The Night Before Christmas New Directions Pearls

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811219693

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The Night Before Christmas (New Directions Pearls) by Nikolai Gogol Pdf

Nikolai Gogol's hilarious and macabre tale of a Christmas Eve with a devil and a romantic twist. It is the night before Christmas and devilry is afoot. The devil steals the moon and hides it in his pocket. He is thus free to run amok and inflicts all sorts of wicked mischief upon the village of Dikanka by unleashing a snowstorm. But the one he’d really like to torment is the town blacksmith, Vakula, who creates paintings of the devil being vanquished. Vakula is in love with Oksana, but she will have nothing to do with him. Vakula, however, is determined to win her over, even if it means battling the devil. Taken from Nikolai Gogol’s first successful work, the story collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, The Night Before Christmas is available here for the first time as a stand-alone novella and is a perfect introduction to the great Russian satirist.

Author : Keith Ridgway
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811222945

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Never Love a Gambler (New Directions Pearls) by Keith Ridgway Pdf

In 'Never Love a Gambler,' the Irish writer Keith Ridgway flips conventional narrative with unconventional drama. His charcters negotiate their way through love and lust, religious obsession and ghost sightings, crimes and disappearance in stories told with innovative mastery and brightened by fiercely vivid dialogue. Here, Ridgway showcases his brilliance as a bracing and violently funny storyteller.

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811219334

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On Booze (New Directions Pearls) by F. Scott Fitzgerald Pdf

A collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best drinking stories makes this the most intoxicating New Directions Pearl yet! “First you take a drink,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, “then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debutantes and dandies, rowdy jazz musicians, lost children and ragtime riff-raff into a newly compiled collection taken from The Crack-Up, and other works never before published by New Directions. On Booze portrays “The Jazz Age” as Fitzgerald experienced it: roaring, rambunctious, and lush — with quite a hangover.

Author : Mikhail Bulgakov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811221689

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Morphine (New Directions Pearls) by Mikhail Bulgakov Pdf

From the author of The Master and Margarita comes this short and tragic masterpiece about drug addiction Young Dr. Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arrived than he receives word that a colleague, Dr. Polyakov, has fallen gravely ill. Before Bromgard can go to his friend’s aid, Polyakov is brought to his practice in the middle of the night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and, barely conscious, gives Bromgard his journal before dying. What Bromgard uncovers in the entries is Polyakov’s uncontrollable and merciless descent into morphine addiction — his first injection to ease his back pain, the thrill of the drug as it overtakes him, the looming signs of addiction, and the feverish final entries before his death.

Author : Joseph Roth
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811219327

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The Leviathan (New Directions Pearls) by Joseph Roth Pdf

Joseph Roth’s final novella, The Leviathan, concerns a shtetl’s finest coral merchant and how his dream of seeing the sea for the first time materializes at a terrible cost. In the small town of Progrody, Nissen Piczenik makes his living as the most respected coral merchant of the region. Nissen has never been outside of his town, deep in the Russian interior, and fantasizes that a Leviathan watches over the coral reefs. When the sailor nephew of one of Progrody’s residents comes to visit, Nissen loses little time in befriending him for the purpose of learning about the sea. The sailor offers Nissen a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to come to Odessa and tour his ship. Nissen leaves his business during the peak coral season, and stays in Odessa for three weeks. But upon his return to Progrody, Nissen finds that a new coral merchant has moved into the neighboring town, and his coral is quickly becoming the most sought after. As his customers dwindle, life takes an evil twist for Nissen Piczenik. And the final decider of his fate may be the devil himself.

Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811219648

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Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico (New Directions Pearls) by Javier Marías Pdf

A gem of a Marías story: Elvis and his entourage abandon their translator in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals. “It all happened because of Elvis Presley.” Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his producers hire a proper Spaniard so that he can pronounce his few lines in Spanish with a Castillian accent. But Ruibérriz has taken on much more than he bargained for. One fatal night, horseplay in a local bar goes too far: a fatuous drunken American insults the local kingpin, and when the thug insists that Ruibérriz translate, Elvis himself adds an even more stinging comment—and who must translate that?

Author : Enrique Vila-Matas
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811225700

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Because She Never Asked (New Directions Pearls) by Enrique Vila-Matas Pdf

A novella—half joke and half nightmare— by "Spain's most significant contemporary literary figure" (The New Yorker) Because She Never Asked is a story reminiscent of that reached by the travelers in Patricia Highsmith's Stranger on a Train. The author first writes a piece for the artist Sophie Calle to live out: a young, aspiring, French artist travels to Lisbon and the Azores in pursuit of an older artist whose work she’s in love with. The second part of the story tells what happens between the author and Calle. She eludes, him; he becomes blocked, and suffers physical collapse. “Something strange happened along the way,” Vila-Matas wrote. “Normally, writers try to pass a work of fiction off as being real. But in Because She Never Asked, the opposite occurred: in order to give meaning to the story of my life, I found that I needed to present it as fiction.”

Author : Nikolai Gogol,Constance Garnett
Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9786057566195

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The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol,Constance Garnett Pdf

"The devil flew up to the moon, reached out and tried to grab it, but must have burned his fingers, for he hopped on one leg, sucking on his hand. He walked around it and tried again from the other side, and again jumped back. But the sly one didn't give up: he suddenly grabbed the moon with both hands and, juggling it like a hot pancake, stuffed it in his pocket, and flew off as though nothing had happened. In our village of Dikanka, no one noticed the theft. True, when the district scribe crawled out of the tavern on all fours he thought he saw the moon dancing in the sky, but who would believe him?" And in the and of the story, good wins in the most unexpected way.. [N. G.]

Author : Yoko Tawada
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811220378

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The Bridegroom Was a Dog (New Directions Pearls) by Yoko Tawada Pdf

A schoolteacher tells her class a fable about a princess who promises her hand in marriage to a dog that has licked her bottom clean. Strangely, a doglike suitor then appears to court the teacher. Much to the chagrin of her friends, an odd romance ensues - simmering with secrets, chivalry, and sex.

Author : Viktor Pelevin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811219429

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The Hall of Singing Caryatids by Viktor Pelevin Pdf

A far-out, far-fetched, and fiendishly funny story about a strange nightclub and its outrageous entertainment.

Author : Malcolm Day
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811864200

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1001 Pearls of Bible Wisdom by Malcolm Day Pdf

The newest title in Chronicle's best-selling 1,001 series (over half a million copies sold) marries the wisdom of the Bible with exuberant artwork in our signature chunky format. 1,001 Pearls of Bible Wisdom is an inspiring collection of the most enlightening, uplifting, and poetic verses from the Bible. It quotes from both the Old and New Testaments, and is organized by such universal themes as forgiveness, humility, justice, and compassion. These pearls of wisdom are accompanied by lucid explanations of the Bible's major events, such as the Exodus from Egypt, the Last Supper, and the Crucifixion. Readers of any faith can turn to these profound insights for guidance, comfort, and inspiration.

Author : Patty Sullivan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781637631652

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Betty White's Pearls of Wisdom by Patty Sullivan Pdf

A beautiful tribute to Betty White, one of the most beloved and treasured American icons. Betty White’s award-winning career spanned seven decades. From the early days of television on the game-show circuit to her unforgettable roles on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Golden Girls, and Hot in Cleveland, she was the first lady of television. With her irreverent wit and comedic timing, she was a force of nature forever cherished by fans young and old. In Betty White’s Pearls of Wisdom readers will find a more intimate look into Betty’s life as told through the eyes of Patty Sullivan, her lifelong friend and adopted family member. “My remembrances are perhaps an echo of things already said, but I hope my stories hold up a mirror, another reflection of her essence and how she affected my life so profoundly.” Patty met Betty in the late 1960s, and the Sullivans—Patty, her husband, Tom, and their two children—enjoyed a rich relationship and amazing closeness through Betty’s final days. Through her stories we see Betty’s fun-loving banter over a game of Scrabble, her wisdom imparted on a moonlit Christmas sleigh ride, and her passionate advocacy for all members of the animal kingdom. Betty’s uncompromising values were the authentic core of the life she lived and savored—tasting every minute along the way. Betty White’s Pearls of Wisdom gives you a glimpse into the personal relationship with “her Sullivans,” and the pearls of wisdom she imparted that forever transformed their lives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 0836267621

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Believe: A Christmas Treasury by Anonim Pdf

This book helps you to believe in your self just like Christmas.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357318

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357466

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)