Oblivion And Other Stories

Author : Gopinath Mohanty
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789354929175

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Oblivion and Other Stories by Gopinath Mohanty Pdf

Oblivion and Other Stories is an anthology of twenty short stories by Gopinath Mohanty, the doyen of Oriya (now Odia) literature. The stories, written across a half-century (1935-1988), sample his oeuvre of writings and the variety of his themes-from 'Dã' (mid-1930s) to 'Oblivion' (1951) to 'The Upper Crust' (1967) to 'Lustre' (1971) and 'Festival Day' (1985). They capture the forgotten others, the banality of marginal living on life's edge-of the poor, the tribals and ordinary people-invisible in the feudal landscape of Orissa in the twentieth century. Originally written in Oriya by the Padma Bhushan awardee, these have now been translated for the first time into English and recreate the social life of mid-twentieth century India. The embellished past in the stories is not one of nostalgia but a full-toned portrait of society. Marginalization is the running thread: dispossession, disenfranchisement, class/caste social exclusivity and lack of education.

Author : David Foster Wallace
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759511569

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Oblivion by David Foster Wallace Pdf

In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown (The Soul Is Not a Smithy). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way (The Suffering Channel). Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring (Oblivion). Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate.

Author : David Mack
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982159689

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Star Trek: Coda: Book 3: Oblivion's Gate by David Mack Pdf

The crews of Jean-Luc Picard, Benjamin Sisko, Ezri Dax, and William Riker unite to prevent a cosmic-level apocalypse—only to find that some fates really are inevitable. THEIR MOST DAUNTING MISSION WILL BE THEIR FINEST HOUR. The epic Star Trek: Coda trilogy comes to a shattering conclusion as the Temporal Apocalypse forces Starfleet’s greatest heroes to make the greatest sacrifices of their lives. ™, ®, & © 2021 CBS Studios, Inc. STAR TREK and related marks and logos are trademarks of CBS Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Author : Alan DeNiro
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Families
ISBN : 9780553592542

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Total Oblivion, More Or Less by Alan DeNiro Pdf

When Minnesota is invaded by warriors from the ancient world, sixteen-year-old Macy and her family head down the Mississippi by boat to escape from the encroaching madness.

Author : Héctor Abad
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374708801

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Oblivion by Héctor Abad Pdf

Oblivion is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written memorial to the author's father, Héctor Abad Gómez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his murder by paramilitaries in 1987. Twenty years in the writing, it paints an unforgettable picture of a man who followed his conscience and paid for it with his life during one of the darkest periods in Latin America's recent history.

Author : Danielle Lori
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1721284443

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The Sweetest Oblivion by Danielle Lori Pdf

She's a romantic at heart, living in the most unromantic of worlds . . . Nicknamed Sweet Abelli for her docile nature, Elena smiles on cue and has a charming response for everything. She's the favored daughter, the perfect mafia principessa . . . or was. Now, all she can see in the mirror's reflection is blood staining her hands like crimson paint. They say first impressions are everything . . . In the murky waters of New York's underworld, Elena's sister is arranged to marry Nicolas Russo. A Made Man, a boss, a cheat-even measured against mafia standards. His reputation stretches far and wide and is darker than his black suits and ties. After his and Elena's first encounter ends with an accidental glare on her part, she realizes he's just as rude as he is handsome. She doesn't like the man or anything he stands for, though that doesn't stop her heart from pattering like rain against glass when he's near, nor the shiver that ghosts down her spine at the sound of his voice. And he's always near. Telling her what to do. Making her feel hotter than any future brother-in-law should. Elena may be the Sweet Abelli on the outside, but she's beginning to learn she has a taste for the darkness, for rough hands, cigarettes, and whiskey-colored eyes. Having already escaped one scandal, however, she can hardly afford to be swept up in another. Besides, even if he were hers, everyone knows you don't fall in love with a Made Man . . . right? This is a standalone forbidden romance.

Author : Troy Denning
Publisher : Gallery Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982142032

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Halo: Oblivion by Troy Denning Pdf

A Master Chief story and original full-length novel set in the Halo universe—based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! 2526. It has been more than a year since humanity first encountered the hostile military alliance of alien races known as the Covenant, and several weeks after the United Nations Space Command’s devastating counterattack of Operation: SILENT STORM was deemed an overwhelming success. The UNSC has put its faith in the hands of the Spartans, led by the legendary Master Chief, John-117: enhanced super-soldiers raised and trained from childhood via a clandestine black ops project to be living weapons. But the Covenant—enraged and fearful of their enemy’s unexpected strategies and prowess—is not taking its recent defeat lightly, and is now fully determined to eradicate humanity from existence, brutally overrunning the ill-fated planets of the Outer Colonies faster than retreats can be ordered. If the UNSC has any chance of stemming the tide of the war, the Master Chief and Blue Team must drop onto an empty, hellish world in order to capture a disabled Covenant frigate filled with valuable technology. It has all the makings of a trap, but the bait is far too tempting to ignore—and this tantalizing prize is being offered by a disgraced and vengeful Covenant fleetmaster, whose sole opportunity for redemption lies in extinguishing humanity’s only hope of survival…

Author : Danielle Lori
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1535422688

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A Girl Named Calamity by Danielle Lori Pdf

I was a simple farm girl living in the magical land, Alyria, where men ruled and women only existed. Call me sheltered. Call me naive. I was probably both. I never expected to be the key to Alyria's destruction. The journey I was on wasn't only one to save me. But one where I had a lot of learning to do. With men. With magic. And with myself. But I wasn't alone. I had an escort. One I wasn't so sure about. But one I couldn't afford to lose and one I wasn't so sure I could even leave. I had many hopes. But the most important one was that my name wouldn't become my fate.

Author : Anthony Horowitz
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545470025

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Oblivion (The Gatekeepers #5) by Anthony Horowitz Pdf

The final, thrilling conclusion to #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's masterful series! Matt. Pedro. Scott. Jamie. Scar. Five Gatekeepers have finally found one another. And only the five of them can fight the evil force that is on the rise, threatening the destruction of the world. In the penultimate volume of The Gatekeepers series, a massive storm arose that signalled the beginning of the end. Now the five Gatekeepers must battle the evil power the storm has unleashed -- and strive to stop the world from ending.

Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811224208

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The World Goes On (Third Edition) by László Krasznahorkai Pdf

Now in paperback, a transcendent and wide-ranging collection of stories by László Krasznahorkai: “a visionary writer of extraordinary intensity and vocal range who captures the texture of present-day existence in scenes that are terrifying, strange, appallingly comic, and often shatteringly beautiful.”—Marina Warner, announcing the Booker International Prize In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then narrates a number of unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (“here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me”). As László Krasznahorkai himself explains: “Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought or a narrative…” A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveler, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, India, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on and on about the nature of a single drop of water. A child laborer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils. “The excitement of his writing,” Adam Thirlwell proclaimed in The New York Review of Books, “is that he has come up with his own original forms—there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.”

Author : Herbert Ernest Bates
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081121088X

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Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree & Other Stories by Herbert Ernest Bates Pdf

Readers who have discovered the delights of the British master storyteller H.E. Bates will welcome this third collection. Gathered here are twenty stories written between 1938 and 1964 which are gems of human observation.

Author : Gopinath Mohanty
Publisher : Ebury Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0143458264

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Oblivion and Other Stories by Gopinath Mohanty Pdf

Oblivion and Other Stories is an anthology of twenty short stories by Gopinath Mohanty, the doyen of Oriya (now Odia) literature. The stories, written across a half-century (1935-1988), sample his oeuvre of writings and the variety of his themes-from 'Dã ' (mid-1930s) to 'Oblivion' (1951) to 'The Upper Crust' (1967) to 'Lustre' (1971) and 'Festival Day' (1985). They capture the forgotten others, the banality of marginal living on life's edge-of the poor, the tribals and ordinary people-invisible in the feudal landscape of Orissa in the twentieth century. Originally written in Oriya by the Padma Bhushan awardee, these have now been translated for the first time into English and recreate the social life of mid-twentieth century India. The embellished past in the stories is not one of nostalgia but a full-toned portrait of society. Marginalization is the running thread: dispossession, disenfranchisement, class/caste social exclusivity and lack of education.

Author : Greg Keyes
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345516978

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The Infernal City: An Elder Scrolls Novel by Greg Keyes Pdf

Based on the award-winning The Elder Scrolls, The Infernal City is the first of two exhilarating novels following events that continue the story from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, named 2006 Game of the Year. Four decades after the Oblivion Crisis, Tamriel is threatened anew by an ancient and all-consuming evil. It is Umbriel, a floating city that casts a terrifying shadow—for wherever it falls, people die and rise again. And it is in Umbriel’s shadow that a great adventure begins, and a group of unlikely heroes meet. A legendary prince with a secret. A spy on the trail of a vast conspiracy. A mage obsessed with his desire for revenge. And Annaig, a young girl in whose hands the fate of Tamriel may rest . . . .

Author : Josephine Hart
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140253181

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Oblivion by Josephine Hart Pdf

In this mesmerizing novel of death and forgetting, love and memory by the bestselling author of Damage, Josephine Hart compels readers to confront disturbing truths about their relationships with the dead. A woman has died, but neither her mother nor her husband are able to come to terms with her death.

Author : Charles King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : UOM:39015059387798

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Captain Dreams, and Other Stories by Charles King Pdf