Download or read book The Maiden of Avril written by J. B. Scott and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The maiden of Avril: A collection of stories and poems explores a wide variety of topics. Martians, dragons, stepparents and Princesses are just the beginning. These fast-paced stories and poems bring to life the age-old idea that anything is possible. "Lions and tigers and shoe addict, oh my!" These are just some of the characters youll meet along the way.
Download or read book The Corn Maiden written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven “masterfully told” stories of suspense and nightmarish drama from the National Book Award–winning author of Them (The Guardian). With the novella and six stories collected here, Joyce Carol Oates reaffirms her singular reputation for portraying the dark complexities of the human psyche. The title novella tells the story of Marissa, an eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk. When she suddenly disappears, mounting evidence points to a local substitute teacher. Meanwhile, an older girl from Melissa’s school is giddy with her power to cause so much havoc unnoticed. And she intends to use that power to enact a terrifying ritual called The Corn Maiden. In “Helping Hands,” published here for the first time, a widow meets an Iraq War veteran in a dingy charity shop, having no idea where the peculiar encounter is about to lead. In “Fossil-Figures,” a pair of twins—an artist and a congressman—never outgrow an ugly sibling rivalry. And in “A Hole in the Head,” a plastic surgeon gives in to an unusual and dangerous request. Together, these seven tales offer “a virtuoso performance” of “probing, unsettling, intelligent” storytelling from one of the world’s greatest writers of suspense (The Guardian). “The seven stories in this stellar collection from the prolific Oates may prompt the reader to turn on all the lights or jump at imagined noises. . . . This volume burnishes [her] reputation as a master of psychological dread.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “For horror stories to be truly horrific, the reader has to care. Oates feels this deeply in her writing, and delivers with style.” —The Independent “Further confirmation of a unique writer’s restless, preternatural brilliance.” —The Guardian
Download or read book Distraction written by Andrew Coombs and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part mystery, part love story, this Cold War thriller sees the enigmatic PK, the faithless son of a clergyman, seemingly involved in the disappearance of a schoolgirl. His close friend, Frank, certain that PK holds the key to the missing girl, is determined to find her. But Frank, a former soldier in Northern Ireland, is unaware that he is being targeted by a terrorist with a personal vendetta. Meanwhile, the nuclear countdown continues... This excellent, thoughtful and darkly comic page-turner is set in the decade before the end of the Cold War, and focuses on the twelve days leading up to a potential Armageddon. Will the schoolgirl be found and PK exonerated? Can Frank escape the terrorist's revenge? And, ultimately, what is the distraction that causes a US pilot to hesitate in his defence of the UK? Based on real-life events, finely crafted and realistic, Distraction will appeal to mystery and thriller enthusiasts alike.
Download or read book Yugoslav Popular Ballads written by Dragutin Subotic and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1932, this book was created with the aim of widening interest in the popular ballads of the Yugoslav region.
Download or read book Myths And Legends Retold Sir Gawain And The Maid With The Narrow Sleeves written by Avril Sabine and published by Cracked Acorn Productions. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genre: Myths and Legends Retold Short Story (Arthurian). Word Count: 6963 During his journey, Sir Gawain is unable to join a tourney due to more pressing matters. Falsely accused, he's defended by a young girl sorely in need of help. As a knight he's sworn to protect the defenceless, but doing so could jeopardise his own affairs. This story was written by an Australian author using Australian spelling. Keywords: teen/young adult, myths and legends, short read, King Arthur, Knights of the Round Table, medieval, adventure, jousting tournament.
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Download or read book Zoological Mythology written by Angelo De Gubernatis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-09 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Download or read book Zoological Mythology written by Angelo De Gubernatis and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zoological Mythology Or The Legends of Animals written by Angelo de Gubernatis and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Failure of L Action Lib rale Nationale written by Patricia G. Dirks and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1991 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formation in 1934 of the Action libérale nationale (ALN) as a third party in Quebec was largely a response, Patricia Dirks reveals, to the growing belief that the laissez-faire economic and social policies of Taschereau's Liberal government in Quebec allowed continued domination of francophone professionals and businessmen by anglophone big business interests and threatened to turn the working class toward socialism.
Download or read book The Illustrated Dublin Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mirror of Literature Amusement and Instruction written by John Timbs and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc.
Download or read book Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions Volume One written by Richard Taruskin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book undoes 50 years of mythmaking about Stravinsky's life in music. During his spectacular career, Igor Stravinsky underplayed his Russian past in favor of a European cosmopolitanism. Richard Taruskin has refused to take the composer at his word. In this long-awaited study, he defines Stravinsky's relationship to the musical and artistic traditions of his native land and gives us a dramatically new picture of one of the major figures in the history of music. Taruskin draws directly on newly accessible archives and on a wealth of Russian documents. In Volume One, he sets the historical scene: the St. Petersburg musical press, the arts journals, and the writings of anthropologists, folklorists, philosophers, and poets. Volume Two addresses the masterpieces of Stravinsky's early maturityÑPetrushka, The Rite of Spring, and Les Noces. Taruskin investigates the composer's collaborations with Diaghilev to illuminate the relationship between folklore and modernity. He elucidates the Silver Age ideal of "neonationalism"Ñthe professional appropriation of motifs and style characteristics from folk artÑand how Stravinsky realized this ideal in his music. Taruskin demonstrates how Stravinsky achieved his modernist technique by combining what was most characteristically Russian in his musical training with stylistic elements abstracted from Russian folklore. The stylistic synthesis thus achieved formed Stravinsky as a composer for life, whatever the aesthetic allegiances he later professed. Written with Taruskin's characteristic mixture of in-depth research and stylistic verve, this book will be mandatory reading for all those seriously interested in the life and work of Stravinsky.
Download or read book Constructing the Viennese Modern Body written by Nathan Timpano and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, one informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medical treatises centered on hysteria, and an original examination of dramatic gestures in expressionist artworks. It centers on the following question: How and to what end was the human body discussed, portrayed, and utilized as an aesthetic metaphor in turn-of-the-century Vienna? By scrutinizing theatrically “hysterical” performances, avant-garde puppet plays, and images created by Oskar Kokoschka, Koloman Moser, Egon Schiele and others, Nathan J. Timpano discusses how Viennese artists favored the pathological or puppet-like body as their contribution to European modernism.
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