Walser and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her preface to Robert Walser's Selected Stories, Susan Sontag describes Walser as "a good-humored, sweet Beckett." The more common comparison is to "a comic Kafka." Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing. Walser is one of the twentieth century's great modern masters—revered by everyone from Walter Benjamin to Hermann Hesse to W. G. Sebald—and Selected Stories gives the fullest display of his talent. "He is most at home in the mode of short fiction," according to J. M. Coetzee in The New York Review of Books. The stories "show him at his dazzling best."
Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781853261909
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Selected Short Stories written by Joseph Conrad and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of short stories including favourites such as Youth, a modern epic of the sea; The Secret Sharer, a thrilling psychological drama; An Outpost of Progress, a blackly comic prelude to Heart of Darkness; Amy Foster, a moving story of a shipwrecked, alienated Pole; and The Lagoon and Karain, two exotic, exciting Malay tales.
Download or read book The Awakening and Selected Short Stories written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099541092
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Selected Stories written by Alice Munro and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short Stories. This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the facade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.
Author : Anna Kavan
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681374153
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Machines in the Head written by Anna Kavan and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the strange and haunting world of Anna Kavan, author of mind-bending stories that blend science fiction and the author's own harrowing experiences with drug addiction, in this new collection of her best short stories. Anna Kavan is one of the great originals of twentieth-century fiction, comparable to Leonora Carrington and Jean Rhys, a writer whose stories explored the inner world of her imagination and plumbed the depths of her long addiction to heroin. This new selection of Kavan’s stories gathers the best work from across the many decades of her career, including oblique and elegiac tales of breakdown and institutionalization from Asylum Piece (1940), moving evocations of wartime from I Am Lazarus (1945), fantastic and surrealist pieces from A Bright Green Field (1958), and stories of addiction from Julia and the Bazooka (1970). Kavan’s turn to science fiction in her final novel, Ice, is reflected in her late stories, while “Starting a Career,” about a mercenary dealer of state secrets, is published here for the first time. Kavan experimented throughout her writing career with results that are moving, funny, bizarre, poignant, often unsettling, always unique. Machines in the Head offers American readers the first full overview of the work of a fearless and dazzling literary explorer.
Author : Joan Silber
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393070727
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories written by Joan Silber and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-05-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the National Book Award: "Joan Silber writes with wisdom, humor, grace, and wry intelligence. Her characters bear welcome news of how we will survive."—Andrea Barrett Intense in subject yet restrained in tone, these stories are about longings—often held for years—and the ways in which sex and religion can become parallel forms of dedication and comfort. Though the stories stand alone, a minor element in one becomes major in the next. In "My Shape", a woman is taunted by her dance coach, who later suffers his own heartache. A Venetian poet of the 1500s, another storyteller, is introduced to a modern traveler reading Rilke. His story precedes a mesmerizing narrative of missionaries in China. In the final story, Giles, born to a priesthood family, leans toward Buddhism after a grievous loss, and in time falls in love with the dancer of the first story. So deft and subtle is Joan Silber with these various perspectives that we come full circle surprised and enchanted by her myriad worlds. National Book Award finalist. Reading group guide included.
Author : Adam Coleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199163571
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (635 download)
Download or read book William and the Pied Piper written by Adam Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Montague Summers
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447499085
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Gothic Quest - A History of the Gothic Novel written by Montague Summers and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Gothic Quest - A History of the Gothic Novel” is a 1938 treatise by Montague Summers on the subject of the Gothic novel, looking at its origins, evolution, and role in contemporary literature. Augustus Montague Summers (1880 – 1948) was an English clergyman and author most famous for his studies on vampires, witches and werewolves—all of which he believed to be very much real. He also wrote the first English translation of the infamous 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the “Malleus Maleficarum”, in 1928. Contents include: “The Romantic Feeling”, “Notes to Chapter I”, “The Publishers and the Circulating Libraries”, “Notes to Chapter II”, “Influences from Abroad”, “Notes to Chapter III”, “Historical Gothic”, “Notes to Chapters IV”, “Matthew Gregory Lewis”, etc. Other notable works by this author include: “A Popular History of Witchcraft” (1937), “Witchcraft and Black Magic” (1946), and “The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism” (1947). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Author : Dan Davin
Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780709190943
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Selected Stories written by Dan Davin and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guadalupe Nettel
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609805526
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Natural Histories written by Guadalupe Nettel and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, cats, a snake, and a strange fungus all serve here as mirrors that reflect the unconfessable aspects of human nature buried within us. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of cohabitation, the desire to reproduce and the impulse not to, and the inexplicable connection that can bind, eerily, two beings together. Each Nettel tale creates, with tightly wound narrative tension, a space wherein her characters feel excruciatingly human, exploring how the wounds we incur in life manifest themselves within us, clandestinely, irrevocably, both unseen and overtly. In a precise writing style that is both subtle and spellbinding, Nettel renders the ordinary unsettling, and the grotesque exquisite. Natural Histories is the winner of the 3rd Ribera del Duero International Award for Short Narratives, an important Spanish literature prize.
Author : Nikolay Gogol
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014191002X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories written by Nikolay Gogol and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author, dramatist and satirist, Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) deeply influenced later Russian literature with his powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty beaurocracy and base corruption. This volume includes both his most admired short fiction and his most famous drama. A biting and frequently hilarious political satire, The Government Inspector has been popular since its first performance and was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest Russian play every written. The stories gathered here, meanwhile, range from comic to tragic and describe the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers. They include Diary of a Madman, an amusing but disturbing exploration of insanity; Nevsky Prospect, a depiction of an artist besotted with a prostitute; and The Overcoat, a moving consideration of poverty that powerfully influenced Dostoevsky and later Russian literature.
Author : Lewis P. Simpson
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807156639
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Selected Stories from the Southern Review written by Lewis P. Simpson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1988-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?
Author : Various
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Children's Book of Christmas Stories written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of Christmas stories that are both familiar and not so familiar. It includes works by Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen, Susan Coolidge, and many others. There are certain to be some stories that appeal, not just to children but to adults also.
Author : Edited By Rajendra Awasthy
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9788128804786
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Selected Punjabi Short Stories written by Edited By Rajendra Awasthy and published by Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Selected Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis written by Sinclair Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
