Download or read book Happy New Year and Other Stories written by Sholom Aleichem and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most beloved and prolific writers of Yiddish literature, Sholom Aleichem (1859–1916) produced a wealth of wonderful stories that combine traditional Jewish oral humor with Western literary tradition. For years a living legend, he wrote enduring gems of fiction, eleven of which are included in this entertaining collection. The master storyteller brilliantly recaptures the joy and tribulations of Jewish life in such tales as "Geese," "At the Doctor's," "Three Widows," "The Passover Eve Vagabonds," "On America," "Someone to Envy," "Three Calendars," "The Ruined Passover," the title story, and two others. Introduced and ably translated by Curt Leviant, these tales sparkle with wit, wisdom, and a warm humanity that will appeal to a wide audience of readers, especially those with an interest in Jewish cultural life.
Download or read book How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year s And Other Stories written by W. H. H. Murray and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's. And Other Stories" by W. H. H. Murray. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book The Taker and Other Stories written by Rubem Fonseca and published by Open Letter Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of Fonseca's short stories to appear in English, ranging across his oeuvre, exploring the sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro. Fonseca's Rio is a city at war, where vast disparities, in wealth, social standing and prestige are untenable. Rich and poor live in an uneasy equilibrium, where only overwhelming force can maintain order and violence and deception are the essential tools of survival. From the tale of the businessman who rans over pedestrians to let off steam to a serial killer being pushed to kill more by his lover, this collection is a true gem.
Download or read book My First Love Affair and Other Stories written by Sholem Aleichem and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 20 selections, all lovingly translated from the Yiddish, include among others "Progress in Kasrilevke," "Summer Romances," "Birth," "There's No Dead," "Three Widows," "Homesick," "On America," and "A Home Away from Home."
Download or read book The Umbrella and Other Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Alien in My E Mail and Other Stories written by Wolfgang Niesielski and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us have encountered frustrating incidents in our lifetimes. For humor columnist Wolfgang Niesielski, one of his most exasperating moments involves an expensive hotel room, a faulty thermostat, and a patronizing front desk clerkonly to be rescued by two gentlemen who, after conferring with each other in hushed tones, change their pleasant demeanor into the serious miens of surgeons before a heart transplant operation. In this compilation of his humor columns, Niesielski provides an amusing take on everyday experiences. See what its like to have an evil cyber presence monopolize your e-mail account, understand the overwhelming differences between first class and tourist class on an airplane, and find out why its important to choose the right gift for a loved oneeven if it is a Salad Shooter or an electric nail-file buffing system. From learning how unforgiving Mother Nature truly is when he forgets how to water the lawn to the moment when he discovers he is a procrastinator in the worst way, Niesielski illustrates what fun life can be when one learns to laugh at himself. The Alien in My E-Mail and Other Stories takes others on a delightful ride through one mans wacky lifeSalad Shooter and all.
Download or read book Song Without End and Other Stories written by Neelum Saran Gour and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Connectivity a retired bureaucrat's telephone line is accidentally connected to that of a grieving man s, while a heart surgeon helps his patient across the great abyss in Song without End . The skilful grooming of a poet is described in A Lane in Lucknow, and a senile old nawab finds himself a stranger to an altered world in The Taste of Almonds . In Through the Looking Glass a man losing his sight finds he can get to the heart of all the books in his library by an inexplicable miracle, and in Play the roles an actor enacts are a source of important life lessons.
Download or read book Unrequited and Other Stories written by Kyle Garret and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internet dating and the end of the world. Failed relationships and a morning after pill for marriage. Alcoholism and an elf's head mug. These are just a few of the many strange combinations to be found in Unrequited and Other Stories, the first collection of short stories by Kyle Garret. Each of these three stories is different; each exhibits a range in storytelling style and genre, yet each contains a shared sense of longing, a shared pursuit for something good when things are at their worst. There's pessimistic defiance in these stories, a panglossian refusal to let the breakdown have the last word. Sometimes bleak, occasionally chaotic, but always affecting, this collection features a little something for everyone, from romance to horror to dark comedy. In the end, Unrequited and Other Stories is about what we make with what we're given.
Download or read book The Leaning Tower and Other Stories written by Katherine Anne Porter and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic 1944 collection of ten short stories by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author and journalist Incomparable in their dramatic clarity and emotional force, the ten gems in this collection affirm Katherine Anne Porter’s genius for writing stories, as Eudora Welty observed, “with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory.” The collection includes The Old Order, a sequence of short stories that paints a devastating portrait of the racial inequities that plague life in the American South, as well as other selected stories such as “The Leaning Tower” and “The Downward Path to Wisdom”.
Download or read book The Unkind Word and Other Stories written by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beatrice Boville and Other Stories written by Louise de la Ramée and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Louise de la Ramée
Download or read book The Busted Ex Texan and Other Stories written by W.H. H. Murray and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Busted Ex-Texan and Other Stories by W.H. H. Murray
Download or read book The Wandering Mason and Other Stories written by W. T. and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Download or read book White Nights and Other Stories written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Download or read book The Unkind Word and Other Stories By the Author of John Halifax Gentleman Miss D M Mulock Afterwards Craik written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ed McBain Evan Hunter written by Erin E. MacDonald and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most prolific crime writers of the last century, Evan Hunter published more than 120 novels from 1952 to 2005 under a variety of pseudonymns. He also wrote several teleplays and screenplays, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, and the 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle. When the Mystery Writers of America named Hunter a Grand Master, he gave the designation to his alter ego, Ed McBain, best known for his long-running police procedural series about the detectives of the 87th Precinct. This comprehensive companion provides detailed information about all of Evan Hunter's/Ed McBain's works, characters, and recurring themes. From police detective and crime stories to dramatic novels and films, this reference celebrates the vast body of literature of this versatile writer.
Download or read book A sprig of holly and other stories written by Sprig and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
