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Author : J. M. Baggiani,V. M. Tewell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0934329079
Author : Gerald Nathanson
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781398441767
The stories in this book touch upon the author’s own life and his sense of humour and wide-ranging interests. ‘By the Waters of Stepney Green’ is half historical recollection, half romantic dream. ‘Gilda’, a story set in Burma in World War II, will keep you reading well into the night. ‘Gareth’ is the story of a young man from orphanage to officer and tells how deep friendship can emerge from enmity, while ‘Chess Board Execution’ is a story of love, deception and revenge. These stories will appeal to all readers who enjoy a mixture of genres and moods.
Author : Gigi Pandian
Publisher : Gargoyle Girl Productions
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781938213243
A treasure trove of nine locked room mysteries from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Gigi Pandian, all set in the Jaya Jones world. Appearing here for the first time, novelette The Cambodian Curse: When an ancient and supposedly cursed Cambodian sculpture disappears from an impenetrable museum, and the carving’s owner is killed by an invisible assailant while a witness is a few feet away, historian Jaya Jones and her old nemesis Henry North team up to solve the baffling crime. Stories included: “The Cambodian Curse,” “The Hindi Houdini,” “The Haunted Room,” “The Library Ghost of Tanglewood Inn,” “The Curse of Cloud Castle,” “Tempest in a Teapot,” “A Dark and Stormy Light,” “The Shadow of the River,” plus bonus novella "Fool’s Gold". With an Introduction from New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King addressing why we love locked rooms, and a Foreword from impossible crime mystery historian Douglas G. Greene, teasing out the tradition of John Dickson Carr that Pandian is following. This collection is filled with ingenious stories of magic, mystery, and history.
Author : Stefan Zweig
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780714547572
When it is discovered that the reigning world chess champion, Mirko Czentovic, is on board a cruiser heading for Buenos Aires, a fellow passenger challenges him to a game. Czentovic easily defeats him, but during the rematch a mysterious Austrian, Dr B., intervenes and, to the surprise of everyone, helps the underdog obtain a draw. When, the next day, Dr B. confides in a compatriot travelling on the same ship and decides to reveal the harrowing secret behind his formidable chess knowledge, a chilling tale of imprisonment and psychological torment unfolds.Stefan Zweig's last and most famous story, 'The Game of Chess' was written in exile in Brazil and explores its author's anxieties about the situation in Europe following the rise of the Nazi regime. The tale is presented here in a brand-new translation, along with three of the master storyteller's most acclaimed novellas: 'Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman', 'The Invisible Collection' and 'Incident on Lake Geneva'.
Author : Margareta Ekström
Publisher : White Pine Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 093483489X
"A universal, highly original voice--there is no one quite like her writing in English."--Joyce Carol Oates
Author : Donald Gardner Stacy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781105056215
These stories reflect the author's preoccupations with the trials and conflicts of early married life, and the need for individuals to make their mark in the world, if only to carve a few words onto the surface of a stone.
Author : Heather Ortiz
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781490707358
As far as the stories are concerned, they are fairy talesor at least, I think thats what you would call them. One of them is about a wizard, another is about a young girl who is part of a family who has great magical talent but seems to have none herself, the others are about finding love and accepting it, or something along those lines.
Author : Brooks Horsley
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491728796
These stories are at right angles to things usual and familiar. What would happen if rainbows suddenly disappeared? How might the fallen angel tell the story of Adam and Eve? A walk in beautiful mountain country as a thing piercing and bleak beyond measure. A young terrorist dreams the impossible dream, and a young Harvard professor finds his weekend strangely frustrated and what comes of it. The reader will return from these and other stories to find his own world richer, stranger and more beautiful.
Author : Cary Fagan
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487001476
Stirred by a series of found photographs, critically acclaimed author Cary Fagan brilliantly imagines the lost stories behind them in this dazzling story collection. Many years ago the photographs in this book became separated from their original owners, faces unrecognized, settings a mystery. They floated through this world, as if on a sorrowful wind... I have given them stories to replace the ones they have lost. So begins the bewitching new collection from acclaimed author Cary Fagan, and a journey into a world that is both achingly familiar and wonderfully strange. A man hangs onto a runaway horse. A woman paints in the nude. A child sparks a revolution. These stories, each inspired by a found photograph, are by turns realistic and surreal, bloody and tender, delightful and appalling. Here are stories that playfully vary in technique and form: monologues, dialogues, interviews, letters, transcripts, tall tales, and capsule histories form a single portrait, belonging — in the words of the author — “to one history, found in an album that might belong to any of us.” Fagan paints a portrait of re-imagined lives that is comic and tragic, profound and unforgettable. The beauty, humour, and the horror of days gone by haunt these pages and resonate in the world we find ourselves in today.
Author : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1969-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Hans Christian Andersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600055800
Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811219747
One of Sartre’s greatest existentialist works of fiction, The Wall contains the only five short stories he ever wrote. Set during the Spanish Civil War, the title story crystallizes the famous philosopher’s existentialism. 'The Wall', the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night prior to their execution. Through the gaze of an impartial doctor—seemingly there for the men's solace—their mental descent is charted in exquisite, often harrowing detail. And as the morning draws inexorably closer, the men cross the psychological wall between life and death, long before the first shot rings out. This brilliant snapshot of life in anguish is the perfect introduction to a collection of stories where the neurosis of the modern world is mirrored in the lives of the people that inhabit it . This is an unexpurgated edition translated from the French by Lloyd Alexander.
Author : David Rachlin
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781665560993
A blind calliope player longs to visit the Rio Grande, two siblings take a magical train trip, a boy in Santa Fe sprouts angel wings, and a man recounts his childhood in wartime Holland. These wonderful tales and many more highlight David Rachlin’s vivid imagination and keen sense of place, reflecting the regions of the United States and Europe where he has lived. His stories move from realistic fiction to magical realism to science fiction and back again. From the 20th Century up to an Earth settlement on Mars, the stories are full of wonderful characters from all walks of life.
Author : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781421811482
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - In studying the Russian novel it is amusing to note the childish attitude of certain English men of letters to the novel in general, their depreciation of its influence and of the public's 'inordinate' love of fiction. Many men of letters to-day look on the novel as a mere story-book, as a series of light-coloured, amusing pictures for their 'idle hours, ' and on memoirs, biographies, histories, criticism, and poetry as the age's serious contribution to literature. Whereas the reverse is the case. The most serious and significant of all literary forms the modern world has evolved is the novel; and brought to its highest development, the novel shares with poetry to-day the honour of being the supreme instrument of the great artist's literary skill. To survey the field of the novel as a mere pleasure-garden marked out for the crowd's diversion - a field of recreation adorned here and there by the masterpieces of a few great men - argues in the modern critic either an academical attitude to literature and life, or a one-eyed obtuseness, or merely the usual insensitive taste. The drama in all but two countries has been willy-nilly abandoned by artists as a coarse playground for the great public's romps and frolics, but the novel can be preserved exactly so long as the critics understand that to exercise a delicate art is the one serious duty of the artistic life. It is no more an argument against the vital significance of the novel that tens of thousands of people - that everybody, in fact - should to-day essay that form of art, than it is an argument against poetry that for all the centuries droves and flocks of versifiers and scribblers and rhymesters have succeeded in making the name of poet a little foolish in worldly eyes.
Author : Aalolika Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : Tharshan Maya
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-03
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
A story, set up in Goa, back in the late 19th Century, Portuguese government sends its official along with his family, to India, for an important mission. Read to find out, what happens in the story, as it proceeds. Read other short stories along with Navio: Querida Viajante.