Author: Phyllis Granoff
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120811508
Category : Sanskrit literature
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The stories in this collection span almost one thousand years of story-telling in India. Most originate in North India and all were written by Jain monks for the edification and amusement of the faithful. The treasures of India`s heritage of story-telling are known to us today mainly from these Jain stories which have been carefully preserved through the years. The Stories in The Clever Adulteress have been translated by a renowned group of scholars from India, North America and Europe. Each translator has chosen his or her favorites from the vast treasures of Jain literature.
The Clever Adulteress and Other Stories
Author: Phyllis Granoff
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120811508
Category : Sanskrit literature
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The stories in this collection span almost one thousand years of story-telling in India. Most originate in North India and all were written by Jain monks for the edification and amusement of the faithful. The treasures of India`s heritage of story-telling are known to us today mainly from these Jain stories which have been carefully preserved through the years. The Stories in The Clever Adulteress have been translated by a renowned group of scholars from India, North America and Europe. Each translator has chosen his or her favorites from the vast treasures of Jain literature.
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120811508
Category : Sanskrit literature
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The stories in this collection span almost one thousand years of story-telling in India. Most originate in North India and all were written by Jain monks for the edification and amusement of the faithful. The treasures of India`s heritage of story-telling are known to us today mainly from these Jain stories which have been carefully preserved through the years. The Stories in The Clever Adulteress have been translated by a renowned group of scholars from India, North America and Europe. Each translator has chosen his or her favorites from the vast treasures of Jain literature.
The Young Fisherman, and Other Stories ... With Eight Illustrations by W. H. Thwaites, Etc
Author: George William MacArthur Reynolds
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Devil’s Laugh and Other Stories
Author: H. Alan Tansson
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440160678
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
The Devil’s Laugh and Other Stories is a book of folktales to help you check out your philosophy of life. We all know you don’t believe in “ol Scratch,” and you thought you knew what a sphincter was. You’ve never heard of the Quarry of Suffering, and can’t imagine what it’s like to have the evil eye yourself. Therefore, save this book for emergencies—like the day you need to remember what it was like to discover the joy of reading. H. Alan Tansson has also written Captions to the Cartoons We Live: Vol. I—We Think We Think (2010), and Vol. 2—Antidisestablishmentarianistically Speaking (2010). He earns his keep with a variety of jobs in corporate America and is occasionally retired.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440160678
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
The Devil’s Laugh and Other Stories is a book of folktales to help you check out your philosophy of life. We all know you don’t believe in “ol Scratch,” and you thought you knew what a sphincter was. You’ve never heard of the Quarry of Suffering, and can’t imagine what it’s like to have the evil eye yourself. Therefore, save this book for emergencies—like the day you need to remember what it was like to discover the joy of reading. H. Alan Tansson has also written Captions to the Cartoons We Live: Vol. I—We Think We Think (2010), and Vol. 2—Antidisestablishmentarianistically Speaking (2010). He earns his keep with a variety of jobs in corporate America and is occasionally retired.
The Fishermen
Author: Chigozie Obioma
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316338362
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
In this striking novel about an unforgettable childhood, four Nigerian brothers encounter a madman whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the core of their close-knit family Told by nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, The Fishermen is the Cain and Abel-esque story of a childhood in Nigeria, in the small town of Akure. When their father has to travel to a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his absence to skip school and go fishing. At the forbidden nearby river, they meet a madman who persuades the oldest of the boys that he is destined to be killed by one of his siblings. What happens next is an almost mythic event whose impact-both tragic and redemptive-will transcend the lives and imaginations of the book's characters and readers. Dazzling and viscerally powerful, The Fisherman is an essential novel about Africa, seen through the prism of one family's destiny.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316338362
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
In this striking novel about an unforgettable childhood, four Nigerian brothers encounter a madman whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the core of their close-knit family Told by nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, The Fishermen is the Cain and Abel-esque story of a childhood in Nigeria, in the small town of Akure. When their father has to travel to a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his absence to skip school and go fishing. At the forbidden nearby river, they meet a madman who persuades the oldest of the boys that he is destined to be killed by one of his siblings. What happens next is an almost mythic event whose impact-both tragic and redemptive-will transcend the lives and imaginations of the book's characters and readers. Dazzling and viscerally powerful, The Fisherman is an essential novel about Africa, seen through the prism of one family's destiny.
The young cragsman, and other stories
Author: Robert Richardson (B.A.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories
Author: Patrick McManus
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1626361177
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
A collection of short and not-so-short stories from humorist Patrick F...
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1626361177
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
A collection of short and not-so-short stories from humorist Patrick F...
The Boy in Grey and Other Stories and Sketches
Author: Henry Kingsley
Publisher: London : Ward, Lock
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher: London : Ward, Lock
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Naked Fisherman
Author: Jewel E. Ann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781955520034
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Jewel E. Ann returns with an addictive new adult romance about a young woman who discovers years of Sunday sermons didn't prepare her for the many lessons of the crude and sexy man who is now her boss. It's official. I'm eighteen and a young woman with endless possibilities on my way to reunite with my mom in Colorado after five years apart-she had a little weed incident in Nebraska. At the airport, she springs the news on me ... she's leaving for a month of job training. And me? I'm left on my own in the basement she's renting from the fisherman, aka her landlord who lives upstairs. He's ten years older than me. Never wears a shirt. And makes it hard to remember all the things I learned at Christian Academy. Did I mention he's also my new boss?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781955520034
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Jewel E. Ann returns with an addictive new adult romance about a young woman who discovers years of Sunday sermons didn't prepare her for the many lessons of the crude and sexy man who is now her boss. It's official. I'm eighteen and a young woman with endless possibilities on my way to reunite with my mom in Colorado after five years apart-she had a little weed incident in Nebraska. At the airport, she springs the news on me ... she's leaving for a month of job training. And me? I'm left on my own in the basement she's renting from the fisherman, aka her landlord who lives upstairs. He's ten years older than me. Never wears a shirt. And makes it hard to remember all the things I learned at Christian Academy. Did I mention he's also my new boss?
The Brigadier, and Other Stories
Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
The Works of Iván Turgénieff: First love, and other stories. The Jew, and other stories
Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description