Collected Tales

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307803368

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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol Pdf

Using, or rather mimicking, traditional forms of storytelling Gogol created stories that are complete within themselves and only tangentially connected to a meaning or moral. His work belongs to the school of invention, where each twist and turn of the narrative is a surprise unfettered by obligation to an overarching theme. Selected from Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, Mirgorod, and the Petersburg tales and arranged in order of composition, the thirteen stories in The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogolencompass the breadth of Gogol's literary achievement. From the demon-haunted “St. John's Eve ” to the heartrending humiliations and trials of a titular councilor in “The Overcoat,” Gogol's knack for turning literary conventions on their heads combined with his overt joy in the art of story telling shine through in each of the tales. This translation, by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, is as vigorous and darkly funny as the original Russian. It allows readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostevsky and Kafka.

Author : A. E. Coppard
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547196532

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The Collected Tales of A. E. Coppard by A. E. Coppard Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Collected Tales of A. E. Coppard" by A. E. Coppard. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 1575 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Alfred Edgar Coppard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : England
ISBN : OCLC:221889166

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The Collected Tales of A. E. Coppard by Alfred Edgar Coppard Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Grosshans
Publisher : The Stuffed Fabulist
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Collected Tales by Geoffrey Grosshans Pdf

Collected Tales: Fables and Parables in Search of a Moral contains 230-plus contemporary satirical fables, parables, revisions of myths, and passing observations on the present state of homo sapiens. The tales focus on psychological, social, political, spiritual, and philosophical themes, but the “moral” of each one is left to the reader to decide. Among the tales in the present book: • Aesop runs afoul of the good citizens of Delphi • a barnacle weighs the moral pros and cons of letting go • a bear attracts quite a following in faith-based wrestling • two troops of lowland buffoons square off on a patch of ground where the halls of Congress now stand • a booby and a loon host a talk-radio show • a chicken and an egg nearly come to blows over which of them should go first • the Chimera has a difficult time filling out the compatibility profile for an online matchmaking service • an ophthalmologist has some good news and some bad news for a dragonfly • a free spirit stubs its toe • a fruit fly becomes obsessed with genealogy • a gazelle finds itself in a state of suspended animation • a gene falls victim to identity theft • a hawk has trouble maintaining eye contact • the Hydra notices that its many heads are growing smaller and disappearing • Icarus goes for a swim • a film crew sets out to document the march of the pundits • reports come in that a misanthrope has been spotted on the outskirts of town • a molehill comes to worry that it might not reach its full potential • a mosquito lands a job waiting tables • a nightcrawler is tracked down by the thought police • an old goat nearly overdoses on ED pills • the great god Pan roles over and declares, “I ain’t dead yet, folks” • Pavlov’s dogs nearly die of acute dehydration • the phoenix considers having itself embalmed • a poodle takes up ballroom dancing • a porcupine goes in for body piercing in a big way • a possum comes to realize how difficult it is to appear dim • Prometheus investigates the merits of canned heat • a robot takes its pet human for a walk in the park as usual • a rhinoceros notices it has a bruise • a rubber chicken begins to fret that it lacks gravitas • a sardine feels kind of lonesome • a satyr sets himself up as a life coach • a scorpion experiences a moment of compassion • a selfie fails to recognize itself • the Seven Deadly Sins form a support group to buck up their faltering spirits • a shark suffers from bleeding gums • a sheep rents a wolf suit • Sisyphus is arrested as a public nuisance • Spirit and Flesh are directed to undergo relationship counseling • a swan considers becoming an ugly duckling • a termite applies for a highly regarded grant to carry on with its work • topiary animals take the shears to themselves • a unicorn loses its horn trying to make a career change • vampire bats come out of their caves by the millions to discharge their civic duty • a vulture learns to feel good about itself • a wacko falls off the ceiling and right into the soup at a political banquet • a weak ego signs up for the trial offer of a popular home gym • a pack of wolves wins a Department of Defense contract in the billions to howl at the moon • a xenophobe turns up in the nation’s blood supply • a zebra finds itself in a herd of black horses and white horses • a zeitgeist has to admit being perplexed about what it was supposed to be Collected Tales includes material contained in Maneater Meditations.

Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Henry O.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785521076840

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Collected Tales II by Henry O. Pdf

William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. "Collected Tales" includes such wonderful stories like "The Fool-Killer", "The Clarion Call", "The Memento” and many others.

Author : Doyle A.C.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785521080687

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Collected Tales I by Doyle A.C. Pdf

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. “Collected Tales” is a collection of early Doyle’s short stories. It includes stories of mystery, comedy, shipwrecks and fantasy.

Author : Henry O.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785521076871

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Collected Tales V by Henry O. Pdf

William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. "Collected Tales" includes "The World and the Door", "The Theory and the Hound", "The Hypotheses of Failure", "Calloway's Code", "A Matter of Mean Elevation" and others.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Valley Byliners
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781450219778

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Collected Tales from the Rio Grande by Valley Byliners Pdf

The authors of COLLECTED TALES FROM THE RIO GRANDE are current or former residents of the Rio Grande Valley, who know the joys and tribulations of living along a contentious border with Mexico. From this wealth of talent and experience, the Valley Byliners Editorial Committee selected and edited the stories and poems that make up this volume. Don Cliff ord has written for and edited several prize winning military and civilian publications. Jack King once taught English and Art in the Texas State Technical College Upward Bound program. Marianna Nelson helped keep the project on track with pertinent insights from the Byliner membership. But in the long run, this book would not have been possible without the collective eff orts of all the talented writers presented here.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1992-10-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781598533392

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Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890 by Mark Twain Pdf

This Library of America book, with its companion volume, is the most comprehensive collection ever published of Mark Twain's short writings — the incomparable stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires, and maxims of America's greatest humorist. Arranged chronologically and containing many pieces restored to the form in which Twain intended them to appear, the volumes show with unprecedented clarity the literary evolution of Mark Twain over six decades of his career. The nearly two hundred separate items in this volume cover the years from 1852 to 1890. As a riverboat pilot, Confederate irregular, silver miner, frontier journalist, and publisher, Twain witnessed the tragicomic beginning of the Civil War in Missouri, the frenzied opening of the West, and the feverish corruption, avarice, and ambition of the Reconstruction era. He wrote about political bosses, jumping frogs, robber barons, cats, women's suffrage, temperance, petrified men, the bicycle, the Franco-Prussian War, the telephone, the income tax, the insanity defense, injudicious swearing, and the advisability of political candidates preemptively telling the worst about themselves before others get around to it. Among the stories included here are "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog," which won him instant fame when published in 1865, "Cannibalism in the Cars," "The Invalid's Story," and the charming "A Cat's Tale," written for his daughters' private amusement. This volume also presents several of his famous and successful speeches and toasts, such as "Woman — God Bless Her," "The Babies," and "Advice to Youth." Such writings brought Twain immense success on the public lecture and banquet circuit, as did his controversial "Whittier Birthday Speech," which portrayed Boston's most revered men of letters as a band of desperadoes.

Author : A. E. Coppard
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-10T15:16:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781774644379

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The Collected Tales of A. E. Coppard by A. E. Coppard Pdf

This is an omnibus collection of the best work of this outstanding modern master of the short story, selected by himself from such volumes as "Adam and Eve and Pinch Me", "Clorinda Walks in Heaven", "The Black Dog", "The Field of Mustard", and many others.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781350181281

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Collected Tales, Poems, and Other Writings of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

This collection brings together more than fifty of Edgar Allan Poe's most important stories, poems, and critical writings, which established him as one of the most distinctive voices in American Literature, in a single accessible volume. Alongside annotated texts of each work, it also includes a complete Reader's Guide to Poe's work to help readers explore the contexts, style, and reception of his writing from his own time to today. An essential resource for students and teachers of Poe, this book includes stories such as 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Tell-Tale Heart', and 'The Purloined Letter' as well as his Gothic narrative poem 'The Raven' and some of his most significant critical writings.

Author : Steven Erikson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446486290

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The Second Collected Tales of Bauchelain & Korbal Broach by Steven Erikson Pdf

____________________ The necromancers Bauchelain and Korbal Broach - scourges of civilization, raisers of the dead, reapers of the souls of the living, devourers of hope, betrayers of faith, slayers of the innocent and modest personifications of evil - have a lot to answer for and answer they will, but first they must lie, murder and cheat their way through three more escapades in some of the more deprived fringes and impoverished communities of the Malazan Empire. Much to the shame of their long-suffering general factotum, Emancipoor Reese... Here then - for readers' delectation and entertainment - are those escapades, namely the novellas The Crack'd Pot Trail, The Wurms of Blearmouth and The Fiends of Nightmaria . . .