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Category : Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Journal of Mesoamerican Studies
Author: Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112044669122 and Others
Author: The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories
Author: Oscar WildePublisher: Modernista
ISBN: 9180949363
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Few authors are as closely associated with English wit as Oscar Wilde: the sharp-witted dandy, always ready with a cutting remark. His brilliant conversational skills made him famous even before he began his literary career. The stories in this volume showcase his drastic humour and scathing social critique. Among them, »The Model Millionaire« upends social hierarchies, and in »The Canterville Ghost,« ancient traditions meet modern times in the form of a vulgar and unsentimental American family, creating problems for a ghost that has had it too easy for centuries. OSCAR WILDE, born in 1854 in Dublin, died in 1900 in Paris, was an Irish prose writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Wilde's significance as a symbol for persecuted homosexuals around the world is immeasurable. Wilde himself was sentenced to prison and hard labour, his works were boycotted, theatrical productions were shut down, and he was publicly vilified. The Picture of Dorian Gray [1890] is his most famous work.
A Blue Tale and Other Stories
Author: Marguerite YourcenarPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226965307
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Three short stories by a Belgian writer (1903-1987), written in her youth. The title story is on Greek treasure hunters who kidnap a deaf-mute girl to lead them to a cave of sapphires and are punished for it, while An Evil Spell is on sorcery in an Italian village.
Japanese Tales from Times Past
Author: Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462917216
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This collection of translated tales is from the most famous work in all of Japanese classical literature--the Konjaku Monogatari Shu. This collection of traditional Japanese folklore is akin to the Canterbury Tales of Chaucer or Dante's Inferno--powerfully entertaining tales that reveal striking aspects of the cultural psychology, fantasy, and creativity of medieval Japan--tales that still resonate with modern Japanese readers today. The ninety stories in this book are filled with keen psychological insights, wry sarcasm, and scarcely veiled criticisms of the clergy, nobles, and peasants alike--suggesting that there are, among all classes and peoples, similar failings of pride, vanity, superstition and greed--as well as aspirations toward higher moral goals. This is the largest collection in English of the Konjaku Monogatari Shu tales ever published in one volume. It presents the low life and the high life, the humble and the devout, the profane flirting, farting and fornicating of everyday men and women, as well as their yearning for the wisdom, transcendence and compassion that are all part and parcel of our shared humanity. Stories Include: The Grave of Chopsticks Robbers Come to a Temple and Steal Its Bell The Woman Fish Peddler at the Guardhouse Fish are Turned into the Lotus Sutra A Dragon is Caught by a Tengu Goblin The Monk Tojo Predicts the Fall of Shujaku Gate Wasps Attack a Spider in Revenge
Annales
Author: Kender, Gully Dwarves and Gnomes
Author: Margaret WeisPublisher:
ISBN: 9780786936342
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This collection of nine tales about the minor races of Krynn--the lovable, mischievous, and brave sidekicks of the "Dragonlance" heroes--also includes a novella by the editors. Reprint.
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Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : es
Pages : 2142
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin
Author: Publisher: Lethe Press
ISBN: 1590211758
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This entertaining and insightful retelling of the Nasruddin corpus by a noted anthologist and lifelong Nasruddin devotee brings the beloved Persian folk hero into the 21st century. With more than 343 stories, this collection easily becomes the definitive English anthology of Mullah Nasruddin's wit and wisdom.