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Author : Elinor Glyn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924013617984
Author : Maria Edgeworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Children
ISBN : OXFORD:600060110
Author : Caroline Adderson
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781773065731
When the “grownup virus” hits, kids who live in the same apartment building must cope with strange new rules and extended time at home with parents and siblings. And they survive brilliantly, each in their own way. Twin boys throw themselves into an independent research assignment on prehistoric people and embrace their own devolution. A budding track star is encouraged to run laps on his balcony by a neighbor who has a secret crush on him. A classroom troublemaker reaches out to a teacher when his own father begins to exhibit signs of mental illness. A young entrepreneur saves himself and his hairdresser mother from financial collapse by renting out the family dog. And a girl finds a way to communicate with her hearing-impaired neighbor so that they can spy on the rest of the building. The stories follow the course of the pandemic, from the early measures through lockdown, as the kids in the building observe the stresses on the adults around them and use their own quirky kid ingenuity to come up with ways to make their lives better. Funny, poignant and wise, this book will long outlive even the pandemic. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.6 Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3 Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.5 Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6 Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.5 Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
Author : Elinor Glyn
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 123024798X
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... "I think I understand," said Stella, greatly interested. "Then you must use your critical faculties and make selections of what is best, and you must encourage commonsense and distrust altruism. Sanity is the thing to aim at." "Yes." "The view of the world has become so distorted upon almost every point which started in good, that nothing but a cultivation of our individual critical faculties can enable us to see the truth; and ninetenths of civilised humanity have no real opinion of their own at all, they simply echo those of others." "I feel that is true," said Stella, thinking of her own case. "It is not because a thing is bad or good that it succeeds, merely how much strength we put into the desire for it," he went on. "But surely we must believe that good will win over evil," and the brown eyes looked almost troubled, and his softened as he looked at her. "The very fact of believing, that would make it come to pass by all these psychic laws. Whatever we really believe we draw to us," he said, almost tenderly. "Then, if I were to believe that all the difficulties and uncertainties would be made straight and just go on calmly, I should be happy, should I?" she asked, and there was an unconscious pathos in her voice which touched him deeply. "Certainly," he answered. "You have not had a fair chance; probably you have never been allowed to do a single thing of your own accord, have you?" "N--no," said Stella. "In the beginning, were you engaged to this good clergyman of your own wish?" And his eyes searched her face. She stiffened immediately, the training of years took offence, and she answered rather stiffly: "I do not think you have the right to ask me such a question, Count Roumovski." He was entirely unabashed. He stroked his...
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141938110
"See if she is dark or fair, and if you can, notice if her hands be white; if not, see if they look as though she had ever done housework, or are milker's hands like mine." So Rhoda Brook, the abandoned mistress of Farmer Lodge, is jealous to discover details of his new bride in 'The Withered Arm', the title story in this selection of Hardy's finest short stories. Hardy's first story, 'Destiny and a Blue Cloak' was written fresh from the success of Far From the Madding Crowd. Beautiful in their own right, these stories are also testing-grounds for the novels in their controversial sexual politics, their refusal of romance structures, and their elegiac pursuit of past, lost loves. Several of the stories in The Withered Arm were collected to form the famous volume, Wessex Tales (1888), the first time Hardy denoted 'Wessex' to describe his fictional world. The Withered Arm is the first of a new two-volume selection of Hardy's short stories, edited with an introduction and notes by Kristin Brady.
Author : Vaughan Kester
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752349016
Reproduction of the original: The Hand of the Mighty and Other Stories by Vaughan Kester
Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631490767
In a “lively, sparkling, and sharp-edged” (Arthur Goldhammer) new translation, Guy de Maupassant’s most beloved works are reintroduced to twenty-first-century readers. A Parisian civil servant turned protégé of Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant is considered not only one of the greatest short story writers in all of French literature but also a pioneer of psychological realism and modernism who helped define the form. Credited with influencing the likes of Chekhov, Maugham, Babel, and O. Henry, Maupassant had, at the time of his death at the age of forty-two, written six novels and some three hundred short stories. Yet in English, Maupassant has, curiously, remained unappreciated by modern readers due to outdated translations that render his prose in an archaic, literal style. In this bold new translation, Sandra Smith—the celebrated translator of Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise—brings us twenty-eight of Maupassant's essential stories and two novellas in lyrical yet accessible language that brings Maupassant into vibrant English. In addition to her sparkling translation, Smith also imposes a structure that captures the full range of Maupassant's work. Dividing the collection into three sections that reflect his predominant themes—nineteenth-century French society, the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, and the supernatural—Smith creates "an arrangement suggesting a culture of relation, of structure, of completion" (Richard Howard). In "Tales of French Life," we see Maupassant explore the broad swath of French society, not just examining the lives of the affluent as was customary for writers in his day. In the title story of the collection, "The Necklace," Maupassant crafts a devastating portrait of misplaced ambition and ruin in the emerging middle class. The stories in "Tales of War" emerge from Maupassant’s own experiences in the devastating Franco-Prussian War and create a portrait of that disastrous conflict that few modern readers have ever encountered. This section features Maupassant's most famous novella, "Boule de Suif." The last section, "Tales of the Supernatural," delves into the occult and the bizarre. While certain critics may attribute some of these stories and morbid fascination as the product of the author's fevered mind and possible hallucinations induced by late-stage syphilis, they echo the gothic horror of Poe as well as anticipate the eerie fiction of H. P. Lovecraft. The result takes readers from marriage, family, and the quotidian details of life to the disasters of war and nationalism, then to the gothic and beyond, allowing us to appreciate Maupassant in an idiom that matches our own times. The Necklace and Other Stories enables us to appreciate Maupassant as the progenitor of the modern short story and as a writer vastly ahead of his time.
Author : Wayne Alan Harold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0999810642
This beautiful 12"X17" oversized hardcover features complete stories scanned from P. Craig Russell's stunning original art. While appearing to be in black & white, each page has been scanned in color to recreate as closely as possible the experience of viewing the actual originals¿including blue pencils, notes, art corrections and more. Pages are reproduced at original size on heavy paper stock to provide fans, aficionados and collectors with the best possible reproductions.
Author : Henry James
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141921969
The stories in this collection were written mostly between 1888 and 1897, a time when Henry James’s writing was concerned with the art of fiction and the position of the artist in society. The motif and title story, ‘The Figure in the Carpet’, is an inspired joke, a masterpiece of double-entendre that demands the reader’s undivided love and attention and continues to baffle its critics. Also included are ‘The Author of Beltraffio’, an absorbing story of family infighting, authorship and tragedy, and ‘The Private Life’, a spirited tale that considers the contrast between the artist alone and at work. While many of these stories appear to be elaborate Jamesian games, all employ irony and humour to allegorize artistic creation.
Author : Ouida
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000006664671
Author : Meenakshi Mukherjee
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8125000046
Here is the first eye-witness story of the Kashmir Operations permitted by the Government of India to be published in book form. On 22 October 1947, in a flash and without warning, war burst upon Kashmir. Indian troops were rushed to defend the state, after the request of the Ruler to accede to the Indian Union was accepted by the Government of India. The Story of Poonch , which is the central theme of the book, gives a vivid picture of the conditions under which the whole campaign was fought. This book, which is a reprint, is fully illustrated with maps and excellent photographs.
Author : Jack London
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547349433
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Moon-Face, and Other Stories" by Jack London. 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 : Honoré de Balzac,Patrick Coleman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199571284
Collects three novellas of sexual attraction, obsession, and madness, including "The Girl with the Golden Eyes," in which Paquita's attraction to the hero has an unexpected origin.
Author : James Macdonald Oxley
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547106517
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "My Strange Rescue and other stories of Sport and Adventure in Canada" by James Macdonald Oxley. 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 : H. G. Dwight
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Of the stories in this collection, three originally appeared in The Century Magazine (“Like Michael,” copyright, 1916; “The Emperor of Elam,” copyright, 1917; “The Emerald of Tamerlane,” copyright, 1918), two each in The Bookman (“Unto the Day,” copyright, 1904; “Studio Smoke,” copyright, 1905), in Scribner’s Magazine (“The Bathers,” copyright, 1903; “Henrietta Stackpole Rediviva,” copyright, 1904), and in The Smart Set (“Susannah and the Elder,” copyright, 1905; “The Undoing of Mrs. Derwall,” copyright, 1906), and one each in The Associated Sunday Magazines (“Martha Waring’s Elopement,” copyright, 1904), in The Outlook (“The Pagan,” copyright, 1905), in Short Stories (“Castello Montughi,” copyright, 1908), and in The Sunset Magazine (“The Bald Spot,” copyright, 1909). It may be added that the names of three of these stories are not the ones first copyrighted and that at least two of them have been completely recast, while not one of them has been left untouched in its earliest state. The writer nevertheless takes this occasion to express to the editors and publishers of the above periodicals, as well as to Mr. W. J. O’Brien and to Messrs. Small, Maynard and Company—who made use of “The Emperor of Elam” in The Best Short Stories of 1917—his thanks both for their former hospitality and for their present courtesy in permitting him to reassemble his work. Nor would this small payment of indebtedness be complete without mention of Colonel J. R. M. Taylor, who wrote the first draft of “The Emerald of Tamerlane,” and who generously allows it to be reprinted over the signature of his collaborator...FROM THE BOOKS.