Download or read book Stanley s Last Trip and Other Stories written by Frank Daly and published by Frank Daly. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Stanley’s Last Trip and Other Stories” is volume 1 of the Urban Tales short story series: eight yarns exploring strange and quirky situations, set mostly in present-day and sometimes dystopian worlds of Berlin, New York, London, Lisbon and Dublin, with an illustration for each story. Stanley’s Last Trip. Stanley Braun is trapped on an S-Bahn train in Berlin, but he can’t remember how he got there. Noise and Death. After a noisy start to his trip to Lisbon, Charlie’s upstairs neighbour, Marie, uses her charms to entice him to cover up a murder. Vengeance. Louis plans revenge after Annalise’s death at her apartment block in London. Throwbacks. A research project in Berlin uncovers a group of people with ancient genes. Survival of the Species In London, the slow realisation that some humans have previously unknown brain mutations prompts new discrimination laws. Tube Travel A new form of super-fast travel in the near future runs into difficulties. Obsession Jack’s brief meeting with an elusive woman at an art exhibition in New York leads to fantasy and obsession. After the Blackout Jake is surprised at how fast everything descends into the ‘law of the jungle’ after a blackout in Dublin.
Download or read book Stanley s Last Trip and Other Stories written by Frank Daly and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stanley's Last Trip and Other Stories" is volume 1 of the Urban Tales short story series: eight yarns exploring strange and quirky situations, set mostly in present-day and sometimes dystopian worlds of Berlin, New York, London, Lisbon and Dublin, with an illustration for each story. (1) Stanley's Last Trip - Stanley Braun is trapped on an S-Bahn train in Berlin, but he can't remember how he got there. (2) Noise and Death - After a noisy start to his trip to Lisbon, Charlie's upstairs neighbour, Marie, uses her charms to entice him to cover up a murder. (3) Vengeance - Louis plans revenge after Annalise's death at her apartment block in London. (4) Throwbacks - A research project in Berlin uncovers a group of people with ancient genes. (5) Survival of the Species - In London, the slow realisation that some humans have previously unknown brain mutations prompts new discrimination laws. (6) Tube Travel - A new form of super-fast travel in the near future runs into difficulties. (7) Obsession - Jack's brief meeting with an elusive woman at an art exhibition in New York leads to fantasy and obsession. (8) After the Blackout - Jake is surprised at how fast everything descends into the 'law of the jungle' after a blackout in Dublin.
Download or read book Alice Stanley and other stories written by Anna Maria Hall and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bradys and the Dumb Chinaman and Other Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier written by Charles King and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Starlight Ranch, and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier" by Charles King. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Metamorphosis and Other Stories written by Franz Kafka and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man awakens to find himself transformed into a giant vermin; a performer starves himself to death as a circus attraction; a fiendish engine of capital punishment engraves the letter of the law into the body of the condemned. Such are the nightmare scenarios that emerge in the short stories of Franz Kafka, one of the twentieth century’s most formative, mystifying literary figures. Though immediate in their impact, Kafka’s stories invite endless angles of interpretation, from Freudian psychology and existentialist philosophy to animal studies. This volume presents “The Metamorphosis”—together with several other of Kafka’s best and best-known stories—in a nuanced, clear, and powerful translation by Ian Johnston. The appendices provide philosophical, literary, and cultural context, as well as valuable selections from Kafka’s own letters and drawings.
Download or read book Revenge The Fall of Louis Turner written by Frank Daly and published by Frank Daly. This book was released on with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Turner takes the law into his own hands, to avenge the actions of a rapist after the failure of the police to bring him to justice. But it’s the catalyst which changes his life forever. All he wanted was the continuation of his comfortable life when he was a successful writer. But now he has lost his muse, got into serious debt, is facing bankruptcy and death threats from a vicious London crime gang. His streetwise ex-con brother, Henry comes to stay and maybe he can help him. But it catapults Louis into a life of crime from which he thought he’d escaped many years earlier. If you liked the Vengeance short story, you will love this expansion to a full-length novel.
Download or read book Triumph of Vice and Other Stories written by William S Gilbert and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gilbert's libretti of the comic operas composed by Arthur Sullivan are hugely well known, and lines such as "e;let the punishment fit the crime"e; have entered the English lexicon - but his short stories also deserve to be rediscovered by the modern reader. This collection, carefully curated by the secretary of the W.S. Gilbert Society, brings together the best of these sharp, clever, comical tales - many of which are published here for the first time since their first appearance in ephemeral magazines - enriched with the author's own illustrations. The stories feature many of the powerful motifs so associated with his work - fairies, elixirs, magic - and a wide variety of characters - from burglars to barristers and shopkeepers to gentlemen. This volume is shot through with the observational wit which drove Gilbert and Sullivan's works to fame, and constitutes a hugely enjoyable companion for fans of the pair's theatrical oeuvre.
Download or read book The Longest Day and Other Stories written by S. Govind Raj and published by Vishv Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2013-01-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siraj-ud-Daula, the Nawab of Bengal was neither coward nor afraid of wars. He routed the British army from Calcutta within four days. After that could he defend the State of Bengal in spite of his so many enemies because of his cruelty and profligacy? What caused his downfall? Was it profligacy or cruelty & who and how they conspired against him to take their revenge was a quite intrigue? It is an interesting historical story which one must read along with other interesting and inspiring stories.
Download or read book The Journey of Jeremiah Tatum And Other Stories written by Charles Emery Dobbins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Journey of Jeremiah Tatum" chronicles a young boy's journey through time and space while learning valuable lessons in life along the way. "Stephanie Baker Gibbs, and The Mystery on Beacon Hill" is the account of two young girls who one night see a strange light in an old abandoned light house, and dare to wonder "why". "The Accidental Shopper" is a fantasy about a young teen who acquires "the power to shop". What will her power be used for? "My Changing Times" is a biographical story of a time traveler, who visits the past to encourage and guide himself as young teen. Can the past be changed?
Download or read book Bears in the Punch Bowl and Other Stories written by Kent Robinson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Garden Party and Other Stories written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen exquisite tales from one of the world'd greatest writers of the short story Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', and the short, sharp sketch 'Miss Brill', in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in 'At the Bay'. 'All that I write,' Mansfield said, 'all that I am - is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.'
Download or read book The Spiritual Realm and Other Stories written by Larry Sells and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-03-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A couple of werewolves, Susan, and Alf, each wearing an "eat a human" T-shirt walked in Ghostville Mall. They stopped in front of the movie theater and looked at the list. The two looked at each other and walked away. Susan eyed a human skeleton through the arcade's windows. She elbowed Alf and he looked at her. When Susan had his attention she whispered, "Let's eat him when he comes out." Her eyes pointed out the human skeleton. Following Susan's eyes, Alf saw the human skeleton and started drooling. "He looks good enough to eat." Alf and Susan sat on the wooden bench opposite the entrance, so they could see the human skeleton through the window. They sat there grooming each other's heads like a pair of chimpanzees. Both ate the fleas taken from the other's head.
Download or read book Bride Groom Sunday Forever and Other Stories written by Soren Narnia and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novella describing a unique wedding between two young people who treat their guests to a humorous but deeply honest dramatic history of their romance.
Download or read book Ploughed and Other Stories written by Lucy Bethia Walford and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bliss and Other Stories written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the day of Lord Saito Gonji’s birthday arrives, Gonji celebrates with dread, knowing that in a week, he will be married. Sent away in his youth for samurai training, and then to higher education, Gonji is very connected to his studies. After his intelligence is proven, his professors even tell Gonji that he would do great things for Japan one day. However, since he is the youngest son in his family, Gonji is expected to marry—a social expectation that he cannot get around. Now, on his birthday, he is expected to marry a childhood friend, Ohano in one week, which will greatly interfere with his studies. When his family notice how upset Gonji is over the arranged marriage, they grant him one week of pure freedom, allowing him to do whatever he chooses. Soon into the week, Gonji meets a famous dancer. Known by the stage name of Spider, the dancer was at the height of her career after being trained by the most celebrated geisha in Japan. When Spider and Gonji become intimate during the week, their fleeting encounter soon proves to complicate the plans Gonji’s parents made for him. Featuring complex and memorable characters as well as detailed descriptions of Japanese customs and landscapes, The Honorable Miss Moonlight depicts a vivid portrait of 20th century Japan. With themes of gender, sexuality, identity, and a close perspective of the honor/shame culture of Japan in the 1900s, The Honorable Miss Moonlight is as enlightening as it is entertaining. First published in 1912, The Honorable Miss Moonlight is one of Onoto Watanna’s most famous works, yet is rarely found in print. This special edition features a stunning cover design and is printed in an easy-to-read font. With these accommodations, this edition caters to contemporary readers by restoring the novel to modern standards while preserving the original intricacy of Onoto Watanna’s work.
Download or read book Journey Into Christmas and Other Stories written by Bess Streeter Aldrich and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains twelve short Christmas stories about reunited families, fellowship, and restored faith including 'I Remember,' a story about the author's childhood in Iowa.
