The Umbrella and Other Stories

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Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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The Umbrella and Other Stories

The Umbrella and Other Stories PDF Author:
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Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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The Jew, and other stories

The Jew, and other stories PDF Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Heart Songs and Other Stories

Heart Songs and Other Stories PDF Author: Annie Proulx
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416588906
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Before she wrote the bestselling Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx was already producing some of the finest short fiction in the country. Here are her collected stories, including two new works never before anthologized. These stories reverberate with rural tradition, the rites of nature, and the rituals of small town life. The country is blue collar New England; the characters are native families and the dispossessed working class, whose heritage is challenged by the neorural bourgeoisie from the city; and the themes are as elemental as the landscape: revenge, malice, greed, passion. Told with skill and profundity and crafted by a master storyteller, these are lean, tough tales of an extraordinary place and its people.

The Mystery of Jessy Page and Other Stories

The Mystery of Jessy Page and Other Stories PDF Author: Ellen Wood
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Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Coals of fire, and other stories

Coals of fire, and other stories PDF Author: David Christie Murray
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Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Villa Rubein and Other Stories

Villa Rubein and Other Stories PDF Author: John Galsworthy
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329789571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 - 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. His most notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. Villa Rubein was published in 1900.

Madwoman On The Bridge And Other Stories

Madwoman On The Bridge And Other Stories PDF Author: Su Tong
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0753516691
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Set during the fall-out of the Cultural Revolution, these bizarre and delicate stories capture the collision of the old China of vanished dynasties, with communism and today's tiger economy. The mad woman on the bridge wears a historical gown which she refuses to take off. In the height of summer she stands madly on the bridge. Until a young female doctor, bewitched by the beauty of the mad woman's dress, plots to take it from her, with tragic consequences.

The Bells of San Carlos and Other Stories

The Bells of San Carlos and Other Stories PDF Author: Max Brand
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803261730
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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This volume of Max Brand?s short fiction is chock full of the fast paced, deftly plotted stories that made Brand famous. ?Cayenne Charlie? tells the story of Charlie Bird, a redheaded cowpoke so accustomed to trouble he treats jail like a hotel. ?The Bells of San Carlos? introduces Fray Luis, a most formidable member of the clergy. The novella ?Between One and Three? is part Western, part mystery, a story of counterfeiters who elude detection. ?The Gift? features Happy Jack, one of Brand?s most fascinating characters. Happy Jack is on the trail of Sandy Crisp, whose crimes include shooting one of Jack?s friends. The Bells of San Carlos and Other Stories offers stories and novellas long out of print or never printed in their entirety. At first publication, the stories often suffered from editors? cuts to make them fit available page space. Editor Jon Tuska has returned to the original manuscripts to restore Brand?s full texts.

Miss Muriel and Other Stories

Miss Muriel and Other Stories PDF Author: Ann Petry
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810135574
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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A young black girl watches as her aunt’s multiple suitors disrupt her family’s privacy. The same girl, now on the cusp of adulthood, shares her family’s growing fears that her father has disappeared. Acclaimed author Ann Petry penned these and the other unforgettable narratives in Miss Muriel and Other Stories more than seventy years ago, yet in them contemporary readers recognize characters who exist today and dilemmas that recur again and again: the reluctance of African Americans to seek help from the police, the rage that erupts in a black man worn down by brutality, the tyranny that the young can visit on their elders regardless of race. Originally published between 1945 and 1971, Petry’s stories capture the essence of African American experience since the 1940s.

Sarah Carlisle's River and Other Stories

Sarah Carlisle's River and Other Stories PDF Author: Cynthia Lang
Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN: 1938223373
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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"In Cynthia Lang's collection of nine short stories it becomes apparent that a legacy is not always as tangible as a mahogany chest or a summer cabin; or even predetermined, much less recognized by those giving or receiving. 'Devoid of weight, of volume, some [legacies] take up no room at all. On a journey, for instance, nothing may change hands but the tickets.' Traveling through the lives of intriguing and oftentimes enlightening characters ... nine characters, each inheriting a legacy and collectively handing one on to the reader, composed of remnants from past lives, a natural history that has the power to reveal current truths and predict future realities."--Page [4] cover.