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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780030384424
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (844 download)
Download or read book A Book of Short Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lisa Brown
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616205032
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Long Story Short written by Lisa Brown and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature is long. Comics are short. Does Proust get you down? Do you find The Unbearable Lightness of Being simply unbearable? Is The Inferno your own private hell? Do you long to be conversant about classics like Moby Dick, the Bhagavad Gita, Madame Bovary, and, um, Twilight? Bestselling illustrator Lisa Brown (The Airport Book; Baby, Mix Me a Drink) did her homework. Long Story Short offers 100 pithy and skewering three-panel literary summaries, from curriculum classics like Don Quixote, Lord of the Flies, and Jane Eyre to modern favorites like Beloved, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Atonement, conveniently organized by subjects including “Love,” “Sex,” “Death,” and “Female Trouble.” Lisa Brown’s Long Story Short is the perfect way to turn a traipse through what your English teacher called “the canon” into a frolic—or to happily cram for the next occasion that requires you to appear bookish and well-read.
Author : Marie Rippel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935197737
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (977 download)
Download or read book Cobweb the Cat written by Marie Rippel and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our All About Reading program is unique in the world of language arts because it is the only multisensory reading program that will teach your child all the fundmentals of reading. We have no gaps--just a full, rich, research-centered program that is guaranteed to teach your child to read. Our pre-reading program teaches five essential pre-reading skills that we call the Big Five Skills. Research shows that these skills prevent reading failure by educating pre-readers in how language works--in essence, familiarizing children with written text and how it is used, so they are prepared to read. In Levels 1-4, our program will teach your child all five Key Components of Reading: Phonological Awareness, Phonics and Decoding, Vocabulary, Fluency, and Reading Comprehension. Every one of these components, when taught in concert with the others, is essential to your child's success in reading. This totally integrated approach to teaching reading ensures your child will not only learn to read with All About Reading, but will learn to read well. and since reading is at the heart of all learning, fluency in this skill is one of the most important gifts you can give your child."--Teacher's Manual, back cover
Author : George Saunders
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408837358
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Tenth of December written by George Saunders and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prize-winning, New York Times bestselling short story collection from the internationally bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo 'The best book you'll read this year' New York Times 'Dazzlingly surreal stories about a failing America' Sunday Times WINNER OF THE 2014 FOLIO PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013 George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of Darkenfloxx(TM) in some unusual drug trials; and Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular. With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and the ever-settling present, this collection sings with astonishing charm and intensity.
Author : Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241339758
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)
Download or read book Three Japanese Short Stories written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
Author : J. M. Coetzee
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925095509
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Three Stories written by J. M. Coetzee and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man contemplates his deep connection to a house. The unfathomable idea of threshing wheat points to a life lost. And a writer ponders the creation of his narrator. Three Stories—‘His Man and He’, written as Coetzee’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature, ‘A House in Spain’ and ‘Nietverloren’—is the work of a master at his peak. These are stories that embody the essence of our existence. J.M. Coetzee was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. His work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life and Times of Michael K, The Master of Petersburg, Disgrace, Diary of a Bad Year and most recently, The Childhood of Jesus. He lives in Adelaide. ‘All [the stories are] impeccably crafted and a joy to read, with the book itself beautifully presented in duck egg blue and inlaid gold too.’ New Daily ‘For all the sharpness and sorrow of Coetzee’s writing, there is something grandly calming about his style: his sentences seem to give off light, and not in a hard dazzle, but in the glow of a child’s night-light.’ Age/Sydney Morning Herald ‘Coetzee’s strength as a writer is such that each of the stories is engaging, thought-provoking and highly readable.’ West Australian
Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374720487
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Collected Stories written by Shirley Hazzard and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected Stories includes both volumes of the National Book Award–winning author Shirley Hazzard’s short-story collections—Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses—alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories Shirley Hazzard's Collected Stories is a work of staggering breadth and accomplishment. Taken together, these twenty-eight short stories are masterworks in telescoping focus, ranging from quotidian struggles between beauty and pragmatism to satirical send-ups of international bureaucracy, from the Italian countryside to suburban Connecticut. Hazzard's heroes are high-minded romantics who attempt to fit their feelings into the twentieth-century world of office jobs and dreary marriages. After all, as she writes in "The Picnic," "It was tempting to confine oneself to what one could cope with. And one couldn't cope with love." And yet it is the comedy, the tragedy, and the splendor of love, the pursuit and the absence of it, that animates Hazzard's stories and provides the truth and beauty that her protagonists seek. Hazzard once said, "The idea that somebody has expressed something, in a supreme way, that it can be expressed; this is, I think, an enormous feature of literature." Her stories themselves are a supreme evocation of writing at its very best: probing, uncompromising, and deeply felt.
Author : Gabriela Pereira
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1599639343
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (996 download)
Download or read book DIY MFA written by Gabriela Pereira and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the Knowledge Without the College! You are a writer. You dream of sharing your words with the world, and you're willing to put in the hard work to achieve success. You may have even considered earning your MFA, but for whatever reason--tuition costs, the time commitment, or other responsibilities--you've never been able to do it. Or maybe you've been looking for a self-guided approach so you don't have to go back to school. This book is for you. DIY MFA is the do-it-yourself alternative to a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing. By combining the three main components of a traditional MFA--writing, reading, and community--it teaches you how to craft compelling stories, engage your readers, and publish your work. Inside you'll learn how to: • Set customized goals for writing and learning. • Generate ideas on demand. • Outline your book from beginning to end. • Breathe life into your characters. • Master point of view, voice, dialogue, and more. • Read with a "writer's eye" to emulate the techniques of others. • Network like a pro, get the most out of writing workshops, and submit your work successfully. Writing belongs to everyone--not only those who earn a degree. With DIY MFA, you can take charge of your writing, produce high-quality work, get published, and build a writing career.
Author : Jeffrey Archer
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1429967323
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Collected Short Stories written by Jeffrey Archer and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International bestselling author Jeffrey Archer has enthralled readers with his riveting suspense, surprise denouements, and unforgettable storylines. Now Archer's three acclaimed collections of short fiction are brought together in one irresistible volume. THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES A Quiver Full of Arrows takes readers on a journey of encounters that befall an assortment of kindly strangers, wary old friends, and long-lost loves. Sly reflections on human nature are at the center of A Twist in the Tale in which blindly adventurous game-players compete for stakes higher than they dreamed. Expect the unexpected and you'll still be surprised in Twelve Red Herrings, a dozen tales of betrayal, love, murder and revenge capped with a startling twist. Thirty-six stories in all, each poised to astonish and inspire, revealing "master entertainer" (Time) Jeffrey Archer at his artfully entertaining best.
Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409076393
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Collected Short Stories Volume 3 written by W. Somerset Maugham and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War I. Based on Maugham's own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatises both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness and brutality. Accountable only to 'R', Ashenden travels all over the Continent on assignments which entangle him with such characters as the traitor Grantley Caypor, the passionate Guilia Lazzari, and the sinister 'hairless Mexican'.
Author : Deborah Eisenberg
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062688790
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)
Download or read book Your Duck Is My Duck written by Deborah Eisenberg and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Eisenberg] reminds us in every line of certain saving virtues: wit, wild intelligence, great heart, the beauty of the inquiring human voice. If our culture can produce a writer this wonderful, there must be something beautiful about us yet.” — George Saunders Instead of forcing her characters’ stories into neat, arbitrary, preordained shapes, [Eisenberg] allows them to grow organically into oddly shaped, asymmetrical narratives—narratives that possess all the surprising twists and dismaying turns of real life.” — New York Times “Deborah Eisenberg, one of America’s finest writers, offers new ways of seeing and feeling, as if something were being perfected at the core.” — San Francisco Chronicle “Reading [Eisenberg] makes you wish, as you study the family in front of you in the grocery line, that you could see their thoughts rendered as one of Eisenberg’s stunning inner monologues.” — Los Angeles Times “...[S]uperlative and entertaining...Eisenberg is funny, grim, biting, and wise, but always with a light touch and always in the service of worlds that extend far beyond the page. A virtuoso at rendering the flickering gestures by which people simultaneously hide and reveal themselves, Eisenberg is an undisputed master of the short story.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[Eisenberg] is always worth the wait...so instantly absorbing that it feels like an abduction...This book offers no palliatives to its characters or to its readers — no plan of action. But it is a compass.” — The New York Times “Eisenberg is a gorgeous writer...I thank my stars that there’s a writer in the increasingly imperiled world as smart and funny and blazingly moral and devastatingly sidelong as she is.” — New York Times Book Review “Every character is memorable, every situation seizes our attention, and not a single word is out of place...It’s my fervent hope...that someday we’ll have the opportunity to look back on the many more stories that Deborah Eisenberg has yet to write.” — Financial Times
Author : Susan Berran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1922265349
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)
Download or read book Yucky, Disgustingly Gross, Icky Short Stories No.3: Butt Blast written by Susan Berran and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-01-05 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun, action-packed, super-sized, seriously gross series by the bestselling author of the `'Freaky'' series- Susan Berran. Book 3 in the series, Butt Blast- is ready to roll. Featuring hilarious stories that ponder the big questions such as, How can my butt smell when it doesn't have a nose? Full of yucky, gross and totally disgusting encounters, this book have kids screaming with laughter and parents shaking with dread!
Author : Caitlin Berve
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781952347009
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)
Download or read book When Magic Calls written by Caitlin Berve and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time a jealous girl stole a magical artifact from a museum to eliminate her competition. In the Rocky Mountains, a man studies a woman raised by wolves, but soon watching won't be enough. Tonight, you might find yourself in a fairy tale of your own. Will you answer magic's call?
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ISBN 13 : 9781903155905
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (559 download)
Download or read book The Persephone Book of Short Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To celebrate having reached their one hundredth volume, here is Persephone's marvelous collection of short stories by women. They are very well chosen: some are by first-rank authors, including Katherine Mansfield, Edith Wharton, Dorothy Parker, Irène Némirovsky and Penelope Fitzgerald; others from well-known writers who have been championed by the imprint and deservedly gained fresh recognition, such as Dorothy Whipple and Mollie Panter-Downes. There are 30 stories in all, and all remarkably unhampered by their time. The first, Susan Glaspell's story of love and lexicography from 1909, seems as bold as the last, by Georgina Hammick (from 1986), though you might not have found such an unflinching description of a gynaecological procedure 103 years ago. Put-upon mothers, exasperated wives, discarded mistresses - shared tropes bind these disparate stories into a coherent whole. A stand-out is Norah Hoult's 1938 story of a wife whose husband is grateful for the money her gentleman friend pays her for sex.
Author : Marie Rippel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935197553
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Heirloom Antics written by Marie Rippel and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Classical Conversations MultiMedia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982984536
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)
Download or read book Words Aptly Spoken written by Classical Conversations MultiMedia and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lou Mathews
Publisher : Tiger Van Books
ISBN 13 : 9781684428083
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Shaky Town written by Lou Mathews and published by Tiger Van Books. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shaky Town, Lou Mathews has written a timeless novel of working-class Los Angeles. A former mechanic and street racer, he tells his story in cool and panoramic style, weaving together the tragedies and glories of one of L.A.'s eastside neighborhoods. From a teenage girl caught in the middle of a gang war to a priest who has lost his faith and hit bottom, the characters in Shaky Town live on a dangerous faultline but remain unshakable in their connections to one another. Like Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, John Steinbeck's Cannery Row, Katherine Ann Porter's Ship of Fools, Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place, and Pat Barker's Union Street, Shaky Town is the story of complicated, conflicted, and disparate characters bound together by place.
