Collected Fables

Author : James Thurber
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062909183

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Collected Fables by James Thurber Pdf

"James Thurber was a comedic genius. His fables are not simply parodies of Aesop. They are wry, accurate, and powerful reflections of ourselves, our foibles, our follies, and, above all, our self-importance. And they are very, very funny." --Neil Gaiman James Thurber has been called “one of the world’s greatest humorists” by Alistair Cooke (TheAtlantic), and “one of our great American institutions” (Stanley Walker)—and few works reveal Thurber’s genius as powerfully as his fables. Perennially entertaining and astutely satirical, Thurber pinpricks the idiosyncrasies of life with verbal frivolity, hilarious insights, political shrewdness, and, of course, quirky, quotable morals. Now, readers can savor 85 fables by the twentieth century’s preeminent humorist collected for the first time in a single anthology. Here, Fables for Our Time, Further Fables for Our Time, and ten previously uncollected fables—illustrated by ten contemporary artists including Seymour Chwast, Mark Ulriksen, Laurie Rosenwald, and R. O. Blechman—are presented in Collected Fables, a must-have for readers of all ages.

Author : Aesop
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1853261289

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Aesop's Fables by Aesop Pdf

A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.

Author : Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 1575 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780795349737

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The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke by Arthur C. Clarke Pdf

Six decades of fascinating stories from the legendary “colossus of science fiction” and creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey gathered in one compendium (The New Yorker). Arthur C. Clarke, along with H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein, was a definitive voice in twentieth century science fiction. A prophetic thinker, undersea explorer, and “one of the true geniuses of our time,” Clarke not only won the highest science fiction honors, the Nebula and Hugo Awards, but also received nominations for an Academy Award and the Nobel Peace Prize, and was knighted for his services to literature (Ray Bradbury). Now, more than one hundred works of the sci-fi master’s short fiction are available in the “single-author collection of the decade” (Booklist, starred review). This definitive edition includes early work such as “Rescue Party” and “The Lion of Comarre,” classics like “The Nine Billion Names of God” and “The Sentinel” (which was the kernel of the later novel and movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey), and later works including “A Meeting with Medusa” and “The Hammer of God.” Encapsulating one of the great science fiction careers of all time, this immense volume “displays the author’s fertile imagination and irrepressible enthusiasm for both good storytelling and impeccable science” (Library Journal). “One of the most astounding imaginations ever encountered in print.” —The New York Times “As his Collected Stories helps to demonstrate, there has been no popular writer since the days of C S Lewis and Charles Williams whose disposition is more nakedly apocalyptic, who takes greater pleasure in cradling eternity in the palm of his hand.” —The Guardian

Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241982723

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Stories by Susan Sontag Pdf

'Magnificent... Her famous seriousness pervades throughout... What's striking is the astonishing scope, potential and possibility Sontag saw in short fiction' Financial Times The complete collected short stories of Susan Sontag, one of the most brilliant and influential writers of the twentieth century Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist - inquisitive, analytical, fearlessly outspoken. Yet all throughout her life, she also wrote short stories: fictions which wrestled with those ideas and preoccupations she couldn't address in essay form. These short fictions are allegories, parables, autobiographical vignettes, each capturing an authentic fragment of life, dramatizing Sontag's private griefs and fears. Stories collects all of Sontag's short fiction for the first time. This astonishingly versatile collection showcases its peerless writer at the height of her powers. For any Sontag fan, it is an unmissable testament to her creative achievements. 'Sontag is one of the most influential critics of her generation' New York Review of Books

Author : Colette
Publisher : Random House
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446467541

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The Collected Stories Of Colette by Colette Pdf

Edited and with an introduction by Robert PhelpsThe hundred short stories collected here include such masterpieces as 'Bella-Vista', 'The Tender Shoot' and 'Le K-pi', Colette's subtle and ruthless rendering of a woman's belated sexual awakening. Shot through with the colours and flavours of the Parisian world and fertile French countryside, these short stories reverberate with the fine-spun desire, wit and psychological acuity that made Colette unique.

Author : Moshe Wallich
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0814324495

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ספר משלים by Moshe Wallich Pdf

Reproduced pages of the original 17th-century Yiddish, including the woodcuts, face the first English translation of the 34 fables that comprise Wallich's Sefer Mesholim. A valuable resource for students of the Yiddish language and of European Jewish culture of the early modern period. The fables come mostly from Aesop and medieval Hebrew and German sources. Well annotated. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374720483

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Collected Stories by Shirley Hazzard Pdf

Collected Stories includes both volumes of the National Book Award–winning author Shirley Hazzard’s short-story collections—Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses—alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories Shirley Hazzard's Collected Stories is a work of staggering breadth and accomplishment. Taken together, these twenty-eight short stories are masterworks in telescoping focus, ranging from quotidian struggles between beauty and pragmatism to satirical send-ups of international bureaucracy, from the Italian countryside to suburban Connecticut. Hazzard's heroes are high-minded romantics who attempt to fit their feelings into the twentieth-century world of office jobs and dreary marriages. After all, as she writes in "The Picnic," "It was tempting to confine oneself to what one could cope with. And one couldn't cope with love." And yet it is the comedy, the tragedy, and the splendor of love, the pursuit and the absence of it, that animates Hazzard's stories and provides the truth and beauty that her protagonists seek. Hazzard once said, "The idea that somebody has expressed something, in a supreme way, that it can be expressed; this is, I think, an enormous feature of literature." Her stories themselves are a supreme evocation of writing at its very best: probing, uncompromising, and deeply felt.

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015066844492

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Collected Stories of Roald Dahl by Roald Dahl Pdf

This Everyman's Library edition is the only hardcover edition of Roald Dahl'sstories for adults.

Author : Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780060751555

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Leaf Storm by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Pdf

Contains Leaf Storm, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles, The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship, Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo, Nabo

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:153614366

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The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce Pdf

Author : Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 006093266X

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Collected Novellas by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Pdf

Renowned as a master of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has long delighted readers around the world with his exquisitely crafted prose. Brimming with unforgettable characters and set in exotic locales, his fiction transports readers to a world that is at once fanciful, haunting, and real. Leaf Storm, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first novella, introduces the mythical village of Macondo, a desolate town beset by torrents of rain, where a man must fulfill a promise made years earlier. No One Writes to the Colonel is a novella of life in a decaying tropical town in Colombia with an unforgettable central character. Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a dark and profound story of three people joined together in a fatal act of violence.

Author : Hortense Calisher
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480437388

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The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher by Hortense Calisher Pdf

DIVDIVFinalist for the National Book Award: Thirty-six stories by O. Henry Award–winning novelist Hortense Calisher/divDIV The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher gathers short pieces that chart the author’s best-loved themes of mindful consciousness and social worlds. This collection includes one of her well-known New Yorker stories, “In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks,” in which a young man drops his mother off at a sanitarium and acquires a new friend who finally awakens him to the world. Also included are “The Sound of Waiting,” one of the chapters in the Elkin family saga; the chilling, Jamesian “The Scream on Fifty-seventh Street,” in which a New York widow hears a scream late one night but cannot decide how to investigate without appearing to her neighbors to have gone mad; and the nearly novella-length “The Summer Rebellion.”/div/div

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811220811

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Collected Stories by Tennessee Williams Pdf

This definitive collection establishes Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century. Tennessee Williams’ Collected Stories combines the four short-story volumes published during Williams’ lifetime with previously unpublished or uncollected stories. Arranged chronologically, the forty-nine stories, when taken together with the memoir of his father that serves as a preface, not only establish Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century, but also, in Gore Vidal’s view, constitute the real autobiography of Williams’ "art and inner life."

Author : Martin Green
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595495672

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Collected Stories by Martin Green Pdf

The stories in this volume are in five sections. The first contains "Retirement Stories" about senior citizens coping with old age or recalling past loves and adventures. The second section is called "Sequels and Series." It includes three more "In Olden Times" stories about Abe and his family dragon Bob, and three more adventure stories about Alvin Oaks, who's partially solved the Universal Theorem, both introduced in Volume II. Finally, there are three stories about Uncle Pringle, a retired possibly CIA agent turned consultant, who helps people with their problems in sometimes surprising ways. The "Speculative Stories" in the third section include one in which an author's characters come to life, two in which super-intelligent inhabitants of another planet debate the fate of Earth, and one in which "Journeyman Meets Seinfeld." The "Dark Stories" of the fourth section are about the fearsome things that lurk "Out There," and similar menaces. The fifth section has "Stories Written (Mostly) for Fun" plus a few "serious" stories, concluding one about "When My Father Met My Mother." I hope readers will have fun reading all these stories.

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466884014

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The Collected Stories by Grace Paley Pdf

This reissue of Grace Paley's classic collection—a finalist for the National Book Award—demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for her characters, moving from the hilarious to the tragic and back again. Whether writing about the love (and conflict) between parents and children or between husband and wife, or about the struggles of aging single mothers or disheartened political organizers to make sense of the world, she brings the same unerring ear for the rhythm of life as it is actually lived. The Collected Stories is a 1994 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.