Download or read book Inamorata written by Megan Chance and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American artist Joseph Hannigan and his sister, Sophie, have arrived in nineteenth-century Venice with the goal of finding a wealthy patron to support Joseph's work. When Joseph's talent attracts the attention of Odile Leon, a celebrated muse and courtesan, Sophie must discover Odile's dark secret before Joseph falls under her spell and sacrifices everything for eternal fame.

Download or read book Inamorata written by Nakia Cook and published by Veiled Threats Publications. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something followed Haleema home in this supernatural horror. If she doesn't atone for the past, she'll have no future. After surviving a depressing winter living in the basement apartment of her grandmother’s house, Haleema Hamdan needs to get outside into the bright Virginia sunshine. All she wants to do is scout a suitable location to shoot her best friend Sabrina’s wedding photos and forget about her humiliating past. She hates driving down the single-lane mountain road dubbed 'Witch Road' by the locals. It’s the same place where a head-on collision killed her parents, but it’s the fastest way to Tri-City Park. Torn bits of a red dress and a black tulip lead her into the woods. Her discovery leaves her and the police with more questions than answers. One thing is for certain: there’s a killer on the loose. The tall, mysterious Detective Isa Fauzan assures Haleema that the department will do all they can to keep her safe. The passive-aggressive notes and flowers that keep turning up say otherwise. Haleema must reevaluate her life and figure out who is trustworthy before it’s too late.

Download or read book The Wolf s Long Howl And other stories written by Stanley Waterloo and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Download or read book The Devil s Pool and Other Stories written by George Sand and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly translated into English, "The Devil's Pool" is the most popular of George Sand's novellas and her best-selling work in France today. Illustrating Sand's brevity, liveliness, and exemplary storytelling, the tale deals with many of her characteristic themes—the relations between the sexes, the plight of the underprivileged, and the role of fantasy in human life—making it an ideal introduction to her work. Also included are translations of two of Sand's most admired short stories, "Lavinia" and "The Unknown God," as well as various relevant essays and documents.

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Download or read book The Afterlife and Other Stories written by John Updike and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-03-24 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new anthology of short fiction features twenty-two diverse tales that explore the magical fragility, memory, nostalgia, and translucent quality of life beyond middle age.

Download or read book The Queen of Spades and Other Stories written by Alexander Pushkin and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin's best works of fiction. The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are witty parodies of sentimentalism, while Peter the Great's Blackamoor is an early experiment with recreating the past. The Captain's Daughter is a novel-length masterpiece which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the devices of the Russian fairy-tale. The introduction provides close readings of the stories and places them in their European literary context.

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Download or read book Crimes of Love and Other Stories written by Marquês de Sade and published by Lebooks Editora. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who have read other works by the Marquis de Sade, particularly "The 120 Days of Sodom," and are aware of the vast scope he gives to the word libertinism, will find a Sade this time more sensual than perverse. And this is not a negative factor; on the contrary, the Marquis's writing surprises with its quality and beauty. However, promiscuity is present throughout the work. His critique remains constantly aimed at holy women, virgins, and institutions such as the clergy and marriage, which led to his works being censored even a century after their publication. In this complete edition of "Contes Libertins," the reader will find 14 stories that represent an excellent sample of the irreverent, provocative, and boundless Marquis de Sade.

Download or read book The Friend of Women and Other Stories written by Louis Auchincloss and published by HMH. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short fiction examining the mysteries of human character, from a New York Times–bestselling author acclaimed as “among the best in American literature” (Kirkus Reviews). In the title story, a teacher at a private girls’ school ruminates on a long career, wondering if he was right to encourage his students to find a life less constrained than the conventional one prescribed to them—or if he cruelly raised unrealistic expectations. In “The Country Cousin,” a delightful one-act play, a wealthy woman’s dependent niece unwittingly serves as the vehicle that reveals her rich relatives’ self-involvement. Ranging from a boyhood friendship tested by the fabrications of the McCarthy era to an Episcopal priest tormented by an autocratic headmaster, Louis Auchincloss’s fiction illuminates the complications that ensue when our perceptions of other people’s natures—as well as our own—are upended. Praised by the Los Angeles Times as a writer “committed to examining the complicated layers of character, psychology, and society,” Louis Auchincloss presents a treasure trove of short fiction that showcases both his insight and his literary talent.

Download or read book Little Mexican Other Stories written by Aldous Huxley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Mexican, Aldous Huxley's third collection of adventure and comedy short stories, consists of the following six tales: "Uncle Spencer," "Little Mexican," "Hubert and Minnie," "Fard," "The Portrait," and "Young Archimedes." "Young Archimedes" was adapted into the films Prelude to Fame and Il piccolo Archimede in 1950 and 1979.

Download or read book The Fat Artist and Other Stories written by Benjamin Hale and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Oddly beautiful and impossible to look away from”​ (Los Angeles Times), the stories in The Fat Artist are suffused with fear and desire, introducing us to a company of indelible characters reeling with love, jealousy, megalomania, and despair. In prose alternately stark, lush and hallucinatory, occasionally nightmarish and often absurd, the voices in Benjamin Hale’s The Fat Artist and Other Stories speak from the margins: a dominatrix whose longtime client, a US congressman, drops dead during a tryst in a hotel room; an addict in precarious recovery who lands a job driving a truck full of live squid; a heartbroken performance artist who attempts to eat himself to death as a work of art. From underground radicals hiding in Morocco to an aging hippy in Colorado in the summer before 9/11 to a young drag queen in New York at the cusp of the AIDS crisis, these stories rove freely across time and place, carried by haunting, peculiar narratives that form the vast tapestry of American life. “A steadily growing…talent” (Kirkus Reviews), Hale’s prize-winning fiction abounds with a love of language and a wild joy for storytelling, earning accolades from writers such as novelist Jonathan Ames, who compared discovering his work to watching Mickey Mantle play ball for the first time; Washington Post critic Ron Charles, who declared him “fully evolved as a writer,” and bestselling author Jodi Picoult, who simply called him “brilliant.” Pairing absurdity with philosophical musings on the unnerving intersections between life and death, art and ridicule, consumption and creation, “the audacious imagination evident in Hale’s acclaimed debut, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, shines again in this…provocative collection that takes a unique view of the human condition” (Booklist).

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