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The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories

Author : Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141985623
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories written by Jhumpa Lahiri and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, from the birth of the modern nation to the end of the twentieth century. Poets, journalists, visual artists, musicians, editors, critics, teachers, scientists, politicians, translators: the writers that inhabit these pages represent a dynamic cross section of Italian society, their powerful voices resonating through regional landscapes, private passions and dramatic political events. This wide-ranging selection curated by Jhumpa Lahiri includes well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello alongside many captivating new discoveries. More than a third of the stories featured in this volume have been translated into English for the first time, several of them by Lahiri herself.

The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories

Author : Henry Lawson
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742284280
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories written by Henry Lawson and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson looms large in our national psyche. Yet at his best Lawson transcends the very bush, the very outback, the very up-country, the very pub or selector's hut he conveys with such brevity and acuity: he make specific places universal. Henry Lawson is too often regarded as a legend rather than a writer to be enjoyed. In this selection Lawson is revealed as an author whose delightful, humorous, wry and moving short stories continue to delight generations of readers. This is the essential Lawson collection – the classic of Australian classics. 'Lawson's sketches are beyond praise.' Joseph Conrad 'Lawson gets more feelings, observation and atmosphere into a page than does Hemingway.' Edward Garnett

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story

Author : John Freeman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984877828
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story written by John Freeman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman In the past fifty years, the American short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and mixtures of styles have brought this unique genre a thrilling burst of energy. The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story celebrates this avalanche of talent. This rich anthology begins in 1970 and brings together a half century of powerful American short stories from all genres, including—for the first time in a collection of this scale—science fiction, horror, and fantasy, placing writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Ken Liu, and Stephen King next to some beloved greats of the literary form: Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Denis Johnson. Culling widely, John Freeman, the former editor of Granta and now editor of his own literary annual, brings forward some astonishing work to be regarded in a new light. Often overlooked tales by Dorothy Allison, Percival Everett, and Charles Johnson will recast the shape and texture of today’s enlarging atmosphere of literary dialogue. Stories by Lauren Groff and Ted Chiang raise the specter of engagement in ecocidal times. Short tales by Tobias Wolff, George Saunders, and Lydia Davis rub shoulders with near novellas by Susan Sontag and Andrew Holleran. This book will be a treasure trove for readers, writers, and teachers alike.

The Penguin Book of Australian Short Stories

Author : Harry Heseltine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Australian Short Stories written by Harry Heseltine and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Penguin Book of Australian Slang

Author : Lenie Johansen
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780140255737
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (557 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Australian Slang written by Lenie Johansen and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1996-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Penguin Book of Australian Slang scales the heights - and plumbs the depths - of the Australian language. For twenty years Lenie Johansen has been tuning in to and recording what Australians really say on the streets, in the pubs and to their family and mates. In this remarkable collection of classic and current colloquialisms she displays for readers all the inventiveness with words and the love of colourful expressions that have made Oz English unique.

The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

Author : Jay Rubin
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014139563X
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories written by Jay Rubin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable works being written today. Short story writers already well-known to English-language readers are all included here - Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surprising new finds. From Yuko Tsushima's 'Flames' to Yuten Sawanishi's 'Filling Up with Sugar', from Shin'ichi Hoshi's 'Shoulder-Top Secretary' to Banana Yoshimoto's 'Bee Honey', The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is filled with fear, charm, beauty and comedy. Curated by Jay Rubin, who has himself freshly translated several of the stories, and introduced by Haruki Murakami, this book will be a revelation to its readers.

The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis

Author : Kasia Boddy
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014119443X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis written by Kasia Boddy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last 50 years have proved a particularly lively period in the history of the short story form. This new collection gives a full picture of the richness and diversity of this most American of genres from its very beginnings to the present day. The collection offers a freshly stimulating combination of old favourites such as Mark Twain's 'Jim Smiley's Jumping Frog' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart', unfamiliar works by well-known authors, such as Ernest Hemingway's 'Out of Season', Stephen Crane's 'An Episode of War' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Lost Decade' , and some remarkable stories by wonderful but less well known writers such as Mary Wilkins Freeman and Charles W. Chestnutt who deserve a wider audience. It's a compact book but it covers a lot of ground. There are 31 stories, covering 199 years (that is, the first story was published in 1807; the last is from 2006). The final three authors are Lorrie Moore, Jhumpa Lahiri and Lydia Davis. Table of contents Washington Irving - The Little Man in Black (1807) Nathaniel Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown (1835) Edgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) Fanny Fern - Aunt Hetty on Matrimony (1851) Mark Twain - Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog (1865) Joel Chandler Harris - The Tar Baby Story (1880) Mary Wilkins Freeman - Two Friends (1887) Charles W. Chesnutt - The Wife of his Youth (1898) Henry James - The Real Right Thing (1899) Stephen Crane - An Episode of War (1899) O. Henry - Hearts and Hands (1903) Sherwood Anderson - The Untold Lie (1917) Ernest HemingwayOut of Season (1923) Edith Wharton - Atrophy (1927) Dorothy Parker - New York to Detroit (1928) Eudora Welty - The Whistle (1938) William Faulkner - Barn Burning (1939) F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Lost Decade (1939) Zora Neale Hurston - Now You Cookin' with Gas (1942) Bernard Malamud - The First Seven Years (1950) Flannery O'Connor - A Late Encounter with the Enemy (1953) John Updike - Sunday Teasing (1956) John Cheever - Reunion (1962) Grace Paley - Wants (1971) Alice Walker - The Flowers (1973) Donald Barthelme - I Bought a Little City (1974) Raymond Carver - Collectors (1975) Richard Ford - Communist (1985) Lorrie Moore - Starving Again (1990) Jhumpa Lahiri - The Third and Final Continent (1999) Lydia Davis - The Caterpillar (2006)

Ginger Meggs

Author : Tristan Bancks
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1760147532
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Ginger Meggs written by Tristan Bancks and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ginger Meggs leaps from the page and into your heart." Kids' Book Review Celebrating 100 years of the iconic character and Aussie legend Ginger Meggs, these four brand new and original stories are written by Tristan Bancks, the great-great nephew of creator Jimmy Bancks, and illustrated in full colour by the current Ginger Meggs comic-strip cartoonist, Jason Chatfield. Kids and grown-ups alike will revel in the rambunctious adventures and comical capers of the ginger kid who never gets old. This edition containing four completely new stories illustrated in full colour celebrates a beloved Aussie icon and introduce a new generation of kids to Ginger Meggs. "Kids and grown-ups alike are still revelling in the rambunctious adventures and comical capers of the red-headed larrikin kid who never gets old." Better Reading ____________________________________________ Also by Tristan Bancks: Scar Town Two Wolves The Fall Detention Cop and Robber Ginger Meggs Nit Boy Mac Slater 1: Coolhunter Mac Slater 2: Imaginator Tom Weekly 1: My Life and Other Stuff I Made Up Tom Weekly 2: My Life and Other Stuff That Went Wrong Tom Weekly 3: My Life and Other Massive Mistakes Tom Weekly 4: My Life and Other Exploding Chickens Tom Weekly 5: My Life and Other Weaponised Muffins Tom Weekly 6: My Life and Other Failed Experiments

Selected Short Stories

Author : Rabindranath Tagore
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141962208
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Selected Short Stories written by Rabindranath Tagore and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet, novelist, painter and musician, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is the grand master of Bengali culture. Written during the 1890s, the stories in this selection brilliantly recreate vivid images of Bengali life and landscapes in their depiction of peasantry and gentry, casteism, corrupt officialdom and dehumanizing poverty. Yet Tagore is first and foremost India's supreme Romantic poet, and in these stories he can be seen reaching beyond mere documentary realism towards his own profoundly original vision.

Collected Short Stories

Author : Patrick White
Publisher : Random House (Australia)
ISBN 13 : 9780099474678
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Collected Short Stories written by Patrick White and published by Random House (Australia). This book was released on 2004 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of short novels and stories, Patrick White explores the gulf - by turns funny and unbearably sad - between life's expectations and its realities. With immense understanding and compassion, he captures the longings that underlie the relationships of men and women, and the tender pathos of the heart's secrets.

The Penguin Century of Australian Stories

Author : Carmel Bird
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780143005728
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Century of Australian Stories written by Carmel Bird and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark collection brings together the best Australian short stories written in the twentieth century. From early bush life to contemporary urban existence, The Penguin Century of Australian Storiescelebrates our finest writers in all their modes: the lively comic fiction of Henry Lawson and Steele Rudd, the distinctive imaginations of Christina Stead and Patrick White, the experimental style of Peter Carey, and the highly lyrical prose of Brenda Walker and James Bradley. Selected by Carmel Bird, these stories mirror the concerns of Australia's past and present. The Penguin Century of Australian Storieswill enlighten and entertain for many years to come.

Seven Little Australians

Author : Ethel Sybil Turner
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Seven Little Australians written by Ethel Sybil Turner and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Seven Little Australians" by Ethel Sybil Turner. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Penguin Best Australian Short Stories

Author : Mary Lord
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Best Australian Short Stories written by Mary Lord and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bliss

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307787222
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Bliss written by Peter Carey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his suburban front lawn, and, for the space of nine minutes, he becomes a dead guy. And although he is resuscitated, he will never be the same. For, as Peter Carey makes abundantly clear in this darkly funny novel, death is sometimes a necessary prelude to real life. Part The Wizard of Oz, part Dante's Inferno, and part Australian Book of the Dead, Bliss is a triumph of uninhibited storytelling from a writer of extravagan gifts.

The Penguin Best Australian Short Stories

Author : Mary Lord
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780140299694
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Best Australian Short Stories written by Mary Lord and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in cities, in suburbia, and in the outback, Mary Lord's selection of short stories explores the subtleties, the humour and the sadness of human life. For anyone interested in Australian writing and the changing views of Australian writers, this is an essential collection. Featuring: Henry Lawson, Hal Porter, Elizabeth Jolley, Frank Moorhouse, Steele Rudd, Patrick White, Peter Carey, Olga Masters, Tim Winton, Delia Falconer and many more. Short Stories included are: The Ghost upon the Rail - John George Lang The Dead Witness or The Bush Waterhole - Mary Fortune Pretty Dick - Marcus Clarke Monsieur Caloche - Jessie Couvreur The Golden Shanty - Edward Dyson Parson Ford's Confessional - William Astley Far Inland Football - John Arthur Barry Dad and the Donovans - Arthur Hoey Davis Brighten's Sister-in-law - Henry Lawson Billy Skywonkie - Barbara Baynton The Curse - Katharine Susannah Prichard Conversation in a Pantry - Ethel Robinson The Lottery - Marjorie Barnard Miss Slattery and her Demon Lover - Patrick White Patry Forty-two and Mrs Brewer - Hal Porter The Children - John Morrison Street Idyll - Christina Stead The Words She Types - Michael Wilding A Gentleman's Agreement - Elizabeth Jolley The Last Days of a Famous Mine - Peter Carey Pride and Joy - Morris Lurie On the Train - Olga Masters The Dark, the Light - Helen Garner Caffe Veneto - Beverley Farmer Francois and the Fishbone incident - Frank Moorhouse Neighbours - Tim Winton After Long Absence - Janette Turner Hospital Belladonna Gardens - Marion Halligan Report on a Rejected MS - Amy Witting Acqua Alta - Delia Falconer

Hitch

Author : Kathryn Hind
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143794353
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Hitch written by Kathryn Hind and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amelia stands beside a highway in the Australian desert, alone except for her dog and the occasional road train that speeds past her raised thumb. After her mother’s funeral, Amelia was confronted by Zach and reminded of the relationship they had when she was a teenager. She feels complicit and remains unable to process what happened. So she ran. Her best friend, Sid, is Zach’s cousin and the one person in the world she can depend upon. But, of course, the road isn’t safe either. Amelia is looking for generosity or human connection in the drivers she finds lifts with, and she does receive that. But she is also let down. Hitch is a raw exploration of consent and its ambiguities, personal agency and the choices we make. It’s the story of twenty-something Amelia and her dog Lucy hitchhiking from one end of the country to the other, trying to outrun grief and trauma, and moving ever closer to the things she longs to escape. Kathryn Hind, winner of the inaugural Penguin Literary Prize, writes with acuity, empathy and wisdom. She is a shining new light on the Australian literary scene.

The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads & Short Stories

Author :
Publisher : Viking
ISBN 13 : 9780670041770
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads & Short Stories written by and published by Viking. This book was released on 2003 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads offers a rich mixture of old favourites and re-discovered verse and song. From the horrors of convict floggings to the pleasures of a cheerful glass; from the defiance of Bold Jack Donahoo to the desire to strangle Billy if he sings 'The Wild Colonial Boy'; from the squatter's wife trapped in the bush to the woman who rejoices when her husband falls down a mine shaft. These are the voices of the Australian experience from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries.