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Book Synopsis Romance of the Thin Man and the Fat Lady by : Robert Coover
Download or read book Romance of the Thin Man and the Fat Lady written by Robert Coover and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Paul stepped off the curb and got hit by a truck. He didn't know what it was that hit him at first, but now, here on his back, under the truck, there could be no doubt.' One of 50 original and exciting books of short stories, publishing in February to celebrate half a century of Penguin Modern Classics. This book contains Romance of the Thin Man and the Fat Lady, The Babysitter, and A Pedestrian Accident.
Book Synopsis Pricksongs and Descants by : Robert Coover
Download or read book Pricksongs and Descants written by Robert Coover and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2000-01-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author - already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel - as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he has fulfilled over a stellar career. It also began Coover's now-trademark riffs on fairy tales and bedtime stories. In these riotously word-drunk fictional romps, two children follow an old man into the woods, trailing bread crumbs behind and edging helplessly toward a sinister end that never comes; a husband walks toward the bed where his wife awaits his caresses, but by the time he arrives she's been dead three weeks and detectives are pounding down the door; a teenaged babysitter's evening becomes a kaleidoscope of dangerous erotic fantasies-her employer's, her boyfriend's, her own; an aging, humble carpenter marries a beautiful but frigid woman, and after he's waited weeks to consummate their union she announces that God has made her pregnant. Now available in a Grove paperback, Pricksongs & Descants is a cornerstone of Robert Coover's remarkable career and a brilliant work by a major American writer.
Book Synopsis Understanding Robert Coover by : Brian Evenson
Download or read book Understanding Robert Coover written by Brian Evenson and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text takes on the work of Robert Coover, a major figure of postmodern metafiction. In an analysis of Coover's short stories and novels, it demonstrates how Coover writes in several different modes that cross over into one another.
Download or read book The Thin Man written by Dashiell Hammett and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thin Man (1934) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, made famouos by the series of movies based on it starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. The story is set in New York City during the Christmas season of 1932, in the last days of Prohibition in the United States. Nick Charles, a retired private detective, and Nora, his socialite wife, become embroiled in a mystery.
Book Synopsis The Lady in the Looking Glass by : Virginia Woolf
Download or read book The Lady in the Looking Glass written by Virginia Woolf and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more than they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime.' 'If she concealed so much and knew so much one must prize her open with the first tool that came to hand - the imagination.' Virginia Woolf's writing tested the boundaries of modern fiction, exploring the depths of human consciousness and creating a new language of sensation and thought. Sometimes impressionistic, sometimes experimental, sometimes brutally cruel, sometimes surprisingly warm and funny, these five stories describe love lost, friendships formed and lives questioned. This book includes The Lady in the Looking Glass, A Society, The Mark on the Wall, Solid Objects and Lappin and Lapinova.
Book Synopsis Pricksongs & Descants by : Robert Coover
Download or read book Pricksongs & Descants written by Robert Coover and published by Pan. This book was released on 1973 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror and beauty, disgust and erotism combine in a brilliant tecnical display ... His writing demonstrates clearly how exciting the printed word can be.
Book Synopsis Aesthetics and contemporary discourse by : Herbert Grabes
Download or read book Aesthetics and contemporary discourse written by Herbert Grabes and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1994 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page by : Stephane Vanderhaeghe
Download or read book Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page written by Stephane Vanderhaeghe and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page is an unconventional study of Robert Coover's work from his early masterpiece The Origin of the Brunists (1966) to the recent Noir (2010). Written in the second person, it offers a self-reflexive investigation into the ways in which Coover's stories often challenge the reader to resist the conventions of sense-making and even literary criticism. By portraying characters lost in surroundings they often fail to grasp, Coover's work playfully enacts a "(melo)drama of cognition" that mirrors the reader's own desire to interpret and make sense of texts in unequivocal ways. This tendency in Coover's writing is indicative of a larger refusal of the ready-made, of the once-and-for-all or the authoritative, celebrating instead, in its generosity, the widening of possibilities—thus inevitably forcing the reader-critic to acknowledge the arbitrariness and artificiality of her responses.
Download or read book Chess written by Stefan Zweig and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!' A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win. Stefan Zweig's acclaimed novella Chess is a disturbing, intensely dramatic depiction of obsession and the price of genius.
Book Synopsis Babylon Revisited by : F Scott Fitzgerald
Download or read book Babylon Revisited written by F Scott Fitzgerald and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'But it hadn't been given for nothing. It had been given, even the most wildly squandered sum, as an offering to destiny that he might not remember the things most worth remembering, the things that he would now always remember' F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories defined the 1920s 'Jazz Age' generation, with their glittering dreams and tarnished hopes. In these three tales of a fragile recovery, a cut-glass bowl and a life lost, Fitzgerald portrays, in exquisite prose and with deep human sympathy, the idealism of youth and the ravages of success. This book includes Babylon Revisited, The Cut-Glass Bowl and The Lost Decade.
Download or read book 'They' written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Of a sudden I realized that he was in the grip of some almost overpowering fear.' Rudyard Kipling is best known for his novels and poetry, but his short stories reveal a far more sinister and macabre side to his imagination. In these three chilling and psychologically penetrating tales, Kipling portrays hauntings, loss, madness, terrible secrets and the darkness that lies within the human heart. This book includes 'They', Mary Postgate and The Gardener.
Book Synopsis Hell Screen by : Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Download or read book Hell Screen written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'He had the Ten Kings of Hell and their minions over in one small corner, and everything else - the entire screen - was enveloped in a firestorm so terrible you thought the swirling flames were going to melt the mountain of Sabres and the Forest of Swords.' One of the towering figures of modern Japanese writing, Akutagawa's early career was distinguished by imaginative, beautifully crafted stories of medieval Japan, rich with period detail. These two stories include his great masterpiece of that period, 'Hell Screen', and the parable of a thread-thin chance of escape for a sinner in the Pool of Blood. This book includes Hell Screen and The Spider Thread.
Book Synopsis Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse that Helped by : Saki
Download or read book Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse that Helped written by Saki and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Three weeks later the world was advised of the coming of a new breakfast food, heralded under the resounding name of 'Filboid Studge'' H.H. Munro, better known by his pen name, Saki, wrote wickedly comic satires of upper-class Edwardian life. These seven short stories are macabre and extremely funny: they include a cat that is regrettably taught to speak, a vicious pet ferret worshipped as a god, a businessman triumphantly selling an unpalatable breakfast mush, and many dark twists and barbs. This book includes Filboid Studge, a Story of a Mouse That Helped, Todermory, Mrs. Packletide's Tiger, Sredni Vashtar, The Music on the Hill, The Recessional and The Cobweb.
Download or read book Bluebeard written by Angela Carter and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive.' Angela Carter's playful and subversive retellings of Charles Perrault's classic fairy tales conjure up a world of resourceful women, black-hearted villains, wily animals and incredible transformations. In these seven stories, bristling with frank, earthy humour and gothic imagination, nothing is as it seems. This book includes Bluebeard, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, The Sleeping Beauty of the Wood, Cinderella: or, The Glass Slipper, Ricky with the Tuft and The Foolish Wishes.
Book Synopsis The Strange Crime of John Boulnois by : G K Chesterton
Download or read book The Strange Crime of John Boulnois written by G K Chesterton and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colossus of crime leaned over to the little rustic priest with a sort of sudden interest. 'You have heard of it?' he asked. 'Where have you heard of it?' 'Well, I mustn't tell you his name, of course,' said the little man simply. 'He was a penitent, you know. He had lived prosperously for about twenty years entirely on duplicate brown-paper parcels. And so, you see, when I began to suspect you, I thought of this poor chap's way of doing it at once.' 'Began to suspect me?' repeated the outlaw with increased intensity. 'Did you really have the gumption to suspect me just because I brought you up to this bare part of the heath?' 'No, no,' said Brown with an air of apology. 'You see, I suspected you when we first met. It's that little bulge up the sleeve where you people have the spiked bracelet.' 'How in Tartarus,' cried Flambeau, 'did you ever hear of the spiked bracelet?' 'Oh, one's little flock, you know!' said Father Brown, arching his eyebrows rather blankly. One of detective fiction's most idiosyncratic and best-loved characters, G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown is both a diminutive, genial clergyman and a master sleuth. In these two stories involving the ingenious, unobtrusive priest, a murdered man denounces his killer with his dying breaths, and a brilliant French inspector follows a trail of gentil carnage across London. This book includes The Strange Crime of John Boulnois and The Blue Cross.
Download or read book Flame of Love written by Clarissa Ross and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Crimson Romance celebrates its first anniversary, we honor those pioneers who helped shape the direction of romance novels for all of us. Suspense, mystery, paranormal activity and love - always love - have been the cornerstone of the genre since the early 1970s. Now we have updated the covers to these classics - but not the words - and reissued these timeless reads to let you relive the thrill of discovering a world of romance all over again. One ambition burned in Fanny Hastings’ heart - to be an actress. Possessed of beauty, talent, and determination, she intended to let nothing and no one stand in the way of her career. Though she gave her body willingly, Fanny refused to surrender her freedom. Sought by a Maharaiah as his concubine, pursued by a Viscount, adored by a handsome young actor, she rejected them all in favor of her public’s adulation. But Fanny found that, no matter how hard she tried, she could not control her emotions; just when success was within her grasp, her wayward passions drew her into a sequence of events that threatened to destroy both her career and one man she couldn’t forget. Sensuality Level: Sensual
Download or read book Robert Coover written by Lois G. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With works ranging thematically and stylistically from The Universal Baseball Association to The Public Burning, from Pricksongs and Descants to Spanking the Maid, Robert Coover emerges as one of the most vibrant writers from a remarkable avant-garde that in the mid-1960s mounted serious assault on traditional ideas of form and content in world literature. Lois Gordon here defines Coover's novels, short stories, and plays in terms of his contemporaries: among Americans, Donald Barthelme, William Gass, John Hawkes, and others; among Europeans, Julio Cortazar, Robert Pinget, and Italo Calvino, to name a few. These writers dismiss the conventions of traditional form--linear plot, character development, definable theme, Aristotle's unities of time and space--as no longer appropriate in the modern world. Coover writes in a dazzling variety of forms and styles; in each he demonstrates a diversity of the style and manipulates the trappings of every conventional form--from Old Comedy to theater of the absurd. He also translates or transposes techniques associated with other art forms, such as film montage or operatic interlude. In Coover's hands, any of these forms are fair game for parody. Gordon notes: "Coover's method, more specifically is this: at the same time that he maintains a strong narrative line he counterpoints it (his musical term is 'descants') with numerous mythic, legendary, or symbolic levels... which serve to explode any final meaning or resting point." Nothing is static--personality, event, human values. Coover writes about a continual flux in which everything is constantly qualified and dramatically altered. He portrays the public and private rituals that man construes "to barter inner and outer disorder."
