Download or read book Kafka and the Doll written by Larissa Theule and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true story about Franz Kafka Inspired by a true story, Kafka and the Doll recounts a remarkable gesture of kindness from one of the world's most bewildering and iconic writers. In the fall of 1923, Franz Kafka encountered a distraught little girl on a walk in the park. She'd lost her doll and was inconsolable. Kafka told her the doll wasn't lost, but instead, traveling the world and having grand adventures! And to reassure her, Kafka began delivering letters from the doll to the girl for weeks. The legend of Kafka and the doll has captivated imaginations for decades as it reveals the playful and compassionate side of a man known for his dark and brooding tales. Kafka and the Doll is a testament to living life to the fullest and to the life-changing power of storytelling.
Download or read book The Doll written by Daphne Du Maurier and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Du Maurier is in a class by herself.” —New York Times Perhaps best known for her immortal gothic masterwork Rebecca—the basis for the Academy Award-winning motion picture directed by Alfred Hitchcock—Daphne de Maurier began her illustrious writing career penning short stories. In The Doll, thirteen of du Maurier’s early shorter fictional works have been collected—each story written before the author’s twenty-third birthday and some in print for the first time since the 1930s. Compelling tales of human foibles and tragic romance, the stories in The Doll represent the emergence of a remarkable literary talent who later went on to create Jamaica Inn, The Birds, and other classic works. This breathtaking collection of short fiction belongs on the bookshelf of every Daphne du Maurier fan.
Download or read book The Doll written by Nhung N. Tran-Davies and published by Second Story Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl and her family arrive in an airport in a new country. They are refugees, migrants who have travelled across the world to find safety. Strangers greet them, and one of them gives the little girl a doll. Decades later, that little girl is grown up and she has the chance to welcome a group of refugees who are newly arrived in her adopted country. To the youngest of them, a little girl, she gives a doll, knowing it will help make her feel welcome. Inspired by real events.
Download or read book The Doll Collection written by Ellen Datlow and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Seventeen brand-new tales of dolls"--Jacket.
Download or read book William s Doll written by Charlotte Zolotow and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1985-05-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than anything, William wants a doll. "Don't be a creep," says his brother. "Sissy, sissy," chants the boy next door. Then one day someone really understands William's wish, and makes it easy for others to understand, too.
Download or read book The Doll Factory written by Elizabeth Macneal and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “sharp, scary, gorgeously evocative tale of love, art, and obsession” (Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train), a beautiful young woman aspires to be an artist, while a man’s dark obsession may destroy her world forever. The Doll Factory is a sweeping tale of curiosity, love, and possession set among all the sordidness and soaring ambition of 1850s London. The greatest spectacle London has ever seen is being erected in Hyde Park and, among the crowd watching, two people meet. For Iris, an aspiring artist of unique beauty, it is the encounter of a moment—forgotten seconds later—but for Silas, a curiosity collector enchanted by the strange and beautiful, the meeting marks a new beginning. When Iris is asked to model for Pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to paint, and suddenly her world expands beyond anything she ever dreamed of. But she has no idea that evil stalks her. Silas, it seems, has thought of only one thing since that chance meeting, and his obsession is darkening by the day...
Download or read book The Lonely Doll written by Dare Wright and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lonely doll named Edith finally finds friendship with two visiting teddy bears.
Download or read book Kafka and the Traveling Doll written by Jordi Sierra i Fabra and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One year before his death Frank Kafka had an extraordinary experience. Having a walk through Steglitz Park, in Berlin, he found a little girl crying heartbroken. She had lost her doll. To calm her down Frank introduced himself as the Dolls's Postman, and told the little girl that the doll was away on a trip but had sent a letter for her that will be delivered by himself the following day. For three weeks Frank focused exclusively on the doll's letters that he handed on every day to the girl. Nobody has ever known who that little girl was and what happened with the letters.
Download or read book The Paper Dolls written by Julia Donaldson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The breathtakingly beautiful story of one little girl and her five paper dolls.
Download or read book Stories of Dolls written by Susanna Davidson and published by Usborne Books. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three exciting adventures...Cordelia has been kidnapped from the doll's house. Florinda, the new doll, is showing off, but will she go too far? And Ella, the rag doll, has lost her owner. Read on to discover what happens in the magical world of dolls.
Download or read book Mariah written by Peggy Stuart and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three stories about a doll named Mariah who lives in a human household with other dolls her size. In Being Little, Mariah starts exploring her world. The second story, Besties, is about Mariah's relationship with her best friend, Charlotte. The Final story, Distraction, finds Mariah, who has discovered a talent for writing, trying to write in a busy household.
Download or read book Emil written by Peggy Stuart and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The doll Emil finds himself living in a real house with other dolls, two old people and their dogs. Due to some manufacturing glitch in the factory, he is unable to see or hear without a pair of special glasses, which have to be charged each night when he sleeps. This doesn't keep Emil from doing things other dolls do, such as riding through the woods on a bicycle, playing with the other dolls and spending special time with his brother, Billy, who is the only other boy. Emil has a lot to learn when he arrives, but it's fun.
Download or read book The Doll s House and Other Stories written by and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Doll Stories written by Lucie Cobbe and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classic Tales Retold written by Peggy Stuart and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cast of "The Doll's Storybook" take on personalities of characters in well-known classic children's stories: Little Red Riding Hood, The Boy Who Cried Wolf and Hansel and Gretel. Although each of the stories has a twist, children and adults who are familiar with these stories will recognize them at once. Each page contains one or more photos of the characters acting out the scenes, making the text easier to understand for young readers or children using the stories to learn English. The cast of characters for the stories are realistic-looking dolls with elbow and knee joints, which allow them to move around easily, but their environment is one real children can identify with. They live in a house made for real people and spend time outdoors in a human-person's world. Dolls living in a world suitable for people sometimes run into difficulties! The first story is "Little Green Greatcoat." A girl doll takes a basket of food through the woods to her human grandmother's house and meets a wolf. Things don't go as the wolf (or the reader) expects, though, and the happy ending isn't as messy as the original. "The Boy Doll Who Cried Wolf" follows. This story follows the original closely, except that the sheep don't belong to the boy doll, and none of them is harmed. Readers will recognize another character from children's literature who makes a cameo appearance. In the third story, "Lost in the Woods," a boy doll and a girl doll lose their way following a rabbit and look for help at the home of an old human woman who has interesting dietary preferences. Will they find out in time? Will the dolls escape? This is the third book in a series. Each is a standalone book, so they do not have to be read in order. "The Doll's Storybook" is a favorite of doll collectors, as well as children. The stories are like photojournalism but with fiction; like graphic novels with photos. The story blog "The Doll's Storybook," began in 2018 as a way to share stories with the author's grandchildren who all live a long way away. Other adults and children found the stories, and parents and grandparents began to ask for a physical book--one they could read to their children or that the children could read to themselves and not use up their "screen time."
Download or read book Henriette written by Tracy Friedman and published by . This book was released on 1988-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henriette the doll has never been outside on her own. Somehow she will get to Atlanta and find the orphanage where Amanda is staying.
Download or read book A Doll s Story written by Cathy East Dubowski and published by Simon Pulse. This book was released on 1998 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reduced to doll-size by her pesky little cousin, Sabrina leads the charge forfreedom for herself and all other discarded playthings stuck in the bottom ofa toy chest. Number six in the "Sabrina The Teenage Witch" series. Full-colorphotos from show.
