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Book Synopsis From Death to Death and Other Small Tales by : D. Daskalopoulos Collection (Athens, Greece)
Download or read book From Death to Death and Other Small Tales written by D. Daskalopoulos Collection (Athens, Greece) and published by John Donald. This book was released on 2013 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together works from one of the most important private collections of modern and contemporary art, the D. Daskalopoulos Collection with key pieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Providing a new context for both collections, it specifically focuses on the theme of the body, investigating the many and varied approaches that artists have taken across several decades when dealing with this most fundamental of subjects.
Download or read book Death in Venice written by Thomas Mann and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death in Venice by Thomas Mann: Death in Venice is a haunting novella by Thomas Mann that explores the themes of beauty, desire, and the pursuit of perfection. Set in the early 20th century, the story follows Gustav von Aschenbach, a renowned writer, as he becomes captivated by the allure of a young boy he encounters in the city of Venice, ultimately leading to his spiritual and physical decline. Key Points: Mann's novella delves into the complexities of desire and the destructive power of obsession, as Aschenbach's infatuation with the boy becomes an all-consuming force that disrupts his moral compass and challenges his notions of art and beauty. Death in Venice examines themes of decay, mortality, and the juxtaposition of artistic ideals with the realities of human existence, offering a profound exploration of the tension between the pursuit of aesthetic perfection and the inevitable imperfections of life. The novella showcases Mann's masterful prose and psychological insight, delving into the inner turmoil and psychological disintegration of the protagonist, while also providing a poignant commentary on the limitations and consequences of unbridled desire.
Book Synopsis The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt and Other Blackfoot Stories by : Hugh Aylmer Dempsey
Download or read book The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt and Other Blackfoot Stories written by Hugh Aylmer Dempsey and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wise old ones -- A friend of the beavers -- The reincarnation of Low Horn -- The amazing death of Calf Shirt -- Peace with the Kootenays -- A messenger for peace -- The orphan -- Black white man -- The wild ones -- The last war party -- The snake man -- Man of steel -- Deerfoot and friends -- Scraping high and Mr. Tims -- The transformation of Small Eyes.
Book Synopsis Sex, Death and Other Inspiring Stories by : Rose Rouse
Download or read book Sex, Death and Other Inspiring Stories written by Rose Rouse and published by Riverdale Avenue Books LLC. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose Rouse, a journalist, and Suzanne Noble, a serial entrepreneur– created Advantages of Age out of a conversation in a hot tub in 2016. ‘We didn’t like how we were being depicted in the media as we got older.’ Advantages of Age is a social enterprise designed to passionately challenge the prevailing negative stereotypes around ageing. No, we’re not all grandparents, some of us are over 50, single and childless. We don’t wish to be defined by the reductive headlines we see around us. We are writers, filmmakers, singers, press officers, death doulas, psychotherapists and so much more. We are not all retired. We surf, play tennis, lift weights. We have sex, we don’t have sex. We have partners, we don’t have partners. We’re an eclectic bunch. In this collection of essays gathered from seven years of commissioning, AoAers share their thoughts on life, love, sex, death, adventures on their terms, lockdown and everything in between. ‘We hope we’re doing our bit to re-define and re-frame what getting old means.’
Book Synopsis Tickled to Death and Other Stories of Crime and Suspense by : Simon Brett
Download or read book Tickled to Death and Other Stories of Crime and Suspense written by Simon Brett and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from stark psychological suspense to frothy frolic, this stunning collection of twelve short stories demonstrates Simon Brett's astonishing versatility. In TICKLED TO DEATH, a lover of practical jokes is smothered to death in a custard pie. DOUBLE GLAZING reveals the patient and perverse logic of an elderly Do-It-Yourselfer. And in BIG BOY, LITTLE BOY, a former hotel porter plots the murder of a very rich wife - with shocking results.
Book Synopsis “The Sting of Death” and Other Stories by : Toshio Shimao
Download or read book “The Sting of Death” and Other Stories written by Toshio Shimao and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until a recent “boom,” Shimao Toshio, writer of short fiction, critic, and essayist, was not widely known, even in Japan. He has never won the Akutagawa or the Naoki Prize, and none of his works had previously appeared in English translation. He is less well known than other writers (Yasuoka Shotaro, Kojima Nobuo, and Shono Junzo) with whom he has associated and whose works have been liberally translated into English. Yet, there are those who consider him to be one of the best contemporary writers in Japan. This volume by no means exhausts the scope of Shimao's fiction. There are no stories here, for instance, about childhood or student life, and none of his many travel stories. Some of his most famous stories-- "When we Never Left Port," for example--have not been included. But the stories presented here do offer a considerable variety of style, from the pristine storybook language of "The Farthest Edge of the Islands," to the young intellectual's jargon of "Everyday Life in a Dream," to the visionary, hysterical, occasionally ritualistic prose of the "sick wife" stories, to the sober, difficult, almost ponderous narration of "This Time That Summer." Shimao's approach to his material varies as well. "Everyday Life in a Dream" is the only representative here of a large number of stories usually called surrealistic by the critics, stories whose plots progress by the logic of dreams. The individual experience of real life are lived through a combination of conscious and unconscious perception. These stories are the least approachable and the least charming to the casual reader, but they serve, among other things, to highlight patterns in the more realistic fiction. "The Farthest Edge of the Islands" is a symbolic heightening of reality in another way, a romantic fairy tale beginning at the extremity of experience, at the farthest edge of the world. The other stories are presented as precise, close chronicles of reality by a participant in that reality whose attention never waivers and who never allows himself to avert his eyes from a world that he sees as his responsibility and in a sense his fault. All but the first story, "The Farthest Edge of the Islands," which is in third-person narration, are told in the first person by the character who plays Shimao's role in the life that inspired the fiction.
Book Synopsis The Caves of Death, and Other Stories by : Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Download or read book The Caves of Death, and Other Stories written by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gertrude Atherton was born in San Francisco and lived much of her life in California. A best-selling author at the time she is remembered today mainly for the novels and short stories she set in her home state. However, she also wrote stories if the weird and supernatural. The best of them - notable for what S. T. Joshi describes as "the power of their ideas and the subtlety of their execution" - are gathered together for the first time in this collection.
Book Synopsis The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by : Leo Tolstoy
Download or read book The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are some of Tolstoy?s extraordinary short stories, from ?The Death of Ivan Ilyich??in a masterly new translation?to ?The Raid,? ?The Wood-felling,? ?Three Deaths,? ?Polikushka,? ?After the Ball,? and ?The Forged Coupon,? all gripping and eloquent lessons on two of Tolstoy?s most persistent themes: life and death. More experimental than his novels, Tolstoy?s stories are essential reading for anyone interested in his development as one of the major writers and thinkers of his time.
Book Synopsis Guy de Maupassant's Tales of Death - A Collection of Short Stories by : Guy de Mauspassant
Download or read book Guy de Maupassant's Tales of Death - A Collection of Short Stories written by Guy de Mauspassant and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These early works by Guy de Maupassant were originally published in the 1880's. As a collection of short stories, this represents Maupassant's tales involving the subject of death, and includes 'Old Judas', 'The Beggar', 'The Moribund', 'Two Little Soldiers', and many other titles. Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil, near Dieppe, France. He came from a prosperous family, but when Maupassant was eleven, his mother risked social disgrace by trying to secure a legal separation from her husband. After the split, Maupassant lived with his mother till he was thirteen, and inherited her love of classical literature. In 1880, Maupassant published his first – and, according to many, his best – short story, entitled 'Boule de Suif' ('Ball of Fat'). It was an instant success. He went on to be extremely prolific during the 1880s, working methodically to produce up to four volumes of short fiction every year. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions.
Download or read book Death in Venice written by Thomas Mann and published by urzeni yayınevi. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most famous literary works of the 20th century, the novella “Death in Venice” embodies themes that preoccupied Thomas Mann (1875–1955) in much of his work; the duality of art and life, the presence of death and disintegration in the midst of existence, the connection between love and suffering, and the conflict between the artist and his inner self. Mann’s handling of these concerns in this story of a middle-aged German writer, torn by his passion for a Polish youth met on holiday in Venice, resulted in a work of great psychological intensity and tragic power.
Book Synopsis Another Day in the Death of America by : Gary Younge
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.
Book Synopsis Death at the Excelsior, and Other Stories by : P. G. Wodehouse
Download or read book Death at the Excelsior, and Other Stories written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death at the Excelsior, and Other Stories: This collection of short stories by P.G. Wodehouse features murder mysteries, mistaken identities, and romantic entanglements. The stories are humorous and entertaining, showcasing Wodehouse's witty writing style and clever plotting.
Book Synopsis Grimm's Household Tales by : Jacob Grimm
Download or read book Grimm's Household Tales written by Jacob Grimm and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Matters of Life & Death and Other Stories by : Bernard MacLaverty
Download or read book Matters of Life & Death and Other Stories written by Bernard MacLaverty and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beginning with the sudden, nauseating terror of a family caught up in an explosion of shocking sectarian violence and ending with the whiteout of an Iowa blizzard and a different kind of fear: the fear of displacement, erasure, of losing your way - and yourself - very far from home, Matters of Life & Death is a book about bonds and connections, made and broken, secret and known. In the story "Up on the Coast," a landscape painter discovers a place that makes her feel whole, finally, only to have that communion cruelly shattered by an arbitrary act of aggression - an act that will resonate through her work and life from that moment on."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories by : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Download or read book The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1990 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories that deal with Jewish folklore and legend
Book Synopsis Tango of Death: The Creation of a Holocaust Legend by : Willem de Haan
Download or read book Tango of Death: The Creation of a Holocaust Legend written by Willem de Haan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the origins of the legend that Jewish musicians in concentration camps were forced to play a Tango of Death at the gas chambers and shows how in this legend the actual history is hidden, distorted, or even lost altogether.
Book Synopsis Nocturne and Five Tales of Love and Death by : Gabrielle D'Annunzio
Download or read book Nocturne and Five Tales of Love and Death written by Gabrielle D'Annunzio and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nocturne and Five Tales of Love and Death is a book of prose by Gabrielle D’Annunzio translated from Italian to English by Raymond Rosenthal.
