Download or read book The Butcher s Wife and Other Stories written by Ang Li and published by Cheng & Tsui. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Li Ang's highly charged fiction has brought her worldwide attention.
Download or read book My Life and Other Stories written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fat Pig written by Neil LaBute and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2004-11-29 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cow. Slob. Pig. How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love? Tom faces just that question when he falls for Helen, a bright, funny, sexy young woman who happens to be plus sized-and then some. Forced to explain his new relationship to his shallow (although shockingly funny) friends, finally he comes to terms with his own preconceptions of the importance of conventional good looks. Neil LaBute's sharply drawn play not only critiques our slavish adherence to Hollywood ideals of beauty but boldy questions our own ability to change what we dislike about ourselves.
Download or read book The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of short stories written by Anton Chekov, a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. One of the stories featured include The House with the Mezzanine, which is a story about Lydia Volchaninova, a good-looking, but very stern and opinionated young teacher with somewhat dictatorial inclinations who is deeply engaged in the affairs of the local zemstvo. Devoted to the cause of helping peasants, she is interested in doing and speaking of nothing but practical work, mostly in the fields of medicine and education. Lydia dislikes the protagonist, a landscape painter, who frequently visits their house. From time to time the two clash over problems of both the rural community and Russia as a whole.
Download or read book Happy Birthday Jamela written by Niki Daly and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2007 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's nearly Jamela's birthday, and she longs for the sparkly Princess Shoes she's seen in the shoe shop.
Download or read book The House with the Mezzanine written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Red Guard Fantasies and Other Stories written by Shouhua Qi and published by LONG RIVER PRESS. This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part autobiographical, the stories offer a depiction of the myriad world of jaded entrepreneurs, overzealous cops, karaoke fanatics, dog lovers, liberated coeds, and frustrated urbanites who move in and out of China's colorful neon-lit cities and dusty rural villages; transitioning from one world to the other. Red Guard Fantasies can be viewed as a corollary to the work of noted classical Chinese writers such as Pu Songling (1640-1715) and Wu Jingzi (1701-1754), who challenged ideas of Chinese society and culture through the use of allegory, satire, and the blending of realistic and fantastic elements, often leading the reader through a dream-like, fantasy state where the real and the surreal become one.
Download or read book Love Me Love My Dog written by Shouhua Qi and published by Muse International Press. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 14 stories collected in this book are about people caught in the unsettling dramas of Chinese society accelerating at a blistering pace in the decades after the Cultural Revolution ... Witty, poignant, absurd, and shocking, Love Me, Love My Dog stories offer a telling depiction of the myriad world of jaded entrepreneurs, overzealous cops, karaoke fanatics, dog lovers (and haters), liberated coeds, and frustrated urbanites who move in and out of China's colorful neon-lit cities and dusty rural villages, transitioning from one world to the other."--Books in Print.
Download or read book Stuck in the Story No More written by Dr. Nicki J. Monti and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birthday Monsters written by Sandra Boynton and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 1993-01-12 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You hear your door come crashing down—those birthday monsters are in town! And they're going to wreak havoc in the most extraordinarily rude ways. What fun! From Boynton on Board, the more-than-20-million-copy-bestselling series of extra-big, extra-fat, and extra-fun board books, here is BIRTHDAY MONSTERS. Featuring Sandra Boynton's lively rhyming text and inimitable illustrations, this story about a madcap crew of lovable party crashers will appeal to kids and adults alike.
Download or read book Whitaker s Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 2558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lady with the Toy Dog and Other Famous Short Stories written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2009 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Lady with the Toy Dog," "Goussiev" and other famous tales by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). -- Time's revenges or the irony of satisfied desires are treated in "The Lady with the Toy Dog." Yet one cannot say that Chekhov himself is "disillusioned." His sense of spiritual beauty is too strong; and his depth of acceptation of life's pattern forms an aura enveloping his subject. This spiritual aura hovers about it and enwraps the gloomiest, greyest, most sardonic facts of life; death itself cannot diminish it. Examine "Goussiev," a sketch of the death of two worn-out soldiers on board a steamer, when returning from the East, a sketch that is so "modern" in its all-embracing outlook and bold acceptations as to shame nearly all our writers of today. It is so humanly broad, so tender, so infallibly true in its spiritual lightings, and it conveys the mystery of nature and all its transitory processes with sharp precision.
Download or read book Australian Children s Books 1973 1988 written by Marcie Muir and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 1992 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume two of a reference work listing all children's books by Australians. Thsi volume covers the period from 1973 to 1988. Entries provide physical descriptions, dates, publishers, illustrations, awards received and, in some cases, remarks on the content. Entries are arrnaged by author. Title and illustrator indexes are included
Download or read book Every Other Sunday written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Eclectic Mix written by Stephen Kimber and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is indeed an eclectic mix: 13 stories with different tones, hues, purposes and characters. A bildungsroman in which a young man confronts some monumental truths about himself, a re-imagined history in which an Aboriginal youth with a gift for clairvoyance makes the ultimate sacrifice, a series of linked tales where questions are asked about just what makes someone crazy, and a sci -fi'ish piece where the camera narrates an account of a future reality show hosting an execution of mass murderer that goes wrong. There's even a semi-autobiographical tale of a fisherman who risks freezing to retrieve a lure (it's a matter of principle). Something for everyone, we hope.
Download or read book Short Story Index 1955 1958 written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Short Story Index written by Dorothy Elizabeth Cook and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
