Download or read book Clearing in the Sky Other Stories written by Jesse Stuart and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1984-05-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are twenty-one tales from Kentucky's inimitable and beloved storyteller, Jesse Stuart. Full of high, rambunctious humor, quick-paced as a mountain square dance, bright as a maple tree against an October hill -- these stories are Stuart in his best form -- the form that has made him one of the most widely read authors in America. Read here about the man who coveted a steam shovel and stole it piece by piece, or about the celebrated eating contest between Sam Whiteapple and the game rooster, or about the hill farmer who wanted to clear and farm one last spot of new ground before he died. Although he has a sharp eye for human foibles and infirmities, Stuart never fails to write of his people with affection or to see that justice is done them. Originally published in 1950, Clearing in the Sky was inadvertently declared out of print after three years and never reprinted. Now for Jesse Stuart's many readers it is once more available with an appreciative foreword by Ruel Foster.
Download or read book Clearing in the Sky and Other Stories written by Jesse Stuart and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sketches of the lives of southern mountaineers.
Download or read book Short Story Index written by Dorothy Elizabeth Cook and published by H. W. Wilson. This book was released on 1956 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Title entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington Under the Copyright Law Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Books and Pamphlets Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sparkman in the Sky Other Stories written by Brian Griffin and published by Sarabande Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Barry Hannah as the 1996 winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.
Download or read book Thunder Road and Other Stories written by Wayne Kyle Spitzer and published by Hobb's End Books. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Thunder Road: I don’t know why we stared at that dead pterodactyl chick so long—there wasn’t anything particularly striking or even gross about it; there were no flies, for example, no maggots—just a couple of butterflies, one white and the other burnt orange, which matched the fading sunlight. Maybe it was our nonstop ride all the way from Biggs Junction near the Washington border to Multnomah Falls, which was closer to Portland (I mean, it’s a lot of work, peddling a BMX bicycle some 70-plus miles, even across level terrain). Or maybe it was how paper-thin the creature’s exsanguinous, oyster-white skin was, how almost translucent, or the way its little talons weren’t really talons at all but little hands, like a baby’s hands. All I remember for certain is how contemplative everyone seemed to get while looking down at it—how funereal; even elegiac—like we were saying goodbye to one of our own. All I remember for certain is something akin to holding vigil for a fellow traveler; which, in a very real sense, we were. “For him, the war is over,” I whispered—although I doubt anyone heard me over the crash and roar of the falls. “I wonder where Mom is …” “Not here, that’s for sure,” said Quint. “There are no nests.” I followed his gaze into the treetops and beyond, to the waterfall itself, which dashed and cascaded down the cliffs. “Weird. I mean—where the hell could it have come from?” “Maybe it came from up there,” said Jesse. “From the very top. There’s—there’s a platform up there, a wooden observation deck. We came here on a field trip once and hiked up to it. Be a good place to build a nest—real stable. And defensible.” I looked from one end of the concrete bridge—“Benson Bridge,” the sign had called it—which was closed off with cyclone fencing, to the other. “Speaking of which, this bridge looks pretty defensible—don’t you think?” I peered off the way we had come. “Only one side to protect; we can take turns standing watch … I mean, it may not be the Ritz but—what do you say?” We looked around and then at each other. “Hell, I’m in,” said Quint. “We can even build a fire and maybe eat something—something hot, I mean. It’ll be just like—it’ll be just like Camp Courage!” I couldn’t help but to notice he’d stopped short of saying “home,” and a quick glance at Jesse confirmed he’d noticed it too; although whether he’d done so because his own home life had sucked or because he’d understood—in that moment—that, because of the Flashback, we’d never see home again, I don’t know. “Sure, why not,” said Jesse. “We can heat up that beef stew, the one we were saving for Portland. We’re close enough.” He shrugged off his pack and spear and laid down his bike. “And besides, it’ll lighten my load.” He dug out the can of Dinty Moore stew and paused, looking at it. “Seems … almost wasteful, though … doesn’t it? I mean … you’d like to think, you’d like to think nothing was born … just to lay there and rot, you know?” We all turned to look at the bird. “Yeah,” said Quint. “I mean, it’s like God laid it out there just for us, and here we are wanting to eat something from a can.” I got off my bike and reached for my pocketknife—touched its smooth, imitation-wood handle. “We’re going to have to learn how to hunt eventually, I suppose. I mean—” “I already know how to hunt,” said Quint. “And to clean and dress a—” “I know how to do that, too.” He held out his hand for my knife—which I gave over to him: slowly, reluctantly. “And since both you pussies missed man-school; I guess I’ll be the one to have to show you.” Jesse looked at me and then back to Quint. “Let me guess. Because—attributes.” “Because—attributes,” said Quint, and got off his bike.
Download or read book The Best loved Short Stories of Jesse Stuart written by Jesse Stuart and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1982 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 34 stories by Stuart includes "Youth," the macabre "Sunday Afternoon Hanging" and a tragic tale of adultery and murder, "The Old People." Provides a story-by-story commentary by H. Edward Richardson and a discussion of the origin of many of the stories and some of the characters and incidents on which they are based.
Download or read book The American Short Story written by William Harwood Peden and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dream of Horses Other Stories written by Aashish Kaul and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this collection draw variously on the themes of love and loss, Taoist metaphors, socio-political concerns, and the writer's place and role in the world. Literary and complex yet accessible and fast-paced, each story differs widely in style, motivation, philosophy, and denouement from all the others. The collection encompasses topographies and places from China to France, and Ireland to India. ,
Download or read book The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories written by Lovecraft H. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Lovecraft was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Despite the fact that he was virtually unknown before he died, today he is known as the most influential author in his genre. “The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories” is a collection of wonderful short stories such as “Dagon,” “The Nameless City” and “The Call of Cthulhu.” These stories, full of mystery and fantastic creatures, have captured the minds of readers all over the world.
Download or read book The Raid of the Guerilla written by Mary Noailles Murfree and published by Books for Libraries. This book was released on 1912 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Noailles Murfree, who used the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock, was a 19th and 20th century American writer whose contemporary fiction is still read today by people interested in depictions of life in Appalachia at the time. -- Amazon.com.
Download or read book Sketches of a Siberian Tourist and other stories written by Vladimir Korolenko and published by LA CASE Books. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of Vladimir Korolenko have been likened to “a fresh breeze blowing through the heavy air of a hospital.” The hospital is the pessimistic literature of the modern Russian intellectuals; the fresh breeze is the voice of the simple-hearted children of “Mother Russia.” These are for the most part tillers of the soil and conquerors of waste places; peasants, pioneers, and Siberian exiles; they often belong to the great class of “the insulted and the injured”: they suffer untold hardships, but their heads are unbowed and their hearts are full of courage and the desire for justice. Among them the great writer’s early life was spent.
Download or read book Standard Catalog for High School Libraries written by H.W. Wilson Company and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1st ed. accompanied by a list of Library of Congress card numbers for books (except fiction, pamphlets, etc.) which are included in the 1st ed. and its supplement, 1926/29.
Download or read book Short Story Index Collections Indexed 1900 1978 written by Juliette Yaakov and published by H. W. Wilson. This book was released on 1979 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vol. is a complete listing of the 8,355 collections indexed in the cumulated vols. of Short Story Index for the years 1900-1978.
Download or read book Studies in Short Fiction written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
