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Download or read book Small Tragedy written by Craig Lucas and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backstage and global politics unexpectedly collide during an amateur production of Oedipus. This powerful, timely play investigates the contemporary meaning and relevance of tragedy, launching a surprisingly funny, sharply pointed salvo directly at the heart of a generation.
Book Synopsis The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by : Jeff Hobbs
Download or read book The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace written by Jeff Hobbs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a young African-American man who escaped the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets when he returned home.
Book Synopsis Tragedy in Small Town TN by : C. R. Tinsley
Download or read book Tragedy in Small Town TN written by C. R. Tinsley and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It happened so very quickly, yet, the memories of this event have lingered for decades. For those who were there, the event plays over-and-over in their mind, sometimes in slow-motion where they can still see each freeze-frame moment just as it occurred. For loved ones who were not there, their vision of what occurred plays over-and over, haunting their dreams both day and night. The date was Sunday, June 26, 1977. It was a hot 90 degrees and most of the residents of the small town of Columbia, TN were taking part in church functions, spending the day with family, hanging out at the pool, or taking a pleasant afternoon nap. Little did anyone know that our town was mere moments from an epic disaster. A disaster that would leave its weighty mark on every member of this community, for years to come. The worst jail fire in the history of Tennessee, both then and now.
Book Synopsis The Death of Mrs. Westaway by : Ruth Ware
Download or read book The Death of Mrs. Westaway written by Ruth Ware and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “perfectly executed suspense tale very much in the mode of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca” (The Washington Post) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Turn of the Key. On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person—but also that the cold-reading skills she’s honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money. Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased…where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of it. Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, this is a “captivating and eerie page-turner” (The Wall Street Journal) from the Agatha Christie of our time.
Book Synopsis From Doon with Death by : Ruth Rendell
Download or read book From Doon with Death written by Ruth Rendell and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dazzling psychological suspense. Razor-sharp dialogue. Plots that catch and hold like a noose. These are the hallmarks of crime legend Ruth Rendell, “the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world” (Time magazine). From Doon with Death, now in a striking new paperback edition, is her classic debut novel—and the book that introduced one of the most popular sleuths of the twentieth century. There is nothing extraordinary about Margaret Parsons, a timid housewife in the quiet town of Kingsmarkham, a woman devoted to her garden, her kitchen, her husband. Except that Margaret Parsons is dead, brutally strangled, her body abandoned in the nearby woods. Who would kill someone with nothing to hide? Inspector Wexford, the formidable chief of police, feels baffled -- until he discovers Margaret's dark secret: a trove of rare books, each volume breathlessly inscribed by a passionate lover identified only as Doon. As Wexford delves deeper into both Mrs. Parsons’ past and the wary community circling round her memory like wolves, the case builds with relentless momentum to a surprise finale as clever as it is blindsiding. In From Doon with Death, Ruth Rendell instantly mastered the form that would become synonymous with her name. Chilling, richly characterized, and ingeniously constructed, this is psychological suspense at its very finest. Praise for From Doon with Death “One of the most remarkable novelists of her generation.”—People “She has transcended her genre by her remarkable imaginative power to explore and illuminate the dark corners of the human psyche.”—P.D. James
Download or read book Such Small Hands written by Andrés Barba and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shirley Jackson meets The Virgin Suicides, set at an all-girls orphanage.
Book Synopsis A Fierce Little Tragedy by : Herman Stark
Download or read book A Fierce Little Tragedy written by Herman Stark and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores, in novel form, what can happen to us, whether professor or student, as a result of the philosophical classroom. The approach is to consider the classroom as a unique happening of philosophy, different than reporting theories or doing research, through which a distinctive mode of philosophical formation can occur.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature by : W. Michelle Wang
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature written by W. Michelle Wang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of study and includes essays by Brian McHale, Catherine Belling, Ronald Schleifer, Helen Swift, and Ira Nadel, as well as the work of a generation of younger scholars from around the globe, who bring valuable transnational insights. Encompassing a diverse range of mediums and genres – including biography and autobiography, documentary, drama, elegy, film, the novel and graphic novel, opera, picturebooks, poetry, television, and more – the contributors offer a dynamic mix of approaches that range from expansive perspectives on particular periods and genres to extended analyses of select case studies. Essays are included from every major Western period, including Classical, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and so on, right up to the contemporary. This collection provides a telling demonstration of the myriad ways that humanity has learned to live with the inevitability of death, where “live with” itself might mean any number of things: from consoling, to memorializing, to rationalizing, to fending off, to evading, and, perhaps most compellingly of all, to escaping. Engagingly written and drawing on examples from around the world, this volume is indispensable to both students and scholars working in the fields of medical humanities, thanatography (death studies), life writing, Victorian studies, modernist studies, narrative, contemporary fiction, popular culture, and more.
Download or read book Dad is cool 2 written by Marcos Piangers and published by Belas-Letras. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcos Piangers will put us in the backseat between his daughters Anita and Aurora, as tells us more stories—some are moving, some are funny, and others are just plain disgusting. They're all about this completely common and extremely extraordinary thing called "being a dad." Nobody has children to get benefits, discounts, tax deductions, or free balloons at the mall. Children can deplete your savings account and cut short your hours of sleep. They'll get your new shirts dirty and draw on your walls. Actually, there's only one reason why we have children: to learn how to love other people more than you love yourself.
Book Synopsis Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction by : Adrian Poole
Download or read book Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction written by Adrian Poole and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What has tragedy been made to mean by dramatists, story-tellers, critics, philosophers, politicians, and journalists? This work shows the relevance of tragedy to the modern world, and extends beyond drama and literature into visual art and everyday experience.
Book Synopsis Antiquity Now by : Thomas E. Jenkins
Download or read book Antiquity Now written by Thomas E. Jenkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the surprising uses, and abuses, of the classical world in contemporary popular media.
Book Synopsis Being in Time to the Music by : David Ross
Download or read book Being in Time to the Music written by David Ross and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being-in-time to the music from the ground up is a work in phenomenology, where this term is broadly defined, comprehending Plato, Heidegger, Hegel, and Marx. The most direct referent is Hegel, together with the theoretical revolution that he initiated with Phenomenology of Mind. This text’s more general purpose is to set the tone for a 21st communism based upon the idea of dancing with death, assuming full responsibility for one’s mortality, and abandoning the self to love as the meaning of existence. This dance is choreographed through my conversations with the above mentioned writers. In conversing with them I aim to displace (if not usurp) them from the throne of honour which is nothing more than the authority borrowed from me. By this I do not intend to deny completely their ‘other to me’ character. However, they exist or even ‘figure’ for me, both in the sense of of ‘count,’ having importance, as those that I read, and by which I read myself. They have borrowed my authority, namely, my own potential to be an author. So ‘reading them is to re-assume that borrowed authority. The life of the reader, to paraphrase Barthes, begins with the death of the author.
Book Synopsis The New Age by : Alfred Richard Orage
Download or read book The New Age written by Alfred Richard Orage and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grasshands written by Kyle Winkler and published by JournalStone. This book was released on 2024-01-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Grasshands fulfills the promise of the term ‘mindbending’ in ways drugs never could. Prose and dialog that are effortlessly engaging, horror that builds in an almost absurdist fashion making the dread that much more effective when it drops. And oh, how it drops. More than the sum of its parts—and damn, those parts are impressive on their own—Grasshands is a vehicle for experiencing the human condition, the ultimate drive for horror. I'll be thinking about it for a long, long time.” –Laurel Hightower, author of Below and Crossroads “In his novel Grasshands, Kyle Winkler once again renders the deeply familiar pervasively uncomfortable. I find no place to rest in his work, where time keeps shifting, good and evil constantly switch positions like mobile surfaces on a semantic Rubik’s cube, and the nostalgia of beloved fairy tales clashes with the modern reality of bills, eviction, imperfect love, and existential uncertainty. Grasshands is both mournful and hopeful, passionate and disappointed; a gorgeous romp through the conflicted folklore of our everyday lives.” –Joe Koch, author of The Wingspan of Severed Hands and Convulsive Everything wrong with the world is wrong with books. When overworked assistant Sylvia Hix finds a strange moss smothering the library books, there’s little to worry about. But when patrons start eating it, gaining direct knowledge of the books, then losing their minds—Sylvia has deep problems. Moreover, her supervisor is a glue addict, her best friend Albert is growing into a giant, and Clara Gamelin, the Library Board Director, is shaping her to be the next ball busting head librarian. It is a job she does not want. Sylvia is haunted by the moss, because it’s somehow connected to a horrific creature from her childhood. A creature she once named Grasshands and since forgotten. Stopping Grasshands from decaying the town’s mind, the library’s books, and the slow rot of time is the only job now available to her, whether she wants it or not. A novel of biblio-horror, body horror, and melancholic friendship, Grasshands is ready for check-out. Get your library card ready. “Grasshands is an enchanting and lovely dark fantasy novel, with echoes of Bradbury, Jackson, and Gaiman–yet its own, startlingly original creation. Kyle Winkler is a distinctive and inventive young writer with an exciting future ahead of him.” –Dan Chaon, author of Sleepwalk
Book Synopsis House of Life & Death by : Vann Chow
Download or read book House of Life & Death written by Vann Chow and published by Publishing House. This book was released on with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on an enthralling odyssey through the enigmatic realms of the afterlife in "The House of Life," where the ethereal and echoes of European colonial history converge in the East. Each year, on July 7th in the lunar calendar, the Gates of Hell swing open, granting ghosts a respite from their infernal torments for seven days. The living have dubbed this period the Yulan Festival, a time when spectral beings freely roam the earthly realm. In response to this supernatural occurrence, ingenious citizens of Hong Kong have honed their strategies to navigate these spectral encounters. The House of Life, a venerable Chinese pharmacy under the stewardship of a philanthropic luminary Master Physician, graciously welcomes hungry ghosts within its walls. Here, an opulent banquet of food, wine, and medicines serves as a diversion to appease these otherworldly visitors. In a fateful twist of fate, Elise, an ordinary city girl, meets her tragic end in a harrowing traffic accident that same night, and was brought to the the House of Life. Her arrival coincides with a tumultuous raid of the House by Manchurian warlords. It was unclear what they sought but Elise's presence had something to do with it. And thus this commence her unforgettable journey through the afterlife to save the poor souls that dwells in the House. Join Elise as she unravels the mysteries veiled between the realms of existence and transcendence, amidst a tapestry woven with magic, mythical creatures, and age-old folklore against the vibrant backdrop of Eastern history as she traverses a world teeming with peril and marvels.
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Download or read book The Best American Short Stories ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book City of Good Death written by Chris Lloyd and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Catalonian police detective struggles to stop a serial killer targeting unsavory victims in this atmospheric crime thriller series debut. A killer is targeting figures of corruption in the Catalan city of Girona, with each corpse posed in a way whose meaning no one can fathom. Elisenda Domenech, the head of Girona’s newly-formed Serious Crime Unit, believes the attacker is drawing on the city’s legends to choose his targets, but soon finds her investigation is blocked at every turn. Battling against the increasing sympathy towards the killer displayed by the press, the public and even some of the police, she finds herself forced to question her own values. But when the attacks start to include less-deserving victims, the pressure is suddenly on Elisenda to stop him. The question is: how? Perfect for readers of Val McDermid and the Inspector Montalbano novels.
