Author : Victor Pelevin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 23,37 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811214346
Comic stories by a Russian writer. In Hermit and Six Toes, chickens debate the nature of the world, which is ruled by bloodthirsty gods in white coats, while in Mid-Game, young Communist activists change sex to become hard-currency prostitutes.
Author : Viktor Pelevin
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 22,41 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 9780571200184
The short stories of Victor Pelevin are as individual, reality-warping and endlessly inventive as his novels, moving effortlessly between different genres and moods, bursting with absurd wit and existential satire. In The Blue Lantern he brings together sex-change prostitutes, melancholy animals and a cabinful of young boys obsessed by death. Sidestepping the world we take for granted, these stories show in miniature the fantastical talent for which the Observer acclaimed Pelevin's work as 'the real thing, fiction of world class'.
Author : Victor Pelevin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811215435
Satirical stories by a Russian writer. The story, Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream, is on the transition from communism to capitalism as experienced by the cleaner of a public toilet, Bulldozer Driver's Day is on a hydrogen bomb assembly line, while The Ontology of Childhood compares childhood to prison. By the author of The Blue Lantern.
Author : Viktor Pelevin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811214919
"The literary voice of the post-Soviet generation." --The New York Times
Author : Viktor Pelevin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811213646
A satire about the Soviet space program finds Omon, who has dreamed of space flight all of his life, enrolled as a cosmonaut only to learn that his task will be piloting a supposedly unmanned lunar vehicle to the Moon and remaining there to die.
Author : Colette
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,11 MB
Release : 1972
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Lucy Maud Montgomery
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1678019828
Jane of Lantern HillLucy Maud Montgomery Jane of Lantern Hill is a novel by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery. The book was adapted into a 1990 telefilm, Lantern Hill, by Sullivan Films, the producer of the highly popular Anne of Green Gables television miniseries and the television series Road to Avonlea.Montgomery began formulating an idea on May 11, 1936, began writing on August 21, and wrote the last chapter on February 3, 1937. She finished typing up the manuscript on February 25, as she could not hire a typist to do it for her. This novel was dedicated to "JL", her companion cat.The novel was written at Montgomery's house, "Journey's End"; the environment influenced Montgomery's writing to create a
Author : Hena Khan
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 2012-06-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0811879054
In simple rhyming text a young Muslim girl and her family guide the reader through the traditions and colors of Islam. Full color.
Author : L.M. Montgomery
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8728206517
29 and unmarried, gasp! - can you think of anything worse? In 1920s rural Canada, Valancy Stirling is considered "past it" and with a controlling, nagging mother and petty gossips for relatives she feels trapped in the life she has ended up in and when she is diagnosed with a terminal heart condition and given a year to live, it seems she will die without ever experiencing happiness. And so, she rebels. She leaves her family home slamming the door as she does and moves in with her old friend Cissy and starts working as a housekeeper. The independence is intoxicating - as is a growing friendship with local man, Barney Snaith. It looks as though Valancy will have love to warm her heart in her final months. But secrets on both sides threaten to ruin things. The intoxicating story of love and loss is perfect for fans of Elizabeth Gaskell and Jodie Picoult. Lucy Maud (L.M.) Montgomery was a Canadian author best known for a series of children's books beginning with 'Anne of Green Gables'. The books were a huge hit in her lifetime and were recently made in the Netflix series 'Anne with an E'. Montgomery published 20 novels, 530 short stories, 500 poems and 30 essays in her lifetime. Most were set in Canada's smallest province, Prince Edward Island.
Author : Michael D. Beil
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0385753195
“An atmospheric late-1930s adventure with old-time cinematic appeal. Fans of fast-paced, far-fetched action will lap it up as enthusiastically as Sam swallows his favorite brand of sardines.” —Kirkus Reviews Lantern Sam is the wise-cracking, sarcastic, talking cat (for those who can hear him, that is) who lives on board the Lake Erie Shoreliner train and is one of the best detectives no one knows about. He doesn’t have much patience for humans (unless they bring him sardines), but when 10-year-old traveler Henry can’t find his new friend, the exuberant Ellie, Sam’s enlisted to help. A ransom note is soon discovered and just like that, Sam and Henry are on the case, with the help of Clarence the Conductor (who supplies Sam’s sardines). But is Ellie still on board the train? Did the salesman with his trunk full of samples sneak her off? And why does that couple keep acting so suspiciously? Veteran middle-grade mystery author Michael D. Beil has crafted a hilarious and appealing adventure set in the 1930s that’s chock-full of quirky characters and red herrings, and all with an irresistible cat at its center.
