The Four Stories

Author : Vashima Jain
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644290293

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The Four Stories by Vashima Jain Pdf

4 fascinating stories. All interconnected in a way that only YOU can discover. Here’s a keyhole into their lives. Take a sneak peak! Rajani: A corporate honcho, an ardent "Game of Thrones" fan battles with nail biting drama that has conveniently accompanied some of her big decisions. Will she shine again? Lata: A housemaid whose inner demons come alive as she comes face to face with the gruesome truth about her husband, who she has loved despite all his flaws. Will she survive this betrayal? Sarthak: A young boy with pain in his heart, finds a new dimension to his life. Will he ever talk to the stars, again? Gabbar: He may seem like just another dog, but is he? Have you heard his story, from himself? A Journey of companionship, love and forgiveness. In short, “life”~ the way he sees it. These dramatic, gripping and comically sublime stories will change the way you perceive people around you. Get ready for a memorable journey into their world.

Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Norway
ISBN : 1950970833

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Four Stories by Sigrid Undset Pdf

"Four Stories offers honest, uncontrived portrayals of everyday life in early twentieth-century Norway. In Selma Brøter, as a spinster becomes involved in the love affair of her two coworkers, Undset draws a powerful, heartrending contrast between her delusion and their bliss. In Simonsen, an aged clerk gains support from his son and daughter-in-law, but learns it could come at a steep price. A housekeeper finds happiness (and love), in Miss Smith-Tellefesen, until a sudden change results in the loss of everything she has found. In Thodolf, a childless sailor’s wife adopts a baby boy. The sudden appearance of the boy’s birth mother sets off a series of events with an affecting conclusion. Marked with Undset’s distinctive compassionate insight into her characters, Four Stories profoundly captures the oscillation between contentment and sadness which is part and parcel of every human life."--

Author : Alan Bennett
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847653871

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Four Stories by Alan Bennett Pdf

Like everything Bennett does, these stories are playful, witty and painfully observant of ordinary people's foibles. They all have brilliant twists, are immensely entertaining and highly moral. And all are modern classics. The Laying on of Hands The painfully observant account of a memorial service for a masseur to the famous. The Clothes They Stood Up In The comic tale of an elderly couple's trials after their flat is stripped completely bare. Father! Father! Burning Bright The savage satire on the family of a dying man who rules over them from his hospital bed. The Lady in the Van The true story of the eccentric old woman who is invited to live in a homeowner's front garden. She stays there, in her van, for fifteen years. The home is Alan Bennett's. It became a West End hit and a major film, starring Maggie Smith.

Author : Nie Jun
Publisher : Graphic Universe& 8482
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781512445909

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My Beijing by Nie Jun Pdf

"Four short stories set in a hutong, or residential alleyway, of Beijing, China. Yu'er, her grandfather, and their eccentric neighbors experience the magic of everyday life."--

Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1990-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140390766

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Four Stories by American Women by Various Pdf

Representing four prominent American women writers who flourished in the period following the Civil War, this collection includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Country of the Pointed Firs" by Sarah Orne Jewett, and "Souls Belated" by Edith Wharton. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : John Reeves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1441518991

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Four Stories High by John Reeves Pdf

Author : Matthew Wayne Selznick
Publisher : MWS Media
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Four Stories by Matthew Wayne Selznick Pdf

Author : Rabindranath Tagore
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547045847

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Stories from Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore Pdf

The author of this book, Rabindranath Tagore, was a genius poet and thinker. This collection contains some of his most famous stories, like The Home-Coming, Once there was a King, The Child's Return, Subha, The Postmaster, and The Castaway. The author is a master of taking simple stories and adding complex plots, which are beautifully presented in the collection.

Author : Anne Moody
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Children's stories, American
ISBN : UCSC:32106002181110

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Mr. Death by Anne Moody Pdf

Author : Etgar Keret
Publisher : B.G. Rudolph Lectures in Judai
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0815681569

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Four Stories by Etgar Keret Pdf

This booklet includes a lecture called "Second Generation" and four remarkable short stories by Etgar Keret: "Asthma Attack," "Shoes," "Siren," and "Foreign Language," the last of which has never before appeared in the United States. Openly discussing his family background for the first time, Keret brings to life the confused experience of growing up as an Israeli child of Holocaust survivors. One of Israel¿s leading voices in literature and cinema, Keret mixes wry humor, keen intelligence, and subtle tenderness to create some of the most provocative and entertaining stories of his generation.

Author : Alan Bennett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571250752

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The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett Pdf

Adapted by the author from his autobiographical memoir, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd, whom Alan Bennett first came across when she was living in the street near his home in Camden Town. Taking refuge with her van in his garden originally for three months, she ended up staying fifteen years. Funny, touching and unexpectedly spectacular, The Lady in the Van marked the return to the stage of one of our leading playwrights. The Lady in the Van with Maggie Smith opened at the Queen's Theatre, London, in December 1999.

Author : John D. Hogan
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781506378268

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Twenty-Four Stories From Psychology by John D. Hogan Pdf

A good story sets the stage for engaged learning. Nowhere is this more important than in foundational courses, such as Introductory Psychology or History of Psychology. John Hogan’s Twenty-Four Stories from Psychology captivates readers with the rich stories--the who, what, where, when, why and how--for many of the major theories and colorful characters who have shaped the development of Psychology as a field. The storytelling format and carefully developed pedagogical features—critical thinking and formative assessment questions at the end of each chapter—are sure to make this brief text a powerful tool for teaching and learning in psychology.

Author : Babette Cole
Publisher : Egmont Books (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1405201460

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The Trouble With.... by Babette Cole Pdf

Four stories about people who aren't what they seem. Mum is a part-time witch, Dad invents crazy robots, Gran is really an alien, and Grandad grows such enormous tomatoes they destroy the police station.

Author : Mahāśvetā Debī
Publisher : Seagull Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Crime
ISBN : 8170462398

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Bait by Mahāśvetā Debī Pdf

Unlike most of her works, which focus on tribals and the rural dispossessed, the four stories in this collection are located in the urban and suburban underworld, and form an unusual segment of Mahasweta Devi s oeuvre Fisherman (about Jagat who recovers bodies of young boys from the village tank so that the police can pass them off a cases of drowning), Knife (a tongue-in-cheek account of gang warfare in a suburban town of West Bengal, bordering Bangladesh), Body (about a young woman , used by a politician and his cohorts until she makes her won protest against the exploitative Establishment), and Killer (in which Sona alias Akhil, an unemployed middle-class youth, discovers himself after his first test killing). The in-depth introductory essay by veteran cultural historian Sumanta Banerjee, who himself, from his crime reporting past, has a firsthand familiarity with the milieu being depicted puts the stories in context and goes on to discuss the development of the new criminal underworld in Bengal today. Mahasweta Devi is one of India s foremost writers. Her powerful fiction has won her recognition in the form of the Sahitya Akademi (1979), Jnanpith (1996) and Ramon Magsaysay (1996) awards, and the title of Officier Del Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres (2003) and the Nonino Prize (2005) amongst several other literary honours. She was also awarded the Padmasree in 1986, for her activist work among dispossessed tribal communities. Sumanta Banerjee is a cultural historian who specializes in research into popular culture, particularly of the colonial period. His publications include landmark works of cultural history; he also has several translations to his credit.

Author : Mahāśvetā Debī
Publisher : Seagull Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8170461898

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Outcast by Mahāśvetā Debī Pdf

Four women Dhouli, Shanichari, Josmina, Chinta all from the most oppressed, marginalized segments of the society. Whether it is Dhouli, The young Dusad woman who finds herself an outcast in her own village; Shanichari, the Oraon girl who is forced into working in the brick kilns outside Calcutta; Josima, the Ho tribal who, with her husband, gets sucked into the racket of trade in cheap coolie labour; or Chinta, a brahman widow whose caste is no protection against the harsh social strictures that force her into working as a part-time maid in Calcutta the life stories of each of these women have one thing in common: the unending class, caste and gender exploitation which makes their lives a relentless struggle for survival. Mahasweta Devi s acute and perceptive pen brings them to life with a deep empathy and sensitivity which makes these women step out of the margins of society to live in our minds, impressive in their quiet courage and tenacity, their will to survive. Mahasweta Devi is one of India s foremost writers. Her powerful, satiric fiction has won her recognition in the form of the Sahitya Akademi (1979), Jnanpith (1996) and Ramon Magsaysay (1996) awards, the title of Officier del Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres (2003) and the Nonino Prize (2005), amongst several other literary honours. She was also awarded the Padmasree in 1986, for her activist work amongst dispossessed tribal communities. Sharmistha Dutta Gupta is a translator and editor based in Calcutta. She has co-edited and translated The Stream Within (Calcutta: Stree, 1999), a volume of short stories by contemporary Bengali women writers.