Author: Ralph Ellison
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307797392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
These 13 stories by the author of The Invisible Man "approach the elegance of Chekhov" (Washington Post) and provide "early explorations of (Ellison's) lifelong fascination with the 'complex fate' and 'beautiful absurdity' of American identity" (John Callahan). First serial to The New Yorker. NPR sponsorship.
Flying Home
Author: Ralph Ellison
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307797392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
These 13 stories by the author of The Invisible Man "approach the elegance of Chekhov" (Washington Post) and provide "early explorations of (Ellison's) lifelong fascination with the 'complex fate' and 'beautiful absurdity' of American identity" (John Callahan). First serial to The New Yorker. NPR sponsorship.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307797392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
These 13 stories by the author of The Invisible Man "approach the elegance of Chekhov" (Washington Post) and provide "early explorations of (Ellison's) lifelong fascination with the 'complex fate' and 'beautiful absurdity' of American identity" (John Callahan). First serial to The New Yorker. NPR sponsorship.
Home and Other Stories
Author: Sheryl Conkelton
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 9780826314567
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 9780826314567
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories
Author: Max Apple
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801887380
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Call it Kmart magical realism.-Washington Post Book World
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801887380
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Call it Kmart magical realism.-Washington Post Book World
How They Met and Other Stories
Author: David Levithan
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375849424
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes a confection from David Levithan that is sure to have fans of Boy Meets Boy eager to devour it. Here are 18 stories, all about love, all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and happiness, these love stories run the gamut of that emotion that at some point has turned every one of us inside out and upside down. What is love? With this original story collection, David Levithan proves that love is a many splendored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing.
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375849424
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes a confection from David Levithan that is sure to have fans of Boy Meets Boy eager to devour it. Here are 18 stories, all about love, all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and happiness, these love stories run the gamut of that emotion that at some point has turned every one of us inside out and upside down. What is love? With this original story collection, David Levithan proves that love is a many splendored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing.
The Alien Home & Other Stories
Author: Jeelani Bano
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788123743424
Category : Short stories, Urdu
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788123743424
Category : Short stories, Urdu
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Whale House and Other Stories
Author: Sharon Millar (Lecturer of prose fiction)
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
ISBN: 9781845232498
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A boy is killed on a government minister s orders as part of his mission to clean up the country and others made complicit must explore their consciences; a youth gets ready to play his role in the country s lucrative kidnap business; a sister tries to make peace with the parents of the white American girl her brother has murdered; a gangster makes his posthumous lament. Trinidad in all its social tumult is ever present in these stories, which range across the country s different ethnic communities, across rural and urban settings, from locals and expatriates to the moneyed elite and the poor scrabbling for survival. What ties the collection together is Sharon Millar s achievement of a distinctively personal voice: cool, unsentimental and empathetic. If irony is the only way to inscribe contemporary Trinidad, there is also room for both generous humor and the possibility of redemption."
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
ISBN: 9781845232498
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A boy is killed on a government minister s orders as part of his mission to clean up the country and others made complicit must explore their consciences; a youth gets ready to play his role in the country s lucrative kidnap business; a sister tries to make peace with the parents of the white American girl her brother has murdered; a gangster makes his posthumous lament. Trinidad in all its social tumult is ever present in these stories, which range across the country s different ethnic communities, across rural and urban settings, from locals and expatriates to the moneyed elite and the poor scrabbling for survival. What ties the collection together is Sharon Millar s achievement of a distinctively personal voice: cool, unsentimental and empathetic. If irony is the only way to inscribe contemporary Trinidad, there is also room for both generous humor and the possibility of redemption."
Let'S Go Home And Other Stories
Author: Meenakshi Mukherjee
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788125000044
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Here is the first eye-witness story of the Kashmir Operations permitted by the Government of India to be published in book form. On 22 October 1947, in a flash and without warning, war burst upon Kashmir. Indian troops were rushed to defend the state, after the request of the Ruler to accede to the Indian Union was accepted by the Government of India. The Story of Poonch , which is the central theme of the book, gives a vivid picture of the conditions under which the whole campaign was fought. This book, which is a reprint, is fully illustrated with maps and excellent photographs.
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788125000044
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Here is the first eye-witness story of the Kashmir Operations permitted by the Government of India to be published in book form. On 22 October 1947, in a flash and without warning, war burst upon Kashmir. Indian troops were rushed to defend the state, after the request of the Ruler to accede to the Indian Union was accepted by the Government of India. The Story of Poonch , which is the central theme of the book, gives a vivid picture of the conditions under which the whole campaign was fought. This book, which is a reprint, is fully illustrated with maps and excellent photographs.
The Specialty of the House
Author: Stanley Ellin
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497650372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
In a quaint old restaurant, a chef relies on a devilish secret ingredient In Sbirro’s restaurant, there is no electric lighting, no music, and no menu. The only sound is the contented sighs of the regulars, who come every night in hopes that Sbirro will treat them to his signature dish, the famed lamb Amirstan, which comes from a beast so rare, only Sbirro knows how to obtain it. Tonight, two diners at this spectacular relic of a forgotten age will find that lamb Amirstan costs more than they are willing to pay. “The Specialty of the House” was the first story published by Stanley Ellin, who would go on to become one of the great short fiction authors of the twentieth century. From crime to horror to grim tragedy, every story in this collection is as delectable as a cut of meat prepared by Sbirro himself.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497650372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
In a quaint old restaurant, a chef relies on a devilish secret ingredient In Sbirro’s restaurant, there is no electric lighting, no music, and no menu. The only sound is the contented sighs of the regulars, who come every night in hopes that Sbirro will treat them to his signature dish, the famed lamb Amirstan, which comes from a beast so rare, only Sbirro knows how to obtain it. Tonight, two diners at this spectacular relic of a forgotten age will find that lamb Amirstan costs more than they are willing to pay. “The Specialty of the House” was the first story published by Stanley Ellin, who would go on to become one of the great short fiction authors of the twentieth century. From crime to horror to grim tragedy, every story in this collection is as delectable as a cut of meat prepared by Sbirro himself.
Stories and Prose Poems
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374534721
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A new edition of the Russian Nobelist's collection of novellas, short stories, and prose poems Stories and Prose Poems collects twenty-two works of wide-ranging style and character from the Nobel Prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose shorter pieces showcase the extraordinary mastery of language that places him among the greatest Russian prose writers of the twentieth century. When the two superb stories "Matryona's House" and "An Incident at Krechetovka Station" were first published in Russia in 1963, the Moscow Literary Gazette, the mouthpiece of the Soviet literary establishment, wrote: "His talent is so individual and so striking that from now on nothing that comes from his pen can fail to excite the liveliest interest." The novella For the Good of the Cause and the short story "Zakhar-the-Pouch" in particular—both published in the Soviet Union before Solzhenitsyn's exile—fearlessly address the deadening stranglehold of Soviet bureaucracy and the scandalous neglect of Russia's cultural heritage. But readers who best know Solzhenitsyn through his novels will be delighted to discover the astonishing group of sixteen "prose poems." In these works of varying lengths—some as short as an aphorism—Solzhenitsyn distills the joy and bitterness of Russia's fate into language of unrivaled lyrical purity.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374534721
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A new edition of the Russian Nobelist's collection of novellas, short stories, and prose poems Stories and Prose Poems collects twenty-two works of wide-ranging style and character from the Nobel Prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose shorter pieces showcase the extraordinary mastery of language that places him among the greatest Russian prose writers of the twentieth century. When the two superb stories "Matryona's House" and "An Incident at Krechetovka Station" were first published in Russia in 1963, the Moscow Literary Gazette, the mouthpiece of the Soviet literary establishment, wrote: "His talent is so individual and so striking that from now on nothing that comes from his pen can fail to excite the liveliest interest." The novella For the Good of the Cause and the short story "Zakhar-the-Pouch" in particular—both published in the Soviet Union before Solzhenitsyn's exile—fearlessly address the deadening stranglehold of Soviet bureaucracy and the scandalous neglect of Russia's cultural heritage. But readers who best know Solzhenitsyn through his novels will be delighted to discover the astonishing group of sixteen "prose poems." In these works of varying lengths—some as short as an aphorism—Solzhenitsyn distills the joy and bitterness of Russia's fate into language of unrivaled lyrical purity.
A Horse in the House, and Other Strange But True Animal Stories
Author: Gail Ablow
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763628383
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Strange, but true, stories featuring animals from around the world.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763628383
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Strange, but true, stories featuring animals from around the world.