The Heather Fields And Other Stories

Author : John F. Deane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123392073

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The Heather Fields and Other Stories by John F. Deane Pdf

In The Heather Fields, Reynolds' only friend has drowned and his neighbours have turned against him. Facing a cold and lonely future, he is simply marking time until his death, with only some pigs, chickens and the scolding shade of his mother for company. Life is as cruel as the land in The Eye of the Beholder. Living alone on a small, failing farm, Augustine Honeywell yearns for companionship, but God has dealt him 'a hand with not even one trump. Not an ace, not a king, not a knave; and above all, not a queen.' And in Down on the Farm, a modest lottery win allows the lustful Valentine Kidney to escape the 'wholesome and disinfected petting' that passes for romance in Killnamaine. Set in island communities in small-town rural Ireland, peopled with the marginalized and forgotten, these nine stories address life's most profound questions - the nature of existence and the purpose of being.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Authors, Irish
ISBN : MINN:31951P010657309

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Books Ireland by Anonim Pdf

Author : Heather Gudenkauf
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488095429

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Before She Was Found by Heather Gudenkauf Pdf

A gripping thriller about three young girlfriends, a dark obsession and a chilling crime that shakes up a quiet Iowa town, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Weight of Silence. For twelve-year-old Cora Landry and her friends Violet and Jordyn, it was supposed to be an ordinary sleepover—movies and Ouija and talking about boys. But when they decide to sneak out to go to the abandoned rail yard on the outskirts of town, little do they know that their innocent games will have dangerous consequences. Later that night, Cora Landry is discovered on the tracks, bloody and clinging to life, her friends nowhere to be found. Soon their small rural town is thrust into a maelstrom. Who would want to hurt a young girl like Cora—and why? In an investigation that leaves no stone unturned, everyone is a suspect and no one can be trusted—not even those closest to Cora. Before She Was Found is a timely and gripping thriller about friendship and betrayal, about the power of social pressure and the price of needing to fit in. It is about the great lengths a parent will go to protect their child and keep them safe—even if that means burying the truth, no matter the cost. And don’t miss Heather’s latest book, AN OVERNIGHT GUEST! You’ll be chilled and riveted from start to finish with this story of an unexpected visitor and a deadly snowstorm! Check out these other riveting novels of suspense by bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf: The Weight of Silence These Things Hidden One Breath Away Little Mercies Missing Pieces Not a Sound This is How I Lied

Author : Heather Fawcett
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593500149

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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north in this “incredibly fun journey through fae lands and dark magic” (NPR), the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series. “A darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic.”—Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, PopSugar Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party—or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, Shadow, and the Fair Folk to other people. So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby, who manages to charm the townsfolk, muddle Emily’s research, and utterly confound and frustrate her. But as Emily gets closer and closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones—the most elusive of all faeries—lurking in the shadowy forest outside the town, she also finds herself on the trail of another mystery: Who is Wendell Bambleby, and what does he really want? To find the answer, she’ll have to unlock the greatest mystery of all—her own heart. Book One of the Emily Wilde Series

Author : Steve Almond
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781565128644

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The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories by Steve Almond Pdf

Steve Almond, the man whose candy jones fueled the bestseller Candyfreak, returns with a collection of stories that both seals his reputation as a master of the modern form and risks getting him arrested. The cast of characters in The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories includes a wealthy family certain they have been abducted by space aliens, a sexy magazine editor who falls for a worldclass cad, and a beleaguered dentist who refuses to read his best friend’s novel. Michael Jackson and Abraham Lincoln make cameos, as do a variety of desperate and beautiful loonies, all of whom are laid bare, often literally. In these twelve stories, Almond refuses to let his characters off the hook, or to abandon them, until we have seen the full measure of ourselves within their struggle.

Author : Mrs. W. K. Clifford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : English fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086877818

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The Dominant Note, and Other Stories by Mrs. W. K. Clifford Pdf

Author : Heather Young
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062456618

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The Lost Girls by Heather Young Pdf

“The delicacy of [Young’s] writing elevates the drama and gives her two central characters depth and backbone… For all the beauty of Young’s writing, her novel is a dark one...And the murder mystery that drives it is as shocking as anything you’re likely to read for a good long while.” — New York Times Book Review A stunning novel that examines the price of loyalty, the burden of regret, the meaning of salvation, and the sacrifices we make for those we love, told in the voices of two unforgettable women linked by a decades-old family mystery at a picturesque lake house. In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family’s vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys the family—her father commits suicide, and her mother and two older sisters spend the rest of their lives at the lake house, keeping a decades-long vigil for the lost child. Sixty years later, Lucy, the quiet and watchful middle sister, lives in the lake house alone. Before her death, she writes the story of that devastating summer in a notebook that she leaves, along with the house, to the only person who might care: her grandniece, Justine. For Justine, the lake house offers freedom and stability—a way to escape her manipulative boyfriend and give her daughters the home she never had. But the long Minnesota winter is just beginning. The house is cold and dilapidated. The dark, silent lake is isolated and eerie. Her only neighbor is a strange old man who seems to know more about the summer of 1935 than he’s telling. Soon Justine’s troubled oldest daughter becomes obsessed with Emily’s disappearance, her mother arrives to steal her inheritance, and the man she left launches a dangerous plan to get her back. In a house haunted by the sorrows of the women who came before her, Justine must overcome their tragic legacy if she hopes to save herself and her children.

Author : George Mackay Brown,G Mackay Brown
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781848549463

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The Island of the Women and Other Stories by George Mackay Brown,G Mackay Brown Pdf

In these six stories George Mackay Brown leads us back along the sweep of Orkney's past and beyond even that to the remoteness of fable. He reveals the timelessness of the lived moment and the constants of island life in the harvest of sea and land and the compulsions of voyage and homecoming.

Author : W. B. Yeats
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387046052

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Rosa Alchemica; And Other Stories by W. B. Yeats Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : J. P. Jacobsen
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547019879

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Mogens, and Other Stories by J. P. Jacobsen Pdf

This book is a classic collection of short stories from a poet Jens Peter Jacobsen associated with the so-called "modern breakthrough" in Danish literature in the 1870s. Jacobsen's immediate importance was his status as the writer of his generation. He stood aside from the conflict, content to be merely artist, a creator of beauty and a seeker after truth, eager to bring into the realm of literature "the eternal laws of nature, its glories, its riddles, its miracles," as he once put it. That is why his work has retained its living colors until to-day, without the least trace of fading.

Author : Elizabeth Gaskell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780192669179

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Cousin Phillis and Other Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell Pdf

'I see her now - cousin Phillis. The westering sun shone full upon her, and made a slanting stream of light into the room within.' Elizabeth Gaskell has long been one of the most popular of Victorian novelists, yet in her lifetime her shorter fictions were equally well loved, and they are among the most accomplished examples of the genre. The novella-length Cousin Phillis is a lyrical depiction of a vanishing way of life and a girl's disappointment in love: deceptively simple, its undercurrent of feeling leaves an indelible impression. The other five stories in this selection were all written during the 1850s for Dickens's periodical Household Words. They range from a quietly original tale of urban poverty and a fallen woman in 'Lizzie Leigh' to an historical tale of a great family in 'Morton Hall'; echoes of the French Revolution, the bleakness of winter in Westmorland, and a tragic secret are brought vividly to life. Heather Glen reflects on the stories' original periodical publication and on the nineteenth-century development of the short story in her Introduction to these immensely readable and sophisticated tales. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Gerda Christensen
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781490736150

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The Old House and Other Stories by Gerda Christensen Pdf

With a delightful collection of short stories, Gerda takes the reader through some of her favorite memories. Stories include tales of her life in Denmark, accounts of her travel adventures in different parts of the world, and personal reflections on times with her family. She has masterfully built stories around historical events and shares her experiences with the diverse cultures she has encountered during her travels. Touching on times of both triumph and loss, the stories are peppered with humor, love, and a touch of nostalgia.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664645470

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The Green Flag, and Other Stories of War and Sport by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

Arthur Conan Doyle, renowned for his Sherlock Holmes series, presents a collection of tales centered around war and sports. Set against the backdrop of 19th-century Great Britain, these stories delve into the societal customs, challenges, and passions of the time. Doyle's masterful storytelling captures the essence of the era, making it a must-read for fans of historical fiction and adventure.

Author : Артур Конан Дойл
Publisher : Litres
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040827022

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The Green Flag, and Other Stories of War and Sport by Артур Конан Дойл Pdf

Author : Donn Byrne
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664632715

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Changeling, and Other Stories by Donn Byrne Pdf

This book is a collection of short stories written by Donn Byrne, an Irish novelist. Byrne was firmly of the neo-romantic view of the mythical and pastoral beauty of Irish history. His writing evokes these images, sometimes seeming want to preserve them. His simple narrative style recalls the atmosphere of ancient oral epics such as Taine Bo Cualinge and the Epic of Gilgamesh.