Download or read book A Thousand Morons written by Quim Monzó and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quim Monzo's latest collection of short stories is rife with very unfortunate characters. There's the young boy in A Cut' who is upbraided by his teacher when he rudely shows up for class with a huge gash in his neck. And the prince in 'One Night' who tries everything to awaken a sleeping princess, yet fails completely.Throughout in typical style, absurdity offsets the 'moronic' sadness. In 'Love Is Eternal,' a man decides to finally overcome his commitment issues and marry his dying girlfriend, only to have everything backfire.'
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Download or read book Private Life written by Josep Maria de Sagarra and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Life holds up a mirror to the moral corruption in the interstices of the Barcelona high society Sagarra was born into. Boudoirs of demimonde tramps, card games dilapidating the fortunes of milquetoast aristocrats - and how they scheme to conceal them - fading manors of selfish scions, and back rooms provided by social-climbing seamstresses are portrayed in vivid, sordid, and literary detail. The novel, practically a roman-à-clef for its contemporaries, was a scandal in 1932. The 1960's edition was bowdlerized by Franco's censors. Part Lampedusa, part Genet, this translation will bring an essential piece of 20th-century European literature to the English-speaking public.
Download or read book A Thousand Pardons written by Jonathan Dee and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2013 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced back into the working world after her lawyer husband's downfall, Helen discovers a talent for public relations and is tempted away from her dysfunctional family by her childhood crush, who needs her professional assistance.
Download or read book The Marching Morons written by C M Kornbluth and published by Start Classics. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the distant future a man from the twentieth century wakes to find himself in an almost incomprehensible world. He realizes that the world has left him behind but he just might have the key to the future of all mankind.Cyril M. Kornbluth was a highly influential science fiction writer who won both a Hugo Award and a Prometheus Award.
Download or read book The Thousand Names written by Django Wexler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in an alternate nineteenth century, muskets and magic are weapons to be feared in the first “spectacular epic” (Fantasy Book Critic) in Django Wexler’s Shadow Campaigns series. Captain Marcus d’Ivoire, commander of one of the Vordanai empire’s colonial garrisons, was serving out his days in a sleepy, remote outpost—until a rebellion left him in charge of a demoralized force clinging to a small fortress at the edge of the desert. To flee from her past, Winter Ihernglass masqueraded as a man and enlisted as a ranker in the Vordanai Colonials, hoping only to avoid notice. But when chance sees her promoted to command, she must lead her men into battle against impossible odds. Their fate depends on Colonel Janus bet Vhalnich. Under his command, Marcus and Winter feel the tide turning and their allegiance being tested. For Janus’s ambitions extend beyond the battlefield and into the realm of the supernatural—a realm with the power to reshape the known world and change the lives of everyone in its path.
Download or read book YearBook written by Illinois Farmers' Institute. Dept. of Household Science and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the transactions of the annual meeting.
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Download or read book Report written by Illinois Farmers' Institute and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Year Book written by Illinois Farmers' Institute. Dept. of Household Science and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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