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Author : John Matthews,Caitlin Matthews
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763636460
An illustrated collection of tales featuring notable trickster characters such as Raven and Hare, from the folk traditions of many countries.
Author : Emanuel Bergmann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501155826
"Sweeping between Prague during World War II and modern day Los Angeles, this ... debut follows a young Jewish man in 1934 who falls in love and joins the circus as the country descends into war. Decades later, a young boy seeks out the now cynical, elderly magician in the hopes that his spells might keep his family together"--
Author : Helen DeWitt
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811227834
Hailed a “Best Book of the Year” by NPR, Publishers Weekly, Vulture, and the New York Public Library, Some Trick is now in paperback Finalist for the Saroyan Prize for Fiction For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most far-reaching dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art world’s piranha tank, games of chance and games of skill, the travails of publishing, or success. “Look,” a character begins to explain, laying out some gambit reasonably enough, even in the face of situations spinning out to their utmost logical extremes, where things prove “more complicated than they had first appeared” and “at 3 a.m. the circumstances seem to attenuate.” In various ways, each tale carries DeWitt’s signature poker-face lament regarding the near-impossibility of the life of the mind when one is made to pay to have the time for it, in a world so sadly “taken up with all sorts of paraphernalia superfluous, not to say impedimental, to ratiocination.”
Author : Susan E. Phillips
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271047393
Author : Claire Evans
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338283280
The Big Bad Wolf has escaped and our new superheroes, the Three Little Superpigs, must save Fairyland before it is too late. After defeating the Big Bad Wolf, the Three Little Superpigs spend their days fighting crime and enjoying their newfound fame. But one day, the Big Bad Wolf escapes from prison and plunges Fairyland into fear. Our curly-tailed friends soon discover that bricks are missing all over town. The Superpigs return to their homes to solve the mystery when they realize it has all been a trap!Join our new superheroes as they escape from the evil clutches of the Big Bad Wolf and save Fairyland in this first Superpigs adventure. Readers will huff and puff and laugh and laugh.
Author : Charlotte Artese
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644530443
Shakespeare’s Folktale Sources argues that seven plays—The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice, All’s Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Cymbeline—derive one or more of their plots directly from folktales. In most cases, scholars have accepted one literary version of the folktale as a source. Recognizing that the same story has circulated orally and occurs in other medieval and early modern written versions allows for new readings of the plays. By acknowledging that a play’s source story circulated in multiple forms, we can see how the playwright was engaging his audience on common ground, retelling a story that may have been familiar to many of them, even the illiterate. We can also view the folktale play as a Shakespearean genre, defined by source as the chronicle histories are, that spans and traces the course of Shakespeare’s career. The fact that Shakespeare reworked folktales so frequently also changes the way we see the history of the literary folk- or fairy-tale, which is usually thought to bypass England and move from Italian novella collections to eighteenth-century French salons. Each chapter concludes with a bibliography listing versions of each folktale source as a resource for further research and teaching. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Author : Nathan Hale
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781683350705
The aliens have arrived. And they’re hungry for electricity. In the Earth of the future, humans are on the run from an alien force—giant blobs who suck up electrical devices wherever they can find them. Strata and her family are part of a caravan of digital rescuers, hoping to keep the memory of civilization alive by saving electronics wherever they can. Many humans have reverted to a pre-electrical age, and others have taken advantage of the invasion to become dangerous bandits and outlaws. When Strata and her brother are separated from the caravan, they must rely on a particularly beautiful and rare robot pony to escape the outlaws and aliens—and defeat the invaders once and for all.
Author : Domenico Starnone
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609454456
A weary man faces the ghosts of his past while caring for his grandson in Naples in this National Book Award finalist novel by the acclaimed author of Ties. In Tricks, Domenico Starnone presents an unusual duel between two formidable minds. One is Daniele Mallarico, a once-successful illustrator who feels his artistic prowess fading. The other is Mario, Daniele’s four-year-old grandson. Daniele is living in virtual solitude in Milan when his daughter asks him to come to Naples to babysit Mario for a few days. Shut inside his childhood home―an apartment in the center of Naples that is filled with memoires of Daniele’s past―grandfather and grandson match wits as Daniele heads toward a reckoning with his own ambitions and life choices. Meanwhile, Naples pulses outside, a wily, passionate city whose influence can never be shaken. As translator Jhumpa Lahiri says in her introduction, Trick is “an extremely playful literary composition” by the Strega Prize–winning novelist whom many consider to be one of Italy’s greatest living writers.
Author : Thomas NICHOLSON (Poetical Writer.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026808911
Author : Mitch Cullin
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400078226
The basis for the Major Motion Picture Mr. Holmes starring Ian McKellen and Laura Linney and directed by Bill Condon. It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn’t even know he was asking–about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind’s ability to know. A novel of exceptional grace and literary sensitivity, A Slight Trick of the Mind is a brilliant imagining of our greatest fictional detective and a stunning inquiry into the mysteries of human connection.
Author : Pam Holden
Publisher : Flying Start Books
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781776549023
The first time Hare and Tortoise had a race, Hare stopped and slept while Tortoise kept plodding along to win. Hare was cross that he lost the race, so he wanted to race against Tortoise again. Who do you think won this time?
Author : William Germano
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781839020636
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) is a unique and important film, both in the history of British cinema and in the history of interdisciplinary art-making. It is the first full-throttle presentation of an opera on screen: a Technicolor exploration of romance, fantasy, and failure, more danced than sung.
Author : John Matthews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Animals
ISBN : 1840111291
How did Raven steal the sun and why is Leopard terrified of Hare? Animal tricksters from around the world leap off the page in this collection of tales.
Author : Jennifer Jelliff-Russell
Publisher : Evergrowth Coach LLC
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Ready for six even scarier stories that will make you want to keep the lights on tonight? All Tricks, No Treats Jake and Pete return to Old Man Russell’s for more magical candy only to get trapped in his haunted house with nightmare creatures who are ready for dinner—and Jake and Pete are on the menu. Can the boys escape before the monsters eat them? The Shortcut Sick of being left behind by his friends, Alan discovers a path through the woods that he thinks might be a shortcut. Too bad it’s a shortcut to becoming something more than human. Invisible Ink Mei thought going to the carnival with her friends would be boring until they win a bottle of magical invisible ink. Just when she thinks her night is looking up, her friends start disappearing… The House in the Woods When Clara discovers an old, abandoned house in the woods, she doesn’t expect to be trapped inside by a sinister creature that wants to feed her to something even more terrifying. Into the Forest While completing a school project, Ari and Corinna discover a mysterious trail in the forest and decide to go for a hike. But when the path they choose leads to an other-worldly creature, their hike quickly becomes a race for their lives. The Woodshed Austin’s brother always teased him to keep the woodshed locked at their aunt’s farm or the boggart will get him. When Austin ends up visiting the farm by himself, he learns there’s something way scarier than a boggart in the shed—and it’s been waiting for him. Another Tale for Halloween and Even More Spooky Stories for Kids is the perfect book for 9–12 year-olds with just the right amount of frights. Just don’t expect to sleep with the light off afterwards! Read before bed for a scare…if you dare!
Author : S.T. Joshi
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786409860
This is a critical study of many of the leading writers of horror and supernatural fiction since World War II. The primary purpose is to establish a canon of weird literature, and to distinguish the genuinely meritorious writers of the past fifty years from those who have obtained merely transient popular renown. Accordingly, the author regards the complex, subtle work of Shirley Jackson, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Aickman, T.E.D. Klein, and Thomas Ligotti as considerably superior to the best-sellers of Stephen King, Clive Barker, Peter Straub, and Anne Rice. Other writers such as William Peter Blatty, Thomas Tryon, Robert Bloch, and Thomas Harris are also discussed. Taken as a whole, the volume represents a pioneering attempt to chart the development of weird fiction over the past half-century.
