Selected Lithuanian Short Stories
Author : Stepas Zobarskas
Publisher : [New York] : Manyland Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Short stories, English
ISBN :
Author : Stepas Zobarskas
Publisher : [New York] : Manyland Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Short stories, English
ISBN :
Author : Stepas Zobarskas
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Short stories, Lithuanian
ISBN :
Author : Stepas Zobarskas
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Dovid Katz
Publisher : Ktav Publishing House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,14 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Folk literature, Yiddish
ISBN : 9781602801981
Author : Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The Treasure is set in Bohuslän in the 16th century, it tells the story of a group of Scottish mercenaries who escape from prison; they go on to murder a family to steal a treasure chest, after which one of them falls in love with the family's sole survivor.
Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781853261909
A selection of short stories including favourites such as Youth, a modern epic of the sea; The Secret Sharer, a thrilling psychological drama; An Outpost of Progress, a blackly comic prelude to Heart of Darkness; Amy Foster, a moving story of a shipwrecked, alienated Pole; and The Lagoon and Karain, two exotic, exciting Malay tales.
Author : Tadas Klimas
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 38,11 MB
Release : 2010-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780981844114
This collection contains, in English translation, eight short stories and two other writings by Lithuanian authors, spanning a time frame of from 1930 to the 1980s. One is set in a medieval, fantastical, Lithuania, others in pre-WWII Lithuania, and one seems to take place in late 20th Century America. 'The Cross' by Jurgis Jankus, set in a desolate, post-apocalyptic landscape, is worth the price in its own right. 'The Idler' by Aloyzas Baronas describes a hero who is zenlike in his dispassion for status and wealth in the midst of war and dislocation. Another tale is of two bestest buddies--a great-great grandmother and a young boy. 'Flax Blossoms' is about a barely restrained sexual attraction in a pastoral setting, and the passion seems to burst through the pages. Two other writings are from the period of Lithuania's rebirth and its path towards re-establishment of independence in the 1990s. Ostensibly opinion pieces, they are poetical and unique.
Author : Daiva Markelis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 12,94 MB
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226505316
Her parents never really explained what a D.P. was. Years later Daiva Markelis learned that “displaced person” was the designation bestowed upon European refugees like her mom and dad who fled communist Lithuania after the war. Growing up in the Chicago suburb of Cicero, though, Markelis had only heard the name T.P., since her folks pronounced the D as a T: “In first grade we had learned about the Plains Indians, who had lived in tent-like dwellings made of wood and buffalo skin called teepees. In my childish confusion, I thought that perhaps my parents weren’t Lithuanian at all, but Cherokee. I went around telling people that I was the child of teepees.” So begins this touching and affectionate memoir about growing up as a daughter of Lithuanian immigrants. Markelis was raised during the 1960s and 1970s in a household where Lithuanian was the first language. White Field, Black Sheep derives much of its charm from this collision of old world and new: a tough but cultured generation that can’t quite understand the ways of America and a younger one weaned on Barbie dolls and The Brady Bunch, Hostess cupcakes and comic books, The Monkees and Captain Kangaroo. Throughout, Markelis recalls the amusing contortions of language and identity that animated her childhood. She also humorously recollects the touchstones of her youth, from her First Communion to her first game of Twister. Ultimately, she revisits the troubles that surfaced in the wake of her assimilation into American culture: the constricting expectations of her family and community, her problems with alcoholism and depression, and her sometimes contentious but always loving relationship with her mother. Deftly recreating the emotional world of adolescence, but overlaying it with the hard-won understanding of adulthood, White Field, Black Sheep is a poignant and moving memoir—a lively tale of this Lithuanian-American life.
Author : Almantas Samalavičius
Publisher : Dedalus European Anthologies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Lithuanian fiction
ISBN : 9781909232426
This title reflects the transition of Lithuanian literature since the beginning of the 20th century, when Lithuania was still an agrarian and colonized country on the margins of Europe, to its present modern and post-modernist phase.
Author : Julija Sukys
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 10,23 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803240309
The librarian walks the streets of her beloved Paris. An old lady with a limp and an accent, she is invisible to most. Certainly no one recognizes her as the warrior and revolutionary she was, when again and again she slipped into the Jewish ghetto of German-occupied Vilnius to carry food, clothes, medicine, money, and counterfeit documents to its prisoners. Often she left with letters to deliver, manuscripts to hide, and even sedated children swathed in sacks. In 1944 she was captured by the Gestapo, tortured for twelve days, and deported to Dachau. Through Epistolophilia, Julija Šukys follows the letters and journals—the “life-writing”—of this woman, Ona Šimaitė (1894–1970). A treasurer of words, Šimaitė carefully collected, preserved, and archived the written record of her life, including thousands of letters, scores of diaries, articles, and press clippings. Journeying through these words, Šukys negotiates with the ghost of Šimaitė, beckoning back to life this quiet and worldly heroine—a giant of Holocaust history (one of Yad Vashem’s honored “Righteous Among the Nations”) and yet so little known. The result is at once a mediated self-portrait and a measured perspective on a remarkable life. It reveals the meaning of life-writing, how women write their lives publicly and privately, and how their words attach them—and us—to life.