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Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Diary of a Madman, and Other Tales of Horror written by Guy de Maupassant and published by Pan. This book was released on 1976 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nikolay Gogol
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014191002X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories written by Nikolay Gogol and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author, dramatist and satirist, Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) deeply influenced later Russian literature with his powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty beaurocracy and base corruption. This volume includes both his most admired short fiction and his most famous drama. A biting and frequently hilarious political satire, The Government Inspector has been popular since its first performance and was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest Russian play every written. The stories gathered here, meanwhile, range from comic to tragic and describe the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers. They include Diary of a Madman, an amusing but disturbing exploration of insanity; Nevsky Prospect, a depiction of an artist besotted with a prostitute; and The Overcoat, a moving consideration of poverty that powerfully influenced Dostoevsky and later Russian literature.
Author : Lu Xun
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824841700
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Diary of a Madman and Other Stories written by Lu Xun and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here at last is an accurate and enjoyable rendering of Lu Xun's fiction in an American English idiom that masterfully captures the sardonic wit, melancholy pathos, and ironic vision of China's first truly modern writer." -Michael S. Duke, University of British Columbia The inventor of the modern Chinese short story, Lu Xun is universally regarded as twentieth century China’s greatest writer. This long awaited volume presents new translations of all Lu Xun’s stories, including his first, “Remembrances of the Past,” written in classical Chinese. These new renderings faithfully convey both the brilliant style and the pungent expression for which Lu Xun is famous. Also included are a substantial introduction by the translator and sufficient annotation to make the stories fully accessible, enabling readers approaching Lu Xun for the first time to appreciate why these stories occupy a permanent place not only in Chinese literature but in world literature as well.
Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726666359
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (266 download)
Download or read book The Diary of a Madman written by Guy de Maupassant and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2023-03-08 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Later made into a film, starring Vincent Price, ‘The Diary of a Madman’ is a dark and disturbing short story. In just three pages, Maupassant introduces us to an upright magistrate who has just condemned a prisoner, Blondel, to death. Blondel is convicted of prolicide, and the magistrate wants to work out why he’s committed this terrible crime. Through his diary, we see how the idea takes root and becomes something much more sinister... A gripping read that’s as relevant today as when it was written, ‘The Diary of a Madman’ is the ideal read for fans of Stephen King. Hailed as one of the pioneers of the modern short story, Henri Ren Albert Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893) was born in Dieppe, France. After his parents’ divorce, Maupassant was cared for by his mother who had a passion for literature. During his secondary education, he was introduced to the acclaimed novelist, Gustave Flaubert, who was to play a prominent part in Maupassant’s literary career. The Franco-Prussian War saw the author enlist in the Navy, and his experiences influenced many of his books, including ‘Boule de Suif.’ Flaubert was to take him under his wing after the war, introducing him to realist and naturalist authors, such as Émile Zola and Ivan Turgenev.
Author : Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ
Publisher : Signet
ISBN 13 : 9780451529541
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (295 download)
Download or read book The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories written by Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ and published by Signet. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 19th-century author created some of the most colorful and haunting fiction of his century (Kirkus Reviews). This sampling by the comic genius includes The Nose and the celebrated novella Taras Bulba. Includes a new Afterword. Reissue.
Author : Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140442731
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (427 download)
Download or read book Diary of a Madman, and Other Stories written by Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1972 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates the Russian writer's thoughts on madness, bureaucracy, and illusion in these five tales
Author : Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465591435
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book The Mantle and Other Stories written by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a novel-writer and a dramatist, Gogol appears to me to deserve a minute study, and if the knowledge of Russian were more widely spread, he could not fail to obtain in Europe a reputation equal to that of the best English humorists. A delicate and close observer, quick to detect the absurd, bold in exposing, but inclined to push his fun too far, Gogol is in the first place a very lively satirist. He is merciless towards fools and rascals, but he has only one weapon at his disposalÑirony. This is a weapon which is too severe to use against the merely absurd, and on the other hand it is not sharp enough for the punishment of crime; and it is against crime that Gogol too often uses it. His comic vein is always too near the farcical, and his mirth is hardly contagious. If sometimes he makes his reader laugh, he still leaves in his mind a feeling of bitterness and indignation; his satires do not avenge society, they only make it angry. As a painter of manners, Gogol excels in familiar scenes. He is akin to Teniers and Callot. We feel as though we had seen and lived with his characters, for he shows us their eccentricities, their nervous habits, their slightest gestures. One lisps, another mispronounces his words, and a third hisses because he has lost a front tooth. Unfortunately Gogol is so absorbed in this minute study of details that he too often forgets to subordinate them to the main action of the story. To tell the truth, there is no ordered plan in his works, andÑa strange trait in an author who sets up as a realistÑhe takes no care to preserve an atmosphere of probability. His most carefully painted scenes are clumsily connectedÑthey begin and end abruptly; often the author's great carelessness in construction destroys, as though wantonly, the illusion produced by the truth of his descriptions and the naturalness of his conversations.
Author : Charles Mitchell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847310931
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Landmark Cases in the Law of Restitution written by Charles Mitchell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is now well established that the law of unjust enrichment forms an important and distinctive part of the English law of obligations. Restitutionary awards for unjust enrichment and for wrongdoing are clearly recognised for what they are. But these are recent developments. Before the last decade of the twentieth century the very existence of a separate law of unjust enrichment was controversial, its scope and content matters of dispute. In this collection of essays, a group of leading scholars look back and reappraise some of the landmark cases in the law of restitution. They range from the early seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century, and shed new light on some classic decisions. Some argue that the importance of their case has been overstated; others, that it has been overlooked, or misconceived. All persuasively invite the reader to think again about some well-known authorities. The book is an essential resource for anyone, scholar, student or practitioner, with an interest in this fascinating area of the law.
Author : Susan Hill
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Random House Book of Ghost Stories written by Susan Hill and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen ghost stories from England are cozy or comic rather than spooky.
Author : Anna Harpin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351371045
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Madness, Art, and Society written by Anna Harpin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is madness experienced, treated, and represented? How might art think around – and beyond – psychiatric definitions of illness and wellbeing? Madness, Art, and Society engages with artistic practices from theatre and live art to graphic fiction, charting a multiplicity of ways of thinking critically with, rather than about, non-normative psychological experience. It is organised into two parts: ‘Structures: psychiatrists, institutions, treatments’, illuminates the environments, figures and primary models of psychiatric care, reconsidering their history and contemporary manifestations through case studies including David Edgar’s Mary Barnes and Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. ‘Experiences: realities, bodies, moods’, promblematises diagnostic categories and proposes more radically open models of thinking in relation to experiences of madness, touching upon works such as Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko and Duncan Macmillan’s People, Places, and Things. Reading its case studies as a counter-discourse to orthodox psychiatry, Madness, Art, and Society seeks a more nuanced understanding of the plurality of madness in society, and in so doing, offers an outstanding resource for students and scholars alike.
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349036501
Total Pages : 1555 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Writers Directory written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-05 with total page 1555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486112918
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Diary of a Madman and Other Stories written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bizarre mix of broad comedy, fantasy, and social commentary, the title story offers an unforgettable depiction of a lunatic civil servant. Includes "Nevski Prospect" and "The Portrait."
Author : Adrien Dreamer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781092713481
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (134 download)
Download or read book A Madman's Tale written by Adrien Dreamer and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The somewhat different dream journal. Not for the lighthearted. No flowers, no fairy dust. Dark, atmospheric and a bit creepy. The perfect gift for people who continue horror movies in their dreams. With a pen and this journal next to your bed, you can write down anything crazy and disturbing. Maybe the best source for horror stories.
Author : Brad "Scarface" Jordan
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062302663
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Diary of a Madman written by Brad "Scarface" Jordan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Rolling Stone’s Best Music Books of 2015 From Geto Boys legend and renowned storyteller Scarface, comes a passionate memoir about how hip-hop changed the life of a kid from the south side of Houston, and how he rose to the top-and ushered in a new generation of rap dominance. Scarface is the celebrated rapper whose hits include "On My Block," "Mind Playing Tricks on Me" and "Damn It Feels Good to be a Gangsta" (made famous in the cult film Office Space). The former president of Def Jam South, he's collaborated with everyone from Kanye West, Ice Cube and Nas, and had many solo hits such as "Guess Who's Back" feat. Jay-Z and "Smile" feat. Tupac. But before that, he was a kid from Houston in love with rock-and-roll, listening to AC/DC and KISS. In Diary of a Madman, Scarface shares how his world changed when he heard Run DMC for the first time; how he dropped out of school in the ninth grade and started selling crack; and how he began rapping as the new form of music made its way out of New York and across the country. It is the account of his rise to the heights of the rap world, as well as his battles with his own demons and depression. Passionately exploring and explaining the roots and influences of rap culture, Diary of a Madman is the story of hip-hop-the music, the business, the streets, and life on the south side Houston, Texas.
Author : Young-ha Kim
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 1328545423
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (285 download)
Download or read book Diary of a Murderer written by Young-ha Kim and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "one of South Korea's best and most worldly writers" (NPR): An electric collection that captivates and provokes in equal measure, exploring what it means to be on the edge--between life and death, good and evil
Author : Valerie Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317872789
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Short Story written by Valerie Shaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout this text, Valerie Shaw addresses two key questions: 'What are the special satisfactions afforded by reading short stories?' and 'How are these satisfactions derived from each story's literary techniques and narrative strategies?'. She then attempts to answer these questions by drawing on stories from different periods and countries - by authors who were also great novelists, like Henry James, Flaubert, Kafka and D.H. Lawrence; by authors who specifically dedicated themselves to the art of the short story, like Kipling, Chekhov and Katherine Mansfield; by contemporary practitioners like Angela Carter and Jorge Luis Borges; and by unfairly neglected writers like Sarah Orne Jewett and Joel Chandler Harris.
Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781798178362
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (783 download)
Download or read book Diary of a Madman (Annotated) written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-02 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diary of a Madman is a farcical short story Nikolai Gogol. Along with The Overcoat and The Nose, Diary of a Madman is considered...
