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Download or read book Short Stories written by Irwin Shaw and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring sixty-three stories spanning five decades, this superb collection-including "Girls in Their Summer Dresses," "Sailor Off the Bremen," and "The Eighty-Yard Run"-clearly illustrates why Shaw is considered one of America's finest short-story writers.
Book Synopsis Twenty-Five Short Stories by : Stephen Vincent Benet
Download or read book Twenty-Five Short Stories written by Stephen Vincent Benet and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Five Great Short Stories by : Jack London
Download or read book Five Great Short Stories written by Jack London and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five exciting tales that epitomize Jack London's mastery of the adventure story: "The White Silence," "In a Far Country," "An Odyssey of the North," "The Seed of McCoy," and "The Mexican." Publisher's Note.
Download or read book Short written by Alan Ziegler and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short offers the tradition and glorious present of these popular forms that stretch and defy genre. From 1500 to present, hundreds of pieces. Inventive, entertaining, and addictive.
Download or read book Fidelity written by Wendell Berry and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissued as part of Counterpoint's celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry, the five stories in Fidelity return readers to Berry's fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, and the familiar characters who form a tight–knit community within. "Berry richly evokes Port William's farmlands and hamlets, and his characters are fiercely individual, yet mutually protective in everything they do. . . . His sentences are exquisitely constructed, suggesting the cyclic rhythms of his agrarian world." —The New York Times Book Review "Each of these elegant stories spans the twentieth century and reveals the profound interconnectedness of the farmers and their families to one another, to their past and to the landscape they inhabit." —The San Francisco Chronicle "Visionary . . . rooted in a deep concern for nature and the land, . . . [these stories are] tough, relentless and clear. In a roundabout way they are confrontational because they ask basic questions about men and women, violence, work and loyalty." —Hans Ostrom, The Morning News Tribune
Book Synopsis Famous Five Colour Short Stories: Five to the Rescue! by : Enid Blyton
Download or read book Famous Five Colour Short Stories: Five to the Rescue! written by Enid Blyton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the Famous Five on a brand-new adventure in this NEWLY CREATED story for children aged 5 and up! When the Famous Five are enjoying a picnic on Kirrin Island they spot a lamb in trouble. With no one else on hand to help, it's up to the Five launch a rescue mission. Will they make it in time? Set in the world of Enid Blyton's best-loved series, this newly created story follows Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog on a special new adventure. The story is broken down into six short chapters with vibrant, full-colour illustrations on every page - perfect for shared reading or for newly confident readers to enjoy independently. Also look out for: The Birthday Adventure, illustrated by Becka Moor. Enid Blyton's eight original short stories about the Famous Five are also available as early readers illustrated by Jamie Littler. Collect them all! A Lazy Afternoon George's Hair Is Too Long Well Done, Famous Five Five and a Half-Term Adventure When Timmy Chased the Cat Five Have a Puzzling Time Good Old Timmy Happy Christmas, Five! *** The Famous Five®, Enid Blyton® and Enid Blyton's signature are registered trade marks of Hodder & Stoughton Limited. No trade mark or copyrighted material may be reproduced without the express written permission of the trade mark and copyright owner.
Book Synopsis Five Tuesdays in Winter by : Lily King
Download or read book Five Tuesdays in Winter written by Lily King and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Five Tuesdays in Winter moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart. I loved this book." —Ann Patchett By the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers and Euphoria comes a masterful new collection of short stories Lily King, one of the most "brilliant" (New York Times Book Review), "wildly talented" (Chicago Tribune), and treasured authors of contemporary fiction, returns after her recent bestselling novels with Five Tuesdays in Winter, her first book of short fiction. Told in the intimate voices of complex, endearing characters, Five Tuesdays in Winter intriguingly subverts expectations as it explores desire, loss, jolting violence, and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A reclusive bookseller begins to feel the discomfort of love again. Two college roommates have a devastating middle-aged reunion. A proud old man rages powerlessly in his granddaughter's hospital room. A writer receives a visit from all the men who have tried to suppress her voice. Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unsparingly honest, this wide-ranging collection of ten selected stories by one of our most accomplished chroniclers of the human heart is an exciting addition to Lily King's oeuvre of acclaimed fiction.
Book Synopsis How the Water Feels by : Paul Eggers
Download or read book How the Water Feels written by Paul Eggers and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Eggers’s stories examine the moral arena created by the existence of refugees. Some are stories about literal refugees, those displaced in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, and about those who would help them. Others are about refugees in a metaphoric sense--people alternately bullied and bullying, exiled from sources of power, caught in moments when the familiar gives way. In "The Year Five,” Nguyen Van Trinh, one of the boat people who left Vietnam after the war, is living in a squalid refugee camp on Bidong Island. He is as powerless to repress his sorrow over his daughter’s death as the Malaysian administrative chief of the island is to find out who carved Trinh’s name into the wooden plank in the staff eating hut. In "The Public Spectacle,” Bridget and Owen Greef, two misfits, have been growing apart because of his obsession with chess and Bobby Fischer. They both must come to terms with the fact that they are--as a couple and as individuals--permanent outsiders. In "Anything You Want, Please,” Peace Corps trainee Reuben Gill is led into the malevolent presence of long-term "jungle junkie” (and Peace Corps volunteer) Geronimo Donaldson’s companion monkey. In this alien place, Gill finds himself struggling against his own worst impulses, beginning to doubt the strength of his commitment to his stateside fiancée.
Download or read book Conjunctions written by Bradford Morrow and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 1992 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers poems, stories, essays, and reviews
Book Synopsis Famous Five Colour Short Stories: Well Done, Famous Five by : Enid Blyton
Download or read book Famous Five Colour Short Stories: Well Done, Famous Five written by Enid Blyton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog find excitement and adventure wherever they go in Enid Blyton's most popular series. The most famous racehorse in England is being trained in Kirren, and the Famous Five are eager to watch. But when the horse bolts the friends need to think quickly to make sure he isn't lost or injured. The whole of England is depending on them! In addition to the Famous Five novels, Enid Blyton wrote a clutch of short stories based on the characters. These were published in magazines and collected in the Famous Five Short Story Collection (Hodder). For the first time, the complete and original text of Well Done, Famous Five (1956) appears in an individual volume, illustrated with brand new colour art by Jamie Littler.
Book Synopsis The Ghost in the Shell by : Tow Ubukata
Download or read book The Ghost in the Shell written by Tow Ubukata and published by Kodansha USA. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neither a utopia nor a dystopia, it’s still a world of nations at strife, as dominated by corporations as ever. Technology hasn’t made humans nearly obsolete, but rather bettered us, if you will, attaching to our bodies and even brains as enhancements—for those who can afford it. Comics artist Shirow Masamune’s vision of our coming society, animated to global acclaim and finally the basis of a major Hollywood production, branches out in five original stories by some of the most beloved SF novelists working in Japan today. A standalone collection, it requires no familiarity with the franchise to be enjoyed but is indispensable for fans for its thoughtful exploration of the series’ implications. While reality may never become virtual, it will be increasingly networked and augmented. Navigate herein age-old questions about man that will return, not so ironically, in full force: What is the self? Is there such a thing as the soul?
Book Synopsis The Five Wounds: A Novel by : Kirstin Valdez Quade
Download or read book The Five Wounds: A Novel written by Kirstin Valdez Quade and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2022 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award Finalist for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction • Finalist for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel • Finalist for the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize • Finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction One of NPR's Best Books of the Year • A Publishers Weekly and Library Journal Best Book of the Year in Fiction • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fictional Family of the Year • A Booklist Top Ten Book-Group Book of the Year • A Goodreads Choice Awards Best Debut Novel Nominee From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel about a New Mexican family’s extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. "Masterly…Quade has created a world bristling with compassion and humanity. The characters and the challenges they face are wholly realized and moving; their journeys span a wide spectrum of emotion and it is impossible not to root for [them]." —Alexandra Chang, New York Times Book Review It’s Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans for personal redemption. With weeks to go until her due date, tough, ebullient Angel has fled her mother’s house, setting her life on a startling new path. Vivid, tender, funny, and beautifully rendered, The Five Wounds spans the baby’s first year as five generations of the Padilla family converge: Amadeo’s mother, Yolanda, reeling from a recent discovery; Angel’s mother, Marissa, whom Angel isn’t speaking to; and disapproving Tíve, Yolanda’s uncle and keeper of the family’s history. Each brings expectations that Amadeo, who often solves his problems with a beer in his hand, doesn’t think he can live up to. The Five Wounds is a miraculous debut novel from a writer whose stories have been hailed as “legitimate masterpieces” (New York Times). Kirstin Valdez Quade conjures characters that will linger long after the final page, bringing to life their struggles to parent children they may not be equipped to save.
Download or read book Five-Carat Soul written by James McBride and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2017 “A pinball machine zinging with sharp dialogue, breathtaking plot twists and naughty humor... McBride at his brave and joyous best.” —New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a James Brown biography. The stories in Five-Carat Soul—none of them ever published before—spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They’re funny and poignant, insightful and unpredictable, imaginative and authentic—all told with McBride’s unrivaled storytelling skill and meticulous eye for character and detail. McBride explores the ways we learn from the world and the people around us. An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War General Robert E. Lee now sits in the home of a black minister in Queens. Five strangers find themselves thrown together and face unexpected judgment. An American president draws inspiration from a conversation he overhears in a stable. And members of The Five-Carat Soul Bottom Bone Band recount stories from their own messy and hilarious lives. As McBride did in his National Book award-winning The Good Lord Bird and his bestselling The Color of Water, he writes with humor and insight about how we struggle to understand who we are in a world we don’t fully comprehend. The result is a surprising, perceptive, and evocative collection of stories that is also a moving exploration of our human condition.
Download or read book Five Short Stories written by Balzac and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1921, this book contains the French text of five of Balzac's most well-known short stories: 'Le Curé de Tours', 'Jésus-Christ en Flandre', 'Le Chef-d'Oeuvre Inconnu', 'L'Auberge Rouge' and 'La Messe de l'Athée'. The collection is introduced by Tilley's analysis of Balzac as an author of short stories and the ways in which the short stories fit into his wider works. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Balzac or French literature.
Book Synopsis Five Short Stories by : Conrad von Lindsfeld
Download or read book Five Short Stories written by Conrad von Lindsfeld and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of five short stories, describes a number of imaginary events concerning various protagonists
Book Synopsis Sholem Aleichem by : Sholem Aleichem
Download or read book Sholem Aleichem written by Sholem Aleichem and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916) was a Yiddish novelist and playwright who wrote humorous tales about common Russian Jews who lived in small towns. His stories, especially “Tevye's Daughters,” formed the basis for the musical “Fiddler on the Roof.” This collection contains five humorous stories:The ClockFishel the TeacherAn Easy FastThe Passover GuestGymnasiye
Book Synopsis Famous Five Colour Short Stories: Five and a Half-Term Adventure by : Enid Blyton
Download or read book Famous Five Colour Short Stories: Five and a Half-Term Adventure written by Enid Blyton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog find excitement and adventure wherever they go in Enid Blyton's most popular series. A short story in colour for younger readers. George's dog Timmy sniffs out an adventure when he spots some suspicious-looking passengers on a train. He is very interested in one of them, but what has he spotted? Can the Famous Five solve this mystery? In addition to the Famous Five novels, Enid Blyton wrote a clutch of short stories based on the characters. These were published in magazines and collected in the Famous Five Short Story Collection (Hodder). For the first time, the complete text of Five and a Half-Term Adventure (1956) appears in an individual volume, illustrated with lively contemporary colour art by Jamie Littler.
