Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Written over the years, Khushwant Singh obituaries present the dead in death, as in life-good, bad or ugly-including Bhutto, Sanjay Gandhi, M.O. Mathai, Lord Mountbatten, and the author's pet Alsatian Simba.
Author : Wayne Spitzer
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 11,41 MB
Release : 1974
Category : City and town life in literature
ISBN : 9780682480109
Author : Edward Z Menkin
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 2019-07-16
Category :
ISBN : 9781079316810
A darkly funny, insightful, compelling, and well-written book about what it's really like to practice as a criminal defense attorney on the front lines of American justice. From the profound (a man accused of murder for shooting a masked gunman who attacks him and his wife on their doorstep) to the ridiculous (a major Federal investigation into fishermen shooting cormorants), Ed Menkin's memoir is told with humor, wisdom, and insight. It will have you questioning everything you ever thought you knew about how our criminal justice system really works. It brings to vivid life lawyers, judges, and crooks, revealing their character, their demeanor, their authentic speech, and their seriocomic lives.
Author : Mary Higgins Clark
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 1995
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Mary Higgins Clark
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501111000
A collection of short stories Mary Higgins Clark.
Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Lebooks Editora
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 2024-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 6558942313
In a list published by an American specialized magazine, which ranked the best short stories of the 20th century, the story chosen as the best was " The Dead" by James Joyce, and there are plenty of reasons for this choice. "The Dead" is the final story in the volume "Dubliners" and differs from the other stories both in its greater length and its poetic intensity and symbolism. The central theme here is the mortality of the human being, which is suggested from the title. But it encompasses much more than that. The description of the New Year's Eve party is a clear example of Joyce's skill in depicting scenes, highlighting aspects that seem of no importance. The complexity that Joyce was able to infuse into his masterpiece "Ulysses" is well known, but the story "The Dead," with its simplicity, is proof of the enormous versatility and talent of this great writer.
Author : Diana M Grillo
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 17,7 MB
Release : 2018-04-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781732131507
An Accidental Murder is a collection of connected short stories about navigating through trauma and overcoming life's most challenging circumstances. Friends, wives, teenagers, and children struggle with abuse, loss, and self-esteem as they fight to maintain their dignity and exercise control over their lives. Praise for An Accidental Murder and Other Stories. "The characters [in The Little Black Box are]...all solid and compelling... The husband...is a good supporting character...with some strong idiosyncrasies, an ongoing hook for readers." ..".wonderful descriptive passages in Blind-Sighted--very good visuals of people and places. The characters are all well-drawn and ...seem realistic in the story. [The dialogue] sounds natural and unique... real conversation between real people. ... readers will be easily drawn into the story... Mike Foley, Writer's Review "With generally spare, visual language, Diana Grillo's stories depict simple, circumscribed lives that belie the complicated pain and anger that fester underneath. The characters and their environments depict the power struggles and shifts that occur over time in families; the feelings of entrapment; and the streetwise survival skills that sometimes allow for freedom.... The "tear" examined under a microscope aptly describes the totality of this very special collection." Ginger E. Benlifer, Ph.D., Psychologist
Author : Ellis Peters
Publisher :
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Felse, George (Fictitious character)
ISBN :
Author : Kalpana Swaminathan
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 32,88 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Detective and mystery stories, Indic (English)
ISBN : 9788125011200
What did Aunt Lalli do before she retired from something clerkish in the police? The question intrigues us even as the narrator and her aunt Lalli plunge headlong into adventures in each of these engrossing detective stories. Aunt Lalli ingeniously solves each mystery, and we celebrate the emergence of a new sleuth into the world of detective fiction.
Author : Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Publisher : Om Books International
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 2014
Category :
ISBN : 9383202173
The lyrical prose of writer, journalist and film director Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914-1987) easily lends itself to short stories. In Sardarji and Other Stories, a captivating collection, the protagonists of each tale are portrayed grappling with realities imposed upon them by an unrelenting historical churning that compels them to revisit their relationships with their cultural, spatial and psychological moorings. Communal riots, poverty, abjection, love and longing or renewed hopes and nascent dreams make this collection an incisive and moving portrayal of the human condition. This Khwaja Ahmad Abbas collection includes some of the best short stories ever penned down by the author, journalist and film directorEach of the stories selected for this volume gives a glimpse into the mind and works of this legendary writerEncompasses a variety of themes that readers can easily identify with.Includes the last interview with Abbas about his last film, Ek Aadmi.
