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Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

Author : Dubravka Ugrešic
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1847676081
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Baba Yaga Laid an Egg written by Dubravka Ugrešic and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2007-11-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baba Yaga is an old hag who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. She is one of the most pervasive and powerful creatures in all mythology. She appears in many forms: as Pupa, a tricksy, cantankerous old woman who keeps her legs tucked into a huge furry boot; as a trio of mischievous elderly women who embark on the trip of a lifetime to a hotel spa; and as a villainous flock of ravens, black hens and magpies infected with the H5N1 virus. But what story does Baba Yaga have to tell us today? This is a quizzical tale about one of the most pervasive and powerful creatures in all mythology, and an extraordinary yarn of identity, secrets, storytelling and love.

Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

Author : Dubravka Ugrešić
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1847673066
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Baba Yaga Laid an Egg written by Dubravka Ugrešić and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dubravka Ugresic retells the myth of Baba Yaga - one of the most famous stories in Russian and Eastern European mythology

Egg & Spoon

Author : Gregory Maguire
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763675822
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Egg & Spoon written by Gregory Maguire and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this tour de force, master storyteller Gregory Maguire offers a dazzling novel for fantasy lovers of all ages. Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar’s army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tiny cabin. And there is no food. But then a train arrives in the village, a train carrying untold wealth, a cornucopia of food, and a noble family destined to visit the Tsar in Saint Petersburg — a family that includes Ekaterina, a girl of Elena’s age. When the two girls’ lives collide, an adventure is set in motion, an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and — in a starring role only Gregory Maguire could have conjured — Baba Yaga, witch of Russian folklore, in her ambulatory house perched on chicken legs.

Bony-legs

Author : Joanna Cole
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780590405164
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Bony-legs written by Joanna Cole and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 1986-11-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a terrible witch vows to eat her for supper, a little girl escapes with the help of a mirror and comb given to her by the witch's cat and dog.

Lend Me Your Character

Author : Dubravka Ugrešić
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564783752
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Lend Me Your Character written by Dubravka Ugrešić and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Splendidly ambitious . . . A brilliant, enthralling spread of story-telling and high-velocity reflections. In her indignation and in her sorrow Ugresic speaks for many people, many experiences. She is a writer to follow. A writer to be cherished." Susan Sontag"

Ask Baba Yaga

Author : Taisia Kitaiskaia
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1449488242
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Ask Baba Yaga written by Taisia Kitaiskaia and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Baba Yaga, I think I must crave male attention too much. I fear that, without it, I would feel invisible. BABA YAGA: When you seek others this way, you are invisible nonetheless. Yr shawl is covered in mirrors in which others admire themselves; this is why they greet you so passionately. It is good to be seen, but it is better to see. Find a being to look hard into, & you will see yrself and what is more than you. In age-old Slavic fairy tales, the witch Baba Yaga is sought out by those with a burning need for guidance. In contemporary life, Baba Yaga—a dangerous, slippery oracle—answered earnest questions on The Hairpin for years. These pages collect her most poignant, surreal, and humorous exchanges along with all-new questions and answers for those seeking her mystical advice.

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender

Author : Dubravka Ugrešić
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9780811214933
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book The Museum of Unconditional Surrender written by Dubravka Ugrešić and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically acclaimed experimental, literary fiction by the famous Croatian exile author.

Grimoires

Author : Owen Davies
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191509248
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Grimoires written by Owen Davies and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a grimoire? The word has a familiar ring to many people, particularly as a consequence of such popular television dramas as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed. But few people are sure exactly what it means. Put simply, grimoires are books of spells that were first recorded in the Ancient Middle East and which have developed and spread across much of the Western Hemisphere and beyond over the ensuing millennia. At their most benign, they contain charms and remedies for natural and supernatural ailments and advice on contacting spirits to help find treasures and protect from evil. But at their most sinister they provide instructions on how to manipulate people for corrupt purposes and, worst of all, to call up and make a pact with the Devil. Both types have proven remarkably resilient and adaptable and retain much of their relevance and fascination to this day. But the grimoire represents much more than just magic. To understand the history of grimoires is to understand the spread of Christianity, the development of early science, the cultural influence of the print revolution, the growth of literacy, the impact of colonialism, and the expansion of western cultures across the oceans. As this book richly demonstrates, the history of grimoires illuminates many of the most important developments in European history over the last two thousand years.

Nobody's Home

Author : Dubravka Ugrešić
Publisher : Open Letter Books
ISBN 13 : 1934824003
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Home written by Dubravka Ugrešić and published by Open Letter Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her long career, Ugresic has published several novels (e.g., The Ministry of Pain), but she made her name with her essay collections, which have caused controversy and earned her the admiration of writers and critics abroad. In these latest musings, written over the course of several years, Ugresic leaves no stone unturned and no thought contained, doing what she does best: writing about the human condition through her own experience. Refusing to establish a central theme, she touches upon a wide range of topics: the paradox of multiculturalism, metaphors as our "defense against nightmares," the eerie similarities between capitalism and communism, and ways in which we try to rise hopelessly above our less-than-perfect existence. Along the way, she pays homage to the works of literature that have influenced her own creative process, in an effort to pay "a symbolic literary tax on narcissim" because "writing is not the humblest of vocations." Perhaps not, but Ugresic certainly knows how to balance being a critic with being criticized. Recommended for all libraries collecting cultural criticism.--Mirela Roncevic, Library Journal Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Weight

Author : Jeanette Winterson
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307367363
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Weight written by Jeanette Winterson and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Atlas and Heracles Atlas knows how it feels to carry the weight of the world; but why, he asks himself, does it have to be carried at all? In Weight — visionary and inventive, yet completely believable and relevant to the questions we ask ourselves every day — Winterson’s skill in turning the familiar on its head to show us a different truth is put to stunning effect. When I was asked to choose a myth to write about, I realized I had chosen already. The story of Atlas holding up the world was in my mind before the telephone call had ended. If the call had not come, perhaps I would never have written the story, but when the call did come, that story was waiting to be written. Rewritten. The recurring language motif of Weight is “I want to tell the story again.” My work is full of Cover Versions. I like to take stories we think we know and record them differently. In the retelling comes a new emphasis or bias, and the new arrangement of the key elements demands that fresh material be injected into the existing text. Weight moves far away from the simple story of Atlas’s punishment and his temporary relief when Hercules takes the world off his shoulders. I wanted to explore loneliness, isolation, responsibility, burden, and freedom too, because my version has a very particular end not found elsewhere. —from Jeanette Winterson’s Foreword to Weight

Arabian Nights and Days

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1101974710
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Arabian Nights and Days written by Naguib Mahfouz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, who plumbs their depths for timeless truths.

Apollo's Fire

Author : Michael Sims
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143114413
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Apollo's Fire written by Michael Sims and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lighthearted tour of the developmental synergies of life throughout the course of a single day touches on a broad variety of cultural and natural topics, from the color of the sky and the course of the sun to the iconography of prehistoric Egyptian sculpture and the circadian rhythms of Japanese moon imagery. By the author of Adam's Navel. Reprint.

The Ministry of Pain

Author : Dubravka Ugrešic
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061986097
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book The Ministry of Pain written by Dubravka Ugrešic and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and rubber S&M clothing at a sweatshop they call the "Ministry." Abandoning literature, Tanja encourages her students to indulge their "Yugonostalgia" in essays about their personal experiences during their homeland's cultural and physical disintegration. But Tanja's act of academic rebellion incites the rage of one renegade member of her class—and pulls her dangerously close to another—which, in turn, exacerbates the tensions of a life in exile that has now begun to spiral seriously out of control.

The Tourists

Author : Jeff Hobbs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416539727
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Tourists written by Jeff Hobbs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the tourists, former classmates at Yale who, seven years later, must confront the people they've become while forging lives in Manhattan. David, a hedge fund wunderkind who forfeited idealism for wealth, hopes that a more fulfilling life lies ahead in the suburbs. His wife, the beautiful Samona, to whom David returns home nightly with nothing left for her, wonders whether her marriage is stripping away her best years. Ethan, a successful furniture designer with a magnetic sexuality, seeks something darker and more uncertain than the power lunches, needy family, and unsatisfying relationships that comprise his life. Rounding out the group is the story's unnamed narrator, a freelance reporter struggling to stay afloat -- financially, professionally, and emotionally -- who shares complicated histories with each of them. When Ethan and Samona have a chance encounter at a gallery opening, they meet each other's needs. As our narrator traverses the city and gradually reconstructs the events that underlie the present circumstances, his own mysterious role comes into ever sharper focus. Only later, after David commissions Ethan to design some conference rooms at his firm and a secret triangle is formed, does our narrator begin to tie all the pieces together. With The Tourists, Jeff Hobbs delivers a striking and stylish debut about the dark and sometimes destructive aspects of physical attraction and love, marital disillusionment, and the inevitable disappointments life can bring.

My Fine Feathered Friend

Author : William Grimes
Publisher : North Point Press
ISBN 13 : 1466822139
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book My Fine Feathered Friend written by William Grimes and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2002-03-25 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boy Meets Bird. Boy Gets Bird. Boy Loses Bird An Urban Folktale. One day in the dead of winter, New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes looked out the window into his backyard in Queens and saw a chicken, jet black with a crimson comb. Wherever it had come from, it showed no sign of leaving, and it quickly made a place for itself among the society of resident stray cats. Before long, the chicken became the Chicken, and it began to arouse not only Grimes's protective impulses but also his curiosity. He discovered that chickens were domesticated first as fighters, not food; that egg-laying is triggered by exposure to light; that chickens were a fashion statement in Victorian days. He began to probe the mysteries of gallinaceous behavior, learning to distinguish a dust bath from a death dance and how to cater to his guest's eclectic palate. And when the Chicken began to repay his hospitality with five or six custom-laid eggs per week, Grimes had an answer to the age-old conundrum of which came first: the Chicken. And then one day, obeying some bird-brained logic of its own -- or perhaps the victim of fowl play -- the Chicken vanished, leaving Grimes eggless but with this funny, enlightening, and heartwarming tale to tell.

Orphan Sky

Author : Ella Leya
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402298676
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Orphan Sky written by Ella Leya and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set at the crossroads of Turkish, Persian and Russian cultures under the red flag of Communism in the late 1970s, The Orphan Sky reveals one woman's struggle to reconcile her ideals with the corrupt world around her, and to decide whether to betray her country or her heart. Leila is a young classical pianist who dreams of winning international competitions and bringing awards to her beloved country Azerbaijan. She is also a proud daughter of the Communist Party. When she receives an assignment from her communist mentor to spy on a music shop suspected of traitorous Western influences, she does it eagerly, determined to prove her worth to the Party. But Leila didn't anticipate the complications of meeting Tahir, the rebellious painter who owns the music shop. His jazz recordings, abstract art, and subversive political opinions crack open the veneer of the world she's been living in. Just when she begins to fall in love with both the West and Tahir, her comrades force her to make an impossible choice.

The Piano Recital

Author : Akiko Miyakoshi
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1525302574
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book The Piano Recital written by Akiko Miyakoshi and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting new story from Akiko Miyakoshi. It’s Momo's first piano recital. As she nervously waits to play, she tells herself, “I’ll be okay … I’ll be okay …” Then she hears a voice nearby saying, “I’ll be okay … I’ll be okay …” It’s a mouseling, also nervous about her first performance! Momo follows her backstage, where she’s amazed to discover a miniature mouse theater. Momo accompanies her new friend on piano, and the mouse audience is so appreciative. Except, suddenly, she discovers — it’s not a mouse audience at all! Sometimes a bit of magic can make all the difference!