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Author : Eça de Queirós
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789060030721
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Mandarin, and Other Stories written by Eça de Queirós and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jose Maria Eca de Queiroz
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1907650342
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The Mandarin(and other stories) written by Jose Maria Eca de Queiroz and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eça de Queiroz (1845-1900) is considered to be Portugal�s greatest novelist and one of its finest prose writers. In The Mandarin he turns his satirical eye on the sin of avarice and asks the following question: ‘In the depths of China there lives a mandarin who is richer than any king spoken of in fable or in history. You know nothing about him, not his name, his face or the silks that he wears. In order for you to inherit his limitless wealth, all you have to do is to ring the bell placed on a book by your side. In that remote corner of Mongolia, he will utter a single sigh. He will then be a corpse, and at your feet you will see gold beyond the dreams of avarice. Mortal reader, will you ring the bell?� When Teodoro, our timid, lowly narrator, says ‘Yes�, he finds that fabulous wealth brings with it unexpected problems. The three very different stories that complete the collection � ‘The Idiosyncrasies of a Young Blonde Woman�, ‘The Hanged Man� and ‘José Matías� � are all tales of obsessive love, each told with Eça�s irrepressible wit and originality. �A brilliant mischievous essay in fantasy chinoiserie, irreverently subverting the trope, created half a century earlier by Balzac in La Peau de chagrin, of the Oriental curse masquerading as a blessing. In the same Dedalus collection of Eca's short fiction lies a late gem,'Jose Matias', a love story told at a funeral by a Hegelian philosopher, in which the issue of the narrator's own relationship with reality adds a comically ambiguous layer to the tale." Jonathan Keates in The Times Literary Supplement
Author : Eca De Queiroz
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
ISBN 13 : 9780781802147
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Mandarin written by Eca De Queiroz and published by Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 1993-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eca de Queiroz (1845-1900) is considered to be Portugal's greatest nineteenth century novelist. His sharply satirical work aimed to expose the hypocrisies of his age. In The Mandarin (1880) and The Relic (1887), however, Eca ventured into the world of Fantastic literature. His lascivious anti-heroes, Teodoro and Teodorico are dragged from their narrow Lisbon lives into exotic encounters with Chinese mandarins, the Devil (in the guise of a dark-suited civil servant) and Jesus Christ Himself." "In his short story Jose Motias Eca de Queiroz takes to its logical and tragi-comic extreme the concept of the romantic lover, worshipping his beloved from afar. In all three, the collision of provincial egotism and greed with higher or darker forces produces a very distinctive blend of social satire and fantasy."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Yu Chen
Publisher : Tordotcom
ISBN 13 : 1250768934
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories written by Yu Chen and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Oprah Daily Top 25 Fantasy Book of 2022 From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking short story collection that explores the expanse of Chinese science fiction and fantasy. In The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, you can dine at a restaurant at the end of the universe, cultivate to immortality in the high mountains, watch roses perform Shakespeare, or arrive at the island of the gods on the backs of giant fish to ensure that the world can bloom. Written, edited, and translated by a female and nonbinary team, these stories have never before been published in English and represent both the richly complicated past and the vivid future of Chinese science fiction and fantasy. Time travel to a winter's day on the West Lake, explore the very boundaries of death itself, and meet old gods and new heroes in this stunning new collection. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : José Maria Eça de Queiroz
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781975665692
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (656 download)
Download or read book O Mandarim written by José Maria Eça de Queiroz and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-23 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Produced by Biblioteca Nacional Digital ( http://bnd.bn.pt ), Rita Farinha and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Author : Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 1935744127
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Mandarins written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prefiguring the vital modernist voices of the Western literary canon, Akutagawa writes with a trenchant psychological precision that exposes the shifting traditions and ironies of early twentieth-century Japan and reveals his own strained connection to it. These stories are moving glimpses into a cast of characters at odds with the society around them, singular portraits that soar effortlessly toward the universal. "What good is intelligence if you cannot discover a useful melancholy?" Akutagawa once mused. Both piercing intelligence and "useful melancholy" buoy this remarkable collection. Mandarins contains three stories published in English for the first time: "An Evening Conversation," "An Enlightened Husband," and "Winter."
Author : Eileen Chang
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681372444
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Love in a Fallen City written by Eileen Chang and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterful short works about passion, family, and human relationships by one of the greatest writers of 20th century China. A New York Review Books Original “[A] giant of modern Chinese literature” –The New York Times "With language as sharp as a knife edge, Eileen Chang cut open a huge divide in Chinese culture, between the classical patriarchy and our troubled modernity. She was one of the very few able truly to connect that divide, just as her heroines often disappeared inside it. She is the fallen angel of Chinese literature, and now, with these excellent new translations, English readers can discover why she is so revered by Chinese readers everywhere." –Ang Lee Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang’s achievement is her short fiction—tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when Chang was still in her twenties, these extraordinary stories combine an unsettled, probing, utterly contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual politics and psychological ambiguity, with an intense lyricism that echoes the classics of Chinese literature. Love in a Fallen City, the first collection in English of this dazzling body of work, introduces American readers to the stark and glamorous vision of a modern master.
Author : Xu Xu
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611729394
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu written by Xu Xu and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xu Xu 徐訏 (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s. His popular urban gothic tales, his exotic spy fiction, and his quasi-existentialist love stories full of nostalgia and melancholy offer today’s readers an unusual glimpse into China’s turbulent twentieth century. These translations--spanning a period of some thirty years, from 1937 until 1965--bring to life some of Xu Xu’s most representative short fictions from prewar Shanghai and postwar Hong Kong and Taiwan. The Afterword illustrates that Xu Xu’s idealistic tendencies in defiance of the politicization of art exemplify his affinity with European romanticism and link his work to a global literary modernity.
Author : Belinda Yun-ying Louie
Publisher : Danforth Book Distribution
ISBN 13 : 9781887542548
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Learning Chinese Through Stories and Activities written by Belinda Yun-ying Louie and published by Danforth Book Distribution. This book was released on 2007 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... The Chinese/English bilingual texts allow both novice and advanced Chinese language learners to sharpen their language skills while enjoying the stories ..."--Cover back.
Author : Hugh Wiley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Jade written by Hugh Wiley and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of seven stories set in San Francisco's Chinatown. The author characterizes the Chinese as a mixture of refinement, loyalty in friendship and religious fidelity, along with cold-blooded cruelty and a calculating mind." --
Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 0307829502
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Speaker of Mandarin written by Ruth Rendell and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The heiress apparent to Agatha Christie.”—Los Angeles Times Chief Inspector Wexford is in China, visiting ancient tombs and palaces with a group of British tourists. Is he hallucinating, or does a bent old woman with bound feet follow him everywhere? Back in England, he is called to a nearby village where a wealthy woman has been found with a bullet in her head. Murdered. He identifies her as one of the China tourists, and soon decides to question the other members of the group. When he discovers the secrets they are hiding—greed, treachery, theft, adultery—he is forced to ask not who is innocent but who is the least guilty. “[Ruth] Rendell in top form, applying subtle psychological tints to the familiar mechanics of the police procedural . . . handsomely sculpted . . . Rendell proves once again her awesome skill at probing the criminal mind and conscience. . . . Handled with great originality.”—Philadelphia Inquirer
Author : Eça de Queirós
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Mandarin, and Other Stories written by Eça de Queirós and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen Russell
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525656146
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Orange World and Other Stories written by Karen Russell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In“Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors,” two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void—yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.
Author : Kim Chew Ng
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023154099X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Slow Boat to China and Other Stories written by Kim Chew Ng and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dream and Swine and Aurora," "Deep in the Rubber Forest," "Fish Bones," "Allah's Will," "Monkey Butts, Fire, and Dangerous Things"—Ng Kim Chew's stories are raw, rural, and rich with the traditions of his native Malaysia. They are also full of humor and spirit, demonstrating a deep appreciation for human ingenuity in the face of poverty, oppression, and exile. Ng creatively captures the riot of cultures that roughly coexist on the Malay Peninsula and its surrounding archipelago. Their interplay is heightened by the encroaching forces of globalization, which bring new opportunities for cultural experimentation, but also an added dimension of alienation. In prose that is intimate and atmospheric, these sensitively crafted, resonant stories depict the struggles of individuals torn between their ancestral and adoptive homes, communities pressured by violence, and minority Malaysian Chinese in dynamic tension with the Islamic Malay majority. Told through relatable characters, Ng's tales show why he has become a leading Malaysian writer of Chinese fiction, representing in mood, voice, and rhythm the dislocation of a people and a country in transition.
Author : Julian Ralph
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Alone in China, and Other Stories written by Julian Ralph and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bette Midler
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0593176766
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)
Download or read book The Tale of the Mandarin Duck written by Bette Midler and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Inspired by the real-life rainbow-colored Mandarin Duck who appeared in New York’s Central Park in 2018, this modern fable by Bette Midler celebrates the connections people make with each other and the world around them. How do you get people to appreciate what is right in front of them? In The Tale of the Mandarin Duck, it takes a mysterious, beautiful duck and a clear-eyed kid to point out the obvious! Bette Midler’s distinctive voice joins striking photos of the real duck by Michiko Kakutani and charming black-and-white drawings by Joana Avillez. This book will have readers of all ages coming back to visit the fantastical interpretation of New York City and its odd ducks—both feathered and human. An afterword by Ms. Kakutani adds details to the facts behind this one-of-a-kind story of the Mandarin Duck.
Author : José Maria Eça de Queirós
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813235049
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book The Falling Snow and Other Stories written by José Maria Eça de Queirós and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Short stories (fiction) by the great nineteenth-century Portuguese author Jose Maria Eca de Queiros; a variety of themes characterize the stories: love, greed, obsession, country life; patriotism"--
