A Woman S Kingdom And Other Stories

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1544722508

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A Womans Kingdom by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Pdf

"And while she was warm in bed and struggling with sleep -- which seems, as though to spite one, particularly sweet when one ought to get up -- " A Woman's Kingdom presents the world of Anna Akimovna. She is the rich factory owner whom everyone depends on for work and charity. However, although she has everyone kissing up to her -- she is lonely and unhappy. She longs to marry. The story is interesting because it captures the world of Anna Akimovna as only Chekhov can. We are made to feel part of that world -- while we are also allowed our judgments.

Author : George Mackay Brown,G Mackay Brown
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781848549463

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The Island of the Women and Other Stories by George Mackay Brown,G Mackay Brown Pdf

In these six stories George Mackay Brown leads us back along the sweep of Orkney's past and beyond even that to the remoteness of fable. He reveals the timelessness of the lived moment and the constants of island life in the harvest of sea and land and the compulsions of voyage and homecoming.

Author : Diana Gardner
Publisher : Persephone Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1903155541

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The Woman Novelist and Other Stories by Diana Gardner Pdf

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0192837885

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The Princess and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Pdf

A practising doctor, Chekhov was an acute observer of Russian society's moral, as well as physical sickness. Joining The Russian Master, Ward Number Six, and A Woman's Kingdom in the World's Classics series, this collection, including `The Party', `After the Theatre', and `A Case History', again poses his recurrent literary quandary of whether to moralize, hoping to reform these ailments, or simply to entertain. The solution is to be found in the stories themselves, which, like his plays,offer no easy answers, but pinpoint the anguish, tedium, or downright evil of his characters with an irony that makes them both poignant and truthful.

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0192837338

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Ward Number Six and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Pdf

Taken from The Oxford Chekhov, the stories in this collection include "The Butterfly," "Ariadne," "A Dreary Story," "Neighbours," "An Anonymous Story," and "Doctor Startsev," as well as the title story.

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192836986

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The Steppe and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Pdf

The first of Chekhov's works to be published in a serious literary journal, `The Steppe', with its masterly account of a spectacular thunderstorm, signifies his maturation as a writer of short stories. While the majority of his tales focus on the privileged classes, this selection shows that Chekhov never forgot his origins as the son of a failed provincial grocer, and characters as varied as the brutal soldier in `Gusev', the downtrodden old constable in `On Official Business', and the bemused peasants in `New Villa' testify to the power and flexibility of his art.

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590179444

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Peasants and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov Pdf

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

Author : Lindy S. Curry,Chan-Eun Park
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313069345

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A Tiger by the Tail and Other Stories from the Heart of Korea by Lindy S. Curry,Chan-Eun Park Pdf

The power of love within families; the complexities of relationships; the rites of passage for birth, coming of age, marriage, and death-these are some of the themes covered in this wonderful volume. Author and storyteller Lindy Soon Curry offers us 25 enchanting tales that foster understanding of Korean culture and Korean Americans. Humorous tales, teaching tales, tall tales, classics, and a section of stories about tigers are included. Written in a style that easily lends itself to read-alouds as well as to silent reading, these stories reflect unique cultural traditions and values of Korea as well as universal symbols and themes. Curry's tips for storytelling give educators insights in how to effectively present or perform the tales. In addition, Dr. Chan-eung Park discusses the wisdom to be found in the stories and the cultural continuity of the collection. A color plate section illustrates some of the traditional arts, customs, landscapes of Korea.

Author : Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134260775

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Reference Guide to Russian Literature by Neil Cornwell Pdf

First Published in 1998. This volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come... It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public.

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141906874

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Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895 by Anton Chekhov Pdf

These stories from the middle period of Chekhov's career show him exploring complex, ambiguous and often extreme emotions. Influenced by his own experiences as a doctor, 'Ward No. 6', set in a mental hospital, is a savage indictment of the medical profession. 'The Black Monk', portraying an academic who has strange hallucinations, explores ideas of genius and insanity; in 'Murder', religious fervour leads to violence; while in 'The Student', Chekhov's favourite story, a young man recounts a tale from the gospels and undergoes a spiritual epiphany. In all the stories collected here, Chekhov's characters face madness, alienation and frustration before they experience brief, ephemeral moments of insight, often earned at great cost, where they confront the reality of their existence.

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781421821672

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The Chorus Girl and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Pdf

ONE day when she was younger and better-looking, and when her voice was stronger, Nikolay Petrovitch Kolpakov, her adorer, was sitting in the outer room in her summer villa. It was intolerably hot and stifling. Kolpakov, who had just dined and drunk a whole bottle of inferior port, felt ill-humoured and out of sorts. Both were bored and waiting for the heat of the day to be over in order to go for a walk. All at once there was a sudden ring at the door. Kolpakov, who was sitting with his coat off, in his slippers, jumped up and looked inquiringly at Pasha.

Author : Yaa Gyasi
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385695183

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Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZE Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief—a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191579622

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Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Pdf

Shelley's suspenseful and intellectually rich gothic tale confronts some of the most important and enduring themes in all of literture—the power of human imagination, the potential hubris of science, the gulf between appearance and essence, the effects of human cruelty, the desire for revenge and the need for forgiveness, and much more. 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 : Kimberly Ervin Alexander,James P. Bowers
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532643750

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What Women Want by Kimberly Ervin Alexander,James P. Bowers Pdf

Pentecostal women ministers have been silenced in official conversations about their place in church leadership. What do women ministers believe about family life? Have they been influenced by liberal feminism? Do they really want to be equal ministry leaders with men? What Women Want answers these questions in a first ever empirical study that paints a portrait of what it’s like to be a Pentecostal woman minister.

Author : Peter Dray,Matt Lillicrap
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789743968

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Reality and Other Stories by Peter Dray,Matt Lillicrap Pdf

The only way to make sense of our lives is to tell stories. So is it coincidence that we see the same seven basic plot points repeated over time and across cultures? What if the stories we tell give us clues to our deepest desires, and to the meaning of the reality we live in? In Reality and Other Stories, Peter Dray and Matt Lillicrap explore how seven story archetypes - Overcoming the Monster, Rags to Riches, The Quest, Voyage and Return, Comedy, Tragedy and Rebirth - are not only universal, but also found in the story of Christ. As they unpack each example, they demonstrate how our deepest longing find fulfilment in Jesus' story. This is not just another Christian apologetics book. Reality and Other Stories is an ideal gift to give to new Christians and those just beginning to explore faith. The authors show the power of storytelling to affect our lives, and through examples of story archetypes demonstrates that the life of Jesus truly is the story at the heart of reality. Reality and Other Stories will help you explore Jesus’ story for yourself and better understand how through Jesus, we can discover the true story of reality that gives ultimate purpose to our lives.