Author : Theodore H. Hughes
Publisher : Cornell East Asia Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Korean literature
ISBN : 9781933947877
This volume brings together twelve short stories by colonial Korean proletarian writers, as well as two works written in 1946 under U.S. military occupation. The volume provides a diverse, ever-changing portrait of the complex movements of people and ideas that constituted both colonial Korea and the Japanese empire, adding the tumultuous experiences of those from the Korean peninsula to the existing international canon of socialist and feminist literature.
Author : George V. Higgins
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1780332688
It sometimes seems like a good idea to put a match to the problem you'd most like to be without. When it's a slum full of blacks who don't pay the rent, and your buildings are all insured, then it's the best idea of all. But if you pay Jimmy and Leo to do it for you, you may find you've got another problem. One of the best loved titles from this American master of literary low life.
Author : William Stolzenburg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 1608191036
Chronicles the highly controversial practice of rescuing endangered island species by killing their predators, explaining how rats and other animals introduced to the Bering Sea midway by shipwrecks have decimated native bird populations.
Author : David Covell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101643056
Friends. Enemies. And friends again! This is a story of two friends. Rat and Roach. They get along great! Except when Rat makes a mess . . . Or Roach cooks too fancy . . . Or Rat HUGS TOO TIGHT!! In fact, why are these two friends? Rat and Roach aren't so sure either, but they're more unhappy when they aren't friends. Here is a book that shows friendship in a whole new, wonderful, hilarious light.
Author : H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher : SAMPI Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 2024-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 6561332423
In "The Rats in the Walls" by H.P. Lovecraft, a man restores his ancestral estate in England, only to be haunted by mysterious noises within the walls. As he investigates, he uncovers horrifying secrets about his family's dark past and the ancient horrors lurking beneath the mansion.
Author : Clara Yen
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 2002-03
Category :
ISBN : 9780892391745
Author : China Miéville
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 2000-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466826029
Award-winning author China Miéville began his astounding career with King Rat—now in a new Tor Essentials edition—a mix of a young man's search for identity with a pulse-pounding story of revenge and madness. With a new introduction by Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail. Something is stirring in London's dark, stamping out its territory in brickdust and blood. Something has murdered Saul Garamond's father, and left Saul to pay for the crime. But a shadow from the urban waste breaks into Saul's prison cell and leads him to freedom: a shadow called King Rat. King Rat reveals to Saul his own royal heritage, a heritage that opens a new world for him, the world below London's streets. With drum-and-bass pounding the backstreets, Saul must confront the forces that would use him, the ones that would destroy him, and those that have shaped his own bizarre identity. Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : David Ernest Lantz
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 49,48 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Rats
ISBN :
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Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 21,19 MB
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1780226276
From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation. 'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account rules that are not strictly linguistic but, broadly speaking, cultural.' Umberto Eco is of the world's most brilliant and entertaining writers on literature and language. In this accessible and dazzling study, he turns his eye on the subject of translations and the problems the differences between cultures can cause. The book is full of little gems about mistranslations and misunderstandings.For example when you put 'Studies in the logic of Charles Sanders Peirce' through an internet translation machine, it becomes 'Studies in the logic of the Charles of sandpaper grinding machines Peirce'. In Italian 'ratto' has no connotation of 'contemptible person' but denotes speed ('you dirty rat' could take on a whole new meaning!) What could be a weighty subject is never dull, fired by Eco's immense wit and erudition, providing an entertaining read that illuminates the process of negotiation that all translators must make.
Author : Bridget Hodder
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0374302146
The Rat Prince by Bridget Hodder is a funny and magical retelling of the Cinderella story from the point of view of one of her footmen, a rat! Before Cinderella's stepmother and stepsisters moved into Lancastyr Manor she was known as the beautiful Lady Rose de Lancaster. Then her stepmother forced her to become a kitchen maid and renamed her. At first the rats of the manor figure her for a lack-wit and take pity on her by bringing her food and a special family heirloom. But when Cinderella's stepmother finds a way to prevent her from attending the ball, the rats join forces to help her. The night of the ball is filled with magic and secrets-not least of all who Lady Rose will choose as her Prince Charming. A Margaret Ferguson Book
