Download or read book The Moslem Wife and Other Stories written by Mavis Gallant and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally celebrated as among the finest stories written in English today, Mavis Gallant's fiction offers a penetrating and powerful vision of contemporary human relationships in Europe and North America. The Moslem Wife and Other Stories brings together eleven of Gallant's best stories from over three decades. These embody the beauty, irony, and compassion of a master writer's fictional universe. Amid the complex perceptions of the past that haunt her characters, Gallant deploys her sharp comic eye to superb effect: in the figures who move through her stories, we catch troubling, fleeting glimpses of our own lives. Selected and with an afterword by Mordecai Richler.
Download or read book The Moslem Wife and Other Stories written by Mavis Gallant and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1994-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally celebrated as among the finest stories written in English today, Mavis Gallant's fiction offers a penetrating and powerful vision of contemporary human relationships in Europe and North America. The Moslem Wife and Other Stories brings together eleven of Gallant's best stories from over three decades. These embody the beauty, irony, and compassion of a master writer's fictional universe. Amid the complex perceptions of the past that haunt her characters, Gallant deploys her sharp comic eye to superb effect: in the figures who move through her stories, we catch troubling, fleeting glimpses of our own lives. Selected and with an afterword by Mordecai Richler.
Download or read book The Canadian Short Story written by Reingard M. Nischik and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the 1890s, reaching its first full realization by modernist writers in the 1920s, and brought to its heyday during the Canadian Renaissance starting in the 1960s, the short story has become Canada's flagship genre. It continues to attract the country's most accomplished and innovative writers today, among them Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, Carol Shields, and many others. Yet in contrast to the stature and popularity of the genre and the writers who partake in it, surprisingly little literary criticism and theory has been devoted to the Canadian short story. This collection redresses that imbalance by providing the first collection of critical interpretations of a range of thirty well-known and often-anthologized Canadian short stories from the genre's beginnings through the twentieth century. A historical survey of the genre introduces the volume and a timeline comparing the genre's development in Canada, the US, and Great Britain via representative examples completes it. The collection is geared both to specialists in and to students of Canadian literature. For the latter it is of particular benefit that the volume provides not only a collection of interpretations, but a comprehensive introduction to the history of the Canadian short story. Reingard M. Nischik is professor and chair of American Literature at the University of Constance, Germany.
Download or read book Assunta Howard and Other Stories and Sketches written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learning to Look written by Lesley Diana Clement and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Learning to Look Lesley Clement traces the evolution of Mavis Gallant's visually evocative style through five decades of her short fictional works. Gallant explores the boundaries between visible and invisible worlds as the lines, shapes, and colours suggested by her allusions, analogies, and structures challenge us as readers.
Download or read book Light Shining Out of Darkness and Other Stories written by Hugh Hood and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Selected and with an Afterword by John Metcalf" In Hugh Hood's electrifying and elusive stories, apparently placid surfaces conceal violent emotions and human failures. This book brings together 12 of Hood's best stories, including "The Small Birds," "Flying a Red Kite," and "Le Grand Demenagement." Written over three decades, the stories explore ordinary human behaviour and the moral order we constantly seek. Hood's achievement is to moralize without judging, to balance his insight into human failings with his expansive sympathy for people and their plight. This is an original New Canadian Library collection.
Download or read book New England and the Maritime Provinces written by Stephen John Hornsby and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-reaching, inter-disciplinary examination of the links between New England and the Maritimes.
Download or read book Mordecai written by Charles Foran and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foran's book is the first major biography with access to family letters and archives: the definitive, detailed, intimate portrait of Mordecai Richler, the lion of Canadian literature, and the turbulent, changing times that nurtured him. It is also an extraordinary love story that lasted half a century. Mordecai Richler won multiple Governor General's Literary Awards, the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, among others, as well as many awards for his children's books. He also wrote Oscar-nominated screenplays. His influence was larger than life in Canada and abroad. In Mordecai, award-winning novelist and journalist Charles Foran brings to the page the richness of Mordecai's life as young bohemian, irreverent writer, passionate and controversial Canadian, loyal friend and deeply romantic lover. He explores Mordecai's distraught childhood, and gives us the "portrait of a marriage"—the lifelong love affair with Florence, with Mordecai as beloved father of five. The portrait is alive and intimate—warts and all.
Download or read book The Oxford Guide to Contemporary World Literature written by John Sturrock and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: opinion, the Guide offers a discriminating - and sometimes controversial - view of a broad range of contemporary literatures.
Download or read book Muslim Child written by Rukhsana Khan and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories, poems and activities that examines the world through the eyes of Muslim children.
Download or read book From The Fifteenth District written by Mavis Gallant and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, the nine stories in this glittering collection reflect on the foibles and dilemmas of human relationships. An English family goes to the south of France for the sake of the father’s health, and to get away from an England of rationing and poverty. A displaced person turned French soldier in Algeria now makes a living as an actor in Paris. A group of selfish English expatriates on the Italian Riviera are incredulous that Mussolini and the Germans may affect their lives. A great writer’s quiet widow blossoms in widowhood, to the surprise and alarm of her children, who send a ten-year-old grandson to Switzerland to keep her company one Christmas. Full of wry humour and penetrating insights, this is Mavis Gallant at her most unforgettable.
Download or read book Reading Mansfield and Metaphors of Form written by William Herbert New and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He elucidates a number of formal strategies, such as sequence, reversal, negation, repetition, deferral, and reconstruction, and then applies them to a wide range of Mansfield's stories, including such favorites as "Prelude," "The Voyage," "The Little Governess," and "Je ne parle pas francais."
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English written by Rosemary Sullivan and published by Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past one hundred and fifty years, and most especially since the late 1960s, Canadian women have made a remarkable contribution to world literature. Carol Shields won the Pulitzer Prize; Margaret Atwood, Janette Turner Hospital, Anne Michaels, and Carol Shields were short listed forthe Booker Award; Atwood and Michaels were nominated for the Orange. This anthology enocmpasses over a century and a half of writing by Canadian women. The stories collected here represent a cross-section of the best writing by women in the genre and demonstrate a wide range of styles from therealistic to the post-modern and experimental. All the stories are about women: in childhood, adolescence, maturity, old age; in relationships such as daughters, sisters, lovers, mothers; in a variety of social and political contexts. Though all authors are Canadian by birth or choice, nationalityand gender have different meanings for each of them. But all write confidently and eloquently of their experience as women. At the end of the last century, no one could have predicted such wealth in women's writing. Now we have only to celebrate it.This collection of highly readable stories is ideal for the trade market while at the same time Rosemary Sullivan establishes a canon of stories for the university/college market. These are writers engaging with many different genres, including historical fiction, domestic drama and more abstractintrospection. No reader will fail to be amused, enthralled, intrigued, or invigorated.
Download or read book Paris Stories written by Mavis Gallant and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2002-10-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker for close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, "radically reshaped the short story for decade after decade." Michael Ondaatje's new selection of Gallant's work gathers some of the most memorable of her stories set in Europe and Paris, where Gallant has long lived. Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. Together they compose a secret history, at once intimate and panoramic, of modern times.
Download or read book The Muslim World written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Face Behind the Veil written by Donna Gehrke-White and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muslim-American women, in all their diversity, are given the chance to tell their stories in their own voice by award-winning journalist Donna Gehrke-White. The only book of its kind, it tells in extraordinarily moving detail the lives of New Traditionalists, who wear the veil though their forebears did not; Blenders, who do not wear the veil but consider themselves spiritual; and Converts - women from other religious backgrounds who have converted to Islam. A rare, revealing look into the hearts, minds and lives of a misunderstood people.
Download or read book Psichopath and Other Stories written by Randall Garrett and published by VM eBooks. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents The Asses of Balaam After a Few Words The Destroyers Thin Edge Psichopath
