A Day In The Country

Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191606007

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A Day in the Country and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant Pdf

This selection of twenty-seven stories shows Maupassant at his comic, cruel, and brilliant best. In addition to the poignant title story, it includes one of the most famous tales ever written, The Necklace , and Le Horla, an account of a disintegrating personality that chillingly parallels the author's own decline into madness. All the stories demonstrate his genius for invention and his ability to write unblinkingly about the absurdity of the human condition, supporting Henry James' claim that in the annals of story-telling, Maupassant stands `like a lion in the path'. 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.

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Creative Education
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1985-06-01
Category : Readers for new literates
ISBN : 0886820049

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A Day in the Country by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Pdf

Denis De Beaulieu, a French soldier, is made a prisoner by the Sire of De Maletroit, who believes that the soldier has compromised the Maletroit family honor.

Author : M. T. Anderson
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780763651558

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Feed by M. T. Anderson Pdf

Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize. For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play around with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who knows something about what it’s like to live without the feed-and about resisting its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., M. T. Anderson has created a brave new world - and a hilarious new lingo - sure to appeal to anyone who appreciates smart satire, futuristic fiction laced with humor, or any story featuring skin lesions as a fashion statement.

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Russia
ISBN : PSU:000063771725

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The Beggar by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Pdf

Contents include biographical notes about the author and the illustrator.

Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473369955

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A Country Excursion by Guy de Maupassant Pdf

This early work by Guy de Maupassant was originally published in the 1880's. Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil, near Dieppe, France. He came from a prosperous family, but when Maupassant was eleven, his mother risked social disgrace by trying to secure a legal separation from her husband. After the split, Maupassant lived with his mother till he was thirteen, and inherited her love of classical literature. In 1880, Maupassant published his first - and, according to many, his best - short story, entitled 'Boule de Suif' ('Ball of Fat'). It was an instant success. He went on to be extremely prolific during the 1880s, working methodically to produce up to four volumes of short fiction every year. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions.

Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781425029562

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Original Maupassant Short Stories, Volum by Guy de Maupassant Pdf

Author : Cynthia Rylant
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781613123522

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All in a Day by Cynthia Rylant Pdf

This lovely book illuminates all the possibilities a day offers—the opportunities and chances that won’t ever come again—and also delivers a gentle message of good stewardship of our planet. Newbery Medal winner Cynthia Rylant’s poetic text, alongside Nikki McClure’s stunning, meticulously crafted cut-paper art, makes this book not only timeless but appealing to all ages, from one to one hundred.

Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307576187

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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Pdf

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.

Author : Rhonda McCray
Publisher : That Patchwork Place
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1683560639

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Christmas in the Country by Rhonda McCray Pdf

Quilters will love filling their homes to the brim with holiday spirit! Use simple patchwork and fusible appliqué to ring in the season with a touch of country style. Create 15 fun projects, from runners and place mats for sprinkling holiday magic across the table to a bounty of quilts featuring the season's coolest characters - snowmen! Stitchers can choose their speed: Fast: wall quilts, an advent calendar, and a gingerbread candle mat Faster: place mats, table toppers, and lots of jolly little quilts Quick as a wink: bowl fillers, mistletoe ornaments, and a skinny snowman door hanging Top off projects with a blizzard of button embellishments to make the season bright.

Author : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374534683

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Pdf

For the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a new edition of the Russian Nobel Prize-winning author's most accessible novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is an undisputed classic of contemporary literature. First published (in censored form) in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, it is the story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov as he struggles to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. On every page of this graphic depiction of Ivan Denisovich's struggles, the pain of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's own decade-long experience in the gulag is apparent—which makes its ultimate tribute to one man's will to triumph over relentless dehumanization all the more moving. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced-work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary works to have emerged from the Soviet Union. The first of Solzhenitsyn's novels to be published, it forced both the Soviet Union and the West to confront the Soviet's human rights record, and the novel was specifically mentioned in the presentation speech when Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. Above all, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich establishes Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy" (Harrison Salisbury, The New York Times). This unexpurgated, widely acclaimed translation by H. T. Willetts is the only translation authorized by Solzhenitsyn himself.

Author : Armiyao Harruna (Folio 48)
Publisher : Author House
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491893968

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A PRESIDENT by Armiyao Harruna (Folio 48) Pdf

This is a story that spans from 1955 to sometime about 2045. It is a four-part story of a family originating from Cape Coast and Dowyaaniyili in the Northern Region, the story of a northern prince Dowbia Zangina that marries a German/Fante screen idol called Mercedes Huntman who loves him dearly and agree to move with him to the Dowyaaniyili, where he becomes chief after the death of his father. A military government throws him into Nsawam Medium Prison for allegedly collaborating with his journalist friend Ernest Dzigbordi to overthrow the military junta, and regains his freedom when a democratically elected government takes over. Their Granddaughter Raabia Sedzro goes into politics and becomes the first woman president of her country. She is a successful president and all her good works are cut short when she is assassinated in 2031. The story of President Lankwei Addison takes the reader into campaign travels to the hinterland of Ghana, including some factual events in the governments of Presidents Rawlings, Kufuor, and Atta Mills. Part Four of the story is drum narrations of historical occurrences not told in the first three parts. As recorded by a media guru Dowbia Yousif, the grandson of Mercedes Huntman.

Author : Joanne Stanbridge
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9781443142991

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Who Runs This Country, Anyway? by Joanne Stanbridge Pdf

This fun- and fact-filled guide to Canada's government gets an update just in time for the Federal Election! In this easy-to-read, information-packed book, a comical duo (a keener student and her offbeat sidekick) guide readers through Canada's electoral and governing process. Nine chapters take the reader through topics like Confederation, federalism, monarchy, elections and voting, minority and majority governments, a day in the House of Commons -- plus updated items on Senate Reform and new legislation like the Fair Election act. Jam-packed with interesting photos and zany sections (like the ones that tell kids how to stump an adult!), Who Runs This Country, Anyway? takes a unique approach to this curriculum subject. It's perfect for teachers and students, future politicians, and anyone studying for the citizenship test!

Author : Ismith Khan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Short stories, Caribbean (English)
ISBN : 9790948833099

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A Day in the Country and Other Stories by Ismith Khan Pdf

Author : David Nicholls
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307739308

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One Day by David Nicholls Pdf

NOW A NETFLIX SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • TWO PEOPLE. ONE DAY. TWENTY YEARS. • What starts as a fleeting connection between two strangers soon becomes a deep bond that spans decades. • "[An] instant classic. . . . One of the most ...emotionally riveting love stories you’ll ever encounter." —People It’s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day—July 15th—of each year. They face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. Dex and Em must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself. As the years go by, the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed. "[A] surprisingly deep romance...so thoroughly satisfying." —Entertainment Weekly

Author : Victor H. Green
Publisher : Colchis Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Negro Motorist Green Book by Victor H. Green Pdf

The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.