Lying Under The Apple Tree

Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Random House
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473513747

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Lying Under the Apple Tree by Alice Munro Pdf

‘Munro is still one of our most fearless explorers of the human being, as she descends, time and again, headlamp on full beam, pickaxe and butter-knife at the ready’ The Times Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this new selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight. Beautifully observed and remarkably crafted, written with emotion and empathy, these stories are nothing short of perfection. A masterclass in the genre, from an author who deservedly lays claim to being one of the major fiction writers of our time.

Author : Dan Wakefield
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0253211964

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Under the Apple Tree by Dan Wakefield Pdf

Imagine a past you must have known, even if you weren't there. Birney, Illinois. Population 4,742. December 7, 1941. Ten-year-old Artie Garber sees his brother Roy go off to war. Artie and his friends watch the skies for German planes, and the streets for spies. When Roy returns, his girlfriend is with another guy. The scenes, sounds, and images of Birney are at once lost in time, yet still with us today in this masterful novel of loss and growth.

Author : Robert Thacker
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771084683

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Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives by Robert Thacker Pdf

This is the book about one of the world’s great authors, Alice Munro, which shows how her life and her stories intertwine. For almost thirty years Robert Thacker has been researching this book, steeping himself in Alice Munro’s life and work, working with her co-operation to make it complete. The result is a feast of information for Alice Munro’s admirers everywhere. By following “the parallel tracks” of Alice Munro’s life and Alice Munro’s texts, he gives a thorough and revealing account of both her life and work. “There is always a starting point in reality,” she once said of her stories, and this book reveals just how often her stories spring from her life. The book is chronological, starting with her pioneer ancestors, but with special attention paid to her parents and to her early days growing up poor in Wingham. Then all of her life stages—the marriage to Jim Munro, the move to Vancouver, then to Victoria to start the bookstore, the three daughters, the divorce, the return to Huron County, and the new life with Gerry Fremlin—leading to the triumphs as, story by story, book by book, she gains fame around the world, until rumours of a Nobel Prize circulate . . .

Author : David Staines
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107093270

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The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro by David Staines Pdf

This Companion is a complete introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro.

Author : Robert Thacker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350270404

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Alice Munro's Late Style by Robert Thacker Pdf

Focusing on Alice Munro's last three collections, this book examines the differences between these volumes and the rest of her work to analyse the emergence and the difference of her 'late style'. Alice Munro has effectively reshaped the short story as a form. This book focuses on Munro's art of recursion - an approach that has been evident throughout her career but came to the fore in her last three books, The View from Castle Rock (2006), Too Much Happiness (2009) and, especially, Dear Life (2012). This recursion and return manifest themselves not only in Munro's return to previously published pieces, but also to her discovery and meditations on her Scottish heritage, which can be read as entrance to her own understanding of herself and her life. Its provenance, displayed through archival evidence, is complex yet reveals a writer intent on a precise late style. Munro's final works serve as a coda to both her late style and to her entire career as arguably one of the finest short story writers ever to put pen to paper.

Author : Larry V. Murphy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780557495306

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God's Dawning Light; Spiritual Awakening in a Dusty Old Farmhouse by Larry V. Murphy Pdf

This book describes a man's late life journey to Spiritual Awakeness and Unwavering Forgiveness. In fact, forgiveness changed the book's unfolding during the writing of it. The author began the book's writing with the desire to review a memory troubled life in a way that some degree of peace could be found within it. Forgiveness absolutely began to take over the book very early; forgiveness became the way of seeing the life rather than an end result. The author learned that forgiveness is not only cleansing and healing in retrospective, it completely changes the way we look at things. For the author, a lifetime previously perceived largely in ugliness was transformed into beauty. Prior unsavory scenes took their true places within auras of ignorance; eyes of forgiveness exposed ignorance as the true culprit in all unhappiness. Thus, things previously seen in contempt and blame became innocent of all charges. The author found total, Unwavering Forgiveness and Universal Love, gateways to God Consciousness.

Author : Nicolas Bradley
Publisher : ePressario Publishing Inc
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780986934551

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The Last Empire by Nicolas Bradley Pdf

Author : Ohio State Board of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2907316

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Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture Pdf

Author : Ohio State Board of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : HARVARD:HXHQTG

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Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture by Ohio State Board of Agriculture Pdf

Reports for 1862-66 include reports of the Ohio Pomological Society.

Author : Mirosława Buchholtz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319240619

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Alice Munro by Mirosława Buchholtz Pdf

The book offers a new approach to the study of Alice Munro's fiction. Its innovative quality consists in juxtaposing a variety of literary analyses of selected stories with two other ways of looking at her fiction: the perspectives of film adaptation and of pedagogy. The book is divided into three parts which mirror the key words in the title: understanding, adapting and teaching. Part One consists of four articles on various aspects of Munro's short fiction from a literary perspective. Part Two - four essays - addresses editing and film adaptations of Munro's stories (both television and feature films). Part Three consists of an essay on didactic aspects of Munro's fiction and of several interviews with teachers of Canadian literature who have included stories by Munro in their syllabi.

Author : Joseph A. Altsheler
Publisher : VM eBooks
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Scouts of Stonewall by Joseph A. Altsheler Pdf

A young officer in dingy Confederate gray rode slowly on a powerful bay horse through a forest of oak. It was a noble woodland, clear of undergrowth, the fine trees standing in rows, like those of a park. They were bare of leaves but the winter had been mild so far, and a carpet of short grass, yet green, covered the ground. To the rider's right flowed a small river of clear water, one of the beautiful streams of the great Virginia valleys.

Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307266026

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The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro Pdf

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet. A young boy, taken to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father’s dream. Scottish immigrants experience love and loss on a journey that leads them to rural Ontario. Wives, mothers, fathers, and children move through uncertainty, ambivalence, and contemplation in these stories of hopes, adversity, and wonder. The View from Castle Rock reveals what is most essential in Munro’s art: her compassionate understanding of ordinary lives.

Author : M. E. Hulme
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781525595707

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Farmer Arnold's Barnyard by M. E. Hulme Pdf

Life on a farm is full of adventure! Come join Farmer Arnold and his mischievous animals as his poor geese, John and Alice, get snowed in and have to be rescued, a cheeky squirrel comes up with a clever way to avoid being photographed, and Polly the calf attempts a daring escape from her pen. This charming collection of stories will help children learn what it’s like to work together on a farm, living in harmony with animals, nature, and the changing seasons.

Author : Francis James Child,George Lyman Kittredge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : IND:30000080029832

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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child,George Lyman Kittredge Pdf

Author : Helen Grant
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345527585

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The Glass Demon by Helen Grant Pdf

Sometimes the path to the truth is paved with broken glass. Teenager Lin Fox is a stranger in a strange land—Germany, where her father has come on a quixotic quest to locate a priceless artifact. The medieval (and possibly mythical) Allerheiligen stained glass is believed by some to be lost, by others to have been destroyed, and by virtually all to be haunted. A mysterious letter persuades Dr. Oliver Fox that he can be the one to find it—but someone else is determined to ensure that the glass stays hidden forever. First, an elderly stranger is found dead in an orchard, then one of Oliver’s contacts is mysteriously drowned—both bodies inexplicably surrounded by shards of colored glass. As dark superstitions simmer, Lin embarks on her own search to find the glass. As her life comes to resemble the grimmest of fairy tales, she realizes that what she must find is not only the truth about the legendary glass but a way to save the lives of those she loves.