Download or read book Scenes from clerical life Silas Marner and other stories written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Widows of Eastwick written by John Updike and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After traveling the world to exotic lands, Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie -- now widowed but still witches -- return to the Rhode Island seaside town of Eastwick, "the scene of their primes," site of their enchanted mischief more than three decades ago. Diabolical Darryl Van Horne is gone, and what was once a center of license and liberation is now a "haven of wholesomeness" populated by hockey moms and househusbands acting out against the old ways of their own absent, experimenting parents. With spirits still willing but flesh weaker, the three women must confront a powerful new counterspell of conformity. In this wicked and wonderful novel, John Updike is as his very best - a legendary mster of literary magic up to his old delightful tricks.

Download or read book Deephaven and Other Stories written by Sarah Orne Jewett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1966 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Download or read book Parisian Bourgeois Sunday and Other Stories written by Guy de Maupassant and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories by one of France’s greatest short-story writers—the long title piece never having been available in English before.

Download or read book Corporal Sam and Other Stories written by Arthur Quiller-Couch and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporal Sam and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Arthur Quiller-Couch that feature tales of military life and adventure, inspired by the author's own experiences as a soldier. The stories are action-packed and offer a glimpse into the daily lives of soldiers during the early 20th century.

Download or read book Corporal Sam and Other Stories written by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To begin with, after being ordered for one day (July 23rd) it had been deferred to the next; on reasonable grounds, indeed, for the town immediately behind the great breach was burning like a furnace; but it gave the troops an uneasy feeling that their leaders were distracted in counsel. Nor, divided by the river, did the artillery and the stormers work upon a mutual understanding. The heavy cannon, after a short experiment to the left of the great breach, had shifted their fire to the right of it, and had succeeded in knocking a practicable hole in it before dusk. But either this change of plan had not been reported to the trenches, or the officer directing the assault inexplicably failed to adapt his dispositions to it. The troops for the great breach were filed out ahead of the 38th, which had farther to go. Worst of all, they were set in motion an hour before dawn, although Wellington had left orders that fair daylight should be waited for, and the artillery-men across the Urumea were still plying their guns on the sea-wall, to dissuade the besieged from repairing it in the darkness. To be sure a signal for the assaultÑthe firing of a mine against the hornworkÑhad been concerted, and was duly given; but in the din and the darkness it was either not heard or not understood. Thus it happened that the forlorn hope and the supporting companies of the Royals had no sooner cleared the trenches than their ranks shook under a fire of grape, and from our own guns. There was no cure but to dash through it and take the chances, and Major Frazer, waving his sword, called on his men to follow him at the double. Ahead of them, along the foot of the sea-wall, the receding tide had left a strip of strand, foul with rock and rock pools and patches of seaweed, dark and slippery. Now and again a shell burst and illuminated these patches, or the still-dripping ooze twinkled under flashes of musketry from the wall above; for the defenders had hurried to the parapet and flanking towers, and their fire already crackled the whole length of the strand.

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Download or read book Widow Woman s Ranch Other Stories written by David E Larsen DVM and published by Wiley Creek Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddy was a 12-week-old hound pup belonging to Frank Updegrave. I had seen Buddy a couple of times for routine vaccines and such. On this day, Frank was helping a friend building a shed. They were putting up rafters. Buddy was running around the shed doing hound stuff. Like any good hound, his nose was to the ground as he followed some scent. About then, he was suddenly in the wrong place at the wrong time. from "Polyradiculoneuritis (Coonhound Paralysis)" Following Last Cow in the Chute, Widow Woman's Ranch is Book Two in Dr. David Larsen's Memoirs of a Country Vet series. Among this collection of fifty, short, true-life stories, we meet Joe, Coco, Tramp, Ali, Peanut Digger, Buddy, Emma, and their owners as varied in personality as these large and small farm animals in their care. Dave Larsen brings readers his skillfully written accounts of life as a country veterinarian in the 1970s and 1980s where he ran a one-vet general clinic in Sweet Home, Oregon, and where often his medical attention, expertise, and wisdom, in often immediate life-and-death situations, were sought with one phone call at any time of the day, every day of the week.

Download or read book Miss Grief and Other Stories written by Constance Fenimore Woolson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To celebrate her forthcoming biography of Constance Fenimore Woolson, Anne Boyd Rioux has selected the best of this classic writer’s stories. Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894) was one of the few nineteenth-century women writers considered the equal of her male peers. Harper & Brothers was so enamored of her work that the firm agreed to publish whatever she could write. In this gathering, Rioux has chosen fiction over the course of Woolson’s life, including “In Sloane Street,” never published since it first appeared in Harper’s Bazaar. Woolson’s stories travel from the rural Midwest to the deep South and then across the Atlantic to Italy and England. Her strong characters and indelible settings provide continuity throughout this collection as do her concerns with passion, creativity, imagination, and the demands of society. Whether portraying the keeper of a Union soldiers’ cemetery in the defeated South, a woman writer whose genius goes unrecognized, or the ex-pat denizens of Florence, Woolson’s deft characterization and subtlety create a broad landscape of Americans and their ways no matter where they lived.

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Download or read book Richard Goes to Prison and Other Stories written by Harley Granville-Barker and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book rescues from oblivion the seven known short stories of Harley Granville Barker and demonstrates the sometimes very close relationship between individual stories and one or another of Barker's plays written about the same time. Quite apart, however, from these considerations of the connections between his works in prose fiction and his dramatic pieces, the book seeks to examine the merits of the stories in their own right and to compare them with the work of other short-story writers of the same period, including Galsworthy, Lawrence, and Munro. Though his output in this genre was small, Barker is not dwarfed in this scintillating company. Eric Salmon is a theater historian and writer.

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