North By Northeast And Other Stories

Author : P.S.Thangkhiew
Publisher : Partridge Publishing India
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781482820560

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North by Northeast and Other Stories by P.S.Thangkhiew Pdf

Each of the ten tales in this collection has a plot connected with the game of golf. The stories are also linked by an underlying theme based on the element of chance altering ordinary course of events. The appearance of a common character in almost all of them serves to heighten a sense of involvement as the different plots unfold. With a fine eye for detail and nuances in the human condition, as seen through the protagonists in each story, Parmarsan S. Thangkhiews narrations weave seamlessly through golf, a prince among sports. Often, the authors wry sense of humor is also made all too evident, an exercise that is rare among present day Indian writers writing in English. A toast of a read! Dhruba Hazarika, Author of Bowstring Winter

Author : Nasir Mahmood
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456776862

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The Protectors & Other Stories by Nasir Mahmood Pdf

This collection of short stories takes its title from one of the stories contained in it: The Protectors. All stories are basically romantic in nature, but they are not simple love stories. Their themes have all the colours, and their myriad shades, to afford you a panoramic view of the world we live in. The first story, for example, is that of a boy whose rebellious nature, not accepting the norms of a corrupt society, struggles to achieve a job on the basis of his qualification, and not on the recommendation of a friend. Another story deals in defence of the motherland from the vicious attack of a rival force. Then there is a story which gives a graphic picture of a poverty-stricken housing scheme where women, forgetting about their self-respect, stoop so low as to adopt a life style, both execrable and pitiable but there are women and there are women! In brief, the book touches on unemployment, indignity of a religious family, and inheritance inciting to murder. A story each describes the horrendous custom of doing away with female foetuses, the ugly face of feudalism, and foundering efforts of a courtesan to escape to a righteous life. Last but not least is the story of educated youth, who for want of any reasonable job, resort to robbery. The book takes you along on a journey which unravels a picture of unspeakable misery some people are subjected to. One would feel the milk of human kindness is drying up fast! One could read these stories with a view to killing time, but if they pause and think well, that is exactly what these stories are aimed at.

Author : Machado de Assis,John Charles Chasteen
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781603848527

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The Alienist and Other Stories of Nineteenth-Century Brazil by Machado de Assis,John Charles Chasteen Pdf

Accompanied by a thorough introduction to Brazils Machado, Machados Brazil, these vibrant new translations of eight of Machado de Assiss best-known short stories bring Nineteenth-Century Brazilian society and culture to life for modern readers.

Author : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781603849777

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The Alienist and Other Stories of Nineteenth-Century Brazil by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis Pdf

Accompanied by a thorough introduction to Brazil's Machado, Machado's Brazil, these vibrant new translations of eight of Machado de Assis's best-known short stories bring nineteenth-century Brazilian society and culture to life for modern readers.

Author : Cooper J.F.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785521079728

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The Spy + The Lake Gun and other Stories by Cooper J.F. Pdf

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. This volume contains Cooper’s novel and some of his short stories. "The Spy" was Cooper's second novel, published in 1821. The action takes place during the American Revolution. Garvey Birch is a modest American who pretends to be a regular peddler, but in fact collecting military information for the Continental Army in territory controlled by British army. "The Lake Gun" is a satirical short story named after the mysterious loud exploding sound coming from Seneca Lake, called The Lake Gun by European American settlers to the area, and known today as the Seneca Guns. These sounds remain unexplained to this day, with no clear or agreed-upon cause.

Author : Ted Gugelyk
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781622872404

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Mango Lady & Other Stories from Hawaii by Ted Gugelyk Pdf

Mango Lady & Other Stories from Hawaii takes the reader on a journey not unlike a long ride across the face of a giant wave, full of unexpected turns and surprises, weaving together memories, fantasies, and personalities that stretch from long ago Hawaii to modern day Vietnam. Through all of them is the connecting spirit of the Islands, its special mana, its people, its surf, bringing times past into the present in a special, intimate way. There is Mango Lady, who lived in Waikiki since childhood, watching her ancient preoccupations become irrelevant in the new bustle of development. There is The Man to Whom Surf Cam, the tale of a magical Urban who never failed to attract surf. There is A November Surfer, an adventure of a senior surfer at remote Rabbit Island. There is Hard Port, an intriguing pulling together of Hawaii and Russia, when a longtime surfer visits Nakhodka in the Russian Far East, the land of his ancestors. Finally, there is the flamboyant and unsettling Captain Aloha, a tale of two old surfing friends from Hawaii and the horrors of the war in Vietnam, a unique portrait of psychology and culture, of friendship and passing time."

Author : Morgan Robertson
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547229551

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"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea by Morgan Robertson Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of ""Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea" by Morgan Robertson. 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 : Beth Bosworth
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780822978466

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The Source of Life and Other Stories by Beth Bosworth Pdf

From “The Eight Rhetorical Mode” Later he asked, “Would you like to go for a hike sometime?” and two trains of thought left the station: He means to get to know me and we might leave the city together and it’s been a long time since I climbed a mountain. That train chugged into a wider brighter country all the time. The other train went by another route through the panicked interior. He’s a lunatic, it whistled. He’s been in and out of hospitals. He will take you to a mountaintop and throw you right off into the bright air: choo choo! Post-divorce dating is one more cause for celebration (or a quick call in to the police) in Beth Bosworth’s revelatory new book, The Source of Life and Other Stories. The spine of this collection is a series of linked stories about Ruth Stein, a Brooklyn author whose first book has exposed her father’s abuses; while the voice here, speaking across a lifetime, ranges from bittersweet to humorous to lethal. In other stories Bosworth’s narrators—a mother left to care for her son’s suicidal dog, an editor haunted by a dog-eared manuscript—seem to grab hold of the reins and run off with their fates. Meanwhile Bosworth explores the extended family, the bonds of friendship, an apocalyptic Vermont, the rank yet redeemable Gowanus Canal; also rites of passage, race relations, divorce, middle-aged romance, dementia, funerals, alcoholism, and the Jewish religion. Reality is just another stumbling block for Bosworth’s characters, who might help themselves but don’t always choose to. There are leaps of faith here, nonetheless, as the collection dispenses a kind of narrative psychotropic for survival and redemption, with a chaser of humor mixed in.

Author : Vivian Gilbert Zabel
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781411631038

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Hidden Lies and Other Stories by Vivian Gilbert Zabel Pdf

Vivian Gilbert Zabel and Holly Jahangiri offer a collection of 21 original short stories spanning a variety of themes and genre, many crime or mystery based.

Author : Lloyd Osbourne
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387085235

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The Queen Versus Billy; And Other Stories by Lloyd Osbourne Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Judith Moffett
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473222304

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The Bear’s Baby and Other Stories by Judith Moffett Pdf

The Bear's Baby and Other Stories gathers together for the first time six standalone tales by award-winning author Judith Moffett. Featuring aliens intent on halting humanity's biosphere-destroying behaviour, an alternate USA under the presidency of Davy Crockett, cross-species telepathic communication, angels, dreaming, and climate change - although not all at once! - this is a collection defined by variety, and admirably demonstrates the broad range of Moffett's skill as a writer. With new introductions to each story from the author, The Bear's Baby and Other Stories contains: The Bear's Baby Chickasaw Slave The Realms of Glory Ten Lights and Darks The Middle of Somewhere Space Ballet

Author : Bob Stockton
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781662902901

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The Blue Collar Blues and Other Stories by Bob Stockton Pdf

A shipwreck’s tragic toll in human life. The changing face of a quiet turn-of-the century neighborhood. A man who lost his wife unexpectedly. An obnoxious drunk who gets more than he bargained for. A horse who develops an affinity for a Hawaiian saloon. A submarine’s up close and personal encounter with a snoozing whale. Each of these stories and much more are found in “The Blue Collar Blues,” author Bob Stockton’s personal anthology of forty-six short stories that have been published over the past decade. The book’s first section contains stories of a young boy’s coming of age in an ever-changing northeast working-class neighborhood. The second section highlights standalone stories that run from autobiographical to allegorical. The third section focuses on the adventures-and misadventures- of young sailors serving in the U.S. Navy of a half-century past. The fourth section relates actual tales of the U.S. Navy and her sailors deployed along the Pacific Rim. Grab a cup of coffee and escape into the mind of an author with a flair for describing what is really important in life.

Author : Catherine M. Draycott,Scott Branting,Joseph W. Lehner,Yasemin Özarslan
Publisher : British Institute at Ankara
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781912090112

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From Midas to Cyrus and Other Stories by Catherine M. Draycott,Scott Branting,Joseph W. Lehner,Yasemin Özarslan Pdf

The period of Anatolian history between the death of the semi-legendary king Midas of Gordion ca. 700 BC and the advent of the Achaemenid Persian Empire ca. 550 BC is dominated by certain narratives: the rise of the Mermnad Lydian Kingdom, from Gyges to Croesus; the demise of the Urartian Kingdom and ‘Neo-Hittite’-type culture and polities; and the invasion of shadowy forces from the Steppe: Cimmerians, Scythians and Medes. The discoveries of Geoffrey and Francoise Summers’s project at the massive walled city on Kerkenes Da?? have changed the cultural history and texture of Anatolia during this time period, opening up insights into the spread of Phrygian culture and language and inviting further discussion of how the period is framed. This book honors their accomplishments by presenting papers addressing the dynamics and events of that period from various angles, and in various regions and places, as well as other interventions on Iron Age Anatolia, from dating of kings to rare and potentially influential medical techniques. The volume sheds light on and also advocates for further synthesis of the regional dynamics affecting the Mediterranean, Near East and Anatolia together, toward the production of revised, more nuanced narratives.

Author : P.S.THANGKHIEW
Publisher : PartridgeIndia
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781482820584

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NORTH BY NORTHEAST AND OTHER STORIES by P.S.THANGKHIEW Pdf

Each of the ten tales in this collection has a plot connected with the game of golf. The stories are also linked by an underlying theme based on the element of chance altering ordinary course of events. The appearance of a common character in almost all of them serves to heighten a sense of involvement as the different plots unfold. 'With a fine eye for detail and nuances in the human condition, as seen through the protagonists in each story, Parmarsan S. Thangkhiew's narrations weave seamlessly through golf, a prince among sports. Often, the author's wry sense of humor is also made all too evident, an exercise that is rare among present day Indian writers writing in English. A toast of a read!' Dhruba Hazarika, Author of 'Bowstring Winter'

Author : Джек Лондон
Publisher : Litres
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040829125

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When God Laughs, and Other Stories by Джек Лондон Pdf