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Author: Nelson Word Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1466939435 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 92
Book Description
This book is a compilation of short stories, essays, and commentaries meant to entertain and provoke thoughts. It is an eclectic mix of touching on various subjectssome serious and some whimsical. Almost all the short stories have a twist at the end. It is the authors hope that the entries are found to be enjoyable and insightful. Enjoy!
Author: Nelson Word Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1466939435 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 92
Book Description
This book is a compilation of short stories, essays, and commentaries meant to entertain and provoke thoughts. It is an eclectic mix of touching on various subjectssome serious and some whimsical. Almost all the short stories have a twist at the end. It is the authors hope that the entries are found to be enjoyable and insightful. Enjoy!
Author: B. Traven Publisher: Turtleback Books ISBN: 9781417623440 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 238
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A collection of stories features tales of Mexican ranch life, including the title story, "The Cattle Drive," "When the Priest is Not at Home," and "Macario"
Author: Nelson Word Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1466939443 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 92
Book Description
This book is a compilation of short stories, essays, and commentaries meant to entertain and provoke thoughts. It is an eclectic mix of touching on various subjects some serious and some whimsical. Almost all the short stories have a twist at the end. It is the author's hope that the entries are found to be enjoyable and insightful. Enjoy!
Author: Nelson N Word Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is a compilation of short stories, essays, and commentaries meant to entertain and provoke thoughts. It is an eclectic mix of touching on various subjects some serious and some whimsical. Almost all the short stories have a twist at the end. It is the author's hope that the entries are found to be enjoyable and insightful. NELSON WORD. Married to Elizabeth (from the Philippines) resides in San Angelo, Texas. He graduated from Lakeview High School in 1960. He graduated from San Angelo Jr. College in 1962. He then graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas, in 1965. Nelson began his working career as a teacher and coach. He went to work for State Farm Insurance in 1968 and retired in 2004.
Author: Maeve Brennan Publisher: Catapult ISBN: 161902652X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 49
Book Description
The current revival of the work of Maeve Brennan, who died in obscurity in 1993, has won her a reputation as a twentieth–century classic—one of the best Irish writers of stories since Joyce. Now, unexpectedly, Brennan's oeuvre is immeasurably deepened and broadened by a miraculous literary discovery—a short novel written in the mid–1940s, but till now unknown and unpublished. Recently found in a university archive, it is a story of Dublin and of the unkind, ungenerous, emotionally unreachable side of the Irish temper. The Visitor is the haunting tale of Anastasia King, who, at the age of twenty–two, returns to her grandmother's house—the very house where she grew up—after six long years away. She has been in Paris, comforting her disgraced and dying mother, the runaway from a disastrous marriage to Anastasia's late father, the grandmother's only son. "It's a pity she sent for you." the grandmother says, smiling with anger. "And a pity you went after her. It broke your father's heart."Anastasia pays dearly for the choice she made, a choice that now costs her her own strong sense of family and makes her an exile—a visitor—in the place she once called home. Penelope Fitzgerald, writing of Brennan's story "The Springs of Affection," said that it carries an "electric charge of resentment and quiet satisfaction in revenge that chills you right through." The same can be said of the The Visitor, Maeve Brennan's "lost" novel—the early work of an incomparable master.
Author: Mary Lavin Publisher: Modern Irish Classics ISBN: 9781848401044 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Five short stories set in Ireland. As in "Happiness", where a young widow defies local conventions in her determination to be happy, the central themes are concern for the survival of the human spirit, and the right of the individual to decide moral issues in the light of private conscience. a characteristic of the author's work is her ability to move successfully from tragedy to humane farce, often within the same story.
Author: Roald Dahl Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 1405911204 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 59
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The Visitor is an amusing and chilling story from Roald Dahl, the master of the twist in the tale. In The Visitor, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a funny, fruity story about one of his favourite characters, adventurer and seducer Oswald Hendryks Cornelius. Here, Uncle Oswald gets more than he bargained for in Arabia . . . The Visitor is taken from the short story collection Switch Bitch, which includes three other black comedies which capture the ins and outs, highs and lows of sex (including another Uncle Oswald story, Bitch). 'One of the most widely read and influential writers of our generation.' (The Times ) This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Richard E. Grant and Derek Jacobi. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.
Author: N. T. Morley Publisher: ISBN: 9781603814157 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 164
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Virginal 18-year-old ingénue Cecilia Roswell is the illegitimate child of disgraced noblewoman Mary Drew, who has since been married off to the much older Lord Arthur Drew. Cecilia is shocked one afternoon to see her mother, disgraced noblewoman Mary Drew, misbehaving quite shamefully with a mysterious visitor, Mr. Beckwith. Cecilia is even more shocked when her stepfather, Lord Arthur Drew, invites Mr. Beckwith to stay at the estate for a few days. Before long, it becomes clear that Cecilia herself is the target of Mr. Beckwith's interests, and that he intends to train her as a sexual servant through a scandalous regime of spanking, exposure, and steadily increasing erotic humiliation. As Cecilia slowly discovers her craving for these very treatments, she realizes that the life planned for her is not that of the hidden child of a noble family, for whom she is a mere inconvenience-but that of the submissive slave of a scoundrel who will stop at nothing to inveigle her into his web of sexual indulgence.
Author: Nelson Word
Author: Nelson Word
Author: B. Traven
Author: B. Traven
Author: Nelson Word
Author: Nelson N Word
Author: Arnold Bennett
Author: Maeve Brennan
Author: Mary Lavin
Author: Roald Dahl
Author: N. T. Morley