The Steel Casket and Other Stories

The Steel Casket and Other Stories PDF Author: Nick Carter
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Languages : en
Pages : 236

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The Steel Casket and Other Stories

The Steel Casket and Other Stories PDF Author: Nick Carter
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Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Indentations and Other Stories

Indentations and Other Stories PDF Author: Joe Schall
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814741495
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Indentation and Other Stories is a collection of nine stories ranging from the wildly funny and idiosyncratic to the downright bizarre. The title story features a pathological dentist who seeks a quirky catharsis by decorating his apartment in hygienic dental paraphernalia. Other tales frolic through the lives of characters who border on the delightfully absurd: a woman, after going through menopause, struggles to recreate her menstrual periods by altering her diet; a former New York street reporter, fired because of his "ideals," aspires to become a credible street person and decides, tentatively, to have a religious experience; an English major turned psychologist writes a pseudoscientific "article"—complete with footnotes and a University of New Jersey cover letter—which argues, by example, for the use of figurative language in scientific journal writing. Other stories are more humanizing: "The Perils of Asthma" is a sympathetic lok at a twelve-year-old boy struggling to grow up amidst his perplexing asthma, his eccentric Catholic parents, and his mystifying quasi-erections. All of the stories are grounded in the allure of language, the luxuriance of detail, and the celebration of human compulsion and obsession.

The Rockspur Eleven

The Rockspur Eleven PDF Author: Burt L. Standish
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Category : Adventure stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Petronilla and Other Stories

Petronilla and Other Stories PDF Author: Eleanor Cecilia Donnelly
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Languages : en
Pages : 298

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The Naked Song and Other Stories

The Naked Song and Other Stories PDF Author: Mandla Langa
Publisher: New Africa Books
ISBN: 9780864863133
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Beyond Pursuit

Beyond Pursuit PDF Author: Nick Carter
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Languages : en
Pages : 236

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In the Permanent Way and Other Stories

In the Permanent Way and Other Stories PDF Author: Flora Annie Steel
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528788761
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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“In the Permanent Way - And Other Stories” is a 1897 collection of short stories by Flora Annie Steel. Flora Annie Steel (1847 – 1929) was an English writer who notably lived in British India for 22 years and is best remembered for her books set or related to the sub-continent. Like most of her work, these tales are set in colonial India and offer a unique insight into what life was like at that time. The stories include: “Shub'rât”, “In the Permanent Way”, “On the Second Story”, “Glory-of-Woman”, “At the Great Durbar”, “The Blue-throated God”, “A Tourist Ticket”, “The King's Well”, “Uma Himavutee”, “Young Lochinvar”, “A Bit of Land”, “The Sorrowful Hour”, etc. Other notable works by this author include: “Tales of the Punjab” (1894), “The Flower of Forgiveness” (1894), and “The Potter's Thumb” (1894). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.

Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, at Washington, D.C.

Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, at Washington, D.C. PDF Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1620

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Ahead of the Show; Or, The Adventures of Al Allston

Ahead of the Show; Or, The Adventures of Al Allston PDF Author: Fred Thorpe
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Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Museums & Women and Other Stories

Museums & Women and Other Stories PDF Author: John Updike
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 067964573X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Museums and Women gathers twenty-nine short stories from the 1960s and early 1970s. It is John Updike’s most various collection, a book as full of departures and surprises as the historical period that produced them. Some stories, such as the title piece, have the tone and personality of essays. Others objectify the chimeras of middle-class life, especially life in a fictional New England enclave called Tarbox. The illustrated jeux d’esprit in the section called “Other Modes” place Updike somewhere between Robert Benchley and Donald Barthelme as a toymaker in prose. Crowning the collection are five scenes from the marriage of Richard and Joan Maple, a story sequence with the narrative interest and cumulative power of a novel.