Author : Violet Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:5915715
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Tales of the Uneasy
Violet Hunt
Author : Violet Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1978-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0848244060
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Tales of the Uneasy
Violet Hunt
Author : Violet Hunt
Publisher : Ash Tree Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1553100654
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Tales of the Uneasy
Violet Hunt
Author : Violet Hunt
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1987588703
Tales of the Uneasy by Violet Hunt Pdf
THE hard, pungent, scintillating cleverness that marked Miss Hunt's earlier method has been retained through the immeasurable advance of her later work. And this diamond sparkle, taken into conjunction with the high seriousness and insistent pathos that found so fine an expression in White Rose of Weary Leaf, lifts the cleverness at times into something not unlike genius. The old eternal Weltschmerz known to Solomon, is known, we should imagine, most abundantly to Miss Hunt. But in her case it only reaches the reader after being absorbed through an intensely modern intelligence. There is nothing defiant, by the way, about Miss Hunt's modernity: her metaphors and her epigrams, though the newest of the new, come to her naturally -- because she happens to have that sort of up-todate mind, and to think in that sort of up-to-date language, not to say slang. All this applies pre-eminently to Tales of the Uneasy, which have, in addition, a haunting value of their own. The title, by the way, is singularly felicitous. "Uneasy" is exactly the right word to apply both to the experiences they relate and the effect they have on the reader. They are not exactly ghost stories -- or at least they bear very little relation to the old turnip-head ghost of Christmas fiction, but they are things to make the flesh creep nevertheless. The mise en scene is more often than not normal, even commonplace. Then a touch of uneasiness troubles the atmosphere, deepening by almost imperceptible degrees to actual horror. Once begun, no story of them all can be left unread, and for our sins, in the case, for instance, of that most piteous and most moving tale of helpless infancy, "The Barometer," cannot be forgotten. All the plots -- save those in which the more realistic details are candidly taken from certain newspaper reports, are fresh and unhackneyed, if such words can be applied to things so bitter-sweet, ' so smarting, so dipped in the knowledge of both worlds as these. "The Telegram" is the title of the first one. It tells how a flirt, having made use of a man's devotion for many years, at length decides to marry him, with the idea that his companionship will be preferable to that of the inevitable paid companion. But, unfortunately, she invites to dinner, and makes her proposal to, a man whom an after-comparison of dates proves to have been a corpse at the time. There is nothing to suggest the supernatural during the course of that formal t£te-a-t£te dinner-party, but the reader feels its uncanniness in his bones. Equally creepy is "The Prayer," where, in answer to a wife's passionate peremptory prayer to the Almighty, her husband is given back to her from the dead. He was an uncomfortable yoke-fellow, and the sense not only of death and the grave but of a thousand sepulchres seems to have got into that particular story. But above and beyond all the rest is "The Operation," which is one of the weirdest and most powerful short stories we ever remember to have read. We will not disclose the plot, since its force and poignancy all lie in the telling. But it should become in its way a little classic. --The Outlook, Vol.27
Tales of the Grotesque
L. a. Lewis
Author : L. a. Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0957296207
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GROTESQUE TALES... UNEASY TALES... "The emaciated sodden legs beat a ceaseless march on the unresisting veil, like those of a gallows victim marking time in air. The battered, half-eaten arms clawed blindly at nothing. The eyes were gone, and within their ragged-edged hollows was manifest the coiling purposeful movement of reptilian life." ('Animate in Death') Squadron Leader Leslie Allin Lewis (1899-1961) was a veteran of both world wars, flying Sopwith Camels over France in 1918 and Hurricanes over England in 1940. He was also one of the best writers in the macabre and supernatural genre between wars. "Lewis undoubtedly earns a high place among the best masters of supernatural and macabre literature that Britain has ever produced." (Richard Dalby) "A brilliant collection." (Mark Samuels) FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK.
Twists and Turns
Robert Charles Hines
Author : Robert Charles Hines
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780244733124
Twists and Turns by Robert Charles Hines Pdf
13 Tales of the Uneasy! A Serial Killer at large on LondonÕs Underground An ÒEnd of the PierÓ Ventriloquist act A 17th Century Witch-Hunt A Post-War Culinary Tale An ÒOdd RaceÓ through a Cemetery A Tale set during LondonÕs ÒBlitzÓ Strange Events at a Late-night Bus stop Back-Roads Mayhem, in a Tale Spanning Decades Strange Happenings in a Doctors Surgery Coincidence Explored, in this Modern-day Yarn Murder, Retribution, and Punch and Judy, in this Horrific Tale A Railway Station Encounter for this Young Blind Man A Poignant, Heart-Warming Story of a ÒSpecial EncounterÓ Another batch of Tales with Diverse Story-Lines in this second Collection from London-Based Robert Charles Hines
Tales of the Grotesque
Leslie Allin Lewis,Richard Dalby,David Tibet
Author : Leslie Allin Lewis,Richard Dalby,David Tibet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:906918890
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
R. Reginald,Douglas Menville,Mary A. Burgess
Author : R. Reginald,Douglas Menville,Mary A. Burgess
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780941028769
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature by R. Reginald,Douglas Menville,Mary A. Burgess Pdf
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.
East of Suez
Alice Perrin
Author : Alice Perrin
Publisher : Victorian Secrets
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781906469184
East of Suez by Alice Perrin Pdf
Originally published in 1901, 'East of Suez' was Alice Perrin's first collection of short stories. Her fascinating and thought-provoking tales of Anglo-Indian life rival the best work of Kipling, and were hugely successful in their day. Perrin tells stories of illicit love against a beautifully-drawn backdrop of the mystical east, interweaving the supernatural with exquisite details of her characters' lives. This scholarly edition includes: a critical introduction; author biography; suggestions for further reading; explanatory notes; contextual material on representations of the British Raj; illustrations from 'The Illustrated London News' and 'The Windsor Magazine'.
Revolutions in Taste, 1773–1818
Fiona Price
Author : Fiona Price
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317063308
Revolutions in Taste, 1773–1818 by Fiona Price Pdf
How and to what extent did women writers shape and inform the aesthetics of Romanticism? Were undervalued genres such as the romance, gothic fiction, the tale, and the sentimental and philosophical novel part of a revolution leading to newer, more democratic models of taste? Fiona Price takes up these important questions in her wide-ranging study of women's prose writing during an extended Romantic period. While she offers a re-evaluation of major women writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth, Ann Radcliffe and Charlotte Smith, Price also places emphasis on less well-known figures, including Joanna Baillie, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Hamilton and Priscilla Wakefield. The revolution in taste occasioned by their writing, she argues, was not only aesthetic but, following in the wake of British debates on the French Revolution, politically charged. Her book departs from previous studies of aesthetics that emphasize the differences between male and female writers or focus on higher status literary forms such as the treatise. In demonstrating that women writers' discussion of taste can be understood as an intervention at the most fundamental level of political involvement, Price advances our understanding of Romantic aesthetics.
Monsters: a Collection of Uneasy Tales
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:932838850
Monsters: a Collection of Uneasy Tales by Anonim Pdf
Ford Madox Ford and the Regiment of Women
Joseph Wiesenfarth
Author : Joseph Wiesenfarth
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299210901
Ford Madox Ford and the Regiment of Women by Joseph Wiesenfarth Pdf
Engaging and energetic, this biography of Ford Madox Ford presents the modernist writer in a previously unexplored way. Other biographies have approached Ford as an author; indeed, his memoirs give almost no indication that the women in his life were of any importance or, in fact, that they ever existed. Literary scholar Joseph Wiesenfarth revises this approach by tracing Ford's relationships with four women central to his life. Wiesenfarth shows how these four women--Violet Hunt, Jean Rhys, Stella Bowen, and Janice Biala--established themselves as artists in their own right and depicted Ford in their works as more than the "proper man" he thought himself to be. For the women, he was both a lover and a leaver, a collaborator and a companion. With an eye to original paintings and manuscripts, Wiesenfarth examines the artistic and romantic interplay among these writers, painters, and lovers. This book features a beautifully illustrated color and black-and-white gallery of Bowen and Biala paintings.
Index to Short Stories
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Short stories
ISBN : UFL:31262074531632
Index to Short Stories by Anonim Pdf
Who Are You and Why Are You Here?
Jacques Claessens
Author : Jacques Claessens
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771133043
Who Are You and Why Are You Here? by Jacques Claessens Pdf
Every international development project looks good on paper until someone asks, “Who are you and why are you here?” In this case, it’s a man from northern Burkina Faso. His question reveals everything wrong with international development work today. Jacques Claessens questions the real effects of development programs and agencies, NGOs, and multinational corporations on the economy and welfare of the global south—from a Kafkaesque well-drilling project in Udathen to the Chernobyl-like environmental devastation wrought by the Canadian-owned Essakane mine. Through tales of uneasy encounters between nomadic Tuaregs and Western engineers, well-meaning NGO staff and their incredibly self-serving bosses, UN bureaucrats, a greedy Canadian mining company, and Burkinabe villagers–all pursuing ostensibly noble goals, all barely listening to each other–we begin to understand the realities of international development.
Tales and Translation
Cay Dollerup
Author : Cay Dollerup
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027299758
Tales and Translation by Cay Dollerup Pdf
Dealing with the most translated work of German literature, the Tales of the brothers Grimm (1812-1815), this book discusses their history, notably in relation to Denmark and subsequently other nations from 1816 to 1986. The Danish intelligentsia responded enthusiastically to the tales and some were immediately translated into Danish by a nobleman and by the foremost Romantic poet. Their renditions remained in print for a century and embued the tales with high prestige. This book discusses translators, approaches, and other parameters such as copyright, and changes in target audiences. The tales’ social acceptability inspired Hans Christian Andersen to write his celebrated fairytales. Combined, the Grimm and Andersen tales came to constitute the ‘international fairytale’.This genre was born in processes of translation and, today, it is rooted more firmly in the world of translation than in national literatures. This book thus addresses issues of interest to literary, cross-cultural studies and translation.