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Author : I.A. Bunin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780714728094
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Light Breathing and Other Stories written by I.A. Bunin and published by . This book was released on 1988-11-30 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ivan Alekseevich Bunin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Light Breathing and Other Stories written by Ivan Alekseevich Bunin and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ivan Alekseevich Bunin
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ivan Bunin written by Ivan Alekseevich Bunin and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning 44 years of Bunin's writing, these stories give glimpses into the vanished past of aristocratic Russia, replete with country estates, artsy Moscow life and a changing social structure. Some of Bunin's post-1920 stories, such as Ida, Sunstroke and The Elagin Affair, reflect the lives of Russian and European sophisticates, focusing on their love affairs and concern with elegant and refined living. His later stories - In Paris and On one Familiar Street - explore the alienation of those who cannot forget worlds they have lost.
Author : Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134260776
Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Reference Guide to Russian Literature written by Neil Cornwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. This volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come... It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public.
Author : Ivan Bunin
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 1461730309
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Cursed Days written by Ivan Bunin and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel PrizeDwinning author's great anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution, translated into English for the first time, with an Introduction and Notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo. A harrowing description of the forerunners of the concentration camps and the Gulag. —Marc Raeff
Author : Hawes, Louise
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604739589
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Anteaters Don't Dream and Other Stories written by Hawes, Louise and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Artemy Magun
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350430005
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The Temptation of Non-Being written by Artemy Magun and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we enjoy artworks that depict disasters and suffering? Is this a hangover from the Modernist impulse to break the rules of harmony? Is there actually a proper way to perform negativity in art without resorting to nihilism? The Temptation of Non-Being uses these fundamental questions to paint a picture of contemporary art as beset by an outbreak of the negative, and to construct a new theory of art as a medium of complex negativity. The negative in art is explained not as a simple negation or destruction, but as a multifaceted, polymorphous structure with a vast range of strategies and techniques from parody and pastiche to defamiliarization and non-resemblance. Charting the depth of these negative practices, Artemy Magun shows how they become progressively more complex and explicit, illustrating them with interdisciplinary examples from Lars von Trier, Jacek Malczewski, Andrei Platonov and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. At the heart of this layered, nested structure lies an understanding of Modern aesthetics that helps to answer even more questions: how can the testing, probing nature of art lead to this preoccupation with the negative? Why does this negativity emerge in the first place? What can it tell us about art itself and how it functions in society? This is an erudite and provocative analysis that enriches the ongoing evaluation of both 'high' and 'low' art.
Author : Kenneth C. Gardner Jr.
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532034598
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)
Download or read book A Carnival in My Heart and Other Stories written by Kenneth C. Gardner Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this volume present some life-changing episodes from the lives of characters associated with the fictional town of Menninger, North Dakota, first created in the novel The Song Is Ended.
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The magic skin, The quest of the absolute, and other stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann Patchett
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063092808
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)
Download or read book These Precious Days written by Ann Patchett and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike." —Publisher's Weekly “Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores “what it means to be seen, to find someone with whom you can be your best and most complete self.” When Patchett chose an early galley of actor and producer Tom Hanks’ short story collection to read one night before bed, she had no idea that this single choice would be life changing. It would introduce her to a remarkable woman—Tom’s brilliant assistant Sooki—with whom she would form a profound bond that held monumental consequences for them both. A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Turning her writer’s eye on her own experiences, she transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be. From the enchantments of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s books (author of The Beatryce Prophecy) to youthful memories of Paris; the cherished life gifts given by her three fathers to the unexpected influence of Charles Schultz’s Snoopy; the expansive vision of Eudora Welty to the importance of knitting, Patchett connects life and art as she illuminates what matters most. Infused with the author’s grace, wit, and warmth, the pieces in These Precious Days resonate deep in the soul, leaving an indelible mark—and demonstrate why Ann Patchett is one of the most celebrated writers of our time.
Author : John W. Roberts
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595253814
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Rain and Other Stories written by John W. Roberts and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rain and Other Stories is a book of eleven short stories about people in crisis. Stories like Rope and The Last Day are about educators who have reached crisis moments in their lives and must find some kind of resolution. A man wants to live forever in Immortal, and in The River and Snow Falling readers will find out how dangerous it is to betray the trust of the McKinley women. Rain tells the tale of a young boy abducted by a rebel army in Africa, and The Green Chain deals with the dangers of working in a sawmill in Northeastern Montana. All of these stories are about the pivotal moments of ordinary people, and their responses show us something about how we survive as human beings.
Author : Paul Kalanithi
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812988418
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book When Breath Becomes Air written by Paul Kalanithi and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.
Author : Will Lillibridge
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book A Breath of Prairie and other stories written by Will Lillibridge and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Breath of Prairie and Other Stories" by Will Lillibridge offers a collection of captivating tales set against the backdrop of the prairie landscape. Lillibridge's narratives bring to life the challenges, emotions, and triumphs of characters who navigate the vast openness of the American frontier. Through his skilled storytelling, Lillibridge captures the essence of prairie life, weaving together themes of adventure, love, and resilience. Each story unfolds with a sense of authenticity that immerses readers in the experiences of the characters and their surroundings, creating a rich tapestry of life on the open prairie.
Author : Neal Asher
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230714579
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Gabble - And Other Stories written by Neal Asher and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-11-07 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary collection from the architect of the Polity universe, Neal Asher's The Gabble - And Other Short Stories reveals a universe of unbridled imagination, and each one is a delight in itself. Much of Neal Asher’s fiction is set in the galactic civilization he calls the Polity, an alliance of human-populated worlds. And in this collection of thirteen marvellously inventive and action-packed short stories, Asher is on top form. You can expect conflicted humans, fiendishly clever plot twists, extraordinary technologies and so much more. The discerning reader can also savour tales of alien poisons, the walking dead, the Sea of Death, and the putrefactor symbiont. No one does weird, wonderful and downright gruesome aliens better than Neal Asher, so prepare to visit his favourites. Sample the lifestyles of creatures such as the gabbleduck and the hooder, as Asher takes you on a wild ride into his vividly-imagined futures.
Author : Gerald Duff
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1603062106
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Fire Ants and Other Stories written by Gerald Duff and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher’s Weekly hailed the “wit and subtlety” in Gerald Duff’s fiction as “simply satisfying as a tall cold one on a hot Gulf Coast afternoon,” and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazetter said “Gerald Duff’s dialogue is among the best being written, and his sense of the absurd is Portis-like.” This new collection of short stories by the author of Coasters (2001) features the Ploughshares Cohen Prize-winning story “Fire Ants.”
Author : Stanislaw Lem
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262545063
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book The Truth and Other Stories written by Stanislaw Lem and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, nine of them never before published in English. Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first "new" book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stories display the full range of Lem's intense curiosity about scientific ideas as well as his sardonic approach to human nature, presenting as multifarious a collection of mad scientists as any reader could wish for. Many of these stories feature artificial intelligences or artificial life forms, long a Lem preoccupation; some feature quite insane theories of cosmology or evolution. All are thought provoking and scathingly funny. Written from 1956 to 1993, the stories are arranged in chronological order. In the title story, "The Truth," a scientist in an insane asylum theorizes that the sun is alive; "The Journal" appears to be an account by an omnipotent being describing the creation of infinite universes--until, in a classic Lem twist, it turns out to be no such thing; in "An Enigma," beings debate whether offspring can be created without advanced degrees and design templates. Other stories feature a computer that can predict the future by 137 seconds, matter-destroying spores, a hunt in which the prey is a robot, and an electronic brain eager to go on the lam. These stories are peak Lem, exploring ideas and themes that resonate throughout his writing.
Author : Brad Barkley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312291477
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Another Perfect Catastrophe written by Brad Barkley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-03-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his keen ability to evoke characters in the South and Middle America who find themselves in reduced circumstances, Barkley restores faith in human beings to endure the ravages of time with decency and humor.
