Classic New Zealand Short Stories

Classic New Zealand Short Stories PDF Author: Dan Davin
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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First published in 1953, this classic collection of New Zealand short stories is now available to a new generation of readers.

Classic New Zealand Short Stories

Classic New Zealand Short Stories PDF Author: Dan Davin
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Book Description
First published in 1953, this classic collection of New Zealand short stories is now available to a new generation of readers.

Bug Week

Bug Week PDF Author: Airini Beautrais
Publisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 1776563824
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger's party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night.Bug Week is a scalpel-clean examination of male entitlement, a dissection of death, an agar plate of mundanity. From 1960s Wellington to post-Communist Germany, Bug Week traverses the weird, the wry and the grotesque in a story collection of human taxonomy.

New Zealand Short Stories

New Zealand Short Stories PDF Author: Dan Davin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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The New Zealand Short Story Collection

The New Zealand Short Story Collection PDF Author: Marion McLeod
Publisher: UQP
ISBN: 9780702230301
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Combines outstanding contemporary New Zealand fiction with some of the best from the past. The New Zealand of these stories is not the country presented in glossy brochures, but a real place that can only be described, with accuracy and vision, by the imagination.

The Oxford Book of New Zealand Short Stories

The Oxford Book of New Zealand Short Stories PDF Author: Vincent O'Sullivan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195582918
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Book Description
This anthology presents 50 stories by over 40 of New Zealand's best writers. Nineteenth-century writing, which is largely unknown, is represented by Clara Cheeseman and G B Lancaster, as well as by the more familiar Lady Barker and itinerant Henry Lawson. In the early twentieth century Katherine Mansfield is followed by Greville Texidor as well as Frank Sargeson and Dan Davin. The middle years of the century exhibit a flowering of talent. Janet Frame, Maurice Duggan, and Maurice Geeare all fine practitioners of the genre, while Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace are the strong voices of Maori writing. The past dozen or so years have seen an explosion of new writing, with talents as diverse as Owen Marshall, Keri Hulme, Barbara Anderson, and Peter Wells. The selection provides an introduction to New Zealand short fiction that readers interestd in the new literatures in English will find stimulating and surprising. The stories are accompanied by brief biographical notes and a glossary of Maori words.

The Penguin History of New Zealand

The Penguin History of New Zealand PDF Author: Michael King
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459623754
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 726

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New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapidly in New Zealand than anywhere else on Earth. The Penguin History of New Zealand, a new book for a new century, tells that story in all its colour and drama. The narrative that emerges in an inclusive one about men and women, Maori and Pakeha. It shows that British motives in colonising New Zealand were essentially humane; and that Maori, far from being passive victims of a 'fatal impact', coped heroically with colonisation and survived by selectively accepting and adapting what Western technology and culture had to offer. This book, a triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, was an unprecedented best-seller from the time of its first publication in 2003.

The Author's Cut

The Author's Cut PDF Author: Owen Marshall
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 0143774840
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Chosen by the author from his thirteen previous collections, this latest selection of stories includes 'Coming Home in the Dark', the inspiration for a new feature film. Owen Marshall is regarded as one of our finest living writers. His stories capture the imagination and refuse to let go. From dark to funny, acerbic to warm, they probe our national psyche with clear-eyed insight. This selection from a long career ranges across New Zealand and ventures overseas; the pieces explore both cruelty and love; they look back to childhood and also capture the world we live in today. Full of unexpected turns, lyrical writing, wry observations and intriguing plots, this sampling offers a provocative take on New Zealand. `I very much envy his ability to lay things down in such a way that each one has its natural weight and place, without any straining and heaving.' - Maurice Gee, Sport 'Owen Marshall has established himself as one of the masters of the short story' - Livres Hebdo, Paris

Electric City

Electric City PDF Author: Patricia Grace
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1742539718
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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These are short stories about ordinary folk leading seemingly ordinary lives. The power of community, extended family and culture are central to all. Thirteen stories in which the joys of discovery are tempered by the knowledge of a harder, colder world. Sunlight, childhood and nature set against conflict and misunderstanding, in the ever-present shadows of the spirit of the land.

Black Marks on the White Page

Black Marks on the White Page PDF Author: Witi Ihimaera
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 0143770306
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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A stunning collection of Oceanic stories for the 21st century. Stones move, whale bones rise out of the ground like cities, a man figures out how to raise seven daughters alone. Sometimes gods speak or we find ourselves in a not-too-distant future. Here are the glorious, painful, sharp and funny 21st century stories of Maori and Pasifika writers from all over the world. Vibrant, provocative and aesthetically exciting, these stories expand our sense of what is possible in Indigenous Oceanic writing. Witi Ihimaera and Tina Makereti present the very best new and uncollected stories and novel excerpts, creating a talanoa, a conversation, where the stories do the talking. And because our commonalities are more stimulating than our differences, the anthology also includes guest work from an Aboriginal Australian writer, and several visual artists whose work speaks to similar kaupapa. Join us as we deconstruct old theoretical maps and allow these fresh Black Marks on the White Page to expand our perception of the Pacific world.

Short Story Collection

Short Story Collection PDF Author: Barbara Hartmann King
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984500430
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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A collection of short stories, featuring both truth and fiction; some are a mixture of both. There are five-minute stories, ten-minute stories and much longer ones too. The author gives a glimpse into her own life in the first and last entries in the book.