Download or read book Incantations written by Anjana Appachana and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first collection of fiction by Anjana Appachana provides stories that are beautifully written, the characters carefully and respectfully drawn. All the stories are set in India, but the people in them seem somehow displaced within their own society -- a society in transition, but a transition that does not come fast enough to help them.
Download or read book Incantations and Other Stories written by Anjana Appachana and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stories In This Collection Are Set In The Early Eighties, And Anjana Appachana Wonderfully Captures The Raw, Vibrant Energy And Optimism Of A Time When We Drank Chai For Thirty Paise, And Twenty Thousand Rupees Spent On &Lsquo;Gifts&Rsquo; For The Boy&Rsquo;S Side Was An Enormous Amount Of Money For Middle-Class Indians. Her Characters Strain For A Place Beyond The Boundaries Of A Prescribed Way Of Life In Urban Middle India: A Hapless College Student Gets Gated A Few Days Before Her Appointment For An Abortion; A Disgruntled Clerk Philosophises Gloomily About His Place In The Scheme Of Things; A Young Girl, Against All Odds, Decides To Keep Her Sister&Rsquo;S Deep, Dark Secret. By Turns Warm, Gullible, Arrogant And Bigoted, Appachana&Rsquo;S Characters Live Their Lives Amid Contradictions And Double Standards, Superstitions And Impossible Dreams, But Ultimately Usurp Their Familiar Landscape And Imbue It With An Idiosyncratic Vision.
Download or read book Curses Inc and Other Stories written by Vivian Vande Velde and published by Graphia. This book was released on 2007 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title story about a boy who tries to get even with a girl who humiliated him at school by using the mysterious online store "Curses, Inc." is followed by nine short stories about magic, witches, and ghosts.
Download or read book The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories written by Amos Tutuola and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoruba legend and culture were the source of much of Amos Tutuola's writing and the stories collected here are no exception. They feature characters from folklore, archetypal figures from Yoruba society, supernatural or magical happenings, acute human observation and often a moral point. Their very titles - from 'The Duckling Brothers and their Disobedient Sister' to 'Don't Pay Bad for Bad' - are evocative of a unique blend of tradition and imagination, which belongs to the same universal culture as Aesop and the Brothers Grimm.
Download or read book Incantation written by Alice Hoffman and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Alice Hoffman tears a page from history and melds it with mysticism to create a spellbinding, highly acclaimed tale about the persecution of Jewish people during the sixteenth century. Estrella is a Marrano: During the time of the Spanish Inquisition, she is one of a community of Spanish Jews living double lives as Catholics. And she is living in a house of secrets, raised by a family who practices underground the ancient and mysterious way of wisdom known as kabbalah. When Estrella discovers her family's true identity--and her family's secrets are made public--she confronts a world she's never imagined, where new love burns and where friendship ends in flame and ash, where trust is all but vanquished and betrayal has tragic and bitter consequences. Winner of numerous "best book" citations and infused with the rich context of history and faith, Incantation is a transcendent journey of discovery and loss, rebirth and remembrance that Newbery Award-winning author Lois Lowry described as "Magical and spellbinding...Painful and exquisitely beautiful."
Download or read book Post independence Women Short Story Writers in Indian English written by Krishna Daiya and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Curses Inc written by Vivian Vande Velde and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents ten short stories about magic spells, enchantments and curses and their consequences.
Download or read book The Nose and Other Stories written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikolai Gogol’s novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol’s peculiar genius comes through most powerfully in his short stories. By turns—or at once—funny, terrifying, and profound, the tales collected in The Nose and Other Stories are among the greatest achievements of world literature. These stories showcase Gogol’s vivid, haunting imagination: an encounter with evil in a darkened church, a downtrodden clerk who dreams only of a new overcoat, a nose that falls off a face and reappears around town on its own, outranking its former owner. Written between 1831 and 1842, they span the colorful setting of rural Ukraine to the unforgiving urban landscape of St. Petersburg to the ancient labyrinth of Rome. Yet they share Gogol’s characteristic obsessions—city crowds, bureaucratic hierarchy and irrationality, the devil in disguise—and a constant undercurrent of the absurd. Susanne Fusso’s translations pay careful attention to the strangeness and wonder of Gogol's style, preserving the inimitable humor and oddity of his language. The Nose and Other Stories reveals why Russian writers from Dostoevsky to Nabokov have returned to Gogol as the cornerstone of their unparalleled literary tradition.
Download or read book The Everything Love Spells Book written by Kaile Dutton and published by Everything. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bring love into your life and keep it there with The Everything Love Spells Book. This pocket guide contains more than 75 spells to help you rev up your romance. There's a spell for every lover's lament: Can't get over that last love? Do the Breaking the Chains Spell and he's gone for good! Need to attract that special someone? The Enhancement Spell will make anyone irresistible! Bored in the bedroom? All you need to stoke the flames is the Tantric Lovemaking Spell! Whether you're an experienced spellcaster or dabbling in magick for the first time, watch love flourish with these and many other spells. Nudge that special someone along and add passion and erotic excitement to your existing relationships. True love is just a spell away! Kaile Dutton is an Eclectic Solitary Practitioner and Certified Usui Reiki Master Teacher. She has found great success in healing and accepting love through energy work and the craft and is dedicated to the ways of reiki, magick, and being spiritually connected. Aside from continuously pursuing her spiritual path, she works as a fine artist, graphic designer, and aspiring singer/musician and performer. Jodi St. Onge is a Certified Usui Reiki Master Teacher, Shamballa Multidimensional Healer Teacher, Karuna Practitioner, and an Eclectic Solitary Practitioner. She runs Blue Angel Healing, a reiki healing and teaching business.
Download or read book Curses Inc and Other Stories written by Vivian Vande Velde and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title story about a boy who tries to get even with a girl who humiliated him at school by using the mysterious online store "Curses, Inc." is followed by nine short stories about magic, witches, and ghosts.
Download or read book Best Loved Indian Stories written by Intirā Śrīn̲ivācan̲ and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Selection Of The Most Enjoyable And Popular Short Stories From India. Best Loved Indian Stories Brings Together Tales From Different Parts Of The Country That Have Enthralled Readers Of All Ages. This Volume, The First Of Two, Represents The Best English Stories Written By Indians In The Twentieth Century. In These Twenty Stories You Will Meet Unforgettable Characters Like The Inimitable Muni With His Two Goats In R.K. Narayan S Classic A Horse And Two Goats', The Pious Vishnu In Khushwant Singh'S 'The Mark Of Vishnu , The Innocent Basket-Seller With The Enchanting Eyes In Ruskin Bond'S Unforgettable 'Night Train At Deoli', The Dying Grandmother With Her Eccentric Demands In Githa Hariharan'S Remains Of The Feast And Many Other Men And Women Who Have Touched Our Lives Over The Generations. The Authors Included In This Volume Are: Anjana Appachana Anita Desai Attia Hosain Bharati Mukherjee Githa Hariharan K.A. Abbas Keki N. Daruwalla Khushwant Singh Manjula Padmanabhan Manoj Das Manohar Malgonkar Mulk Raj Anand Nayantara Sahgal Nergis Dalai Padma Hejrnadi R.K. Narayan Raja Rao Ruskin Bond Santha Rarna Rau Shashi Deshpande
Download or read book The Incantations of Daniel Johnston written by Scott McClanahan and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned artist Ricardo Cavolo and Scott McClanahan combine talents in a dazzling, eye-popping biography of musician and artist Daniel Johnston.
Download or read book Listening Now written by Anjana Appachana and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Listening Now takes place before the events of Appachana’s 2023 critically acclaimed novel, Fear and Lovely. Mallika, a child given to weaving, is convinced that the lives of the mothers around her are dull and devoid of passion and fantasizes romantic love. The truth, which lies at the heart of this story, is completely different. Her mother, Padma, her mother’s sister, Shanta, her mother’s two friends, Madhu and Anu, and her grandmother, Rukmini, all hold wrenching secrets; their complex lives and longings are beyond the child Mallika’s comprehension. Set in 1950s and 1960s, this story encompasses the lives of two generations of women in a small, New Delhi neighbourhood, where conventional lives are lived on the surface, while below, secrets seethe—threatening to destroy everything that has been so carefully constructed to accommodate society’s structures and expectations. Rendered through six points of view, Listening Now captures the voices of these women; the spoken conversations as well as all that remains in the realm of silence. Shortlisted for the Crossword Prize when it was first published in 1998, Listening Now holds readers in its embrace from the very first line.
Download or read book The Hungry Stones and Other Stories written by Rabindranath Tagore and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents the simple tales of village life and governance in India in times of Tagore. Entertainingly, the author shows how the pre-industrial world was understood, judged, and thought about. The book covers such topics as married life, the impulsive and unwise nature of children, the duties of people toward each other, the costs of carelessness and misunderstandings and human nature, and the romanticized power of the supernatural.
Download or read book The Hungry Stones And Other Stories written by Rabindranth Tagore and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 500 Great Books by Women written by Erica Bauermeister and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1994 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often poorly represented in buyers' guides, women's books are now covered in this articulate and intentionally eclectic reader's guide. Covering a wealth of remarkable novels, narratives, biographies, and more, this resource for general readers offers more than 500 entries--capturing the flavor of each book. Includes seven cross-referenced indexes.
Download or read book The Book of Norse Magic written by Cerridwen Greenleaf and published by Ryland Peters & Small. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the secrets of the Norse people and their magical practices to manifest an enchanted life. Embark on a sacred journey into the marvellous and mystical world of Norse magic, with Wiccan medieval scholar Cerridwen Greenleaf as your guide. Gain insight into the wonders of runes, including the art of divination, spells for protection and how to imbue treasured objects with your personal magic. Learn about Norse mythology, including the stories of the major gods and goddesses and how to call upon them for support and wisdom. Discover the basics of tree magic, such as the legend of Yggdrasil, the tree of life, and how to read omens in nature to avoid misfortune. With Cerridwen Greenleaf's vast knowledge of medieval studies, The Book of Norse Magic is an eminently useful and inspirational handbook on harnessing this ancient power for modern life to bring wellness, calm, love, money and luck.
