Gabriel And Other Tales

Author : Jasper-Lee Williams
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493158294

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Gabriel and other Tales by Jasper-Lee Williams Pdf

One city. Four stories. Gabriel harbors a secret that torments him. A secret so dark it could never be uttered aloud . . . or so he thought. Candace, Gared, and Sheila are three souls searching for their place in the world when one bag converges their paths and changes the course of their lives forever. Sam is a man in the wake of a midlife crisis. While others would turn to more conventional methods, Sam employs a rather unique sort of coping mechanism. Leslie Ann’s grief is so powerful it’s crippling her. So powerful she can’t move on with her life. So powerful that it bends the very laws of the cosmos.

Author : Saki
Publisher : Alma Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1847495923

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Gabriel-Ernest and Other Tales by Saki Pdf

A unique collection which includes 8 stories about the dark side of adolescence. They beautifully illustrated by Quentin Blake. The local landowner Van Cheele experiences an unnerving encounter with a youth sunning himself near a pond, and starts to wonder if there is any connection between this wild-looking boy and the recent disappearances of poultry, hares, lambs and, more alarmingly, an infant child in the area. To his astonishment, he discovers the next day that his aunt has decided to take the boy in, buying him a suit of clothes and naming him Gabriel-Ernest. Van Cheele remains suspicious, especially when it is revealed that there is something supernatural about their new ward... An eerie and disquieting tale about the dark side of adolescence, 'Gabriel-Ernest', written with Saki's trademark wit and mischievousness, is here presented with seven other uncanny and macabre tales, featuring Quentin Blake's inimitable illustrations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780195093889

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Gabriel's Palace by Anonim Pdf

Over 150 tales from the Talmud, the Zohar, Jewish folktales, and Hasidic lore.

Author : Hector Hugh Munro
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473373143

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Gabriel-Ernest by Hector Hugh Munro Pdf

This early work by H. H. Munro was originally published in 1910 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Gabriel-Ernest' is a short story about a were-wolf named Gabriel and his terrible deed. Hector Hugh Munro was born in Akyab, Burma in 1870. He was raised by aunts in North Devon, England, before returning to Burma in his early twenties to join the Colonial Burmese Military Police. Later, Munro returned once more to England, where he embarked on his career as a journalist, becoming well-known for his satirical ‘Alice in Westminster’ political sketches, which appeared in the Westminster Gazette. Arguably better-remembered by his pen name, ‘Saki’, Munro is now considered a master of the short story, with tales such as ‘The Open Window’ regarded as examples of the form at its finest.

Author : Saki
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857908049

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Tobermory by Saki Pdf

Nineteen brilliant stories from the satirical master about talking cats, fearsome ferrets, and absurd humans . . . At a country house party, Cornelius Appin announces that he has discovered a method by which animals can be taught to speak. His latest pupil is none other than Tobermory, the ginger cat belonging to his hosts, Sir Wilfred and Lady Blemley. As the guests express astonishment and incredulity, Sir Wilfred goes off to find Tobermory, who is lounging in the smoking room waiting for his tea. What Appin claims is true, and Tobermory demonstrates his remarkable talents—with unanticipated results. With this and other witty, imaginative, and insightful stories, this collection is a delight that captures the foibles of society in Edwardian England, yet remains entertainingly timeless in its portraits of human (and animal) nature.

Author : Maria Edgeworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Children
ISBN : OXFORD:600060110

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Frank: The contrast, and other tales by Maria Edgeworth Pdf

Author : R. Murray Gilchrist
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1840225416

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A Night on the Moor and Other Tales of Dread by R. Murray Gilchrist Pdf

Robert Murray Gilchrist (1868-1917) was a master of mystery and horror, as this richly varied collection shows.

Author : Celia Levetus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Short stories, Jewish
ISBN : OXFORD:600056101

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The King's Physician, and Other Tales by Celia Levetus Pdf

Author : Reinaldo Arenas
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307426925

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Mona and Other Tales by Reinaldo Arenas Pdf

Mona and Other Tales covers Reinaldo Arenas's entire career: his recently rediscovered debut (which got him a job at the Biblioteca Nacional in Havana), stories written in a political prison, and some of his last works, written in exile. Many of the stories have not previously appeared in English. Here is the tender story of a boy who recognizes evil for the first time and decides to ignore it; the tale of a writer struggling between the demands of creativity and of fame; common people dealing with changes brought about by revolution and exile; a romp with a famous, dangerous woman in the Metropolitan Museum; an outrageous fantasy that picks up where Garcia Lorca's famous play The House of Bernardo Alba ends. Told with Arenas's famous wit and humanity, Mona makes a perfect introduction to this important writer. Translated from the Spanish by Dolores Koch.

Author : Lucy Wainwright,Author of Aggesden vicarage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026852667

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Lucy and Christian Wainwright, and Other Tales by Lucy Wainwright,Author of Aggesden vicarage Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024107121

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Second Love, and other tales, from the note-book of a Traveller. [By John Palgrave Simpson.] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Twain M.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785517002112

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Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Tales by Twain M. Pdf

Mark Twain was an American writer, journalist, and publisher. Among his most famous novels are “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and its sequel, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers. This volume includes some of his amazing works: a novel about Buffalo Bill’s favorite horse “A Horse’s Tale, ” a short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” and “Letters from the Earth,” the most controversial work of the author. The story shows a unique view on the Satan's exile from heaven and his experiences on Earth.

Author : David Anthony Durham
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307425980

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Gabriel's Story by David Anthony Durham Pdf

When Gabriel Lynch moves with his mother and brother from a brownstone in Baltimore to a dirt-floor hovel on a homestead in Kansas, he is not pleased. He does not dislike his new stepfather, a former slave, but he has no desire to submit to a life of drudgery and toil on the untamed prairie. So he joins up with a motley crew headed for Texas only to be sucked into an ever-westward wandering replete with a mindless violence he can neither abet nor avoid–a terrifying trek he penitently fears may never allow for a safe return. David Anthony Durham is a genuine talent bent on devastating originality and Gabriel’s Story is as formidable a debut as we have witnessed.

Author : John Palgrave Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590912527

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Second love, and other tales, from the note-book of a traveller [J.P. Simpson]. by John Palgrave Simpson Pdf

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375701870

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Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin Pdf

In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Originally published in 1953, Baldwin said of his first novel, "Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." “With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details ... [a] feverish story.” —The New York Times