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Book Synopsis The Calamity of Desire and Other Stories by : Judith Dancoff
Download or read book The Calamity of Desire and Other Stories written by Judith Dancoff and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told from the female gaze, these stories explore the intersection of history, ambition, heartbreak, and desire, with the work of art at the center of each narrative.
Book Synopsis A Paradise Built in Hell by : Rebecca Solnit
Download or read book A Paradise Built in Hell written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disaster Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires and possibilities? In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit explores these phenomena, looking at major calamities from the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco through the 1917 explosion that tore up Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. She examines how disaster throws people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind and social possibilities, as well as looking at the cost of the widespread myths and rarer real cases of social deterioration during crisis. This is a timely and important book from an acclaimed author whose work consistently locates unseen patterns and meanings in broad cultural histories.
Book Synopsis The Mountain Of green Tea and other Stories by : Yaḥyá al-Ṭāhir ʻAbd Allāh
Download or read book The Mountain Of green Tea and other Stories written by Yaḥyá al-Ṭāhir ʻAbd Allāh and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yahya Taher Abdullah writes with a poetic vividness that is unblurred by outside influences. His raw material is the harsh life of the peasants of Upper Egypt, or of Cairo seen through the eyes of peasants who have migrated there in search of work. Few writers delve so subtly into a society that is strictly bounded by religious and social mores and rigid codes of behavior. It is a society without sophistication, whose members concern themselves with such basic matters as money and personal honor, and where death is ever-present to put an end to their futile endeavors. Abdullah deals with a psychological world that has no equivalent in Western life or literature. Unfamiliar though it may be, it is made real and significant by his sensitivity and artistry.
Book Synopsis Daughters of Shem and Other Stories by : Samuel Gordon
Download or read book Daughters of Shem and Other Stories written by Samuel Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bel-Ami & Other Stories by : Guy de Maupassant
Download or read book Bel-Ami & Other Stories written by Guy de Maupassant and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 1385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bel Ami (The History of a Scoundrel): The story chronicles journalist Georges Duroy's corrupt rise to power from a poor ex-NCO to one of the most successful men in Paris, most of which he achieves by manipulating a series of powerful, intelligent, and wealthy mistresses. The novel is set in Paris in the upper-middle class environment of the leading journalists of the newspaper La Vie Française and their friends. Pierre et Jean - is a naturalist or psycho-realist story, notably so by the subjects on which it treats, including knowledge of one's heredity (whether one is a legitimate son or a bastard), the bourgeoisie, and the problems stemming from money. Notre Coeur (A Woman's Pastime): The novel tells the story of a woman without a heart, frigid and probably a lesbian. The hero, facing this fascinating and awesome being, takes another mistress, who can hardly satisfy him. He is devastated by this passionate love, violent, melancholic and cruel. A Life is a satirical novel about the folly of romantic illusion. The novel tells the story of young Jeanne, full of hope and dreams of love, who discovers the outside world after finishing an education in a convent. She is looking forward to her new life and she is dreaming of the day when she will find the man who loves her. All her expectations are fulfilled, however… Mont Oriol Strong as Death. Guy de Maupassant was a French writer, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the naturalist school of writers.
Book Synopsis A noble name, by B.H. Buxton and W.W. Fenn. With other stories by W.W. Fenn by : Bertha H. Buxton
Download or read book A noble name, by B.H. Buxton and W.W. Fenn. With other stories by W.W. Fenn written by Bertha H. Buxton and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Republic of the Southern Cross, and other stories by : Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
Download or read book The Republic of the Southern Cross, and other stories written by Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Republic of the Southern Cross, and other stories" by Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis A Modern Cinderella, and Other Stories by : Louisa May Alcott
Download or read book A Modern Cinderella, and Other Stories written by Louisa May Alcott and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INDEX HOW IT WAS LOST HOW IT WAS FOUND. DEBBY'S DEBUT. THE BROTHERS. NELLY'S HOSPITAL
Book Synopsis The Wish House and Other Stories by : Rudyard Kipling
Download or read book The Wish House and Other Stories written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rudyard Kipling, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907, has long been considered an important and vibrant, even controversial, storyteller and poet. The Wish House and Other Stories is a collection of Kipling’s finest works, including the stories “In the House of Suddhoo,” “The Disturber of Traffic,” and “The Eye of Allah,” the poems “The Runners,” “The Return of the Children,” and “The Last Ode,” and his famous story about Afghanistan, “The Man Who Would Be King.” Each piece was selected by poet and scholar Craig Raine, who writes in his Preface, “We need to think about Kipling. He is our greatest short-story writer, but one whose achievement is more complex and surprising than even his admirers recognize.”
Book Synopsis One Arm and Other Stories by : Tennessee Williams
Download or read book One Arm and Other Stories written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1967 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the eleven remarkable stories of Tennessee Williams's first volume of short fiction, originally published in 1948 and reissued as a paperbook in response to an increasingly insistent public demand. It was this book which established Williams as a short story writer of the same stature and interest he had shown as a dramatist. Each story has qualities that make it memorable. In "One Arm" we live through his last hours and memories with a 'rough trade" ex-prizefighter who is awaiting execution for murder. "The Field of Blue Children" explores some of the strange ways of the human heart in love, "Portrait of a Girl in Glass" is a luminous and nostalgic recollection of characters who figure in "The Glass Menagerie," while "Desire and the Black Masseur" is an excursion into the logic of the macabre. "The Yellow Bird," well known through the author's recorded reading of it, which tells of a minister's daughter who found a particularly violent but satisfactory way of expiating a load of inherited puritan guilt, may well become part of American mythology.
Book Synopsis The Lake Gun and Other Stories by : Cooper J.F.
Download or read book The Lake Gun and Other Stories written by Cooper J.F. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. "The Lake Gun" is a satirical short story named after the mysterious loud exploding sound coming from Seneca Lake, called The Lake Gun by European American settlers to the area, and known today as the Seneca Guns. These sounds remain unexplained to this day, with no clear or agreed-upon cause.
Download or read book Aether Spark written by Nicholas Petrarch and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When alchemists from the dregs of a luckless city unlock the mysteries of the Aether, their world becomes a bit more volatile as a mechanist seeks to steal their secret for himself. It's a fight to be recognized, but at what cost?Full of discovery, desperation, and disaster, Aether Spark shows just how destructive man's ambitions can be.
Book Synopsis The Conservative by : Julius Sterling Morton
Download or read book The Conservative written by Julius Sterling Morton and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journal devoted to the discussion of political, economic, and sociological questions.
Book Synopsis The Strange History of Suzanne LaFleshe and Other Stories of Women and Fatness by : Susan Koppelman
Download or read book The Strange History of Suzanne LaFleshe and Other Stories of Women and Fatness written by Susan Koppelman and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning a century, from Kate Chopin and Fannie Hurst to J. California Cooper and Elana Dykewomon, this bold and deeply satisfying anthology of women's stories explores women's relationships to, and perceptions of, their physical selves. Addressing the peculiarities, the pleasures, and the shames of body politics, these stories of bodies that refuse to be contained offer a variety of perspectives on fully inhabiting the flesh. Whether celebrating bodies deemed transgressive or simply daring to acknowledge that such bodies exist, these diverse literary representations of fatness render the excessive body brilliantly, unapologetically visible. Book jacket.
Book Synopsis The House of Cobwebs, and Other Stories by : George Gissing
Download or read book The House of Cobwebs, and Other Stories written by George Gissing and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fatal Desire written by Jean I. Marsden and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Informed by film theory and a broad historical approach, Fatal Desire examines the theatrical representation of women in England, from the Restoration to the early eighteenth century - a period when for the first time female actors could perform in public. Jean I. Marsden maintains that the feminization of serious drama during this period is tied to the cultural function of theater. Women served as symbols of both domestic and imperial propriety, and so Marsden links the representation of women on the stage to the social context in which the plays appeared and to the moral and often political lessons they offered the audience. The witty heroines of comedies were usually absorbed into the social fabric by marrying similarly lighthearted gentlemen, but the heroines of tragedy suffered for their sins, real or perceived. That suffering served the dual purpose of titillating and educating the theater audience." "Marsden discusses such plays as William Wycherley's Plain Dealer (1676), John Vanbrugh's Provoked Wife (1697), Thomas Otway's Orphan (1680), Thomas Southerne's Fatal Marriage (1694), and William Congreve's Mourning Bride (1697). The author also addresses tragedies written by three female playwrights, Mary Pix, Catharine Trotter, and Delarivier Manley, and sketches developments in tragedy during the period."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Sindbad the Sailor & Other Stories from The Arabian Nights (Illustrations) by : Edmund Dulac
Download or read book Sindbad the Sailor & Other Stories from The Arabian Nights (Illustrations) written by Edmund Dulac and published by HENRY STONE & SON, Ltd., BANBURY. This book was released on 2014-11-22 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SINDBAD THE SAILOR In the time of Harun-er-Rashid there was, in Baghdad, a rich merchant named Sindbad the Sailor, the source of whose wealth was a mystery. It seemed to be inexhaustible. For long seasons he kept open house, and his entertainments were the most magnificent of all save only those of Er-Rashid himself. All that riches could buy seemed at his disposal, and he lavished the good things of this life upon his guests. Pages, slaves and attendants there were in great number; his garden was spacious and beautiful, and his house was filled with every costly luxury. This Sindbad the Sailor has a story to tell—the story of his life—but he never told it to any until, one day, there came to him one Sindbad the Landsman, a man of poor and humble birth. This man pleased him greatly with an apt recitation dealing with the widely different lots dispensed by God to men, and, being pleased, he was struck with the happy conceit that, now Sindbad the Sailor was at last confronted with Sindbad the Landsman, it would be no bad thing were he to narrate the story of his life so that all might know his strange adventures and conjecture no longer as to the source of his fabulous wealth. Accordingly Sindbad the Sailor held seven receptions on seven different days, and, although on each occasion a multitude of guests was assembled to listen, he failed not to address his words from first to last to his simple listener, Sindbad the Landsman. Following is his narration of the strange and wonderful adventures he experienced in his seven voyages:— To be continue in this ebook
