Author: Leonid Andreyev
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
A remarkable collection of short expressionist stories by Russian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev, who was considered to be the father of Expressionism in Russian literature. Traces of compassion, beauty, and sympathetic insight are encountered on every page side by side with barbarity and crudeness, the reason being that Andreyev portrays life without hiding, without neglecting any part of it. The Little Angel, and other stories (1916) was of one of his collections that were extensively translated into book form. The plots in these stories are straightforward, the characters are isolated, and the endings are harsh and profound in their sadness. Because of the cumulative descriptions of the strange and the dreadful, Andreyev has been called the Russian Edgar Allan Poe. During the 1914-1929 period, America was eager for anything similar to Edgar Allan Poe. As Poe's Russian equivalent, translations of Andreyev's work found a ready audience in the English-speaking world. This collection contains the following short stories: The Little Angel At the Roadside Station Snapper The Lie An Original Petka at the Bungalow Silence Laughter The Friend In the Basement The City The Marseillaise The Tocsin Bargamot and Garaska Stepping-stones The Spy
The Little Angel, and Other Stories
Author: Leonid Andreyev
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
A remarkable collection of short expressionist stories by Russian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev, who was considered to be the father of Expressionism in Russian literature. Traces of compassion, beauty, and sympathetic insight are encountered on every page side by side with barbarity and crudeness, the reason being that Andreyev portrays life without hiding, without neglecting any part of it. The Little Angel, and other stories (1916) was of one of his collections that were extensively translated into book form. The plots in these stories are straightforward, the characters are isolated, and the endings are harsh and profound in their sadness. Because of the cumulative descriptions of the strange and the dreadful, Andreyev has been called the Russian Edgar Allan Poe. During the 1914-1929 period, America was eager for anything similar to Edgar Allan Poe. As Poe's Russian equivalent, translations of Andreyev's work found a ready audience in the English-speaking world. This collection contains the following short stories: The Little Angel At the Roadside Station Snapper The Lie An Original Petka at the Bungalow Silence Laughter The Friend In the Basement The City The Marseillaise The Tocsin Bargamot and Garaska Stepping-stones The Spy
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
A remarkable collection of short expressionist stories by Russian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev, who was considered to be the father of Expressionism in Russian literature. Traces of compassion, beauty, and sympathetic insight are encountered on every page side by side with barbarity and crudeness, the reason being that Andreyev portrays life without hiding, without neglecting any part of it. The Little Angel, and other stories (1916) was of one of his collections that were extensively translated into book form. The plots in these stories are straightforward, the characters are isolated, and the endings are harsh and profound in their sadness. Because of the cumulative descriptions of the strange and the dreadful, Andreyev has been called the Russian Edgar Allan Poe. During the 1914-1929 period, America was eager for anything similar to Edgar Allan Poe. As Poe's Russian equivalent, translations of Andreyev's work found a ready audience in the English-speaking world. This collection contains the following short stories: The Little Angel At the Roadside Station Snapper The Lie An Original Petka at the Bungalow Silence Laughter The Friend In the Basement The City The Marseillaise The Tocsin Bargamot and Garaska Stepping-stones The Spy
The Little Angel and Other Stories
Author: Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
A collection of separate stories, some longer than others by the celebrated Russian writer, Andreyev. The first story is about a boy, from a very dysfunctional family, whose behaviour has, as a result, become very bad. There is an air of melancholy in the story as it describes the boy and his mother and father and the freezing cold weather they endure.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
A collection of separate stories, some longer than others by the celebrated Russian writer, Andreyev. The first story is about a boy, from a very dysfunctional family, whose behaviour has, as a result, become very bad. There is an air of melancholy in the story as it describes the boy and his mother and father and the freezing cold weather they endure.
The Little Angel and Other Stories
Author: Leonid Andreyev
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Angel of Rome
Author: Jess Walter
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062868136
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes—for the better, for the worse, for the outrageous—as a diverse cast of characters bounces from Italy to Idaho, questioning their roles in life and finding inspiration in the unlikeliest places. We all live like we’re famous now, curating our social media presences, performing our identities, withholding those parts of ourselves we don’t want others to see. In this riveting collection of stories from acclaimed author Jess Walter, a teenage girl tries to live up to the image of her beautiful, missing mother. An elderly couple confronts the fiction writer eavesdropping on their conversation. A son must repeatedly come out to his senile father while looking for a place to care for the old man. A famous actor in recovery has a one-night stand with the world's most surprising film critic. And in the romantic title story, a shy twenty-one-year-old studying Latin in Rome during “the year of my reinvention” finds himself face-to-face with the Italian actress of his adolescent dreams. Funny, poignant, and redemptive, this collection of short fiction offers a dazzling range of voices, backdrops, and situations. With his signature wit and bighearted approach to the darkest parts of humanity, Walter tackles the modern condition with a timeless touch, once again “solidifying his place in the contemporary canon as one of our most gifted builders of fictional worlds” (Esquire).
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062868136
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes—for the better, for the worse, for the outrageous—as a diverse cast of characters bounces from Italy to Idaho, questioning their roles in life and finding inspiration in the unlikeliest places. We all live like we’re famous now, curating our social media presences, performing our identities, withholding those parts of ourselves we don’t want others to see. In this riveting collection of stories from acclaimed author Jess Walter, a teenage girl tries to live up to the image of her beautiful, missing mother. An elderly couple confronts the fiction writer eavesdropping on their conversation. A son must repeatedly come out to his senile father while looking for a place to care for the old man. A famous actor in recovery has a one-night stand with the world's most surprising film critic. And in the romantic title story, a shy twenty-one-year-old studying Latin in Rome during “the year of my reinvention” finds himself face-to-face with the Italian actress of his adolescent dreams. Funny, poignant, and redemptive, this collection of short fiction offers a dazzling range of voices, backdrops, and situations. With his signature wit and bighearted approach to the darkest parts of humanity, Walter tackles the modern condition with a timeless touch, once again “solidifying his place in the contemporary canon as one of our most gifted builders of fictional worlds” (Esquire).
The Little Angel (and Other Stories)
Author: Leonid Andreyev
Publisher: European Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Andreyev's short stories explore the world of deprivation and depravity. Between the two Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 Leonid Andreyev was without a doubt the foremost writer in Russia. His name was always spoken with veneration, in mysterious whispers, as a grim portentous magician who descended into the ultimate depths of the nether side of life and fathomed the beauty and tragedy of the struggle. Leonid Nickolayevitch was born in the province of Oryol, in 1871, and studied law at the University of Moscow. Those were days of suffering and starvation; he gazed into the abyss of sorrow and despair. In January 1894 he made an unsuccessful attempt to kill himself by shooting, and then was forced by the authorities to severe penitence, which augmented the natural morbidness of his temperament. As a lawyer his career was short-lived, and he soon abandoned it for literature, beginning as a police-court reporter on the Moscow Courier. In 1902 he published the short story In the Fog, which for the first time brought him universal recognition. He was imprisoned during the revolution of 1905, together with Maxim Gorky, on political charges. Such are the few significant details of his personal life, for the true Andreyev is entirely in his stories and plays.
Publisher: European Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Andreyev's short stories explore the world of deprivation and depravity. Between the two Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 Leonid Andreyev was without a doubt the foremost writer in Russia. His name was always spoken with veneration, in mysterious whispers, as a grim portentous magician who descended into the ultimate depths of the nether side of life and fathomed the beauty and tragedy of the struggle. Leonid Nickolayevitch was born in the province of Oryol, in 1871, and studied law at the University of Moscow. Those were days of suffering and starvation; he gazed into the abyss of sorrow and despair. In January 1894 he made an unsuccessful attempt to kill himself by shooting, and then was forced by the authorities to severe penitence, which augmented the natural morbidness of his temperament. As a lawyer his career was short-lived, and he soon abandoned it for literature, beginning as a police-court reporter on the Moscow Courier. In 1902 he published the short story In the Fog, which for the first time brought him universal recognition. He was imprisoned during the revolution of 1905, together with Maxim Gorky, on political charges. Such are the few significant details of his personal life, for the true Andreyev is entirely in his stories and plays.
A Circle of Angels
Author: Leia Stinnett
Publisher: Light Technology Publishing
ISBN: 9780929385877
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Designed for the Little People of the World Waiting to Join and Share in the Light... A wonderful spiritual primer for the whole family. Through meditations, games and activities, learn to use basic spiritual gifts and develop awareness through basic meditations, aura reading, balancing chakras, healing fears, listening to inner voice, understanding angels and spirit guides, analyzing dreams and more.
Publisher: Light Technology Publishing
ISBN: 9780929385877
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Designed for the Little People of the World Waiting to Join and Share in the Light... A wonderful spiritual primer for the whole family. Through meditations, games and activities, learn to use basic spiritual gifts and develop awareness through basic meditations, aura reading, balancing chakras, healing fears, listening to inner voice, understanding angels and spirit guides, analyzing dreams and more.
Little Angel
Author: Sandra Magsamen
Publisher: LB Kids
ISBN: 9780316003933
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
You are a blessing and a gift to me. An angel is what you are and what I see. I have loved you right from the start - I believe you have always been here in my heart... Little Angel is the newest addition to Sandra Magsamen's adorable Snuggle-Me Stories board book series, and features a plush angel finger puppet with shiny wings. Babies and loved ones will read and play along with the sweet rhyming story, which delivers heartfelt sentiments of love. With inspirational words and lovely illustrations, Little Angel is sure to become a holiday favorite.
Publisher: LB Kids
ISBN: 9780316003933
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
You are a blessing and a gift to me. An angel is what you are and what I see. I have loved you right from the start - I believe you have always been here in my heart... Little Angel is the newest addition to Sandra Magsamen's adorable Snuggle-Me Stories board book series, and features a plush angel finger puppet with shiny wings. Babies and loved ones will read and play along with the sweet rhyming story, which delivers heartfelt sentiments of love. With inspirational words and lovely illustrations, Little Angel is sure to become a holiday favorite.
The Little Book of Angel Wisdom
Author: Peter Lamborn Wilson
Publisher: Element Books Limited
ISBN: 9781862040489
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A treasure chest of angelic lore and an exquisite introduction to the divine messengers and the heavenly hierarchies. This inspiring "Little Book" collection of sayings, poems, prayers, and teachings makes an ideal gift or constant companion. Illustrated in color throughout.
Publisher: Element Books Limited
ISBN: 9781862040489
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A treasure chest of angelic lore and an exquisite introduction to the divine messengers and the heavenly hierarchies. This inspiring "Little Book" collection of sayings, poems, prayers, and teachings makes an ideal gift or constant companion. Illustrated in color throughout.
Guide's Greatest Angel Stories
Author: Helen Lee Robinson
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN: 9780828018807
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Heavenly angels walk the earth today. Sometimes they assume human form--usually in answer to desperate prayer. These true stories from Guide Magazine--not an urban legend among them--will renew your faith. The angel of the Lord still encamps around those who fear Him.
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN: 9780828018807
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Heavenly angels walk the earth today. Sometimes they assume human form--usually in answer to desperate prayer. These true stories from Guide Magazine--not an urban legend among them--will renew your faith. The angel of the Lord still encamps around those who fear Him.
Roma Downey's Little Angels Bible Storybook
Author: Carolyn Larsen
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1414370229
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Parents and kids love the Little Angels animated DVDs from "Touched by an Angel" star Downey. Now children can read along with their favorite Little Angels characters as they experience 100 best-loved stories from the Bible. Illustrations.
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1414370229
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Parents and kids love the Little Angels animated DVDs from "Touched by an Angel" star Downey. Now children can read along with their favorite Little Angels characters as they experience 100 best-loved stories from the Bible. Illustrations.