Author: David A. Ross
Publisher: Open Books
ISBN: 1452403910
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
With his longtime Greek friend Modestos Thromos at his side, Doran plants a winter garden; and as he patiently tills the Grecian soil, he reclaims his integrity, his sense of joy, and his humanity.
A Winter Garden
Author: David A. Ross
Publisher: Open Books
ISBN: 1452403910
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
With his longtime Greek friend Modestos Thromos at his side, Doran plants a winter garden; and as he patiently tills the Grecian soil, he reclaims his integrity, his sense of joy, and his humanity.
Publisher: Open Books
ISBN: 1452403910
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
With his longtime Greek friend Modestos Thromos at his side, Doran plants a winter garden; and as he patiently tills the Grecian soil, he reclaims his integrity, his sense of joy, and his humanity.
Invincible Voices: Winter Shorts
Author: Zoe Antoniades
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789014336
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The spirit and originality of a child’s imagination – the polish and flair of an experienced writer. Short stories include first-hand concepts that children want to read as children have initiated them.Children are inspired to come up with their own ideas which are then developed by the author.Ideal for children 7-9 years. Meet a snowman in a sulk, a pesky pixie and a group of grimsome goblins. Journey through an action-fuelled, time-travelling adventure, featuring funny penguins with serious environmental issues. Allow the crystal compass to guide you to the Never-Melting-Icicle. Trek across snowy mountains with intrepid explorers, bolt down the black slopes with skilful skiers then soar across the sky in Santa’s sleigh. These are just some of the ideas that our children have storified for you, in their most invinciblest of voices. These stories are for children by children. We know this is the stuff that children want to read because children have chosen to write it.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789014336
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The spirit and originality of a child’s imagination – the polish and flair of an experienced writer. Short stories include first-hand concepts that children want to read as children have initiated them.Children are inspired to come up with their own ideas which are then developed by the author.Ideal for children 7-9 years. Meet a snowman in a sulk, a pesky pixie and a group of grimsome goblins. Journey through an action-fuelled, time-travelling adventure, featuring funny penguins with serious environmental issues. Allow the crystal compass to guide you to the Never-Melting-Icicle. Trek across snowy mountains with intrepid explorers, bolt down the black slopes with skilful skiers then soar across the sky in Santa’s sleigh. These are just some of the ideas that our children have storified for you, in their most invinciblest of voices. These stories are for children by children. We know this is the stuff that children want to read because children have chosen to write it.
Invincible Voices: Medium Shorts
Author: Zoe Antoniades
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1788036492
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Legendary beasts and mythological monsters: a Quadropythonus, a Kraken and a Colosollus to name but a few; a shipwrecked rabble of pirates; a seventeenth-century tennis-playing ghost; a witch whose pungent feet are more evil than her spells; a miniscule yet mighty dragon; bad guys and robbers with super-spies and heroes at their heels, a football star with a confidence crisis; and a boy left alone in the future with just his malfunctioning mechanical tortoise for company… These are just some of the ideas that our children have storified for you, in their most invinciblest of voices. These stories are for children by children. We know this is the stuff that children want to read because children have chosen to write it.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1788036492
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Legendary beasts and mythological monsters: a Quadropythonus, a Kraken and a Colosollus to name but a few; a shipwrecked rabble of pirates; a seventeenth-century tennis-playing ghost; a witch whose pungent feet are more evil than her spells; a miniscule yet mighty dragon; bad guys and robbers with super-spies and heroes at their heels, a football star with a confidence crisis; and a boy left alone in the future with just his malfunctioning mechanical tortoise for company… These are just some of the ideas that our children have storified for you, in their most invinciblest of voices. These stories are for children by children. We know this is the stuff that children want to read because children have chosen to write it.
Lyrical and Critical Essays
Author: Albert Camus
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030782778X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Edited by Philip Thody, translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy. "Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus' three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of these writings is that they illuminate new facets of his usual subject matter."--The New York Times Book Review "...a new single work for American readers that stands among the very finest."--The Nation
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030782778X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Edited by Philip Thody, translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy. "Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus' three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of these writings is that they illuminate new facets of his usual subject matter."--The New York Times Book Review "...a new single work for American readers that stands among the very finest."--The Nation
Invincible Spirits
Author:
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802824536
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Evelyn Underhill has said that "every religion looks for, and most have possessed, some revealer of the Spirit." In Invincible Spirits Felicity Leng presents wise, inspiring words from brilliant women who have been the revealers of their times. Many silent and forgotten voices throughout history come back to life in this sparkling collection of spiritual writings. From a ninth-century mother in France writing a poignant self-help book for her estranged son, to a modern-day social campaigner in New York, Invincible Spirits is full of reflections on classic themes and questions in the search for a deeper experience of God. Some writers -- Julian of Norwich, Teresa of Avila, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Corrie ten Boom, Dorothy Day -- are quite familiar. Others -- Ranssa Maritain, Hadewijch, Margiad Evans, Dhuoda -- are less widely known but no less inspiring. Invincible Spirits ends with "Biographies and Bibliographies" -- more than thirty pages of informative notes on all of the many women represented here. The profound wisdom of these women mystics, saints, mothers, activists, poets, and visionaries still has great appeal for twenty-first-century readers seeking spiritual guidance and direction. This is a volume not to be missed.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802824536
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Evelyn Underhill has said that "every religion looks for, and most have possessed, some revealer of the Spirit." In Invincible Spirits Felicity Leng presents wise, inspiring words from brilliant women who have been the revealers of their times. Many silent and forgotten voices throughout history come back to life in this sparkling collection of spiritual writings. From a ninth-century mother in France writing a poignant self-help book for her estranged son, to a modern-day social campaigner in New York, Invincible Spirits is full of reflections on classic themes and questions in the search for a deeper experience of God. Some writers -- Julian of Norwich, Teresa of Avila, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Corrie ten Boom, Dorothy Day -- are quite familiar. Others -- Ranssa Maritain, Hadewijch, Margiad Evans, Dhuoda -- are less widely known but no less inspiring. Invincible Spirits ends with "Biographies and Bibliographies" -- more than thirty pages of informative notes on all of the many women represented here. The profound wisdom of these women mystics, saints, mothers, activists, poets, and visionaries still has great appeal for twenty-first-century readers seeking spiritual guidance and direction. This is a volume not to be missed.
Select Extracts from British and American Authors in Prose and Verse, for the Use of Schools
Author: Elizabeth Fison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Year's Top Short SF Novels 3
Author: Elizabeth Bear
Publisher: AudioText
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Short novels are movie length narratives that may well be the perfect length for science fiction stories. This collection presents the best-of-the-best short science fiction novels published in 2012 by current and emerging masters of this vibrant form. In "In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns," by Elizabeth Bear, Police Sub-Inspector Ferron investigates the murder of genetics engineer, Dexter Coffin, who has been turned inside out, in a cutting edge biomedical lab set in a not too distant future India. In Jay Lake's"The Stars Do Not Lie," Morgan Abutti is soon in fear for his life when he tries to announce his discovery of something in the stars that contradicts the creation myth of a major religion on his planet. In "The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future," also by Jay Lake, set in the author's "Sunspin" series, the Howard Immortal, Before Michaela Cannon, and an untrustworthy shipmind investigate the cause of the Mistake, an alien attack on human civilization with an EMP weapon that occurred more than a thousand years ago and wiped out most of its technology. In "Sudden, Broken and Unexpected," by Steven Popkes, a burnt-out, talented musician is hired to help a world-class rock star divaloid, an electronic construct, prepare for her new world tour. There's only one problem, the musician passionately despises divaloids. In Robert Reed's"Eater-of-Bone," marooned human colonists, from the "Great Ship," fight for dominance on a planet inhabited by smaller, weaker, and less intelligent aliens. Finally, in "The Boolean Gate," by Walter Jon Williams, set in the 19th century, an elderly Samuel Clemens escapes his Mark Twain persona through his friendship with Nicola Tesla. As Tesla's inventions come to fruition, Twain suspects that Tesla has opened up a gateway to an alien intelligence.
Publisher: AudioText
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Short novels are movie length narratives that may well be the perfect length for science fiction stories. This collection presents the best-of-the-best short science fiction novels published in 2012 by current and emerging masters of this vibrant form. In "In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns," by Elizabeth Bear, Police Sub-Inspector Ferron investigates the murder of genetics engineer, Dexter Coffin, who has been turned inside out, in a cutting edge biomedical lab set in a not too distant future India. In Jay Lake's"The Stars Do Not Lie," Morgan Abutti is soon in fear for his life when he tries to announce his discovery of something in the stars that contradicts the creation myth of a major religion on his planet. In "The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future," also by Jay Lake, set in the author's "Sunspin" series, the Howard Immortal, Before Michaela Cannon, and an untrustworthy shipmind investigate the cause of the Mistake, an alien attack on human civilization with an EMP weapon that occurred more than a thousand years ago and wiped out most of its technology. In "Sudden, Broken and Unexpected," by Steven Popkes, a burnt-out, talented musician is hired to help a world-class rock star divaloid, an electronic construct, prepare for her new world tour. There's only one problem, the musician passionately despises divaloids. In Robert Reed's"Eater-of-Bone," marooned human colonists, from the "Great Ship," fight for dominance on a planet inhabited by smaller, weaker, and less intelligent aliens. Finally, in "The Boolean Gate," by Walter Jon Williams, set in the 19th century, an elderly Samuel Clemens escapes his Mark Twain persona through his friendship with Nicola Tesla. As Tesla's inventions come to fruition, Twain suspects that Tesla has opened up a gateway to an alien intelligence.
American Women Short Story Writers
Author: Julie Brown
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317954211
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This collection of original and classic essays examines the contributions that female authors have made to the short story. The introductory chapter discusses why genre critics have ignored works by women and why feminist scholars have ignored the short story genre. Subsequent chapters discuss early stories by such authors as Lydia Maria Child and Rose Terry Cooke. Others are devoted to the influences (race, class, sexual orientation, education) that have shaped women's short fiction through the years. Women's special stylistic, formal and thematic concerns are also discussed in this study. The final essay addresses the ways our contemporary creative-writing classes are stifling the voices of emerging young female authors. The collection includes an extensive five-part bibliography.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317954211
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This collection of original and classic essays examines the contributions that female authors have made to the short story. The introductory chapter discusses why genre critics have ignored works by women and why feminist scholars have ignored the short story genre. Subsequent chapters discuss early stories by such authors as Lydia Maria Child and Rose Terry Cooke. Others are devoted to the influences (race, class, sexual orientation, education) that have shaped women's short fiction through the years. Women's special stylistic, formal and thematic concerns are also discussed in this study. The final essay addresses the ways our contemporary creative-writing classes are stifling the voices of emerging young female authors. The collection includes an extensive five-part bibliography.
Great Short Novels of the World
Author: Barrett Harper Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
Book Description
An anthology of short stories, fairy tales, myths, and legends from around the world. Before each short novel, the editor has written a biographical sketch of the author, and before each national grouping is a brief discussion of that country's place in world literature.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
Book Description
An anthology of short stories, fairy tales, myths, and legends from around the world. Before each short novel, the editor has written a biographical sketch of the author, and before each national grouping is a brief discussion of that country's place in world literature.
Wicked Pleasures
Author: Penny Vincenzi
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468301977
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 757
Book Description
“Set in the glamorous worlds of an American banking dynasty and the British aristocracy . . . this is Dynasty meets Downton Abbey.” —Booklist None of them are the children of Alexander, Earl of Caterham, who was married to their mother for almost twenty years. A family saga that takes the reader right from the 1950s to the end of the twentieth century, and set between the Hamptons summer homes of New York’s elite and the English countryside familiar to any fan of British period drama, Wicked Pleasures is a tale of the power and greed of the mega-rich, as the great banking business upon which the family’s fortunes are won and lost comes to the brink of ruin. Intense relationships, both old and new, are tested to the utmost in this grand and unputdownable summer read. Praise for Penny Vincenzi “The doyenne of the modern blockbuster.” —Glamour “Soap opera? You bet—but with her well-drawn characters and engaging style, Vincenzi keeps things humming.” —People “Nobody writes smart, page-turning commercial women’s fiction like Vincenzi.” —USA Today “Vincenzi does it again with another captivating and entertaining family saga that combines power, riches, lies, and greed . . . For fans of Barbara Taylor Bradford and Danielle Steel.” —Library Journal
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468301977
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 757
Book Description
“Set in the glamorous worlds of an American banking dynasty and the British aristocracy . . . this is Dynasty meets Downton Abbey.” —Booklist None of them are the children of Alexander, Earl of Caterham, who was married to their mother for almost twenty years. A family saga that takes the reader right from the 1950s to the end of the twentieth century, and set between the Hamptons summer homes of New York’s elite and the English countryside familiar to any fan of British period drama, Wicked Pleasures is a tale of the power and greed of the mega-rich, as the great banking business upon which the family’s fortunes are won and lost comes to the brink of ruin. Intense relationships, both old and new, are tested to the utmost in this grand and unputdownable summer read. Praise for Penny Vincenzi “The doyenne of the modern blockbuster.” —Glamour “Soap opera? You bet—but with her well-drawn characters and engaging style, Vincenzi keeps things humming.” —People “Nobody writes smart, page-turning commercial women’s fiction like Vincenzi.” —USA Today “Vincenzi does it again with another captivating and entertaining family saga that combines power, riches, lies, and greed . . . For fans of Barbara Taylor Bradford and Danielle Steel.” —Library Journal