Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher:
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Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 838

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Author: Janet Todd
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351259261
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theatre and a popular poet. This is the third volume in a set of seven which comprises a complete edition of all her works.

Author: Aliya Whiteley
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 1789094763
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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“Feels like a major collection” – The Washington Post A short fiction collection to stand with Ted Chiang's Exhalation and Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners. The new collection of beautiful, strange and disarming short stories from the award-winning author of The Beauty, Clarke Award nominee The Loosening Skin and The Arrival of Missives, Aliya Whiteley. In 16 stories Whiteley deftly unpeels the strangeness of everyday life through beguiling gardens, rebellious bodies and journeys across familiar worlds, with her trademark wit and compassion. Witness the future of farming in a new Ice Age, or the artist bringing life to glass; the many-eyed monsters we carry and the secret cities inside our bodies; the alien invasion through our language to the Chantress and her twists on the fairy tale. Fascinating and always unexpected, Whiteley is unlike any other writer working today.

Author: James Oliver Curwood
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338703251X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author: Birdine L Remaley Jr
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493184881
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 117

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Birdine L Remaley Jr was born in Allentown, PA on April 11, 1959. Currently, he resides in Whitehall, PA. He is a graduate of Duffs Business Institute in Pittsburgh, PA. He has been writing since 2007.

Author: John Colwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Author: San Francisco Public Library
Publisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465564039
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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There stood once in a public place a black tower with massive fortress-like walls and a few grim bastioned windows. It had been built by robber barons, but time swept them into the beyond, and the tower became partly a prison for dangerous criminals and grave offenders, and partly a residence. In the course of centuries new structures were added to it, and were buttressed against the massive walls of the tower and against one another; little by little it assumed the dimensions of a fair sized town set on a rock, with a broken skyline of chimneys, turrets and pointed roofs. When the sky gleamed green in the west there appeared, here and there, lights in the various parts of the tower. The gloomy pile assumed quaint and fanciful contours, and it somehow seemed that at its foot there stretched not an ordinary pavement, but the waves of the sea, the salty and shoreless ocean. And the picture brought to one's mind the shapes of the past, long since dead and forgotten. An immense ancient clock, which could be seen from afar, was set in the tower. Its complicated mechanism occupied an entire story of the structure, and it was under the care of a one-eyed man who could use a magnifying glass with expert skill. This was the reason why he had become a clockmaker and had tinkered for years with small timepieces before he was given charge of the large clock. Here he felt at home and happy. Often, at odd hours, without apparent need he would enter the room where the wheels, the gears and the levers moved deliberately, and where the immense pendulum cleft the air with wide and even sweep.

Author: Leonid Andreyev
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8726607492
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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First published in 1920 ‘When the King Loses His Head & Other Stories’ is a short story collection form the renowned Russian author Leonid Andreyev. Some of the best-known stories in the collection include ‘Lazarus’, an exploration of how Lazarus really felt upon returning from the grave, an interpretation of Judas’s personality and motives in ‘Judas Escariot’ and the evocative ‘Dies Irae’. With prominent religious themes and inspiration, this is a collection which explores the human condition and relationship with fate. A fascinating introduction to the Russian author. Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919) was a Russian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer. Born in the city of Oryol, Andreyev studied law in Moscow and St Petersburg. He went on to become a police court-reporter but continued to write poetry in his spare time. His first short story was published in 1898, and Andreyev’s literary fame quickly grew after the 1901 publication of his first short story collection. Widely regarded as the father of Russian expressionism, Andreyev’s works are often haunting, dark, pessimistic, and controversial. His body of work includes two novels, five novellas and a number of short stories and plays. The most well-known of them include the story ‘The Seven Who Were Hanged’, ghost story, ‘Lazarus’, the play ‘Tsar Hunger’, and his novel ‘Sashka Zhegulev’. He died in Finland in 1919.

Author: Leonid Andreyev
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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