Author: Ilse Aichinger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Bound Man, and Other Stories
Author: Ilse Aichinger
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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The Bound Man, and Other Stories
Author: Ilse Aichinger
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Bound to Last
Author: Sean Manning
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 030681921X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Lovers of the printed book, arise! Thirty of today’s top writers are here to tell you you’re not alone. In Bound to Last,an amazing array of authors comes to the passionate defense of the printed book with spirited, never-before-published essays celebrating the hardcover or paperback they hold most dear—not necessarily because of its contents, but because of its significance as a one-of-a-kind, irreplaceable object. Whether focusing on the circumstances behind how a particular book was acquired, or how it has become forever “bound up” with a specific person, time, or place, each piece collected here confirms—poignantly, delightfully, irrefutably—that every book tells a story far beyond the one found within its pages. In addition to a foreword by Ray Bradbury, Bound to Last features original contributions by:Chris Abani, Rabih Alameddine, Anthony Doerr, Louis Ferrante, Nick Flynn, Karen Joy Fowler, Julia Glass, Karen Green, David Hajdu, Terrence Holt, Jim Knipfel, Shahriar Mandanipour, Sarah Manguso, Sean Manning, Joyce Maynard, Philipp Meyer, Jonathan Miles, Sigrid Nunez, Ed Park, Victoria Patterson, Francine Prose, Michael Ruhlman, Elissa Schappell, Christine Schutt, Jim Shepard, Susan Straight, J. Courtney Sullivan, Anthony Swofford, Danielle Trussoni, and Xu Xiaobin
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 030681921X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Lovers of the printed book, arise! Thirty of today’s top writers are here to tell you you’re not alone. In Bound to Last,an amazing array of authors comes to the passionate defense of the printed book with spirited, never-before-published essays celebrating the hardcover or paperback they hold most dear—not necessarily because of its contents, but because of its significance as a one-of-a-kind, irreplaceable object. Whether focusing on the circumstances behind how a particular book was acquired, or how it has become forever “bound up” with a specific person, time, or place, each piece collected here confirms—poignantly, delightfully, irrefutably—that every book tells a story far beyond the one found within its pages. In addition to a foreword by Ray Bradbury, Bound to Last features original contributions by:Chris Abani, Rabih Alameddine, Anthony Doerr, Louis Ferrante, Nick Flynn, Karen Joy Fowler, Julia Glass, Karen Green, David Hajdu, Terrence Holt, Jim Knipfel, Shahriar Mandanipour, Sarah Manguso, Sean Manning, Joyce Maynard, Philipp Meyer, Jonathan Miles, Sigrid Nunez, Ed Park, Victoria Patterson, Francine Prose, Michael Ruhlman, Elissa Schappell, Christine Schutt, Jim Shepard, Susan Straight, J. Courtney Sullivan, Anthony Swofford, Danielle Trussoni, and Xu Xiaobin
The Bound Girl; and Other Stories, Etc
Author: Madeline LESLIE (Mrs. pseud. [i.e. Harriette Newell Baker.])
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Flying Lessons & Other Stories
Author: Ellen Oh
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 110193462X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, first crushes, or new neighborhoods, this bold short story collection—written by some of the best children’s authors including Kwame Alexander, Meg Medina, Jacqueline Woodson, and many more and published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books—celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us. "Will resonate with any kid who's ever felt different—which is to say, every kid." —Time Great stories take flight in this adventurous middle-grade anthology crafted by ten of the most recognizable and diverse authors writing today. Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander delivers a story in-verse about a boy who just might have magical powers; National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson spins a tale of friendship against all odds; and Meg Medina uses wet paint to color in one girl’s world with a short story that inspired her Newbery award-winner Merci Suárez Changes Gear. Plus, seven more bold voices that bring this collection to new heights with tales that challenge, inspire, and celebrate the unique talents within us all. AUTHORS INCLUDE: Kwame Alexander, Kelly J. Baptist, Soman Chainani, Matt de la Peña, Tim Federle, Grace Lin, Meg Medina, Walter Dean Myers, Tim Tingle, Jacqueline Woodson “There’s plenty of magic in this collection to go around.” —Booklist, Starred “A natural for middle school classrooms and libraries.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred “Inclusive, authentic, and eminently readable.” —School Library Journal, Starred “Thought provoking and wide-ranging . . . should not be missed.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred “Read more books by these authors.” —The Bulletin, Starred
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 110193462X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, first crushes, or new neighborhoods, this bold short story collection—written by some of the best children’s authors including Kwame Alexander, Meg Medina, Jacqueline Woodson, and many more and published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books—celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us. "Will resonate with any kid who's ever felt different—which is to say, every kid." —Time Great stories take flight in this adventurous middle-grade anthology crafted by ten of the most recognizable and diverse authors writing today. Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander delivers a story in-verse about a boy who just might have magical powers; National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson spins a tale of friendship against all odds; and Meg Medina uses wet paint to color in one girl’s world with a short story that inspired her Newbery award-winner Merci Suárez Changes Gear. Plus, seven more bold voices that bring this collection to new heights with tales that challenge, inspire, and celebrate the unique talents within us all. AUTHORS INCLUDE: Kwame Alexander, Kelly J. Baptist, Soman Chainani, Matt de la Peña, Tim Federle, Grace Lin, Meg Medina, Walter Dean Myers, Tim Tingle, Jacqueline Woodson “There’s plenty of magic in this collection to go around.” —Booklist, Starred “A natural for middle school classrooms and libraries.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred “Inclusive, authentic, and eminently readable.” —School Library Journal, Starred “Thought provoking and wide-ranging . . . should not be missed.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred “Read more books by these authors.” —The Bulletin, Starred
Bound Hearts
Author: Lora Leigh
Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781843609452
Category : Erotic fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Submission: Ella allows James to stay the week in her new home. James. Dominating. Sexy. Younger. James is determined Ella won't escape him. Seduction: In a bold and risky turn, Jess dares Terrie to seduce him. Challenges her to accept her needs, to push her own boundaries.
Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781843609452
Category : Erotic fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Submission: Ella allows James to stay the week in her new home. James. Dominating. Sexy. Younger. James is determined Ella won't escape him. Seduction: In a bold and risky turn, Jess dares Terrie to seduce him. Challenges her to accept her needs, to push her own boundaries.
The Black Church
Author: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984880330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box, and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984880330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box, and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.
Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher: Merriam-Webster
ISBN: 9780877790426
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
Book Description
Describes authors, works, and literary terms from all eras and all parts of the world.
Publisher: Merriam-Webster
ISBN: 9780877790426
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
Book Description
Describes authors, works, and literary terms from all eras and all parts of the world.
Cup Man and Other Stories
Author: Tikum Mbah Azonga
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956558419
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
This is a collection of eight fictional short stories on themes such as the intrigues of the civil service, drunkenness, theft, matrimonial relations and living as an African immigrant in the West.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956558419
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
This is a collection of eight fictional short stories on themes such as the intrigues of the civil service, drunkenness, theft, matrimonial relations and living as an African immigrant in the West.
The Diary of A Superfluous Man, and Other Stories
Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Step into the captivating world of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev's "The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories," a collection of timeless tales that offer profound insights into the human condition and the complexities of Russian society. Explore the depths of human emotion, desire, and longing as Turgenev masterfully weaves together narratives that are as thought-provoking as they are compelling. Enter the mind of the "superfluous man" as Turgenev delves into the innermost thoughts and feelings of his protagonist, a man adrift in a world that seems indifferent to his existence. Through a series of poignant vignettes, readers are invited to contemplate themes of alienation, disillusionment, and the search for meaning in a world that often feels devoid of purpose. As you journey through the pages of "The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories," you'll encounter a rich tapestry of characters and settings, each offering a unique perspective on the human experience. From the lush countryside of rural Russia to the bustling streets of St. Petersburg, Turgenev's vivid prose brings to life a world that is at once familiar and exotic, tragic and beautiful. With its blend of wit, humor, and pathos, "The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories" captures the essence of Turgenev's literary genius and his profound understanding of the human soul. Through his characters' struggles and triumphs, Turgenev offers readers a window into the depths of the human heart and the universal truths that unite us all. Since its publication, "The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories" has been celebrated as a masterpiece of Russian literature, praised for its rich characterizations, evocative settings, and timeless themes. Turgenev's exploration of love, loss, and the quest for identity continues to resonate with readers of all ages, making this collection a cherished favorite for generations. As you immerse yourself in the world of "The Diary of a Superfluous Man," you'll find yourself drawn into a world of beauty and sorrow, passion and despair. Turgenev's keen observations and lyrical prose invite readers to reflect on their own lives and experiences, finding echoes of their own struggles and triumphs in the pages of his stories. In conclusion, "The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories" is a literary masterpiece that offers readers a profound and moving exploration of the human condition. Whether you're a longtime admirer of Turgenev's work or discovering it for the first time, this collection is sure to captivate and inspire. Don't miss your chance to experience the timeless beauty and profound insights of "The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories" by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. Grab your copy now and embark on a journey of discovery and enlightenment that will stay with you long after you've turned the final page.
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Step into the captivating world of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev's "The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories," a collection of timeless tales that offer profound insights into the human condition and the complexities of Russian society. Explore the depths of human emotion, desire, and longing as Turgenev masterfully weaves together narratives that are as thought-provoking as they are compelling. Enter the mind of the "superfluous man" as Turgenev delves into the innermost thoughts and feelings of his protagonist, a man adrift in a world that seems indifferent to his existence. Through a series of poignant vignettes, readers are invited to contemplate themes of alienation, disillusionment, and the search for meaning in a world that often feels devoid of purpose. As you journey through the pages of "The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories," you'll encounter a rich tapestry of characters and settings, each offering a unique perspective on the human experience. From the lush countryside of rural Russia to the bustling streets of St. Petersburg, Turgenev's vivid prose brings to life a world that is at once familiar and exotic, tragic and beautiful. With its blend of wit, humor, and pathos, "The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories" captures the essence of Turgenev's literary genius and his profound understanding of the human soul. Through his characters' struggles and triumphs, Turgenev offers readers a window into the depths of the human heart and the universal truths that unite us all. Since its publication, "The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories" has been celebrated as a masterpiece of Russian literature, praised for its rich characterizations, evocative settings, and timeless themes. Turgenev's exploration of love, loss, and the quest for identity continues to resonate with readers of all ages, making this collection a cherished favorite for generations. As you immerse yourself in the world of "The Diary of a Superfluous Man," you'll find yourself drawn into a world of beauty and sorrow, passion and despair. Turgenev's keen observations and lyrical prose invite readers to reflect on their own lives and experiences, finding echoes of their own struggles and triumphs in the pages of his stories. In conclusion, "The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories" is a literary masterpiece that offers readers a profound and moving exploration of the human condition. Whether you're a longtime admirer of Turgenev's work or discovering it for the first time, this collection is sure to captivate and inspire. Don't miss your chance to experience the timeless beauty and profound insights of "The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories" by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. Grab your copy now and embark on a journey of discovery and enlightenment that will stay with you long after you've turned the final page.