Download or read book The Castle Other Tales written by David Gallagher and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-03-17 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Castle & Other Tales is the second collection of short stories by David Gallagher. It includes: The Castle, The Trial, Jars, The Box, Customer Service, Harassment Record, Jars II, The Outsider, A Gold Rush (2004), Hiltenspergerstraße and The Walkman.
Download or read book The castle of Falkenbourg and other tales from the German written by Falkenbourg and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales written by Hermynia Zur Mühlen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Born to an artistocratic Catholic family, Hermynia zur Mühlen became a prolific writer and translator sometimes called the Red Countess for her left-wing ideas and revolutionary spirit. She began to write during the several years she spent in a sanitorium for tuberculosis, a disease she battled for the rest of her life. Exiled from Germany in the 1930s for her anti-Nazi convictions and her relationship with the German Jewish translator Stefan Klein, she eventually fled to England, where she spent her final years. The 17 fairy tales selected for this book were written primarily during her radical Weimar years and demonstrate the innovative techniques she used to raise the political consciousness of readers young and old. In contrast to the classical fairy tales of Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen, Zur Mühlen's focus was on the plight of the working class and the cause of social justice. The endings of her tales were intended to encouarge political action. In "The Glasses," for example, readers are encouraged to rip off the glasses that deceive them; in "The Servant," readers learn that they must share the means of production to serve the people and not just the ruling classes. In "The Carriage Horse," horses organize a union to resist their working and living conditions. In "The Broom," a young worker learns how to sweep away injustice with a magic broom. As the scholar Lionel Grossman has written (quoted by Zipes in the introduction), "Zur Mühlen's fairy tales prescribe models of behavior radically opposed to those of traditional fairy tales, the basic lesson of which had been all that one's wishes will come true if one overcomes temptation and faithfully observes established norms of good conduct." The volume will include illustrations that originally accompanied the German tales, by George Grosz, Karl Holtz, Heinrich Vogeler, and other artists of the Weimar Republic. Jack Zipes's introduction provides biographical details and historical context"--
Download or read book Dragons at Crumbling Castle written by Terry Pratchett and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times best-selling author Terry Pratchett's irreverent and irresistible tales for children in a lavishly designed and extensively illustrated volume.
Download or read book Sir lfric and other tales written by George Frederick L. Bampfield and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Castle of Pictures and Other Stories written by George Sand and published by Feminist Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her sixties, George Sand delighted in spinning tales that entertained and educated her two adored granddaughters, Aurore and Gabrielle. Fortunately, she also published thirteen of them for the rest of us to enjoy.The Castle of Pictures presents four of these stories, three of which have never before been translated into English. Both girls and boys are depicted in these stories as empowered by curiosity, hard work, persistence, and honesty. They successfully protect themselves from danger by using their ingenuity and remaining faithful to their own consciences. In the title story a girl becomes an artist through the persistent nurturance of her own talent despite opposition from her father, himself a painter. "What Flowers Say" is a wickedly funny satire of class snobbery as played out among chrysanthemums, poppies, numerous varieties of roses, and other denizens of the garden. "The Bug-Eyed Fairy" investigates wonders of the insect world invisible to the normal human eye. In "The Talking Oak", an outcast orphan boy learns to relyon hard work and a strong sense of right and wrong to make his way first through the natural world, with the help of The Talking Oak who becomes his first friend, and then through the compexities of the world of grown-ups. Sand never talked down to her granddaughters. Her astonishingly deep knowledge of subjects ranging from botany and lepidopterology to art history, her subtle understanding of the human heart and the creative spirit, and her sense of wonder at the world's beauty and mystery are available here for children of all ages.
Download or read book Madeline City and Other Tales written by Steven Maus and published by Steven Maus. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madeline City is situated inside a ring of steep mountains and all but covered by the constant clouds that serve as a reminder of the dreary conditions of all who live within the walls. While the people of Bater District, Gnight District, and other less privileged areas of the city suffer by fighting, stealing, and drinking their way through life, the officers of the church execute their Prelate's orders to bring the entire city under militant, fanatical rule. But just who is the goddess Madeline? Or rather, who was she? No longer among her people, she once brought peace, love, and prosperity to her city, but was moved to abandon them after they tarried in their allegiance to her long ago. Now the Magmenian Rebellion claims her as their champion as they strive to overthrow the church's stranglehold on the city, and the Augsburg Church cites divine duty as they scour the alleys and slums, seeking to imprison anyone who would refuse to submit to her holy law. And so it is the innocent and the oppressed who star in this collection about a people seeking to understand the forces at work in their world.
Download or read book The Bit O Writin and Other Tales written by John Banim and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Castle of Deception written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Count's niece is kidnapped by elves, Kevin, a bard's apprentice, agrees to locate the young woman, unaware that she is not actually the Count's niece and that the elves are not actually elves.
Download or read book The Castle of Crossed Destinies written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1979 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and instead they have only tarot cards with which to tell their tales. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, and a fantastic, surreal, and chaotic history of all human consciousness."--Goodreads
Download or read book A changed man and other tales written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The King s Physician and Other Tales written by Celia Levetus and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tatterhood and Other Tales written by Ethel Johnston Phelps and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1978 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of traditional tales from Norway, England, China, and many other countries.
Download or read book The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre written by John Polidori and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: - to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, "a Vampyre, a Vampyre!"' John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Set in Italy, Greece, and London, Polidori's tales is a reaction to the dominating presence of his employer Lord Byron, and transformed the figure of the vampire from the bestial ghoul of earlier mythologies into the glamorous aristocrat whose violence and sexual allure make him literally a 'lady-killer'. Polidori's tale introduced the vampire into English fiction, and launched a vampire craze that has never subsided. `The Vampyre' was first published in 1819 in the London New Monthly Magazine. The present volume selects thirteen other tales of the macabre first published in the leading London and Dublin magazines between 1819 and 1838, including Edward Bulwer's chilling account of the doppelganger, Letitia Landon's elegant reworking of the Gothic romance, William Carleton's terrifying description of an actual lynching, and James Hogg's ghoulish exploitation of the cholera epidemic of 1831-2. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Download or read book The Colour in Woman and Other Tales written by Diane King and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colour in Woman Flora’s young adulthood is spent alone in her inherited labyrinthine house. Dream characters inhabit secret rooms, memories pulsate around the house and garden, and she is haunted by the elusive presence of a nameless childhood book. Invisible threads of a long-forgotten bond bind Flora to Brigit, the local loner in town. Brigit—the ‘Red Woman’—finally has the freedom to drink herself into a creative fervour and only becomes more enthused by the arrival of a banshee in her flat. This ‘White Woman’ is the final strand in the braid that weaves these women together. As the boundaries between dream and reality become increasingly blurred, a mesmerising search for identity just may need a sacrifice before it can become more solid Flora’s Fairy Tales Step into a world of witches, fae, forests, cosmic rays and strands and all that exists between. The fairy tale is the key that is offered to the hand that dare hold it, and these tales play out the characters that dare journey deeper and deeper.
Download or read book The Water Queen Or The Mermaid of Loch Lene and Other Tales written by H. Coates (Novelist.) and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gardener at Sea and Other Tales written by Bob Battersby and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those of you who garden for a hobby, whether master or plebe, will find some of your thoughts mirrored in the tales and stories in The Gardener at Sea. The book speaks of sunsets, flowers, and scents. It supports your efforts and lends nobility to those who strive for floral beauty, food for the table, or fruit for the pies.
