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The Signorina And Other Stories
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Book Synopsis The Signorina and Other Stories by : Anna Banti
Download or read book The Signorina and Other Stories written by Anna Banti and published by Modern Language Assn of Amer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the futuristic "The Women Are Dying," men acquire a new evolutionary ability; women, lacking that ability, are consigned to the status of an inferior race. "Joveta of Betania," set in the time of the Crusades, follows the daughter of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem as she escapes to a life of seclusion as an abbess - a life that becomes for her a source of proud freedom and deep bitterness.
Book Synopsis The Watcher and Other Stories by : Italo Calvino
Download or read book The Watcher and Other Stories written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of three long stories by the author of Cosmicomics “demonstrates clearly his talent for transforming the mundane into the marvelous” (The New York Times). Italo Calvino is widely recognized as one of postwar Italy’s greatest fiction writers and one of the twentieth century’s greatest fabulists. This collection of three stories showcases his range and virtuosity. In the title story, an Italian Communist poll watcher is stationed at a hospital in Turin, where nuns guide the hands of invalids to their preferred candidate in a special election. In “Smog,” a city’s cooperative laundry facility reveals a harbinger of social purification. And in “The Argentine Ant,” the citizens of a provincial seaside town struggle against a government-controlled infestation. “Like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez, Italo Calvino dreams perfect dreams for us.” —John Updike, New Yorker
Book Synopsis Ruffino, and Other Stories by : Ouida
Download or read book Ruffino, and Other Stories written by Ouida and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories by : Andrea Camilleri
Download or read book Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories written by Andrea Camilleri and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen. Aglow with local color, packed with flint-dry wit, as fresh and clean as Mediterranean seafood — altogether transporting. Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano.” A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Twenty-one short stories spanning the beloved Inspector Montalbano's career Inspector Montalbano has charmed readers in nineteen popular novels, and now in Montalbano’s First Case and Other Stories, Andrea Camilleri has selected twenty-one short stories, written with his trademark wit and humor, that follow Italy’s famous detective through highlight cases of his career. From the title story, featuring a young deputy Montalbano newly assigned to Vigàta, to “Montalbano Says No,” in which the inspector makes a late-night call to Camilleri himself to refuse an outlandish case, this collection is an essential addition to any Inspector Montalbano fan’s bookshelf and a wonderful way to introduce readers to the internationally bestselling series.
Book Synopsis Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by : Robert Herrick
Download or read book Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories written by Robert Herrick and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Herrick, the 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric, brings us a collection of short stories in 'Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories'. With tales that explore themes of love, art, and the price of romance, readers will be taken on a journey through the intricacies of human relationships and the power of passion. From a rejected Titian painting to the question of what makes art truly valuable, these stories are sure to delight the mind.
Book Synopsis Lotta Schmidt and Other Stories by : Anthony Trollope
Download or read book Lotta Schmidt and Other Stories written by Anthony Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Torrents of Spring; And Other Stories by : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Download or read book The Torrents of Spring; And Other Stories written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-05 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Book Synopsis The Diamond Lens and Other Stories by : Fitz-James O'Brien
Download or read book The Diamond Lens and Other Stories written by Fitz-James O'Brien and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absorbing and haunting collection of early science fiction tales by an Irish-American author Fitz-James O'Brien capitalized on the success of his predecessors Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley in writing disturbing stories with demented protagonists, and this collection of three tales shows his mastery of the macabre. "The Diamond Lens" tells of a lone scientist's discovery of a microcosmic world within a drop of water, and his growing obsession with the beautiful Animula, a fair maiden within this world which he can see but never enter. His uncompromising pursuit of knowledge at any cost foreshadows the mad scientist familiar to readers in a multitude of works. In "What Was It?" an invisible man is discovered by residents of a boarding house. The residents' capture and investigation of the creature blends the fantastic with the scientific as they seek rational explanations for this extraordinary phenomenon. "The Wondersmith" is a macabre tale of an embittered toymaker who seeks revenge upon the society that has persecuted him by creating demonic mannequins and imbuing them with life in order to slaughter the masses— a fantastic melodrama in which the cunning Wondersmith is offset by the unassuming and unlikely hero Solon the hunchback, in love with the villain's daughter.
Book Synopsis The magic skin, The quest of the absolute, and other stories by : Honoré de Balzac
Download or read book The magic skin, The quest of the absolute, and other stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Portia and Other Stories of the Early Days of Shakespeare's Heroines by : Mary Cowden Clarke
Download or read book Portia and Other Stories of the Early Days of Shakespeare's Heroines written by Mary Cowden Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Family Party in the Piazza of St. Peter, and Other Stories by : Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Download or read book A Family Party in the Piazza of St. Peter, and Other Stories written by Thomas Adolphus Trollope and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sword of Welleran by : Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Baron Dunsany
Download or read book The Sword of Welleran written by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Baron Dunsany and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Daisy Miller and Other Stories by : Henry James
Download or read book Daisy Miller and Other Stories written by Henry James and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1994 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of three tales: "Daisy Miller", "An International Episode" and "Lady Barbarina".
Book Synopsis The Emperor of Elam and other stories by : H. G. Dwight
Download or read book The Emperor of Elam and other stories written by H. G. Dwight and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-08-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the stories in this collection, three originally appeared in The Century Magazine (“Like Michael,” copyright, 1916; “The Emperor of Elam,” copyright, 1917; “The Emerald of Tamerlane,” copyright, 1918), two each in The Bookman (“Unto the Day,” copyright, 1904; “Studio Smoke,” copyright, 1905), in Scribner’s Magazine (“The Bathers,” copyright, 1903; “Henrietta Stackpole Rediviva,” copyright, 1904), and in The Smart Set (“Susannah and the Elder,” copyright, 1905; “The Undoing of Mrs. Derwall,” copyright, 1906), and one each in The Associated Sunday Magazines (“Martha Waring’s Elopement,” copyright, 1904), in The Outlook (“The Pagan,” copyright, 1905), in Short Stories (“Castello Montughi,” copyright, 1908), and in The Sunset Magazine (“The Bald Spot,” copyright, 1909). It may be added that the names of three of these stories are not the ones first copyrighted and that at least two of them have been completely recast, while not one of them has been left untouched in its earliest state. The writer nevertheless takes this occasion to express to the editors and publishers of the above periodicals, as well as to Mr. W. J. O’Brien and to Messrs. Small, Maynard and Company—who made use of “The Emperor of Elam” in The Best Short Stories of 1917—his thanks both for their former hospitality and for their present courtesy in permitting him to reassemble his work. Nor would this small payment of indebtedness be complete without mention of Colonel J. R. M. Taylor, who wrote the first draft of “The Emerald of Tamerlane,” and who generously allows it to be reprinted over the signature of his collaborator...FROM THE BOOKS.
Book Synopsis John Ingerfield, and Other Stories by : Jerome K. Jerome
Download or read book John Ingerfield, and Other Stories written by Jerome K. Jerome and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English author and humorist Jerome K. Jerome is the author of this collection of short stories. The title story is about the illustrious life of the sea captain John Ingerfield. A proud sea man he doesn't take too kindly to being told what to do by any one, least of all the King's Naval Captain. But Captain Ingerfield lacks one thing, a good woman at his side. And he sets to find one with the help of his friend, Will Cathcart, who is heavily indebted to him...
Book Synopsis The diamond lens: and other stories, collected and ed. by W. Winter by : Michael Fitz-James De C. O'Brien
Download or read book The diamond lens: and other stories, collected and ed. by W. Winter written by Michael Fitz-James De C. O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories by : Lord Dunsany
Download or read book The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories written by Lord Dunsany and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (1908) is a short story collection by Lord Dunsany. Published at the beginning of his career, The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories—which features the pantheon of gods first portrayed in The Gods of Pegāna (1905)—would influence such writers as J. R. R. Tolkein, Ursula K. Le Guin, and H. P. Lovecraft. Recognized as a pioneering author of fantasy and science fiction, Dunsany is a man whose work, in the words of Lovecraft, remains “unexcelled in the sorcery of crystalline singing prose, and supreme in the creation of a gorgeous and languorous world of incandescently exotic vision.” “At the end of that avenue was a colossal chariot with three bronze horses driven by the winged figure of Fame, and behind her in the chariot the huge form of Welleran, Merimna's ancient hero, standing with extended sword.” The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories, Dunsany’s third collection of short fiction, contains some of his finest tales of fantasy and adventure. While the people of Merimna sleep soundly, while the guards of the city sing songs and tell stories of the warriors Welleran and Rollory, the tribesmen of the plains below look up in awe, wondering if the day will come when Merimna’s glory fades. Behind the ramparts, a young boy named Rold looks up at the statues of his heroes, hoping to take their place. Dunsany’s tales of high fantasy continue to delight over a century after they first appeared in print. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Lord Dunsany’s The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories is a classic of Irish fantasy fiction reimagined for modern readers.
