We Smoked Our Sister And Other Stories From A Childhood

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We Smoked Our Sister and other Stories from a Childhood

Carlotta Maria Shinn-Russell

Author : Carlotta Maria Shinn-Russell
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781463422301

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We Smoked Our Sister and other Stories from a Childhood by Carlotta Maria Shinn-Russell Pdf

We Smoked Our Sister: Stories from a childhood carries the reader back to the wonderful days of the 1960’s; a time of excitement in the growth of America. The life of a rural family in Chunchula, Alabama, a suburb of Mobile County is portrayed between these pages. Though it was a time of financial hardships, the family was held together by a loving mother and father, who worked hard and raised their children to be disciplined/focused, productive, motivated, and successful as werll as creating a love for learning and the importance of family and heritage taught through stories passed down from family ancestry, as well as stories created by the Seymour children who lived these stories. Family life was like a work of art. Also, this book looks at a part of family life and the methods used to discipline children in the south. A picture of a rich life comes through to the reader, which could describe the simple everyday lives of any family in the south. The south has such rich undiscovered family history. The reader will not be able to put it down; it totally involves you in the life of the Seymour family and the siblings with their wonderfully hilarious antics. The reader will be able to picture a time in America when life was totally different. We long for those days again, where there was peace, harmony and caring among the citizens. So take a journey though the sixties and relive the days that are so precious to many southern families. This book contains stories that are timeless in beauty and wonderfully intriguing.

Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Laini Taylor

Author : Laini Taylor
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316192149

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Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor Pdf

The first book in the New York Times bestselling epic fantasy trilogy by award-winning author Laini Taylor Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war. Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages--not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out. When one of the strangers--beautiful, haunted Akiva--fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?

ten again : and other stories

Ibrāhīm ʻAbd al-Qādir Māzinī

Author : Ibrāhīm ʻAbd al-Qādir Māzinī
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 977424947X

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ten again : and other stories by Ibrāhīm ʻAbd al-Qādir Māzinī Pdf

Ibrahim al-Mazini was one of the great humorists and stylists of twentieth-century Arabic prose literature. Like an Egyptian James Thurber, he captured the foibles and triumphs of Cairo's middle classes of the 1930s and 1940s in exceptionally stylish prose. This collection gathers in one volume some of al-Mazini's best short fiction, including two novellas: Midu and His Accomplices and Ten Again. Midu is an engaging, well-liked army officer who--assisted by almost every other character in the story--arranges a faux heist from his uncle's library in order to allow young love to run its course. In Ten Again, a man awakes to find that he has returned to childhood, on the day of his tenth birthday: his wife, who is being wooed by a most obnoxious suitor, is now his mother, and his two sons torment him mercilessly at his birthday party. In al-Mazini's skillful hands, the short stories included here illuminate a lively fictional world: from a drunken encounter with a parrot to an undertaker's attempt to provide a cadaver with a believer's contented smile. An unmarried woman dreams of her unborn daughter, who is impatient to be born; and a reclusive author who has chosen to disappear from Cairo's literary scene is tracked down--to his obvious disgust--by an intrepid researcher. Rich in insight, imagination, and humor, these stories are a splendid introduction to a major figure in the early generation of Egyptian writers.

Work in Progress and Other Stories

Anonim

Author : Anonim
Publisher : New Internationalist
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781906523145

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Work in Progress and Other Stories by Anonim Pdf

Short stories from the 2009 Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa's leading literary prize - awarded to an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. The collection includes the five shortlisted stories along with 12 stories written by the Caine Prize Writers' workshop. The Caine Prize is patronised by the four African winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Wole Soynika, Nadine Gordimer, Naguib Mahfouz and J.M. Coetzee.

The Hungry Stones and Other Stories

Rabindranath Tagore

Author : Rabindranath Tagore
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Hungry Stones and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore Pdf

The Hungry Stones is a Bengali short story written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1895. The story is about a tax collector, who is sent to a small town and stays at a former palace which is believed to be haunted. Every night, he becomes more consumed by the spirits of the inhabitants of the palace from the Mughal times and a beautiful Indian woman.

Ten Again and Other Stories

William M. Hutchins

Author : William M. Hutchins
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617971884

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Ten Again and Other Stories by William M. Hutchins Pdf

Ibrahim al-Mazini was one of the great humorists and stylists of twentieth-century Arabic prose literature. Like an Egyptian James Thurber, he captured the foibles and triumphs of Cairo's middle classes of the 1930s and 1940s in exceptionally stylish prose. This collection gathers in one volume some of al-Mazini's best short fiction, including two novellas: Midu and His Accomplices and Ten Again. Midu is an engaging, well-liked army officer who assisted by almost every other character in the story arranges a faux heist from his uncle's library in order to allow young love to run its course. In Ten Again, a man awakes to find that he has returned to childhood, on the day of his tenth birthday: his wife, who is being wooed by a most obnoxious suitor, is now his mother, and his two sons torment him mercilessly at his birthday party. In al-Mazini's skillful hands, the short stories included here illuminate a lively fictional world: from a drunken encounter with a parrot to an undertaker's attempt to provide a cadaver with a believer's contented smile. An unmarried woman dreams of her unborn daughter, who is impatient to be born; and a reclusive author who has chosen to disappear from Cairo's literary scene is tracked down to his obvious disgust by an intrepid researcher. Rich in insight, imagination, and humor, these stories are a splendid introduction to a major figure in the early generation of Egyptian writers.

Broken Glass and Other Stories

Herbert Spohn

Author : Herbert Spohn
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595377053

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In many of the thought-provoking stories in Broken Glass, author Herbert Spohn delves into the situations that people face that make them question their sense of self and how they cope with such challenges. In the title story, "Broken Glass," a homeless man seeks to recover the image of his wife who was horribly disfigured and killed in an automobile accident. In "Becoming an American," an immigrant youth gains both citizenship and maturity in World War II. A produce department manager tells how he learned to cope with blindness in "Diary of a Blind Man." In "Drunks," a recovering alcoholic faces a grave threat to his sobriety. Searching for the source of a death threat, a workaholic therapist finds something he lost in "David Shore Ph.D." And "Emalyne" features a troubled young woman who takes her father, a renowned judge, to court on charges of molestation. Other stories tell of a daughter realizing too late that her father loved her, a boy acutely sensitive to other people's feelings, and a middle-aged man obsessed with a search for a long-lost love. Each of the tales in Broken Glass relays important life lessons and a profound ending that will leave you wanting more.

The Kreutzer Sonata And Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy (International Bestseller Book) From the Author books Like Anna Karenina War and Peace The Death of Ivan Ilych The Kreutzer Sonata Resurrection İnsan Ne İle Yaşar? A Confession Hadji Murád

Leo Tolstoy

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Kreutzer Sonata And Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy (International Bestseller Book) From the Author books Like Anna Karenina War and Peace The Death of Ivan Ilych The Kreutzer Sonata Resurrection İnsan Ne İle Yaşar? A Confession Hadji Murád by Leo Tolstoy Pdf

From the Author books Like · Anna Karenina · War and Peace · The Death of Ivan Ilych · The Kreutzer Sonata · Resurrection · İnsan Ne İle Yaşar? · A Confession · Hadji Murád · How Much Land Does a Man Need? · Family Happiness · Childhood, Boyhood, Youth · The Cossacks · Master and Man · The Kingdom of God Is Within You · The Devil · Father Sergius · What Is Art? ABOUT THE BOOK: One of the world's greatest novelists, Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) also wrote numerous excellent short stories, three of which are contained in this volume. "The Kreutzer Sonata" (1891) is a penetrating study of jealousy as well as a splenetic complaint about the way in which society educates young men and women in matters of sex. In "The Death of Ivan Ilych" (1886), a symbolic Everyman discovers the inner light of faith and love only when confronted by death. "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" (1886) is a simple, didactic story of peasant life, written by Tolstoy in the wake of a spiritual crisis. All three tales offer readers a splendid introduction to Tolstoy's work as well as the focused delights of the short story form brought to a pinnacle in the hands of a master. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

Leo Tolstoy

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1985-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141907550

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'The Kreutzer Sonata' is the self-lacerating confession of a man consumed by sexual jealousy and eaten up by shame and eventually driven to murder his wife. The story caused a sensation when it first appeared and Tolstoy's wife was appalled that he had drawn on their own experiences together to create a scathing indictment of marriage. 'The Devil', centring on a young man torn between his passion for a peasant girl and his respectable life with his loving wife, also illustrates the impossibility of pure love. 'The Forged Coupon' shows how an act of corruption can spiral out of control, and 'After the Ball' examines the abuse of power. Written during a time of spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, these late stories reflect a world of moral uncertainties.

The Art of Space Travel and Other Stories

Nina Allan

Author : Nina Allan
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781789091762

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The Art of Space Travel and Other Stories by Nina Allan Pdf

A beautifully inventive collection from multi award-winning author Nina Allan. These stories will enthral fans of China Mieville, Aliya Whiteley and Carmen Maria Machado. A stunningly inventive collection from multi award-winning author, Nina Allan. Unsettling, dark and brilliantly astute, these weird and wonderful tales take us on journeys through time and space to explore enduring questions of memory and loss. Her worlds are recognisably our own but always closer to the edge, on the slant – and sharply unexpected. These stories are an unmissable insight into a writer at the top of her game.

Cross-Cultural Schooling Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Families

Shijing Xu

Author : Shijing Xu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319461038

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Cross-Cultural Schooling Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Families by Shijing Xu Pdf

This book introduces the concept of reciprocal educational learning among cultures with very different historical and philosophical origins. The concept of reciprocal learning grows out of a four year study of immigrant Chinese family narrative experiences in a Western context. This book captures the lived moments of such transitional lives both in and out of school settings to demonstrate why a child would appear and disappear from different caregivers’ purview. Through the narrative lens of student and family life, the study illustrates the intersection of Confucian and Western philosophies of education and how their interaction creates complications as well as benefits for both traditions, hence, the idea of reciprocal learning.

The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories

Henry James

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141921969

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The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories by Henry James Pdf

The stories in this collection were written mostly between 1888 and 1897, a time when Henry James’s writing was concerned with the art of fiction and the position of the artist in society. The motif and title story, ‘The Figure in the Carpet’, is an inspired joke, a masterpiece of double-entendre that demands the reader’s undivided love and attention and continues to baffle its critics. Also included are ‘The Author of Beltraffio’, an absorbing story of family infighting, authorship and tragedy, and ‘The Private Life’, a spirited tale that considers the contrast between the artist alone and at work. While many of these stories appear to be elaborate Jamesian games, all employ irony and humour to allegorize artistic creation.

The Sand-Man and other stories

E. T. A. Hoffman

Author : E. T. A. Hoffman
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338086952

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The Sand-Man and other stories by E. T. A. Hoffman Pdf

The Sand-Man and other stories is a collection of short horror stories by E. T. A. Hoffman. Hoffman was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror. Excerpt: "The king was in a terrible fury that anybody should ever think of making a nutcracker his son-in-law: he laid all the blame on the watchmaker and astronomer, and banished them both from his court and kingdom. This had not been seen by the astronomer in casting his horoscope; however, he found, on reading the stars a second time, that young Drosselmeier would so well behave himself in his new station that, in spite of his ugliness, he would become prince and king. In the meantime, but with the fervent hope of soon seeing the end of these things, Drosselmeier remains as ugly as ever; so much so, that the nutcrackers in Nuremberg have always been made after the exact model of his countenance and figure."

CHARLES DICKENS – The Complete Short Stories: 190+ Christmas Tales, Social Sketches, Tales for Children & Other Stories (Illustrated)

Charles Dickens

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 3172 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547811398

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CHARLES DICKENS – The Complete Short Stories: 190+ Christmas Tales, Social Sketches, Tales for Children & Other Stories (Illustrated) by Charles Dickens Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "CHARLES DICKENS – The Complete Short Stories: 190+ Christmas Tales, Social Sketches, Tales for Children & Other Stories (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Christmas Novellas A Christmas Carol The Chimes The Cricket on the Hearth The Battle of Life The Haunted Man Short Story Collections Sketches by Boz Sketches of Young Gentlemen Sketches of Young Couples Master Humphrey' Clock Reprinted Pieces The Mudfog Papers Pearl-Fishing (First Series) Pearl-Fishing (Second Series) Christmas Stories Other Stories Children's Books Child's Dream of a Star Holiday Romance Stories About Children Every Child Can Read Criticism Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens The Limitations of Dickens by Henry James The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot by Andrew Lang David Copperfield by Virginia Woolf Biographies Charles Dickens by G. K. Chesterton The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster Dickens' London by M. F. Mansfield Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.

The Ferryman of Brill, and Other Stories

William Henry Giles Kingston

Author : William Henry Giles Kingston
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066177966

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The Ferryman of Brill, and Other Stories by William Henry Giles Kingston Pdf

'The Ferryman of Brill, and Other Stories' is a novel written by William Henry Giles Kingston. The story takes place in the town of Brill in the province of Flanders, which is ruled by the harsh Duke of Alva who resides in Brussels. The Duke is trying to convert the population to the Church of Rome, with little success. The protagonist, Diedrich Meghem, is a young merchant and a Protestant who falls in love with Gretchen Hopper, the daughter of a wealthy merchant. Duke Alva becomes aware of Hopper's wealth and plans to take it for himself. Hopper is a known follower of the reformed principles and can easily be accused of heresy.

We Smoked Our Sister And Other Stories From A Childhood

We Smoked Our Sister and other Stories from a Childhood by Carlotta Maria Shinn-Russell Pdf

Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor Pdf

ten again : and other stories by Ibrāhīm ʻAbd al-Qādir Māzinī Pdf

Work in Progress and Other Stories by Anonim Pdf

The Hungry Stones and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore Pdf

Ten Again and Other Stories by William M. Hutchins Pdf

Broken Glass and Other Stories by Herbert Spohn Pdf

The Kreutzer Sonata And Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy (International Bestseller Book) From the Author books Like Anna Karenina War and Peace The Death of Ivan Ilych The Kreutzer Sonata Resurrection İnsan Ne İle Yaşar? A Confession Hadji Murád by Leo Tolstoy Pdf

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy Pdf

The Art of Space Travel and Other Stories by Nina Allan Pdf

Cross-Cultural Schooling Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Families by Shijing Xu Pdf

The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories by Henry James Pdf

The Sand-Man and other stories by E. T. A. Hoffman Pdf

CHARLES DICKENS – The Complete Short Stories: 190+ Christmas Tales, Social Sketches, Tales for Children & Other Stories (Illustrated) by Charles Dickens Pdf

The Ferryman of Brill, and Other Stories by William Henry Giles Kingston Pdf

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