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The Grandmothers

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061847666
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Grandmothers written by Doris Lessing and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shocking, intimate, often uncomfortably honest, these stories reaffirm Doris Lessing’s unequalled ability to capture the truth of the human condition In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, vowing a respectable old age. In Victoria and the Staveneys, a young woman gives birth to a child of mixed race and struggles with feelings of estrangement as her daughter gets drawn into a world of white privilege. The Reason for It traces the birth, faltering, and decline of an ancient culture, with enlightening modern resonances. A Love Child features a World War II soldier who believes he has fathered a love child during a fleeting wartime romance and cannot be convinced otherwise.

Strange Weather

Author : Joe Hill
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 147322120X
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Strange Weather written by Joe Hill and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four short novels from the author of THE FIREMAN and HORNS, ranging from creepy horror to powerful explorations of our modern society. One autumnal day in Boulder, Colorado, the clouds open up in a downpour of nails, splinters of bright crystal that tear apart anyone who isn't safely under cover. 'Rain' explores this escalating apocalyptic event, as clouds of nails spread out across the country and the world. Amidst the chaos, a girl studying law enforcement takes it upon herself to resolve a series of almost trivial mysteries . . . apparently harmless puzzles that turn out to have lethal answers. In 'Loaded' a mall security guard heroically stops a mass shooting and becomes a hero to the modern gun movement. Under the hot glare of the spotlights, though, his story begins to unravel, taking his sanity with it... 'Snapshot, 1988' tells the story of an kid in Silicon Valley who finds himself threatened by The Phoenician, a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid that can steal memories... And in 'Aloft' a young man takes to the skies to experience parachuting for the first time . . . and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prospero's island of roiling vapour that seems animated by a mind of its own.

REAR Window

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book REAR Window written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness

Author : Kenzaburo Oe
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802195431
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness written by Kenzaburo Oe and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Prize–winning “master of the bizarre plunges the reader into a world of tortured imagination” in this four-novella collection (Library Journal). In this startling quartet of his most provocative stories, the multiple prize-winning author of A Personal Matter reaffirms his reputation as “a supremely gifted writer” (The Washington Post). In The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, a self-absorbed narrator on his deathbed drifts off to the comforting strains of a cantata as he recalls a blistering childhood of militarism, sacrifice, humiliation, and revenge—a tale that is questioned by everyone who knew him. In Prize Stock, winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a black American pilot is downed in a Japanese village during World War II, where the local children see him as some rare find—exotic and forbidden. In Aghwee The Sky Monster, the floating ghost of a baby inexplicably haunts a young man on the first day of his first job. And in the title story, a devoted father believes he is the only link between his mentally challenged son and reality. “[A] remarkable book.” —The Washington Post “Ōe is definitely one of the Modern Masters.” —Seattlepi.com

Myths of Origin

Author : Catherynne M. Valente
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781890464141
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Myths of Origin written by Catherynne M. Valente and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collected here for the first time, [the author's] early short novels explore, deconstruct, and ultimately explode the seminal myths of both East and West"--P. [4] of cover.

Four Short Stories

Author : Émile Zola
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3748163789
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Four Short Stories written by Émile Zola and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At nine o'clock in the evening the body of the house at the Theatres des Varietes was still all but empty. A few individuals, it is true, were sitting quietly waiting in the balcony and stalls, but these were lost, as it were, among the ranges of seats whose coverings of cardinal velvet loomed in the subdued light of the dimly burning luster. A shadow enveloped the great red splash of the curtain, and not a sound came from the stage, the unlit footlights, the scattered desks of the orchestra. It was only high overhead in the third gallery, round the domed ceiling where nude females and children flew in heavens which had turned green in the gaslight, that calls and laughter were audible above a continuous hubbub of voices, and heads in women's and workmen's caps were ranged, row above row, under the wide-vaulted bays with their gilt-surrounding adornments. Every few seconds an attendant would make her appearance, bustling along with tickets in her hand and piloting in front of her a gentleman and a lady, who took their seats, he in his evening dress, she sitting slim and undulant beside him while her eyes wandered slowly round the house.

Different Seasons

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501141171
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Different Seasons written by Stephen King and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the stories “The Body” and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine A “hypnotic” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas—including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption—from Stephen King, bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters. This gripping collection begins with “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,” in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge—the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption. Next is “Apt Pupil,” the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town. In “The Body,” four rambunctious young boys plunge through the façade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. This novella became the movie Stand By Me. Finally, a disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death in “The Breathing Method.” “The wondrous readability of his work, as well as the instant sense of communication with his characters, are what make Stephen King the consummate storyteller that he is,” hailed the Houston Chronicle about Different Seasons.

Seven Short Novels

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393005523
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (55 download)

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Book Synopsis Seven Short Novels by : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Download or read book Seven Short Novels written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1971 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anton Chekhov's best stories display a detached sympathy for the Russian people and a controversial skill in portraying the decaying world of czarist Russia. Though not a political man, Chekhov could be cutting in his criticisms of upper-class society, and he turned a lens on its manners and shortsightedness. His finely observed and sharp-as-nails writing created unforgettable characters." "In these short novels, Chekhov was interested, above all, in human relationships, especially mutual unintelligibility and frustration between lovers and the evolution of affection over time. "The Duel," "My Life," and "Ward No. 6" are intimate portraits of individuals and their predicaments, while "A Woman's Kingdom," "Peasants," "Three Years," and "In the Ravine" depict the social milieu on a much larger scale than was possible in his shorter stories."--BOOK JACKET.

The Harsh Voice

Author : Rebecca West
Publisher : Virago Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781844085859
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book The Harsh Voice written by Rebecca West and published by Virago Press (UK). This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these four brilliant short novels set in America, England and Paris, Rebecca West explores the lives and relationships of rich women and men who are ruled by 'the harsh voice we hear when money talks, or hate'. There is Josie, a flower of American girlhood whose boundless ambition for wealth fatally loosens the bonds of her marriage to Corrie. There is Etienne de Sevenac, a dilettante French aristocrat whose courtly stratagems are no match for Nancy Sarle - a plain but powerful American businesswoman. There is Alice Pemberton, a sensible Englishwoman - the very salt of the earth - but a petty tyrant in her gracious Georgian home. And lastly there is Sam Hartley, an American businessman who has fought his way to riches with his wife at his side, but whose life is now haunted by an abiding vision of beautiful young women.

Fishing's Best Short Stories

Author : Paul D. Staudohar
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 9781556524813
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Fishing's Best Short Stories written by Paul D. Staudohar and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handful of sinister characters & dark plots pepper this collection, but for the most part, these 25 tales portray fishermen as endearing folk, good humored & quick with a yarn, eager to help a novice, & famously prone to exaggerate. The scenery includes roiling oceans, still ponds, swift rivers, & bubbling brooks, & the fish themselves range from the noble trout to salmon, tarpon, bass, dolphin, permit, flounder, grouper, weakfish, northern pike, & even a sea monster. Humor, chicanery, the surprise ending, love of the sport & skill at the craft, friendship between old & young, & romance in unexpected places--all are found here. This collection includes three timeless stories: the Grimm fairy tale "The Fisherman & His Wife," first published in 1815; "A Fishing Excursion," by the mid-19th-century French writer Guy de Maupassant; & Henry Van Dyke's 1899 tale, "The Fatal Success." The remaining stories span the 20th century & represent contemporary favorites such as Stephen King & E. Annie Proulx; early-century masters Stephen Vincent Benet & John Taintor Foote; & Philip Wylie, P.J. O'Rourke, Robert Traver, & more.

The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories

Author : Pooja Nansi
Publisher : Epigram Books
ISBN 13 : 9814845477
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (148 download)

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Download or read book The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories written by Pooja Nansi and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best short fiction published by Singaporean writers in 2017 and 2018. The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Four gathers the finest Singaporean stories published in 2017 and 2018, selected by guest editor Pooja Nansi from hundreds published in journals, magazines, anthologies and single-author collections. Accompanying the stories are the editor’s preface and an extensive list of honourable mentions for further reading. Reader Reviews "The stories range from intimate family portraits to speculative science fiction, but every piece speaks to universal experiences of love, loss, desire, and disappointment ... If you've either never read Singaporean literature, this would be a good place to start. If Crazy Rich Asians was the last thing you read by a local author, even better." — Wonderwall.sg

Four Short Novels

Author : David Herbert Lawrence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Four Short Novels written by David Herbert Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Collected Stories

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811220818
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Collected Stories written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1994-04-17 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive collection establishes Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century. Tennessee Williams’ Collected Stories combines the four short-story volumes published during Williams’ lifetime with previously unpublished or uncollected stories. Arranged chronologically, the forty-nine stories, when taken together with the memoir of his father that serves as a preface, not only establish Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century, but also, in Gore Vidal’s view, constitute the real autobiography of Williams’ "art and inner life."

The Complete Short Novels

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030742829X
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Short Novels written by Anton Chekhov and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Steppe–the most lyrical of the five–is an account of a nine-year-old boy’s frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia. The Duel sets two decadent figures–a fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility–on a collision course that ends in a series of surprising reversals. In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical spying on an important official by serving as valet to his son gradually discovers that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling ways. Three Years recounts a complex series of ironies in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant. In My Life, a man renounces wealth and social position for a life of manual labor. The resulting conflict between the moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human nature culminates in a brief apocalyptic vision that is unique in Chekhov’s work.

Shadows in the Dark

Author : Robert Kenton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533511164
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Shadows in the Dark written by Robert Kenton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-28 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of four short dark stories. In "Self Defense" we explore the mind the of a man forced to kill in self defense and the unusual effect it has on him. In "The Cell" a young boy is trapped in a cell and tormented by a beastly jailor, but there are worse things waiting in the wings. Don't scream or you may draw them to you. In "Nightfall" a family struggles to survive the night in a world where darkness brings death. A new twist on the vampire mythology. "Ink" is a short piece detailing how a reader is swallowed by what he reads.

The Four Winds

Author : Kristin Hannah
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250178622
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Four Winds written by Kristin Hannah and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Bestselling Hardcover Novel of the Year."--Publishers Weekly From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, when millions were out of work and even the land seemed to have turned against them. “My land tells its story if you listen. The story of our family.” Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows. By 1934, the world has changed; millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as crops fail and water dries up and the earth cracks open. Dust storms roll relentlessly across the plains. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa’s tenuous marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive. In this uncertain and perilous time, Elsa—like so many of her neighbors—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family. The Four Winds is a rich, sweeping novel that stunningly brings to life the Great Depression and the people who lived through it—the harsh realities that divided us as a nation and the enduring battle between the haves and the have-nots. A testament to hope, resilience, and the strength of the human spirit to survive adversity, The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.

The Grandmothers

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780786272228
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book The Grandmothers written by Doris Lessing and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the four short novels in this collection, Doris Lessing once again proves that she is unrivalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition. In The Grandmothers, two close friends fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years. In Victoria and the Staveneys, a poor black girl finds her child is becoming absorbed into the world of white privilege and growing estranged from her. The Reason for It describes the birth, flourishing and decline of a culture long ago, but with many modern echoes. In A Love Child, a soldier in World War II falls in love on shore leave, and is convinced that a love child resulted from the wartime romance. Book jacket.