From The Fifteenth District

Author : Mavis Gallant
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551996271

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Set in Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, the nine stories in this glittering collection reflect on the foibles and dilemmas of human relationships. An English family goes to the south of France for the sake of the father’s health, and to get away from an England of rationing and poverty. A displaced person turned French soldier in Algeria now makes a living as an actor in Paris. A group of selfish English expatriates on the Italian Riviera are incredulous that Mussolini and the Germans may affect their lives. A great writer’s quiet widow blossoms in widowhood, to the surprise and alarm of her children, who send a ten-year-old grandson to Switzerland to keep her company one Christmas. Full of wry humour and penetrating insights, this is Mavis Gallant at her most unforgettable.

Author : Mavis Gallant
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497685079

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From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant Pdf

“A fine-tuned and elegant collection” from the prize-winning author of Paris Stories (Kirkus Reviews). Mavis Gallant has a unique talent for distilling the sense of otherness one feels abroad into something tangible and utterly understandable. In this collection, she relates the stories of those stranded in relationships, places, and even times in which they don’t belong. In “The Moslem Wife” a woman is entrusted to look after a hotel in France when her husband is trapped in America after the breakout of World War II. As the situation progresses, the two grow in surprising and profound ways. In another tale, a German prisoner of war is released from France and returns home to a mother whose personality has been as irrevocably changed by the war as his has. In one of the most poignant entries, Gallant follows the life of a Holocaust survivor, illustrating how his experiences tint his outlook on life forty years later. With its wide breadth of subject matter and the author’s characteristic way with nuance, From the Fifteenth District is classic Mavis Gallant.

Author : Mavis Gallant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Short stories, Canadian
ISBN : OCLC:1011697554

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From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant Pdf

Ranging in time and background from the Italian Riviera in the 1930's to Berlin in the early 1970's, these stories explore with consummate artistry the disparity between appearance and reality, and misunderstandings between people.

Author : Mavis Gallant
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735253384

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From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant Pdf

Set in Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, the nine stories in this glittering collection reflect on the foibles and dilemmas of human relationships. An English family goes to the south of France for the sake of the father’s health, and to get away from an England of rationing and poverty. A displaced person turned French soldier in Algeria now makes a living as an actor in Paris. A group of selfish English expatriates on the Italian Riviera are incredulous that Mussolini and the Germans may affect their lives. A great writer’s quiet widow blossoms in widowhood, to the surprise and alarm of her children, who send a ten-year-old grandson to Switzerland to keep her company one Christmas. Full of wry humour and penetrating insights, this is Mavis Gallant at her most unforgettable.

Author : Mavis Gallant
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551996295

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Montreal Stories by Mavis Gallant Pdf

“In Gallant’s stories, the conflicts, obsessions, and concerns—the near-impossibility of gaining personal freedom without inflicting harm on those whom you love and who love you; the difficulty of forgiving a cruel and selfish parent without sentimentalizing him; or the pain of failed renewal—are limned with an affectionate irony and generated by a sincere belief in their ultimate significance, significance not just for the characters who embody them, but for the author and, presumably, the reader as well.” —Russell Banks, from his introduction Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine-grained evocation of the quandaries of people who must make their way in the world without any place to call their own. The complexity of the very idea of home is alive in the stories Gallant has written about Montreal. Montreal Stories, Russell Banks’s new selection from Gallant’s work, demonstrates anew the remarkable reach of this writer’s singular art. Among its contents are three previously unpublished stories, as well as the celebrated semi-autobiographical sequence about Linnet Muir—stories that are wise, funny, and full of insight into the perils and promise of growing up and breaking loose.

Author : California. Legislature
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : California
ISBN : SRLF:A0004413142

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Journals of the Legislature of the State of California by California. Legislature Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rotary International
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Proceedings: Fifteenth Annual Convention of Rotary International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Iowa. General Assembly. House of Representatives
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Iowa
ISBN : UCAL:B2881593

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Journal of the House of Representatives of the ... Regular Session of the General Assembly of the State of Iowa by Iowa. General Assembly. House of Representatives Pdf

Author : Michelle Dalton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442472662

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Fifteenth Summer by Michelle Dalton Pdf

"Fifteen-year-old Chelsea and her family are spending the summer at a cottage on the shore of Lake Michigan where Chelsea meets and falls for Josh--the cute and shy employee at the new bookstore in town."--

Author : Minnesota
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:HL3ACO

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The Code of civil procedure and all remedial law, the Probate code, the Penal code and the criminal procedure, the constitutions and organic acts by Minnesota Pdf

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Government publications
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU08229198

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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly Pdf

Author : Mavis Gallant
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551996288

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Home Truths by Mavis Gallant Pdf

In Home Truths, Mavis Gallant draws us into the tricky labyrinth of human behaviour, while offering readers her unique, clear-eyed vision of Canadians both at home and abroad. Ranging in time and place from small-town Quebec during the Depression, to Geneva and Paris in the 1950s, to contemporary Vancouver Island, these stories explore the remorseless cruelty of children, the tensions that affect all families, the dangerous but endearing naïveté of young girls in love with Europe, and the terrible distances that divide people who love each other. And in the celebrated “Linnet Muir” stories, Gallant draws on her own experiences to portray a sensitive and alarmingly perceptive young girl growing up in Montreal in the 1930s and 1940s. Incisive, darkly humorous, and compassionate, Home Truths is a vibrant collection of stories from one of our finest writers.

Author : United States. Light-House Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Lighthouses
ISBN : UOM:39015034794365

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Annual Report of the Light-House Board of the United States to the Secretary of the Treasury for the Fiscal Year Ended ... by United States. Light-House Board Pdf

Author : Mavis Gallant
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551993669

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Going Ashore by Mavis Gallant Pdf

One of the world’s great short story writers emerges with a selection of stories from her past, a trove of hidden treasures. Mavis Gallant moved from Montreal to Paris in 1950 to write short stories for a living. Since then she has continued to write, producing a remarkable body of work. In 1993, Robertson Davies said, “She has written many short stories. My calculation suggests that she has written in this form at least the equivalent of twenty novels.” Many of her stories have been anthologized, notably in the 1996 classic Selected Stories, from which hundreds of pages had to be cut for reasons of length. These “embarrassment of riches” are restored in this collection, along with many other neglected treasures from her past. Arranged in the order in which they appeared, they shed light on people living through most of the second half of the twentieth century. More important, they show one of the greatest short story writers of our time at work, delineating a series of worlds with dramatic flair, dazzlingly precise language, a wicked wit, and a vivid understanding of the human condition.

Author : Buffalo (N.Y.). Common Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2644 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
ISBN : UIUC:30112062335978

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Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Buffalo by Buffalo (N.Y.). Common Council Pdf