Download or read book Peasants at a Party and Other Stories written by Sona Maniar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pair of idle investment bankers gets caught up in an art hustle. A rising star gets backstabbed by her own mentor. An ambitious CEO pays a steep price for an unfortunate misstep. A London City banker finds himself writing scripts for Bollywood. Peasants at a Party is a collection of such fictional tales set in the UK, US and India where vicious politics, greed and lust intersect against a backdrop of the corporate world. Unmasking the shenanigans at play through her keen observation and imaginative storytelling, the author Sona Maniar brings her own experience of having lived and worked in six countries and takes us on an entertaining ride across the business landscape. With ups and downs and often a surprise twist at the end, the stories reveal the harshness beneath the apparent glamour and compel the reader to reflect, introspect and most importantly ask the question – Could this too happen in the workplace?
Download or read book Other Worlds written by Teffi and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories about the occult, folk religions, superstition, and spiritual customs in Russia by one of the most essential twentieth-century writers of short fiction and essays. Though best known for her comic and satirical sketches of pre-Revolutionary Russia, Teffi was a writer of great range and human sympathy. The stories on otherworldly themes in this collection are some of her finest and most profound, displaying the acute psychological sensitivity beneath her characteristic wit and surface brilliance. Other Worlds presents stories from across the whole of Teffi’s long career, from her early days as a literary celebrity in Moscow to her post-Revolutionary years as an émigré in Paris. In the early story “A Quiet Backwater,” a laundress gives a long disquisition on the name days of the flora and fauna and on the Feast of the Holy Ghost, a day on which “no one dairnst disturb the earth.” The story “Wild Evening” is about the fear of the unknown; “The Kind That Walk,” a penetrating study of antisemitism and of xenophobia; and “Baba Yaga,” about the archetypal Russian witch and her longing for wildness and freedom. Teffi traces the persistent influence of the ancient Slavic gods in superstitions and customs, and the deep connection of the supernatural to everyday life in the provinces. In “Volya,” the autobiographical final story, the power and pain of Baba Yaga is Teffi’s own.
Download or read book Peasants and Other Stories written by Anton Chekhov and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ever maturing art and ever more ambitious imaginative reach of Anton Chekhov, one of the world's greatest masters of the short story, led him in his last years to an increasingly profound exploration of the troubled depths of Russian society and life. This powerful and revealing selection from Chekhov's final works, made by the legendary American critic Edmund Wilson, offers stories of novelistic richness and complexity, published in the only formatp edition to present them in chronological order. Table of Contents A Woman's Kingdom Three Years The Murder My Life Peasants The New Villa In the Ravine The Bishop Betrothed
Download or read book Index to Short Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stjepan Radi the Croat Peasant Party and the Politics of Mass Mobilization 1904 1928 written by Mark Biondich and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a work for political scientists and other specialists in the area."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Garden Party and Other Stories written by Katherine Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Twentieth century Literature Reader written by Suman Gupta and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical Reader is the essential companion to any course in twentieth-century literature. Drawing upon the work of a wide range of key writers and critics, the selected extracts provide: a literary-historical overview of the twentieth century insight into theoretical discussions around the purpose, value and form of literature which dominated the century closer examination of representative texts from the period, around which key critical issues might be debated. Clearly conveying the excitement generated by twentieth-century literary texts and by the provocative critical ideas and arguments that surrounded them, this reader can be used alongside the two volumes of Debating Twentieth-Century Literature or as a core text for any module on the literature of the last century. Texts examined in detail include: Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, Mansfield's Short Stories, poetry of the 1930s, Gibbon's Sunset Song, Eliot's Prufrock, Brecht's Galileo, Woolf's Orlando, Okigbo's Selected Poems, du Maurier's Rebecca, poetry by Ginsburg and O'Hara, Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Puig's Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Heaney's New Selected Poems 1966-1987, Gurnah's Paradise and Barker's The Ghost Road.
Download or read book Peasants into Frenchmen written by Eugen Weber and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived on as if in a timeless world, their existence little different from that of the generations before them. The author of this lively, often witty, and always provocative work traces how France underwent a veritable crisis of civilization in the early years of the French Republic as traditional attitudes and practices crumbled under the forces of modernization. Local roads and railways were the decisive factors, bringing hitherto remote and inaccessible regions into easy contact with markets and major centers of the modern world. The products of industry rendered many peasant skills useless, and the expanding school system taught not only the language of the dominant culture but its values as well, among them patriotism. By 1914, France had finally become La Patrie in fact as it had so long been in name.
Download or read book The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse written by Kerry McSweeney and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aesthetic perspective on the short fiction of Chekhov, Joyce, Hemingway, O'Connor, and Carver Taking a distinctively aesthetic approach to the genre of realist short fiction, Kerry McSweeney clusters the work of five masters--Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver--to offer a poetics of the form for students and scholars. At the center of this argument is the notion that the realist short story is a glimpse--powerful and tightly focused--into a world that the writer must precisely craft and in which the reader must fully invest. Selecting writers from different generational, national, and cultural backgrounds, McSweeney chooses writers based on their commitment to the realist representation of experience and their shared belief in the importance and efficacy of the short story form. By considering their efforts in tandem, he develops a means to assess the strategies and claims of realist short fiction. McSweeney demonstrates that when the comments these writers have made about their work are assembled and critically scrutinized, the result is an aesthetic critical model--as opposed to more interpretative models that focus attention on the determination (or indetermination) of meanings. He suggests that a fully adequate reading of a realist short story involves the integration of three components: the enjoyment and contemplation of the story in and of itself; affective receptivity, or a response to the story's emotional content; and cognitive activity, or the reflective consideration of the story's conceptual implications. In individual chapters on Chekov, Joyce, Hemingway, O'Connor, and Carver, this presentational model is applied to widely known and often anthologized readings from each writer. McSweeney brings into sharp focus the distinctive features of each piece, makes qualitative discriminations, and assesses the profitability of other critical models. He concludes with an invitation to test the mettle of his approach in reading other realist short story writers.
Download or read book The Party and Other Stories written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Party, Terror, A Woman's Kingdom, A Problem, The Kiss, "Anna on the Neck," The Teacher of Literature, Not Wanted, Typhus, A Misfortune, A Trifle from Life.
Download or read book Lively and Other Stories written by Boris Mozhaev and published by Hodgson Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writing of Boris Mozhaev, available in English for the first time ever in this volume, stands out in terms of narrative style and bold sincerity amongst contemporary Russian writers already translated into English. His insight into Russian life, politics and society, and the rural community in particular, represents a unique voice among the great writers of the twentieth century, who fearlessly and, at great personal sacrifice, wrote what they knew to be the truth about everyday life in Russia. Mozhaev had to fight against Soviet censorship all his life and some of his works were suppressed for over twenty years before they were allowed to be published - always to great critical acclaim. When Mozhaev's story 'Lively' was published, shortly after Alexander Solzhenitsyn's famous story 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich', it was no less of a cause célèbre in Russian literary circles and society. Stylistically, he combines Chekhov's acute eye for detail, evident in his short stories with the wonderful humour and pathos of Gogol, expressed with a unique ear for rural wit and dialogue. Though the communist regime has collapsed and new leaders have emerged from the shadows, Mozhaev's stories still have a modern resonance and a chillingly poignant relevance, as those in power still conduct themselves with the same Soviet mindset and mentality as they did under the old regime. Mozhaev's writing, still regularly republished in Russia today, has not tarnished with time and it still bears its sharp, critical edge, as cutting as the day it was originally written. Through this volume of translations, Mozhaev is set to take his place amongst the great writers of contemporary Russia accessible to the English-speaking reader. The translator has provided a wealth of background information and copious notes to help the reader better to understand the satire and enjoy the stories.
Download or read book Vathek and Other Stories written by Malcolm Jack and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckford's Gothic novel Vathek, an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author was twenty-one. Published in English in 1786, it was one of the most successful of the oriental tales then in fashion. This edition makes available to a new generation of scholars and general readers, the originality of Beckford's ideas, and the excellence of his prose.
Download or read book Peasants without the Party written by Lucien Bianco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific. The leading specialist on China's twentieth century peasant resistance reexamines, in bold and original ways, the question: Was the Chinese peasantry a revolutionary force? Where most scholarly attention has focused on Communist-led peasant movements, Bianco's story is one of peasant thought and action largely unmediated by modern political parties. This volume pays particular attention to the first half of the twentieth century when peasant-based conflict, ranging from tax and food protests to secret society conflicts, opium struggles, inter-communal conflicts, and tenant protests over rent, was central to nationwide revolutionary processes.
Download or read book Peasant written by Robert Hull and published by Smart Apple Media. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of a typical peasant in medieval times from birth to death, including childhood, marriage, work, holidays, and customs. Includes primary source quotes.
Download or read book Stalin s Peasants written by Sheila Fitzpatrick and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Soviet archives, especially the letters of complaint with which peasants deluged the Soviet authorities in the 1930s, this work analyzes peasants' strategies of resistance and survival in the new world of the collectivized village
Download or read book A Greedy Peasant written by Alexander Ertel and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peasant brothers Ivan and Yermil could hardly be more different. Ivan, the elder, is happy in his farming life, though he struggles always to make ends meet. Yermil, by contrast, has dreams of improvement, and they are very specific: he is desperate to make money and escape the drudgery of the peasant round. Yermil takes any opportunity he can to improve his financial state, though, at first, these are slow in showing themselves. As he grows more and more fixated on money-making, he begins to lose the ordinary sense that a peasant has of relishing the simple things of life. His soul withers under the weight of his eternal hunger for gain, and he loses his compass. One day, when his merchant master has put enormous trust in him, he sees a horrifying opportunity to really improve his wherewithal, and takes it. Little does he realise that this dreadful secret action will set in motion a train of events which will end in catastrophe... Alexander Ertel's striking novella, a moral fable distinguished by its lucid colour and realistic detail, was first published in 1886. This translation by the author's daughter, Natalie Duddington, was first published in 1929.
Download or read book Will the Boat Sink the Water written by Chen Guidi and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the fifteenth century. They are truly the voiceless in modern China. They are also, perhaps, the reason that China will not be able to make the great social and economic leap forward, because if it is to leap it must carry the 900 million with it. Chinese journalists Wu Chuntao and Chen Guidi returned to Wu's home province of Anhui, one of China's poorest, to undertake a three-year survey of what had happened to the peasants there, asking the question: Have the peasants been betrayed by the revolution undertaken in their name by Mao and his successors? The result is a brilliant narrative of life among the 900 million, and a vivid portrait of the petty dictators that run China's villages and counties and the consequences of their bullying despotism on the people they administer. Told principally through four dramatic narratives of particular Anhui people, Will the Boat Sink the Water? gives voice to the unheard masses and looks beneath the gloss of the new China to find the truth of daily life for its vast population of rural poor.
