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The Handsome Monk and Other Stories

Author : Tsering Dondrup
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231548788
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Handsome Monk and Other Stories written by Tsering Dondrup and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tsering Döndrup is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed authors writing in Tibetan today. In a distinct voice rich in black humor and irony, he describes the lives of Tibetans in contemporary China with wit, empathy, and a passionate sense of justice. The Handsome Monk and Other Stories brings together short stories from across Tsering Döndrup’s career to create a panorama of Tibetan society. With a love for the sparse yet vivid language of traditional Tibetan life, Tsering Döndrup tells tales of hypocritical lamas, crooked officials, violent conflicts, and loyal yaks. His nomad characters find themselves in scenarios that are at once strange and familiar, satirical yet poignant. The stories are set in the fictional county of Tsezhung, where Tsering Döndrup’s characters live their lives against the striking backdrop of Tibet’s natural landscape and go about their daily business to the ever-present rhythms of Tibetan religious life. Tsering Döndrup confronts pressing issues: the corruption of religious institutions; the indignities and injustices of Chinese rule; poverty and social ills such as gambling and alcoholism; and the hardships of a minority group struggling to maintain its identity in the face of overwhelming odds. Ranging in style from playful updates of traditional storytelling techniques to narrative experimentation, Tsering Döndrup’s tales pay tribute to the resilience of Tibetan culture.

The Cup of Trembling, and Other Stories

Author : Mary Hallock Foote
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Cup of Trembling, and Other Stories written by Mary Hallock Foote and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a captivating collection of stories by Mary Hallock Foote, an American author, and illustrator. Her stories are intensely dramatic, and her characters are realistic. The collection features The Cup of Trembling, Maverick, On a Side-Track, and The Trumpeter.

Last Stories and Other Stories

Author : William T. Vollmann
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014312756X
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Last Stories and Other Stories written by William T. Vollmann and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supernaturally tinged stories from William T. Vollmann, author of the National Book Award winner Europe Central Watch for Vollmann’s new work of nonfiction, No Immediate Danger, coming in April of 2018 In this magnificent new work of fiction, his first in nine years, celebrated author William T. Vollmann offers a collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death, and the erotic. A Bohemian farmer’s dead wife returns to him, and their love endures, but at a gruesome price. A geisha prolongs her life by turning into a cherry tree. A journalist, haunted by the half-forgotten killing of a Bosnian couple, watches their story, and his own wartime tragedy, slip away from him. A dying American romances the ghost of his high school sweetheart while a homeless salaryman in Tokyo animates paper cutouts of ancient heroes. Are ghosts memories, fantasies, or monsters? Is there life in death? Vollmann has always operated in the shadowy borderland between categories, and these eerie tales, however far-flung their settings, all focus on the attempts of the living to avoid, control, or even seduce death. Vollmann’s stories will transport readers to a fantastical world where love and lust make anything possible.

My Ideal Bookshelf

Author : Thessaly La Force
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316225002
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book My Ideal Bookshelf written by Thessaly La Force and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The books that we choose to keep -- let alone read -- can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In My Ideal Bookshelf, dozens of leading cultural figures share the books that matter to them most; books that define their dreams and ambitions and in many cases helped them find their way in the world. Contributors include Malcolm Gladwell, Thomas Keller, Michael Chabon, Alice Waters, James Patterson, Maira Kalman, Judd Apatow, Chuck Klosterman, Miranda July, Alex Ross, Nancy Pearl, David Chang, Patti Smith, Jennifer Egan, and Dave Eggers, among many others. With colorful and endearingly hand-rendered images of book spines by Jane Mount, and first-person commentary from all the contributors, this is a perfect gift for avid readers, writers, and all who have known the influence of a great book.

Cup Man and Other Stories

Author : Tikum Mbah Azonga
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956558419
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Cup Man and Other Stories written by Tikum Mbah Azonga and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of eight fictional short stories on themes such as the intrigues of the civil service, drunkenness, theft, matrimonial relations and living as an African immigrant in the West.

A China cup, and other stories for children

Author : F. Volkhovskii
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book A China cup, and other stories for children written by F. Volkhovskii and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a joyful collection of six short stories, including A China Cup, How Scarlet-Comb the Cock defended the Right, The Tiny Screw, The Dream, Browny, The Old Sword's Mistake, 'My Own', and The Tale about how all these Tales came to Light. Each story is designed to entertain and instruct both children and adults on the simple joys of living a good life. With themes of family, friendship, loyalty and bravery.

A CHINA CUP AND OTHER STORIES FOR CHILDREN - 8 childrens stories

Author : Feliks Vadimovich Volkhovsky
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book A CHINA CUP AND OTHER STORIES FOR CHILDREN - 8 childrens stories written by Feliks Vadimovich Volkhovsky and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herein are 8 disparate stories from Northern Climes compiled by Feliks Vadimovich Volkhovsky. The stories in this book originate from Baltiysk in Western Russia to Vladivostok in the East. This stories in this book are: A China cup How Scarlet-Comb the cock defended the right The tiny screw The dream Browny The old sword's mistake 'My own' The tale about how all these tales came to light. 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities. ----------------- KEYWORDS/TAGS: A China cup, young girl, smash, repair, favourite, stories for children, Folklore, Fairy Tales, Scarlet-Comb, cock, defend, the right, tiny, screw, dream, Browny, old sword, mistake, tales, myths, legends, storyteller, fables, fantasy, magic, imagination, Russian, Siberian,

To the Stars and Other Stories

Author :
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231553404
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book To the Stars and Other Stories written by and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars. A seamstress finds liberation of a sort in “becoming” a dog and howling at the moon. A club of young girls masquerade as the grieving fiancées of strange men. This book brings together these and other remarkable short stories by the Russian Symbolist Fyodor Sologub that explore the lengths to which people will go to transcend the mundane. Renowned as one of late imperial Russia’s finest stylists, Sologub bridges the great nineteenth-century novel and the fin-de-siècle avant-garde. He stands out for his masterful command of both realist and fantastic storytelling; his play with language evinces a belief in its capacity to access other worlds and other levels of meaning. Many of Sologub’s stories are set among children whose alienation from the adult world has lent them imagination and curiosity, enabling them to create an alternative reality. At the same time, he bluntly examines the sordid realities of late imperial Russian society and frankly presents sometimes unconventional sexuality. The book also features a selection of Sologub’s “little fairy tales,” ambiguous parables couched in childlike language whose ingenuity anticipates the miniatures and “incidents” of Daniil Kharms. Susanne Fusso’s elegant translation offers these artful tales to an English-speaking audience.

Fire Ants and Other Stories

Author : Gerald Duff
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1603062106
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)

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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.”

The Magic Cup

Author : Andrew Greeley
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9788178624181
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book The Magic Cup written by Andrew Greeley and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 1979 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Magic Mug and Other Stories

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Magic Mug and Other Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nose and Other Stories

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231549067
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Nose and Other Stories written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikolai Gogol’s novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol’s peculiar genius comes through most powerfully in his short stories. By turns—or at once—funny, terrifying, and profound, the tales collected in The Nose and Other Stories are among the greatest achievements of world literature. These stories showcase Gogol’s vivid, haunting imagination: an encounter with evil in a darkened church, a downtrodden clerk who dreams only of a new overcoat, a nose that falls off a face and reappears around town on its own, outranking its former owner. Written between 1831 and 1842, they span the colorful setting of rural Ukraine to the unforgiving urban landscape of St. Petersburg to the ancient labyrinth of Rome. Yet they share Gogol’s characteristic obsessions—city crowds, bureaucratic hierarchy and irrationality, the devil in disguise—and a constant undercurrent of the absurd. Susanne Fusso’s translations pay careful attention to the strangeness and wonder of Gogol's style, preserving the inimitable humor and oddity of his language. The Nose and Other Stories reveals why Russian writers from Dostoevsky to Nabokov have returned to Gogol as the cornerstone of their unparalleled literary tradition.

Poor Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories

Author : GGKEY:KET19SXN142
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poor Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories written by GGKEY:KET19SXN142 and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-08-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the matter, she wondered, with John and Margaret Kirby—young, handsome, rich, and popular? What had been wrong with their marriage, that brilliantly heralded and widely advertised event? Whose fault was it that they two could not seem to understand each other, could not seem to live out their lives together in honorable and dignified companionship, as generations of their forebears had done...FROM THE BOOKS.

Daisy Tales and Other Stories of My Grandfather's Younger Days in the South Georgia Piney Woods

Author : Joseph P. Byrd, IV
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1637641303
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Daisy Tales and Other Stories of My Grandfather's Younger Days in the South Georgia Piney Woods written by Joseph P. Byrd, IV and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-27 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daisy Tales and Other Stories of My Grandfather’s Younger Days in the South Georgia Piney Woods By: Joseph P. Byrd, IV Daisy Tales and Other Stories of My Grandfather’s Younger Days in the South Georgia Piney Woods is a book of stories, remembrances and maybe a few tall tales as recounted by the author’s maternal grandfather, William Leroy Edwards. Much of the material, obtained by his father, was transcribed by his mother in the summer of 1955 when his widowed grandfather visited their home. Upon reading his grandfather’s stories, the author was transported back in time to the Georgia frontier and impressed with his sense of humor. Initially, thinking it a project to share with family, the author concluded these stories would appeal to a larger readership who would be interested in memoirs/history/Southern humor in addition to family history.

El Milagro and Other Stories

Author : Patricia Preciado Martin
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816515486
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book El Milagro and Other Stories written by Patricia Preciado Martin and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1996-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories on the people of the Southwest. Silviana strides to her chicken coop, triggering a "feathered pandemonium" as chickens smell death in the air, Mamacita embroiders, "wondering what in the world it feels like to be kissed," and people who buy tortillas at the market "might as well move to Los Angeles, for they have already lost their souls."

The Prisoner's Release and Other Stories

Author : Kyell Gold
Publisher : Kyell Gold
ISBN 13 : 0983265232
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book The Prisoner's Release and Other Stories written by Kyell Gold and published by Kyell Gold. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together the two-part short story which originally appeared in Heat #1 and Heat #2 -- "The Prisoner's Release" -- with three entirely new tales set in the world of Argaea.* "Inside the Cage" takes place at the Jackal's Staff where a young cougar seeks to escape his life of prostitution.* "The Prisoner's Release" previously appeared in Heat #1 and Heat #2 and tells the story of how Volle met Streak.* "Home Again" picks up just after "The Prisoner's Release" when Volle and Streak have returned Ferrenis and fills in some details leading up to their ill-fated return to Tephos in "Pendant of Fortune." * Finally we return to the Jackal's Staff in "For Love or Family", this time through the eyes of a patron trying to balance the way he feels against the duties of his station.

The Twin Fortunes and Other Stories

Author : James I. McGovern
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469107457
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book The Twin Fortunes and Other Stories written by James I. McGovern and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-03-03 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirteen stories in this collection concern people from a wide variety of backgrounds. As they struggle with the problems they meetphysical, emotional, or spiritualthey become conscious of past failures and missing necessities for their futures. While they have various degrees of success or failure, its the awareness of the reasons for ones fate that emerges as the central value. This knowledge of limitations, sometimes bolstered by compassion or will, empowers some of the characters but remains elusive for others.