Download or read book A Virtuoso s Collection and Other Tales written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Orange World and Other Stories written by Karen Russell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In“Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors,” two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void—yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.

Download or read book The George M Williamson Collection written by Anderson Galleries, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Virtuoso s Collection written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Virtuoso's Collection" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story references a number of historical and mythical figures, items, beasts, books, etc. as part of a museum collection. Some scholars regard the real-life museum of the East India Marine Society in Salem, Massachusetts, as a model for Hawthorne's fictional museum. The narrator is led through the collection by the virtuoso himself who turns out to be the Wandering Jew.

Download or read book Catalogue written by Wells, Edgar H. & Co and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Love Revenge and Other Tales written by C. M. Sheasby and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating collection of short stories from romantic and fantasy novelist, C M Sheasby. Centred around the theme of love and revenge, tales ranging from a lover's confession to a romance gone wrong explore the complex gamut of human emotions and ensuing relationships, both good and bad. Tales past and present, overseas and home, joyful, tragic or indeed horrific-each swiftly, briefly, enveloping you into the microcosm of their world.

Download or read book The Book Collector s Guide written by Seymour de Ricci and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales written by Richard Edward Connell and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Connell's 'The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, and Other Humorous Tales' is a collection of short stories that offers a humorous and witty take on everyday life. With a diverse cast of characters and settings, these tales critique human flaws like arrogance, superficiality, and uninformed decision-making. With varying degrees of humor, these stories are sure to make you smile, with one exchange of insults in 'Honor Among Sportsmen' being particularly savagely funny.

Download or read book The Carcellini Emerald With Other Tales written by Burton Mrs. Harrison and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of short stories begins with the story of Carcellini Emerald, a jewel owned by the Carcellini family. How did Ashton Carmichael come by his aristocratic and decidedly individual place as a dictator in New York's smart society? Nobody knew; nobody really cared. He was as much power as was Beau Brummell over modish London in the days of the Regency. Good-looking, gentlemanlike, amusing when it suited him to be so, sarcastic—and, on occasion, offensively snobbish—his uncertainties of mood lent zest to pursuit by his admirers.

Download or read book Catalogue of English Prose Fiction and Books for the Young in the Lower Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pricksongs and Descants written by Robert Coover and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2000-01-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author - already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel - as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he has fulfilled over a stellar career. It also began Coover's now-trademark riffs on fairy tales and bedtime stories. In these riotously word-drunk fictional romps, two children follow an old man into the woods, trailing bread crumbs behind and edging helplessly toward a sinister end that never comes; a husband walks toward the bed where his wife awaits his caresses, but by the time he arrives she's been dead three weeks and detectives are pounding down the door; a teenaged babysitter's evening becomes a kaleidoscope of dangerous erotic fantasies-her employer's, her boyfriend's, her own; an aging, humble carpenter marries a beautiful but frigid woman, and after he's waited weeks to consummate their union she announces that God has made her pregnant. Now available in a Grove paperback, Pricksongs & Descants is a cornerstone of Robert Coover's remarkable career and a brilliant work by a major American writer.

Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Public Library of Fitchburg Mass written by Fitchburg (Mass.). Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Jamaica Plain Branch Library of the Boston Public Library written by Boston Public Library. Jamaica Plain Branch and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Atherton and Other Tales written by Mary Russell Mitford and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: