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Author : Leslie Poles Hartley
Publisher : London, H. Hamilton 1954
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The White Wand, and Other Stories written by Leslie Poles Hartley and published by London, H. Hamilton 1954. This book was released on 1954 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Weinstein MD
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595909175
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (959 download)
Download or read book The White Ojibway Medicine Man and Other Stories written by Joseph Weinstein MD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the remote Red Lake area in northwestern Ontario, The White Ojibway Medicine Man and Other Stories is an intriguing collection of short stories based on the trials and trepidations of a young doctor treating the Ojibway from 1955 to 1963. When Joe Weinstein first saw the ad for a temporary medical position in northwestern Ontario, he had no idea that one month would stretch into the most intense and challenging seven years of his life. Thrust into a world very different from his own, Joe not only had to acclimate himself to the rugged land, but to the people, as well. Joe artfully relates his encounters with the myths and legends of the Ojibway tribes living on reservations scattered throughout the area, their conflicts with the world of the white man, and how he succeeded in becoming their medicine man. Accompanied by vivid imagery, Joe also reveals the fascinating stories behind the lumberjacks, bush pilots, missionaries, prospectors, and geologists who found their way to this remote area for one reason or another. Filled with wit and wisdom, The White Ojibway Medicine Man and Other Stories is a heartfelt tribute to the people of Red Lake. But it also shows the courage of one man to leave the familiar, enter the unknown, and make a remarkable difference in the lives of his patients.
Author : Georgi Gospodinov
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810124327
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book And Other Stories written by Georgi Gospodinov and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-27 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories within stories, a few contemporary fables, a hint of the narrative complexity of Borges, a whiff of the gritty realism of pre- and post-communist life in Eastern Europe - these are the elements that come together in a unique and surprising way in the wildly imaginative and endlessly engaging short stories of Georgi Gospodinov. Whether a tongue-in-cheek crime/horror story or the Christmas story of a pig, a language game leading to an unexpected epiphany or an inward-looking tale built on the complexity of a puzzle box, the work in this collection offers a kaleidoscopic experience of a writer whose style has been described as anarchic, experimental (New Yorker) and compulsively readable (New York Times). Gospodinov's debut prose work Natural Novel was hailed as a go-for-broke postmodern construction - a devilish jam of jump-cut narration, pop culture riffs, wholesale quotation, and Chinese-box authorship (Village Voice). At once familiar and fantastic, his writing is high comedy, high seriousness, and of very high order.
Author : Adam Pfeffer
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440108129
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book To Change the World and Other Stories written by Adam Pfeffer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's a truly eclectic collection of well-written short stories, ranging from the futuristic THE PERFECT WOMAN and THE LAST SOLDIER to the ethnic BLACKJACK and SUPERSTEIN. The enigmatic title story, TO CHANGE THE WORLD, is also included for a memorable reading experience. The compactness of many of the eighteen stories give them power and surprising impact. The diversity of the stories offered represent the full spectrum of the short story art form. So sit back and enjoy tales of fantasy, humor, and gripping drama, many intending a point and all of them meant to entertain. Whether it be about the medical marvels of the future, as in PANACEA, or the cruel horrors of the past, as in OUT FROM THE DARKNESS, all of the stories will keep you wanting more. From the delightful SPECIALTY OF THE HOUSE to the satiric THE THINKING ASYLUMS, this collection of entertaining stories is sure to keep the pages turning.
Author : Indu Menon
Publisher : Eka
ISBN 13 : 9395767979
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (957 download)
Download or read book The Lesbian Cow and Other Stories written by Indu Menon and published by Eka. This book was released on 2023-02-27 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book A COLLECTION OF MACABRE STORIES FROM INDU MENON, WHO IS CONSIDERED TO BE KAMALA DAS’S SUCCESSOR A Gond tribal activist is kidnapped by the goons of a giant mining company forcibly acquiring land in his village. In order to defame him, they shoot a porn film with him and a young prostitute who turns out to be his childhood sweetheart; a cobbler skins his daughter’s hanging corpse to make the special ‘Cinderella shoes’ he had once promised her; an LTTE female tiger accused of plotting the assassination of an Indian leader ruminates on the deaths of a Sri Lankan Tamil separatist leader and a French priest who tried to assassinate Louis XV on the same date centuries apart; a nurse with bovine features stalks a female patient whose live-in partner confronts the lesbian cow and is assaulted by her. Indu Menon’s stories are not for the fainthearted. At the centre of all that blood, gore and broken bones lies the inveterate spirit of wronged women, who refuse to go down without a fight. Her stories live unvarnished life truths. With the imagination of a poet, in lyrical and inventive prose, her narratives startle the reader by refusing to draw the line between lived and imagined terrains. Many consider Indu Menon a successor to Kamala Das, having inherited the same insouciance and outlook. This collection may well help us imagine what Das would have written if she were alive today.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 1101908181
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen written by Elizabeth Bowen and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful hardcover edition of the collected short stories of "one of the best short story writers who ever lived" (Newsweek)—with an introduction by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea. Widely known for her extraordinary novels, including The Heat of the Day, The House in Paris, and The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen established herself in the front rank of twentieth-century writers equally through her short fiction. This collection includes seventy-nine magnificent stories written over the course of four decades, including such beloved classics as “Mysterious Kôr,” “The Demon Lover,” “Summer Night,” “Ivy Gripped the Steps,” and “The Happy Autumn Fields.” Whether placing her reader in a remote Irish castle or a seaside Italian villa or bomb-scarred London during the Blitz, Bowen was famous for scene setting of almost hallucinatory vividness, but her ability to evoke inner landscapes of spellbinding intensity was even more remarkable. Frustrated lovers, acutely observed children, and even vengeful ghosts inhabit her tales with an urgency and emotional complexity that make it clear that the drama of human consciousness was her central subject. These stories are enduring testimony to Bowen’s reputation as a creator of finely chiseled narratives—rich in imagination, psychological insight, and craft—that transcend their time and place.
Author : Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1912868334
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Girl from the Sea and Other Stories written by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories included in this collection are classics of children's literature and have been cherished by generations of Portuguese children. This is the first time these stories have been translated into English. The author is one of Portugal's greatest poets and, like her poetry, these stories are filled with her delight and pleasure in nature, gardens and the sea, as well as her keen sense of the magical. Among other things, we encounter dwarves, diminutive little girls who live on the sea bed, plants that come alive at night, a tree that lives on long after it has been felled, and a pilgrim who discovers much more than the Holy Land. Her themes are, above all, loyalty and friendship.
Author : Lee Pritchett
Publisher : Chipmunkapublishing ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847479502
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Tale Of Greta Gumboot And Other Stories written by Lee Pritchett and published by Chipmunkapublishing ltd. This book was released on with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598533363
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)
Download or read book The Leaning Tower and Other Stories written by Katherine Anne Porter and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic 1944 collection of ten short stories by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author and journalist Incomparable in their dramatic clarity and emotional force, the ten gems in this collection affirm Katherine Anne Porter’s genius for writing stories, as Eudora Welty observed, “with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory.” The collection includes The Old Order, a sequence of short stories that paints a devastating portrait of the racial inequities that plague life in the American South, as well as other selected stories such as “The Leaning Tower” and “The Downward Path to Wisdom”.
Author : Matthew Hughes
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 1473225493
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)
Download or read book Devil or Angel and Other Stories written by Matthew Hughes and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Majestrum, Template, and The Other, this collection of short stories ranges from the thoughtful to the whimsical. Most of them appeared first in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Asimov's. Others were written for the bespoke anthologies: Songs of the Dying Earth, Old Mars, and Welcome to the Greenhouse; one is published here for the first time.
Author : Katherine Mansfield
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141937181
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Garden Party and Other Stories written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen exquisite tales from one of the world'd greatest writers of the short story Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', and the short, sharp sketch 'Miss Brill', in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in 'At the Bay'. 'All that I write,' Mansfield said, 'all that I am - is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.'
Author : Julian Padowicz
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Mrs. Parsley Makes a Delivery and Other Stories written by Julian Padowicz and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the bestselling author of "Escaping the Holocaust" Julian Padowicz from Scholastic Books comes a wonderful, whimsical tale of a good witch and her pet cat Laptop! Mrs. Parsley is a good-witch who, with the help of her magical cat, Laptop, substitutes for the likes of Santa, The Easter Bunny, The Tooth Fairy, and the various Fairy Godmothers, when they have more work than they can handle. However, since she does not have the specialized magic powers that they possess, she is challenged to find creative ways to carry out these duties. Stories included in this collection: Mrs. Parsley Makes a Delivery Mrs. Parsley Helps the Easter Bunny Mrs. Parsley Helps Out on Halloween Mrs. Parsley Bends the Rules on Thanksgiving Mrs. Parsley Helps Santa Out Mrs. Parsley Drops in on the Hardings Mrs. Parsley and the Dog Without a Name Mrs. Parsley Talks with Todd Mrs. Parsley Crashes a Party Mrs. Parsley Has a Great Grandchild Mrs. Parsley Takes a Vacation Mrs. Parsley Repays an Old Debt Mrs. Parsley, We Don't Do Miracles
Author : Jack Hopkins
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1906510121
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Faint Heart and Other Stories written by Jack Hopkins and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask yourself, if you heard that Cinderella was not living happily ever after with her Prince Charming, would you want descriptions of her ballroom gowns or would you just want to now the whys, the hows and the did he? "Faint Heart and Other Stories" is a collection of light-hearted short stories designed to reach a satisfying conclusion before the reader has forgotten the beginning. It's perfect for bringing a smile on a miserable bus or a crowded train, or a wonderful book to go to bed with. The animals that often feature in these stories owe nothing to Attenborough, though perhaps a little to Beatrix Potter and Chaucer. There is no time for description and page-turning cliffhangers that force the reader to miss their stop or move too long into valuable sleep time - the aim is to get to the end with a satisfying, neatly tied off bow.
Author : Pat Mora
Publisher : Lee & Low Books
ISBN 13 : 9781643790855
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (98 download)
Download or read book My Magic Wand written by Pat Mora and published by Lee & Low Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of original poems that celebrate family, universal childhood experiences, and the pure pleasure a young girl feels as her mastery and understanding grow throughout the seasons of a year"--
Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1627935991
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (279 download)
Download or read book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories written by Washington Irving and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane, an extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, competes with Abraham Van Brunt for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel. As Crane leaves a party he attended at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman. The Headless Horseman, is said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball, and "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head," though the story implies that the Horseman was really Brom in disguise.
Author : Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752401923
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book In Bad Coompany and Other Stories written by Rolf Boldrewood and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: In Bad Coompany and Other Stories by Rolf Boldrewood
