The Night Before Christmas (New Directions Pearls)

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811219690
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Book Synopsis The Night Before Christmas (New Directions Pearls) by : Nikolai Gogol

Download or read book The Night Before Christmas (New Directions Pearls) written by Nikolai Gogol and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikolai Gogol's hilarious and macabre tale of a Christmas Eve with a devil and a romantic twist. It is the night before Christmas and devilry is afoot. The devil steals the moon and hides it in his pocket. He is thus free to run amok and inflicts all sorts of wicked mischief upon the village of Dikanka by unleashing a snowstorm. But the one he’d really like to torment is the town blacksmith, Vakula, who creates paintings of the devil being vanquished. Vakula is in love with Oksana, but she will have nothing to do with him. Vakula, however, is determined to win her over, even if it means battling the devil. Taken from Nikolai Gogol’s first successful work, the story collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, The Night Before Christmas is available here for the first time as a stand-alone novella and is a perfect introduction to the great Russian satirist.

Never Love a Gambler (New Directions Pearls)

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811222942
Total Pages : 96 pages
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Book Synopsis Never Love a Gambler (New Directions Pearls) by : Keith Ridgway

Download or read book Never Love a Gambler (New Directions Pearls) written by Keith Ridgway and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Never Love a Gambler,' the Irish writer Keith Ridgway flips conventional narrative with unconventional drama. His charcters negotiate their way through love and lust, religious obsession and ghost sightings, crimes and disappearance in stories told with innovative mastery and brightened by fiercely vivid dialogue. Here, Ridgway showcases his brilliance as a bracing and violently funny storyteller.

On Booze (New Directions Pearls)

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081121933X
Total Pages : 96 pages
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Book Synopsis On Booze (New Directions Pearls) by : F. Scott Fitzgerald

Download or read book On Booze (New Directions Pearls) written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best drinking stories makes this the most intoxicating New Directions Pearl yet! “First you take a drink,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, “then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debutantes and dandies, rowdy jazz musicians, lost children and ragtime riff-raff into a newly compiled collection taken from The Crack-Up, and other works never before published by New Directions. On Booze portrays “The Jazz Age” as Fitzgerald experienced it: roaring, rambunctious, and lush — with quite a hangover.

Morphine (New Directions Pearls)

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811221687
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Book Synopsis Morphine (New Directions Pearls) by : Mikhail Bulgakov

Download or read book Morphine (New Directions Pearls) written by Mikhail Bulgakov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Master and Margarita comes this short and tragic masterpiece about drug addiction Young Dr. Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arrived than he receives word that a colleague, Dr. Polyakov, has fallen gravely ill. Before Bromgard can go to his friend’s aid, Polyakov is brought to his practice in the middle of the night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and, barely conscious, gives Bromgard his journal before dying. What Bromgard uncovers in the entries is Polyakov’s uncontrollable and merciless descent into morphine addiction — his first injection to ease his back pain, the thrill of the drug as it overtakes him, the looming signs of addiction, and the feverish final entries before his death.

The Leviathan (New Directions Pearls)

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811219321
Total Pages : 65 pages
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Book Synopsis The Leviathan (New Directions Pearls) by : Joseph Roth

Download or read book The Leviathan (New Directions Pearls) written by Joseph Roth and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-29 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Roth’s final novella, The Leviathan, concerns a shtetl’s finest coral merchant and how his dream of seeing the sea for the first time materializes at a terrible cost. In the small town of Progrody, Nissen Piczenik makes his living as the most respected coral merchant of the region. Nissen has never been outside of his town, deep in the Russian interior, and fantasizes that a Leviathan watches over the coral reefs. When the sailor nephew of one of Progrody’s residents comes to visit, Nissen loses little time in befriending him for the purpose of learning about the sea. The sailor offers Nissen a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to come to Odessa and tour his ship. Nissen leaves his business during the peak coral season, and stays in Odessa for three weeks. But upon his return to Progrody, Nissen finds that a new coral merchant has moved into the neighboring town, and his coral is quickly becoming the most sought after. As his customers dwindle, life takes an evil twist for Nissen Piczenik. And the final decider of his fate may be the devil himself.

Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico (New Directions Pearls)

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081121964X
Total Pages : 100 pages
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Book Synopsis Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico (New Directions Pearls) by : Javier Marías

Download or read book Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico (New Directions Pearls) written by Javier Marías and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-24 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gem of a Marías story: Elvis and his entourage abandon their translator in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals. “It all happened because of Elvis Presley.” Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his producers hire a proper Spaniard so that he can pronounce his few lines in Spanish with a Castillian accent. But Ruibérriz has taken on much more than he bargained for. One fatal night, horseplay in a local bar goes too far: a fatuous drunken American insults the local kingpin, and when the thug insists that Ruibérriz translate, Elvis himself adds an even more stinging comment—and who must translate that?

Because She Never Asked (New Directions Pearls)

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811225704
Total Pages : 80 pages
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Book Synopsis Because She Never Asked (New Directions Pearls) by : Enrique Vila-Matas

Download or read book Because She Never Asked (New Directions Pearls) written by Enrique Vila-Matas and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novella—half joke and half nightmare— by "Spain's most significant contemporary literary figure" (The New Yorker) Because She Never Asked is a story reminiscent of that reached by the travelers in Patricia Highsmith's Stranger on a Train. The author first writes a piece for the artist Sophie Calle to live out: a young, aspiring, French artist travels to Lisbon and the Azores in pursuit of an older artist whose work she’s in love with. The second part of the story tells what happens between the author and Calle. She eludes, him; he becomes blocked, and suffers physical collapse. “Something strange happened along the way,” Vila-Matas wrote. “Normally, writers try to pass a work of fiction off as being real. But in Because She Never Asked, the opposite occurred: in order to give meaning to the story of my life, I found that I needed to present it as fiction.”

The Night Before Christmas

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Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
ISBN 13 : 605756619X
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (575 download)

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Book Synopsis The Night Before Christmas by : Nikolai Gogol

Download or read book The Night Before Christmas written by Nikolai Gogol and published by E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The devil flew up to the moon, reached out and tried to grab it, but must have burned his fingers, for he hopped on one leg, sucking on his hand. He walked around it and tried again from the other side, and again jumped back. But the sly one didn't give up: he suddenly grabbed the moon with both hands and, juggling it like a hot pancake, stuffed it in his pocket, and flew off as though nothing had happened. In our village of Dikanka, no one noticed the theft. True, when the district scribe crawled out of the tavern on all fours he thought he saw the moon dancing in the sky, but who would believe him?" And in the and of the story, good wins in the most unexpected way.. [N. G.]

The Bridegroom Was a Dog (New Directions Pearls)

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811220370
Total Pages : 65 pages
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Download or read book The Bridegroom Was a Dog (New Directions Pearls) written by Yoko Tawada and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A schoolteacher tells her class a fable about a princess who promises her hand in marriage to a dog that has licked her bottom clean. Strangely, a doglike suitor then appears to court the teacher. Much to the chagrin of her friends, an odd romance ensues - simmering with secrets, chivalry, and sex.

The Hall of Singing Caryatids

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811219426
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (194 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hall of Singing Caryatids by : Viktor Pelevin

Download or read book The Hall of Singing Caryatids written by Viktor Pelevin and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A far-out, far-fetched, and fiendishly funny story about a strange nightclub and its outrageous entertainment.

1001 Pearls of Bible Wisdom

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Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811864206
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (642 download)

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Book Synopsis 1001 Pearls of Bible Wisdom by : Malcolm Day

Download or read book 1001 Pearls of Bible Wisdom written by Malcolm Day and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest title in Chronicle's best-selling 1,001 series (over half a million copies sold) marries the wisdom of the Bible with exuberant artwork in our signature chunky format. 1,001 Pearls of Bible Wisdom is an inspiring collection of the most enlightening, uplifting, and poetic verses from the Bible. It quotes from both the Old and New Testaments, and is organized by such universal themes as forgiveness, humility, justice, and compassion. These pearls of wisdom are accompanied by lucid explanations of the Bible's major events, such as the Exodus from Egypt, the Last Supper, and the Crucifixion. Readers of any faith can turn to these profound insights for guidance, comfort, and inspiration.

Betty White's Pearls of Wisdom

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1637631650
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (376 download)

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Book Synopsis Betty White's Pearls of Wisdom by : Patty Sullivan

Download or read book Betty White's Pearls of Wisdom written by Patty Sullivan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful tribute to Betty White, one of the most beloved and treasured American icons. Betty White’s award-winning career spanned seven decades. From the early days of television on the game-show circuit to her unforgettable roles on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Golden Girls, and Hot in Cleveland, she was the first lady of television. With her irreverent wit and comedic timing, she was a force of nature forever cherished by fans young and old. In Betty White’s Pearls of Wisdom readers will find a more intimate look into Betty’s life as told through the eyes of Patty Sullivan, her lifelong friend and adopted family member. “My remembrances are perhaps an echo of things already said, but I hope my stories hold up a mirror, another reflection of her essence and how she affected my life so profoundly.” Patty met Betty in the late 1960s, and the Sullivans—Patty, her husband, Tom, and their two children—enjoyed a rich relationship and amazing closeness through Betty’s final days. Through her stories we see Betty’s fun-loving banter over a game of Scrabble, her wisdom imparted on a moonlit Christmas sleigh ride, and her passionate advocacy for all members of the animal kingdom. Betty’s uncompromising values were the authentic core of the life she lived and savored—tasting every minute along the way. Betty White’s Pearls of Wisdom gives you a glimpse into the personal relationship with “her Sullivans,” and the pearls of wisdom she imparted that forever transformed their lives.

Believe: A Christmas Treasury

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Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780836267624
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Believe: A Christmas Treasury written by and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book helps you to believe in your self just like Christmas.

Beading with Pearls-Beautiful Jewelry, Simple Techniques

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Publisher : Lark Books
ISBN 13 : 1600590373
Total Pages : 132 pages
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The Gift

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Publisher : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
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Total Pages : 20 pages
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Catalog of Copyright Entries

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Total Pages : 708 pages
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Book Synopsis Catalog of Copyright Entries by : Library of Congress. Copyright Office

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

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Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Total Pages : 1296 pages
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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1968 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)