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Author : Eça de Queirós
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9060030729
Author : Jose Maria Eca de Queiroz
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781907650345
Eça de Queiroz (1845-1900) is considered to be Portugal�s greatest novelist and one of its finest prose writers. In The Mandarin he turns his satirical eye on the sin of avarice and asks the following question: ‘In the depths of China there lives a mandarin who is richer than any king spoken of in fable or in history. You know nothing about him, not his name, his face or the silks that he wears. In order for you to inherit his limitless wealth, all you have to do is to ring the bell placed on a book by your side. In that remote corner of Mongolia, he will utter a single sigh. He will then be a corpse, and at your feet you will see gold beyond the dreams of avarice. Mortal reader, will you ring the bell?� When Teodoro, our timid, lowly narrator, says ‘Yes�, he finds that fabulous wealth brings with it unexpected problems. The three very different stories that complete the collection � ‘The Idiosyncrasies of a Young Blonde Woman�, ‘The Hanged Man� and ‘José Matías� � are all tales of obsessive love, each told with Eça�s irrepressible wit and originality. �A brilliant mischievous essay in fantasy chinoiserie, irreverently subverting the trope, created half a century earlier by Balzac in La Peau de chagrin, of the Oriental curse masquerading as a blessing. In the same Dedalus collection of Eca's short fiction lies a late gem,'Jose Matias', a love story told at a funeral by a Hegelian philosopher, in which the issue of the narrator's own relationship with reality adds a comically ambiguous layer to the tale." Jonathan Keates in The Times Literary Supplement
Author : Eca De Queiroz
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993-09-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0781802148
"Eca de Queiroz (1845-1900) is considered to be Portugal's greatest nineteenth century novelist. His sharply satirical work aimed to expose the hypocrisies of his age. In The Mandarin (1880) and The Relic (1887), however, Eca ventured into the world of Fantastic literature. His lascivious anti-heroes, Teodoro and Teodorico are dragged from their narrow Lisbon lives into exotic encounters with Chinese mandarins, the Devil (in the guise of a dark-suited civil servant) and Jesus Christ Himself." "In his short story Jose Motias Eca de Queiroz takes to its logical and tragi-comic extreme the concept of the romantic lover, worshipping his beloved from afar. In all three, the collision of provincial egotism and greed with higher or darker forces produces a very distinctive blend of social satire and fantasy."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Eça de Queirós
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Short stories, Portuguese
ISBN : UOM:39015005090439
Author : Julian Ralph
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : China
ISBN : UIUC:30112003431530
Author : José Maria Eça de Queiroz
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1975665694
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Author : Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781935744122
Prefiguring the vital modernist voices of the Western literary canon, Akutagawa writes with a trenchant psychological precision that exposes the shifting traditions and ironies of early twentieth-century Japan and reveals his own strained connection to it. These stories are moving glimpses into a cast of characters at odds with the society around them, singular portraits that soar effortlessly toward the universal. "What good is intelligence if you cannot discover a useful melancholy?" Akutagawa once mused. Both piercing intelligence and "useful melancholy" buoy this remarkable collection. Mandarins contains three stories published in English for the first time: "An Evening Conversation," "An Enlightened Husband," and "Winter."
Author : José Maria Eça de Queirós
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780813235042
"Short stories (fiction) by the great nineteenth-century Portuguese author Jose Maria Eca de Queiros; a variety of themes characterize the stories: love, greed, obsession, country life; patriotism"--
Author : Louis Becke
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734094637
Reproduction of the original: By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories by Louis Becke
Author : Yu Chen,Regina Kanyu Wang
Publisher : Tordotcom
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250768933
An Oprah Daily Top 25 Fantasy Book of 2022 From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking short story collection that explores the expanse of Chinese science fiction and fantasy. In The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, you can dine at a restaurant at the end of the universe, cultivate to immortality in the high mountains, watch roses perform Shakespeare, or arrive at the island of the gods on the backs of giant fish to ensure that the world can bloom. Written, edited, and translated by a female and nonbinary team, these stories have never before been published in English and represent both the richly complicated past and the vivid future of Chinese science fiction and fantasy. Time travel to a winter's day on the West Lake, explore the very boundaries of death itself, and meet old gods and new heroes in this stunning new collection. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Joseph Devlin
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456621995
Pilgrims and Other Stories, a book written by Joseph Devlin, is a collection of tales of the New West, and tales of China.
Author : Michael Fitz-James De C. O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590730129
Author : L. Maria Child
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9781329752092
Author : Conrad J.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785521076444
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Written at various times, under various influences, these short stories are linked by Conrad's treatment of loyalty and betrayal. Typhoon is the story of one unremarkable steamship captain, pitted against a storm of incredible fury. Captain MacWhirr has a reputation as a solid, steadfast man, who "having just enough imagination to carry him through each successive day, and no more" cannot fully believe any storm would be a match for his powerful ship. When the barometer and other clues begin to hint at trouble ahead, he is only moderately concerned and unwilling to change course and lose precious time-a decision that may prove more costly than he could ever have imagined. The tone of other stories in the volume shifts from the pathos of Because of the Dollars to the gothic The Inn of the Two Witches and the grim humour of The Partner.
Author : Ann Hui
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771622233
In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada, from Victoria to Fogo Island, to write about small-town Chinese restaurants and the families who run them. It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been included—her parents had run their own Chinese restaurant, The Legion Cafe, before she was born. This discovery, and the realization that there was so much of her own history she didn’t yet know, set her on a time-sensitive mission: to understand how, after generations living in a poverty-stricken area of Guangdong, China, her family had somehow wound up in Canada. Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurantsweaves together Hui’s own family history—from her grandfather’s decision to leave behind a wife and newborn son for a new life, to her father’s path from cooking in rural China to running some of the largest “Western” kitchens in Vancouver, to the unravelling of a closely guarded family secret—with the stories of dozens of Chinese restaurant owners from coast to coast. Along her trip, she meets a Chinese-restaurant owner/small-town mayor, the owner of a Chinese restaurant in a Thunder Bay curling rink, and the woman who runs a restaurant alone, 365 days a year, on the very remote Fogo Island. Hui also explores the fascinating history behind “chop suey” cuisine, detailing the invention of classics like “ginger beef” and “Newfoundland chow mein,” and other uniquely Canadian fare like the “Chinese pierogies” of Alberta. Hui, who grew up in authenticity-obsessed Vancouver, begins her journey with a somewhat disparaging view of small-town “fake Chinese” food. But by the end, she comes to appreciate the essentially Chinese values that drive these restaurants—perseverance, entrepreneurialism and deep love for family. Using her own family’s story as a touchstone, she explores the importance of these restaurants in the country’s history and makes the case for why chop suey cuisine should be recognized as quintessentially Canadian.
