Author: Catherine Fisher
Publisher: Firefly Press
ISBN: 1913102696
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Nominated for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2023 Gripping stories of myth, folklore and magic:Two step-brothers share one nightmare; red gloves that reach for your throat; a changing room where a stranger asks to swap lives with you; and a ghost in the rain... An expert storyteller weaves nine spells. Fear mixed with wit, heart and magic.
The Red Gloves and Other Stories
Author: Catherine Fisher
Publisher: Firefly Press
ISBN: 1913102696
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Nominated for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2023 Gripping stories of myth, folklore and magic:Two step-brothers share one nightmare; red gloves that reach for your throat; a changing room where a stranger asks to swap lives with you; and a ghost in the rain... An expert storyteller weaves nine spells. Fear mixed with wit, heart and magic.
Publisher: Firefly Press
ISBN: 1913102696
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Nominated for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2023 Gripping stories of myth, folklore and magic:Two step-brothers share one nightmare; red gloves that reach for your throat; a changing room where a stranger asks to swap lives with you; and a ghost in the rain... An expert storyteller weaves nine spells. Fear mixed with wit, heart and magic.
The Old Left
Author: Daniel Menaker
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN: 9780394546780
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN: 9780394546780
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Old Forest and Other Stories
Author: Peter Taylor
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312146955
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Fourteen tales of domestic life in the south during the thirties and forties.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312146955
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Fourteen tales of domestic life in the south during the thirties and forties.
The Novels, Stories, Sketches, and Poems of Thomas Nelson Page
Author: Thomas Nelson Page
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Illustrated Catalogue of Books, Standard and Holiday
Author: McClurg, Firm, Booksellers, Chicago
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
The Red Badge of Courage, and Other Stories
Author: Stephen Crane
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140390810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This novel examines war and its psychological effect on the individual soldier, by following the exploits of a group of soldiers during the American Civil War.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140390810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This novel examines war and its psychological effect on the individual soldier, by following the exploits of a group of soldiers during the American Civil War.
Babylon And Other Stories
Author: Alix Ohlin
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375415254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
An anthology of short fiction captures characters in the midst of coping with life's uncertainties, from a child who practices the piano on paper keys, to an expectant mother who discovers the tragic story of her new home's previous inhabitants.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375415254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
An anthology of short fiction captures characters in the midst of coping with life's uncertainties, from a child who practices the piano on paper keys, to an expectant mother who discovers the tragic story of her new home's previous inhabitants.
Emerald City and Other Stories
Author: Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1780334648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
These eleven masterful stories - the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan - deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan's characters, models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls, are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora, as cosmopolitan as downtown Manhattan, or as familiar as suburban Illinois to seek their own transformations. Elegant and poignant, the stories in Emerald City are seamless evocations of self-discovery.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1780334648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
These eleven masterful stories - the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan - deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan's characters, models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls, are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora, as cosmopolitan as downtown Manhattan, or as familiar as suburban Illinois to seek their own transformations. Elegant and poignant, the stories in Emerald City are seamless evocations of self-discovery.
Orange World and Other Stories
Author: Karen Russell
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525656146
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In“Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors,” two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void—yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525656146
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In“Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors,” two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void—yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.
Dimanche and Other Stories
Author: Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307739317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite Française Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of Némirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Française: a keen eye for the details of social class; the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives; the manners and mannerisms of the French bourgeoisie; questions of religion and personal identity. Moving from the drawing rooms of pre-war Paris to the lives of men and women in wartime France, here we find the beautiful work of a writer at the height of her tragically short career.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307739317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite Française Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of Némirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Française: a keen eye for the details of social class; the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives; the manners and mannerisms of the French bourgeoisie; questions of religion and personal identity. Moving from the drawing rooms of pre-war Paris to the lives of men and women in wartime France, here we find the beautiful work of a writer at the height of her tragically short career.