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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
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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: Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231553404 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 329
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A boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars. A seamstress finds liberation of a sort in “becoming” a dog and howling at the moon. A club of young girls masquerade as the grieving fiancées of strange men. This book brings together these and other remarkable short stories by the Russian Symbolist Fyodor Sologub that explore the lengths to which people will go to transcend the mundane. Renowned as one of late imperial Russia’s finest stylists, Sologub bridges the great nineteenth-century novel and the fin-de-siècle avant-garde. He stands out for his masterful command of both realist and fantastic storytelling; his play with language evinces a belief in its capacity to access other worlds and other levels of meaning. Many of Sologub’s stories are set among children whose alienation from the adult world has lent them imagination and curiosity, enabling them to create an alternative reality. At the same time, he bluntly examines the sordid realities of late imperial Russian society and frankly presents sometimes unconventional sexuality. The book also features a selection of Sologub’s “little fairy tales,” ambiguous parables couched in childlike language whose ingenuity anticipates the miniatures and “incidents” of Daniil Kharms. Susanne Fusso’s elegant translation offers these artful tales to an English-speaking audience.
Author: Karen Russell Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0525656146 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 288
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From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In“Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors,” two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void—yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.
Author: Nelson Word
Author: Nelson Word
Author: B. Traven
Author: B. Traven
Author: Nelson Word
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Author: Nelson N Word
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Author: Karen Russell