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Collected Short-Stories and Four Novellas

Author : Elizabeth Greenwood
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434366597

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Elizabeth Greenwood studied Sculpture at St. Martin's School of Art, and in Florence and Rome. She had a classical education, preferring Greek to Latin for the richness of its vocabulary and her sculpture with its references to Greek mythology reflects this predilection. She also writes Poetry. Apart from poetry, she enjoys producing emblematic fiction based on Mary Poppins' philosophical song "a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down", thus fulfilling the writer's task as an entertainer cum moralist. Both the poetical and the modelling activities date from early childhood. Although these were largely ignored, she was fortunate in having been born into a family where close relatives had universal minds, uniting a passion for literature with a keen interest in Science (of Space especially), Politics and the Cinema. In latter years, to counteract the tendency to create works of the imagination, she has applied herself to the discipline of academic works in the field of Religion, i.e. the Bible, with particular regard to the Dead Sea discoveries, no well-documented. A successful breeder and trainer of horses, she has campaigned ceaselessly for higher education in Equine Studies, on the lines devised in America where Hippology has been elevated to university status, thus producing educated riders and saving the horse a lot of unnecessary suffering, She considers horses to be regulators and keepers of conscience, teaching stoical wisdom in the exercise of man's power over life and death.

Collected Short-Stories and Four Novellas

Author : Elizabeth Greenwood
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434366597

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Elizabeth Greenwood studied Sculpture at St. Martin's School of Art, and in Florence and Rome. She had a classical education, preferring Greek to Latin for the richness of its vocabulary and her sculpture with its references to Greek mythology reflects this predilection. She also writes Poetry. Apart from poetry, she enjoys producing emblematic fiction based on Mary Poppins' philosophical song "a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down", thus fulfilling the writer's task as an entertainer cum moralist. Both the poetical and the modelling activities date from early childhood. Although these were largely ignored, she was fortunate in having been born into a family where close relatives had universal minds, uniting a passion for literature with a keen interest in Science (of Space especially), Politics and the Cinema. In latter years, to counteract the tendency to create works of the imagination, she has applied herself to the discipline of academic works in the field of Religion, i.e. the Bible, with particular regard to the Dead Sea discoveries, no well-documented. A successful breeder and trainer of horses, she has campaigned ceaselessly for higher education in Equine Studies, on the lines devised in America where Hippology has been elevated to university status, thus producing educated riders and saving the horse a lot of unnecessary suffering, She considers horses to be regulators and keepers of conscience, teaching stoical wisdom in the exercise of man's power over life and death.

Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow

Author : Daniel Nayeri
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781536223439

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“Language lovers as well as those who appreciate the artistry of a perfectly compact novella will consider this collection a treasure.” —Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review) This bold collection of novellas by Daniel Nayeri features four modern riffs on classic genres that explore universally compelling themes such as identity and belonging, betrayal and friendship, love and mortality. Included are: Straw House: A Western sizzling with suspense, set in a land where a rancher grows soulless humans and a farmer grows living toys. Wood House: A science-fiction tale set in a future where reality and technology blend imperceptibly, and a teenage girl must save the world from a nano-revolution. Brick House: A detective story set in modern New York City, featuring a squad of “wish police” and a team of unlikely detectives. Blow: A comedic love story told by none other than Death himself, portrayed as a handsome and charismatic hero who may steal your heart in more ways than one.

Different Seasons

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501156762

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Four novellas from Stephen King bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters. This gripping collection begins with "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption," in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge--the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption. Next is "Apt Pupil," the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town. In "The Body," four rambunctious young boys plunge through the facade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. This novella became the movie Stand By Me. Finally, a disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death in "The Breathing Method."--Provided by publisher.

The End of Tragedy

Author : Rachel Ingalls
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015015492575

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In these four novellas, the author of Mrs. Caliban continues to work the fictional territory she has made her own. Each of the four stories is highlighted by some twist of horror.

The Last Worthless Evening

Author : Andre Dubus
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015012288372

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Dubus's stories (now included in his Collected Short Stories & Novellas) tell of a suburban girl coming beautifully of age as her mother doesn't; a woman who refuses defeat at the hands of her brutal and pathetic husband; an eleven-year-old kid who meets up with a broken, angry, and decidedly dangerous Vietnam vet who takes him into a local bar for a treat. As novelist Richard Ford has said, "Dubus is a patient, resourceful and profound writer who never gives in to convention--although his situations are our situations, and imminently recognizable. The great, addictive pleasure of reading him arises from our anticipation that he is always going to say something interesting."

The Practical Heart

Author : Allan Gurganus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307764140

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A luminous quartet, five years in the writing, reveals even more fully the breathtaking range of "a storyteller in the grand tradition" (New York Times). Allan Gurganus's voice--by turn bawdy and serene, folkloric and profane--deepens as it soars into this quiet masterwork. Four new fables--rich in event, comedy, experience--surge with the force of history's headlines versus sidestreet human fortitude. Improbable heroes and heroines spiral outward from Gurganus's familiar Carolina terrain. Each fires into a wild and differing direction, all in quest of some fantasy that's practically impossible: --An impoverished immigrant has her portrait painted (or not) by John Singer Sargent. --A young man's devotion to saving eighteenth-century homes—and their odd lingering ghosts—helps him find unlikely ways to renovate his own mortality. --A pillar of the community becomes, over the course of one cartoon matinee, its pariah. --A beloved, transfixingly homely father shows his village and his only son a decency stronger than race, humiliation, or even death itself. These characters' quixotic missions prove mysterious, often even to themselves. Their legacies are not easily deciphered. And yet, their most impractical wishes soon become the heartiest facts about each. They manage to wrest battle-courage from everyday indecision. Out of superstition and convention, they lift certainty. They each find a wealth of consoling truths banked--immortal--in the all-too-human heart. Allan Gurganus's great powers--announced more than a decade ago by Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All--here achieve a yearning exuberance worthy of a new Whitman. These leaps of sexual longing, empathy, and faith become a major new gift from this essential fablemaker.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429983716

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In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection of short stories brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Ian McDonald, Stephen Baxter, Michael Swanwick, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kage Baker, Walter Jon Williams, Alastair Reynolds, and Charles Stross. And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre. "This venerable annual’s twenty-fifth edition represents a milestone for editor Dozois. He has kept faith with the series for a quarter-century without ever shortchanging, or even showing any signs of shortchanging, readers on either quality or abundance of selections."--Booklist

Love Stories

Author : Joseph Cowley
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781477179680

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LOVE STORIES is about love at all ages, from the obsession of a young man in his early twenties for an older woman, to the sentimental journey of an old man, whose wife has recently died, to find the love he left behind him in war-torn England after World War II to return to the States. In DIANNE, the narrator finds himself obsessing over a beautiful woman he has seen on a train. It intensifies when she accidentally bumps into him on the steps of the New York Public Library a few weeks later. Frightened, not sure he isn't getting into something that is more than he can handle, he accepts her invitation to accompany her to a penthouse party on New Years eve. The ensuing relationship, filled as it is with beauty and tenderness, leaves him scarred and shaken when Dianne's own obsession, the mysterious world-traveler Charlie, returns to claim her.

The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802134904

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Gathers the Nobel Prize winning poet and dramatist's short prose into one volume that affords the reader a view of Beckett's development as an artist.

The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804172790

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The Most Complete Collection of Impossible Crime Stories Ever Assembled, with puzzling mysteries by Stephen King, Dashiell Hammett, Lawrence Block, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Dorothy L. Sayers, P. G. Wodehouse, Erle Stanley Gardner, and many, many more THE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK OF LOCKED-ROOM MYSTERIES: An empty desert, a lonely ski slope, a gentleman’s study, an elevator car—nowhere is a crime completely impossible. Edgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler has collected sixty-eight of the all-time best impossible-crime stories from almost two hundred years of the genre. In addition to the many classic examples of the form—a case of murder in a locked room or otherwise inaccessible place, solved by a brilliant sleuth—this collection expands the definition of the locked room to include tales of unbelievable thefts and incredible disappearances. Among these pages you’ll find stories with evocative titles like “The Flying Death”, “The Man From Nowhere”, “A Terribly Strange Bed”, and “The Theft of the Bermuda Penny”, not to mention appearances by some of the cleverest characters in all of crime, including Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Georges Simenon’s Jules Maigret, Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op, and many more. Featuring • Unconventional means of murder • Pilfered jewels • Shocking solutions Includes • Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, the first detective story and the first locked-room mystery • Masters of the short story form: Edward D. Hoch, Ellery Queen, Carter Dickson, and Stanley Ellin A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL

The Liar's Wife

Author : Mary Gordon
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307390332

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In the short novels that make up this beautiful collection, Mary Gordon presents a quartet of finely rendered, emotionally resonant stories. Here we meet the ferocious Simone Weil during her last days as a transplant in New York City; a vulnerable American graduate student who escapes to Italy after her first, compromising love affair; the charming Irish liar of the title, who gets more out of life than most; and Thomas Mann, opening the heart of a high schooler in the Midwest. At every turn, Gordon revels in the interactions and crucial flashes of understanding that change lives forever. Entrancing reading, The Liar’s Wife is a wonderful demonstration of Gordon’s literary mastery and human sympathy.

Sequels

Author : Janet G. Husband,Jonathan F. Husband
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838909676

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A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

Under The Bridge

Author : Michael Lechtman
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1099473039

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Under The Bridge is a collection of four novellas and four short stories. Each story deals with the underside of life, themes that are always present in our daily lives, but which nobody wants to think about. Eleventh Hour Hero is a fast-paced tale of how an ordinary citizen can be tricked by the government into an assassination mission against a Middle Eastern dictator. It's a suicide mission that the government will not risk on one of its own operatives. Will the story's hero, Sam Kenicaw, survive in order to save the lives of millions, or will he be willing to sacrifice his own life? The River is a coming-of-age account of teenage boys in the doldrums of summer who scale across a wide raging river from beneath the superstructure of a massive bridge. The event is triggered by the previous drowning death of a young boy, which leaves the story's hero with a deep guilt that cannot be set free until the bridge is scaled. The Lost Souls Club exposes the brainwashing committed on unsuspecting people, both by a unique religious cult, and the unscrupulous dealings of a con man who takes advantage of it. The "lost souls" are willing to follow these leaders, no matter the cost to their own lives. Malcolm's War is a chronicle of modern-day anti-Antisemitism using the unique power of the press by the story's wealthy antihero, Malcolm Randolph. Will Malcolm's attempts at a new Holocaust succeed, or are there now forces in the world to combat it? The Decline Of Brother Brown is an account of the ravages of debt, and how it affects the life of a once proud and successful man. Brother Brown is now a down and out lawyer who is defended by his protege, but for how long? Wishful Thinking explores poverty, and its consequences of depression and suicidal thoughts. The story's hero, Luke Bean, is forced to leave his family's farm for the big city and extra income for his family. What will his fate be in the face of his ever increasing mental deterioration?To The Democracy Of Old details a left-wing revolution in a stable democracy. The Colonel-Commander has taken control of the entire country, and the lives of its people. What you may think the story is about will surprise you in the end.Under The Bridge, the title story of the collection, is a sad yet heartwarming account about the homelessness we see every day all around us. The protagonist, Dexter Flan, is a happily married man who has a young son. From one day to the next, he loses his job and his family and finds himself living a morbid life under an expressway bridge, surrounded by other homeless men. Is there still kindness and justice left in our world that can lift Dexter out of his plight? Find out when you read Under The Bridge.

The Last Worthless Evening

Author : Andre Dubus
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Stories
ISBN : 0140102590

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