Download or read book The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories written by Shouhua Qi and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's hottest literary genre brings together the traditional, the experimental, and the avant-garde. Hugely popular in China, flash fiction is poised to be the most exciting new development in contemporary Chinese literature in a decade. Integrating both vernacular and contemporary styles while embracing new technologies such as text messaging (SMS) and blogging, contemporary Chinese flash fiction represents the voice of a civilization at the brink of a startling and unprecedented transformation. This collection features 120 short-short stories (from 100 to 300 words each), written by some of China's most dynamic and versatile authors. Dong Rui's The Pearl Jacket offers a glimpse of the real and surreal in human evolution, Chen Qiyou's Butterfly Forever brings an ancient Chinese literary motif into a startling modern context, while Liu Jianchao's Concerned Departments mocks the staggering complexity of life in the new urban China. Traditional, experimental, and avant-garde, The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories will reinvigorate the position of young Chinese writers as a major presence in contemporary literature. Their voices breathe new energy into modern Chinese literature, leaving the literary and societal stagnation of the Cultural Revolution behind as a distant memory.
Download or read book The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories written by Shouhua Qi and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With its literary foundations rooted in the political protests and social satire of the early 20th century, Chinese flash fiction offers a fascinating integration of vernacular and contemporary styles: the voice of a civilization at the brink of a standing and unprecedented transformation, using new and vibrant media like underground magazines, text messages, and blogs." "This collection features over a hundred short stories written by some of China's most dynamic and versatile authors, Dong Rui's "The Pearl Jacket" offers a glimpse of the real and surreal in human evolution. "Butterfly Forever" brings an ancient Chinese literary motif into a startling modern context, while "Concerned Departments" mocks the staggering complexity of life in the new urban China."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Fandango and Other Stories written by Alexander Grin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a bucolic idyll, a terrorist agonizes over the act of violence he is about to commit. On a remote island in the South Pacific, the investigation of a case of mass suicide reveals further mysteries. In a far-flung colony, a cynical trio sends an unwitting man into the wilderness in search of a chimera. Mixing romance and high adventure, intrigue and the fantastic, these magnificent tales by one of Russia’s most enduringly popular writers deftly probe the depths of human nature and desire. Fandango and Other Stories presents a selection of essential short fiction by Alexander Grin, Russia’s counterpart to Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Alexandre Dumas. By turns a sailor, a dockworker, a vagrant, a gold prospector, a lumberjack, a soldier, a deserter, an agitator, an exile, a prisoner, and a runaway, Grin wrote seven novels and over three hundred short stories that transport the reader to a realm of pure art and imagination. His ingenious plots explore conflicts of the individual and society in a romantic world populated by a cast of eccentric, cosmopolitan characters. Fandango and Other Stories includes works drawn from across the entirety of Grin’s varied career to encompass the range and sophistication of his writing. Bryan Karetnyk’s elegant translations bring Grin’s distinctive voice to a new generation of readers.
Download or read book The Prussian Officer and Other Stories written by D. H. Lawrence and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve stories of remarkable power and sensitivity from one of Britain's great modernists His first published collection, these twelve stories were written between 1907 and 1914, during a crucial period of development for Lawrence from which he emerged a leading figure of the modernist movement. Reaching new levels of feeling and experience, these stories range from the tale of a Prussian officer who drives his orderly towards a bloody reckoning, to the strangely exotic elements of 'A Fragment of Stained Glass', and the divisions within society and conflicts of the heart that form the central themes of 'Daughters of a Vicar'. Interweaving individual lives, their happiness, failures and defeats, with the profound forces of nature, Lawrence has created stories of remarkable power and sensitivity. This Penguin edition reproduces the newly established Cambridge text, which is based on Lawrence's manuscripts, typescripts and corrected proofs. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book Burning In the Heat and Other Stories written by Michael Martin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-07-20 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people who populate Michael Martin's world are complex and disturbing. Burning just beneath the surface is a frightening stockpile of emotional confusion and silent rage. Jealousy and passion, loneliness and self-destruction heat the pages of these fifteen stories of the often volatile relationships between men and women, friends and lovers, and the interactions with those not so rare individuals who possess the pathological ability to become whoever you want them to be.Each story in this moving collection burns with the heat of human emotion. Written in a powerful narrative voice, often lyrical and poetic, BURNING IN THE HEAT is an astounding display of storytelling depth and versatility from the author of FUNERALS FOR FRIENDS.
Download or read book Jack the Bastard and Other Stories written by Micah Nathan and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the best-selling author of the novels Gods of Aberdeen and Losing Graceland comes this new collection of short fiction. The characters in these nine stories share a common thread as they come to terms with their misfortunes-a Jewish screenwriter is hired to write a blockbuster Holocaust romance in “The Mensch”-or their misdeeds-a husband and father returns to his family after leaving them in the care of a mere copy of himself in “Simulacrum.” This eclectic collection culminates in the epic, Kill Bill-esque “Jack the Bastard,” with its samurai and spaghetti western references. Illustrations by famed comic book artists Phil Noto, Tradd Moore, Russ Nicholson, and Michael Allred complement Nathan’s compelling prose.
Download or read book The ninth vibration and other stories written by L. Adams Beck and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories written by Nikolaĭ Semenovich Leskov and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents newly translated verions of seventeen of Leskov's short stories, inspired by oral storytelling traditions, that range from the fantastical to the satirical to the tragic.
Download or read book Marsena and Other Stories of the Wartime written by Harold Frederic and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Marsena and Other Stories of the Wartime by Harold Frederic
Download or read book The Copperhead and Other Stories of the North During the American War written by Harold Frederic and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Singularity and Other Stories written by Melanie Tem and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singularity gathers award-winning writer Melanie Tem’s most important short fiction, highlighting her diversity and mastery of her art. The sixty stories collected here range from "Sitting with the Driver," a western with a dark woman at its center, to "Little Shit," a contemporary tale of a woman who uses her deceptive appearance and psychic power to trap those who prey on the helpless. The child in "Corn teeth" longs not only to become a part of an alien family, but also to become an alien. And in the title tale, a man studies singularities and strin theory to both understand and blind himself to the truth about the woman he loves. Although the story is not science fiction, its exploration of physics is as rigorous as that found in the best sf. Here you will find no triumphant warriors, no powerful and beautiful protagonists, no monsters from beyond the dark cold void or madmen bent on conquest. Tem's characters are mothers and siblings, orphans and lonely seniors. Her stories are often about family, and always about relationships. Even though Kelly is the only character in "Iced in," the bitter truth that lies at the story's heart is that she is doomed by her failure to maintain relationships. Melanie Tem's stories are often haunted by ghosts and monsters, ghosts and monsters revealed as all too human. In Singularity, she explores the love and terror that lie deep within all of us.
Download or read book Ralph the Bailiff and Other Stories written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book House of Mourning and Other Stories written by Desmond Hogan and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no doubt that Desmond Hogan is one of most remarkable literary talents to have come out of Ireland in the past half-century, and perhaps the best introduction to his work is through his magnificent short stories, widely anthologized and praised throughout the world. Focusing as always on the downtrodden and the eccentric, the misplaced and the dispossessed, Hogan's stories merge past with present, landscape with mindscape—distinctly Irish and burdened by history, while exhilaratingly and wholly universal and modern.
Download or read book The Merry Maid of Arcady His Lordship and Other Stories written by Mrs. Burton Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Charlie Carew and other stories written by Annie Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
