The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014192196X
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories written by Henry James and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this collection were written mostly between 1888 and 1897, a time when Henry James’s writing was concerned with the art of fiction and the position of the artist in society. The motif and title story, ‘The Figure in the Carpet’, is an inspired joke, a masterpiece of double-entendre that demands the reader’s undivided love and attention and continues to baffle its critics. Also included are ‘The Author of Beltraffio’, an absorbing story of family infighting, authorship and tragedy, and ‘The Private Life’, a spirited tale that considers the contrast between the artist alone and at work. While many of these stories appear to be elaborate Jamesian games, all employ irony and humour to allegorize artistic creation.

The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories

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ISBN 13 : 9780141882666
Total Pages : 453 pages
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The Figure in the Carpet

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 77 pages
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Download or read book The Figure in the Carpet written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Figure in the Carpet

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Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726606593
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book The Figure in the Carpet written by Henry James and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enwrapped in indescribable mysteriousness, ‘The Figure in the Carpet’ (1896) is a short story by the American-born British writer Henry James. It explores the meaning of art and how it is found in what other people see. Hugh Vereker is a famous author who says the secret to his greatness and skill is hidden in his works ‘like a complex figure in a Persian carpet’. When the narrator of the story meets Vereker, he becomes obsessed with discovering the secret meaning of his favourite author's works. Those who enjoy Henry James' short story will likely find ́Eureka ́ by Anthony Quinn interesting as The Figure is an important part of the plot. Henry James (1843-1916) was an American-born, British author, and one of the founders of the school of realism in fiction. His inventive use of interior monologues and unreliable narrators, brought a complexity and depth to his work that made him hugely popular. A prolific writer, he published numerous novels, articles, travel books, biographies and plays. Many of his stories have been adapted for TV and film, such as ‘What Maisie Knew’ (2012) starring Steve Coogan and Julianne Moore. However, it is his celebrated Gothic novella ‘The Turn of the Screw’ (1898), regarded as one of the greatest ghost stories ever written, that has been adapted more than any other. Most recently, the eponymous 2009 BBC TV series starring Michelle Dockery, and the Netflix series, ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’ (2020). James was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912, and 1916.

Philip Roth Considered

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134830130
Total Pages : 228 pages
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Download or read book Philip Roth Considered written by Steven Milowitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Penguin Classics Introduction to The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories by Henry James (Penguin Classics)

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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

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Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0199536171
Total Pages : 337 pages
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Download or read book The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories written by Henry James and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover.

The Aspern Papers and Other Stories

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191637920
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book The Aspern Papers and Other Stories written by Henry James and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There's no baseness I wouldn't commit for Jeffrey Aspern's sake.' The poet Aspern, long since dead, has left behind some private papers. They are jealously guarded by an old lady, once his mistress and muse, a recluse in an old palazzo in Venice, tended by her ingenuous niece. A predatory critic is determined to seize them. What can he make of the younger woman? What are his motives? What are the papers worth and what is he prepared to pay? In all four stories collected here, including 'The Death of the Lion', 'The Figure in the Carpet', and 'The Birthplace', the figure of the artist is central. Extraordinarily prophetic, James explores the emergent new cult of the writer as celebrity, and asks, who cares about the work for itself? Can the man behind the artist ever truly be known, and does our knowledge explain the act of creativity? This new edition includes extracts from James's Prefaces and Notebooks which shed light on the genesis of the stories. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The Fat Artist and Other Stories

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476776229
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Book Synopsis The Fat Artist and Other Stories by : Benjamin Hale

Download or read book The Fat Artist and Other Stories written by Benjamin Hale and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Oddly beautiful and impossible to look away from”​ (Los Angeles Times), the stories in The Fat Artist are suffused with fear and desire, introducing us to a company of indelible characters reeling with love, jealousy, megalomania, and despair. In prose alternately stark, lush and hallucinatory, occasionally nightmarish and often absurd, the voices in Benjamin Hale’s The Fat Artist and Other Stories speak from the margins: a dominatrix whose longtime client, a US congressman, drops dead during a tryst in a hotel room; an addict in precarious recovery who lands a job driving a truck full of live squid; a heartbroken performance artist who attempts to eat himself to death as a work of art. From underground radicals hiding in Morocco to an aging hippy in Colorado in the summer before 9/11 to a young drag queen in New York at the cusp of the AIDS crisis, these stories rove freely across time and place, carried by haunting, peculiar narratives that form the vast tapestry of American life. “A steadily growing…talent” (Kirkus Reviews), Hale’s prize-winning fiction abounds with a love of language and a wild joy for storytelling, earning accolades from writers such as novelist Jonathan Ames, who compared discovering his work to watching Mickey Mantle play ball for the first time; Washington Post critic Ron Charles, who declared him “fully evolved as a writer,” and bestselling author Jodi Picoult, who simply called him “brilliant.” Pairing absurdity with philosophical musings on the unnerving intersections between life and death, art and ridicule, consumption and creation, “the audacious imagination evident in Hale’s acclaimed debut, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, shines again in this…provocative collection that takes a unique view of the human condition” (Booklist).

The Aspern Papers

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Publisher : Xist Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1681951894
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book The Aspern Papers written by Henry James and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Far Would You Go Just To Nurture Your Obsession? “That was originally what I had loved him for: that at a period when our native land was nude and crude and provincial, when the famous 'atmosphere' it is supposed to lack was not even missed, when literature was lonely there and art and form almost impossible, he had found the means to live and write like one of the first; to be free and general and not at all afraid; to feel, understand, and express everything.” - Henry James, The Aspern Papers An anonymous narrator arrives in Venice to retrieve Jeffrey Aspern’s - an American poet and his idol - love letters. There he finds Juliana Bordereau and his aging niece who may or may not have the letters in question. To convince Juliana, the narrator tries to seduce the niece, Miss Tita but is he willing to pay the price? Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes

The Author of Beltraffio

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Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1776534093
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book The Author of Beltraffio written by Henry James and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often regarded as one of the most important literary figures of his era, American-born author Henry James possessed a unique knack for describing the idiosyncrasies of dysfunctional families. The Ambient family at the center of the novella The Author of Beltraffio ranks among his most compelling creations. The patriarch Mark Ambient is an acclaimed novelist whose wife strongly disapproves of his work. Will this discordance bring the family to its knees?

Short Story Index

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1080 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Representative American Short Stories

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Representative American Short Stories by : Robert William Chambers

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The Egg and Other Stories

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Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048615713X
Total Pages : 148 pages
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Book Synopsis The Egg and Other Stories by : Sherwood Anderson

Download or read book The Egg and Other Stories written by Sherwood Anderson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published two years after the 1919 masterpiece Winesburg, Ohio, this collection of short stories explores intriguing psychological depths, redolent with personal epiphanies, erotic undercurrents, and bursts of passion among seemingly repressed, inarticulate Midwesterners.

Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories

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Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
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Download or read book Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories written by Sherwood Anderson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Triumph of the Egg' is a short story collection by the American author Sherwood Anderson. The book contains 15 stories preceded by photographs of seven clay sculptures by Anderson's wife at the time, sculptor Tennessee Mitchell, that were inspired by characters in the book.

Come Along with Me

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ISBN 13 : 9780445085398
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Come Along with Me by : Shirley Jackson

Download or read book Come Along with Me written by Shirley Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come along with me -- Fourteen stories: Janice -- Tootie in peonage -- A cauliflower in her hair -- I know who I love -- The beautiful stranger -- The summer people -- Island -- A visit -- The rock -- A day in the jungle -- Pajama party -- Louisa, please come home -- The little house -- The bus -- Three lectures, with two stories: Experience and fiction -- The night we all had grippe -- Biography of a story -- The lottery -- Notes for a young writer.

GREGORY and other stories

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