The Witches' Poker Game and Other Stories
Author : Carlos Alberto Montaner
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Short stories
ISBN : 9780913480175
The Nun and Other Stories
Author : Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780838754153
Book Description
With its brooding noblewoman, classically beautiful nun, and neurotic child - who is the grandson of the former and the nephew of the latter - "The Nun" becomes a stage as it represents the past and the future of the family, the past and future of Spain. "Moors and Christians" explores, humorously and wisely, the effects of greed, the nefarious nature of covetousness. Alarcon subtitled "The Tall Woman" a "tale of fear," and his protagonist's hair-raising brushes with danger and evil remind one of the writings of E.T.A. Hoffmann and Edgar Allan Poe. Don Jorge de Cordoba, the Captain "Poison" of Captain Poison, has always seen himself as an unabashed misogynist, but when his life is saved by a courageous young woman, fate conspires to reverse his outlook.
When I Was a Witch & Other Stories
Author : Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2024-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1804179442
Book Description
A powerful collection of early feminist stories from the activist and writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Gilman created a world that could be viewed from the feminist gaze. She focused on how women were not just stay-at-home mothers they were expected to be but also people who had dreams, who were able to travel and work just as men did, and whose goals included a society where women were just as important as men. In the early 1900s this was striking and revolutionary. The stories in this collection are: 'A Coincidence'; 'According To Solomon', 'An Offender', 'A Middle-Sized Artist', 'Martha's Mother', 'Her Housekeeper', 'When I Was A Witch', 'Making a Living', 'A Coincidence, The Cottagette', 'The Boys and the Butter', 'My Astonishing Dodo', and 'A Word In Season'. Foundations of Feminist Fiction. The early 1900s saw a quiet revolution in literature dominated by male adventure heroes. Both men and women moved beyond the norms of the male gaze to write from a different gender perpective, sometimes with female protagonists, but also expressing the universal freedom to write on any subject whatsoever.
The Island of the Women and Other Stories
Author : George Mackay Brown
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,52 MB
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1848549466
Book Description
In these six stories George Mackay Brown leads us back along the sweep of Orkney's past and beyond even that to the remoteness of fable. He reveals the timelessness of the lived moment and the constants of island life in the harvest of sea and land and the compulsions of voyage and homecoming.
Hispanic Literatures
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release :
Category : Spanish language
ISBN :
Book Description
Mistress Of The Djinn And Other Stories
Author : Geoff St. Reynard
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 28,27 MB
Release : 2018-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0359281273
Book Description
Classical Science Fiction awaits the reader with stories to excite and inspire your Imagination! 1.....Mistress of the Djinn-----When the third crusade smashed into the Holy Land, the real enemy was not the Infidel, the real enemy was the weird magic of the Djinn. 2.....The Golden Amazon Returns-----The best weapons against the Amazon were her own children, reasoned Welgand, so he kidnaped them, and led her into a trap! 3.....Onslaught of the Druid Girls-----When Lee Blaine reached Earth's second moon, he found a tangle of mystery. Who were the Nonites? What danger menaced Aurita and her Druid girls?. Classical Science Fiction from some of the earliest and best writers of the gen
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895
Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 32,76 MB
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141906871
Book Description
These stories from the middle period of Chekhov's career show him exploring complex, ambiguous and often extreme emotions. Influenced by his own experiences as a doctor, 'Ward No. 6', set in a mental hospital, is a savage indictment of the medical profession. 'The Black Monk', portraying an academic who has strange hallucinations, explores ideas of genius and insanity; in 'Murder', religious fervour leads to violence; while in 'The Student', Chekhov's favourite story, a young man recounts a tale from the gospels and undergoes a spiritual epiphany. In all the stories collected here, Chekhov's characters face madness, alienation and frustration before they experience brief, ephemeral moments of insight, often earned at great cost, where they confront the reality of their existence.
Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories
Author : Alex Shvartsman
Publisher : UFO Publishing
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
40 short stories by Alex Shvartsman, winner of the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction. * An elder god trapped in a pocket dimension turns up in the world's oldest magic pawn shop. * A cybernetically-enhanced assassin who can't feel pain faces a dangerous adversary. * A computer hacker and a mystic team up to break into the Book of Fate and change their futures. * Vatican investigators are called to examine a miracle on another planet. and much, much more! Each story includes author notes, written for this collection. Praise for "Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma": "Wit, sentiment, imagination--Alex Shvartsman's got them all." -Mike Resnick, Hugo award winner. "Fantastic variety and scope ... Prepare to be entertained, delighted and amazed." -Esther Friesner, Nebula award winner. "His stories feature tightly constructed, intricate, puzzle-like plots with clever banter and plenty of fresh, twisted pop culture references." -Ken Liu, Hugo and Nebula award winner "Full of intriguing ideas and wit." -Jody Lynn Nye, bestselling author "A wonderful collection of short stories that will make you laugh, think and feel." -Gini Koch, bestselling author "If you ever need to explain Cthulhu to your Grandma, this is the place to start." -Henry Gee, senior editor at Nature.
Paperbound Books in Print
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1544 pages
File Size : 18,73 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Paperbacks
ISBN :
Book Description
Sequels
Author : Janet G. Husband
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 35,66 MB
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838909671
Book Description
A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.
