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Author: Teffi Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1681375397 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 305
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Stories about the occult, folk religions, superstition, and spiritual customs in Russia by one of the most essential twentieth-century writers of short fiction and essays. Though best known for her comic and satirical sketches of pre-Revolutionary Russia, Teffi was a writer of great range and human sympathy. The stories on otherworldly themes in this collection are some of her finest and most profound, displaying the acute psychological sensitivity beneath her characteristic wit and surface brilliance. Other Worlds presents stories from across the whole of Teffi’s long career, from her early days as a literary celebrity in Moscow to her post-Revolutionary years as an émigré in Paris. In the early story “A Quiet Backwater,” a laundress gives a long disquisition on the name days of the flora and fauna and on the Feast of the Holy Ghost, a day on which “no one dairnst disturb the earth.” The story “Wild Evening” is about the fear of the unknown; “The Kind That Walk,” a penetrating study of antisemitism and of xenophobia; and “Baba Yaga,” about the archetypal Russian witch and her longing for wildness and freedom. Teffi traces the persistent influence of the ancient Slavic gods in superstitions and customs, and the deep connection of the supernatural to everyday life in the provinces. In “Volya,” the autobiographical final story, the power and pain of Baba Yaga is Teffi’s own.
Author: Teffi Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1681375397 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 305
Book Description
Stories about the occult, folk religions, superstition, and spiritual customs in Russia by one of the most essential twentieth-century writers of short fiction and essays. Though best known for her comic and satirical sketches of pre-Revolutionary Russia, Teffi was a writer of great range and human sympathy. The stories on otherworldly themes in this collection are some of her finest and most profound, displaying the acute psychological sensitivity beneath her characteristic wit and surface brilliance. Other Worlds presents stories from across the whole of Teffi’s long career, from her early days as a literary celebrity in Moscow to her post-Revolutionary years as an émigré in Paris. In the early story “A Quiet Backwater,” a laundress gives a long disquisition on the name days of the flora and fauna and on the Feast of the Holy Ghost, a day on which “no one dairnst disturb the earth.” The story “Wild Evening” is about the fear of the unknown; “The Kind That Walk,” a penetrating study of antisemitism and of xenophobia; and “Baba Yaga,” about the archetypal Russian witch and her longing for wildness and freedom. Teffi traces the persistent influence of the ancient Slavic gods in superstitions and customs, and the deep connection of the supernatural to everyday life in the provinces. In “Volya,” the autobiographical final story, the power and pain of Baba Yaga is Teffi’s own.
Author: Clive Staples Lewis Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780156027670 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 172
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"The less known the real world is, the more plausibly your marvels can be located near at hand." As the creator of one of the most famous "other worlds" of all time, C.S. Lewis was uniquely qualified to discuss their literary merit. As both a writer and a critic, Lewis explores the importance of story and wonder, elements often ignored or even frowned upon by critics of the day. His discussions of his favorite kinds of stories--children's stories and fantasies--includes his thoughts on his most famous works, The Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy. "A must for any collection of C. S. Lewis." --Choice
Author: Jon Scieszka Publisher: Walden Pond Press ISBN: 9781484403655 Category : Children's stories, American Languages : en Pages : 352
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Other Worlds, the fourth volume in Jon Scieszka's Guys Read anthology series for tween boys, features ten thrilling new tales of science fiction and fantasy from some of the biggest names in children's literature.
Author: John Joseph Adams Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1597804347 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 378
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What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world? We can all imagine such "other worlds"--be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder--but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass to C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a rich tradition of this kind of fiction, but never before have the best parallel world stories and portal fantasies been collected in a single volume--until now.
Author: C.J. Taylor Publisher: Tundra Books ISBN: 1770491767 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 42
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From the heartbreaking Mi’kmaq story of Minnow, a mermaid in the Atlantic who must choose between two worlds to that of Water Lily and her five brothers, told by the Coos in British Columbia, creatures that inhabit fantastic realms appear in many First Nation stories. C. J. Taylor draws from those stories and from her own Mohawk heritage in this collection of haunting tales about some of the powerful spirits who touch the lives of human folk. The spirits of heaven and earth from the Ute help bring an understanding of the stars in the sky. The Cree story, “Souls in the Fog,” presents the battle between the good and the evil-minded. The Ojibwa “Fairy Village” is a unique and touching love story. Illustrated with her own powerful oil paintings, this is a collection to read and an excellent story-teller’s resource.
Author: Margaret Atwood Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0385533977 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 208
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as "science fiction,” a relationship that has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she worked on the Victorian ancestor of the form, and continuing as a writer and reviewer. This book brings together her three heretofore unpublished Ellmann Lectures from 2010: "Flying Rabbits," which begins with Atwood's early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and Things with Wings; "Burning Bushes," which follows her into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and "Dire Cartographies," which investigates Utopias and Dystopias. In Other Worlds also includes some of Atwood's key reviews and thoughts about the form. Among those writers discussed are Marge Piercy, Rider Haggard, Ursula Le Guin, Ishiguro, Bryher, Huxley, and Jonathan Swift. She elucidates the differences (as she sees them) between "science fiction" proper, and "speculative fiction," as well as between "sword and sorcery/fantasy" and "slipstream fiction." For all readers who have loved The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood, In Other Worlds is a must. Note: The electronic version of this title contains over thirty additional, illuminating eBook-exclusive illustrations by the author.
Author: Simon Kewin Publisher: Stormcrow Books ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 482
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A constellation of wondrous stars... Other Worlds collects together fifty-two science fiction and fantasy stories that graced the pages of some of our finest speculative fiction magazines and anthologies between 2012 and 2018. Starships and sorcerers, aliens and demons, space exploration and forbidden magics throng these pages, in stories that are by turns thrilling, amusing, thought-provoking, terrifying and delightful. Other worlds await... Full contents: Investments * Climbing Olympus * Demonic Summoning, Ratings and Reviews * What the Darkness Is * Congratulations on the Purchase of Your New Universe! * Junker Joe * The Waters, Dividing the Land * Nicholas Semper's War * Bean Sí * A Ring, a Ring o' Roses * And Now the Zombie Forecast * Anax Britannica * The Hunter and the Hunted * Leviathan * Lord Lion's Design * Her Father's Eyes * In the Detail * Viral * Professor Pandemonium's Train of Terror * For All Time * Welcome to Vega IV! * The Last Trap * The Infestation * Corvus The Mighty * Your Call May Be Recorded For Training Purposes * Jumpjacker * The Monster * The Day The Books Left * The Chronicles of Zer * Threads * Eighteen Million Butterflies * If You Could Choose One Day * Hellfire Unleashed * Malware * The Last Fight of the Carrion Crow * A Mote in the Void * A Sarcophagus in Obsidian * A Troublesome Speck * The Sword of Power * The Stars are Tiny Lights on a Perfect Black Dome * A Midwinter Sacrifice * Safe Waters * A Distant Glimpse * Problem Hair * Adrift * The Brass Doors * The Tale of the Dog * The Cat's Tale * The Seven Other Dwarves * Earth Station Six * The Wrong Tom Jacks * Her Long Hair Shining
Author: John Keene Publisher: New Directions Publishing ISBN: 081122435X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 320
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Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are “suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting” (Publishers Weekly) Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. “An Outtake” chronicles an escaped slave’s take on liberty and the American Revolution; “The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows” presents a bizarre series of events that unfold in Haiti and a nineteenth-century Kentucky convent; “The Aeronauts” soars between bustling Philadelphia, still-rustic Washington, and the theater of the U. S. Civil War; “Rivers” portrays a free Jim meeting up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; and in “Acrobatique,” the subject of a famous Edgar Degas painting talks back.
Author: Christopher G. White Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674984293 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 385
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Christopher White points to ways that both spiritual practices and scientific speculation about multiverses and invisible dimensions are efforts to peer into the hidden elements and even existential meaning of the universe. Creatively appropriated, these ideas can restore a spiritual sense that the world is greater than anything our eyes can see.
Author: Teffi
Author: Teffi
Author: Clive Staples Lewis
Author: Jon Scieszka
Author: John Joseph Adams
Author: C.J. Taylor
Author: Margaret Atwood
Author: Simon Kewin
Author: John Keene
Author: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Author: Christopher G. White