Author: Trish Schreiber
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490760865
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 161
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The writing style in Willa Cather Is My Great Aunt and Other Stories is direct and honest. By describing specific moments in her life, Trish Schreiber creates an honest and interesting portrayal of her family.
Author: Gerry Adams
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
ISBN: 1847177344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
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One of the world's best-known political figures shares stories that reveal the humanity and indomitable spirit of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events. The moving accounts of the fictional characters in these eighteen short stories are set against the political turmoil of Gerry Adams' native Belfast. 'A good writer of fiction whose stories are not IRA agitprop but serious art. It is a good bet that James Joyce would read Gerry Adam's short stories to learn about the souls of Belfast as the world reads Dubliners' James F Clarity ( New York Times) in the Irish Independent
Author: Gangadhar Gopal Gadgil
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
ISBN: 9788171547746
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Author: Kenneth C. Gardner Jr.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491735333
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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The stories in "All Our Yesterdays..." and Nine Other Stories continue to explore the lives of the Cockburn family and other characters in and around the fictional town of Menninger, North Dakota, first created in the novel The Song Is Ended and continued in the novel The Dark Between The Stars and the short stories in Meatball Birds and Seven Other Stories. While the events and the characters found in the ten stories exist in rural and small town settings, the themes explored have a universal appeal.
Author: William D. Kaufman
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815609322
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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William Kaufman grew up on his mother’s kugel and his father’s boyhood stories. The son of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and the Ukraine and one of five children, he learned how to translate his colorful childhood into tales of his own, regaling audiences of family, friends, and eventually his retirement community with periodic public readings. Now, at the age of 93, Kaufman makes his stories, filled with a sharp wit and telling detail, available to a wider audience for the first time. In the title story a young Jewish boy is shamed by his narrow-minded teacher when she forces him to admit, before the whole class, that his mother cannot read English. His mother’s eventual encounter with the teacher offers a lesson in self-respect with just the right balance of grace and moxie. In “The Search for God in the A & P” a young boy goes on a clandestine mission to compare prices at his father’s grocery competition; the expedition meets with comic results when the young boy refuses to be bullied in this David-and-Goliath-style parable. These semi-autobiographical stories, populated with outsized and magnetic characters, subtly layer the specifics of the Jewish experience with universals dilemmas of childhood, growing up, and old age.
Author: The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN: 2021062724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Chorus Girl and Other Stories is the eighth volume of the Tales of Chekhov; a collection of twelve short stories by Russian author Anton Chekhov. Stories in this collection include: The Chorus Girl; Verotchka; My Life; At A Country House; A Father; On The Road; Rothschild's Fiddle; Ivan Matveyitch; Zinotchka; Bad Weather; A Gentleman Friend; and, A Trivial Incident.
Author: Larry Sells
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595274684
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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A moving van pulled in at 303 East Street's driveway. The father, Harry Lyle Brown and his best friend, Lennie Lee got out of the moving van's cab. They started carrying furniture for the downstairs through a built-on porch. When the van was empty, the house's downstairs had in it: a black couch, brown dining room table with five brown chairs, three bookcases, a black Lazyboy, a rocking chair, two black chairs, a knick-knack shelf, a box of knick-knacks, three wall clocks, a nineteen inch TV, TV stand, one double bed, a freezer, and a cloth dresser. Harry and Lennie organized per room; living, dining, kitchen, and bedroom. A half an hour later, the full moving van again entered the driveway. Harry and Lennie started carrying furniture for the upstairs. Three roller-away beds, five dressers, one double bed, four black trunks, three brown writing desks, three four-shelved bookshelves, ten boxes filled with paperback books, four nightstands, and two-dozen suitcases filled with clothes. After carrying all of the suitcases and furniture upstairs, Harry and Lennie put one of each in the bedrooms and hall. Pouring with sweat the two sat down in the kitchen and each of them had a cigarette.
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374502560
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Author: Ian Wedde
Publisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780705507646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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A collection of short stories written in the 1970's by this New Zealander. The book also contains a novella Dick Seddon's great dive.
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher: 1st World Publishing
ISBN: 1421821672
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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ONE day when she was younger and better-looking, and when her voice was stronger, Nikolay Petrovitch Kolpakov, her adorer, was sitting in the outer room in her summer villa. It was intolerably hot and stifling. Kolpakov, who had just dined and drunk a whole bottle of inferior port, felt ill-humoured and out of sorts. Both were bored and waiting for the heat of the day to be over in order to go for a walk. All at once there was a sudden ring at the door. Kolpakov, who was sitting with his coat off, in his slippers, jumped up and looked inquiringly at Pasha.
