Tales Ridiculous And Sublime

Author : Cyril Smith
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456868086

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Tales Ridiculous and Sublime by Cyril Smith Pdf

TALES RIDICULOUS AND SUBLIME There is something for all tastes in these Tales GINGER This is about a kind hearted chap who does not always get things right at work and who rescues two pets from owners who could no longer look after the creatures. JAKE is a beautiful hound. The important part of this tale is fact. The remainder is fi ction. All animal lovers will understand the bond between Jake and his master Nigel. TRADE SECRET is entirely fi ction about a family that has its own small company and the men-folk are excellent tree surgeons except that on one occasion the instructions were not carried out correctly. THE HAPPY ONE about Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy is a very brief biography of Mendelssohn who composed some very beautiful music. THE WEDDING where several events occur to make a couple’s special day a little haphazard to say the least. HAMMER & SICKLE a purely imaginary piece of work that will make any secret agent smile. THE REFUSE MAN although all the characters are fi ctitious there is an element of fact in the story of an innocent individual being accused of doing wrong and the dreadful consequences. SHERLOCK HOMES one will have to read this story about a very strange homicide case and why HOMES is spelt this way. THE REVEREND a kind and gentle man has more than he bargains for when he opens the door one night. Read on to see how the story evolves.

Author : Annette Haddad,Scott Doggett
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1932361057

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Travelers' Tales Brazil by Annette Haddad,Scott Doggett Pdf

With stories ranging from delightful to funny to cautionary and inspiring, these tales about Brazil explore the many facets of the country--from the biggest freshwater fish and the rivers they live in to the world's largest jungle. Illustrations & maps.

Author : Joanna Gilar,Rose Williamson
Publisher : Wellfleet Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781627889582

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The World Treasury of Fairy Tales & Folklore by Joanna Gilar,Rose Williamson Pdf

Relive the magic of classic fairy tales in this beautifully illustrated edition. For centuries fantastical stories of witches, giants, princesses, talking animals, and magical kingdoms have been passed from generation to generation. Many of the fairy tales we are most familiar with today have their roots in this oral tradition of storytelling. The World Treasury of Fairy Tales and Folklore is a stunning collection of fairy tales organized by date of printing. From tales of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries (Little Red Riding Hood, Fair Goldilocks, Beauty and the Beast), to familiar tales collected by The Brothers Grimm in the 19th century (The Frog King, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Snow White), to some lesser-known tales and stories from outside Europe, this book showcases a broad range of examples from this extraordinary genre. Tales are compiled and introduced by leading academics in the field, adding to a deeper understanding of beloved stories. This beautifully illustrated collection of fairy tales and folklore is an essential addition to all family libraries.

Author : Ashley Burgoyne,Melissa Collin
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1987613791

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The Sublime and the Ridiculous by Ashley Burgoyne,Melissa Collin Pdf

From birds and beasts, fairy tales, dreams and flights of fancy to harsh reality, this weird and wonderful collection of poetry takes you on an emotional journey through life. Birth, growth, love and loss are explored through humour, high drama and tight poetic forms. It is a unique poetic journey that is, like life, sublime and ridiculous.

Author : Leonid Andreyev,Saki,Herman Bernstein,Maxim Gorky,Ivan Turgenev,Anton Chekhov,Leo Tolstoy,Fyodor Dostoevsky,Alexander Pushkin,Nikolai Gogol,M.Y. Saltykov,V.G. Korolenko,V.N. Garshin,F.K. Sologub,I.N. Potapenko,S.T. Semyonov,M.P. Artzybashev,A.I. Kuprin,H. H. Munro,Ivan Goncharov
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 9091 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : EAN:8596547717652

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The Giants of Russian Literature: The Greatest Russian Novels, Stories, Plays, Folk Tales & Legends by Leonid Andreyev,Saki,Herman Bernstein,Maxim Gorky,Ivan Turgenev,Anton Chekhov,Leo Tolstoy,Fyodor Dostoevsky,Alexander Pushkin,Nikolai Gogol,M.Y. Saltykov,V.G. Korolenko,V.N. Garshin,F.K. Sologub,I.N. Potapenko,S.T. Semyonov,M.P. Artzybashev,A.I. Kuprin,H. H. Munro,Ivan Goncharov Pdf

This unique collection of the greatest novesl, short stories & plays in Russian literature has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards: Introduction: The Rise of the Russian Empire Novels & Novellas: Dead Souls Oblomov Fathers and Sons Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment The Idiot The Brothers Karamazov Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace Anna Karenina The Death of Ivan Ilych The Kreutzer Sonata Anton Chekhov: The Steppe: The Story of a Journey Ward No. 6 Mother (Maxim Gorky) Satan's Diary (Leonid Andreyev) Plays: The Inspector General; or, The Government Inspector (Nikolai Gogol) Anton Chekhov: On the High Road Swan Song, A Play in one Act Ivanoff The Anniversary; or, the Festivities The Three Sisters The Cherry Orchard... Leo Tolstoy: The Power of Darkness The First Distiller Fruits of Culture The Live Corpse The Cause of it All The Light Shines in Darkness Leonid Andreyev: Savva The Life of Man Short Stories: The Queen of Spades The Cloak The District Doctor The Christmas Tree and the Wedding God Sees the Truth, but Waits How A Muzhik Fed Two Officials The Shades, a Phantasy The Heavenly Christmas Tree The Peasant Marey The Crocodile Bobok The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Mumu The Viy Knock, Knock, Knock The Inn Lieutenant Yergunov's Story The Dog The Watch... Russian Folk Tales & Legends: The Fiend The Dead Mother The Dead Witch The Treasure The Cross-Surety The Awful Drunkard The Bad Wife The Golovikha The Three Copecks The Miser The Fool and the Birch-Tree The Mizgir The Smith and the Demon Ivan Popyalof The Norka Marya Morevna Koshchei the Deathless The Water Snake The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise The Baba Yaga Vasilissa the Fair The Witch The Witch and the Sun's Sister One-Eyed Likho Woe... Essays: On Russian Novelists Lectures on Russian Novelists

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393084184

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The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

"A truly remarkable achievement." —Barry Unsworth In the tradition of Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf and Marie Borroff’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sheila Fisher’s The Selected Canterbury Tales is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England’s premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer’s rhyme and meter, Fisher makes these tales accessible to a contemporary ear while inviting readers to the Middle English original on facing pages. Her informative introduction highlights Chaucer’s artistic originality in his memorable portrayals of surprisingly modern women and men from across the spectrum of medieval society.

Author : Toxie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000686528

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Toxie. A Tale, Etc by Toxie Pdf

Author : afterwards ACTON HERING (Jeanie)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026374446

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Golden Days. A Tale of Girl's School Life in Germany by afterwards ACTON HERING (Jeanie) Pdf

Author : Catherine Belsey
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474417389

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Tales of the Troubled Dead by Catherine Belsey Pdf

Considers the ways ghost stories appeal to our uneasy relationship with conventional good senseWhat do they want, the ghosts that, even in the age of science, still haunt our storytelling? Catherine Belsey's answer to the question traces Gothic writing and tales of the uncanny from the ancient past to the present - from Homer and the Icelandic sagas to Lincoln in the Bardo. Taking Shakespeare's Ghost in Hamlet as a turning point in the history of the genre, she uncovers the old stories the play relies on, as well as its influence on later writing. This ghostly trail is vividly charted through accredited records of apparitions and fiction by such writers as Ann Radcliffe, Washington Irving, Emily Bront Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, M. R. James and Susan Hill. In recent blockbusting movies, too, ghost stories bring us fragments of news from the unknown. Traces examples of ghost stories from Homer to the present dayDescribes the aspects of storytelling designed to involve readersIncludes stories of attested apparitions, as well as fiction by a wide range of both canonical and popular authors

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0806121548

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The Squire's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Part Twelve In the list of scholarly problems it presents, The Squire’s Tale ranks among the highest in The Canterbury Tales. Being incomplete and coming to a halt on a baffling note-was it in fact evolving into a tale of incest?-the tale has undergone the most remarkable shift in critic acceptance of any of Chaucer’s works. This tale of oriental wonder, with its strong base in magic, excited the admiration of Chaucer’s contemporaries and inspired Spenser’s imitative speculation and Milton’s famous desire that the old poet be summoned up to finish his task. It retained for the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries its Gothic fascination, being ranked with the very best of Chaucer’s work. In the second half of the twentieth century, it has been seen from a number of provocative perspectives. Is it a parody of the long Eastern romance? Is it a satire on the values of an aristocracy whose time is past? Is it a rhetorical joke on Chaucer’s part, extending the character of the young Squire into an earnest and somewhat naïve competition with his father, the Knight? The concerns of contemporary scholarship reveal as much about the critical temper of the time as about the work itself. On its own merits The Squire’s Tale compels our attention as an example of Chaucer’s wide-ranging and sometimes inscrutable genius. It provides us with an exotic literary type not otherwise represented in the Tales. It reverberates, in its discussion of ’gentilesse’ with other such discussions in Chaucer’s poetry; it demonstrates, in its use of the love-vision and the complaint, the experimental ways in which Chaucer handles the conventions of French poetry. Perhaps most fascinating is the range of Chaucer’s mind revealed by the casual uses of the science of his time: its knowledge of meteorology, optics, glass and metal work, astrology, and astronomy. The tale offers yet one more example of Chaucer’s genius at work, speaking to us in a voice that is at once suggestive, provocative, and mystifying as always.

Author : H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191640889

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The Classic Horror Stories by H. P. Lovecraft Pdf

'Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men. A time will come - but I must not and cannot think!' H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive scribbler of horror stories for the American pulp magazines that specialized in Gothic and science fiction in the interwar years. He often published in Weird Tales and has since become the key figure in the slippery genre of 'weird fiction'. Lovecraft developed an extraordinary vision of feeble men driven to the edge of sanity by glimpses of malign beings that have survived from human prehistory or by malevolent extra-terrestrial visitations. The ornate language of his stories builds towards grotesque moments of revelation, quite unlike any other writer. This new selection brings together nine of his classic tales, focusing on the 'Cthulhu Mythos', a cycle of stories that develops the mythology of the Old Ones, the monstrous creatures who predate human life on earth. It includes the Introduction from Lovecraft's critical essay, 'Supernatural Horror in Literature', in which he gave his own important definition of 'weird fiction'. In a fascinating contextual introduction, Roger Luckhurst gives Lovecraft the attention he deserves as a writer who used pulp fiction to explore a remarkable philosophy that shockingly dethrones the mastery of man.

Author : Robert Armitage Sterndale (F.R.G.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000677256

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Seonee, Or Camp Life on the Saptura Range. A Tale of Indian Adventure. With a Map and an Appendix Containing a Brief Topographical and Historical Account of the District of Seonee in the Central Provinces of India by Robert Armitage Sterndale (F.R.G.S.) Pdf

Author : Jason Ray Carney
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476668031

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Weird Tales of Modernity by Jason Ray Carney Pdf

 Serious literary artists such as T.S. Eliot, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf loom large in most accounts of the literary art of the first half of the 20th century. And yet, working in the shadows cast by these modernists were science fiction, horror and fantasy writers like the "Weird Tales Three": H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard. They did not publish in artistically ambitious magazines like Dial, The Smart Set and The Little Review but instead in commercial pulp magazines like Weird Tales. Contrary to the stereotypes about pulp fiction and those who wrote it, these three were serious literary artists who used their fiction to speculate about such philosophical questions as the function of art and the brevity of life.

Author : Tanya Kirk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08
Category : Christmas stories
ISBN : 0712353232

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Chill Tidings by Tanya Kirk Pdf

'The tiles of the hall floor were as pretty as ever, as cold as ever, and bore, as always on Christmas Eve, the trickling pattern of dark blood.' The gifts are unwrapped, the feast has been consumed and the fire is well fed - but the ghosts are still hungry. Welcome to the second new collection of dark Christmas stories in the Tales of the Weird series, ushering in a fresh host of nightmarish phantoms and otherworldly intruders bent on joining or ruining the most wonderful time of the year. Featuring classic tales from Algernon Blackwood, Rosemary Timperley, Sheridan Le Fanu and Elinor Glyn alongside rare pieces from the sleeping periodicals and literary magazines of the Library collection, it's time to open the door and let the real festivities begin.

Author : Tom Maremaa
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462079667

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Grok by Tom Maremaa Pdf

Grok is a huge, sprawling epic novel about the comic misadventures of an eccentric family and its young son’s quest to solve the elusive Turing test. The story spans the contours of the 20th century, from the literary salons of Paris in the twenties to the seamy side of LA in the thirties, from the counterculture wars of the sixties and beyond to the software-inspired nineties. Along the way we are wildly entertained by a huge cast of colorful characters, scenes and happenings, as Grok, the book’s hero, fights off the beguiling demons of the past and changes the world around him. There is never a dull moment in this wonderful, mind-bending story, which holds the mirror of ourselves up to Nature and shows us that we can have the last laugh.