Download or read book Ideas of Heaven A Ring of Stories written by Joan Silber and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-05-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the National Book Award: "Joan Silber writes with wisdom, humor, grace, and wry intelligence. Her characters bear welcome news of how we will survive."—Andrea Barrett Intense in subject yet restrained in tone, these stories are about longings—often held for years—and the ways in which sex and religion can become parallel forms of dedication and comfort. Though the stories stand alone, a minor element in one becomes major in the next. In "My Shape", a woman is taunted by her dance coach, who later suffers his own heartache. A Venetian poet of the 1500s, another storyteller, is introduced to a modern traveler reading Rilke. His story precedes a mesmerizing narrative of missionaries in China. In the final story, Giles, born to a priesthood family, leans toward Buddhism after a grievous loss, and in time falls in love with the dancer of the first story. So deft and subtle is Joan Silber with these various perspectives that we come full circle surprised and enchanted by her myriad worlds. National Book Award finalist. Reading group guide included.
Download or read book Body Parts written by Arthur Herzog III and published by Arthur Herzog III. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories ranging from sci-fi, humor and horror, based on various body parts.
Download or read book Collected Short Stories Volume 3 written by W. Somerset Maugham and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War I. Based on Maugham's own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatises both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness and brutality. Accountable only to 'R', Ashenden travels all over the Continent on assignments which entangle him with such characters as the traitor Grantley Caypor, the passionate Guilia Lazzari, and the sinister 'hairless Mexican'.
Download or read book The Year s Best Science Fiction Thirteenth Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-05-15 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annual collection of outstanding science fiction stories, showcasing the highest levels of creativity and craft in the genre.
Download or read book The Complete Short Stories of Jack London written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 2557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agatha Christie Collection 3 Novels And 25 Short Stories written by Agatha Christie and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AGATHA CHRISTIE COLLECTION - 3 NOVELS AND 25 SHORT STORIES WHAT'S INCLUDED: NOVELS The Mysterious Affair At Styles The Secret Adversary The Murder On The Links SHORT STORIES The Affair At The Victory Ball The Curious Disappearance Of The Opalsen Pearls The Adventure Of The King Of Clubs The Disappearance Of Mr Davenheim The Mystery Of The Plymouth Express The Adventure Of The Western Star The Tragedy At Marsdon Manor The Kidnapped Prime Minister The Million Dollar Bond Robbery The Adventure Of The Cheap Flat The Mystery Of Hunter's Lodge The Clue Of The Chocolate Box The Adventure Of The Egyptian Tomb The Case Of The Veiled Lady The Kidnapping Of Johnnie Waverly The Market Basing Mystery The Adventure Of The Italian Nobleman The Case Of The Missing Will The Submarine Plans The Adventure Of The Clapham Cook The Lost Mine The Cornish Mystery The Double Clue The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding The Lemesurier Inheritance This version has been optimized for readability and includes: BEAUTIFUL FORMATTING There is plenty of white-space which makes reading easy on the eyes. FULLY FEATURED TABLE OF CONTENTS The full Table of Contents appears at the beginning of the book and can be accessed through the MENU or GO TO button. EPUBCHECK The book successfully passes EpubCheck, developed by the IDPF. The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) is the global trade and standards organization dedicated to the development and promotion of electronic publishing and content consumption.
Download or read book Legends written by George R. R. Martin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-10-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second of three volumes, which were originally published in one volume as: Legends.
Download or read book Everything Change written by Angie Dell and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories by writers from around the world, exploring the climate crisis and how human responses to it will shape the futures we will inhabit. Featuring stories in styles ranging from science fiction and fabulism to literary fiction, weird fiction, and action-thriller, all drawn from the 2020 Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest. The contest and anthology are presented by the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative at Arizona State University, a partnership of the Center for Science and the Imagination and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.
Download or read book Give My Love to the Savages written by Chris Stuck and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A harrowing portrait of race relations in America, as beautiful as it is urgent.”—Entertainment Weekly “Black satire with bite, like Zora Neale Hurston used to do, with a smile and a sharp elbow. A touch of Paul Beatty, a dose of Dolemite, and a serving of Dorothy Parker, too. Give My Love to the Savages announces Chris Stuck as a fearless talent, a debut that'll make your sides and your heart hurt.”—Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling “Give My Love To The Savages is a wildly inventive collection of provocative stories about navigating the minefield of black masculinity in America. Stuck’s fresh and fearless perspective overturns assumptions about race and identity to reveal complex layers of absurdity. At times merciless, always darkly funny, these are stories of unexpected communion, connection, and compassion.”—Chanelle Benz, author of The Gone Dead A provocative and raw debut collection of short fiction reminiscent of Junot Diaz’s Drown. A Black man’s life, told in scenes—through every time he’s been called nigger. A Black son who visits his estranged white father in Los Angeles just as the ’92 riots begin. A Black Republican, coping with a skin disease that has turned him white, is forced to reconsider his life. A young Black man, fetishized by an older white woman he’s just met, is offered a strange and tempting proposal. The nine tales in Give My Love to the Savages illuminate the multifaceted Black experience, exploring the thorny intersections of race, identity, and Black life through an extraordinary cast of characters. From the absurd to the starkly realistic, these stories take aim at the ironies and contradictions of the American racial experience. Chris Stuck traverses the dividing lines, and attempts to create meaning from them in unique and unusual ways. Each story considers a marker of our current culture, from uprisings and sly and not-so-sly racism, to Black fetishization and conservatism, to the obstacles placed in front of Black masculinity and Black and interracial relationships by society and circumstance. Setting these stories across America, from Los Angeles, Phoenix and the Pacific Northwest, to New York and Washington, DC, to the suburbs and small Midwestern towns, Stuck uses place to expose the absurdity of race and the odd ways that Black people and white people converge and retreat, rub against and bump into one another. Ultimately, Give My Love to the Savages is the story of America. With biting humor and careful honesty, Stuck riffs on the dichotomy of love and barbarity—the yin and yang of racial experience—and the difficult and uncertain terrain Black Americans must navigate in pursuit of their desires.
Download or read book The Black Church written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box, and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.
Download or read book The Classic Short Story 1870 1925 written by Florence Goyet and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular - the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - even the greatest writers followed strict generic conventions that were far from subtle. This expanded and updated translation of Florence Goyet's influential La Nouvelle, 1870-1925: Description d'un genre à son apogée (Paris, 1993) is the only study to focus exclusively on this classic period across different continents. Ranging through French, English, Italian, Russian and Japanese writing - particularly the stories of Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Giovanni Verga, Anton Chekhov and Akutagawa Ry?nosuke - Goyet shows that these authors were able to create brilliant and successful short stories using the very simple 'tools of brevity' of that period. In this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers and higher-end periodicals. She demonstrates that, despite the apparent intention of these stories to question bourgeois ideals, they mostly affirmed the prejudices of their readers. In doing so, her book forces us to re-think our preconceptions about this 'forgotten' genre.
Download or read book The Short Stories of F Scott Fitzgerald written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-04-15 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together, these forty-three stories compose a vivid picture of a lost era, but their brilliance is timeless.
Download or read book The Secret Seven Collection 3 written by Enid Blyton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Seven are siblings Peter and Janet, and Jack, Barbara, Pam, Colin and George. Together they are The Secret Seven - ready to solve any mystery, any time. Books 7-9 in Enid Blyton's classic series are brought together in this three-book collection. Book 7: Secret Seven Win Through (first published in 1955) The Seven have a fantastic new hiding place. But someone else is using it at night - and it's Jack's little sister Susie who helps them catch the intruder. Book 8: Three Cheers, Secret Seven (first published in 1956) Peter and Jack see a gas-fire alight in one of the rooms when they search for their lost aeroplane in the garden of an abandoned house. Who is hiding there and why? Book 9: Secret Seven Mystery (first published in 1957) A girl runs away from home - and it's up to the Seven to find her! Jack's little sister Susie is up to her usual tricks - but she can't put the Seven off the trail of clues! This collection features the original black and white illustrations throughout.
Download or read book The Magic Faraway Tree Collection written by Enid Blyton and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Joe, Beth and Frannie move to the countryside, they discover that their new house lies next to the Enchanted Wood! And in that wood stands the Magic Faraway Tree. This is no ordinary tree - it is home to more magical lands full of elves, pixies, talking creatures and wonderful adventures than the children ever imagined possible!Join the children and their new friends Moon-Face, Saucepan Man and Silky the Fairy as they explore this most magical of all fairytale worlds in the three original Magic Faraway Tree novels by beloved author Enid Blyton.
Download or read book Words Aptly Spoken written by Classical Conversations MultiMedia and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Star Wars The Old Republic Volume 3 The Lost Suns written by Alexander Freed and published by Dark Horse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Republic's elite spies, Theron Shan, embarks on an assignment to uncover dark secrets that could shatter the fragile peace with the Sith and plunge the galaxy back into war! An old Jedi, Ngani Zho--once Theron's mentor, and formerly thought lost in Sith territory--has returned quite a bit more peculiar than before he left . . . Unfortunately, he is the only one who can guide Theron on his mission. Quickly, Theron's hands are full with Zho, a troublesome thief, and the Sith who never should have let that old Jedi return to the Republic! * Direct connections between game and comic! * Written by Alexander Freed, a senior writer of the game! * Starring Theron Shan of the legendary Shan bloodline.
Download or read book Fairest Tales Green written by Fabian De Sousa and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens in-between the chapters in Fairest?In a world filled with dwarves and giants, mermaids and dragons, witches and fairies, and much more, there lives a beautiful princess named Snow White, the Fairest of them all. In all her adventures, Snow White has encountered many friends and allies, and many enemies...Here is a collection of some of the untold tales of the many heroes and villains of the Enchanted Forest, set before and after they first meet Snow White in the 'Fairest Trilogy'.The Frog Prince reveals the events that led to him finding the magical Well of the World's End and transforming into a frog. Cinderella discovers a mysterious family secret that changes her life completely. Jack retells his first adventure slaying a giant as "Jack the Giant Killer". And Talia, the Sleeping Beauty, learns why the Dark Fairy first cursed her with the hundred-year-long sleeping curse.Written by Fabian De Sousa, and featuring previews of some of the beautiful illustrations by drachenmagier for the 'Fairest Trilogy', this book is a must-have addition to any Fairest collection.
